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That cat has had enough of people.

@kuyaz said in Dell R720 Display problem with Fedora 26 server:

thanks.Will continue my experiment. I guess I stuck with PERC RAID then.

Or blessed with, as is more commonly the case.

@NattNatt said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Also: Origin is giving original Dungeon Keeper away atm...

Nice

If you want to mitigate the risks of needing to pull down data from Glacier, take a local backup to a USB drive, as well. Pretty cheap to do these days. And would protect against nearly all situations where you might need to download from Glacier.

Welcome @Mirta

@bigbear said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:

@scottalanmiller said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:

@storageninja said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:

Are we at the point of using MDM systems for management, and external identity and SSO for authentication?

1. Yes, MDM systems or similar, which is just another term for LANless authentication, is definitely the point we've been at for years.
2. Is central authentication really all that important? What a lot of people are finding is that that is an overblown bit of hype. Certainly important, but not critical in the way that people have behaved for the last 20 years.

I would agree, the only important thing is probably being able to reset a user's forgotten password. Which one can easily accomplish without directory services.

You can generally do that without any infrastructure, just using scripts or something.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Re-wrote "The Night Before Christmas" based on the "Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, the AC was running 'cause we live in the south" meme that I saw running around on Facebook.

Edit: I'll post it after a couple of folks finish editing it.

Saw that, funny meme.

And BB is cheaper before the discount over CP. So it could be a win right from the beginning. Then in a year, it is a 400% win or more!

Happy Birthday @joy

I think that likely the desktop is just dead, then. unless you can acquire a replacement motherboard, of course.

@scottalanmiller impressive, now she needs an account on ML and to post about her progress here.

@tim_g said in Monitoring software:

Good old nircmd.exe works great.

You can set it to take screenshots every few seconds and save them to a network drive. It even does dual-monitors.

You can launch it remotely with psexec.

That's a good tool concept because it gets screenshots, not passwords and biometics.

Apple uses the force to drive sales.

Patching is the really big ticket item. Keeping things patched is huge and so often overlooked.

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I'm pretty annoyed. I asked if we're coming in and my boss said if it looks ok yeah. I said I don't know what it looks like because I live an hour away. No response. I drive a really shitty drive to work and no one else showed up.

I would have called and said "Call me if you need me, I'm calling a snow day."

I get 8 days a year vacation + sick time. I should know if I'm expected to go to work. This is insane. There's a dude who lives 10 minutes a away who isn't here.

I'm also that guy who has the 10 minute drive (in horrid weather). I'm at the office, hell I opened the office!

At the same time, I'm 10 minutes away, call me if you need me, I'm calling a snow day!

This is the second time where we were not clear on whether or not I needed to come to work. The last time I didn't come in and they were upset. This time we have a meeting and I said I live far enough away where the weather is different. Who can I call to confirm if I have to go in? They said my immediate supervisor. I text him to be polite because its 6:40 AM. No response. I call him, he doesn't pick up. Then he texts me "If the weather is okay go in". That's exactly why I asked if I need to go in. I live an hour away. ;'kljdfh'lkjndg'lknfgh

Worlds smallest playing for you, I guess you get to fart in everyone's chair?

I hate this shit man. Knowing if you're working is work 101. I don't understand why it's so hard to communicate it

It's because most people in your office just don't care about if you have to risk your life going to work.

I'd text your boss and tell him you're going home before it gets worse. If the office is as slow as it is here, I'd leave too.

You should send a note that says "Seems too dangerous to come in. Please let me know if I need to override my better judgement. "

And training your users, I didn't see that mentioned. That might be the biggest thing.

I just decided that someone needs to make a container based cloud product called "container ship".

There are a few tools that can do this locally. You could probably use them remotely, but that would be a big pain.

Honestly, LVM is so easy to use from the command line, and so easy to use remotely from the command line, that there is no need for a GUI at all, let alone a remote one.

Plus LVM is something you set up during install and basically never have to look at again. So having a GUI would be more effort to set up than just doing the LVM setup itself.

@IRJ said in When you're waiting for a delivery...:

@DustinB3403 said in When you're waiting for a delivery...:

On a different matter @IRJ how good is Cricket's service been?

Been nagging my women to get a smart phone but she thinks they are expensive, when she spends $30/month for a dumb phone and text.

We love it! It uses AT&T service so coverage isn't an issue for us.

I prefer my women with poor coverage

@wrx7m said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:

@reid-cooper said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:

@wrx7m said in What LVM GUI to Use for Remote Linux Machine:

@mlnews Forgive my ignorance. How often would someone need to use LVM?

Typically... once when a system is first installed (generally a GUI at that time) and then never again. Those that do use it would typically be once every few years. It's a super rare thing to do.

I thought that would be the case. I had to lookup what it was. Once I realized what it was, I didn't think it would be used more than the Windows equivalent.

It's more powerful and flexible, so it might get used just a little bit more often. But basically the same. It just sits there doing its job.