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1997 Jeep Wrangler with 173,000 miles... my Daily Driver
2008 Honda Civic for the Wife
1972 Chevy El Camino Getting ready for a restore after a tornado ate it

Is it happening on every user, or just one user? Is it happening with Excel open on a blank sheet, or is there a specific sheet that is causing the crash? If it is a specific sheet, does it include VBA?

@MattSpeller I just can't do the Cammel back thing. I have a Drink Tank and a Trek Transport. I can easily pack lunch and beer for 2. Honestly, if I had more free time and better access to camping sites, I could pack a tent, a grill, and a few chairs too, but I digress.

@scottalanmiller said in Website to Database Security:

@s.hackleman said in Website to Database Security:

@scottalanmiller said in Website to Database Security:

@s.hackleman said in Website to Database Security:

@scottalanmiller said in Website to Database Security:

@s.hackleman said in Website to Database Security:

@scottalanmiller said in Website to Database Security:

@s.hackleman said in Website to Database Security:

@scottalanmiller said in Website to Database Security:

@s.hackleman said in Website to Database Security:

The other department says this is a security risk, and is requiring passthrough security. This means that every user would be added to a AD group with rights to the website and databases.

Well no. I'm not sure where passthrough security is coming from to begin with, maybe some more clarity there. But I'm not seeing it.

The users would need to be in an AD group with access to the website, yes. But none of them would have ANY access to the database, of course. Only the application would have access to the database. So something is wrong with that description compared to how you described it above.

I know, but no I described it right. That is what I am fighting. I am in the process of making my case for sanity.

So the other department doesn't know how applications or databases work? Just ignore them then, you won't be able to convince them without teaching them way too much to be worth it.

I wish I could, but in this case I have to get them on board. I wish I had a better response than office politics, but I know you understand how silly it can be sometimes.

I'd go to management and discuss the security risks of "random, non-technical input" and list this process as "social engineering endangering the company at an endemic management level." This is a reckless process that someone (maybe the CEO) should know about.

That is the case I am building, just checking my own sanity, and looking for information that is easy to digest.

Anything else will be impossible because defending against "random inaccurate statements" isn't really plausible. But why would someone be introducing this risk at any level is a serious question. What's their purpose in doing this?

In short non technical middle management making rules and enforcing them down on technical people.

But how did they get that power and why is the security head not stepping in to fix a problem? Why are their managers not protecting the company from them?

Next time I see you in person, I'll buy you a beer, and we can break it all down.

Cooksmarts.com

There have been a few posts around recently about what people are eating and cooking and recipes, so I wanted to share the service that our family uses. I used to work 8-5 while my wife worked afternoon/nights in television. I would come home from work and cook, and I got pretty good at it after 10 years or so. When we had our first child she became a stay at home, which meant she would be taking over cooking. She was an OK cook, but making a couple weekend meals isn't the same as cooking 6-7 nights a week for a family. Also, our biggest problem is we could never decide what we wanted, or what sounded good. We would also go buy groceries, and use less then half of each ingredient before it went bad.

Cooksmarts is a paid recipe service that is amazing. It is less than $10 bucks a month, and they put out 4 new recipes a week that are seasonal, with nutrition facts, from scratch cooking, and delicious. They also provide videos to learn how to prepare food. If you are busy, they have weekend prep that lets you prepare as much as you can before the week so on weeknights you throw everything together. Lastly they have ideas for how to use left overs and what can be frozen, etc.

The way it works is they send you 4 recipes a week, you select that week, or any archive week, and how many people will be eating each night. They show a groceries list and you check off what you already have in your kitchen. Then the site emails you a list by department what you need to get at the grocery store. The food is delicious, for example next week is International week so we are having Thai noodles with muscles, Mexican torta sandwiches, a French Nicoise salad, and Jamaican pork burgers with pineapple salsa.

I am not paid to endorse this company, I just absolutely love it. We have subscribed for about a year, eat better, lost a ton of weight, cut our grocery bill, my wife learned how to cook, and we no longer argue about what is for dinner, we just debate if we want the current week, or try something from the archives.

@scottalanmiller I sat down when this was first posted and watched the whole thing. I know the future is heading in this direction, I guess it didn't sit in until witnessing it first hand and seeing how real a threat like this can be.

@RojoLoco said in Most awesome yet terrible idea I've seen in a while:

@thwr said in Most awesome yet terrible idea I've seen in a while:

@s.hackleman said in Most awesome yet terrible idea I've seen in a while:

@thwr said in Most awesome yet terrible idea I've seen in a while:

There are lots of cool projects out there. What about some more pyrotechnics?

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You have had a weird anti Apple vibe going the last couple days..

FTFY. They do have some good products, but they are way overpriced. More like a status symbol, if you know what I mean.

I second that. No reason to buy an overpriced item just because that's what the "cool kids" like.

In the last 2 years i have drank the Kool-aid. I don't fan girl, it is nice just being able to buy a technology, and it just works.

I disabled all notifications on my phone trimmed about 60% of my Friend list.. now I don't mind it as much.

2 things drive me away from a vendor faster than anything. 1. If they make it hard for me to give them money. Require a PO signed and faxed over approving the...NOPE. I will find a new solution. 2. Vague pricing or requiring my personal contact information before giving me a ball park idea of what something will cost up front. If I can't compare prices before I reach out to vendors I don't compare that vendor.

I went backpacking in Montana last year. We were 5 Miles from signal and about 1.5 miles from the car on foot for 5 days straight. The first day I was anxious about it, and then it got amazing. This was amplified for me because I was not only with out Internet, but also no electric, plumbing, running water, a bed, or solid shelter in Grizzly bear habitat. However it was life changing. I didn’t realize how much I was plugged in and how high my resting stress level was in dealing with email and people wanting information from me. Once you get over the point of no return, and you know it is just a fact that you are offline, it is nice and the pace and time of life kind of reset back to a normal. For me coming back online was the most upsetting because you are playing catchup. So you go from nothing to 3 times normal comunication for a couple days.

@hobbit666 said in Android 7 Coming ...................:

My phone hasn't even been updated to 6 yet lol

And this is why I switched back to Apple. 4.5" phone, updates directly from Apple, and no bloatware.

I have too made my career to date by being able to do not only just the impressive, but the ridiculous with little to no IT budget. Not just running ESXi in production, but multiples, and putting backup images on external Hard Drives that are salvages put into enclosures purchased on new egg so when my 2nd hand hardware failed, I could get business back up and running. As far as others looking down on that, let 'em. So what, at the end of the day business was back up and running, I'm happy, boss is happy, and I have some good resume material for the next job. Shoe string IT stories are just a great excuse for a beer and a laugh, don't let it bring you down. If you think respect from peers, bigger budgets, and nice equipment will bring you happiness in your career, you are mistaken. Happiness comes from honestly doing the best with what you have and a sense of accomplishment in seeing a project come to completion and seeing it work.

TLDR: Haters ganna hate.

Story time! I learned this lesson a really hard way. Right after I graduated high school one of the largest companies in town was hiring for a C# developer and a Friend of mine was all ready working there. I thought I had it in the bag, the interview went great, I met with the director of the department. I just had one final piece, go home and spend less than an hour or two writing a program that did XY & Z. So I headed home, and started writing code. However I couldn't get my debugger to connect to my project. I tried all night, this was my first attempt at programming outside of a school environment, So I ended up having to write and debug a small project by double clicking the .exe and putting tons of message boxes in the code to pop up constantly with variable values to step through the entire project. The next day I emailed in an ugly buggy mess, and was turned down for the job.

The reason it was all a mess is my Windows User name had an ‘&’ in it, and it was messing up the directory to the project for Visual Studio and the debugger.

End the end, I ended up getting the same job 7 years later (2014) and the guy that interviewed me still works as a contractor around here. We have talked about it, and had a good laugh. I ended up getting staying at my old job, learned a ton and met all the people on here. It all worked out in the end.

Here is the other lesson to take away from this for the younger group on here. I never blamed my computer, Windows, God, life, or anyone else. It was my fault, I didn’t know it at the time, but I made the user name. I learned from it, I got better with my skills, and eventually another spot opened up around here, and I got it.

@DustinB3403 said in Navy Denies Software Theft:

I read that already, and the Navy admitted to installing the software to thousands of computer systems, without being licensed (but with the developers permission).

Um.... Hey Scott, I give you permission to drain my bank account.

Hey thanks man, I'll get on that...

Works great! thanks guys!

I have used one once, but from what I remember there is a program you need to put on your laptop, then use it to configure the device.

@scottalanmiller said in Help with IIS Security:

Sorry that we could not narrow it down more.

It is an obscure issue that is hard to troubleshoot with out seeing it. The application is probably the better fix, I just wanted a easier workaround and was hoping someone had seen it before.

My last post on here was picking your self up by the boots when an opportunity was missed. You guys couldn't have been more right. In the following weeks the School district that I had applied at has taken out a 8 million dollar loan to cover the rest of the expenses in opening their new building and people are working around the clock to make deadlines. It seems like a disaster. I have since applied and accepted a job for a construction products manufacture here is town. I will be going in as a System Integration Specialist and C# developer working on everything from factory automation programming to network design and infrastructure. It is a sweet job, better work/life balance and great benefits. Thanks for the supporting words, it was all a blessing in disguise.

Congradulations on another lap around the sun.

Wow, the term was coined here in Joplin. I remember they were back up and running within 24 hours. Wish I had time to sit in on that talk, but I my old DR plan could cook the bacon. I was less than a mile from that waffle house, and had 0 down time.