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@scottalanmiller said:

@brianlittlejohn said:

@scottalanmiller I got moderated on a Water Cooler thread for something stupid (verbally agreeing with a post instead of spicing it up)

I get that a lot. If someone wants something buried so that people don't notice broad support for it, they do that. I've had big posts where I provided a lot of info but accidentally included "I agree" somewhere in it and got nuked for "agreeing."

There is one particular moderator I dislike alot, all of his posts come across as smug.

@JeffReady That is why I never use the Cable Companies Modem's if I can help it.

Just ordered an Edge SSD from Xbyte. Going to test a couple of application on an SSD for a Proof of Concept.

@scottalanmiller All the cable companies where I live will support any DOCSIS 3.0 compatible modem. I just go buy the one I want.

@scottalanmiller They put a big that expanded inside to protect the polyglass window during shipping, but the graphics card ripped the bag open while it was expanding (my theory)... so pissed right now.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Carnival-Boy said:

How many companies have domain admins AND don't use WSUS/SCCM?

A fair number in the SMB and climbing because of the move away from WSUS in small environments to peer to peer.

I don't use WSUS in my environment. I spent more time managing it then I do from fixing bad updates from MS.

@art_of_shred I do what I can

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller said:

The flooding of the market is really causing problems. The market is absolutely full of bodies, but not full of trained or experienced ones.

I can attest to this. I went through an A+ class with an excellent teacher (had us working in software and hardware and he really knew his stuff -- I was just in it for the cert)... At the end of the class, those that had no desire to learn still couldn't tell the difference between USB and PS/2.

I had a similar experience. We had a guy in A+ class (this was in highschool) there the entire semester, couldn't do anything with a computer, still passed the A+ test. Thats when I determined that the cert tests were pretty much worthless since you could just study for the test and have no practical skill to back it up.

For the air gun, i think you are going to need one with a small tank on it... you may have a hard time finding a compressor with a tank in that price range.

I went to Spiceworld for the first time last year, when I heard they had 400+ employees I was shocked that it was that many... I didn't think there was any way they could make enough money to support a workforce that big doing what they did.

About to install Linux Mint as my primary OS on company laptop!

@brianlittlejohn and probably a visit from the DEA with that jump in my electric bill.

@BRRABill In my experience, yes, every sales person (particularly ones that work on commission) is trying to take advantage of you.

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I wish I had the time to hire him as a DJ, just so I could shoot at him with a pellet gun when he showed up.

http://www.djfixxx.com/index-old.htm this is... The Hague. We need The Hague.

Wait, this is Curtis' page?

He thinks "biamped" speakers are equivalent to redundant servers / HA.

Anyone who knows sound equipment would laugh him out of there.

Setting up FreeIPA on CentOS 7 in my Test Environment.

I'm glad we are talking about longer/more in depth sessions. This year was my first year to attend spice world and I was a little disappointed in the breakout sessions. I was hoping there would be more in depth topics. Also a couple of the sessions I went to the speaker spoke nothing about the topic they were supposed to.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1655892-which-raid-and-generally-which-hardware-for-backup-system

Just got Linux Mint to authenticate against FreeIPA Server!

Yea! Mangocon 2016! Just have to get my companies owner on board!!!