I'm very inconsistent, I'll moan at a TV program where a talking dog is breaking into NASA's mainframe in order to destroy some aliens by guessing the password and I'll be yelling at the TV "Oh yeah, like NASA would use weak passwords. That's so lame" and my wife will turn to me and say "Oh, so you have no problems with talking dogs attacking aliens then? That bit's realistic for you?".

All my internal applications are written in VBScript for classic ASP. I have started a book on C# though.

I started using Trello just for my ERP project, and yeah, I'm all about Kanban & Agile.

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Although this was a lot like what school was like for me. I had a teacher insist that the moon did not rotate for example.

I didn't know that, I didn't take a science class that specifically covered this. Interesting - I also thought the 'dark side of the moon' wasn't real (and yeah I know it really isn't) but also didn't realize that the far side of the moon is never exposed to the earth. Thanks

It is made of cheese though, right? I mean surely my teacher wasn't wrong on that point.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Carnival-Boy said:

I've planned on only one vdisk. I hadn't considered creating more than one.

Both approaches are completely valid. I like keeping the partitions separate, but I only like it a little. So I lean that way, but keeping them all in one is perfectly fine too.

If you only create one virtual disk and then partition it (eg for the OS, E: for data) and you later want to increase the size of C:, I believe you can't.

If you create separate disks then you can. Go into Windows Disk Management, right-click C:, and select 'Extend Volume'.

For this reason you should always create separate disks, I think. Correct me if I'm wrong.

@thanksaj said:

I've destroyed many a person online

Really?

Count me in.

@thanksaj said:

Yes, but Coldplay will never be viewed as a "classic" band like Journey. Also, are those numbers adjusted for inflation?

Firstly, why not? Who gets to say whether a band is classic or not? I bet in the sixties people assumed the Rolling Stones were just a fad that would be quickly forgotten. No-one would have predicted that they'd be selling millions of dollars of concert tickets when they're in their seventies.

Secondly, the figures are unit sales not dollar sales.

Yeah, I saw that. I've contacted Adobe support and after typing in my problem I got this:

Am I still in the queue or have they killed me before I even got through to someone?

@scottalanmiller said:

If you do the snooze thing, or need an alarm, or oversleep, or fall back asleep... all indicators of lacking adequate sleep.

Not all. I'd sleep/snooze for 12 hours if I could. I just like sleep.

What you need @thanksaj is to have a child. Nothing will make sure you wake up in the morning better than a toddler demanding his or her breakfast.

$80 per user per month for this crap

@scottalanmiller said:

IT, in general, is one of the heaviest vegetarian populations of any field and Dallas IT especially.

That's another one of your completely made-up "facts", isn't it?

Hey, if Mike wants to host and manage it on a beefy server, I'm not complaining.

Back in the day? I still use my camera for screenshots!

@NetworkNerd said:

For those that have a dedicated green zone for weekly reboots

I definitely need to implement one of those.

I'm thinking a batch job plus an e-mail when the server has rebooted. That way, if you don't get an e-mail, you know there is a problem (eg hanging) and can sort it out.

Is there something about automation that makes hanging more likely or something? Or do you just mean it hangs anyway and it's better that you see it at the time rather than on Monday morning when everyone is yelling?

A couple of hours to go before I break up for Christmas. Not back until 5th January. It will (hopefully) be the first time I haven't come in to work at all over Christmas for about ten years and I'm looking forward to it. No doubt someone will call me with a problem though.

Off to a German market after work with a few colleagues for some sausages and beer.

I'm not sure what you all mean by hardware exactly? I'm treating hardware as meaning maintenance and installation involves a screwdriver.

I find most people see life in black and white, whilst I've always seen it in shades of grey. So for them, Apple is definitely better/worse than Android, ESXi is definitely better/worse than Hyper-V etc etc. I sometimes envy them for their certainty. Forums also seem to be heavily populated with people who don't seek answers but instead seek to massage their egos by repeating their own beliefs and opinions.
A lot of threads on Spiceworks seem to start with "I think X, but my boss thinks Y. Please tell me I'm right and he's an idiot."

But I studied Economics at University, and that was really three years teaching you that there are no definitive answers to anything and that the world is more complex than you, or anyone else, can ever understand. Maybe I took that into IT with me.

We have 10mb here for around 60 users. I think that's fairly normal in the UK. We pay pretty much exactly the same as you Dash. I don't find it terrible. I will upgrading to 50 or 100mb later this year, which will cost about double but which we will need when we transition from on premise Exchange to O365.

What's an agriculture fee?

At our place, passwords must have at least one uppercase character and most people only have one character that is upper case and all the rest are lower case. Despite this, I would say at least half the people I work with hit the caps lock key, hit that one letter, then hit the caps lock key and carry on typing their password. In most case they've been doing this for over ten years, so I'm not going to say anything now.