@dbeato said in Handling Downvotes:

Imaging this on SW lol

The tears would solve the water crisis in several countries.

Problem solved:

You’re welcome.

@scottalanmiller said:

You just provided a mug shot

After getting mugged

Seems appropriate...

What do you call a Pygmy clairvoyant on the run from the cops?

A small medium at large.

Lenovo snubbed “competitor” Microsoft’s advances when it was asked to sell the Surface Pro slab, the PC maker’s chief operating officer has claimed.
...
Gianfranco Lanci, president and COO at Lenovo, told attendees at the recent Canalys Channels Forum, “I said no to resell their product”.

Pressed further, he revealed that Microsoft “asked me more than one year ago, and I said no I don’t see any reason why I should sell a product from within brackets, competition.”
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2015/10/15/lenovo_says_no_to_microsoft_surface/
 
I don't know about you but I read the article as "Microsoft wouldn't allow us to put a root kit in the Surface Pro. This made us sad, so we said no".

In honour of Safer Internet Day, Google is adding 2GB of storage to people who do a security check up (Linky: https://security.google.com/settings/security/secureaccount).

Tartare sauce: http://www.mentalfloss.com/article/75154/google-giving-away-2-gb-storage-free-today

https://www.saferinternetday.org/

*...Java, will soon be pulled from the market as a web browser plug-in. *

Parent company of the Java programming language and development framework, Oracle, said it would deprecate the security-maligned browser plug-in.

It will start with the Java Development Kit version 9, which is currently in early access release.
Tomato Sauce: http://www.itnews.com.au/news/oracle-to-withdraw-java-browser-plug-ins-414278?eid=3&edate=20160129&utm_source=20160129_PM&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily_newsletter

No date set, but it's going to walk the plank.

@JaredBusch said in Simplivity - anyone use them?:

@scottalanmiller said in Simplivity - anyone use them?:

@Nic said in Simplivity - anyone use them?:

@scottalanmiller not sure, they didn't delve into that level of detail. Their idea of having a hardware accelerator card is interesting though. Basically a combo of RAID, dedupe and their own custom file system under the covers.

It's an ASIC, I believe. An interesting approach to be sure.

I was there also. It was an interesting concept but they refused to tell a room of over 30 SpiceHeads even a basic MSRP when directly asked.

I f[moderated]ing hate that.

Good grief. Not even an average price for their "Custom" configs?
If they won't tell you in a situation like that, then they're too expensive.

...starting today, you can use LastPass on any device, anywhere, for free. No matter where you need your passwords – on your desktop, laptop, tablet, or phone – you can rely on LastPass to sync them for you, for free. Anything you save to LastPass on one device is instantly available to you on any other device you use.

Suspicious tasting sauce: https://blog.lastpass.com/2016/11/get-lastpass-everywhere-multi-device-access-is-now-free.html/

I'd like to point out the "Ad Free" mentioning in the Premium <-- AKA Ads are coming to free accounts.

@johnhooks said:

Guys I have a server I'm running to display a slideshow of my cats. It has to run 28/8/368. Downtime is not an option, I can't not see my cat's pictures. I need 40 TB of storage in RAID 0 for ultra redundancy and my budget is some change I found in the parking lot. Can anyone help me?

Just use usb sticks. You can join them together with Windows RAID and then take them to another computer if the pc breaks!

Well, I won't be around then as I'm 12 hours into the future and it's sleep time then.
So, I'll add my questions early.

• How do you guard/protect your tenants(?) against infection from poorly configured/maintained neighbours?
• How much bandwidth does the data center pipe have? (or plural)
• How long can your locations go without mains power?

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Phone Apocalypse Has Begun:

Thanks goodness there aren't any Windows Phone users left out there to be affected by this

Sarcasm spill, Aisle 3

Someone should make a movie of the back story to this sign

Just turned on a laptop for a clean up that was found in a storage room.
I was surprised to see it "Resuming Windows". I will admit I was a bit "lol, srsly?" and WTH? at the same time. It had been hiding away long enough to need to reset the system clock before it would boot. I was most surprised that it came out of hibernation successfully.

I found a while trying to uninstall a program that there was still another user logged into it AND it had been in hibernation mode for... 6 years!

Idle time of the other user 2352 days 12 hours and 31 minutes. Last logged on 22/06/2010 (June 2010!!!!!)