You could get one of these so you'll be ready for MangoCon:

https://www.amazon.com/b/ref=lp_12294744011_gbps_img_s-3_0082_b86c25a6?srs=12294744011&rh=i%3Aspecialty-aps%2Cn%3A12294744011&ie=UTF8&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&node=12294744011

@Dashrender said in A Mandate to Be Cheap:

If I took a pole of staff

Grammar Nazi incoming...

I pictured a bunch of your staff members like this:

Perhaps you meant "Poll"

I don't know how any company can trust them for critical infrastructure with this kind of oversight. And it took them 3 hours to figure it out? Yeah, that's bad.

@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I'm considering getting half a cow. . . The price per pound is $3.95 . . . Not sure if I have enough freeze room. . .

I take delivery on 1/2 a cow this week. Around 65 lbs. But I will can most of it not freeze it.

You're only getting 65 lbs of meat from half a cow? Wow, tinny cow, even without growth hormones.

I am really only taking 1/4ish of it. I do have to pay for the full half however.

You are getting ripped off. Hugely! - I grew up with this stuff. Typically, from a full grown animal, you'll get 440 LBS of freezer ready beef. (220 lbs for half, 110 lbs for 1/4) - From this, about half will be ground beef, and the rest in cuts such as roasts, steaks, ribs, brisket, and tenderloin.

Here's about how much freezer space is required for 1/4 cow:

Processing charges vary, but generally about $0.50/pound hanging weight, or about $475 total for the average cow (700lbs hanging weight + kill charge)

If you're only getting approximately 65lbs and still have to pay the processing for 1/2 cow, you're likely paying more than store prices for the same beef.

Just sayin'

@scottalanmiller said in A Mandate to Be Cheap:

@art_of_shred said in A Mandate to Be Cheap:

Perhaps you meant "Poll"

Except that is not a pole in the picture... it is a staff.

Staff on a pole.

It was the best I could find on short notice.

Sigh... Why aren't they just going with a lockbox on the porch? be done with it already.

According to Forbes, more than half of Americans have Amazon delivery. Figure in bulk, you can put a secure lock box on someone's porch (and what about apartments) for less than $50, which I doubt... with 126 million households in the US, that would be north of a $3 billion investment. Until they lose more than that in 2 years there is no way they'll do it.

@Minion-Queen

Gotcha - No worries. Enjoy your steaks

@DustinB3403 said in CenturyLink, you so fancy!:

So to give everyone a legal question, what is the only legal monopoly in the US?

Sirius XM Radio

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Chromium on Fedora finally gets VAAPI support!

Chromium web browser available in Fedora gets a Video Acceleration API support.

Chromium with a VAAPI patch was already available on other distributions. But this was not the case with Fedora. I really want hardware acceleration. But my love for Femlnewsdora was holding me back. Then with sheer willpower, I joined Fedora and started maintaining a package in COPR.

Darn you mlnews trying to change the subject!

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

loving the smell of incinerated electronics - cough cough

DROK DC to DC board that should have handled 3-23v input just fried D1. Guess that project is on the back burner.

Maybe I'll get n00bs installed on an mSD and see how that goes...

Geez man, you let out the magic smoke... it'll never work again.

@DustinB3403 said in CenturyLink, you so fancy!:

@pchiodo Nope, with the post office you have UPS, DSL and FedEx.

So that isn't even close.

Absolutely not true. The USPS has a strict monopoly on non-overnight letters known commonly as First Class or Third Class mail. No one else can offer these services in the US by statute.

"an exclusive legal right to deliver first-class and third-class mail"

"Article I, section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution grants Congress the power to establish post offices and post roads, which has been interpreted as a de facto Congressional monopoly over the delivery of first class residential mail - which has been defined as non-urgent residential letters (not packages). Accordingly, no other system for delivering first class residential mail – public or private – has been tolerated, absent Congress's consent."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service

Their Latest Tweet

"We apologize to our customers who may be experiencing an issue with our online banking and mobile app. Thanks for your patience while we research this issue. If you are impacted, please check back here for updates.

6:06 AM - 7 Feb 2019"

I'm jealous

Is this a sign that a bunch of people who were going to SW are now backing out of SW?

It appears that Google has reversed direction:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/21/google-will-work-with-huawei-for-next-90-days-after-restrictions-eased.html

So, at least for the next 90 days they claim they will be attempting to work out a deal. I think someone wnet, "Oh crap!, $11 billion in US chips sales down the toilet!"

Pancakes for dinner with real maple syrup!

Another thing to check for is the Symantec Network Threat Protection driver. You'll find this under Device Manager network connections as Teefer2 or something similar.

If you find it, it may be difficult to remove, as standard methods tend to fail.

You might want to look in the registry and delete the 'Config' entry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Network

Then you should be able to remove your network cards and the teefer2 entries from device manager.

Reboot, and then reconfig the network cards. Make sure you have the latest updated drivers.

@JaredBusch They hired Mitnik for his fame, limited as it is. Personally I think it was a bad decision. That said, their product is very good at teaching users not to do stupid things, and providing training compliance documentation. Beyond that, not much.

@guyinpv said in Any options for a highly customized Roku-type device for daddy?:

What can make this happen?

$2 million and a dev team..... seriously, the best option is to get an actual Roku and strip as much as you can in the current app. Then you'll have to just teach him not to do anything but click on the icons you left behind.

@garak0410

Hmm. in reading your error message it refers to COM+, but this doesn't seem right. It appears WMI may not have the correct fire wall rules.

On the Hyper-V server try this:

netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)" new enable=yes

netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="Remote Event Log Management" new enable=yes

Pretty sure Symantec mucked up Windows Firewall.

You might try turning it off for testing and see if the problems go away. Then you'll know specifically if it is firewall related.