An Emperor chair, of course.

http://www.mwelab.com/images/1510 - overviews.png

Thread on Spiceworks today talking about the problems of MS Clutter creating too much clutter!

Looks like @Lauren7060 might be involved in that conversation!

@wirestyle22 said:

Do you guys have any great resources for CentOS? If not, do you have any book recommendations? I need a lot of reading material.

Have you been following SAM's new Linux guide? That's CentOS.

http://mangolassi.it/topic/7825/sam-learning-linux-system-administration

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Shutdown hits government websites as certificates begin to expire
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/01/14/shutdown-hits-government-websites-as-certificates-begin-to-expire/

If only the government knew about LetsEncrypt and basic automation.

@Jstear said in Why is Hyper-V More Confusing:

I will mention that when I took Windows Server classes in college, we were using Windows Server 2008 R2 and installing the Hyper-V role. It wasn't until after college that I realized there was an actual free version called "Hyper-V Server".

Because.... College.

This is the fun news of the day for sure. Cards Against Humanity is Free Online.

Have you considered a more modern syncing alternative? DropBox, ownCloud, NextCloud, Box, or any number of similar services? I think that most of these handle these scenarios more elegantly. I know that this is a big change rather than a "fix", but maybe it is worth considering?

Is that like the drunken version of Where's Waldo?

Patching on Linux tends to be very different from that on Windows. As individual packages can be rolled back easily the idea of a system restore is uncommon. Look at CentOS with RPM, RPM alone generally handles everything that you need without an additional tool. Windows doesn't really do that with their patches.

@rojoloco I'm afraid my brains are dripping out of my ears.

Why not start with something really basic, like a simple website. Maybe make a DokuWiki site that you can host at home and use that to document your network as you go. Give yourself a real reason to be using the system right from the beginning.

8GB, i5, SSD... tends to do the trick.

@Nic said:

They're being called out as a bunch of scammers

So they are not the TORiffic group that we had been hoping?

Just the nature of online communities. Any community will naturally have that.

How do you think other communities report so many users - more than seem possible?

OStatic reports that Intel and Samsung are Committed to the Google Chromebook platform. It makes sense as the Chromebook is a large market for Samsung making mid-range CB laptops and Intel sees it as a place where it can keep selling processors even as the old PC market begins to fade.

The rumor is is that Windows 9 pricing is going to be extremely low and that the Metro interface is going to be removed (I assume optionally) on at least the Enterprise edition of the OS. I assume that Enterprise will be volume license only, like it is now, and the lack of the crippled interface will be used as a selling point to convince companies to upgrade to volume licensing.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2014/07/07/largest-collection-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-ever-including-windows-8-1-windows-8-windows-7-office-2013-office-365-office-2010-sharepoint-2013-dynamics-crm-powershell-exchange-server-lync-2013-system-center-azure-cloud-sql.aspx