What Are You Doing Right Now
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 Just got a spiceup from a howto i did 8 years ago! 
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 @momurda said in What Are You Doing Right Now: Just got a spiceup from a howto i did 8 years ago! Which one? 
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 One about whitelisting/blacklisting thigns in Symantec Endpoint Protection. The first one i ever did. 
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 @momurda said in What Are You Doing Right Now: One about whitelisting/blacklisting thigns in Symantec Endpoint Protection. The first one i ever did. Poor sap needs to get off of SEP. 
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 Grilling Burgers and ripping the dash out of the truck... after two years it was finally time. The rPi car project is on hold for now. Hmmm I smell like grill - 
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 Fighting with Dynamic DNS updates on my home lab server.  
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 BAM! Man pages and thinking to the rescue  
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 Go home Steve you're drunk. I just... what? 
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 Diversify. 
 Hardware and Software divisions. He could have had both.
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 @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now: Diversify. 
 Hardware and Software divisions. He could have had both.Microsoft and hardware... I give you the MS Surface... A great idea,... but poorly built... they suck - the drivers suck... and the reliability is crap (opinion from what I have supported / seen) 
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 @gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now: Grilling Burgers and ripping the dash out of the truck... after two years it was finally time. The rPi car project is on hold for now. Hmmm I smell like grill - Manly smell. They should make that a deodorant. 
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 @gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now: Diversify. 
 Hardware and Software divisions. He could have had both.Microsoft and hardware... I give you the MS Surface... A great idea,... but poorly built... they suck - the drivers suck... and the reliability is crap (opinion from what I have supported / seen) Well, agreed, but if they would have started earlier. It might have been better. 
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 It just reeks of "Apple is doing it this way let's copy them." Microsoft is in much better hands now that Ballmer isn't in the picture. 
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 @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now: Diversify. 
 Hardware and Software divisions. He could have had both.Microsoft and hardware... I give you the MS Surface... A great idea,... but poorly built... they suck - the drivers suck... and the reliability is crap (opinion from what I have supported / seen) Well, agreed, but if they would have started earlier. It might have been better. I recognize that every company has their failures... Look at IBMs PS2 - proprietary hardware, MS IE and Edge,... But this is more 'cake' than anyone wants. 
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 @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now: Diversify. 
 Hardware and Software divisions. He could have had both.He tried. It failed. 
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 @gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now: Diversify. 
 Hardware and Software divisions. He could have had both.Microsoft and hardware... I give you the MS Surface... A great idea,... but poorly built... they suck - the drivers suck... and the reliability is crap (opinion from what I have supported / seen) And then there are those Microsoft phones. 
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 @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now: Diversify. 
 Hardware and Software divisions. He could have had both.Microsoft and hardware... I give you the MS Surface... A great idea,... but poorly built... they suck - the drivers suck... and the reliability is crap (opinion from what I have supported / seen) Well, agreed, but if they would have started earlier. It might have been better. Or worse. Have they shown an ability to improve? 
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 @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now: @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now: Diversify. 
 Hardware and Software divisions. He could have had both.Microsoft and hardware... I give you the MS Surface... A great idea,... but poorly built... they suck - the drivers suck... and the reliability is crap (opinion from what I have supported / seen) And then there are those Microsoft phones. Win98, ME, Vista...but - i digress 
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 sigh Tech Support (TS) at some places... ME: I have these specific questions about your device; detail list of equipment and questions TS: Yes, please see our guide at (web url). ME: Why yes,.. Yes they are. I have seen this guide,.. however I had additional questions. could you please take a moment to address them? I have read your guide - the one included with the device and the one online. They did not address my questions... sigh 
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 @gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now: sigh Tech Support (TS) at some places... ME: I have these specific questions about your device; detail list of equipment and questions TS: Yes, please see our guide at (web url). ME: Why yes,.. Yes they are. I have seen this guide,.. however I had additional questions. could you please take a moment to address them? I have read your guide - the one included with the device and the one online. They did not address my questions... sigh TS: I'm sorry sir, that answer is not in my script. I am grossly underqualified to support anything, the only skills I have are talking on the phone and reading from a premade document. 






