Our standard practice is to wipe/image any machine that comes in the doors with plans of being used somewhere. If it's new, that bloatware is outta there. I think more time has been wasted having this discussion than it takes to just do the smart, consistent thing, and make every machine standardized, without the crap that you either don't care about using or absolutely do not want on your machines.
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RE: Should We Remove Bloatware on Office PCs
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RE: What constitutes an IT Pro?
@MattSpeller said in What constitutes an IT Pro?:
@ChrisL said in What constitutes an IT Pro?:
@wirestyle22 said in What constitutes an IT Pro?:
@art_of_shred said in What constitutes an IT Pro?:
@DustinB3403 said in What constitutes an IT Pro?:
Well by definition your are a professional if you are paid to do a certain task. IT professional is no different than professional wrestler.
Your paid to do X. Which means your a professional
No difference between a pro wrestler and an IT pro? Hmmm...
I performed my signature move the "Tombstone" on that 2003 Exchange server. It's completely out of commission.
I gave an open cabinet door the Sweet Chin Music the last time I visited the DC.
Good grief what am I doing wrong. I never physically abuse the equipment, it typically abuses me!!
Matt directs laser eyeballs at the rack hardware that has sliced him up on multiple occasions
Just as long as you're not trash-talking to it before it kicks your a$$. That would be embarrassing.
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RE: Non-IT News Thread
@scottalanmiller said:
Then if people pissed him off he could forcibly remove them from the Gene Pool.
If you could have any super-power, what would you choose?
A: The ability to forcibly remove people from the gene pool.
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RE: Blog Posts and Preferred Length
@IRJ said in Blog Posts and Preferred Length:
@NetworkNerd said in Blog Posts and Preferred Length:
For those who blog, what criteria do you use to determine if your blog should be one giant post versus smaller, bite-sized posts? I have an idea in mind for my next blog post, but putting it out there as one post would make it pretty massive. I was just curious about guidelines others use to determine appropriate length so as not to overwhelm the readers with too much content in one post.
Any feedback is much appreciated.
Most readers have a one or two minute attention span UNLESS they are specifically googling the issue.
TL;DR.
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RE: The Incident with AJs Cheese
I felt pretty bad, too. Like, borderline nauseous.
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RE: PhotoMath Solves Math Problems via Video
@Dashrender That is understood, but it's part of the "one-size-fits-all" educational approach that I hate so much. As a former straight-A student with a math major and a 98.9 GPA, I don't think there was anyone questioning whether I understood the process, or whether I had any reason or desire to cheat. Some kids got discouraged by how easy it all came to me, and the teachers (some, not most) would look for ways to knock a point off here and there to keep me as close to the "norm" as possible. It happened in more than just math class, and I even had teachers laugh as they openly admitted, to my face, that was exactly what they were doing. It wasn't fair to the average kids that I was too smart, and I was therefore penalized in a sad attempt to maintain the status quo. Case in point; I get 100% of the correct answers on the one test that matters for the course, and I get 3 points deducted because I didn't write down quite enough of the steps for some of the problems. I even made a point of writing down way more than I did for any assignment all year long. I think I finished about 20 minutes before the next person, so I "obviously didn't take enough time", or some BS like that.
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RE: Skarp laser razor
I have a straight razor, and I love it. I got lazy and started shaving in the shower a couple of years ago, so it just sits now, but I've never had a better shave than the straight. It's just too much like a chore to do.
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RE: Our New Scale Cluster Arrives Tomorrow
And, there's the 1U node. 1 of 3 total! -
RE: Why the Board of Directors Will Go Off on Security in 2015
The biggest limiting factor to success is competency of leadership. The biggest problem there is that 95 % of people are incompetent. Marry to that the fact that many of the 5% who are competent are not interested in leadership, or never have the opportunity, given that the incompetent leaders aren't smart enough to look for them in the ranks.
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RE: Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play
I never have the down time, but when I happen to, it's still Minecraft and/or GTA5.
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RE: Bosch Builds Self Driving Car with Ubuntu and Tesla S
@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@art_of_shred said:
This is cute, but there's no substitute for cubic inches. Period.
You can only say that not having been in a Tesla. No engine on the market makes you launch like those electric engines.
I've seen the stats on the electric motorcycle that Honda (I think) made... dangerous doesn't even begin to cover it.
Even with all kinds of governors the Tesla car is crazy dangerous. So easy to lose control when you have that kind of power.
Like, Arnold, for example.
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RE: Testing out EspoCRM
@johnhooks Zurmo is on our list to look at. What did you like about it? Anything specific?
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RE: New York City Asks Google To Promote Right Turns
The whole thing sounds like intentional discrimination against Nascar drivers! It starts here, but where does it end?!? I ask you: where does it end?
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
@Minion-Queen said:
Watched Back To the Future II tonight with the guys. Have to watch them this week after all
Thought, technically, we should have waited for Wednesday, October 21st, 2015 to watch the second one. Oh well.
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RE: What is in your Toolkit?
@MattSpeller said:
Customer service baseball bat. Occasionally one needs percussive maintenance and my hands are critical to making my living.
I hope that qualifies under "favorite" more than "most used".
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RE: Is Firefox the Best Browser for the Real World?
@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Edge is a disaster. Anytime I try to use it, it is slow, confusing and buggy.
Then you are injecting something into the experience.
I have been using it quite comfortably since 10 went live. The only issue I have with it is the lack of plugins to enable ad block and LastPass..
I've been entirely unimpressed with Edge thus far, and I get annoyed with all of the IE bashing. Edge seems quite slow and unstable (graphics), and the darn thing just closes itself down at random. I'm looking at a page and then, oh, where did it go? I had like 3 tabs open ...and, they're gone.