I have no idea where they came from, but we bought a company that had these 4 foot tall enclosed racks on wheels in all of their field offices. they locked front and rear, and were big enough for a mouse, keyboard and monitor to sit on top. with a KVM inside the door. If you have the space, I loved these things. They were durable, enough to live in retail store back rooms, and easy to work on. Similar to this.

Just my two cents I thought about buying when it was at $0.10 and I didn't Then it hit $200 a coin. So I said "I'm not doing that again, so I put my money where my mouth is and bought when it was $250 a coin. I buy $10-15 a week, nothing more than I am ok with loosing. Right now it is at $2,500 a bitcoin. I have bought a few things, but for the most part it is just a play hobby. I currently own .400 of 1 bitcoin. I know it could all go up in flames, but a 10 fold investment isn't a bad side hobby to have. I suggest everyone who wants to learn about it, buy in, but never spend more money than you would be ok with loosing.

Sounds like permissions would be the first place I would look. Does task scheduler attempt to run the program as you, or as a service account?

@scottalanmiller said in Fire fighting to project balance:

@s-hackleman said in Fire fighting to project balance:

@dashrender said in Fire fighting to project balance:

This is like the HR problem often talked about around here. i.e. it's not IT's job to keep user's from surfing non work related websites, it's management/HRs job.

Same goes here, it's your boss's job to get with those other managers so the company can be efficient. Those managers should sit down and discuss the issues. And the management over the top of them all should welcome it because it makes the company as a whole more effective and efficient.

I guess that is where the disfunction exists. The other departments don't care they met their goals. Why do they care if it was hard for our team, we still got it done, we are just not happy about it.

Likewise, why do you care if they get what they need?

No one cares unless they care about the business as a whole. What I'm hearing is "they are willing to hurt the company and the company doesn't care". Is that a good assessment? If the company owners dont care, you shouldn't care either.

From the company stand point it got done, and done on time, so quit complaining. How it got done, or the fact we are being driven insane seems secondary, and our problem. I think SLA's may be the right direction, what is an SLO?

The quick fix is sudo pwd to change the root password to something non-blank. I assume apple with have a fix out quick.

@rojoloco said in macOS High Sierra login flaw - root:

@s-hackleman said in macOS High Sierra login flaw - root:

@rojoloco said in macOS High Sierra login flaw - root:

@wls-itguy said in macOS High Sierra login flaw - root:

@rojoloco said in macOS High Sierra login flaw - root:

@wls-itguy said in macOS High Sierra login flaw - root:

Why is root enabled by default?

Because apple sucks ass?

OK. Because that was the answer I was looking for :SMH

seriously.... fuck crapple in their self righteous ass....

For as logical and well mannered as people, it is frustrating to even visit Mango and try to have a conversation as an Apple user.

Logical and well mannered apple users are the tiny minority.

As are educated and logical places on the internet to have conversations about technology... so let's keep this one.

I also recommend turning on a file auditing policy. That way when someone deletes a file, you can identify the user then let office politics sort out the punishment.

I haven't had to mess with this technology in the home sector in a long time. My Mom's house is 2,400 square feet all 1 level. Her internet connection comes in in the farthest bedroom in the house. Because of course, they use wifi typically on the other end of the house. They currently are using a modem with a built in router, and it sucks, only getting about 10% throughput to the computers on the other end of the house. I am wanting to fix this for Christmas, but I wanted to get some feedback first. Would I be better off getting a decent AC router, with antenna pointing in every direction, or take advantage of something like Ubiquity or Google Wifi mesh and just setting up another AP in the middle of the house? Priorities are low cost, fool proof, no really fool proof, then performance.

I use parted magic or clonezilla for this kind of work, but mainly just because I am comfortable with it.

I have been in training all week with Dr. Don Wheeler learning how to use Statistical process control to quantify quality control metrics. It was a great exercise in logical decision making and process control. Just curious if anyone on here has ever heard of it or any use cases in the IT world.

I have a little G-Raid Studio Thunderbolt 2 6TB external hard drive with two drives mirrored to each other. The chassis seems to have failed and will not spin up the drives. I removed the drives and plugged them in to my laptop individually in both Mac and Windows and it seems to see the drive but not mount them due to an unknown format. I just want to recover the data and move it to real business hardware, any advice?

I called G-RAID, and you guys are dead on. The new devices have a different hardware RAID controller, so I would have to find an old enclosure on ebay, or pay out for data recovery. I was lucky enough to find a copy of the 1 important piece of development that wasn't super out of date, so I have given up on the drive and the data. I will just move on from here. Thanks for the advice and lesson learned.

@penguinwrangler said in Chromebooks and Facebook:

@scottalanmiller Well, I am buying it for him so it will be the cheapest 4GB RAM model I can find. Probably a refurb from Newegg.

Facebook in general on a 4GB model is a little clunky. I wouldn't go super cheap, shoot more middle of the road model.

For what it is worth, I put one of these in my Mom's house as their home router for Christmas last year because they were not getting signal across a 2,000 Sqf house. I haven't touched it, rebooted it, or even thought about it in a year with no issues.

@JaredBusch said in Can all phones read QR codes natively?:

@Dashrender said in Can all phones read QR codes natively?:

@bnrstnr said in Can all phones read QR codes natively?:

Wow. I'm an idiot. I always thought you had to have a QR reader app to use QR codes...

I just tried pointing the regular camera app of my iPhone at it and it read it immediately. :man_facepalming:

I learned that more by mistake a few weeks/month ago.

This was only added natively in iOS 12 I think

Yup, it was 11 or 12. All modern smart phone operating systems handle them natively now, but that is a fairly modern change. You used to have to use a 3rd party app.

I don't want to be that guy, but you could take the time you are spending worrying about this, and just change all of your passwords and be done with it.

I have built a few of these over the years, but it has been a while. The video card is important, but only if they are rendering 3d or using something like After Effects. The biggest area you want to max out on is a Nice motherboard, a good processor, then 100% Max out every bit of RAM you can put in that board. This is because when you edit video, it is in RAM. Then to render it has to process everything you want done at 4K. The Processor L2 cache, buss speed, and RAM speed and amount are always the bottleneck.

Many of the Video editing machines I built back in the 2010ish times would use the intel onboard video, a 2nd PCI cheap video card I found for free for a 2nd monitor, then spend over 1/2 my build budget on really nice RAM and a motherboard. This may have changed a little going from 1080p to 4K.