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my cisco vpn client doesn't work with windows 10.  what do i do!

Use an operating system that is on the compatibility list? lol

Anybody watching Fargo - Season2?

Uniform colors today looked far better than the standard bright ketchup and mustard stuff.  Would have been nice if the Helmets matched it though.  The muted colors are better, I wish we'd go to them full time. 

Yes. I agree. I liked the faux leather look they used to have. I can't imagine it would cost too much to get somebody to come in and repaint them on Monday for the following week.

As for the one helmet rule, anybody who has played or coached can tell you it's BS. You just get the same model/size helmet, and rip out the velcro pads and stick them in the other one.

Good luck maintaining anonymity. Especially from the three letter agencies.

Feeling the love today/tonight from the users because of a SSL VPN crash. Total loss and couldn't restore from config backup. Love my job.

OMG! I can't work in the evening from home!

Hah! I said the same thing to my boss immediately after seeing that Dell bought them. He had a hell of time getting things working as EMC said they should. Quite the time sink for him.

Don't even get me started on EMC exponentially increasing maintenance costs over the life of their storage. We have a Pure Storage flash array and an EMC XtremIO. Comparable performance, but Pure is way better on scalability, updates, support, and maintenance costs (flat over the life of the array).

So I have a dedicated printer at work. Only I use it and I run the only Mac in the building. Everytime I update my password or I do an OS update my access drops and I have to reinstall the printer (or some other work around). Last week, I had more issues and couldn't get printer server access. Brought in IT and they couldn't resolve it either and I had some deadlines to meet. 

 

The short term work around was that I just hardwired the printer to my Mac via USB. IT was okay with this workaround as a short term solution. 

 

The printer is about 18 inches from my mac through a wall, so I asked Maintenance dept if they could drill a hole through the wall or install some kind of connection and they said they would. Today, I got a sharply worded e-mail saying that drilling a hole to bridge that 18 inches is not an acceptable solution. Like I said, I respect our IT guys, so have no problem playing by their rules. But why would not printing off the network be an issue? Is it a security issue? Control issue?

Aren't you the unique snowflake... They are trying for standardization and to prevent later problems when a requirement arises for somebody else to print to it. Those are my first thoughts.

 

Learn Linux, load a VM player on your machine, add a Linux VM, install MySQL or MongoDB.  Learn how to work in that environment.  The job as a "DBA" is in a transformational state right now as the industry moves away from traditional SQL databases.  Before starting my business I worked for one of the largest database companies in the world.  The large database companies are struggling with the move to open source and how they play in the market.

 

Can't disagree. However, SQL 2012/2014/2016 is not a bad area either. Especially since the advent of SQL Always On Availability Groups. Those things are pretty awesome compared to traditional clustering. Many enterprises are moving to them for HA on their back end Windows/SQL systems.

Messaging or visualization are good areas too. If you want to swerve, you could also go over to the Cisco world and get into networking. Especially converged networks that integrate Ethernet & SAN & virtual networks such as their Nexus switches.

Dell to buy EMC for $67 billion in biggest tech takeover ever

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/dell-to-buy-emc-for-dollar67-billion-in-biggest-tech-takeover-ever/ar-AAfmUf4?ocid=ansmsnmoney11

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As somebody who is forced to use EMC storage, I hope that Dell improves the support.

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Anybody else having problems with DISH this morning?  My Hopper DVR has been cleaned out, and my soaps and The Daily Show scheduled recordings have been erased.

WTF?

They have been deemed unhealthy and therefore have been removed. For your own good.

These debates usually don't go well, so I've just been reading the last 2 days.. But something that I believe both sides should be able to get on board with, is holding the media responsible for sensationalizing the names/faces of these killers.. The Sheriff in Oregon said they didn't want to give his name or bring any attention to him, and as Im watching NBC's Lester Holt report on it, he reaffirms the Sheriffs request, and the very next sentence is the killers full name and a picture posted of him taking up 2/3 of the tv screen.. IMO, the act of killing people is just a part of these psycho's agenda. The fame and notoriety play a big part too.. That's something we could take away, if we wanted to..

Why is a movie like Black Mass (or American Gangster, Matrix etc.) popular? That IMO shines a light onto the problem. We are a culture who enjoys violence recreationally and guns are the tool of choice because of the ease of obtaining them and the most bang for the buck. Are we surprised when those among us cross the line from entertainment to real life or revenge?

Pollin hasn't been good for years. I liked him when I first started listening to him and Czabe on the ride home a few years back, and they would have guest co-hosts like Feldman or Kevin Blackistone. But then he lost his job to Cooley and has been a whiny boy ever since.

Let me give one possibility why this isn't stupid.

Thousands of people die or he injured ever year in car accidents. Likewise, thousands die or get injured in gun accidents. Seat belts reduce the number of deaths and injuries. Trigger locks, safties, gun safes would all reduce the number of gun accidents.

Fire arm regs could very much act as seatbelts to reduce accidental firings or children's deaths from misuse.

Personally, I think the car manufacturers are more responsible for seat belt's success. It wasn't  law enforcement, it was the little annoying dinger that goes off constantly when you don't wear it. And as people began to see and understand the benefit, they began to see how stupid people were who don't wear it.

Unfortunately, like somebody recently pointed out, our culture reinforces the opposite, which is that violence is cool somehow.

Hence why I said mass school shootings.

 

But lets look at some:

 

Sandy Hook

VT

UCC

Ft Hood x2

Chatanooga recruiting station

Navy Yard

Santa Monica College

Aurora movie theater

Oikos University

University of Alabama Huntsville

Northern Illinois University

Amish school

Red Lake HS

University of Arizona School of Nursing

Santana HS

Columbine HS

Jonesboro, Arkansas MS

 

There are a bunch more at schools. There have been 27 since 2000 according to the chart posted earlier. All of these were declared gun free zones.

They are also high population concentrations where people gather. They weren't targeted because they were gun-free if that's what's being implied.

you mean disarming visitors/strangers while the good guys carry and the town folk have them at their home and business? ....and maybe even schools

In Dodge City only the cops had guns. If you didn't comply you got knocked over the head. Didn't you ever see the Kevin Costner movie?

I admit I am part of the problem. Because I too want us to do "something". But I don't have any idea what that is.

What specific changes in our gun laws would have prevented yesterday? Background checks? Closing the gun show loophole?

I admire Obamas passion, but question his leadership on this issue. He's had ample opportunity to do "something" but all I've seen from him is blaming congress for NOT doing something.

The only way we stop incidents like yesterday is to ban firearms. And I don't see anyone coming close to suggesting that is the "something" we should do.

Kind of like Dodge City/Wyatt Earp style?

We sure did.

 

Something's happened in the past...50 years?  An increase in violence in the movies we watch (as I'm typing here I'm watching Jason Bourne shoot up a bunch of bad guys trying to kill him), video games, music....media sensationalism.  I do think there's an aspect of most of these shootings which is the outsider that wants to be heard.  The nerds that got picked on who want revenge against the popular kids and athletes, the socially awkward kid who locked himself in his room and played Warcraft who was just overall anti-social.  

 

Everyone can be heard these days, everyone has a voice.  There's facebook, there's twitter.  But if you really want to get noticed, it's sure to get some media attention if you commit a heinous shooting.  I guarantee there's some people out there today who saw this on TV all day and got the crazy idea to do something similar in their head.  

The shooter even posted on a blog this exact sentiment back in August. He said basically that nobody knew the guy who shot the reporters in VA, but now everybody knows him.

I work down the hall from a Cowboys fan. Yesterday, every time he came to my office, I played this song for him.

Helpful link for DBA's or Sys Admins who are forced into double duty with SQL.

Checklist for DBA's

https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/database-administration/brads-sure-dba-checklist/

And when your DBA's can't do things on their own, and they want to implement new tech in SQL:

Configuring SQL Always On Availability Groups

http://stevenpoitras.com/2014/02/configure-sql-db-availability-group/

I actually just went through this for our enterprise systems. Pretty cool, taking a page from Exchange clustering tech.

Better than traditional SQL clusters IMO, since you don't need shared storage and can span sites.

Can't wait {sarcasm} to hear how sheehans going to spin amerson getting released.

Cuz it's not possible that it's shannys fault.

He'll say the same thing the "Mr. Negativity" AKA Reid was saying this morning: It was Bruce Allen's fault. "He had his fingers in it..." like Allen is some kind of Dick Cheney style master manipulator. Whatever.

Yeah, the Engineers were some big mofos.  That one dude man-handled humans in the ship's bridge.   So if they're spooked, then we've got a serious problem.

 

If they created us, wtf was that dude hellbent on sending a ship full of black goo to earth?  man, i haven't thought of all this stuff in a while.  it's all coming back.  

 

One thing's for sure, if we even get just a few answers, Prometheus 2 will be faptacular.

Maybe like us, they have factions and don't all agree on things. Maybe he was a warrior and not a scientist? Who knows? Not me, I didn't even see it.

Maybe be its just me, and it's nothing, but I really find it condescending the was Jason Reid refers to mike jones as Littke Bull or Young Bull or whatever. He must have said it 1000 times this morning.

I listened to the segment because Jones has grown on me. But it was just Reid spewing hate. At the end, Chris asked Jones if he could stay another segment: "Sure, I didn't get to talk very much because Jason talks a lot." (Paraphrased.)

Reid sucks. almost as much as lavar sucked on radio but not quite. That was epic.

Somebody must like Lavar (I don't know who), because he is now on NFL Network.

I've just been listening to ESPN Radio Mike & Mike still in the morning over iTunes Radio. Or if the weather's right, I can pick it up on 94.1 out of Newport News. They still carry them.

Podcasts are not hard to listen to.

We get your point. You like podcasts and you want everybody in the world to listen to them because they are the greatest, most luxurious, gold-encrusted, & pleasurable thing in the world. Got it.

It's the Starfleet Academy rugby team.

And here I was really giving them props for not only going with a slight change of the original uniforms, but actually emphasizing something that a lot of Trekkies didn't note, about the original uniforms. (The black "collar" is supposed to be actually an undershirt, with a collarless, colored, shirt, over it.)

And they had to go and **** with THAT.

I always liked the red uniforms like in ST2. These one's look too much like Captain America's "old" uniform in the movies or maybe they are riding dirt bikes in the new movie?

That'll show 'em....

You know, every little bit counts. And it made me feel good.