sparda963 · Network Engineer

That is why Thanos was right. Just a quick snap and over population issues resolved. Quick, painless, completely random. Sorry couldn't help myself!

That is basically what we are doing right now. If the company does not own the device, it does not go on the corporate network. You can use the guest network if you want to do something on it.

I played percussion when I was in school. Took a lot of flack for it from people because they were like all you do is hit a drum that isn't hard. I was in a small school so we didnt have a huge range of percussion instruments, but we still had a pretty good selection. The standard snare, base, cymbals, 3 timpanis,…

HR departments are nothing more then a shield and blunt weapon for top level administration in most companies now days. They don't service the employees anymore, they service the administration in my experiences.

Our biggest problem is management worry about the business, not the technical stuff. We have no one in management that can be our champion for the technical aspect of things. So they can just tell us what it is and we have to deal with it. We make due, but the lingering thought in the back of all of our minds is that poo…

The admission points to something bad going on at Apple that has been happening for years, and has been accelerating lately. They admit to making something that was pretty bad, just to get it out there. But Apple used to be about "oh it just works, its perfect out of the box". But not anymore.

^^^^ This is exactly my problem with the whole thing. I have never done business with them before. I hate the concept of their business in reality. Yet now all my information is out there and there is literally nothing I can do about it but wait and hope I'm not worth as much as some other people out there that got caught…

My soul dies a little bit in side each and every time I see this picture.

I did the exact same thing. I was like wtf there is a Klingon Ski Resort? Sounds like a bloody good time!

I see where you are coming on a lot of this. The problem is, its the designer and the company we are working with right now that is pushing a lot of this stuff. They keep citing the budget as the reason for needing to cut all the corners, with no regard as to how it will actually change how things work, or in a lot of…

It seems that more and more IT talent and staff are becoming a disposable commodity that is outsourced. It started many years ago with outsourcing help desks and call centers. Now days high level talent is also outsourced through partners and VAR's. Businesses do not see the need to pay someone a high salary for high level…

This spiraled out of control pretty fast!!! Being in the medical field we tend to move slower then the rest of industry. We are still in the virtualization craze right now for our data center.

Several of our senior managers got hit at the workplace by the google docs one. Fun times telling them they were going to have to change basically every password they use on every site because they use the same password for everything. Then forcing a password change on their accounts at the workplace too after that.

We have gone through this struggle for the last 3 years now. Our current SAN is literally full, and has been for the last 3 years. When the SAN was purchased it met our storage needs, but then suddenly we had massive expansion of data across a lot of different layers. A lot of this was due to a big push to get most of our…

He doesn't. If he did, Apple would would allow you to replace your battery, or your screen, or the touch id button, without bricking your phone and then charging you $150 to run the unbrick app at the genius bar because you had the audacity to try and repair an electronic device you paid to not actually own.

Sadly this is a lot like Starship Troopers. The C-Level execs are fleet sitting up in orbit while the IT people are the mobile infantry down on the planet in the trenches with all the nasty bugs. There is a disconnect between the 2 groups. Anyone who works in the trenches of IT will throw their hands in the air and say WTF…

Yeah they don't care how many times you got woken up with calls in the last year, or ever. Sadly most of my unscheduled pto is due to the stress of work and me just needing the day off to keep my head on straight, but they don't consider things like that at all. Despite working in a hospital, I rarely ever get sick. I…

Who is bringing the marshmallows this year?

I have a script that will launch psexec, i just enter the users pc name, and it launches a remote command prompt on their pc and issues a shutdown -r -t15 command. Cake.

I did the connect the dots while waiting for a system to come back up last night after being called in. It looked like my old art projects from Pre-School!

That was a very interesting read. The article tries to paint the big guys in the game such as google and microsoft and intel as having kept this secret and not included the other players like linux in it. But the story also pointed out what I think is a key flaw in how linux works and the open source industry in general…

I'm not here for the points this month. I am here for the Whisky talk! Been compiling a list of ones I should try out. Keep em coming guys!

The Orville did an episode on the whole social capital thing. It was quite amusing, and fairly disturbing as well. Everyone walked around with a badge that had a number on it which was your social score, and an up and down arrow. People could tap your up or down button to vote you up or down in person, and online. If your…

I still think autonomous driving will reduce accidents to a point not seen since before cars were made. I trust AI choices more then 99% of the people on the road right now. In the unlikely situation where an accident cannot be avoided, it comes down to a choice of the needs of the many outweighing the needs of the few.…

The third direct to video starship troopers movie had the mechs in them, it was what the entire movie was based around for the most part. Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (Video 2008) - IMDb The second movie, well, i repressed it it was so bad. They just came out with an animated movie Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars…

The FIM stuff was likely self inflicted as a result of the problems we were having related to that and connectors in general. Overall I like where the interface is going though. It is much more responsive then the flash based interface hands down.

That will cause you to burn out eventually, probably a lot sooner then you would expect. Problem with burnout is that it's something that sneaks up on you over time so you don't really notice it a lot of times. At least that is what happened with me. It just gradually got to me when suddenly one day I took a big step back…

How did you get buyin from the c-level to do this? I have suggested we do this several times now. I get the same response every time with a very sturdy no. The reason that I have been given, and I am not making this up or paraphrasing at all, is "We do not want to trick and embarrass our users like that." Insert Picard…

I work in healthcare where people have an unhealthy infatuation with titles. It got so bad with email with people putting titles and certifications and everything else in their signature lines that administration had to put out a policy limiting what people can put in their signatures. One guy had 3 different job titles…

Actually we have a CT machine and an MRI machine we could do that with! It would not be time efficient by any means what so ever, and would be expensive, but we could do it.