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I often did it when I was self-employed and had my own shop. That was more than 5 years ago though. I don't why it would be different nowadays. The laptops I open these days all have a removable wifi card inside and swapping it for a different model, provided you have the drivers, shouldn't...

No working spacebar or just intoxicated?

Warning : this is a junk post. Since I had nothing better to do, I ended up on Sploid and saw this. Not being an RC pro, I believe this is fake, like the bear running after a biker video. Why? Despite being quite well made, how can the guy filming the mini-chopper follow it so accurately...

The problem I've had with adoption was when I changed the forst password I set on the controller. The AP kept the old one, so they all showed as disconnected.

On my wish list for 2017 : a single board computer with a quad-core Cortex A73 CPU and at least one USB 3.0 port. Currently, the fastest single board computer seems to be the ODROID C2, but it lacks USB 3.0 ports. I want to try one of those cheap and tiny computers as a kind of thin client...

Active Password Changer.

There's always the good old iometer benchmark that you can run on the VM itself. If the iops are abysmal, then you know the system is overworked or poorly optimized.

It's ok if you want to isolate a system with a simple low-resource task. I have a few VM configured like that, which often serve little teams of employees. People don't complain about performance issues. But running Exchange on this is madness.

On a 2-CPU, 4GB RAM VM? Some people are overly optimistic.

If there's one thing I've learn in the many decades I've worked in IT is that you can't defeat human stupidity. And in a way, it's normal. The great majority of the staff isn't working in an IT-related field. They don't have the skills and even interest in learning good security practices...

The president and two directors congratulated me today for recovering the files. Two young ladies working for the company offered me a cake at dinner time. I don't think I've sank myself too much. Honestly, it's not gifts and pat on the back that I'm after. I wan't money to fix the ramping...

According to AV-Test and AV Comparatives, its detection rate is higher, without impacting much the system performances. And I realized during the night that a second server was hit. The total infected files amount is now close to 230,000. I should finish restoring the files around noon today.

Don't know where to post it, so it will here. We've been hit by a cryptoware today at the office. Over 140,000 encrypted files. We've been quite lucky since only the Ms Office files were lost. The other files were left unarmed. No one will lose their job because the president is patient...

The MX410de comes with a 5000 pages rated toner. For ~300$, I think it's quite good. I've had poor experiences with 3rd parties drum units for Brother printers. Been disappointed twice, four years ago, and never bothered trying anything but the official units since then.

While it's not usually my favorite brand, the Lexmark Mx410de is on sale these days, at least around here, and on paper, it makes a lot of sense. There's a 10,000 pages rated toner and even a 20,000 pages rated toner. The printer itself cost around 300U$. For what it offers, it doesn't seem...

I see a manufacturer-refurbished Samsung SM843T 480GB on eBay, from NewEgg, at only ~82U$. Tempted, very tempted...

No it isn't. To my knowledge, the only shingled 8TB HDD Seagate sells is the ST8000AS0002. The one BackBlaze uses is a standard, unshingled, not helium-filled, consumer model.

BTW, I didn't know about PDF Xchange (saw the name a few times, but never bothered investigating). The Viewer is still available, but development for it has stopped. The Editor is still maintained. I'll give it a shot. If it's available in French, I might use it at the office instead of the...

I use Sumatra PDF Reader. Despite the Frontpage-like website and blinding yellow color, it's a good little piece of software. Light and efficient. Available in 64-bit (that's an added safety as it doesn't run in compatibility mode).

And then, they would all be confused, because you're not Dennis.

Apparently, the United States have decided to vote for a financial crash and long term recession. Oh well. Head over to MarketWatch.com. It's spectacular.

The nickname doesn't come from his look, but from the fact that he likes to show pictures of his ass ;-)

I've found Snowhiker's new nickname : Bimbo.

We've hired a new technician Friday late afternoon. Too late. We have an office at Thornhill (can be considered Toronto), but there's no tech support there. You wouldn't like the pay (way too low for a guy with your qualifications). The only half decent salary is mine and I wouldn't be...

Separation is quite hard to implement here. There are managers from 8 different companies into the same building at the main office and from 7 companies at the secondary office. The other three offices only have people from a single company each. The administrative personal is shared between...

I've checked Untangle's pricing and for the amount of devices I have on all my networks (5 offices connected via an MPLS network with a single internet link), the NG complete firewall would cost us 14400$ for 3 years. That's without the hardware I'd to buy to host it. All in all, it's almost...

I too have had to manually edit BIOS files in the past and it was a pain in the ass. My sympathies.

Before I came in, they used an Aventail VPN firewall (Aventail=Sonicwall). I retired it two years ago. Support was indeed quite costly. The Watchguard units we use aren't cheap to maintain either, but significantly less than the Aventail used to be. From a purely performance perspective, the...

We have an old (~6 years-old) Watchguard XTM 510 firewall which needs to be replaced at the office. Watchguard warned us that they won't support it more than another year, so it has to go. The office it deserves has grown and the XTM no longer suffices anyway. We have two other Watchguard...

I turned it on last Thursday when it felt to 61°F in my bedroom. I maintain it at 62.6°F. While I'm capable to endure lower temperatures, I know by experience that my chances to fall sick increase when I sleep at less than 60°F. My bedroom still is the only room I've started heating. Other...

It will probably be loud, but not excindingly so as it is not a very powerful unit, processing-wise. It will be connected with 10G SFP+ ports and it will be using mechanical drives, so I don't expect to be able to top 800MB/s in sequential transfers. Random iops will probably be between ~400...

Since we badly needed more storage space at the office, I've ordered an HPE StoreEasy 1650 Expanded with an additionnal D3700 enclosure with SFF HDDs in it for a faster tier. I've also ordered another 1650 Expanded for the DR site. Both units are far from filled and we shouldn't have to...

Stereo-wu?

Yeah, the other three points are though, right?

I never realized that I was gone. I still visited the site regularly. It's just that I hadn't anything interesting to add.

Yes, it does. Also, too many employees refer to a shared folder as a "server". "Oh, you need to give her access to the HR server and also to the payment server". Of course, those two are simply shared folders sitting on the exact same file server. I gave up explaining this.

Every now and then, I hear someone, who generally thinks he's far more tech savvy than he really is, say that we should put this or that on THE Cloud. Not a particular Cloud like the Amazon Cloud, Azure, Google Cloud or, for people more gullible than average and famous people wanting to store...

Probably, but I don't have the Enterprise version anywhere, so I can't confirm.

Well, there's a place. It's moved since the last build (or the last time I cared to check). I'm still pissed about my dinner though.

Windows 10 build 1607 has been forced on my main computer. As expected, there's no setting in the GPO to disable Cortana. I've uninstalled OneDrive using this guide. It's worth mentionning that Windows Explorer process needs to be stopped before removing the folders in %LocalAppData%...

The forum has been slow for the past 10 minutes. More precisely, it's sometimes slow and sometimes ok. It has hiccups.

The Tesla weights a lot more than a Ferrari F40. Weight is a big factor too. That's like Lotus cars. They are not very powerful compared to other sport cars, but they are so light that they end up being pretty fast anyway.

I hesitated to post this here or in the Firefox thread, but there you go. In short, Firefox will eat the lifespan of your SSD unless you modify its default parameters.

If your office is in the top floors of the Sears tower, this is quite normal. Otherwise, seek medical assistance.

We have an HP Spectre 360 Pro at the office and I prefer it to the T460s. The screen is better and it's slightly cheaper, at least around here.

Nothing really bad with the demo site. Small annoyances : I don't like the pastel orange color of some elements. I don't see where to chose another color scheme. My avatar didn't follow like the one of some others. I've seen "points" and "likes" in the members section. Do we really need...

Disclaimer : I'm purely an outsider on this. I don't do database administration. With that being written : http://www.admin-magazine.com/Articles/MariaDB-vs.-MySQL Also, from this blog: There are performance benchmarks probably favoring MariaDB over MySQL, but those I've seen are from...

I thought MariaDB was preferable at this point, but you are the one managing it so you decide.

That part is enough to convince me. I'm so pissed when I have to maintain obsolete platforms at the office (we unfortunately have several). Moving to something easier to manage and harder to hack is the way to go.

At Ars Technica. The Linksys he tested was really bad. I have Ubiquiti wifi AP at two branch offices, with updated firmwares. Reading this, I believe I should have kept the original firmware. The EdgeRouter Pro is impressive. Quite a value considering the price.