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That does make a certain amount of sense, since dcpromo is if nothing else going to involve installing a DNS server for a domain it can manage. If the only options are the reserved APIPA and loopback ranges, it makes sense that it would barf.

I used IE9 for the first time over the weekend. It was decidedly Chrome-like. I'm not sure how far I'd want the browser UI minimalism to go, but that's definitely the direction the biggest browsers are taking. Google is talking about removing the URL bar from the default view in future versions...

Well, my Asus P8P67 Deluxe died over the weekend at age 58 days. Neither on board NIC nor any of the USB2 ports are functional. So that's nice.

Fun, true fact for the IT guys here: MSE is only free for commercial installations of 10 computers or less. If you're going to ignore that fact, you might as well install better protection in the first place. I've been told Forticlient is another decent free option. I still haven't felt...

MSE is generally not acceptable. It's a drag on system resources, misses too much stuff and is lacking what I consider basic functionality. I've never liked Avira's stupid popup, either.

That really should be the outcome of any security breach, not just a rootkit.

Maybe some of them. But not Coug.

Coug is not a Canadian. You know better.

I have a Quantum Superloader library with an LTO4 drive. The setup has a very high startup cost (mine was lightly used) but tapes are cheap and will last, relatively speaking, forever.

Technically, no. In Indiana they're legal to sell but not to use. But no one ever gets in any trouble for it. It's ongoing bullshit and one of the things I hate about this place.

The fucking fireworks started a month ago. They've been going on for a month and they won't stop until about the time that all the inbred wombshits are rounded up and forced back into their schools. Everything about this holiday sucks.

No doubt. This is a perfect case of having a problem with a million solutions. Ages and ages ago there was a really cool thread in one of the UNIX groups on USENET about all the different ways you could make the standard utilities to give a directory listing. There were probably hundreds of...

Before I had my tape setup, my standard practice was to build a JBOD or RAID0 on some machine I could stuff full of drives for as long as I needed to move data around. If you're using a decent backup program, you can tell it to store backups as chunks of arbitrary file size. That's not all...

Oh, probably. But a lot of things Microsoft is doing now aren't exposed to VBS but are exposed to Powershell. Lots of Exchange functionality, for example.

On the other hand, awk is one of those swiss army knife tools that works on everything, once you know it. Microsoft changes its major scripting language at the drop of a hat. Or had you forgotten about Powershell?

Given what's in the theater right now, I think I'd rather pay my $8 to go sit in the lobby for two hours.

My ex is moving to Pennsylvania and other ladies that I know are busy doing holiday stuff. My apartment is clean. I have no contracting work to get done. It's going to be hot and humid and there probably hasn't been a 10 minute period of time any time in the last two weeks when there hasn't...

This weekend is going to be boring and stupid.

They won't do that in my area unless someone lives in one of the towns where Comcast isn't the only cable TV franchise.

They call it cheap now, but watch when they're released and 10x as expensive as equivalent flash modules.

The Vortexbox is pretty slick. I set one up on a dual core Atom machine with a Hitachi 2TB drive and then turned it over to my boss with the couple scripts needed to map its disk shares on her kids' PCs and Macs. They've been using it for about a week and they're not even aware that the box is...

Verizon sold its DSL business to a company called Frontier. I think Frontier has done more to sell Comcast cable than anything Comcast could have done in the history of ever.

That's what your non-marring pry tools are for.

For a while, Seagate's branded external drives carried a five year warranty. I bought a lot of those and I've returned quite a few as well.

Seagate's external enclosures for the last few years have been really awful. Though I like the Freeagent models that sit parallel to a horizontal surface a hell of a lot better than the previous drives that sat on a tiny little stand and were otherwise made to sit perpendicular, just waiting to...

I'm poor right now. No one wants any IT contractin'.

I think the party line at the time was that they were bringing the Word version number to parity with the Excel version number in the same version of MS Office.

Quick Greg Santilli grammar refresher: LOSE: the opposite of WIN. LOOSE: the opposite of TIGHT.

Buy a full-length video card and see how quickly you change your mind. I just go ahead and plug in a couple extra SATA cables when I see that I have ports parallel to the board.

It's not, as long as it's not your only backup.

Harper is an idiot, but on the whole Canadian politics are much, much saner.

I figure that it boils down to either no snow or living in a decent country. I'll take one or the other.

Where I live now, we have a high cost of living but also salaries that are based on the state rather than regional values. So things like food and gas are very expensive vs. lower than normal salaries. That's the worst of both worlds. I'd take a job if it meant I got to move to Canada, for sure.

My thinking is that I'd do better someplace where the salaries are inflated beyond reason due to high cost of living. The advantage would translate into a huge bonus for retirement savings when I relocate to whatever part of BFE I might ultimately choose for a retirement destination.

I don't want to live in Chicago.

I really need to sit down and start looking for a different job. Which will probably mean moving someplace else and lots of other bothersome crap. I cannot summon the enthusiasm to get started.

I've definitely had Server 2008 with AD on machines that just had SATA drives on Intel controllers.

That's... curious. And I'm not sure I've ever seen that behavior, though I do know that I've run into unusually unresponsive Windows Servers a couple times.

I didn't say you did. You just reminded me of something I have been meaning to rant about.

So where are people getting the notion that using NAS for backup somehow represents a good idea?

It's a NAS. It's used for all the craps that NASes are meant to be used for. Which is not the same thing as backup. Even when I was relying on keeping my file servers rsync'd for redundancy I was never deluding myself that doing so was the same thing as a backup, but that appears to be what my...

Meh. Either way. They're the cheap ones.

I vaguely recall seeing little fan control devices made to sit in a 3.5" drive bay last time I actually visited my local parts distributor in person.

I have a little Terk powered indoor antenna. The only channels I can get are the PBS station with a tower that's just down the road in Gary, and a couple Spanish-language stations. I decided it's not worth bothering with OTA TV.

Does Drobo advertise in mass market or something? I've had three of my customers in the last couple months tell me that they wanted to get a Drobo system for backups. I keep wanting to yell at them that there's no functional difference between having a RAID setup that's built directly into...

The no-kidding best deals going for Smartphones and Data Plans in the US, unless you're on some kind of sweetheart deal like mine, are with pay as you go carriers like Cricket (Sprint) and Virgin (Verizon, I think). They even undercut T-mobile by a fairly substantial margin. I have no idea how...

I've read that the most common 8" and 12" fans (oversized for computer use) from the usual suspects like Sunon are actually pretty loud. One of my students bought a Cooler Master case with a built-in 8" fan and it was unmistakably audible even though the retail packaging trumpeted that case's...

There's a spiffy little Android tool that has an astonishing level of support for PC-based (AV-type) remote controls. And I'd had any sleep in the last day and a half I'd even be able to remember its name. Uh, uh... whatever. I remember that it was $5. Go me. DLNA is pretty lame. It basically...

Journalspace was a huge site for a while. The reason they went down the tubes is that one of their admins had decided that the only data continuity they needed was RAID1 and another admin deleted their database after he was fired and before they took his access away. Sometimes you just shake...

At 9:38PM, I got a call from some random person that they were attempting to make an Amazon delivery to my office. They were lost and wanted directions.The person identified told me that he works for a company called Esenda and that his company was contracted to make deliveries for Amazon. I let...