@dominica said in What happens at MangoCon gets posted here for all to see 2017:

@scottalanmiller looks more bald when he hasn't shaved his head. Whoa.

Ouch. I know you are allowed, but still.

@RojoLoco said:

And every non-breeder's nightmare....

That picture would give most of my single friends a heart attack.

Me? I just try to find my next beer.

@BRRABill said:

Well, everything was going OK until I tried making a new pool tonight.

Then my server stopped responding.

So, that is that until I go into the office tomorrow.

Turns out somehow I powered the machine down.

Still, a sign from above to get iDRAC up and running.

@Dashrender said:

Weird.. just random kids showing up.. parents have no clue where their kids are, etc.

Sounds like the 80's when I grew up.

People are so paranoid these days.

It's OK if someone knows someone, at least in my neighborhood. Any given time there is a scene like that at someone's house.

Converted my first physical server to a production XS this morning.

So far, so good.

Too Long!
Don't Linger!

He was referencing toilets in Australia.

@BBigford said:

I was seriously blown away. Haha sitting around that discussion table. I get the feeling someone said "it mines the community's input, then automates the output in the form of a tweet... What could possibly go wrong?" The first mistake was under estimating people of the Internet.

FTFY

@Jason said

We are a fortune 100 manufacturing company. We've had a lot of management changes in the past month that haven't been so good. None of this stuff would have been allowed before. We've had two hundred or so employees quit in the last month over this stuff, granted that's less than half of a percent of our work force.

Still not sure they can force it. Those people quitting is the definition of why we have these labor laws.

It would be like asking a woman if she was pregnant ever day and firing her if she said yes.

Did some testing today.

DISK2VHD was quick to get running, and took around 11 minutes to do a full VHD backup.

DRIVEIMAGEXML kept freezing on this particular machine. Odd. (I tried multiple times.)

MACRIUM took about 11 minutes as well. A little longer up front to install the program.

VEEAM took a consider amount of time to download and install. It also took about 23 minutes to run the backup.

So anyway ... just some interesting numbers.

I think DISK2VHD might be the way to go moving forward.

Still here. In fact, I ate a SECOND cheese stick. 2016 is truly the year of living dangerously.

@MattSpeller said:

P.S. That picture is a little creepy, LOL.

@RojoLoco said

There are only 12 months, not 31! Now that is some crazy ish!!!

Yes but all of their crazy months only have 12 days!

@scottalanmiller said:

I don't trust the four year old with the camera, especially during a tantrum.

"Look...here's a picture of the side of the cliff as the camera was thrown over it."

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said

Just hit your head hard. You need a video to teach you that?

Uh, watching a video on how to diagnose concussions???

Ah, is that the follow up to the one on how to give one to yourself?

Yes but you need to watch it BEFORE you give yourself one so you know what to do.

@scottalanmiller said:

that's mostly true, but good cryptography systems are supposed to be designed without the ability to disable them. That's what Apple is changing in their new releases.

You've already convinced me that once you lose the physical device, the data is compromised.

THERE'S NO TURNING BACK NOW!

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@DustinB3403 said:

Is XS installed directly to the hardware?

Yes, though I am starting to question that decision.

I'm sensing a feeling in the force...move that install to USB!

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just spotted this little gem: Management wants a list of user passwords.

This one response wasn't written by @scottalanmiller but it could have been:

"Literally never do this. Ever."

I also want to emphasize that xByte is a great company to deal with. I would not hesitate to use them at any time.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Headed over to the data center to change an IP address on the firewall. 5 minute job, but I get paid for 3 hours, I go home early, and I get to eat at my favorite noodle shop! Friday win!!!!

These kind of posts need a LIKE instead of an upvote.