Tilting at windmills....
Just had a user stick a toner cartridge into the printer to replace the empty one. 
User didn't remove the "OMFG REMOVE BEFORE USE" bright orange toner pull tabs. 
This did not wreck the printer, or the toner cartridge.
I'm going to consider this a minor win.
@DustinB3403 Scott has no need for firewalls, malicious packets wouldn't dare enter his network. We mere plebeians however...
@Dashrender said:
A B&W inkjet is any inkjet that doesn't have color cartridges installed. Granted the printer might refuse to print if you send a color print job to it... unlike a B&W laser.
B&W Inkjet is another term for boat anchor
@johnhooks backups are easier when you have no data left to backup 
**The following is my spleen vent / rant - you've been warned. I spent 15 minutes sitting in my car yelling at the radio and returned to write the following.
**
The local talk radio station here in Victoria just played a full 15min clip of "Dr" Barrie Trower spouting off about the dangers of WiFi radiation. I believe this is the clip they played, though as a disclaimer I could not listen to it again without having my gorge rise.
Here's the email I sent in to the host:
Hello Mr Jessop,
I am incredibly surprised and disappointed that you gave this nut job any airtime – with even some cursory research you would see his claims have been debunked from coast to coast.
Should you consider his claims to have any merit I would ask you to try an experiment at home for yourself. Purchase a roast and place it in the microwave on high for 5 minutes. Remove it from the microwave and cut it in half. You will observe that microwaves (AKA non-ionizing radiation around 2.4ghz, AKA wifi, AKA millimetre frequencies, AKA EHF, etc) does not penetrate through the whole roast - it acts upon the first water molecules it encounters, cooking it from the outside inward. Now imagine someone turned a “microwave weapon” on you – how do you think it would affect your body? Is it reasonable to think that this would affect your internal organs before your skin?
In regards to the "microwave radiation weapons" he mentions, they are indeed real! They do work quite nicely (although I consider them unsafe & very susceptible to abuse) and have been tested by (at minimum) the United States Army. Please see the below link for a brief demonstration. You will notice that no one drops dead, no one's brains explode out their ears and no ladies present have their ovaries 'nuked from the inside out as Barrie Trower would have you believe such a powerful (200,000 watt!!) microwave would do.
If you require any further proof of this man’s quackery, I have linked below to some further reading. I would be much obliged if you would cease to give these blatantly false claims any further air time. An apology for airing his garbage would be fantastic, though I will not hold my breath.
http://www2.worksafebc.com/i/posters/2014/ws14_07.html
http://www.macleans.ca/authors/colby-cosh/i-bet-mr-trower-has-a-delightful-accent/
http://www.emfandhealth.com/Barrie WiFi2.html
From a sincerely concerned listener who is tired of hearing this FUD regurgitated by those who trust you to display some journalistic integrity,
Matthew Speller
Couple of the most key points I've learned about deployment(s)
Have one replacement laptop & desktop at minimum ready to roll 24/7, 365. You will need it most when you least expect it.
Have a base image, update it a week after patch Tuesday every month
Buy all the same model of laptop / desktop. There is no good reason to have more than 1 model of desktop and AT MOST two models of laptop purchased in a year.
Make a checklist for deployment and stick it on each computer. Tick all the boxes as you complete them and sign it, date it, and leave it on the computer until it gets deployed.
Have a standardized method of data xfer/backup and stick to it.
Label/serialize laptops/desktops and keep a list of it all. More details the better.
.... more as I think of them.
@WingCreative said:
Hmmm... SAM can't post to Spiceworks?
Quick, everyone head over there and recommend SANs, FreeNAS and VMWare!
Pffft, I'm going to post about how epic RAID5 is with giant arrays - bigger the better.
@DustinB3403 said:
So just buggy ass software, and the device is useless then?
You could try hacking it for a weekend project. It's got all the right bits to be an interesting toy.
Hunting for a sale on electric trolling motors, bought a boat on the weekend
Cloud makes for an excellent part of a DR strategy but I wouldn't put all my eggs in one basket regardless of the technology involved.
@RojoLoco said:
Exactly why no one should be allowed near fine art
@scottalanmiller lol yes, yes I got that. I think you can cut it down by half and make it easier to understand. I'll have a crack at it once I'm bright eyed and bushy tailed next week.
You need to get your GPO's setup for this! Then when they login with domain creds you can assign them printers by their location
Unbelievable - #fitnessproblems
We have 10 staff flying out of town tomorrow and I need to ship a laptop with them. They're all riding bikes to the airport (~40-50km) and can't fit it in.
@gbeyhaut said:
@BRRABill unless you want to shut that one server down remotely
Which can come in handy when the power goes out, your A/C isn't running and your server starts to overheat while running on battery. (FEAR MONGERING!!!)
Precisely what we use the 9PX for. Servers stay up for the ~10-15 mins it takes to shut them down, then the bulk of the run time goes to our PoE switches + Mitel box to keep the phones running in case of emergency.
@nadnerB said:
2Km bog lap around the block
Anyone else picturing the mad dash to the loo, toilet paper streaming in the wind?
@scottalanmiller that's a lot of billable hours to fix
Spent this morning chasing around removing this. It causes outlook to start in safemode and screws with your view prefs.
Recommended action: blacklist it on your WSUS.
MS has already pulled it.
