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There are always ways around this. I used to work for a company that bought old iPhones to resell them. It is just about finding the right work arounds for the given OS.

First full time job I had was being put in charge of cleaning up and managing a retail store database of over 100,000 DVD, Video Game, and Music titles while I was in college. I started writing code to make work easier, then slowly started cleaning up networks and eventually was put in charge of all things IT. By the time I left we had over 45 stores, and a PCI compliant hub and spoke network between them all.

This community has a heavy hardware focus and you will learn a ton just hanging around. I lurk a ton and read every post I can. If someone brings up a technology, I research it, and understand it. You should also balance that with a little software side of the computer coin. Go to Codeacadamy.com and learn the basics of a couple languages. Then setup a little home lab, with a computer, a server (could be as cheap as a raspberry pi), and network them together. Doing all this will give you the ground level for everything that get's thrown under the name IT. You will know pretty quick what you like and what to focus on, or you will end up like me and holding jobs in development, networking, and system admin within the last few years.

Lastly, keep this in mind. While you do all this, pay attention to your mood. You should feel like a kid in a candy store trying to learn this stuff. If you feel like this sucks but it will pay off if you get through the hard part of learning the basics, then reevaluate what you want to do, because it doesn't get much different, the problems just get more complicated. I have seen too many people who wouldn't setup their own home project to learn, or learn a single language on their own go and pay for college in CIS. They were all miserable and non of them finished their degree. So make sure you are ok with life long learning, or you may want to look into an auxiliary IT field, like sales if you are good with talking to people, but not as involved in the technical side.

@thanksajdotcom said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:

Another angle...

I think we can fix that...

I am just curious if anyone else has ever seen this one. We have Windows Server 2012 using Thinmanager to run user applications. The thin clients auto log into an account based on computer name, and start up their respective software waiting for human interaction. We are seeing after a little over 49 days. (49.7 seems to be the magic number from Windows 98 days) the user accounts lock out until the Server is rebooted. We are on active directory, 2008 I believe. This isn't my department, so it may be difficult to get a ton of good information, but the users in charge haven't found anything, so I am reaching out here.

30 year old me would love for 15 year old me to have taken this opportunity. 15 year old me would probably be too busy working on cars and playing in a band to take time out of his day for this kinda thing. This would be a killer opertunity for some lucky kid.

I"m doing it with VM Fusion on a 2015 Mac book pro. It is an i7 with 16GB ram, so should be about the same. I have OSX, Windows 7, and Mint running full time and have no performance issues. I give my VM's 2 CPU and 4GB of RAM each. Then I just have them full screened in their own desktops. I can use a desktop switch gestures or hotkeys to swap OS's. If you setup file shares on your base OS and map your user space on your VM OS's there you can swap OS with a finger swipe and still have the same files and structure.

@scottalanmiller said in Stuff I Am Finding When Cleaning:

Subtle joke here.. Every book is teach your self ______ in 24 hours, or 10 minutes, except Perl. You need 21 days.

@hobbit666 said in Android 7 Coming ...................:

My phone hasn't even been updated to 6 yet lol

And this is why I switched back to Apple. 4.5" phone, updates directly from Apple, and no bloatware.

Car guy here. Typically with small parts like this they come in an assembly. I am betting you won't be able to buy this single part, but you can buy a new fuel pump assembly, which would likely contain it. I am just speculating. That being said, if you are having your mechanic drop the fuel tank, I would invest the money and replace the pump and every single seal and part that could fail while your in there. You are going to have quite a bit of money in labor just taking the tank off, the labor in replacing all these parts while they are in is nominal versus having to pay someone to do it all over again in a year when something else in there fails.

I am having a blast. There were 50 people in a local park all running around talking with each other and interacting. Smaller kids were playing, parents were catching pokemon. I overheard one guy say "I have brought my daughter up here to play every night." I have never seen this on a Monday Night in my life.

I don't think enough can be said for quality. A cheap shirt with a poorly done logo will get turned into a shirt for yard work thus defeating the point. A quality shirt with a clean sharp logo will get worn in public and make its way into rotation.

@scottalanmiller said in NTG I need an explanation for this....:

@Minion-Queen said in NTG I need an explanation for this....:

WOW WTH?? There is no explanation for that weirdness. I do not live in Niagara Falls so do not associate us with that please

Yes, technically NTG HQ was moved many years ago and has been in the Finger Lakes region instead of the Niagara Region. But it started in the Niagara region.

Google maps still puts you with in Two hours of this thing.. that is too close for my comfort.

It is close enough to your headquarters so please explain who thought this was a good idea and not just nightmare fuel for kids.

No. HTTPS. Chrome, OSX

Touch is gross IMHO. I don't understand why you would spend money on a High Def screen... then fingerprint the hell out of it trying to use it.

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a new phone here is the top 5:

I plan for a new phone this year, but it is going to be the iPhone SE. I need iOS and I need small.

I switched back to iPhone with the SE since going to android after my 3GS. I love it and I am back on the iPhone train. My biggest reason for switching is being on a older phone and on Verizon it was 6-12 months before a major update would be ready for me to download. As of a few weeks ago I was still on Lolipop, when N is in beta.

Two Factor authentication is even better.

In other news I love my Pebble, and Pebble 2 is on kickstarter right now if you want to switch platforms.

@dafyre This did it, the old version of Procmon was perfect.