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Does anyone here have a team of remote devs? We have a group in Europe (seperate company but the company has a contract with us) that works opposite hours of our devs and last year a decision was made to bring their development machines in-house. Previously they were just using whatever machines they had in their office. This wasn't great since we essentially had no way of ensuring security on their end with them checking out code to their local machines, access our DBs over VPN, etc. So previous boss had us setup a Horizon VDI environment. This eventually devolved into building fat VMs with static user assignments, as Visual Studio and their myriad of other dev tools did not play nice with a lot of the Horizon tooling. So at this point we are using Horizon as a glorified remote desktop gateway for a bunch of VMs. Now that we are starting some mobile app dev the users are running into performance issues with building and using the android emulator. So now there's talk of moving to physical desktops in house, which seems bad for us but would at the very least guarantee performance. Does anyone have any input on this cluster? One thought was shipping them desktops with some sort of MDM/management agent so we would at least guarantee AV presence/encryption/Windows Update regularity and we would retain ownership of the desktop/all data in the end. This is for a group of like 15 people so its not a huge environment by any means.
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Sep 14, 2018 14:32
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Why not just send them the same thing as your non-remote devs use?
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Sep 14, 2018 14:47
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64bit_Dophins posted:The other guy is some weirdo gun nut that says offensive things (I should also note he has a military style backpack with a "don't tread on me" badge on it) and brags about "seeing" "millennial" girls in their mid 20s. “Seeing” them as they cross the street to avoid him probably
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Sep 14, 2018 14:50
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Inspector_666 posted:Why not just send them the same thing as your non-remote devs use? That is what I was thinking, send them a desktop but ensure it has some sort of management agent and bitlocker turned on for security.
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Sep 14, 2018 15:11
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Weedle posted:“Seeing” them as they cross the street to avoid him probably Lol I would hope so. Ever since I got hired here I've intentionally avoided that guy because even from a distance he gave me the creeps. He also talks in a way that leads me to believe that he has "facebook brain".
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Sep 14, 2018 15:12
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nielsm posted:gently caress printers. Various Xerox models have this issue too, and it's fixed by updating the software to something post-2015.
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Sep 14, 2018 15:56
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So, I'm going out of town this weekend and went to drop off my dog at my parents last night; on the way there my mom stopped responding to texts, but I was like eh whatever maybe she's busy. Oh, she was busy, their dog attacked a skunk and got hosed up, it apparently looked like someone sprayed dijon mustard on the whole front and side of her face. After she got sprayed, she ran back inside and proceeded to rub her face on the carpet before my brother could grab her and drag her back outside to wash off. I got there and it was bad, really bad, this is probably the 6 or 7 skunk incident over the past 20 years and is by far the worst; I helped toss a carpet outside and clean a few things and got the gently caress out of there. My brother currently lives there with his 8.5 months pregnant wife while their house is being remodeled, his wife is extremely displeased. The nice thing was my dog did not give any fucks and was happy to be there with his dog friend.
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Sep 14, 2018 16:05
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MF_James posted:So, I'm going out of town this weekend and went to drop off my dog at my parents last night; on the way there my mom stopped responding to texts, but I was like eh whatever maybe she's busy. If the dog's made that mistake more than once it's dumb as rocks.
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Sep 14, 2018 16:25
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PBS posted:If the dog's made that mistake more than once it's dumb as rocks. This is the 3rd time this dog has had a skunk incident, but she never got hit in the face before, once it might not have even gotten her and the other time it got on her back legs a little; hopefully she has learned a lesson this time. Apparently she didn't even want to go outside this morning, so perhaps she has.
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Sep 14, 2018 17:12
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poo poo pissing me off. I don't have a dog. 
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Sep 14, 2018 17:14
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dogstile posted:poo poo pissing me off. Rescue a dog! There are tons out there that need a family and love!
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Sep 14, 2018 17:19
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MF_James posted:This is the 3rd time this dog has had a skunk incident, but she never got hit in the face before, once it might not have even gotten her and the other time it got on her back legs a little; hopefully she has learned a lesson this time. Apparently she didn't even want to go outside this morning, so perhaps she has. If she’s anything like my old dog, she hasn’t. My dog when I was a teenager thought skunks were cats and wanted to be friends.
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Sep 14, 2018 17:23
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dogstile posted:poo poo pissing me off.  Take my rotten rat terrier. I used to like dogs, she's cured me of that old habit.
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Sep 14, 2018 18:59
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22 Eargesplitten posted:If she’s anything like my old dog, she hasn’t. My dog when I was a teenager thought skunks were cats and wanted to be friends. Yeah, Big Dog needed to re-learn his lesson every year. Now that he's passed, Little Dog is determined to carry on the tradition. She's been hit at least three times this summer. They're both dumb as posts about the strangest things. Also, as long as you can get to the dog prior to the oils drying on their skin, this solution was developed by a chemist and really, really works. You can also buy premade of this these days. I find Nature's Miracle version works pretty drat well. http://www.humanesociety.org/animals/dogs/tips/de-skunking_dog.html quote:1 quart of 3-percent hydrogen peroxide (available at any pharmacy)
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Sep 15, 2018 01:15
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PBS posted:If the dog's made that mistake more than once it's dumb as rocks. My big ol dummy of a German Sheppard would constantly come home with wounds from Echidna spines on her nose and face. Stupidest thing in the world sometimes. Her daily game was chasing butterfly shadows and pouncing on them, this knocked out most of her front teeth. She was a rescue from the police after failing some tests half way through training (loud noises sent her ballistic), so we got a highly trained dog that I could give non-verbal commands (hand signals) to fake attack friends etc. Didn't need a leash and would even grasp my hand in her mouth when we crossed the street. But loving Echidnas, butterflies and cows turned the brain into mush.
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Sep 15, 2018 04:18
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This is kinda pissing me off? I'm not sure of the best thread to post this in so I'm trying here. According to this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-manual quote:There are several scenarios in which you may not be able (or want) to, install WSL Linux distros via the Microsoft Store. Specifically, you may be running a Windows Server or Long-Term Servicing (LTSB/LTSC) desktop OS SKU that doesn't support Microsoft Store, code:However when I go to install Ubuntu I get "The Windows Subsystem for Linux optional component is not enabled. Please enable it and try again." What do?
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Sep 15, 2018 19:13
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Coredump posted:However when I go to install Ubuntu I get "The Windows Subsystem for Linux optional component is not enabled. Please enable it and try again." What do? That’s in ‘add/remove features’ somewhere, not the store.
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Sep 15, 2018 19:15
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EoRaptor posted:That’s in ‘add/remove features’ somewhere, not the store. That's what his PowerShell command did. Enabled the feature. Did you restart afterwards? I think the feature doesn't properly indicate it needs a reboot to work properly. (Also, while I don't know what your goal is, afaik WSL officially isn't intended for any kind of production use. It isn't hardened for running public services, only meant for development use. Unless something changed.)
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Sep 15, 2018 20:23
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Coredump posted:
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Sep 15, 2018 21:13
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nielsm posted:Did you restart afterwards? I think the feature doesn't properly indicate it needs a reboot to work properly. anthonypants posted:I'm gonna bold a very important part in the article you said you read.
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Sep 15, 2018 23:19
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Double check all the hyper-v stuff is installed and working, I vaguely recall that being a prerequisite? and then you actually have to download a linux distro from the microsoft store app.
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Sep 16, 2018 06:46
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We're in our most profitable year ever, this year. But we want to send this out to our suppliers:quote:Good Morning,
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Sep 17, 2018 13:20
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Helpdesk guy is troubleshooting a mouse issue with a remote user. Currently trying to explain the difference between HDMI and USB when checking if the mouse is connected.
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Sep 17, 2018 15:27
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Thanatosian posted:Why are you allowing people to sync their phones to it? Executives  Mr. Clark2 posted:Never really used folder redirection so this may be a dumb question but...do file screens and quotas not work on folder redirections? He doesn't want to set a quota because users would have a fit.  Honestly, I'd much rather just move to a Home Drive for putting documents and turn off redirection entirely but that won't ever happen.
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Sep 17, 2018 15:35
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Bob Morales posted:We're in our most profitable year ever, this year. But we want to send this out to our suppliers: I'll be honest, I was expecting you to be asking them for retrospective discounts as that seems to be the rear end in a top hat thing to do these days.
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Sep 17, 2018 15:51
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spog posted:I'll be honest, I was expecting you to be asking them for retrospective discounts as that seems to be the rear end in a top hat thing to do these days. We (successfully) did that when we almost went broke in 2000 or something
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Sep 17, 2018 16:02
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poo poo not pissing me off: I'm finally getting rid of the anemic W550s, ordered a new P52 today  Cinebench score is 214 vs 1200 
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Sep 18, 2018 10:48
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Bob Morales posted:Helpdesk guy is troubleshooting a mouse issue with a remote user.
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Sep 18, 2018 13:48
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MF_James posted:Rescue a dog! There are tons out there that need a family and love! I will when I get out of a flat. Its not big enough and I refuse to take in a dog that would be cooped up all the time. When I can work from home (and actually live in a house) i'll gladly have a doggo friend. It's been 2 years since I last had a dog, the only 2 years of my life where i've not had one. It's loving weird
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Sep 18, 2018 15:21
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The Macaroni posted:"Wait, there are HDMI mice available? Order 6 for the conference room immediately!" I swear there were auxiliary pins in HDMI that in theory could be used for keyboard and mouse but no one ever implemented it, or am I thinking of dp?
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Sep 18, 2018 15:30
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All the pins are "claimed" on HDMI, but maybe you could run a keyboard using the CEC pin. But you'd be a bad engineer for doing this as anything more than a "look at this trick I did!" demonstration.
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Sep 18, 2018 15:49
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Has anyone managed to get Ubuntu 18 to launch from WDS? Because getting Ubuntu 18 (or any other flavor for that matter) to install from WDS is pissing me off. I have WDS up and running and it successfully launches Windows flavors as well as memtest. But the Ubuntu installation shits the bed with a whole bunch of "No such file or directory" errors.  But what's not pissing me off is that the electrician has finished the cat-5 pulls and I now have sweet, sweet gigE to the TV, and both of our offices in our house. Setting all of my poo poo back up made me laugh when I realized that all the stuff in my house could easily be a full time job for a Systems Engineer for a SMB. VMware? SAN Storage? AD? Deployment automation? Monitoring? Multi-tier on-prem / cloud infrastructure? Exchange? Backups? And printers. gently caress printers.
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Sep 18, 2018 16:37
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dogstile posted:I will when I get out of a flat. Its not big enough and I refuse to take in a dog that would be cooped up all the time. When I can work from home (and actually live in a house) i'll gladly have a doggo friend. Yeah I wanted to wait till we got a house but my fiancee convinced me to rescue our guy now that we're in a 3-BR apartment. We don't have any sort of yard which really bothers me, but he's definitely happier than he was at the shelter.
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Sep 18, 2018 17:19
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Well.. One of our 2016 terminal servers in our TS farm decided to restart itself to install an update right smack in the middle of the day. Despite GPOs set to not allow this, they where completely ignored. Even verified the GPOs where applying, and the the Update settings screen shows restarts are disabled. Bonus: Once the update restart was initiated, all users were logged off, but the server never updated the TS session broker nor did it remove itself from the farm. So the session broker was still dutifully attempting to redirect users to the TS that was unavailable. Double bonus: I was unable to open remote desktop collection management in Server Manager, nor could I manage the session broker via powershell during this time, I guess cause the session broker was stalled trying to communicate with a server that was not available. On Server 2008 R2, initiating a restart causes logged off sessions to be immediately removed from the TS broker database and then the restarting server removes itself from the farm. WTF Microsoft. PS: The old Remote Desktop MMC was soooo much faster and better than the poo poo that is server manager.
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Agrikk posted:Has anyone managed to get Ubuntu 18 to launch from WDS? $oldJob used WDS to network boot some Linux tools using syslinux to bootstrap them. This was pre UEFI, so no idea what the best method would be these days.
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pixaal posted:I swear there were auxiliary pins in HDMI that in theory could be used for keyboard and mouse but no one ever implemented it, or am I thinking of dp? xzzy posted:All the pins are "claimed" on HDMI, but maybe you could run a keyboard using the CEC pin. But you'd be a bad engineer for doing this as anything more than a "look at this trick I did!" demonstration. In the original spec there is an unused reserved pin (#14). This is used for the audio return channel in later versions, and can also be paired with the hot-plug pin to deliver 100mbit/sec ethernet. You could run any kind of data over that pin if you wanted to, or just be lazy and convert it to ethernet and go from there.
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stevewm posted:PS: The old Remote Desktop MMC was soooo much faster and better than the poo poo that is server manager. No, Microsoft wants you to use PowerShell, and they made Server Manager a pile of salty garbage to underscore that fact.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Yep. I cancelled my personal Comcast account, pretty simple after I said I was getting gig speeds for $50/mo, and yes I had tested it. Then I get a letter with a bill for the month after I cancelled and it had auto paid. Thankfully they actually refunded it, I made sure I had a copy of the cancellation email in case they tried to deny it. From a few pages back, but: Comcast has the stupidest system ever, where if you use auto pay you have to specifically tell them to cancel that as well, otherwise they will continue to charge you each month even though you have no service anymore. I learned this when I cancelled my comcast service and then moved to Japan. A few months later my parents were getting letters from the bank the auto pay was linked to about my account being overdrawn, because Comcast kept charging me for 3 months after I cancelled service and wasn't even in the country anymore.
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Pissing me off: board members who insist on using their personal email accounts instead of company ones provided by us. The Chairman uses his btinternet.com address and some email sent to him is being bounced back as spam. He can receive mail sent directly from our email accounts, but when he's included in a distribution list of the same domain it gets bounced with the message "Your message looks like SPAM or has been reported as SPAM " The response from BT was a screenshot of mxtoolbox.com saying we had invalid spf records, but all it shows is a warning for too many included lookups (12) Quick sanity check: is that complete bullshit that makes no sense?
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bitterandtwisted posted:The response from BT was a screenshot of mxtoolbox.com saying we had invalid spf records, but all it shows is a warning for too many included lookups (12) We had plenty of issues when spf pointed at more than one include value, can you use a virtual address for your email server farm? AFAIK spf supports TXT dns values that could include multiple addresses. SlowBloke fucked around with this message at 11:19 on Sep 19, 2018 |
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