"Dude, by the time we come in to buy equipment, the IT guy is long gone... Fired, laid-off, whatever. This office was closed and we were commissioned to come in and clean out the space: computers, furniture, etc."
"We acquired all of this the week before you bought it... So you got lucky"
On the windows-linux interoperability front we have Samba for file/print sharing (SMB/CIFS), rdesktop for terminal services (RDP). Is there any linux tool available that will allow you to view and edit the registry of a remote windows machine (ie. not a dual-boot situation where your trying to h...
@Adrian it's been quote-unquote policy that product/service recommendations are more "not constructive" than "off topic" - the legacy autocomment message about them being off-topic network wide notwithstanding
Ok, so I was editing the name-service/switch service and messed up my nsswitch.conf, I overwrote the "passwd = files" with "passwd = filesasdf" so now I can't auth to the server when I boot that kernel. I can however just boot to the default Solaris 11/11 kernel and auth again just fine the probl...
@jscott Indeed. Sometimes I'll see something that doesn't make any sense, open it in a new tab, and see that it doesn't actually have any close votes on it.
I can however just boot to the default Solaris 11/11 kernel and auth again just fine
... so boot to that kernel and undo the damage you did to /etc/nsswitch.conf.
Problem solved. This will cost you five dollars, Charlie Brown.
If your system is hosed to the point where you can't log in boot i...
No commas are necessary if you click through and read the formatted version. Please do not abuse commas. Every time you comma-splice an English teacher fillets a live kitten with a chainsaw.
(though if you want to add a "just" to it I won't object)
(all german products are designed by a pair of engineers, Hans - the one who creates the elegant parts of the design, and Franz - the one who is responsible for "Replace Headlight procedure: Remove and install Hood")
The fog lights on my dad's car, not kidding you the owners manual tells you to remove the bumper to install new bulbs. No directions for that procedure.
the procedure actually says "Remove and Install Hood". I have the service manual at my parent's house. I kept it after I lost the car because of that page.
Oh, for anyone who's been thinking about getting a Raspberry Pi for a movie player device: wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Raspbmc <-- This works, and even the most mildly technical user could figure it out.
@voretaq7 No, "gremlin" is the cause of the problem... The category that "gremlin", "helsinki smash rod", "magic smoke" and all those go into.... looking for that name.
"adjust fuel distributor by taking a hammer and awl. Place the awl on the nut at the top of the fuel distributor and tap gently until pressure fixes itself"
I would like to go back in time and prevent the creation of "fakeRAID". I've spent all day doing something that would have been a 30 minute job otherwise.
I used to love looking in record stores like that but these days, I can look in several stores at once online, and play previews of all the songs I want without having to bother anyone behind a counter, etc.
It's kinda like woolworths - the world changed around them
I'm very half and half on the decline of the high street
On one hand, I can understand what makes people sad and my home town is a waste of space, now. On the other hand, 'high streets' have been evolving constantly for many many years and we're just progressing. Ultimately, unless I want to buy myself something nice, I have far better things to do than go to my local town center on a Saturday
well i don't like seeing empty shops myself but equally, shops need to evolve or die. Comet got killed off because they ended up being a showroom for amazon's white goods sales
Has anyone else noticed this very, very odd quirk with Windows 8. Essentially, when certain people go to a domain it provides an Error 10060 or Error 404404?
I've found these things tend to fix it; but it does arise again sometimes:
Installing Windows 8 Critical Updates
Allowing the domain th...
I'm surprised it was HMV. Comet went under and I expect PC World/Currys might go the same way.
I had a major conversation on Facebook a couple of weeks ago with someone who works for Dixons (remember them? Online-only now, apparently) and PC World only survive because 9/10 people are happy to go their and buy their overpriced stuff, while the last one will go online. If everybody went online they'd go under quick.
@tombull89 There's still a profit to be made in exploting people's (understandable) ignorance. There wasn't enough of it around with white goods, but computers are still confusing enough that people will go to a shop to talk to an ahem 'expert'
@Dan I might sound like a jerk right now, but every time I try to imagine what a british girl looks like I get this picture of a girl with teeth sticking out everywhere.. like someone just opened up their mouth and got their teeth thrown in
I understand that not everyone looks like that.. but it does seem a bit more occuring than other western countries
@pauska All countries have them. It's just that the Uk is the only place you're likely to find them out on the street on a friday night bellowing at policemen and throwing up; so they stand out more.
@RobM They're still tight as hell but I'm hoping they'll wear. I've never had brand new boots before, always just borrowed somebody elses when riding 125's
@Dan I actually haven't looked too deep into the application itself yet. It automatically installs a shortcut in every users Autorun to start the server application.
Which then opens a logging window that tells me what the server is doing.
Ah, sounds much the same behaviour as quickbooks. Their multi-user offering relies and starting some horrible user-space program on a file server, which drops a file into the location of the main DB that is seen by the clients so they know to switch to multi-user mode when they try to open something.
@LucasKauffman To be fair, you bothered to explain :D
What the fuck is this?
choose a remote Win7 not the host -> Winbutton -> type "cmd" + Enter -> "nslookup 192.168.60.128" + Enter, write the output of the command here. — derty2 mins ago
I can however just boot to the default Solaris 11/11 kernel and auth again just fine
... so boot to that kernel and undo the damage you did to /etc/nsswitch.conf.
Problem solved. This will cost you five dollars, Charlie Brown.
If your system is hosed to the point where you can't log in boot i...
Has anyone else noticed this very, very odd quirk with Windows 8. Essentially, when certain people go to a domain it provides an Error 10060 or Error 404404?
I've found these things tend to fix it; but it does arise again sometimes:
Installing Windows 8 Critical Updates
Allowing the domain th...
