Yeah, I used to have two computer and up to four screens on my desk. I whittled it down over time to one laptop, three screens. Then one laptop two screens, then one laptop one screen, then tucked my laptop behind my monitor for only one screen... and then I sold my monitor and only have my 11" air. My productivity has increased with less screen space. Wish I had figured this out years ago.
case in point; there's a fucking nasty bug in StrongSwan right now that will crash if an IKEv2 session is closed remotely and you have a closeaction defined
I tried changing the name of the directory back, but when logging back into the old user the files weren't picked up.
So now I have all my files and programs on a new user but I don't have permission for things like /usr/local/etc.
Is there a way to fix this from the settings or do I have to go...
Iam trying to install an msu update package on my corporate's PCs, but when executing the msu it fails with the following error:
[windows update standalone installer
installer encountered an error: 0x80070422
the serice cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enable...
@MarkHenderson I'm not entirely convinced... what if that question gets found in a google search and brings another non-administrator, who then complains about the lack of help and cites that question?
@FalconMomot Well that depends on whether or not anyone goes out of their way to tell him how much of a cuntburger he is, or whether is question is just dutifully ignored
If the answer is "Contact your system administrator" then sure, close it as off topic. When the answer is "Your system administrator is a bloody idiot who should be hanged by his balls" then I think an explanation would be helpful.
@MDMarra Sure it is. The guy's having trouble installing an MSU on his corporate PC's. He doesn't care that he's not an administrator, he just wants to get his work done at the end of the day so that when he goes home at the end of the day the incessent nagging of his wife that he's been married to for 10 years too long doesn't make him want to take his life
Although This is obviously an exceptionally poor question, it still amazes me that 5 people can vote to close and yet not one of them leave a comment to help explain how the poster can improve their question.
I see loads of similar examples where questions from new users are closed and heavily v...
"The question is ambiguous or vauge or rhetorical " - which is it? Yes close descriptions help, but they aren't a substitute for actual human interaction. — JustinFeb 11 '10 at 12:05
With respect to this question (and its implemented answer), is it possible to increase the reputation penalty for users that down vote a question without leaving a comment?
The reason I'm asking is because I'm seeing an increasing number of perfectly good questions being down voted, which in my ...
> While the close and the explanation given by the system were both perfectly valid, it's a matter of basic courtesy towards total newbies, or non-native speakers, to not run them over with the close vote, but at least leave a quick note explaining what's wrong.
There's also a distinct lack of effort on behalf of many people to turn questions into on-topic questions. I've seen a lot of questions closed because they're just using something that snobs consider beneath them
@MarkHenderson We can't offer that guy a helpful answer because he is not in a position to make the change. It's different than someone with a Hyper-V cluster in their home that can mke the change and would be valid if the word "home" werent in it
That's worth an edit as long as the rest of the question is sane
I have concerns about some of the more hardline things that I see on meta, and I have concerns about the fact that some people cast 400+ close votes a month
But ultimately my voice carries no more weight than anyone elses and if people want to make changes then I'll just make my decision about what I want to do when things get more serious
@MDMarra I don't have enough time to review enough content to do much voting. I typically deal with the questions that come through the mod queue and that's it
So it looks like I've got down to the root cause of some email issues that have been plaguing my client company for a couple years. It only took 6 months, an email migration, and lots of heartburn.
@ewwhite want to talk about me handling patching for valley on a regular schedule again? (their IE issue was from someone that doesnt know what they're doing borking a flash player update)
@ewwhite No. Exclaimer fucking up email headers, and Suggested Contacts not resolving the correct name and adding the user to the email in a reply all situation
they were using the AutoReply module. It sits on the hub transport and applies rule sets from there. But it was jacking up the email headers, meaning that Outlook couldn't parse the email addresses correctly, leading to bounce backs
So now that I've got Exclaimer out of the path, I now have to disable Suggested Contacts for all the users, and find a way to run the /cleanautocompletecache on the next opening of Outlook
@Holocryptic looks like pushing this key out via GPO will do it [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Outlook\Contact] "CreateContactsForOneOffs"=dword:00000000
Well, the recent trainwreck meta question is about to hit positive score. We definitely have a demographic that will upvote anything if it's about us being unfair snobs.
@shane I don't think it is justified. But it is one thing to build for 576GB ram. It's another to scale to 2TB. I would throw the existing servers away and build on 4-socket boxes.
@Shane SO user criticizing us on the basis of features that SO has. Who doesn't have a problem with that being pointed out; SF could stand to be even easier than SO to be more welcoming to newbies.
@MarkHenderson He has "connections". And by connections, I mean he goes to the vendors and holds a gun to their head saying "now, you'll give me this hardware cheap, right?"
@NathanC It's so tasty. We handed it off a while back but a whole blade center without any local disks is nice. These Dells even had RAID'd SD cards for installing a hypervisor onto so you don't have to SAN boot
"had somehow become corrupted" so, either: 1. They delegated DNSSEC to an Intern, cause who cares about it anyway? 2. They got hacked, and "corruption" is so much better than admitting the truth.
@MDMarra Depends on what needs to be tested after the install. Long story short someone I know had a consultant billing them for 4 hours every month for updates, then found out their 1 server was just set to do automatic updates and the consultant hadn't logged in for months. You don't want to be that guy. =]
@ChrisS ha. This would be manually deploying app updates to one terminal server and doing windows updates to the rest. DCs, Exchange, file services, etc. no automation tools.
I was only ever a marker for first-year courses, and my school taught first year programming in a somewhat unusual way.
a side effect of which was that copied and pasted code really didn't fit and stood out like a sore thumb.
it wasn't necessary to proactively google things to detect cheating.
though I do recall an amusing incident from when I was in second year... one of us decided to try and outsource an assignment to rentacoder.com and someone notified the prof his assignment was posted up there verbatim. having no idea who did it, the prof put the posting up on the projector and claimed he knew exactly who it was and that they would experience the appropriate doom - the fool student turned himself in and begged for mercy later that afternoon.
@Wesley: basically student visas here are conditional on passing. You also need to spend 3 hours a day in class, and we only have 2 days of class a week, so foreign students end up spending 3 hours a day in self study. There is a LOT of time. She submitted a unsanitised, copypasta from wikipedia for a group project
I have NO idea what she did on the individual
she didn't ask for help either... and I think she failed badly
