Amazon all the way. We recently stopped making purchases on our Newegg Business account and setup an Amazon Business account. We used to spend between $4k and $20k a month with Newegg. I became sick of Newegg's slow shipping. Their shipping used to be decent but it has gone down hill over the...
Modern PCs are fine. They autoselect the voltage. I run 220v in my datacenters and occasionally hook up PCs and monitors with 220v and the correct power cable.
Build yourself a Mikrotik router with a PCIe card added on for Wifi. They make many different Router boards and many different PCIe cards depending on what Wifi band you want and the output power desired. I have one in the center of my house and my iphone pulls in full signal strength anywhere...
We are in Central Oklahoma and the thermostat stays at 72F through the cooling season. We also have a brand new house, very good insulation and windows, and most importantly we have a geo thermal HVAC system. Our electric bill last month was about $90 and we are total electric.
Whether we are in the hottest time of summer with highs close to 110F or January with lows in the 10F range, my electric bill is always around $80-110 per month. We are total electric as well. 1800 sqft with 10' ceilings everywhere. The thermostat never moves off of 72F. Our big difference is...
Due to the temperature and drought extremes here, the experts say that vertical wells are the only reliable method. Our unit is 3.5 tons and they dug 3 vertical wells 205' deep each. The header setup that connects the wells is 6' deep in the ground in our front yard. Now that we have leveled out...
In Central Oklahoma - we installed a Waterfurnace 5-series geothermal HVAC unit when we built our new house. So far, I'm very impressed. Super low electricity usage and nice and comfy inside no matter what the temperature is outside.
100Mb ETS circuit. My router is about 30' from the Verizon Business core. Something odd is going on with the upload on speedtest tonight for me though.
The best method to visualize subnetting, in my opinion, is the powers of 2 table. There are some good examples on Google if you search. Everything makes sense once you understand some basics of binary and then also visualize the table. The testing centers for most Cisco exams give you a dry...
Just a suggestion, I would check out your options if you haven't already. The SAN market is highly competitive like everything. I went through the decision process last year for purchasing two large SAN clusters for the company that I work. I decided on the NetApp FAS3210. We use SnapMirror and...
How the heck did this even happen in the first place? It's not like an officer will pull you over and not ask for a driver's license, insurance, etc, to be used for identification. The person also always has to sign any sort of citation, etc, that they are given.
I live about 25 miles NW of Oklahoma City. The hail storm started here and developed into the huge hail stones that OKC received. Here at my house, the hail was about the size of a quarter. My yard at 3pm in the afternoon looked like it had just snowed. Literally. Luckly all vehicles were nice...
These for sure! You can find them at Wal-Mart now too. I run the 60w and 75w bulbs everywhere in my house. I use the 75w in several corner lamps and they light up the room pretty well. I love the color from these.
Websense blocks all protocols except for www traffic on our network. We have exclusions in place for the very specific applications (secure FTP, Webex, etc) that servers need to access on the internet. This blocks IM or pretty much everything dead in its tracks. Add that with Endpoint Protection...
It's like that in programming classes at the college level big time. From what I've seen, the majority of students could care less to actually learn something. They just want a grade high enough to pass and they could care less about the class past that. I'm always at odds in these classes with...
RightFax solves all of these problems. My company has a co-location in a Verizon data center where we have a PRI brought directly to the server. Unlimited 1-800 numbers, super cheap long distance (almost non-existent), and integration with our Exchange environment equals an increase in fax...
I host multiple Exchange servers with 1000+ mailboxes each. It's definitely not cheap to setup Exchange, implement proper firewall security, and then deal with ISP issues, static IP address, or even services like Postini for filtering/queing. And yes, ESEUTIL is a godsend. Just watch the /R...
Dual monitors takes just a few minutes to setup in Ubuntu. It also detects and installs every driver automatically which no Microsoft OS has ever done until 7. 7 did a pretty good job on my laptop.
Same thing happened with my UO addiction. Pvp went into the toilet and everyone was duping bags full of castle deeds or gold. The fun went down hill quick. Then, I heard about Everquest... And let's not talk about WoW. :o
The company I work for pays roughly $120/month for my AT&T 3G Iphone. I have the $30 unlimited data and use OMA for e-mail a lot. Between the data, texts, and a ton of minutes, the bill adds up quick. I'm glad they foot the bill and not me!
Shadow copies in Server 2003 make this an easy issue to fix. If this fails, I just use Asigra to restore it back to whatever generation is requested. Asigra is pretty darn awesome especially now having multiple vaults replicating between each other in different states. :D This product has made...
The Iphone works great syncing with Exchange. It does everything that our organization needs and it's easy to use (which is a super bonus for me). Our examiners love RIM due to their security. However, with strict security policies and remote wipe in place, they've given us the thumbs up with...
In Oklahoma, most of the radio stations broadcast between 35-40% of their air time on commercials. Forget about listening to music from about 6-8am, 12-1pm, and 4-6pm. Commercials or DJs talking about crap I could care less about. I flip over to my Ipod or XM and rock out.
Most of my clocks are smart enough to change automatically. My alarm clock uses the NIST's HF radio broadcast to keep my time accurate. Gotta love technology! Now I have to figure out how to change the car and motorcycle's clocks.
You simply need to edit your local group policy settings. It's as easy to manage this policy for an entire active directory domain as it is for a single computer. I would have thousands of people screaming at me if I had their computers rebooting (or even prompting for a reboot!) in the middle...
Nope. I'm a systems admin for a bank holding company (11 charters and 40+ locations). The chain of command goes directly from me, to my boss, and then to the CEO. My boss oversees another department as well and leaves me be. I've been basically running the department since my first day. We...
I get the motorcycle out and go ride for a bit. For me, it's the best way to escape from life. I work way too much and so I have a $10k motorcycle that basically sits in the garage.
It's probably in reference to this announcement a couple of weeks ago.
Heartland Breach
We've re-issued over 5,000 debit cards thus far due to this breach. We learn of additional cards every week and we've been re-issuing approxmimately 1,000 per week.
I received the lovely letter from Citi about six months ago. They increased my APY from 7.99% to 18.99%. The reason stated in the letter for the increase is due to the prime rate increasing - which most obviously isn't accurate. I called them up and went off on a rep. He promptly stated that...
12 hour days aren't too bad once one is accustomed to it. I regularly work 12 hour days for 5-6 days straight. To me, it's simply a matter of how much caffeine I can drink to keep me going. I eventually crash hard, but the journey is fun. :)
I had to laugh at this one. No pun intended OP. If you want to start a lucrative job/career at this point in time, get the heck out of the financial sector. Choosing real estate as a backup is absolutely horrible right now as well.
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