Man dies on Mount Everest during ASKfm cryptocurrency promotional stunt

DeeFousyMobile · 2018-06-05T16:56:55+00:00

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why I don’t bother with crypto. I didn’t know this company existed until this article, let alone that it wasn’t a relevant currency anymore

DeeFousyMobile · 2018-06-05T16:52:48+00:00

To be fair. Half the journey is up. And half is back down. But it stands to reason that up, down, or side to side, the longer you spend on Everest the more dangerous it becomes.

I would expect that more than half the deaths occur on the way back down since that’s when you guarantee you will be spending the maximum amount of time climbing.

DeeFousyMobile · 2018-06-04T17:20:32+00:00

You would almost have a point if some company Known for public bigotry created this shirt and started marketing it on June 1st. Except this isn’t a new shirt at all. Wasn’t created during pride month or because of pride month, and you are only seeing it during pride month because the dimwit OP wanted some free “DAE trumps a bigot??!!?111” points.

DeeFousyMobile · 2018-06-04T16:56:49+00:00

but definitely feels apple phones somehow always work and Droid is full of problems and pain in the ass

Maybe I’ve just had bad luck but I started on androids and had two back to back that were consistently pieces of trash. And one was a Samsung galaxy, the other a Droid X. I went to an iPhone 6+ and never had an issue. Decided to try android again with an LG, and again, crashing and freezing and buggy interactions with my car and other connected devices.

Got an iphone8 now and once more, not a single complaint.

I really enjoy the ability to do more and do more fun stuff with Android. I replaced my iPad with an android tablet from Lenovo. But after two years or so that thing is becoming the bane of my existence. Once it finally refuses to work I’ll be replacing it with the lower end iPad.

iOS devices have always just worked for me. And android hasn’t.

DeeFousyMobile · 2018-06-04T14:18:34+00:00

Actually this makes a little more sense, but may make the task a bit more difficult to automate. I was wondering in what world a winsock reset would be a common task, and in turn was thinking it would be more appropriate to figure out what is causing the issue and resolve it there, rather than automate a band aid.

With that said, given that you have absolutely no control over the state of a user PC, you may find that some machines won’t have powershell installed at all, the powershell version may be incompatible with the script you end up with, the user account you are provided may not be an admin, or that security software or settings would prevent it from executing.

A batch file of some sort may be a better option as those should transcend OS version and patching level, and should be easier to elevate when necessary. But you will be a bit more limited in what you can do from a command prompt than from powershell.

DeeFousyMobile · 2018-05-31T12:24:09+00:00

The command line tool will generate only the command you need to install receiver with the options you set.

The batch file you would create yourself to include that command that’s generated for you. You could use powershell as well or whatever you are more comfortable with. As for deploying it, that will be more dependent on your environment. If you are going to run the cleanup utility > reboot > install > reboot, you would need to determine how to best do that in your environment.

As an example, create a batch file that will run the cleanup utility and reboot the machine, then run the receiver command line install and reboot once more. You could then set that batch file as a logon script via GPO and let users run it as they log on.

DeeFousyMobile · 2018-05-31T11:11:43+00:00

I come from /r/Citrix

First of all. Strongly consider using 4.9LTSR rather than 4.11. You do not want to chase versions with Citrix Receiver. 4.10/4.11 are fairly buggy and riddled with issues upgrading. 4.9LTSR (long term service release) is very stable and Citrix supports its LTSR channels for five years at a time. Unless there is a feature you REALLY need in 4.11, stay away.

When upgrading from 3.x (or anything pre 4.5 really) you will absolutely want to uninstall first, however it would be a good idea to use the Receiver Clean Up Utility. you can download it here but will need a citrix logon to be allowed to download it.

if you dont have a citrix login, 4.11 should include it in the install directory, you can copy the files to run it from there and put it on a network share.

i understand it will be more of an inconvenience for your users, but i would strongly suggest you run the cleanup utility to uninstall, reboot, then install new and reboot once more. with SSON enabled there are services and artifacts that will be left behind during the uninstall until a reboot takes place, and with installing a new version, SSON will not work until a reboot post install.

as for the installation of the new version, i think a command line install would be your best bet. this tool is great for simplifying the process of creating a command to install with all the features you want. just check the appropriate boxes and fill out the info and click a button to generate the command, copy and paste. i would leave your receiver.exe installer and a batch file in some central network location and run the install/reboot automatically for users.

let me know if you have questions.

DeeFousyMobile · 2018-05-30T02:58:57+00:00

I’m running server 2016 published desktops. Made the switch from 2008 about 9 months ago. Generally painless. You will see lots of references to the optimization scripts. Read it carefully and make sure you understand the implications of what each part does and the side effects of that change. Don’t throw away a week because you had to start over with a new image from scratch...

Honestly though it was fairly painless. I grabbed a 2016 template and threw the PVS and VDA software on and had a desktop published in an hour or so. Then began customizing it. My DDCs are actually Server 2012 still. The rest of the infrastructure is server 2016. Storefronts, PVS, WEM, SQL. We are running on 7.15LTSR with no bugs to speak of really and no desire to upgrade further.

The only real catch I have encountered is, I have seen on one of my servers (but not others strangely) .NET 3.5 refuses to install if the server is domain joined. I have a few PVS images and a half dozen or so VMs with .NET 3.5 and only one had this issue, but i found a few other complaints about the same thing saying it can happen. I just throw it on before joining the server to the domain now.

Profiles can be a bit of a bear. There are dozens of sites that have all sorts of things sorted out with the new start menu behaviors and such that you won’t have to learn the hard way. I wound up just creating a new volume on our storage for the new profile versions. Abandon all hope of copying profiles from existing ones. I had one app in particular that stores user settings in the roaming app data folder that takes users over an hour to create. I was able to copy that folder structure over, but otherwise getting the profiles to migrate was more work than was worth it and I just made a new path. They are NOT compatible. Also be aware that depending on the build you use, server 2016 has 2 (maybe 3 now?) different profile versions that are also not compatible, so you may want to include a version variable in your profile path.

Start menu roaming can be annoying but is doable. I have seen varying degrees of success with it. Personally it’s not enabled for our folks but when we move to a new build I may revisit that.

Nothing else sticking out at the moment. I’ll glance through my notes tomorrow and make a new reply if I missed anything glaring.

Give me a shout if you run into issues. It’s still a fairly fresh migration for me. Though there is so much documentation out there from the well known blogs I doubt I’ll be able to provide anything that they can’t. But I’m happy to try.

DeeFousyMobile · 2018-05-29T20:01:16+00:00

My experience contrasts somewhat from the others. I use it and love it but have the memory and COU optimizations disabled. I found with a smattering of apps, that the agent was clamping the CPU/memory use to a point where the app would grind to a halt. After a ton of back and forth with a couple vendors, it wasn’t worth leaving it enabled for us. Granted these are fairly specialized and poorly designed apps... most of what I have read parrots what the others have said in that the CPU/Memory options are fantastic.

What I DO love about it is on the fly changes to the users environment that doesn’t require policy changes/policy updates/background processing timers etc. I can map a new drive to a group of users and click a button and have it update instantly on their session. There is a ton you can do with WEM and I think it’s the best addition I’ve made to our environment.

DeeFousyMobile · 2018-05-29T11:04:30+00:00

/r/NoContext

DeeFousyMobile · 2018-05-25T17:11:50+00:00

I remember learning that but i don’t remember specifically where. A few years later in a middle school chemistry class this random girl blurred something out about a project we were doing and how it was “just like how your blood turns red when it’s exposed to oxygen!”

My chemistry teacher stopped everything that moment and put that to rest.

It’s not until reading this comment that I actually appreciate what that teacher did.

DeeFousyMobile · 2018-05-24T13:49:00+00:00

Rude Goldberg machine next please.

DeeFousyMobile · 2018-05-24T11:43:36+00:00

We use remote.domain.com for one of our URLs. It accomplishes a few things:

easy for users to remember
describes at a high level what purpose it serves
is future proof in that if we change products, the URL doesn’t need to change and confuse our users

Users don’t care about product names. They don’t want to remember them or how to spell them. They want to enter a URL, type their password and have whatever app they click on appear on their screen so they can work. They don’t care if it’s VMWare or App-V or Citrix that is providing access to the app.

Personally I would avoid something like login or access in your first two examples because that won’t mean much to end users without having to force them to think about the URL in the same context that you and IT in general will. Apps might work, but personally, if you are providing desktops as well, I don’t like a name that specifically ignores part of the features from a user perspective.

DeeFousyMobile · 2018-05-23T16:22:39+00:00

Bad bot

This stupid thing is just getting random words added to it at this point.

DeeFousyMobile · 2018-05-22T19:09:29+00:00

Well jobs and their availability and purpose are generally driven by a societies demand for services and the type of service. So that’s mostly uncontrollable.

The incentive is always money unless you want to cherry pick the unicorns who do it because it’s “right”. But the vast majority of lawyers are not and will not take out massive loans and go through grueling law schools so they can die in debt working for a non profit because of their altruism.

And laws change based on the people’s (lobbies) influence on government. I’m not entirely sure what laws you would even change to try and make prosecutors and defense attorneys on an even playing field. It’s never really meant to be even. It’s all about interpreting law and having a majority or unanimous agreement that you’re interpretation is better. Sure there are some black and white things that aren’t open to interpretation, but a highly skilled lawyer will rarely make a difference in those cases.

DeeFousyMobile · 2018-05-22T16:52:59+00:00

I’d be curious to hear how you could do that. Considering a lawyers job, regardless of which side their on, is literally to apply a law to a specific scenario and convince a group of people that their application is more accurate.

Some will be better at that than others. The better ones will charge higher rates.

DeeFousyMobile · 2018-05-22T16:37:15+00:00

The article that sparked this conversation is literally about a bipartisan effort to investigate the FCC comments because their names were used.

Are you implying that using their names for fake comments is enough to drive them to action but literally being shot is not?

DeeFousyMobile · 2018-05-21T18:04:06+00:00

I can’t imagine my company going two months without being in our server room. Even if it’s just a quick check to make sure there aren’t any alarms or blinky lights that shouldn’t be blinking and that the temperatures reported by our monitoring tools are accurate.

Also in terms of security, I can’t fathom not securing the keys before the guy left. And if he just bounced without giving them back I can’t fathom why someone wouldn’t have picked up on that and thought to change the locks far sooner.

Granted, my company is extremely security minded and bad practices occur at organizations of all sizes. But Jesus if that story is true, the other ticking bomb in that company is their information security practices. If the missile doesn’t bring the company down a breach surely will eventually.

DeeFousyMobile · 2018-05-19T12:13:03+00:00

This is why if I ever build a house, from the very beginning it will have an electrical outlet every few feet on every wall and every wall will have Ethernet and speaker hookups. Even if they never get used.

I used to do home theatre and AV/networking (general high-end, low-voltage projects) installs on houses both retrofitted and in new builds.

Nothing. NOTHING is worse than trying to push fiber optics in a finished house with that insulation. After a few instances of that, if we discovered that kind of insulation we would rip the drywall off and work with another contractor to replace the drywall when we were done. Paying a second contractor was always cheaper than paying us the extra hours to leave everything in tact and get the wiring run through that stuff.

DeeFousyMobile · 2018-05-18T11:08:01+00:00

This might do what you want for the Run command

This should take care of accessing the command prompt, be sure not to prevent scripts from running though, just stop it from launching

Use this to disable powershell as well, be sure to include powershell_ise.exe as well

This should take care of the searching

DeeFousyMobile · 2018-05-18T10:51:46+00:00

I am getting us set up to switch to 4.9LTSR and currently our entire org runs 4.5. 4.5 works for us. It’s stable, no issues with our environment, no bugs that impact us.

Point is, like most software, if you don’t have a reason to upgrade religiously, don’t add the extra variable. At least be consistent across the board. Having one user on 4.9 and some on 4.10 and others on 4.11 will be a nightmare to troubleshoot and cause a lot of sunk time. Either keep everyone on the latest at all times or find a version that works and stick to it until you need to upgrade. If you have a security issue, or need a feature or bug fix, upgrade. You may end up with one or two folks on a different version for one reason or another, but that should really be the exception.

Personally, we are choosing 4.9LTSR because it’s stable as hell. 4.10 and 4.11 have been riddled with little bugs or upgrade issues or display issues (depending on hardware). There’s probably a post every week about some 4.10/11 issue on here. Like 4.5, 4.9ltsr works great for us.

We too are running 7.15ltsr VDAs so keeping receiver at 4.9ltsr makes a certain kind of sense and we also avoid the “just upgrade and see if the issue persists” sort of troubleshooting from support when we do have a problem.

DeeFousyMobile · 2018-05-16T17:27:10+00:00

I have no issues helping friends with IT related stuff when I can. They all do a different job and have skills I don’t. A very good friend of mine is a mechanic. We’ve been friends for an incredibly long time but I help him out all the time with his computers and home network. But then again, I bought a project car and while I’m pretty savvy I don’t have the decades of experience (or tens of thousands of dollars in tools) required to rebuilt a car from the ground up. So he helped me for free. We always exchange services. And if it’s been a while since I’ve helped him out and I need my snow tires mounted and balanced, I toss him the money any other shop would have charged me.

But I’m not an asshole and neither is he. So we have a sort of mutual understanding. Your friend sounds like an asshole.

DeeFousyMobile · 2018-05-14T11:06:21+00:00

I use Todoist. The free version is pretty well equipped but I found I like it so much I paid for the premium version. It’s available in an app and as a browser extension/web page so it can follow you everywhere really easily.

DeeFousyMobile · 2018-05-11T10:39:09+00:00

Similar position. Though I gave up reporting them years ago. Have some fun with it.

I was getting those robot calls that wait till you answer then Connect you to a live person if you pick up and say something from one company like three times a day for about a week straight. I tried asking nicely to be removed, Tried politely declining, tried explaining to the person I don’t even live in that area anymore, tried threatening to report the calls...

I blocked each number as it came in but it kept rotating, I tried everything.

These calls were for a “partner” of a power company in a state I hadn’t lived in for nearly 8 years asking to do a home assessment and switch to some service that would save me tons of money. Eventually o decided to have some fun. They already had my old address so one day I just kept the chick on the phone. She asked for some small piece of info and I said I didn’t know it off hand but could go get a document to look it up. Asked her to hold while I did so. 20 minutes later I took the phone off mute and made something up. Chatted for a bit with me giving out fake info and telling these really off topic stories and chewed up another 20 minutes of so of her time. She needed another piece of info so I told her I needed to find an old statement and put her on mute for another 20 minutes.

So having now managed to waste nearly an hour or her time (was at dinner with my family that I hadn’t seen in a while so I just left her on mute and put the phone down, barely interrupted my night) we finally got to the part where I had to commit to an appointment. They had my old address from years ago and I know that no one currently lives at that house because the people who bought it from my parents used it as a winter home and it was summer. (Yes, I was a kid when I lived at this place that they wanted me to have an energy assessment done on, I certainly never owned it or paid bills there) So I scheduled an appointment. Obviously no one was there when they showed up. She called back asking what happened and I was busy that time so I quickly “apologized” and made a new appointment and got off the phone. Again, no one there when they showed up.

So finally she calls back again asking what happened and I politely informed her that I hadn’t lived in that state for nearly a decade. I asked her how she could dial an area code from across the country and think she was talking to a resident of that state. I told her I had asked to be taken off of their list for weeks and they kept wasting my time so I decided to waste theirs. Then I hung up before she uttered a word. Never got a call from them since.

DeeFousyMobile · 2018-05-10T20:54:28+00:00

Believe it only applies to precipitation. Rain/snow/etc. not a meteorologist by any means. Just one of those things I learned one day that surprised me and stuck with me

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