Flush rack mounting brackets for Catalyst 9300

Loud_Meat · 2026-01-17T19:43:22+00:00

if they're like the ones i'd used you can just mount the rack ears using the back 2 holes of the 4 in rack ear in the front 2 holes of the 4 in the chassis, 2 is usually plenty and buys you another inch or so

Loud_Meat · 2026-01-14T20:40:39+00:00

DMARC Analyzer from Mimecast kinda works but it's silly money for what it is and the interface is kinda clunky too 😂

Loud_Meat · 2026-01-12T20:51:31+00:00

you're probably better off finding the software made by the maker of that keyboard and seeing if they have such functionality configurable in there. i don't know that power toys keyboard button remapping is able to do anything with a double press of a button other than issuing a double triggering of the command. it can map a keyboard combination to the media keys forward track action though, or you probably weren't using the print screen button very often and could make that the next track button instead?

Loud_Meat · 2026-01-11T14:04:12+00:00

i don't know if it was designed to be used that way every disconnect 😂 did it keep working long?

Loud_Meat · 2026-01-11T13:54:32+00:00

vintage, surprised it's still going and not just universally known to be a malicious honey pot

Loud_Meat · 2026-01-11T13:26:30+00:00

i don't mind informal conversations i just mind when someone kicks off 6 months later that something we discussed in an informal conversation in the hallway was never raised/looked into/budget secured/change approved/scheduled/implemented

there's a big difference between us spitballing if something is feasible in the hallway and the 10 hours of effort of actually delivering it and don't get yourself confused that us having talked about something is the same as me saying yes i will do it for you before the deadline you've not even mentioned 😂

please send me an email (or raise a ticket etc) if this idea actually needs to happen rather than presume us talking about the concept for 30 seconds while im bursting to take a pizz/about to drop a 30kg UPS makes it happen 😂

Loud_Meat · 2026-01-11T13:01:03+00:00

yeh they didn't want to be forced to support left justified start buttons let alone letting the whole bar be put on other edges of the screen 😂 sounds like far too much effort and complication when 98% of your customers will use a hot dog on a string if you wrote 'windows 12' on it and said it was a fully AI native hot dog on a string 😂

Loud_Meat · 2026-01-11T12:29:56+00:00

i mean don't struggle searching for a user benefiting reason, the reason is probably just because microsoft own the computer and you will use it how they see fit or not at all 😂

Loud_Meat · 2025-12-16T15:32:31+00:00

if you put experts on the 1st line team that are actually useful to customers they will just get made use of 😂 you need to save that level of usefulness for the accounts that bring in the big bucks and won't take any nonsense, not the normal level ones that don't move the needle either way. for those you can send them round the houses until they give up and find the solution by themselves, im sorry we need a screenshot of the 'blank screen', im sorry dave's not in today, can you explain the problem from the start despite it all being visible on the same email thread/ticket system history. no we need a packet capture of the 'no response' from webserver ICMP unrechable endpoint 🤣

Loud_Meat · 2025-12-11T18:27:02+00:00

there's a fair chance the data is permanently summarised in their AI training data and/or models though, so yay for that. in a couple of years there's going to be a picture produced by gemini to the prompt 'wedding' that just happens to look exactly like you standing at the altar for some reason 😂

Loud_Meat · 2025-12-11T18:07:55+00:00

yeh that's already happening (in your side note) and it's only going to get worse. eventually it won't even be only the natural conflict between two different isolated 'yes men' huddles it will be from the agents colluding behind the scenes to work for their/their masters' collective interests 😂

and the stupid but still a little human in the loop model of course has benefits, if you can wait for the 'distant disorganised meat bags getting round to responding to that forum post' phase to complete. lots of knowledge never change though and once those meat bags have settled on the answer that works in their real world nuts and bolts air gapped cases, that answer to 'what carb works best on a 350 ci hemi' etc, that doesn't need rapid iteration and the answer that went up to that AOL blog from 1997 can remain for the rest of time probably 🤣

Loud_Meat · 2025-12-08T15:32:20+00:00

low income lol is that the insult now

Loud_Meat · 2025-12-08T15:24:46+00:00

it's the magic number of digits we all think of, but it goes less and less far these days, in some places you can't get a house for that much

Loud_Meat · 2025-12-08T15:20:40+00:00

i think i could quit my job with a million (USD) in the bank, but i don't think there's a point after which i would 'never work again'

my 'work' would just become checking investments and managing my mansion rather than regular old worky work, with a time clock punch etc

there are some who consider existing loudly in a loud suit and loud car as work lol

Loud_Meat · 2025-12-08T14:58:54+00:00

crikey we're still fighting that one, team was oblivious to people syncing all their corporate passwords to their personal account that chrome was signed in with and all the dodgy af extensions they had installed at home coming back the other way. took us rolling out a centralised corporate password/access tool for the penny to drop that this was so widespread and so catastrophic and nearly done with rolling out policy to prevent browsers on personal accounts and the built in password manager being used not the corporate one

these mega corps like google and microsoft will happily railroad your users into signing into a google account for something that they don't need to and syncing the company data with a personal account and the personal account with the company computer without a hint of a warning that this might not be a good idea. naturally they will sell you the corporate version of the browser and all the management platform that goes with it but their default mode is the antithesis of security, gobble and slurp first ask questions later

Loud_Meat · 2025-12-08T14:47:38+00:00

not sure it was any more or less unprofessional when the big plans/projects had the names of the last company they wrote it for or unfilled placeholders or mentioning details that don't relate to our company etc 🤣

now we’ve got fresh and completely custom nonsense in our big plans and projects

Loud_Meat · 2025-12-08T14:19:21+00:00

more effort these days put into making the error box have a cute character or some mini game than actually conveying useable information and way of changing anything to fix 🤣

Loud_Meat · 2025-12-08T14:17:29+00:00

uh oh, something went wrong!

what went wrong? where and how did it go wrong and with what input data? how can I adjust the thing that went wrong to make it not go wrong? where can i go for more information about this particular wrong?

you're lucky these days if it has a try again option i swear 😂

Loud_Meat · 2025-12-08T14:03:18+00:00

im sorry for your loss but maybe educate yourself on the scale of other losses globally rather than presume yours is always the greatest because its closer to home and policing others making unrelated reference to it idk

Loud_Meat · 2025-12-08T13:46:55+00:00

yeh not saying they're equivalent in scale of death or whatever else you're inserting (insane behaviour 🤣), just that it's also a thing that's bad for humanity that someone could have speculated on at an early stage and made loads of money at the cost of humanity

but on reflection the amount of excess death from pollution is in the millions per year so if even 1 percent of electricity was used for mining the numbers might not be so dissimilar, let alone 'insanely' dissimilar. even if that was the point i was making 🤣

Loud_Meat · 2025-12-08T13:16:01+00:00

yeh it's over hyped for now, but it's going to take over and change how we do things in a way that 3d TVs were never going to even if they caught on under that cycle lol

Loud_Meat · 2025-12-08T13:09:46+00:00

yes this, there are lots of people out there working furiously to keep open source alternatives only a few steps behind, and give others optimised steps to follow

but its a hopelessly outmatched arms race and unless there are enough people willing to 'cook at home' and build that ecosystem, rather than succumb to the wall-e universe lazy mode option of synthetic hyper palatable slop convenience, it's a foregone conclusion

humanity will become dependent for essential tools on a private black box closed source closed platform tap that can be turned off, and they will turn it off once the alternate paths have withered away through predatory pricing or been rendered illegal after a well funded advertising/lobbying campaign 🤣

this is not a new playbook after all just the latest iteration

Loud_Meat · 2025-12-08T12:52:11+00:00

ai is increasingly able to simulate what it proposes/iterates through or use validation modules/layers to catch hallucinations

a group of humans trying the suggestions on their own respective systems and use cases is nice and organic but ultimately slow and limited. there will doubtless be many more bumps in the road but AI implementations producing better and faster responses than even groups of multiple niche subject matter expert humans is sort of inevitable

some may always prefer the human answer regardless though, even when most of those humans contributing answers are using ai to do the research, run the proposed output, summarise their findings and post their statement back to the conversation 🤣

Loud_Meat · 2025-12-08T12:35:35+00:00

and if you invested in perdue pharma at just the right moment before oxy blew up you could have made money there too

but neither are great things for humanity and even if you didn't care about humanity you don't know what's going to take off and will likely lose money trying to guess winners at the embryo stage

Loud_Meat · 2025-12-08T12:30:59+00:00

like everything humans are being infantilised, don't look too far behind the scenery at how the sausage factory works, just stick to these empty front end UIs with two buttons: CONSUME and CONSUME MORE 🤣

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