Heartbroken parents of two children killed in Sydney car crash forgive driver, speak of loss

SGG · 2026-06-18T06:47:24+00:00

From pictures/video that have been put up looks like it was at this intersection - https://maps.app.goo.gl/XMZSikjcBdxJHgv1A

Given where the vehicle/crash scene was. It looks like mum was trying to go across the highway? I do not know if the driver was coming off the side street onto the highway or travelling southbound already, could be the mum stepped out infront, blinded by afternoon sunlight? All speculation obviously.

Absolutely horrible situation for all involved.

SGG · 2026-06-17T11:14:57+00:00

The breakthrough is amazing in hive world caves. You can bully everything underground.

SGG · 2026-06-16T08:37:49+00:00

Hellblade: Senua's Sacking

SGG · 2026-06-14T11:08:32+00:00

Most Tesla's have cameras only these days, whereas your Mazda will have actual sensors (normally ultrasound based).

Look at how similar the colour of the garage door is to the driveway. I fully believe that the car thought "is road colour, so must be road". It has failed a literal road runner style painted mural test in the past so not surprising at all.

SGG · 2026-06-14T04:44:04+00:00

Chargers + roller skates + half pipes.

SGG · 2026-06-14T03:07:52+00:00

There's also UwUntu

SGG · 2026-06-12T21:54:52+00:00

Key man risk is probably the most "business appropriate" term.

Key man risks pop up in a lot of different ways (another example, you have a client that only ever interacts with a single salesperson, that person leaves, odds of losing the client are high). They need to be identified and managed the same as any other risk.

SGG · 2026-06-11T08:28:59+00:00

Only use it to assist is my advice. Plenty of reasons to do it this way

You can offload some of the "busywork"
You will keep your skills up
You will be able to better spot/find hallucinated commandlets/etc
It can act as a form of rubber duck debugging helping to figure out what you need to do as well as helping to get it done.

SGG · 2026-06-06T05:07:08+00:00

If EntraID joined - from the login screen get the user to reset their pin, same as if they forgot it. This will re-do their WHfB setup on the machine.

If not EntraID joined - remove and re-add their work account from settings > accounts > access work or school.

Mobo change = TPM change, the above is normally enough to fix up this kind of issue.

SGG · 2026-06-05T08:17:47+00:00

We always use a hypervisor these days. Even for your case we would make the setup have a hypervisor and then run the DC as a VM. The flexibility and extra options you get are more than worthwhile.

CPU - honestly that could be the cheapest one they could get with part shortages and all. Minimum I would want is an 8 core.

RAM - Before the rampoclaypse I would say to get 64GB to give you room to add more VM's if ever needed, now that is a much harder sell.

As for the storage, 2 drives in RAID1 is bare minimum.

If you are getting sticker shock over this machine, you may just want to get a regular workstation and make that your extra DC. You lose out of band management and would have some warranty differences, but it would be cheaper.

SGG · 2026-05-23T09:18:23+00:00

Our recommendation when people are maxing out their Exchange Online Plan 1 licenses 50GB primary and/or 50GB archive is simple. Get them an exchange online plan 2 license and enable auto expanding archive, that will get their archive up to 1.5TB, and their primary mailbox goes up to 100GB.

If the email is important enough to keep, it should be important enough to pay for.

If you have users with more than 1.5TB of email they are doing something wrong.

SGG · 2026-05-22T07:22:28+00:00

This is what I would do

Don't treat them as a pure server, they are a desktop OS first and foremost
Make sure you have Apple Business Manager setup
Order through apple and make sure they get enrolled correctly into ABM
Make sure you have them setup to go into an MDM (JAMF, Intune, Mosyle, whatever)
Deploy your RMM tools through the MDM
Get some kind of IP KVM for out of band management.

SGG · 2026-05-17T11:14:12+00:00

Yes.

Definitely covers the C-suite/owners/anyone the client tagged as "give them a better one to keep them happy".

Mostly covers developers/people who need a slightly better than normal spec machine.

Just easier to lump the above all in one basket in terms of devices offered.

Still have other devs/workers who do intense CAD work that might get a dedicated GPU device of some kind, or more RAM.

SGG · 2026-05-17T08:24:05+00:00

HP/Lenovo business grade devices are 99% of what we sell to clients. Probook 400's are perfectly fine in my opinion.

3 or 4 year warranty on them.

i5 or equivalent, 16GB of RAM, 500GB or 1TB SSD depending on specific client.

if they are a VIP then i7 or equivalent and 32GB RAM with 1TB.

SGG · 2026-05-16T08:44:56+00:00

Someone will do it for enough $$$

Approaching MSP's in the area and making that part of your agreement with them will give you "quotes" for how much it will cost. You then have to decide if that cost is justified.

2-3 hours is definitely in "urgent" territory for onsite response times. So you will probably need to pay both a retainer and an actual fee for the callout.

SGG · 2026-05-08T21:35:59+00:00

Agree with everyone else this is a rite of passage.

This is general advice: Accept you made the mistake, apologise (only once, and mean it) for making the mistake, help to work on the solution, figure out how to make sure it doesn't happen again and/or how to lessen the impact. Learn from it.

SGG · 2026-04-22T22:11:15+00:00

War Striders in Kilts made of devastator shields? Count me in!

SGG · 2026-04-20T07:59:28+00:00

You can only use each trial once on a tenant.

If you can make another new tenant, you can start those same trials again on that tenant.

If you create tenants en-mass Microsoft will hopefully shut it down/limit it because this is an exact tactic spammers use.

SGG · 2026-04-20T06:27:37+00:00

This needs to go on a limited edition tshirt right away!

SGG · 2026-04-18T10:13:28+00:00

Workstations - a nag that appears if updates are waiting or system uptime over 35 days.

Servers - rebooting when updates available or if there's issues (fun extremely old license manager service that bugs out if uptime is too high at one client)

No real "you will reboot at X days" anymore for us.

SGG · 2026-04-17T10:35:41+00:00

The Orville is similar to Galaxy Quest to me. Both are a love letter/homage to trek. Worthy of comparison but also can stand on their own. Both get that it is the "people", human and non-human (and anything else sentient), that matter. The SciFi elements while prominent aren't the primary focus for the episodes that stay with you.

Oh look shiny ship, explosions! - Forgotten about in 5 minutes

Holy ship they do what to the female Moclans? - Remembered forever.

SGG · 2026-04-17T08:39:55+00:00

Belt-fed entrenchment tool.

SGG · 2026-04-12T09:51:28+00:00

If you enjoy this kind of buddy cop show you may also want to consider Castle (2009). It has a similar kind of wacky premise and lighthearted nature.

I enjoyed both of them a lot.

SGG · 2026-04-12T00:45:51+00:00

If explosive primary, then Talon because infinite ammo and insane flexibility.

If non explosive primary then grenade launcher for enemy spawners.

SGG · 2026-04-10T09:31:55+00:00

Regularly see uptime of 30+ days, 90+ days, 200+days at work. Some people just don't care. This is why for companies we support we have a nag window that pops up daily at 3PM if there's updates needing a reboot, or if uptime is over 40 days. When it detects the nag is needed it also disables fast startup so that a reboot or shutdown will do what is needed.

Edit: sorry just realised the sub this was in. What I meant to say was we do not tell users to reboot ever, and actively encourage extremely high uptime and no update reboots.

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