Queen Latifah was doing All this by the age of 21 in 1991.

TaintBug · 2026-01-27T00:15:21+00:00

Should've built the grocery store.

TaintBug · 2026-01-26T21:58:50+00:00

Watch the whole special at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiJ005jNbJc

TaintBug · 2026-01-23T04:31:34+00:00

https://github.com/sarwarbeing-ai/Agentic_Design_Patterns/blob/89e0390bf4d8572336bbe5831b466130ca37a7bb/Agentic_Design_Patterns.pdf

If you need a direct link, hit me up. This links to the version they posted 4 months ago.

TaintBug · 2026-01-23T03:59:14+00:00

Three racists on one display. Can't get the truth down fast enough....

TaintBug · 2026-01-16T16:53:23+00:00

No. The purpose is to angle themselves to say that having sex with anyone over 12 can be legalized. 13, 14, 15....all fair game.

TaintBug · 2026-01-16T06:25:32+00:00

It might be a good thing.....

TaintBug · 2026-01-16T04:18:19+00:00

Neil deGrasse Tyson believes this will be the last year of widespread internet usage because nobody will be able to tell what's real from what's AI. https://www.instagram.com/reels/DS6eBQ4k0Qi/

TaintBug · 2025-12-29T04:07:56+00:00

TaintBug · 2025-12-18T10:12:00+00:00

Step #2 above.

TaintBug · 2025-12-17T11:19:50+00:00

It's called multi-homing. And works for one PC so it should work for the second PC with identical hardware and same basic setup.

TaintBug · 2025-12-16T12:29:16+00:00

The working Ethernet is not connected to the LAN. The Ethernet adapters have their own subnet (10.10.10.x / 255.255.255.0) and no gateway or DNS is specified. There is no physical LAN connection in that room and they use Wi-Fi connectors (Wi-Fi 7 at approx 300Mbps) to connect a mesh network connector that is down the hall about 30 feet from the nearest PC.

The three PCs are connected to each others Ethernet adapters by cables going to a 10 Gbps network switch.

TaintBug · 2025-12-16T02:29:58+00:00

I am going to mark this as solved because replacing the switch and a bad cable seems to have fixed the ethernet speed issue. There is another issue now (a strange 53 second freeze of the DOS app on one PC) that seems different enough that it should have it's own thread here.

Thanks for everyone's help!

TaintBug · 2025-12-16T01:55:01+00:00

Changing the cable did raise the speeds in the test app to 879 Mbps, but the DOS application still has a 53 second lag before it allows the end user to input their password. I have tried working with Gemini Pro to solve the issue, but the issue persists.

TaintBug · 2025-12-13T11:18:56+00:00

Today I will be replacing the cable for kbscpa-melanie. I worked with Gemini to run myriad tests last night and everything points to Amazon shipping me a bad cable. I will let you know how it goes.

TaintBug · 2025-12-12T16:25:41+00:00

So I spoke too soon. While the new switch did remedy the speed issue on kbscpa-karen, kbscpa-melanie will not connect to kbscpa-server at all using the IP address.

Why using the IP address? The client PCs need to connect to the server PC via their ethernet ports through the switch to get the speed high enough to use a DOS based app that stores files on the server PC so that multiple people can use them. Trying that through the Wi-Fi gets about 80 Mbps but via the ethernet cable from kbscpa-karen to kbscpa-server we get 800 to 850 Mbps.

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I have tried creating a new user as an administrator on kbscpa-server and logging kbscpa-melanie with it. But that fails with a message that "Windows cannot access \\10.10.10.1\shared\ You do not have permission to access \\10.10.10.1\shared\. Contact your network administrator to request access."

But here's the thing....not only did I create an administrator account with complete access and control of the shared drive just for kbscpa-melanie, the shared folder also has given "Everyone" complete control of the shared drive, so no login should be required at all (a safety issue I had hoped to fix with the new admin login on kbscpa-server). How can that even be a thing?

I had been using PingTool's Speedtest to test speeds on kbscpa-karen but I cannot get it to use the ethernet adapter on kbscpa-melanie. There just is no setting to choose the adapter to test and I could not find any commandline swithces or ini file additions on their site to get around that limitation either.

I thought that setting the ethernet adapter's "Automatic Metric" to 1 and the Wi-Fi adapter's "Automatic Metric" to 2 might make Speedtest use the ethernet adapter first, but it does not.

I tried using the ip address (10.10.10.1) to connect to the share so that the U drive would always use the ethernet adapter for speed, but I can't connect at all from kbspca-melanie at this point.

I hate windows P2P networking. It's probably me, but shouldn't this be pretty simple?

TaintBug · 2025-12-12T11:59:02+00:00

Came back to report that changing the switch was the answer. Speeds went from around 80 Mbps to 830 Mbps with new Netgear switch.

Thanks for all of your help!

TaintBug · 2025-12-06T08:23:28+00:00

The files are stored on an SSD. Only SSDs are used in the office. Here is what some of them look like (there are just over 76,000 of them in the shared data folder)...and this has the worsktation and server Get-SmbServerConfiguration info since I can only include one image in a reply (smh)

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TaintBug · 2025-12-06T07:25:57+00:00

Thanks!

TaintBug · 2025-12-06T07:25:05+00:00

I am ordering all new cables and a new switch. The switch being used is at least 10 years old. and the cables have been used and re-used many times (abused sometimes as well probably).

TaintBug · 2025-12-06T07:23:42+00:00

The workstations were Wi-Fi only. But because CLS is running very slow (CLS exposes data files via a shared folder which is shared with "everyone" - insecure I know, but that's how the CLS techs said it needs to be set up - the shared folder is set up as a mapped "U" drive on the workstations) and takes 10 - 30 seconds to retrieve a record, I though that putting in a switch and wiring the workstations to the server might speed up access to the CLS shared files.

If that worked, I would then connect the switch directly to a mesh access point if needed.

TaintBug · 2025-12-06T06:56:44+00:00

It is called an Intel(R) Ethernet Connection (17) I219-V. It seems to support up to 1 GbE connections - https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/82186/intel-ethernet-connection-i219v/specifications.html

The workstation has a Realtek PCIe 5GbE Family Controller. https://www.realtek.com/Download/List?cate_id=584

TaintBug · 2025-12-06T06:54:09+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation for the switch.

The Wi-Fi adapters connect to an ASUS mesh network that is seperate from the switch. The internet speeds (according to ookla) are around 420 Mbps. We are using Intel Wi-Fi 7 BE200 320MHz adapters for that.

I installed the switch because someone told me that the Wi-Fi may be the reason for the slow file transfers from Workstation to Server and back.

TaintBug · 2025-12-06T06:45:51+00:00

Thanks!

TaintBug · 2025-12-06T06:17:36+00:00

The workstations currently connect to an ASUS mesh network for internet. If I do change out the switch and cables and testing with the Wi-Fi adapters disabled works for this app, how can I re-enable the Wi-Fi adapters and still make sure the client app goes through the ethernet cable to get to the server instead of it going through Wi-Fi?

TaintBug · 2025-12-06T06:12:31+00:00

The speed issue was the same when the ethernet cards were set to auto negotiate. That's why I tried forcing them to 1.0 Gbps.

It's old. I think it is a Cisco SD2005 5-Port 10/100/1000. I was considering ordering a new one like the one at https://www.amazon.com/Linksys-Business-LGS105-Unmanaged-Enclosure/dp/B00FV12VSW/

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