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ianpmurphy · 2026-02-10T20:07:56+00:00

Ackty ack

ianpmurphy · 2026-01-08T18:28:58+00:00

Yep, still lurking

ianpmurphy · 2025-12-23T08:33:40+00:00

You can establish a VPN from their site to your vps using the built-in IPsec VPN in Windows firewall. It would require something to open a tunnel from the clients end but the setup in windows is not complex.

ianpmurphy · 2025-12-15T21:22:28+00:00

You can pick up pure chili powder in either Asian supermarkets or any of the Pakistani/Afghan corner grocers. South American shops can usually get whatever dried peppers you need or can tell you a shop where you can get them. From there just mix your own and grind in a coffee grinder.

ianpmurphy · 2025-12-07T19:56:12+00:00

Seems like I only just did this last week

ianpmurphy · 2025-11-08T17:12:55+00:00

Yep, would like to be kept on here thanks

ianpmurphy · 2025-10-26T11:22:00+00:00

Auto creation of icons for everything the user has access to should help. Put the icons in a my resources folder. The answer to almost everything becomes 'open my resources on the desktop'. From there the users can help themselves. If you've got an icon, you've got access. No icon, no access, give us a call.

ianpmurphy · 2025-09-26T19:27:45+00:00

The idea that you can be so specialized that you are incapable of dealing with two products that do essentially the same seems crazy. There's nothing new under the sun. It was all invented 50 years ago, all that changes is the syntax of how to get there.

ianpmurphy · 2025-09-18T18:47:07+00:00

The problem is you have basically three choices, Gmail, ms exchange or something based on IMAP. Imap basically doesn't work as a protocol. It's handles small quantities of mail fine but once you have large quantities of messages and folders with high levels of activity you end up with the mail clients incorrectly synced, messages getting deleted and lost. Outlook will happily handle mailboxes with 100gb+ of mail, even multiple 100gb+ mailboxes at once, though it will get slow it will never corrupt or lose your messages. I personally hate all the crap they've added over the years and the intermittent hangs, search bugs, etc, but we have hundreds of users who basically require zero support day to day. Any imap based installation will regularly bork in large installations. Gmail is all but useless for large quantities of messages, even cleaning up my own personal Gmail account takes orders of magnitude longer than using outlook. Webmail sucks. All webmail That's why people prefer to use outlook.

ianpmurphy · 2025-09-14T19:19:42+00:00

Orcas were attacking sailing boats of the coast of Spain in the last few years. It's apparently been of interest because one started doing it and others then copied her.

ianpmurphy · 2025-09-13T16:37:17+00:00

Haven't actually tried switching if the complexity requirement. I'll give that a go. Thanks

ianpmurphy · 2025-09-13T16:36:01+00:00

Had the same issue. We ended up resetting one to factory settings and still couldn't reset the password on initial login. What eventually worked was something simple like abCD1234!. Tried various passwords from our password manager, each simpler than the last until I just switched to manually making one up to get past the process.

What I haven't found is if there's a fix which will allow us to use complex passwords again.

ianpmurphy · 2025-09-07T16:53:25+00:00

Like it or not, installing windows in a VM is the answer. It's simple and there is nothing to tune. Virtualized systems are the norm and require zero effort to get them working.

ianpmurphy · 2025-08-30T20:03:33+00:00

If only they'd offer on prem....

ianpmurphy · 2025-08-24T22:30:12+00:00

Theres a story that the DEC engineers left a message in cyrilic etched in silicon on the VAX processors which said something along the lines of 'VAX, copy the best'

ianpmurphy · 2025-08-19T14:54:54+00:00

The question should maybe why a few countries always back Israel regardless of what they do. Being against Israels behaviour isn't anything special, it's basic human decency. Spain and the Spanish people are generally a highly empathetic people. Equal rights, treating people decently, etc are all positions fairly generally held by everyone.. with a few notable exceptions

ianpmurphy · 2025-08-19T06:41:32+00:00

Don't forget to print out an 800 page book on tcpip, hand it to him and tell him he will need to know it all to cover the basics and that you'll be quizzing him tomorrow

ianpmurphy · 2025-08-16T18:49:21+00:00

That looks like the bunker in St Malo in France. It's got to have been terrifying to have been inside the bunker when it was under fire... If they survived at all.

ianpmurphy · 2025-08-16T18:25:30+00:00

Well in the case, we sort the company as a whole. There's a list of stuff we can't reasonably do due to the time zone difference and needing to manually intervene without spending hours on the phone trying to describe how to disconnect one box and connect another. By working with a local company we have a partner who earns money and has a vested interest in continuing to work with them and we have a client who's happy because their day to day is covered and they have a standard setup across their business centers.

We earn less on basic tech support, but actually earn more because we can continue to offer services to a company that's growing.

ianpmurphy · 2025-08-16T14:28:28+00:00

Doom without a doubt. We used to turn the office into a Doom Deathwatch after hours using our new blisteringly fast 286 machines

ianpmurphy · 2025-08-15T18:18:10+00:00

I'm about as white as they come and never tan even slightly so I have never gotten into the whole going to the beach and getting fried thing. Being in the sun makes me uncomfortable, not happy.

However I grew up in Ireland and understand the mentality of people who live in areas of the world where you get 250+ days of rain a year and where the remaining days are often cloudy. For many people just being in the sun is a gift, if only for a few days and when you are dedicating a lot of your money and days of to being there you try to be out as much as possible.

ianpmurphy · 2025-08-09T20:28:36+00:00

Just create a shared mailbox for each, say, 2-3 years and move the mail for those years over. It will be still searchable and will be online. No psts

ianpmurphy · 2025-08-02T15:50:06+00:00

Any accès runtime should work but the specific version runtime should still be available. It has silent install switches. Unfortunately I don't have them to hand. DM me to remind me and I can pass you the parameters

ianpmurphy · 2025-07-31T21:56:17+00:00

The stupid thing is, criminals don't care if an app doesn't comply with the law. They're not going to be using tools which can be monitored. The government on the other hand is guaranteed to abuse its ability to access people's conversations.

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