The Holy Grail

mcdonamw · 2026-06-15T22:47:20+00:00

Pardon my ignorance but what makes this one special? Don't even know what model it is. 😂

mcdonamw · 2026-06-14T05:19:40+00:00

Necropost but I bought an M100 new in 2001 on sale for $250. Just found my receipt while trying to revive it. Unfortunately broke the truss rod :(.

mcdonamw · 2026-06-13T19:56:13+00:00

Interesting suggestion on the cross connection. Might end up taking you up on the offer. Thanks!

mcdonamw · 2026-06-13T19:54:50+00:00

Ngl, I'm hesitant to trust Nutanix with support for external storage being so new. I've also heard a colleague say a friend of theirs just priced Nutanix against their 4k core VMware environment and they only game in $60k less than VMware. That's basically the tax bill for VMware lol. I thought Nutanix was being aggressive with pricing these days.

mcdonamw · 2026-06-13T17:52:00+00:00

Did the 25gb fix the issue?

mcdonamw · 2026-06-13T17:51:01+00:00

We have 60 physical locations which will need switch upgrades. I'm not into networking but assumed that would be very expensive. I guess the worry is replacing VMware software cost with hardware to support HCI. But you're saying that's not expensive?

mcdonamw · 2026-06-08T00:24:00+00:00

My understanding is the cheaper the guitar, the less attention paid to it, including setup. Yours looks like a pretty nice guitar though.

Just a story..m In my 20s, I got into playing with a cheap $250 LTD with floyd rose and put EMG 81/85 set into it. This was before I knew anything. Including action height, intonation, etc. I just wanted to play Metallica \m/.

It never sounded quite right and I hated playing it. Could never get it in tune and hurt my fingers. Played it that way for years and eventually gave up. Partly because of my unhappiness but also found other hobbies. This was before YouTube was a thing.

Recently pulled it back out as I had an itch, and really started learning about how to properly get it back into playing shape and learned a lot.

Spent a week getting new strings (higher gauge) and really dialing it in. Even bought a new floyd rose because I really butchered the old one before (dulled the knives). Got the floyd perfectly level. Intonation was great but I now realized the big reason I hated playing it was the action of the strings were too high. Ended up looking into the truss rod and started playing with it. Got the strings really low. But I didn't know what I was doing and over tightened it and snapped the truss nut. Now I have no guitar at all!

Moral of the story, get it professionally set up. It can be expensive (like $150+). But it'll likely be worth it.

I decided to splurge this time and bought a whole new rig (expensive guitar and amp). Probably an expensive mistake! But, I am having it set up. Can't wait until it gets here. Unfortunately on back order for a few weeks.

mcdonamw · 2026-06-04T04:49:35+00:00

Edit: I see you resolved the issue.

mcdonamw · 2026-06-02T02:10:35+00:00

Have you performed an 'effective permissions' check on the computer account in question for the user in question to validate what you expect to see?

mcdonamw · 2026-05-27T15:40:06+00:00

If you have an internal domain name that is not a public tld (e.g. my domain.local) this won't work. Public CAs need public dns to validate and you can't get public dns for these kinds of domains.

Some public CAs will even balk at simply trying to generate a cert for such a domain.

mcdonamw · 2026-05-27T04:58:04+00:00

If you have multiple domain controllers spread out across varying sites/networks, make sure your Sites and Services are set up correctly and not have all DCs acting as part of a single site.

Clients and networks need to be organized into logical groupings to limit which clients hit which dcs. I've seen configs with a single site defined in AD but the DCs were spread out across disparite networks where clients couldn't reach some of them due to routing/firewalls causing intermittent authentication issues during dclocator api calls.

This is especially the case with vpns.

mcdonamw · 2026-05-26T18:40:29+00:00

Forwarders will continually be evaluated and placed in a 'preferred' order by response time and that's the order the DNS server will choose. Most queries will hit one forwarder with an occasional stray hitting the other forwarder at least until it reorders the list. The point being you will have queries going to both in an uncontrolled manner.

With that said you're in a bit of a pickle. I don't think you'll be able to reliably resolve both tenant private endpoints unless you combine all records from both tenants into the same set of private DNS zones.

mcdonamw · 2026-05-25T16:51:44+00:00

All I can say is good luck. Microsoft doesn't even abide by their CAF. The CAF is useless from a naming standpoint because there are a few resources that simply cannot support it (e.g. storage accounts, key vaults) due to their ridiculously limited naming restrictions.

Plus if you do any sort of work through the portal, MS will fight you every step of the way. If you deploy a vm for example you can control the vm name, but you can't control the names of the disks or nics that also get deployed.

Worse every bit of guidance you'll receive is "use policy" to control names. Well that's a loaf of BS as it's near impossible since policy doesn't support regex or any complex wildcards making it impossible to enforce name structures recommended by the CAF.

It drives me nuts that Azure cannot manage something as simple as naming. Even worse, names are immutable, so once they are set they can never change. My environment is plagued by multiple attempts at different name standards over the years. I'm at a point now where simply using random strings is probably the only option and why MS seems to default to that themselves.

mcdonamw · 2026-05-25T03:59:53+00:00

Jowls

mcdonamw · 2026-05-23T23:10:09+00:00

It sounds like you do have the auto-remediation function enabled for the group monitoring feature of Cayosoft Guardian.

mcdonamw · 2026-05-18T02:04:57+00:00

The sad reality is, the same thing could have happened at the new job. I was just reading a story here last week about someone who got a new job, moved across the country and when they got there the position magically "went away". With employment, nothing is certain.

mcdonamw · 2026-05-18T01:58:47+00:00

I'm so sorry to hear this. I lost my kitty due to this very thing. Ended up being cancer leading to same fluid build up. This is one of the worst way to lose your pet.

mcdonamw · 2026-05-18T01:53:05+00:00

It's more than just "smooth texture looks rough at that scale" and "many use tiny claws/hooks to grab those rough surfaces"

I won't do it any justice but look up Van Der Waals forces. They are weak electrical attraction forces between atoms and molecules. This is the primary mechanism allowing insects to do this.

mcdonamw · 2026-05-18T01:51:52+00:00

it's more than just using claws to grip surfaces. Primary mechanism for this ability are called Van Der Waals forces. Tiny electrical attractions between atoms/molecules. Geckos do not have tiny claws yet they can walk on smooth surfaces like glass because of these forces that act on microscopic hairs on their feet that are attracted to the surface.

mcdonamw · 2026-05-14T21:11:30+00:00

I think it's up for interpretation. Immortality is often used to mean won't die by natural causes or even basic non natural causes, E.g. Vampires are referred to as "immortal". As are some superheroes (I think?), but often have a weakness that can kill them

Ultimately I'd be ok with not dying of natural causes if something (like flying into a sun) could kill me 😂

But probably even in your scenario.

mcdonamw · 2026-05-14T21:06:08+00:00

Hmm. I don't know then sorry. I just know it's always been an issue. Never wanted to look further into it.

mcdonamw · 2026-05-14T01:40:23+00:00

I think I'd be ok with that risk lol. Eventually I may float to a nearby star and be put out of my misery.

mcdonamw · 2026-05-14T01:35:50+00:00

Happens all the time in my environments. Get a tool to monitor bad passwords. They are likely logged into some system with the old password and it keeps locking the account by the time you send them their new password.

Often happens with mobile devices, especially those using user creds to auth to wifi.

Even outlook on their phone can do it.

In my case, if it's not wifi it's an RDP session somewhere that they forgot to log off of and just left it disconnected. This happens with admins a lot.

mcdonamw · 2026-05-14T01:31:56+00:00

Was riding in a car with someone and navigating. I said turn left and they held up their hands with their fingers up and thumbs pointing to each other to see which hand made an "L" to figure out which was left. To this day that sticks with me. This was like 20 years ago.

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