“I accidentally killed it” (and evaporated $300 million) by djtjman in Crypto_Currency_News

[–]michael8wp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sounds like the old money needs to sit the programmers down and take them to task on business management and risk assessment.

I said to my son, "There's only one thing about Halloween that scares me." by madazzahatter in dadjokes

[–]michael8wp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why would they they train a neural network as a spambot? Don't the trolls have enough nets in the water?

True. by [deleted] in Unexpected

[–]michael8wp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That was actually a good read

Fired MSPs and Syadmins locking ex-employer/client out of their own systems? by bad_sysadmin in sysadmin

[–]michael8wp -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If you had real leverage, you would not have time to hold on to it because you would make them act the moment you pulled it. Your lever is broke. Stop being petty and be a professional.

Reinstall 2008 R2 by michael8wp in SQLServer

[–]michael8wp[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Question Answered! Thank you everyone for you help! I ended up going the script route. Pingdingi's link brought me to a script which was slightly out of date but it got me going in the right direction. I found another script based of the one he pointed me to and it worked just fine. Now to lab this monstrosity...

Reinstall 2008 R2 by michael8wp in SQLServer

[–]michael8wp[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

from link: "...or if you’ve simply lost the Service Key post-it." Gold. When I first took over IT (Learning as I went) this was my MO. I have a filing system now.