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nice article, but I have a problem with the notion that if a lithium-ion battery pack starts smoking that a bottle of water is going to help.  if that’s the case then why does the battery hazard training I’ve been through specifically say that the only way to deal with a runaway li-ion pack (as in, don’t want to watch the pretty light show and see the flames and smoke as the hot gases resulting from the dissociated electrolyte combust with oxygen in the air) is to make sure it’s on a surface that can take the potentially 3000F temperatures and dump a five gallon pail of sand on it.  then open the windows to let the fumes out of the building and wait for the thermal event to cool off.  I would be more afraid of the water I just dumped on the now melted plastic case of the pack shorting out more of the cells causing an even bigger thermal event.  probably better “thermal runaway event protection” would be a high heat tolerant sleeve made out of welders cloth.

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is M$ TRYING to make my life h***?  am I going to have to download and burn fresh isos for the latest feature updates every single month?  the fastest, least risky, and most reliable method for us to move machines to a newer feature update is to use dvd media.  not bootable usb sticks.  write-once dvd-dl that get used many times a week.

 

fix this c*** or I’m going to run away from m$ products faster than I did in 2007.

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are the files actually gone or does the jammed-down-your-throat-at-every-feature-update office365 c2r version of office reset the default file types and default application?

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Zoho has a competing product that’s a little less expensive.  I have paid Assist and Unattend licenses I buy for my use as a mercenary geek.  I would look into the Zoho product if you get a tiny whiff of problems with Zoom.  Zoho chat support is basically instantaneous and has answered my questions in small minutes.

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yes…  most of the customer machines coming across the bench have 2004 offered in windows update.  we are not installing it.

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this isn’t a social commentary or hr/hiring website.  it’s a technical site.  keep it clear of politics or it’s going to get twitterified/facebooked into uselessness.

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Tell me again how software raids based on os features are better than hardware raids with add in controllers?  intel rst is even more tolerable than storage spaces.

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On the three PCs I’ve updated to 2004, Chredge was offered for download and installation as soon as one opened the old Edge. In other words, not via WU.

this.  I’ve taken to installing chredge on every fresh or updated winblows machine.  my customers will see that chredge offer and not understand it and call me.  might as well get it installed.  I’m willing to roll the dice that m$ hasn’t perverted chromium any worse than Google.

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My manager likes to resell Kaspersky.  I use Sophos Home (free) on all my Macs.  We had been going with his recommendation to use AVG Free when customers didn’t want a paid antivirus – we’re not doing that.  Too many machines have come in with active infections and fully functional AVG – it just flat out doesn’t do the job.  I put Sophos Home (free…) on a customer’s pc recently, seems to be working as well as it does on my Macs.  Windows Defender actually isn’t as bad as MSE used to be.  I prefer to not use the M$ solution, just because of their decades long history of hooking their apps into the OS in ways other companies don’t have access to.  So if M$ s**** up one month on Defender and a zero day get in wide circulation, it’s a bad day.

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does anyone know if this would break “client connector” used to join a pc to a server essentials domain?  been fighting for over a week with no joy.

 

wse 2012 r2, current updates through 2019-12

w10pro 1909 current updates through 2019-12

everything can ping everything.  name resolution works.  dns works.

losing what’s left of my hair on this one.

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I stand by the basic assertion that m$ feature updates are at best buggy and in several instances in the last 2 years guaranteed to cause pain, up to and including deleting user data.

 

as for “features” in Office365 that aren’t in Office2019, NONE of my customers use those.   not a single one.  they use excel, word, and a few use Outlook.  fewer still use powerpoint.  other people can jump up and down about wonderful feature sets and new whiz bang tools but paying by the month for the privilege of not using the new features, while randomly not working because microsoft, shifts my customer decision tree towards the retail permanent license version.  many of these customers don’t have and don’t want a “microsoft account” at all, and we end up creating one and documenting it just to properly register office2019.

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well, office365 at this time is at best an equivalent product to retail office2019, with the added “advantage” of recurring billing, and the random “your data isn’t available right now” when office365 goes down for whatever reason.  so a product named “microsoft 365 life” carries with it all the flaws, failures, and random unavailability of all the current products.

 

just what a person needs in this day and age.  let’s not forget that the initial ~2 day release of 1809 had the hidden feature of deleting all the files in onedrive accounts.  we were actually on the phone with a m$ tier 2 service agent working a “feature update blew up windows” machine when I heard on the speakerphone “under no circumstances are you to install 1809 on customer machines”.

 

takes a loooooong time for those of us who have been around since nt 4.0  (and before) to recover trust in m$ after shenanigans like that.

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right, and 1903 apparently shoved the office365 click to run back on a customer’s machine.  who then signed into office365microsoftonline and proceeded to blow up their retail license office 2019 install, as well as hork up the user profile.

 

yeah, this is a terrible idea.  every month that goes by there are more “this is a good reason to buy a used mac” moments.

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I’ve disliked Chrome for years.  Only had it installed as a test/failover browser in case Firefox isn’t happy.

 

Then when Firefox we totally belly up on my 10.12 mbp, I uninstalled all traces of it and switched to Brave.  Super fast!  Very happy with it so far.

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We’ve got medium sized business clients still running 1809 pro.  Those will age out in 6 months.  Will 1909 upgrade in place torch their installed apps?

 

Keeping track of this clown circus/laurel and hardy storyline is why I became a school bus driver supervisor ten years ago.  Less stress.

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