Recent content by mewrei

Have you looked at Windows SBS (Small Business Server)? Relatively inexpensive and it bills itself to build a lot of things, like AD, Exchange, and TMG, all into one box.

thewebsiteisdown.com In one of the videos they deal with the single sign-on app (its the "Sales Demolition" video I think its called), and this one little button that's placed in a VERY inconvenient place renders an entire enterprise completely unable to operate.

Its very unintrusive, until you're at work until 2am trying to get something fixed and having to deal with that UI, then end up clicking the wrong button because the metro menu is so hard to launch and end up causing the server to reboot, or worse... Recompute base encryption hash key (props...

I posted about this a couple weeks ago and got trolled... http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1710146

IT guy here, run over 250 servers (me and one other guy). A. You'll still get the metro gui over RDP (unless you disable it apparently, albeit I read that it couldn't be disabled, but I could be wrong there, hopefully I am). B. Plenty of reasons to do a console login to a server (this can be...

Yeah, about that cat... Not saying this is a definite anything (hence why I called this extreme speculation), but there are a few coincidences that line up.

Gentlemen, Some extreme speculation involved here. So Gaben tells us that technology is not currently "there" for Half-Life 3, and they're going to wait, but I'm at an impasse at how much "waiting" they're actually doing. Enter Ben Krasnow. If you don't know him, Ben is a hardware...