Stijn!!

[tcar]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

....gold shorts she could be a TWA, the proud bird with a golden tail? Too old a reference?....

Yep, too old... that was Continental, not TWA.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

What a horrible boss!

I used his credit card to buy me some Erdinger Dunkle beer. Worlds best beer. Burp. I had two of em. Burp.

[RKDinOKC]

Thought TWA sounded more like TNA.

Glen, at least that Boss isn't making you sleep in a shed out back.

I don't have a shed out back, but did at our old house. There were evenings that Dad spent a LOT of time "working" on stuff in that shed, and don't bother him. Our house intercom had a intercom out there. He did sewing machine repair as a side line among other things.

If something went wack with one of our lawn/garden gas engines or devises, he made me fix it. We had a lawn/garden tractor, push mower, edger, chain saw, weed whacker, chipper/shredder, RotoTiller, and Sprayer. Once had to completely disassemble the riding mower weld the broken frame back and put it all back together by myself. But hey, I was the one that broke it popping wheelies with the tractor. It was fun right up until it broke in half.

I used the tractor to mow a field at the company where my Dad worked. After I got it back together and was mowing, several of Dad's co-workers came out and checked it out. So am sure he told them all about how his 11 year old boy busted it popping wheelies and then fixed it. Told them I wanted to put some light weight spoked baby buggy wheels on the front and chrome the rear rims. Dad told me I was NOT doing that.

Years later when I could drive I had a couple of lawns that were big enough I used the tractor. Once while I was mowing Dad came by. He didn't like where I had parked the car and lawn trailer. When he moved it he ran over my push mower destroying the frame. I found another frame and went nuts building the mower up on the new frame. Didn't put anything back on that didn't explicitly have something to do with making it operate. Ground a bunch of metal off the frame and even the motor. Replaced the front wheels with plastic rims and drilled holes in the to save weight. Replaced the rear wheels with metal rims and drill holes in them to lighten them too. Put metal bearings in so the rear wheels could pivot without wearing out the bearings or breaking the rims. Raised the governor so it would spin the blade faster. When I was done it looked funky but I had a super light weight push mower i could jog with that did a great job cutting.

It was my hot rod mower. The only problem was because I raised the governor and worked it so hard over a season it would oval the cylinder, start losing a little power and burnt oil. So every season I just replaced the engine with a short block. It was $40 and some work, but worth it for spending less time cutting grass.

[RKDinOKC]

Brent, does your helpdesk also do software distribution.
We are still doing this manually and I was thinking of turning in a proposal to automate computer setup and updating.

[flipper35]

Spiceworks can do some. We also use GPOs for a lot of the stuff and ManageEngine for our patch management. We use Smartdeploy for all our OS installs from a golden image and that reduces a lot of the remote installs. ManageEngine can do most of what you want. PDQDeploy is one we almost looked at. I will see some of the engineers at Spiceworld if there is anything you need, let me know. I can PM my cell number.

[Jim Richards]

Brent, whassup with the Packers?

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Thought TWA sounded more like TNA.

Glen, at least that Boss isn't making you sleep in a shed out back.

SNIP

Nope, he lets me sleep with his wife. I have a heated and air conditioned garage and the bed of the El Camino is way more comfortable than the storage shed out in the back yard. And I have a bathroom in the garage as well. I have never slept out there, and have no intention of doing it.

We finally got a hangar for now for the 172. So this winter we will not have to scrape snow or ice off of it. It is at the same airport that the 182 is at. So the drive to the airplane will be about the same distance from home but now on the turnpike and not I-35. Fuel is a little cheaper as well.

[RKDinOKC]

Good Mornin...

So you guys flying out of Wiley Post or Millionaire's. Just curious.

Thanks Brent, but is looking like IT admin would rather hire staff.
The other Server Manager that is a new hire got on 365 and changed default GPO so about half our users lost access to servers despite being members of security groups that give them specific GPOs. Besides that VPNs are dropping the connection every 3 minutes.
But, hey, he goes to the right church and worked for museum of the bible like our IT Director.

[Porsche-poor]

morning all. hope everyone had a reasonably good weekend.

[Jim Richards]

Not too bad. A couple of small projects around the house and some time wrenching on the Z. Hope all of you guys enjoyed your Saturday and Saturday. Any of you guys get off for Columbus Day?

[RKDinOKC]

Getting frustrated with bosses that will never make a decision.

The new admin guy went in and set our retention policy for deleted items or trash folder to 6 months and recovery to only 7 days.
I set them to 30/30 by request when we first moved to 365.
Asked the new vp of IT about it. Says we need to write a policy on it and not make any changes until we do, including back to what it was before.
Holey Crap! The default is 30/14! Why not set it to the default instead of making mailboxes huger!

[Porsche-poor]

nope I'm at work. So its not a real holiday.....

[GH85Carrera]

Richard, Wiley post is a great airport, but a total and complete pain in the butt to got to in a car. There is just no easy way to get there on the ground. That's why we did use Guthrie/Edmond Regional. It has a small FBO that has nice folks and decent services.

Sundance airport is where we have our airplanes. The airport is owned buy a guy that invented Fleet Tracking and Paycom. Two large companies he started so he needed a place to invest money. He is a very intelligent man and aviation is his hobby. He owns one of the smallest jets ever made, like James Bond flew threw a hangar.

Sundance is rated as one of the cheapest fuel providers in the nation. And they have a real culture of helpful friendly staff. It is easy to get to, and out of.

Millionaire at Wiley Post caters to big jets and corporate clients with BIG budgets, and would consider us a pest since we are cheapskates.

[RKDinOKC]

Sundance is what I've heard called Millionaire's. Even seen Lear jets go in an out a there.

Was driving by Wiley Post and stopped to watch Miss America P51 take off and then do a fast flyby. A Christenson Eagle stunf biplance waited to watch as well. They did the same thing. Man, that biplane was really slow.

[GH85Carrera]

Millionaire is an FBO at Wiley. I have never heard Sundance called that. They get a LOT of traffic of nice jets because they have really cheap prices on fuel. They are building a new big hangar to accommodate a few big jets.

The FBO at Sundance has a really fancy bathroom, and they have some nice facilities. Hangars are a little more, but they have some open up regularly. Guthrie/Edmond is full and few hangars open up. Both of them have free tie downs on the ramp.

Most of the time flying out of Guthrie there is nothing to look at except farmland and mega cities like Agro, Wildhorse, Dover, and Alpha and Omega are just a few miles apart, just west of Kingfisher.

From Sundance we will often be flying over OKC and Edmond so there is something on the ground to look at. Of course if we are flying west, it is back to farmland. Or exciting places like Dead Woman Crossing, Custer and Sidney's home town of Arapaho.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Women_Crossing,_Oklahoma

[RKDinOKC]

With it so flat there is not a lot to see, but plenty of emergency waypoints.

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, the pilot that has been flying me around spent a couple of months up in Pennsylvania and West Virginia flying some projects. He said it was all hills and trees and no "oh crap" emergency spots. With just a little luck, we will never need to find a place to land except the airport where we intended to land all along.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

Brent, whassup with the Packers?

Dunno, I haven't seen any games yet this year. Last I saw was Mathews was saying they may as well be playing touch football.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Good Mornin...

So you guys flying out of Wiley Post or Millionaire's. Just curious.

Thanks Brent, but is looking like IT admin would rather hire staff.
The other Server Manager that is a new hire got on 365 and changed default GPO so about half our users lost access to servers despite being members of security groups that give them specific GPOs. Besides that VPNs are dropping the connection every 3 minutes.
But, hey, he goes to the right church and worked for museum of the bible like our IT Director.

Spiceworks is free. I know the PDQ Deploy integrates with it but I don't know the cost. Manage Engine is inexpensive. About an average house payment for a years subscription. Hiring more staff isn't an option for us.

We are headed out of Austin to OK City Thursday late morning. We are going to the bombing memorial and staying in OK leaving early Friday Morning.

[RKDinOKC]

Austin to OKC is a 400 mile, 6 hour drive. Usually gas up in Austin and make it to the Love's in Ardmore. 270 miles.

Will keep this Thursday open.

You are welcome to stay at my house. But staying comes with a warning, it is an absolute pit.