Why take away a perfectly good, easy to use menu and replace it with that shit-tastic ribbon concept?

OK, you first.

Shoulder surfing.

Seriously, is this guy is supposed to be an expert?

This is like having a fuel efficiency expert tell you to turn the motor off on your car, stick it in neutral, and push it, since it'll get infinite MPG. Passwords are supposed to be secret. Usernames aren't as critical.

It may be that once they hit 90% of the session limits, that it starts killing off the longest-idle sessions.

They encourage them to move closer in, in the same city. They're not routing people, just moving them around.

A very common and painful situation. We have a few that are like that as well.

Luckily our security team has a high enough clout that they're putting the screws to the app maintainers of these broken IE-6 only webapps, and making them fix them to work with IE7 and IE8.

Pour it in to METAL containers (coffee cans are ideal, as long as they're not cheap cardboard-walled ones). Let it cool then cap it and store it, slowly filling the container (or quickly, depending on how much bacon you eat...).

When near full, put the container in the trash. Done and done.

Exactly. When I connect (using Checkpoint, but most other VPN software will do it as well) it changes the resolver configs on my system so that now I'm using the internal company DNS.

If his VPN solution doesn't offer this to him, he needs to get one that does.

Depends what useful is.

If you just want to screw with them, by making them lock on to your AP where they can't do anything, then it doesn't matter what the topology is. It's kind of hard to get them to plug in to your false network jack, though.

Yeah, for a while there our defrag was scheduled to start at 1 AM, and the full virus scan at 1:05 AM.

What admin thought the defrags would be completed within 5 minutes, I'll never know. You could kill the defrag if you had local admin, thankfully, but if you didn't everything would stretch out to two hours of painfully slow processing.

Exactly. You want complaints, you start making the person's PC defrag and patch while they're trying to work.

Of course, nothing sucks quite so bad as being the poor bastard working the nightshift when all that crap kicks off via domain policies, and you can't abort them.

*twitches*

How many football fields worth of solar panels will you let me stick out over the front and back of it? ;)

That also tends to be an easier thing to make happen because it's a bit here and a bit there, rather than a $50,000 price tag to bring every single system in to compliance.

$1,500/mo slips in to the noise; $50K makes itself seen.

I far prefer the Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates.

Facebook presumably does tape backups.

The TOS change just recognized that when you click "delete my account", your data is still on the backup tapes from the previous days. They're not going to load up every single damned tape and edit them just because a person has removed their account. It's technically impossible, and a nightmare from a data reliability standpoint.