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Apple's extended repair program for MacBook Pro video issues related to early 2011 to late 2013 laptops was extended for another year last year. This program was extended to December 2016, and probably will cease with the EOL of the late 2011 laptops.

If you have a MacBook Pro that seems to reboot or shutdown unexpectedly, can't load OS X past the initial login page, or attempt to reinstall OS X and it won't even load the installer - you may be having a motherboard failure covered by this program.

Other obvious symptoms are video artifacts and other glitches directly related to the discrete graphics card.

I didn't have specific video card issues so I was hesitant on bringing it to Apple f

I've been takin a VCP 6 what's new class online to qualify for renewing my cert. From the get go the lab was a pain in the ass to use. We had to use Windows and deal with cert issues. VMware support repeatedly blamed our firewall, antivirus, (all the other things you can blame but yourself).

After a few days of back and forth they still didn't admit fault and wore me down to the point I created a generic Win 7 VM and did my class from home.

Yesterday they announced a new version of the online class was available. I have the option of requesting my class be provisioned there and my 45 day timer reset.

I'm waiting for them to respond but I'm looking forward to it.

My first five or six years during and after school I was happy to help but I learned I needed to reset expectations so I could enjoy dinner and a day off from work.

For anyone out there helping out a family or friend today, I raise my drink to you.

A year ago one of the project managers at my company asked about this product to help us "optimize" our Infrastructure. I later found out he was getting calls for the last few months after stopping by a vendor booth at a conference and just looked at the product. So naturally he gave them my number.

I had never paid much attention to them, it always looked like a third party rehash of VCOPs which we already had and we're please with. But I liked this PM and had a few minutes to vet this product.

I arrange a dog and pony show to have them show us the product over go to meeting and invite my coworker from a different office to attend. We review it, nothing amazing and no compelling features

The iPad Pro would have made an excellent external monitor to a MacBook or macMini if Apple had put video input circuits in it. A dual function device, similar to a MacBook's ability to become an thunderbolt hard drive.

How many small screened MacBook users would have appreciated a very portable battery powered low latency monitor?

Yes there are software hacks but the latency in that solution doesn't work in many cases.

I have a late 2011 15" MBP with the high res screen option and a single thunderbolt port.

I'm looking to be able to drive dual 1080P displays from the single TB port. The only option I've seen is a $170 Matrox DualHead2Go box that emulates a single double wide display and splits it between the two physical monitors.

USB adapters suck because this laptop has usb 2.0 and it just isn't fast enough not to lag horribly.

Are there any other options?

We were all hands on deck tonight with our fire fighting gear on and not a damn thing happened. Smooth sailing. We called it at 19:15 CDT and checked out.

Anyone else have any leap second events or non events?

Edit: apparently the internet didn't handle it smoothly. https://twitter.com/DynResearch/status/616059353821487104/photo/1

I'm looking to build a generic ESXi installer for our HP blades so our junior techs can quickly deploy a few hosts as needed. I'd like it to be an iso they can mount in iLO, boot the blade and be prompted to enter a host name, IP info, and off it goes.

I was trying to get a kickstart script working with DHCP - but security had some issues with having a web server open on the subnet our management network is on. I'm avoiding auto deploy and installing to SD cards to help improve patching and upgrade turnarounds.