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r/guns•

Hey good folks of r/guns!

I've got a late model Remington 870 Express. It's primarily a home defense gun. I take it out to my range and have fun with clays and slugs on steel targets at 100m, but I have no interest in fully optimizing this gun for that purpose. I put a Mesa Tactical LEO adapter on it and am in love with this configuration. Unfortunately, as we all know, Remington is building these things to fit a price point and that results in some quality issues. The main one being how easily the barrel and receiver rust. I want to address the rust issue and there are also some upgrades I'd like to do as well. I was hoping you all might have some advice on the most cost efficient way

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r/sysadmin•

Can anyone help me better understand why Macs commonly show up with the FQDN's of other machines in our organization? Example Scenario Below.

I used to think it was a problem with the way IP address leases we conveyed, but Macs will also steal FQDNs from other subnets, so I guess it isn't that simple.

I'm still fuzzy on all the intricate details of DNS and how respective platforms deal with it. Any direction or advice is much appreciated!


Example Scenario:

  • Apple OS X 10.5.8 bound to AD (2003)
  • I'm manually installing Kaseya agents on a cart of laptops.

The first one installs and shows up in Kaseya's agent list with the correct name. e.g. BHS-C11-01. BHS-C11-01 is the n

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r/guns•

Hey Folks,

I was on the phone with a guy from Sig, about a problem with my SP2022. I was explaining the problem and the Sig guy made a point to correct my usage of the term "slide release" with "slide catch". According to him, the difference is that you're not supposed to manually actuate the release lever of gun with a "slide catch", instead you are supposed to pull the slide back a bit to release the slide catch and let the slide rack forward at full speed. I asked him in a much less confrontational manner, ~"So, are you telling me I shouldn't be releasing the slide with the lever which was specifically designed to be actuated with my right thumb?" and he seemed to kind of snub the questi

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r/sysadmin•

It's me again, bitching and moaning...

OK, about three years ago I was working as the first tier support for my organization. I had to manually collect the inventory of all devices in my buildings. I got it done, PITA of course, but no big deal.

Fast forward three years. I was promoted to the tier 2 position, but essentially demoted back to tier 1 after a reorganization and the writing of job titles. All the original data that I painstakingly collected was orphaned and, obviously, had inconsistencies when compared to the inventory collected by the rest of my co-workers from their buildings, making the data we collected effectively useless for any kind of real reporting/accounting.

This is

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r/guns•

Hey Folks,

I'm trying to purchase a paddle holster for my Sig SP2022. After looking for one for quite some time, a friendly customer service guy at Sig told me that Blackhawk makes ones that fit the latest SP2022 with the true Piccadilly rail.

My question is, are both of these legitimate websites? The blackhawk.reactgear.com seems to be almost exactly the same store with a different interface. It almost seems like a phishing scam, but the blackhawk.reactgear.com store also has the holster for $10 less, so I'd like to know for sure.

Has anyone placed orders with blackhawk.reactgear.com?

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r/sysadmin•

I'm supporting a fleet of 400 Latitude 2120s in an educational environment. These systems have the typical Dell touchpad as well as a touchscreen.

Many of my users are reporting trouble with the input devices registering phantom clicks and cursor locations as well as an unresponsive touchpad, system freezes (synapteh.exe). These systems were imaged by Dell with an image that was created here at our organization, but done in an expedited (read: rushed) process.

Dell's website has newer drivers for both the Synaptic touchpad as well as the Ideacom touchscreen. The funny thing is, the installer for the Ideacom touchpad driver is configured to error/quit if not WinXP or Vista -- it won't manua

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r/sysadmin•

Due to some unfortunate organization changes, I've lost all control and oversight of the image which is put on the systems I admin.

Does anyone have some clever ideas on how I can set the homepage on these three different browsers on my machines? A one time application of this setting would suffice, though a continual enforcement would be preferred.

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r/sysadmin•

I work at an organization which allows and, at times, even encourages people to use their computers as personal machines. This means gigabytes of personal data (pictures, videos, music, ect...) on each staff member's laptop.

I've been tasked with upgrading these staff members to a newly created Win7 image.

My input to the higher-ups has been to advocate that each staff member be made responsible for their own personal data. This way reimaging becomes a trivial matter instead of marathon sessions of hand-holding.

Is there any good software that I can suggest which will backup these people's data for their personal purposes? i.e. not to any standardized and supported backup repository or

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r/vmware•

Hi r/vmware!

I'm trying to put together an ESXi host for testing and projects at home. Until this point, my only experience with virtualization has been with the Hyper-V role installed on Win2008R2.

I'm currently running an uber-cheap box:

  • Athlon x3 425 (2.7ghz)
  • Foxconn AMD 790GX
  • 4GB (2x2gb) 1333mhz DDR3
  • Dynex PCI NIC (10/100/1000)
  • Onboard RAID 10 (Salvaged 500GB 7200rpm SATAx4, 1TB RAID 10)

It didn't take long for me to realize that ESXi is very picky about what hardware you put it on. ESXi is not going to install with the integrated or PCI NIC and I'm sure it's not going to use the onboard RAID 10 either. The processor should work even though it's not server grade, it does

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