I have a wireless video adapter I use as well to get movies to the living room TV now that we've removed satellite service from it, and the Wii is...

+1 to Scott's advice.

Interesting split of things. I definitely prefer my desktop, with 3 big screens, full keyboard.

However, on the road, I do like small, light laptops. I feel compromised when I need...

Your Unix server needs Samba/SMB access to get to the Windows file system.

Better than my Zoom. Just a cat jumping on the desk

We have some calls like that. I often join a US sales happy hour Thur afternoon and we have a random assignment call Fri am for the UK.

However, these aren't...

I'm still not sure I know this. I need to practice a bit more and write a few more questions to test myself.

We're finding that as well. I'm hoping we try something to help random conversations. We've talked about leaving a meeting open for people to randomly join.

It is

Could this be concurrency somehow? A SELECT should have an implicit transaction during which it runs, so I'm not sure why this changes things.

AFAIK, xp_fixeddrives hasn't been supported for some time. Other XPs are.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/system-stored-procedures/general-extended-stored-procedures-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver15

dm_os_volume_stats is what I'd use.

I loved cycling for one job, about 10 miles and mostly separated from traffic. Only a couple scary spots. Before that I had a 12mi cycle, but it was on...

For good auditing, the service account should have a file location that only allows write access for this account. read should be from another account, usually the auditors/security staff.

Daylight is nice. I know that I enjoyed having my blinds open in the winter. Now, it's too hot with a South facing window and the office is dark most...

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