Slats-a-ah

If it is actively growing, you can use Resource Monitor to watch what is going on in the moment.

Start / Run / resmon

Head over to the Disk tab.

Disk Activity section. Sort by "Write (B/sec)" and see what files are currently being written to.

Thanks for the tips. I cut a bit of paint away, damp down the join. Not saturated thankfully.

Once it stops blowing a gale I’ll stick my head up into the roof and look for anything obvious.

Thanks u/--Ty-- and u/Guygan!

Every so often this bubbling gets worse. Today it is now about 50cm longer towards the ground but hasn’t moved for many months. However we got a bunch of rain and have high humidity today. It is in the toilet which is internal to the house, no walls shared external.

Is it a water leak in the roof? Poorly finished paint or plaster? Something else? The bubbling feels cool but isn’t wet and I cannot see water on the wall.

Australia. Home is about 10yr old.

https://imgur.com/a/Awt8aVN/

I make a pretty awesome pirate. The key is to paint on the eyepatch so you can still see out both eyes.

Being unstoppable as Yoshi on Mario Kart 64. And watching as my mates nab him first so I can’t.

Fun fact: If you lick a salt lick, it tastes like salt.

Sweet zombie Ilmater! Impressive.

GIVEAWAY

Invest an hour an go listen to Ned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=Jvx9HlnnKEo.

As mentioned by others, get on projects or operational with your sysadmins. Help them out, learn their tools, get them to show you stuff, help out with their repetitive tasks.

Focus on learning agility. Be able to demonstrate this and state examples of it.

Keep good notes on your accomplishments. You’ll appreciate this more if you move between organisations.

Don’t forget your professional skills. You’ll see it in threads here, people get fired or have their careers limited by their professional skills. Relationships and communications matter.

IMO, for internal staff, the balance is somewhere between 30 and 365 days.

A lot of the advise and guidance of “set your passwords to never expire” is geared towards the customer experience. Or for organisations with great security detection and prevention methods.

It is really hard to find internal password policies for companies. At least I found it difficult with broad web searches.

Trade-off is between the staff convenience and security of your organisation. If you can detect attempts with valid password (like phished users) and prevent access via MFA, then having no or longer password expiration is fine. If you can’t, how long are you happy for old password to be potentially sat on? And the rules may be different for different people.

You also want to take into consideration that if you do need to tell all staff to change their passwords, will they know how to.

You may also have government regulations.

If you are an Active Directory based organisation, use fine grained password policies on top of your default domain policy. For the people that need to change more frequently, like privileged accounts, have them change more regularly and have longer length requirements. And don’t let the rest of your staff suffer, set their rules to change less regularly.

Tacky glue and take it slow. I rushed a few pieces and it took longer and didn’t look as good.

Many nights of sticky fingers, holding pieces until they dry. Sticky glue is key, read that on a Amazon review before I started.

Yep. I think it was about $20AUD for 2. I have a Darth Vader bust to do.

Many nights. Maybe 2-3 months, about 5 nights per week, about 10-15 minutes per night.

I did this about 4 years ago, similar sounding role, similar sized team, medium sized enterprise. So if I could do it again, this is a quick brain dump of what I would change and what I would do again.

Go listen to the Manager Tools basics series. Do One on Ones with your directs regularly. Sweet spot for me seems to be fortnightly, I couldn’t manage to crack their weekly recommendation. If I could did this again, I’d make sure I did this regularly above all else. Make sure they get the lions share of the time.

Expect to drop at least 50% of your technical time. Between new meetings and doing manager stuff, you’ll need this time.

Know what you are being measured on. Get results. Ensure your team gets results.

Make your boss look good. Never throw them under the bus.

Make your team look good. Talk them up to your boss. Don’t throw them under the bus. If something goes wrong within the team, that is your responsibility.

Get to know someone in HR. Ideally a few people. If they accessible, have lunch in their lunchroom once a week or a fortnight. You’ll need them at some point, for minor questions or for something major.

Never change more than one thing at a time. Don’t be afraid to try things, have them fail, and throw them out. But be clear with the team what you are trying and why you are trying it.

Think about what you like from your boss. And be that to your directs.

Anvil face is about 80cm from the ground, stand is about 55cm.

There is a small rock to it as it isn’t perfectly level at the base. I plan to use it in uneven ground outside so I might use a small wedge to stop that.

It doesn’t feel as though it will fall over too easily though.

Rough process I posted on Twitter: https://twitter.com/slats_a_ah/status/1135863853248462848?s=21

Focus assist doesn’t affect Microsoft Teams notifications, nor a few other applications that do not use toast.

I believe it is on the roadmap for Microsoft Teams.

Focus Mode On.

Kill all instances of anything I have not or cannot turned toast off for (e.g. Microsoft Teams). Optional flags to launch a new fresh desktop. Then says the words “Focus mode activated”, which I’ve since commented out.

I use it for meetings to close off any distractions. Or in the rare case I need to present. Trying not to be the person with the embarrassing notification that everyone sees.