Situation: We recently had a consultant company build new Lync 2013 Servers in a mirror setup.  There are two security principles set, SA (disabled), and a AD group that is only associated with the Public server role.     Setup:   - 6 x Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard 64-bit   - 4 x SQL Server 2012 Standard w/SP1 64-bit (11.0.3128) -   - 2 x SQL Server Express 2012 64-bit(Witness)   - All servers are VMware VMs   Questions:  - Is there a Jedi trick to gain SysAdmin access or will I have to contact our consultant?  - How does this happen?  I thought there was some sort of failsafe to    keep this from happening.
I lost the sa password on a machine, and when I log in to the machine directly using an account in the admin group, SQL Server Management Studio will not allow me to log in using Windows authentication.  My plan was to simply log into the server, connect via Windows Authentication, and reset sa to use a new password. Since I cant' connect via Windows Authentication, this won't work.  How else can I reset the sa password?
Possible bug in sidebar "question asked:" date I asked  yesterday, approximately 18 hours ago ("2011-12-13 20:24:03Z" according to the hover text), and it's still being displayed as "today".  I assume the "Z" in the timestamp refers to Zulu time, so I , and the date (2011-12-14) differs from the timestamp on the question.  I don't pretend to understand all of the complexities when converting time zones, but I thought it was strange enough to report. If it matters at all, I'm in US-Eastern. What to do with random effects correlation that equals 1 or -1? Not so uncommon occurrence when dealing with complex maximal mixed models (estimating all possible random effects for given data and model) is perfect (+1 or -1) or nearly perfect correlation among some random effects. For the purpose of the discussion, let's observe the following model and model summary   Model: Y ~ X*Cond + (X*Cond|subj)  # Y = logit variable   # X = continuous variable   # Condition = values A and B, dummy coded; the design is repeated  #             so all participants go through both Conditions   # subject = random effects for different subjects    Random effects:  Groups  Name             Variance Std.Dev. Corr               subject (Intercept)      0.85052  0.9222                              X                0.08427  0.2903   -1.00                      CondB            0.54367  0.7373   -0.37  0.37                X:CondB          0.14812  0.3849    0.26 -0.26 -0.56 Number of obs: 39401, groups:  subject, 219  Fixed effects:                  Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(&gt;|z|)     (Intercept)       2.49686    0.06909   36.14  &lt; 2e-16 *** X                -1.03854    0.03812  -27.24  &lt; 2e-16 *** CondB            -0.19707    0.06382   -3.09  0.00202 **  X:CondB           0.22809    0.05356    4.26 2.06e-05 ***   The supposed reason behind these perfect correlations is that we have created a model which is too complex for the data that we have. The common advice that is given in these situations is (e.g., Matuschek et al., 2017; ) to fix the overparameterized coefficients to 0, because such degenerate models tend to lower the power. If we observe a marked change in fixed effects in a reduced model, we should accept that one; if there is no change, then there is no problem in accepting the original one.  However, let's presume that we are not interested only in fixed effects controlled for RE (random effects), but also in the RE structure. In the given case, it would be theoretically sound to assume that Intercept and the slope X have non-zero negative correlation. Several questions follow:   What to do in such situations? Should we report the perfect correlation and say that our data is not "good enough" to estimate the "real" correlation? Or should we report the 0 correlation model? Or should we maybe try to set some other correlation to 0 in hope that the "important" one will not be perfect anymore? I don't think there are any 100% correct answers here, I would mostly like to hear your opinions. How to write the code which fixes the correlation of 2 specific random effects to 0, without influencing the correlations between other parameters? Do I need a transit visa to collect and re-check my luggage at Istanbul Ataturk airport? I'm Egyptian and flying to Cairo from Tbilisi, via Istanbul. The first flight Tbilisi-Istanbul is on Atlasjet, then from Istanbul to Cairo I am flying on Egyptair. 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My question is : is there any best practice in how to code a java servlet to stream a large (>200k) response back to a browser when read from a database or other cloud storage?  I've considered writing the file to a local temp drive and then spawning another thread to handle the streaming so that the tomcat servlet thread can be re-used. This seems like it would be io heavy.  Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks. What is the proper way to change the DNS IP? How can I install a Canon printer or scanner driver? I tried to install the MP190 drivers, but appeared a message show me that requires to have libcupsys2. I understand that libcup2 is an update of libcupsys2.   How do I solve this? Are there proprietary drivers for my Canon printer or scanner? when calling SCP in PuTTY on my Win7 box, it doesn't let me use C:/, but I also have no idea where on my local machine it will look for files by default. None of program directory or user directory worked. 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