What Are You Doing Right Now
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@StuartJordan said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 I can understand your frustration, I've had this on various occasions, one comes to mind was a company had Adobe licence subscription and installed demos because they couldn't remember which email account out of 20 they registered them to..... sigh....a simple job becomes a pain in the ass...
It's not just frustration. These are things, that should be resolved within a week at most. If a vendor messes up, and assigns licenses to a wrong account or something. No biggie.
But if months later the issue is still present, and there has been zero progress on getting the issue fixed that means the person who is "handling it" isn't handling it and is likely hiding something.
It also means I can't even jump in to help and remedy the issue.
I could maybe go out, and purchase additional totally separate licensing and have it documented. But at what cost? $1318/cpu and then activate one host and then migrate VMs to that host so that they can be powered on.
But that isn't a fix. That's an attempted coverup. And it needs to be brought to the light.
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And for someone to have the audacity to claim that I should call my coworker while they're on vacation to fix an issue that they've (the coworker) said would be fixed over and over for the same months now by that coworker is adding into trying to coverup a fuck up. And that is unacceptable.
Rather than calling my boss and tell him, hey, there is an issue, to get it fixed from what I can see if going to cost X at a minimum today. Can I get your approval on it?
Which I did just that, called my boss, told him the issue and told him what it would cost. He routed in my coworker to see if the licensing is somewhere, and my coworker started making claims that I'm somehow at fault for not calling him first when this entire issue is because I; 1) don't have access to see the license that was supposedly purchased 2) he never got the vendor to square aware the supposed misassignment of the licenses like it should've happened months ago!
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@DustinB3403 time to call the boss back and ask if they can find these licenses. Keep the boss in the loop at each stage of "now he says it is here... it is not" and "now he's sending me here, it isn't there either."
If at the end of the day he comes up with a license, he will leverage that. But if the boss witnessed the non-stop hiding as it happens, it'll be different. Just make sure the boss thinks you are updating him, don't let the frustration come through.
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I could see going ahead and using a trial license to get by for a week or two while the vendor corrects the "licensing assignment" fuck-up.
But not to continually "re-up" on a trial license when licenses have been purchased for now for MONTHS!
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If this webinar will help me understand better, then I'll sign up for it. My curiosity has the better of me when it comes to this stuff. I just have to create the time.
Im' interested but the ad said it was all open source, but the vendor in question seems to have no info about their source or licensing anywhere.
Open source is what piqued my interest
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@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If this webinar will help me understand better, then I'll sign up for it. My curiosity has the better of me when it comes to this stuff. I just have to create the time.
Im' interested but the ad said it was all open source, but the vendor in question seems to have no info about their source or licensing anywhere.
Open source is what piqued my interest
Yeah, could be really cool. But they don't make it seem like it is open source when you go to the site at all.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If this webinar will help me understand better, then I'll sign up for it. My curiosity has the better of me when it comes to this stuff. I just have to create the time.
Im' interested but the ad said it was all open source, but the vendor in question seems to have no info about their source or licensing anywhere.
Open source is what piqued my interest
Yeah, could be really cool. But they don't make it seem like it is open source when you go to the site at all.
If I remember correctly, our Citrix / Terminial Services solution cost around $25k with hardware, software & setup and we could only handle about 30-35 connections before we tapped out. And that was in the early 2000's.
Open source solutions seem like worth pursuing even with the learning curve on my part. -
@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Open source solutions seem like worth pursuing even with the learning curve on my part.
If they exist
The seminar, I think, seems to be trying to sell a non-open product on top of open source. From what I can tell, there is no open source in the "VDI solution" portion. If there is, they totally hide it. Go look at the web site, there is no way to get the source whatsoever and zero mention of a license.
Terminal services is different from VDI and you can do that today for free with open source. And you can do VDI with open source - just install any desktop VM on KVM or Xen and ta da... full stack open source VDI. That's literally all it takes.
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Family went to the zoo. I'm at home with my eldest just hanging out.
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At the grandparents house with my little one.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Open source solutions seem like worth pursuing even with the learning curve on my part.
If they exist
The seminar, I think, seems to be trying to sell a non-open product on top of open source. From what I can tell, there is no open source in the "VDI solution" portion. If there is, they totally hide it. Go look at the web site, there is no way to get the source whatsoever and zero mention of a license.
Terminal services is different from VDI and you can do that today for free with open source. And you can do VDI with open source - just install any desktop VM on KVM or Xen and ta da... full stack open source VDI. That's literally all it takes.
If you mean RDP or VNC or SSH or Telnet, then yes, I have that. More, I don't know what I'm doing but I am willing to learn.
Will you send me someplace special?
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Just installed another SSD into my main home pc.
Going to install Deepin on this. -
@StuartJordan said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just installed another SSD into my main home pc.
Going to install Deepin on this.Deepin is pretty impressive.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
At the grandparents house with my little one.
At awesome change of pace
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@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
At the grandparents house with my little one.
At awesome change of pace
Still have to deal with stupid at work.
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Coffee #2
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Doing some Scale HC3 media maintenance, making some templates, updating some VDI stuff.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Coffee #2
You gotta catch up, I had my 3rd by 8 am
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Coffee #2
You gotta catch up, I had my 3rd by 8 am
Well, I got to bed at 5:30AM your time so...
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Coffee #2
You gotta catch up, I had my 3rd by 8 am
Well, I got to bed at 5:30AM your time so...
So you were up all night drinking!
