The way you worded your question it's almost as if you think that if you have your own company you won't have regular pay. As @JaredBusch said if you form a company and write yourself a paycheck every week, you do have regular pay.

Once you have a certain number of customers, you actually have more job security than with a single employer. If you lose one customer, you may lose 10% of your salary, but not everything.

@JaredBusch said in Site Issues Tonight:

I got this from CF just now.
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and direct.mangolassi.it took 15-20 seconds to load.

Pretty sure that is what I got and may be the referenced person @scottalanmiller mentioned.

But as I was having some other issues, I killed Chrome; CCleanered my system the ran a regedit.

@RamblingBiped said in SIP Phone registers no audio...:

Here is the guide I followed to get the Yealink T23G to work with OpenVPN: http://www.sunstatetechnology.com/docs/YealinkOpenVPNGuide.pdf

When I disable NAT on the extension the phone is unable to register.

Something is wrong there, that sounds like the VPN is not working as there is no NAT when there is a VPN.

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@scottalanmiller said in How Are You Measured?:

There is only one useful way to measure IT.... Its impact to the way that the CEO is measured. Anything else like SLA, uptime, tickets, etc is misleading, actively undermines the organization and leads to gamification.

RIOC, Average Revenue per customer/whatever the metric of your industry is, IT should be serving improving that metric.

@stacksofplates said in Replication cable:

Finally took some time and Gluster is running on both nodes. I get local speed and network replication :).

Nice

@stacksofplates said in OWA is vulnerable to Phishing:

@scottalanmiller said in OWA is vulnerable to Phishing:

@aidan_walsh said in OWA is vulnerable to Phishing:

@Breffni-Potter said in OWA is vulnerable to Phishing:

Ummm....as an attacker, why can't I just have a next page fake confirmation which forgets the profile photo (easy to overlook in a hurry) and get the password for google anyway?

Same again for the banking website.

Thats exactly what happens. You'd be surprised at what passes for phishing attacks, and how many people fall for them. I've seen ones that have asked people "for security purpose" to enter all 50 4-digit code card entries, something a bank would obviously never do.

And yet...

Partially that's because real banks have done that traditionally.

Like AMEX. I needed a password reset and they asked all of the info on my card, other than my name and expiration.

Yeah, it definitely still happens. And I've had huge security gaps that I've told a bank was not secure and they didn't care. I said... I literally have no means to tell if you are really my bank or not and they are just like "so, we don't care."

CSS an JS highlighting won't do it as the issue isn't markup but getting mangled by the editor.

external adapter

@aaronstuder said in Surface Pro 4 - Login Issue:

@scottalanmiller The surface is 2 hours away 😞

All the ones that I need in front of me, I just have them mail it to me. If it's an emergency, they can overnight it. Not explaining stuff over the phone to a non-technical person. If you try to describe to a sales person how to image a computer, forget it. lol

Friday morning not paying attention. Themes were different since I was in my testing account and not my normal account.

Not enough coffee... sigh

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@guyinpv said in Paying to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10:

One week ago (8/25/16) I did an upgrade to Win10 and was able to get it free.

Basically the customer had used the free upgrade tool (you know, the annoying system tray icon thingy) but instead of upgrading he had it create the install media and put it on USB stick.

Well last week I took his USB stick and did a clean install, formatting the drive. Of course it was not activated, and I did not put in a key during install.

Lo and behold, we went to the activation and stuck his Win7 key in there and it accepted it and activated digital entitlement! I was quite surprised.

Two possible reasons:

Microsoft has really not fully shut down the free program. Creating the install media DURING the free period somehow allows it to still activate when used later.

If you happen to have install media created from the upgrade tool, it could be gold!

I wouldn't call it not shutting down the program, it's just not actively blocking it.... Yet. They might, they might not. But any activations now are not officially supported or guaranteed. You are just lucky. But might be lucky forever. But it's at their mercy.

@Richard_Cylance said in Cylance Questions:

FTFY - Sold = Lost. Exec = guru

This reminded me of the following Simpsons clip:
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SLAs vary a lot. But assume if you didn't write it and didn't spend a fortune on an attorney to review it.... That the SLA protects the vendor, not the client. A typical SLA only serves to block customers from dropping a vendor while limiting the vendor's liability. SLAs are what lock customers in to broken services.

@guyinpv i would agree. Nothing to worry about.

@DustinB3403 said in BackBlaze B2 competitors:

@BRRABill said in BackBlaze B2 competitors:

@DustinB3403 said in BackBlaze B2 competitors:

The synology unit that we have apparently has this functionality built in.

I'm like 99.999% sure of it.

Still room for error.

I've confirmed our Synology unit has the capability for this, just wanted to schedule a call with a tech and separate (living breathing) sales person to confirm details.

@aaron do you guys do calls?

What do you want BB to tell you? They can't confirm as much as you already have. Why not just test it? Or if you need a tech you need one from Synology, not BackBlaze.

Hmm. Something I just discovered is that even running "telnet --help" gives me the exact same delay.