If you know Java already and know no other language, I could see Java being a semi-acceptable choice. But Java truly is not a client side programming language. It's so bad for making things that don't run on a server. It requires so much maintenance and management.

@Dominica said:

I feel like MangoCon would attract some pretty confused people, wondering where the sessions on mango growing and harvesting are.

Or looking for this guy...

mango.jpg

@Carnival-Boy said:

and as an evil dictator I want to force their behaviour.

+1!!

Sweet. Thanks. I'll check the logs later. For some reason the apply config failed in the GUI when doing that. So I had to run 'amportal ar' in the terminal.

I've got the servers racked up in my lab at home. I'll do some troubleshooting today (hopefully) or Sunday. I'll update you guys as soon as i've got something. the USB sticks are brand new kingston tiny lil dudes. I usually use the internal USB port.

Not sure if it will qualify since the 'tool' is a website generated installer.

http://www.ninite.com

Click to create an installer/updater that skips all the <next> and toolbar and extra stuff on programs.

@g.jacobse said:

What view are you using? didn't know there was more than what I was seeing...

I almost exclusively use the unread or recent view.

@IRJ said:

freak incident

I like this phrase. I will begin using it.

@garak0410 said:

@Dashrender said:

@garak0410 said:

@IRJ said:

Upgrade your motherboard firmware if possible.

Which may be an issue of having a "cheap" tablet...not much support...I did boot off of the USB recovery drive to see if it would start a recovery...it did but touch screen wasn't responding...go figure...

is there only the one USB port on it? I wonder if you can use a USB hub so you can boot from a stick, and still have a USB keyboard/mouse

One Full USB, one MicroUSB and I have a Micro to FULL USB adapter I can try a hub on for seeing if a install works...just wondering about the touchscreen drivers if I go to 10...I guess I COULD do an UPGRADE to 10 but rarely like upgrades...I like clean installs..

Give it a shot. You haven't had the tablet too long so you can't have too much data on it. Worse case scenario its back to Windows 8.1

@Carnival-Boy said:

@JaredBusch said:

You always mix too much big business/enterprise concepts into the SMB space. No matter how "things should be," things are much different between the two.

Agree with this. It's a bit like you wouldn't expect the violinist in an orchestra to have any input on the trombonist, but a bass player in a rock band could have input on the drummer.

I'm not talking about having input, I'm talking about playing the trombone on his behalf while he watches. Did the CFO have any financial input? It appears that @NetworkNerd was asked to over see all of the financial portions. Maybe I am misreading it, but that is what it sounded like. That the finance department turned over all aspects of finance, even those parts that IT can not know (like the need for capex versus opex) to the IT department.

That is nothing like "getting input" from a concerned department.

@JaredBusch said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

How come they don't fail over the VMs to another server, then update the original server move them back and so on as to make it an update with no down time?

Cloud is not high availability. That's a very common misconception. Cloud is beneath the HA layer. Anyone who had HA stayed up and running, of course, but cloud itself is not HA.

They easily could have chosen to do so, but the workload would not offset the cost I am sure.

Not really, because you can only do so much HA at that layer. Not every workload can be made HA in that way. But more importantly, HA is always an option and most importantly, HA is something you do, not something that you buy. But anyone who had an outage, like us, chose to not pay for HA because it is cheaper to have blips than to have the cost of HA.

It's really the end users who opted out of HA.

@Minion-Queen said:

WHO WHO WHO!! Inquiring minds want to know

Meet this guy: http://community.spiceworks.com/people/davesampson.

The Chromebook market has done an excellent job of making really nice, attractive, low cost laptops. Why no one else is making stuff as nice is anyone's guess. If I was a sub $300 laptop that looks and works great, I have very few options. But if I go to the Chromebook world suddenly I am overspending at that price!

@thecreativeone91 said:

The only real reason I would see for not going with thin provisions would be poor planning and then running out of space. otherwise I don't see a issue or reason not to go with it if it's planned well.

That is a surprisingly common fear that I have heard.

That sucks. You are probably stuck with a commercial solution then.

Those look so cool. I am glad to see that they were able to get the first shipment out the door. Hopefully these really take off.

@scottalanmiller said:

Can you run PowerShell in it?

<insert cranky comment> 😛 lol

@nadnerB said (an hour earlier):

The console programs has, in my case been configured to utilise cmd.exe but **can also be configured to utilise powershell.exe. **

Bad Domain machine accounts, I'm hearing more and more about those lately.

@Dashrender said:

Take a look at the app Forum Runner - it's designed for something exactly like this - heck perhaps forum runner can plug into nobebb (is that the right name?)

Correct, NodeBB. The "Node Bulletin Board" built on the Node.js framework.

This is pretty exciting. Those new switches look great. Loaded with features. They are not stackable, but they do have 10GigE uplinks in them and they are all PoE!