I'll definitely share! ))

And yes, backup and high availability discussions are actually real world cases where understanding calculus is practical for envisioning how these factors interact.

I hope they bring back the, "Dude You're getting a Dell" campaign.

thanks!

@scottalanmiller said in What inventory systems are being used now:

LANSweeper looks very promising!!

Yeah. been a user for 3 years now.

Really great product, rock solid, very light on performance hogging, fast data capture and accurate error messages if it can't get the data, it's also incredibly cheap compared with other options out there.

@JaredBusch said in Which IT Collaboration / Meeting Tool do you use?:

@scottalanmiller said in Which IT Collaboration / Meeting Tool do you use?:

@Dashrender said in Which IT Collaboration / Meeting Tool do you use?:

Could a FreePBX state be setup with all of features requested? I'm guessing a third party client software would be needed.

Of course we have Telegram and Rocket.chat, but those are chat only clients, I think... So missing the rest.

That's why Elastix insists on having OpenFire built in. You can do a lot of that stuff with the combination.

FreePBX offers a XMPP module. Have not used it for the same reason I have not used OpenFire in Elastix. No one in my current customer base wants an in house only chat platform.

Yeah this is the problem, internal only chat is damned near useless.

@wirestyle22 said in Azure Outage... Again:

@scottalanmiller said in Azure Outage... Again:

The loss of knowledge of concrete was such a big deal that until the mid 1700s, we had gone over a thousand years without any idea of how concrete was made. So Rome was making concrete builds for hundreds of years longer than we've known about concrete in modern times.

That means that for well over a millennium... humans had to look upon the structures of the Roman Empire and say... that's so neat, what the heck is that material that they used?

It's interesting what history lost. Archimedes made steam engines 2000 years before we figured it out as well but it was useless at the time because slave labor was so cheap.

The only reason why some empires f.e. Russia did exist so long (and keeps existing BTW).

I've been having issues with Chrome resolving pages lately...not sure why...but it's been across multiple computers and multiple platforms...which makes me sad because I REALLY like Chrome...

As far as engineering versus IT... that is a decision that can only be made by you. They are two different fields. Both are fine fields. But only you know which one is going to make you happy. And that's what is most important.

@olivier said in XenCenter - Better Performance Graphs:

We'll have indeed more sources coming (and better graphs) in the 5.x branch. There is a lot of sources available, so again, the thing will be to display main graph and allow extra stuff if needed.

Awesome, be sure to share screenshots when it is ready!

@olivier said in XenServer Export Performance Seems Poor:

You can create a basic backup schedule and de-activate the compression, then run the job manually. You'll have an export without compression.

When I was running my test, it seemed the exporting directly from XC was quicker than running a one time backup from XO of the same VM to the same location. The export of a small VM (I set it up just for testing this) was about 6 minutes, and the backup was 13.

But it sounds like what you are saying is that it should have been the opposite.

@larsen161 Agreed. You might also want to configure S3 to move the data to Glacier after xx number of days and automate the procedure. Not sure if you need access to the data after it's been backed up, but adding replication to another AZ might be worth looking into as well.

@BRRABill said in Office365 DirSync on new domain controller:

@lance

At least you know you got a competent answer. 😉

I have not used DirSync anywhere yet. Sorry.

I'm about 3 seconds away from moving back to paper with this array, so it might not even matter.

@tonyshowoff said in Rocket Chat vs. Jabber:

@johnhooks said in Rocket Chat vs. Jabber:

So I attempted the install last night. There aren't any rpm packages, so I downloaded the source from GitHub and ran their like 4 installers. The web interface came up with the logo but nothing else in it. I tried getting the agent installed on the server, but that failed. I changed the giant amount of data in the configs they wanted changed, and ran everything from their Readme, but still got errors when I tried to start the agent. I just gave up. I'll stick with Virt-Manager and virsh.

Setting it up definitely is not easy to do, that's the most major problem for now I think. I hope once they reach whatever goals they're trying to shoot for, they focus on making it easy to setup.

Ya if I actually needed it or cared, I would have stuck it through. It's on my server at home, so I just didn't feel like putting in the effort. Maybe that's lazy lol.

@scottalanmiller said in Email Error Logging on Spiceworks:

@dafyre said in Email Error Logging on Spiceworks:

@scottalanmiller said in Email Error Logging on Spiceworks:

Trying to get access to do that. I'm not the admin on the box.

In the mean time you could simply set the HELO domain and be done, maybe?

Boom, you get the BA on this one!!

I cheated and read the link, ha ha.

You know what I just realized...the Task Scheduler gives you the "Next Run Time". I should've just looked at that...

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D'oh!

I might just buy a 960GB SSD.... it's under $200... and return this unit.