@Dashrender said:

As part of patient satisfaction I think we should have one. If we put it on it's own internet pipe the cost would be less than $100 a month, but we are moving soon to a new 100/20 pipe from a 10/10 pipe... so we'll have plenty of bandwidth, and with the limitations that creative mentions kinda makes it a non issue.

we have 100/100mb pipes. But if you give a mouse a cookie... that bandwidth can be used up in no time if you let it be.

@technobabble said:

As an one man shop I decided to use my cell as our business phone when I opened shop in 2003. The number is on all of our business info as well as online.

Port your cell number to Google Voice or RingTo. Problem solved.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender you have to have Dynamic Disks to do this in Windows using MS tools.

Sure, but you don't when using third party tools. Again, I haven't done it in 4+ years, so I don't know what Acronis can currently do.

@thecreativeone91 Ditto, and we never replace monitors either. They seem to fail reliably at the 5yr mark in a hot dusty environment so we cycle all the oldest / crap ones through the gym & front desk locations.

@thecreativeone91 said:

... or VGA ports...

Damn it Dell!

For comparison, "cheap" sandisk 256gb SSD in my work laptop:

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I have a client deployment in few days, a 3 tier farm, (2WFE, 2APP, 2SQL- AlwaysON) Waiting for them to share the details to start the installation. Tested on my lab and all seems to be straight forward and hope to have the same smooth setup there as well 🙂

@Ambarishrh said:

Just saw this post https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3806-RYSJ-1102 but on some forums it says this program is not active anymore

Only works for Valve games which is very few.

"what are you doing?"

Siri had a 'simple' response.

@Nic said:

@Dashrender said:

@Nic said:

Well Pied Piper was a Silicon Valley joke, since their fake startup does video compression and streaming. As far as for your purposes, you'll probably just want to use one of the streaming services like Twitch.tv or Youtube (or Periscope is the hot new one that everyone is using). Then your only concern is video equipment and upload bandwidth.

Damn Nic you're really in the know!

I was trying to remember periscope when I read this yesterday. Never used it, but heard it was usable.

Yeah my boss asked me about Periscope last week and then I ended up seeing a lot of celebrities using it for streams. I haven't actually had a chance to play with it at all.

There was a lot of talk about it on Security Now and Windows Weekly a few months ago - mostly around celebs using it - but since I don't care about those narcissistic weirdos I never bothered to check it out...

@technobabble said:

@anonymous well that is extremely inexpensive...thanks for the link!

You bet 😄

@creayt it's your chip bro have at it haha

all I ask is you post your results!

Thanks All for the support and suggestions 😆

That or we jumped the gun and interrupted it while it was doing its thing.

And oddly it just started working internally. I guess it just needed a bit more time. (I applied it before lunch).

I clearly had a problem with my repos file. I deleted it and recreated it using a 'cat' method I found on another site and this time it worked fine.....

I should have just renamed my original file to compare them to see what I did wrong when manually making the file in vi.

Managed to use com0com and get it to work by looping it to COM5. Odd, but it was enough for it to discover it and ignore it. Thanks for the help!

Once you have HyperV you have access to Unitrends and Veeam free backups too.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@g.jacobse said:

can you justify having a 15foot network cable, router/VPN as well?

Why would you need any of that. Make sure your computer's firewall is on. And use known sites with HTTPS and you'd be fine.

I agree. It's not a realistic concern for most activities. I really don't care if people can see me browsing 9gag or whatever that is not SSL and HTTPS is a VPN already, so if a VPN is going to protect you, you already have one.