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.

VeraCrypt is also a fork of TrueCrypt. By definition, that TC was forkable means it was open source. The owners of the code did not intend for it to be open source, but they made it public source and failed to provide ownership of the original code so it effectively entered the public domain. PD + Source Available makes it open source de facto regardless of intent. Because there is no owner, there is no one to attempt a copyright case. It is not that it is not copyrighted, it is that it is uselessly copyrighted. So the source is available and you can use it as you wish, all the factors to make it open source.

That it is anything but open is purely semantics at this point and even the semantics are questionable as to whether or not they would call it open or not. And the fact that it has been forked multiple times supports that it is fully open now.

@PSX_Defector said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

Around here they are near Virginia Tech and offer very low paying jobs so some of the poor support is expected.

They famously pay way, way under market in San Antonio. Pretty much anyone good working there can move on almost instantly making for high churn and the top 50% of the company attritioning out year over year.

Guess I should be glad they didn't call me back when I was shitcanned from the big red V. They were opening up a datacenter in Grapevine and were looking for Windows support goons.

Although it's kind of nice getting poached by another provider in the industry. 🙂

They have a reputation for paying half of standard industry rates wherever they are. I don't think you'd have been interested at all.

Yeah, I saw that. That's awesome! I'm hoping that's a sign they're getting bigger clients. I talked to @CraigElliott recently and they had something like 10TB or so of network traffic in one month on the Pertino networks...pretty awesome!

@thecreativeone91 said:

We have a couple of standalone servers that aren't part of the virtual infrastructure That's iDrac's where never connected. They have a black cover over that NIC, but the NIC is still there. I can also access the iDRAC settings from the front panel, does this mean the techs forgot to plug it in or is the black cover there because we didn't pay for the iDrac on these? I don't remember if they come that way new or not. I'm thinking it may be trying to idiot proof them from people thinking it's normal nics.

If the machine did not ship with the iDrac Enterprise (a separate card), then typically that means it is iDRAC Express shared on the NIC1. The server cases are standard and have the spot for the Enterprise card, they just put the cover on it to close the hole. There is nothing behind the cover.

@Danp said:

Ran across the following the other day on this page:

Free Upgrade
Limited Time Offer: As part of our continued commitment to making backup easier, we are unifying our software products. As a first step in this process, now Unitrends Virtual Backup users can get a free upgrade to Unitrends Enterprise Backup. Future versions of Unitrends data protection software will combine the enterprise-class engine in Unitrends Enterprise Backup and an enhanced version of the user interface of Unitrends Virtual Backup v8.

I assume this will eventually be available in the "free" version. Anyone know for sure? @KatieUnitrends

Unitrends Virtual Backup(UVB), Unitrends Enterprise Backup (UEB) and UnitrendsFree are three different products. The offer you mention above is for paid users of UVB only. Also, as has been stated a few times in this thread, UnitrendsFree is only licensed to protect VMware & Hyper-V clients. Please let me know what questions you may have.

@creayt said:

Ok, so no way to do it other than w/ a shitty on-laptop-motherboard fake RAID. Sad/check.

Correct.

@creayt said:

specious said:

The entire point of the Mac Platform is to allow you to be more creative because hardware issues are minimized because of standardization and the removal of low end hardware. There is no cheap underperforming barely have enough specs to survive systems that I have to work around.

This is specious at best. Though the MacBook Pro has legit hardware it's the software, OS X, that glitters almost every single action you can take on the laptop w/ latency and sporadic slow. The HiDPI approach is nice, and makes half of everything very beautiful, but OS X and or the graphics drivers just cannot keep up with an expert computer user, unless they tend to interact w/ a computer slowly enough that the rampant latency doesn't frustrate them. I personally just cannot write code on a mac, I find myself almost screaming as I watch the OS flounder and try to keep up with my keystrokes and interactions, and have almost thrown a MacBook Pro out a window before because of it, not exaggerating.

Macs have crashed on me and had "hardware related issues" so, so, so much more than Windows machines that it makes me snicker when people make claims like this.

Agreed. They used to be target at creative professionals now the are consumer. I do have a work macbook air but I simply use it because it's lightweight and it was bought for someone who didn't like it. Even with as big as our accounts are apple is just about the only one who will not let us return anything.