I suppose since my host has both - I can install and check them out.

Wow, that's surprising for someone like Barracuda to be offline. That's a major blow to their confidence rating.

@technobabble said:

suggested whitelist" for these updates

Yes. Please.

"this category of update won't mess with any critical bits and we guarantee it won't break anything important"

@PSX_Defector Wow...they aren't cheap! But I like what they can do!

Righto, after some research and pondering, I went with a corsair RM-550

Propaganda link:
http://www.corsair.com/en-au/rm-series-rm550-80-plus-gold-certified-power-supply

I ended up finding a better price closer to where I was staying than I was originally going to pay. Yay for me.

This PSU seemed to be a better unit than one of the other PSUs that I looked at. Research indicates that this unit comes out if the Chicony factory and I've heard good things about them.

This is actually a problem in PowerShell too because it has the same 256 limit!! Which I just don't understand why this hasn't been permanently fixed--problem has only been around for a decade or so!

Anyway, to accomplish in PowerShell the best bet is to use Robocopy to just list the directories, then it's child's play to get the lengths > 256 and display. It's the Robocopy that's a pain, luckily:

http://thesurlyadmin.com/2014/08/04/getting-directory-information-fast/

Not exactly on topic, but it has the code for building an array with the data in it. 🙂

@scottalanmiller said:

Charts and graphs are always nice.

Yep, this is basically what I do. Charts and graphs of helpdesk "performance". I think one of the biggest problems SMB IT has is that no one really cares what you do as long as everything is working, and no one is complaining about you.

I would love to go into historical uptime records and show that I have a much higher uptime ratio now with our new infrastructure then I did in the past... but really at that point it would just be stroking my own ego.

@technobabble said:

@IRJ said:

Thanks for the one week notice, Microsoft.

That is really bad. I understand axing something, but giving less than 2 weeks notice is crazy

Ah....but as said in the article: Microsoft will keep existing sites alive for two years, and Office 365 customers “will have the option to subscribe to third-party solutions by using links from Office 365.”

I read the article but totally missed that paragraph for some reason....

Home Gaming Computer:

Core i7 2.9Ghz 12 GB of RAM Dual AMD 6950's (flashed with 6970 firmware) 2TB Hard Drive 1TB Hard Drive 500GB Hard Drive Runs Windows 8.1

Home Server

Phenom II Black Edition 3.0 Ghz 16GB of RAM 4x 2TB Drive in RAID 10 (Software raid... really want to get a controller Runs Xenserver

Laptop

6 year old Acer something Nvidia dedicated gpu Core 2 Quad Processor Runs Linux Mint

Media Center:

Chromecast PS3 Xbox 360

Phone

Samsung Galaxy Note II

Other

Nook Color (flashed with Android) Surface RT (PDF/Comic reading device) Droid X2 that I use as an MP3 player

PostgreSQL scales better. It is more performant for large, relational lookups and has better scaling options. MySQL is fast for light, non-relational lookups but that means that it is often eclipsed by even faster, even lighter NoSQL options. PostgreSQL has replaced MySQL for nearly all new web architecture development that doesn't work well with NoSQL.

Looks like the issue is with NTP dæmons, not with NTP clients. So in the SMB, very few people would be impacted. Running internal NTP is uncommon until you are relatively large.

@scottalanmiller said:

@IRJ said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Why do you have to rebuild things?

I could migrate the site over, but it may take just as long if not longer. I had 22 items in the entire store inventory and now I am down to 9 items

Oh okay, so you don't have to. Yes, migrating systems always takes a bit because there is a database to move.

Correct.

If I had a huge store with lots of inventory, then I would have to migrate.

When beta tests of the business product are available let us know, we are happy to test them.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

To me this is like the US terror level. Call everything insecure and suddenly nothing is.

I don't follow.

In the US they started these new "terror threat levels" after 9/11. But the lowest was "orange". Green was supposed to be the baseline but they never used it. It took weeks before the US adjusted to see orange as the new green. Instead of putting the country on alert, all we did was make it impossible to actually have thread levels. Once you make "everyday" an alert, it's not an alert anymore and just noise.

^that's a better version of what I was trying to say. @Dashrender
I had a case of the dumbs that day

@JaredBusch said:

I have always wondered, but never bothered to even check their website, if they chose the name Yubi because it means finger in Japanese. For example "ring" in Japanese is yubiwa.

lol, Give your server the finger
,!,, 😡 ,,!,

If you think drive issues could be at fault, try Spinrite.

I heard about this. Pretty interesting...

Don't worry too much. Lync sucks BUT Microsoft is addressing the situation by migrating people over to Skype and merging the two products.