@ambarishrh Super jealous of your funding there! If it were my $$$$ I'd get myself a nice Cleo or Sager or other custom setup. You can get just an insane machine for that money. http://www.xoticpc.com/

@g.jacobse said:

While I've not spoke to anyone about it, it seems impractical to have both PSUs plugged into the same UPS, so why not split them and then identify them by color.

Definitely impractical. Not 100% wasted as it does protect against PSU failure, still. But it does not leverage the degree of protection that you should have.

@NetworkNerd said:

We're upgrading from Epicor 9 to 10 and implementing RemoteApp for users at our remote sites at the same time. Woohoo!

That's 5 new servers on Server 2012 (1 SQL 2012, 3 Epicor application servers, and 1 RDS server).

WOOHOO!

Very nice. that's a great tool!!

@scottalanmiller said:

I think very few people deploy Sharepoint in house anymore.

I have entire customer's sites hosted within Sharepoint. Not the usual collaboration stuff, straight up consumer level sites. Like, huge company, 500 sites a host level. We had a lot of other customers use Sharepoint to extend their site's abilities.

For a simple share, yeah, go O365. Extend the functionality to other stuff, you need a local install.

Well in a hosted system you don't have analogue lines so that isn't a factor for us.

Mine is "Hello, you've reached the voicemail of the IT Department, please leave a message and we'll get back to you".

Honestly, if they're so stupid that they need instructions on how to leave a message (like telling them to leave a number), then I really don't want to talk to them. Then again, my voicemail system records the number they're calling from anyway, so it's generally not required.

Not that I ever phone anyone back anyway. I'm an e-mail only kind of guy.

@scottalanmiller said:

Since "down" just meant not working correctly and JavaScript not functioning, I'm not sure that that would be useful.

Probably not in this case but someone else might find it useful in the future.

@Carnival-Boy said:

The way I look at it, HP build PCs in Eastern Europe where they pay staff a pittance (at least they used to, I guess they might be assembled in China now), they have hugely beneficial agreements with Microsoft on the licencing, and massive buying power for all the components and yet they still can't sell them to me and make any money which is why they've been trying to sell their PC business for years. If they were making huge margins I might think I can get some of the action, but they're doing all this for me for pretty much no profit. I'm happy to leave them to it..

That's a great way to look at it. They have huge scale in parts, huge scale for MS licensing agreements and the ability to source everything from locations that cost far less than "in house" IT will cost. And their margins are effectively zero. You can leverage that scale or you can do everything yourself.

If you have internal bench services, pay them minimum wage and keep them busy around the clock.... you still can't match the cost that the big vendors have. If you want the people assembling your computers to have any skill, get paid a reasonable amount (more than a gas station attendant) and to do so in high cost locations (like anywhere in the US or UK) then you can't match the prices or come anywhere close. And heaven forbid that you have any moment where the tasks for the bench are not completely repetitive and predictable or that they are not kept 100% busy. Then it really all falls apart.

@IT-ADMIN said:

in the begining i though that app can be blocked by closing some ports numbers, but it seem that almost all of the apps use either 80 or 443, and if close one of these port it is like i closed everything !!!

Yes, normal businesses block all traffic on all ports and only allow 80 and 443 (web ports) via proxies. So any app that used another port would be assumed to be always broken, even in many homes. You need to proxy all traffic, not just some traffic, and you need a proxy that can terminate SSL for the end users are you are wasting your time because basically every site supports SSL today and if you can't filter SSL the proxy is pointless.

Ok, good to know.

These guys make some interesting looking cases... http://www.aerocool.us/case.htm

Yes, orange is available. I'd post pics but its too hard on my phone. 😉

@NetworkNerd said:

How do they know you are using the one volume license for imaging and not re-using it over and over illegally?

They don't, but as that is generally how it is used, it's not a flag.

Here is a look at KTurtle itself with the IDE and Canvas visible.

kturtl.png

"Tab" and "d" keys are captured too. Argh.

Nice