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  I am going to start an ISP
  isp wisp • • NerdyDad

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  AT&T oversold DSL between 12 and 20 to 1 back in he early 2000’s.

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  SolarWinds is trying way too hard now
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  @nadnerb said in SolarWinds is trying way too hard now:

  @nerdydad said in SolarWinds is trying way too hard now:

  What is so special about September 19th?

  International Talk Like A Pirate Day.

  Boom

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  Recommend options for project management for freelancer
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  @guyinpv sign up for a demo i guess this might be a good fit

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  XByte sale on R510s
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  @reid-cooper said in XByte sale on R510s:

  @grey said in XByte sale on R510s:

  Just ordered an R510 from them with 32g ram, eight 3tb drives and a pair of 2.13ghz processors. This will replace my 2950 (still running!!) with 16g ram, six 1tb drives with a pair of processors that are dreadful.

  Nice little lab system.

  Which one? The 2950 or the R510?

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  lotus notes il problema inatteso
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  @scottalanmiller definitively a bot.

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  Spouses, Furniture and Generic Cereal
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  @scottalanmiller
  Yeah, lower bar to reach :)

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  Rocket.chat
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  @scottalanmiller said in Rocket.chat:

  @jaredbusch said in Rocket.chat:

  @scottalanmiller said in Rocket.chat:

  @dashrender said in Rocket.chat:

  @scottalanmiller said in Rocket.chat:

  @bigbear said in Rocket.chat:

  3.) Can a single install host multiple tenants

  I've not tested this but you normally would put it behind an Nginx proxy which would make that trivial.

  How does this make it multi tenant?

  You can run an instance for each tenant on one system. One database server, one proxy, unlimited tenants.

  That is not multi tenant.

  I didn't call it multi-tenant. I explained how it could be used to answer #3 and Dashrender called that multitenant.

  You specifically replied to a question about multiple tenants. You made no attempt to say your recommendation was not multi tenant.

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  Company Benefits
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  @john-nicholson said in Company Benefits:

  @scottalanmiller said in Company Benefits:

  @dashrender said in Company Benefits:

  @john-nicholson said in Company Benefits:

  They have challenges at large companies because managers don't want to have the hard conversation and cut someone's bonus who didn't perform so they can pay someone who DID perform.

  Eh? That whole pool thing is just crap to me. That company I always relate back to - they have a yearly, I guess I'll call it raise pool. It's like 2-8% of the entire teams salary into a single pool.

  Let's assume 2% was put in the pool. The top earner made $210K/y and the bottom guy made $120K/y. Let's also assume that the top guy just did a stellar job this year, and the boss wants to give him 5%. If he does this, he has to allocate many of the 2% from the $120K/yr guys to cover that one $210 guy, basically cutting the $120K guys completely off (or at least someone on the team is getting nothing or next to nothing). I'm sure someone here thinks this is OK, I don't. I know this isn't about bonuses, this is about annual raises. And even that is a crap thing! Raises should be tied to two separate things - cost of living adjustments (not really a raise, just keeping the status quo) and merit increases (raises).

  Much like forced ranking.

  Forced rankings are dumb, but never having any layoffs means large companies starts to accumulate bozos as better workers will go somewhere that will reward success and managers try to amass huge armies of reports to justify bigger titles. Layoff's force companies to re-evaluate projects and departments and enable them to hire and double down on growth area's.

  I agree. Forced ranking was super terrible in a three person team where two people knew they would be kept and one knew they would be let go. The two would always want to hire someone TO BE FIRED each year to make sure that they were not the one to be let go. Forced ranking forces good people to avoid the company, bad people to cycle through and mediocre people to focus on keeping good people out.

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  Ubiquiti Training
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  Also FREE training books are below:
  https://www.ubnt.com/download/trainings/

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  CEO Fraud Attacks Were Far More Lucrative than Ransomware over the Past 3 Years
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  @bigbear said in CEO Fraud Attacks Were Far More Lucrative than Ransomware over the Past 3 Years:

  You get an email, it says "hey some guy you know is sharing a google doc or whatever, you need to sign in"

  Then you pick on the website whethere you use Office 365, Google Apps, etc

  Next thing you know the doc says cannot be found, so you forget about it. Meanwhile all your information has been compromised and it starts sending out emails to your contacts list.

  With 2FA there is no way to use your login information because the attacker cant get that second stage of info when logging in. From what I have seen those phishing attempts dont even attempt to collect it.

  Of course, thats hardly the only type of socially engineered attack.

  Good attacks definitely do get and pass that info through.

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  Does Brand not even matter anymore?
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  @jaredbusch at certain volumes there are even things akin to dealer holdback on automobilers and buyback liquidations.

  I can move 300 to 500 items per month. If I could get closer to 1,000 I feel like that would unlock the next level.

  But you are right, based upon the levels of pricing I see at VOIP Supply, etc there are people who probably buy VOIP hardware once or maybe once per year if they are an IT Reseller.

  But that whole strategy could be pandering to a crowd so small that it would never help achieve the sales volume I am hoping to get to.

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  What do you think of SIPDOJO.COM as a brand?
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  @bigbear said in What do you think of SIPDOJO.COM as a brand?:

  @rojoloco would you serve mangolassi's?

  Yes. With or without rum.

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  Unsolved Keyword research with Ubersuggest and its alternatives
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  Using Bing for growing organic and paid search traffic
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  @scottalanmiller There is no such detailed information. And I guess we can say exactly wich of users have money and which not.

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  Scam Of The Week: Phishing Moves To Smishing
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  So I am clicking through and I see the "Chief Hacking Officer" of this company is Kevin Mitnick?

  And I'm thinking....

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  Jawbone files for liquidation
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  @scottalanmiller said in Jawbone files for liquidation:

  I doubt that anyone will notice :)

  A few years ago when I was researching which fitness band I wanted they were in every review but I never saw anyone wearing one in real life.

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  Scale HC3 cluster for sale
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  @davedemlow said in Scale HC3 cluster for sale:

  SM863

  Samsung Midrange. Not bad actually. Those are closer to 90 cents a GB if memory serves (If Dell Firmware, could maybe get a buck 20 per GB).

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  Any Service Providers Using a CRM
  crm sugarcrm vtiger ms crm salesforce • • scottalanmiller

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  I don't understand what's going on with Dynamics. The transition from Dynamics CRM to the new Dynamics 365 seems to be more than just a re-branding exercise, it feels like an entirely new product. Or rather two products, as Microsoft has been its usual annoying self and decided "why offer one product when we can confuse users by offering two?". So there's Dynamics 365 for Enterprise and Dynamics 365 for Business. Where "Enterprise" is defined, somewhat arbitrarily, as a company with 250+ users.

  Worst still, Dynamics 365 for Business isn't even available in Europe yet, and yet neither is the old Dynamics CRM, leaving SMBs seemingly in limbo.

  If anyone understands what's going on and can explain it to me, I'd be very grateful, as the concept of Dynamics 365 is pretty appealing.

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  Atera vs Solarwinds MSP
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  @Breffni-Potter

  I don't disagree with you at all on that front. I'm just so used to over-zealous sales teams that I was a little annoyed when the rep. didn't reply before my trial had expired.

  With anything Solarwinds (n-able), I've become used to thrice-daily calls asking if I want to purchase, if there were any questions, and promises that their application does X (even if it doesn't or, at least, not well). Not that I condone this behaviour, but a prompt reply to an inquiry is always nice.

  Sorry @magroover, I haven't helped you at all; è colpa mia.

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  Moving from full time to part time, what can I automate?
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  If they are going to be your only client like this, I would just do the VPN thing. The fixed costs and overhead of some of the other tools are not going to be worth it.

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  NAKIVO Backup & Replication v7 protects VMware, Hyper-V and AWS EC2 environments!
  nakivo backup vmware esxi hyper-v amazon ec2 • • Yana

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  I've tried to import the Multi-Tenant Director .ova into XS & convert the .ova into vhd & vhdx.
  It will not boot in XS or Hyper-V, I get a black screen.
  It boots in vmWare Workstation.

  Nakivo support says the .ova is ONLY for use in vmWare (not for XS)

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  What timesheet software do you use and why?
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  @arina_kayea said in What timesheet software do you use and why?:

  @NashBrydges Here you can dowload a free self-hosted version https://www.actitime.com/download.php

  Thanks.

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  How Do You Match Good Customers to Good Service Providers
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  I think the question about how to do you find a good IT company and how do you find a good accountant are very closely related. There are a ton of parallels.

  Take the onsite vs remote thing. In some companies they don't want to ever touch a plug, the same way they don't ever want to scan in a receipt. They want someone to show up and do the job. In other companies they have someone with enough IT knowledge to do the hands on stuff, the same way they have someone that does the daily accounting tasks, but needs help with the year end tasks.

  In both lines of work when owners are searching for a service provider a recommendation from a friend will outweigh most everything else.

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  Home business ideas for transition out of 9-5?
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  Transitions are always the hardest part. You need to leap from a fully functional business to a basically non-existent one and get the new one up to speed more or less instantly.

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  Reputable e-Waste Recycler in Dallas Fort Worth
  recycling ewaste • • NerdyDad

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  We found a "Computers 2 Kids" charity that we donate all PCs, servers, etc to... that are at least in good enough condition to work or get working with minimal effort. Ex: new hard drive or RAM needed.

  It's local to us here in San Diego... but there may be something similar near you.

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  Gonna start IT Blog. Info and advices on legality required.
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  Gather knowledge from different websites and after doing depth research for the topic, you can write for the same topic in your blog too with your own words. But rewrite the same article by changing words and sentences is not good and you should have to suffer from legality.

  For you second question,

  Technical steps for the same topic remain mostly the same for all articles. So if you think for write the topic which you have suggested here "Installing Snipe-IT on CentOS 7" then also technical steps remain the same which is the legal. But that doesn't mean that you can copy/paste in place of write in your own words.

  Content flow is also important to make content more interesting for users. This article will help you to know how to write the article in the proper way.

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  Technical or Business Engagement of a Service Provider
  it business msp itsp service provider • • scottalanmiller

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  Dedicated IT or Internal IT
  msp itsp it business • • scottalanmiller

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  Yeah, I would totally hate my job without resources like SW and MangoLassi.

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  The One to One MSP Migration
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  I think working in isolated, non-IT companies where there is no peer support at all it might be easy to forget how much training is endemic to any organization's core. If you are a lithography company and have many litho machines, many litho workers (even, say half a dozen of them) there is a natural cross training and sharing of knowledge, an automatic introduction to different equipment, styles and techniques. Even when no effort is put into training and development, which is effectively unheard of for any business in its core operations, there is a natural training effect through knowledge training. This is why cities with a high skill density for a given field have higher end people and pay more than other markets (NY for IT, SV for SE, Detroit for Automotive engineering, etc.)