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

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  I'm still amazed at the 6 month turn around. If your RIO is under or about 6 months then this is a really good opportunity.
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  Auticon: Autistic IT Consultants
  consulting uk autism • • Kelly

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  Mobile Device Management
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  @sully93 said in Mobile Device Management: I have but in cases of immediate termination we already have their accounts disabled so don't think the phone and our server are able to communicate with each other. Plus if they are backing up their phones then they can restore from the previous backup and be right back to where they were. They'd get around any MDM in those cases.
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  Leaflet Review
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  @thwr Points taken on board, thanks thwr
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  Small Shop Hyperconverged Options
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  @scottalanmiller I knew it had to be fluffyctulhudeepstorage!
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  Scale Computing combines forces with Unitrends
  scale hyperconverged unitrends news • • DustinB3403

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  @irj I Laughed pretty hard. There are benefits to combining hardware and software together in a purchase, and then there are downsides. Weird trade in/up games is one of them.
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  Alternative TLDs
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  Also many of the new ones seem to only be used by scammers/spammers. Probably due to the fact there are so many of them now(tlds and spammers). .top .xyz .win All of these are newer tlds that legit people can use, but in reality i have only ever gotten spam or a bunch of login attempts from them. I still dont get why some of these new tld are managed by companies like Amazon or Gallo vineyards or this company called Donuts, which seems to have been setup specifically to gank management of as many of these tld as possible.
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  Unsolved Recommendation for Web Host Provider
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  Dialpad.com Free now Nationwide
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  I may have to check this out. Trying to use Google Voice currently for rental property management and it just doesn't seem to be cutting it. Most of our calls would be inbound and the extra features like virtual receptionist would be nice.
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  Billing Hour Segments
  billing hours contract work • • EddieJennings

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  For my side business, I do tenths of an hour. I come from Legal IT background though and that is how Lawyers charge so I go with what I know.
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  What email service do you use for your small business?
  • Williamhawk

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  @manxam said in What email service do you use for your small business?: I've had really good success with MXRoute for small orgs. They provide next-to-no support (and are open about that in their FAQ) but, in 3 years of utilizing their service, I've never required it. Their pricing and the services that they offer are excellent (i.e. webmail via horde, squirrel, and roundcube. Spamassassin, global and local filters, relays, imap(s), pop(s), alternate imap/pop ports, caldav, zPush, etc) For one of my personal projects I have a 30gb 5$ / year account via a discount code I found on VPSCheap, though I do use Exchange for my business due to better calendar/contact/Outlook integration. One of their current offers: Storage: 100GB Features: Unlimited domains/email accounts Server Location: Dallas, TX Price: Monthly: $5 Quarterly: $10 Semi-Annually: $20 Annually: $35 Biennially (every 2 years): $60 Triennially (every 3 years): $90 They kind of get you with the storage. Really cant imagine "no support". Even with Zoho you get some support for free accounts.
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  Free Auditing and Reporting Solution
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  How to choose public DNS provider for an ISP
  dns isp wisp • • NerdyDad

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  @nerdydad said in How to choose public DNS provider for an ISP: or should I give them something that is more privacy focused but might also restrict their access to the internet. But OpenDNS does nothing of the sort. It is a pubic open DNS service available for anyone to use.
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  Citrix XenApp 6 farm
  • Kyle

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  @bigbear said in Citrix XenApp 6 farm: @kyle said in Citrix XenApp 6 farm: @penguinwrangler said in Citrix XenApp 6 farm: @kyle do you mean you will publish the application to the desktop? We currently have 4 2008 servers running XenApp 6. IE 11 doesn't support IE11 but 2008 R2 does. I was looking at adding a 2008 R2 node to the 4 2008 servers and wondered if there is any issues or beat practices to mixing 2008 & 2008 R2 in a clustered XenApp farm to publish a newer app only supported on 1 server. I remember, and this is a long time ago, issues with adding an R2 server to a 2008 RDSH farm and having temporary profile issues. It was common to see someone add an 2008 R2 RDHS server to a 2012 RDSH to provide IE11 support. I think the connection broker needs an update. 2016 RDSH is a big change. I have been testing Citrix vs 2016 RDSH and for full desktop Citrix doesnt add anything more than I have found with cheaper add-on products. I realize you are probably serving apps up though. But I would google about temp profile issues before doing what you are doing. And again, not sure that would affect your XenApp situation. This is litteraly a temp fix as prior to my joining the team they're moving away from Citrix to RDS. The problem with the workaround that's in place is is It a thin client to connect to Citrix and launch IE11 tthrough a RDP into another server running IE11 which prevents the user from performing some tasks.
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  Generating content ideas for topics, posts, articles
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  @scottalanmiller said in Generating content ideas for topics, posts, articles: I find getting into online arguments is a great way to come up with things to write about. No doubt!
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  SolarWinds is trying way too hard now
  • NerdyDad

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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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