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.

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.

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

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.)

@DustinB3403 said in Is it right or is it theft/fraud?:

This is similar to pharmaceutical sales reps. they aren't allowed to take a doctor out to dinner, but can have a dinner meeting with a doctor.

Actually I have friends who do that for a living this is by in large not allowed anymore. They've cracked down on a lot of this stuff.

@stacksofplates said in What is the general opinion of non-standard business card formats?:

Mine that I made for my stuff were the traditional rectangle, but were die cut on 3 corners.

My friend worked at an IT company that changed their business card like this - he instantly made a joke, See, we'll cut three out of four corners to get the job done - yeah.. they weren't to pleased.

@scottalanmiller

You still haven't answered if you were trying to send me to Google, LOL.

If you were, I prefer:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=raid+levels

🙂

I get that email ten times a day.

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@scottalanmiller said in Backup Business:

Hard to compete with the Iron Mountains, and Amazon Glaciers.

Amazon Glacier and BackBlazeB2, yeah. I haven't dealt with Iron Mountain in a very long time, are they still only doing the "secure box" thing? Also, are the prices still around $500/month for the smallest containers?

@DustinB3403 said in Your Time Is Valuable:

I agree, I feel like I'm "wasting time" by being forced to wait for a decision etc. I really have to change how I think about business transactions.

I also had a hard time years ago with this. Sometimes I still do...

So much of our work is "waiting on this or that" to finish.

Several years ago I was called out to a retail shop.

They had issues with their network printer.

As I started checking things on site and getting the lay out. I found their network was hanging by threads. Literally the wires held everything up nothing was secured.

They also had an open and default setting network. I helped them secure the router. And got everything working for the time being. I left them with a set of plans to resolve the issue and not bandaid it.

I was working on site multple times and the manager would have "meetings sometimes for an hour" in the network room where I needed to be. And this would happen after I was on site. So I sat around... I let that clock run full steam!(I billed (my door back -out their door)

I'm over it. I will almost always bill for all of the time with someone.

They have accused me of trying to nickel and dime them. I rebutted that with you asked me to bandaid an open wound I told what needed to be done to fix it. You never approved it. Just the bandaid. These bandaids happened on multple occasions. People tampering with the systems causing all of the issues.

All problems outside of my control.

Also when they went to a static IP across the organization 17 stores. Some worked the next day. Others didnt. And I got blamed for 1 of them not working. All because TWC told them it was my fault. That's when they started blaming me!

I figured out that the problem was on TWC, and I took care of that with the customer right there. They saw I fought for them. But to this date I haven't done anymore work for them. I will likely keep it that way.

@Dashrender said in Starting own IT consultancy - Gathering list of tools required and recommendations:

@Dashrender said in Starting own IT consultancy - Gathering list of tools required and recommendations:

@Meik92 said in Starting own IT consultancy - Gathering list of tools required and recommendations:

@Dashrender

I just asked to join the service providers group. I think that's the closest I can get.

Awesome! This wasn't a knock on you, just the current functionality of ML - I rather like the way SpiceWorks does it Some name at some company - made it really easy for each employee from a company to have their own identity at the time being tied to that company.

Huh - just had a thought. What about asking all vendors who want to be known (and post as) a vendor update they name to be name@company?

They could but seems like that would make for easy abuse as anyone could do that.

@Breffni-Potter - All the best !!

@nadnerB Cyanide and Happiness is one of my fave comics!

@JaredBusch

If you had experience in the industry you would never ask that. Cisco has long locked their phones by firmware. There are threads and threads of people trying to get the "open" SIP firmware for their Cisco phones.

Yeah really there is a way to get some of the very old ones working but it's an PITA and you'd be better off spending money on a newer phone from someone else..

We have CUCM clusters and even hate a lot of the way they do thing, but when you need the scalability, load balancing that Cisco clusters offer there very few competitors. CUCM has a bad name from SMBs buying it whihout knowing what features they need and just buying cause it says Cisco..

@Sparkum I've done similar with AutoIT.

@Jason said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Jason said:

@travisdh1 said:

@scottalanmiller Oh, I know and understand that.

I'm also not sure if the Fair Use would cover those under the teaching, scholarship, or research exemptions.

No, it's very obliously a company site for someone who sells products. This is not fair use.

How did you determine that they sold something? I was under the impression that it was like a botanical guide offered freely online. I guess I just read into that, though.

No, they just have a glossary section to help sell products, really still part of the sales.

https://www.precisionherbs.com/product-list/

Which is why I'm probably going to be getting the lawyer involved. It's outside my area of expertise now. Yes, we do sell products on the website, yet the pages they reference are information/education only.