"Over time, we expect to see better support for the X553 NIC. The major competition for this unit will be when the higher core count variants come out and iterations that support 10GbE."

Yep, I'd completely agree. The current one is a great low power system for backups and what not, a low end XEON could make these a great box for home lab work.

So much development on many fronts, great job guys.

@NetworkNerd said in Zimbra Finally Showing Off a New GUI:

The first time I tested Zimbra I loved it more than MS Exchange and wanted to use their web client to kill MS Outlook at our company. I'm excited to see they are dedicated to improving the product.

And they are Buffalo based now, too.

it makes even more sense in virtualized environments. One can easily add more RAM or disk space if required on VM. No need to dedicate partition for it.

@coliver Not as far fetched as it seems. Biggest issues are the security of remote links.

@dafyre said in Verizon Places Epic Fiber Order to Build Out Infrastructure:

They gotta stay ahead of T-Mo now, lol.

The heat has been turned up significantly.

@coliver said in US Lawmaker States that Privacy Doesn't Matter Because No One Has to Use the Internet:

@scottalanmiller said in US Lawmaker States that Privacy Doesn't Matter Because No One Has to Use the Internet:

@coliver said in US Lawmaker States that Privacy Doesn't Matter Because No One Has to Use the Internet:

@TeleFox said in US Lawmaker States that Privacy Doesn't Matter Because No One Has to Use the Internet:

Vote this guy out...

Incumbents generally don't lose in the US.

One of the reasons that some agencies rank certain US regions are non-democracy. There are guidelines for "opportunity to replace an incumbent" or something like that and if incumbents can't be replaced, the system is considered to be less free.

Yep don't doubt that. One of the reasons North Carolina and Upstate NY are less then democracies.

NC is ranked the least. Upstate is ranked one of the best. Upstate is misleading because it is a small region in a big pool. NC as an entire state can't replace people. Upstate as a REGION doesn't get to override the general population. Not comparable issues.

@coliver said in 3rd Party InfoSec Testing Center:

@scottalanmiller said in 3rd Party InfoSec Testing Center:

I doubt that Kickstarter would work. A non-profit is needed, almost certainly, but is a big pain to run as Republic of IT found out and very hard to get people to commit to donations.

Not to mention this is a fairly niche thing to be testing. Everyone needs it but fewer actually care about the results.

Or understand them, or trust them. And they change constantly.

@RojoLoco Today on this too:
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1985267-av-conspiracy-theory-or-reality

Nice! That is awesome!

@MattSpeller said in New Device Harvests Water Vapor from Desert Air:

Vaporware... ok perhaps a poor choice. You know what I mean.

LOL

@triple9 said in Introducing FreeNAS Corral:

@travisdh1 said in Introducing FreeNAS Corral:

@mlnews Are they going to add in a kitchen sink for the next release?

Somehow I don't see this becoming the next @scale.

not yet, for sure 😉

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/18/freenas_downgrades_latest_release_to_tech_preview/

Whoops

Not much pity for people not bothering to update.

@msff-amman-Itofficer said in FreeNAS 10 Has Been Recalled:

@scottalanmiller

True, adding the whole virtualization aspect and container support might caused this. I genuine when testing it out didnt like the new theme or steering me away from being storage server into something else.

I agree, I think that FreeNAS feels like it is drifting now. Is it storage, is it a hypervisor? Any BHyve for normal users, really? The new interface looked cool, but failed to even run when I tested it. They are a tiny company with few resource trying to do way too much. The old FreeNAS product was bad enough, I know loads of places loses data or access to data either because FreeNAS itself was glitchy or because it failed the "front loaded engineering" design principle and left customers in a tight position leading to failure.

Here's the reply from Vultr support today:

Hello,

Thank you for your interest in our $2.50 'sandbox' plan. We are officially SOLD OUT of this extremely popular introductory offering. Please consider other VC2 sizes.

Why is this awesome plan sold out? This boils down to supply and demand. In order to maintain the high performance you've come to know and love at Vultr we limit the number of sandbox plans on each physical host node. This is to ensure the absolute best performance for our production-ready instances.

Will this inventory be replenished?

Yes. In the next 2-3 weeks we will bring additional sandbox capacity online. Please consider visiting/refreshing https://my.vultr.com/deploy periodically as it is possible this could happen sooner.

Thanks,

Joshua Brand
Systems Administrator

Similar to how Uber and taxis reduce the number of cars needed and cars on the road, but to a more significant degree.