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@scottalanmiller I ignored the entire post after reading this at the top..

@abdel-hakim-abousrea said in Elastix & Vtiger CRM Integration:

I have VtigerCRM webpage on windows server 2008r2 I use it by Xamp app

@Obsolesce said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@tonyshowoff said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Who does that though? As someone who has learned English as a second language I can't say I've ever been confused by someone using the wrong one nor has the meaning been misunderstood. Context is more important than word meaning when it comes to language, in other words nobody would understand children or foreigner language learners at all until they were great at the language.

Texas is a great example. Using English properly, and using "you" often confuses locals here. Context doesn't help them. People are actually often confused if you use you when they expect y'all. Even though y'all has no need in real English, in the modified Spanish influenced English of Texas, people often think you must be singular. Which, in turn, means that books, newspaper, news, movies, television... simply doesn't make sense to them.

Context is important, but isn't enough to overcome basic misunderstandings in the language.

There are separate words for you and you plural in other languages. Swedish for example.

I know, most all languages. But not English. It's Spanglish in Texas that creates the use of it.

Back to Snore the Walking Dead

On episode three. Basically the "protagonists" are so awful that I'm rooting for the zombies.

@Pete-S said in DELL PowerEdge T410 - Memory Configuration Issues:

@PhlipElder said in DELL PowerEdge T410 - Memory Configuration Issues:

As a rule, the primary slot in each channel should be populated. So, 4 sticks per CPU.

Make sure Memory RAS settings are default and not stripe or mirror. That may be part of the problem.

Make sure the sticks are in the primary slot for each channel which is usually a different colour than the secondary and furthest from the CPU.

T410 is old 5500 series chipset which is triple channel, so I don't think you gain anything with 4 per CPU.

Yeah, that era was three or six.

@CCWTech said in DELL PowerEdge T410 - Memory Configuration Issues:

Got it!

I gave the client a link to this thread and I think he's going to scrap the server and look for something from Xbyte.

Smart, supporting old gear in this way just too often ends up being too costly. High cost, low returns.

@StorageNinja said in Why I Feel KVM Is the Easiest HyperVisor to Learn the Basics On:

3. Always using burner emails and phone numbers whose contact information never ends up on one of the bazillion marketing (note all it takes is you forget to uncheck a box once in your career) that exist are not surveyed that might be true.

I don't buy this. Just because my phone number is out there, it's not out there in a way that would make the IDC call me to find something out. If this is how IDC does things, then we know their info is useless.

The problem is, you can't collect this kind of info in a meaningful way. You just can't. VMware knows how many customers it has. MS does too. But RH does not, not even close. They don't even have a reasonable way to guess. And that's just RH, let alone Linux or KVM in general.

@StorageNinja said in Why I Feel KVM Is the Easiest HyperVisor to Learn the Basics On:

4. Disable all phone home, and kill any support telemetry features.

While loads and loads of shops do do this, so many things that we use simply don't do this. It's a mechanism that is rarely deployed.

@StorageNinja said in Why I Feel KVM Is the Easiest HyperVisor to Learn the Basics On:

2. obfuscating downloads and compiling all security updates from source to avoid incrementing the download counters.

I get this, but there are SO MANY download counters. We know that they are not unified. Even accidentally people will do this. Whether it is that we use a cloud that caches those things, or we just use a cache, or we use our own tools. Having worked in the enterprise, everything like that was run internally. Tens of thousands of installs, only one copy would have been known about and it was a complete download that would be discarded in any stats because it doesn't represent anything. Download counters are interesting, but don't even start to give a complete picture in any way. And so many of them don't report to any central source. There is simply no "source of truth" on these things.

@StorageNinja said in Why I Feel KVM Is the Easiest HyperVisor to Learn the Basics On:

Now if your argument is that you are secret squirrels who:

1. Are committed to never purchasing anything from a company or distribution.

Of course, if using anything open source is considered "secret squirrel." But this is how IT buys loads and loads of stuff. "Buying" isn't from vendors or through channels. It's free acquisition. Turning to a channel for the majority of things that we use seems weird. We use them when we need things from the channel, but so much of what we use isn't from a channel.

@tonyshowoff said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Who does that though? As someone who has learned English as a second language I can't say I've ever been confused by someone using the wrong one nor has the meaning been misunderstood. Context is more important than word meaning when it comes to language, in other words nobody would understand children or foreigner language learners at all until they were great at the language.

Texas is a great example. Using English properly, and using "you" often confuses locals here. Context doesn't help them. People are actually often confused if you use you when they expect y'all. Even though y'all has no need in real English, in the modified Spanish influenced English of Texas, people often think you must be singular. Which, in turn, means that books, newspaper, news, movies, television... simply doesn't make sense to them.

Context is important, but isn't enough to overcome basic misunderstandings in the language.