Just heard about this on the radio ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/20/movies/jerry-lewis-dead-celebrated-comedian-and-filmmaker.html

Congrats

Welcome @Delete

Planet Sub

I Rug Doctored the "new" office space yesterday. Might move my second office into it today.

@dafyre said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

The only Hypervisor I trust enough to install to SD cards right now is ESXi. If you're using anything else, just save yourself the headaches and install it in OBR.

Actually, I almost never install Hyper-V to the ORB10.

I usually pop the case open and find the unused SATA port and connect whatever random SATA drive I have available to be the C: drive and hold Hyper-V.

If there is no way to plug in a SATA drive directly, then I use the OBR10.

Nothing like fiddling with firewall configs to some Breaking Benjamin.

Youtube Video

WOW!!!!!! New episode of game of thrones was unbelievable!!!!!

@olivier said in BRRABill's Field Report With XenServer:

If it stopped (no pending tasks related to patches), there is probably something that stopped it.

Check in settings/logs to see if there is something.

edit: you can re-click on the update button. It won't explode.

FWIW, ran into this today with a new XS install. Here's the error from the XO logs --

Nov 30 15:40:55 xo-5 xo-server[980]: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 21:40:55 GMT xen-api [email protected]: pool_patch.apply(...) [17ms] =!> XapiError: PATCH_ALREADY_APPLIED(OpaqueRef:a34b3e4e-838a-0eb2-3ca4-9b1bf13b4c09) Nov 30 15:40:55 xo-5 xo-server[980]: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 21:40:55 GMT xo:xapi task destroyed: Patch upload (XS70E017)

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.

Well... plug-in downloaded source, compiled, installed and activated.
In "Setting/Plugins" I can see now the "backup-reports" and "transport-email" plugins.
I made some simple test with "Backup Jobs" and all seems ok.

Thanks guys.

@Dashrender said in Domain Controller Down (VM):

perhaps the discussion of HA should always be left at the door unless the OP specifically says something to the effect of - this was supposed to be an HA solution, why is it not -

Perhaps. Often someone says something that leads us to believe that there might have been a reason for HA. But this is a case where just nothing suggests it. Not even the lack of panic or concern once things were down. They really seemed to have no care that things were down - which is fine, their design suggests that.

In this case, with @wirestyle22 not having been there, he too would have to decide how the system should be viewed. But he needs the information to take back to management "Oh, you thought that this would be HA? THat's odd as it is designed exactly the opposite of that in every way and all of the policies and procedures go against that as well. How were you expecting HA without HA processes, staffing, technology, design or setup? What led you to believe something so contrary would achieve HA?"

@quixoticjeremy said in What does your desk look like?:

@gjacobse said in What does your desk look like?:

@quixoticjeremy
My code never does / did..... which is why I don't code. Wished I could... I have so many project notes just sitting.... Ah well. can't do it all...

Code and I have an interesting relationship.

Code doesn't work: why didn't my code work?
Code works: Why did my code work? What am I missing...

We wonder the same things.

@StuartJordan said in Backup File Server to DAS:

Wow what a thread, took me a while to read through it :)

We don't fool around around here!

@Dashrender said in Web Application VS Windows Application:

Right, the whole point of this thread is basically apps that platform independent. Apps that will run in an HTML5 browser

At least as their interface. The entire app doesn't have to be there.

Four day streak now. going to be a long time before I am back to where I used to be.

Happy Birthday to @jimk

@Dashrender said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@travisdh1 said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@scottalanmiller said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@Dashrender said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@travisdh1 said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@NerdyDad said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

Currently my home lab consists of a Raspberry Pi B+ and Raspbian. I currently have Home-Assistant and Pi Hole. Not doing much with the Home Assistant but the Pi Hole is definitely saving us some internal bandwidth as its sucking out the ads of the web pages.

So the Pi Hole is outside you're local network? You're still paying the bandwidth "bill" for those adds if it's local. At least you're not seeing the adds, which is a plus with most websites anymore.

You don't save the bandwidth? I must be forgetting how it works - I thought it blocked the request to the ad pages?

It does. It's not a pushed stream or something of that nature.

Huh, I need to look into this then. More like a proxy than the add blockers I'm used to then?

As far as I know most if not all ad blockers work by preventing the browser from making a request to an ad network - thereby saving all bandwidth.

Do you know something that works by downloading the content, then just preventing it from displaying? While there is the possible advantage of getting past some paywalls that way, I'm sure scripting could be setup so the content providers would know the ad wasn't actually displayed, so in the long run, it wouldn't help much.

All, most definitely. There is certainly no exception to that.

@guyinpv said in Why Do People Still Text:

@Dashrender said in Why Do People Still Text:

Exactly - getting people to use something new is challenging at best, impossible at worst.

My mom only calls, texting would blow her mind (and make my phone explode, so I'll never teach her).

I had the opposite. If she called I would be stuck for 45 minutes and my ear would have 1st degree burns.

She learned how to text and then I can casually deal with her over time. The only problem, she texted small books and autocorrect ruined everything.

I have that problem too. She calls, there's an hour gone.

Though the idea that texting gets rid of 'dealing with it right now' issue, at least for some. Personally email is the ultimate form of "it can wait." A phone call is an indication that something needs to be handled right now, a text is somewhere in the middle.

I guess one good thing, my kids will never post complaining about how their father called and wasted their time - oh wait... I don't have kids :)

While I appreciate Scott's take that trying to contact him via a single device connection (phone calls or SMS) aren't good for him since he doesn't carry his phone always - the idea that email is somehow instant access to him is something I can't grasp.
I'll be extreme here - if Scott's father was in an accident - does he want an email about that? or does he want a phone call about that? I suppose a message on any number of messaging platforms (other than SMS) would be nearly as good as a phone call, but then as I write that, if the device he is on can get messaging, it can probably get email - and I have to ask... are all of his devices constantly chiming whenever an email is delivered?

@StrongBad said in Backup System For 5 PC SMB:

@BRRABill said in Backup System For 5 PC SMB:

@StrongBad

I think the final takeaway, especially for non-IT folk, is to move away from a system that requires this sort of backup.

Ideally, of course.

The age old answer ... "depends"

@scottalanmiller said:

There are so many exploits like this kept secret by black hats and/or governments (assuming you don't consider the two one and the same.) Tons of it is kept private for personal use, tons is shared, tons is sold. The info is out there and anyone who has it and doesn't expose it isn't a good guy. Simply by receiving information that someone has been exploited and keeping that secret from them makes you (you typically being a government) one of the bad guys.

This, a thousand times, this!

Glad to hear that it is all working well!

@Dashrender said in MangoCon Is official!:

@Minion-Queen said in MangoCon Is official!:

Free Shuttle to the hotel it's only about a 10 minute ride if traffic is bad.

Awesome!

can't wait.

Only about six weeks!

This started out incomprehensible, now I think we know why. Doesn't know very basic things. Asking what a domain is now.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2027244-if-you-log-in-to-a-infected-external-ip-what-is-the-use-of-all-security-setting?page=1#entry-7143463

If anyone watches Mr. Robot it was ruined for me at the end of Season 2.... Logs into a makeshift Windows box with another users creds on her PC... never deletes it and copies out a ton of data from the profile. It kills me, the show was doing so well up until this point. Well, he did have that sick Optiplex 745 he was hacking on in Season 1 but we won't talk about that.

@scottalanmiller said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:

@matteo-nunziati said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:

@stacksofplates like let the san use uts own snapshot/backup sw?

Yes, which isn't quite fully offloaded, but a reliable means of communications so that the SAN can do the majority of the work.

Actually vVols is different than SAN Snap-ins in how snapshot offload is done. VMFS snapshots do not exist at all in the case you use them. You also get a management, and command integration so you can set compliance requirements (encryption, retention, replication, performance minimums) and apply policies automatically (using OpenStack, VCD, vRA etc) and it will validate that those configurations are continuously met and alert if not. Nifty stuff.

@Dashrender said in Time to gut the network - thoughts?:

@JaredBusch said in Time to gut the network - thoughts?:

Correct you do have QoS. It is on the VLAN, that contains the voice devices.

So the following is an incorrect assumption.

@scottalanmiller said in Time to gut the network - thoughts?:

You might want to LEAD with.... since we discovered that QoS was not set up properly and has never been a problem we can assume that QoS and ensuring call quality cannot be the reason.

Let them come up with a reason if you head that off at the pass.

No, it's correct. They didn't do their jobs properly. They neither did the sensible, cost effective thing for the business, which would have been to not have a VLAN at all. Nor did they properly do QoS for your VoIP traffic.

So no matter what, they didn't set up QoS correctly for you.

@JaredBusch said in ZeroTier Question:

At the very core of it is a Linux kernel of some flavor, but that just used to load their own vmkernel.

No Linux at all. Never was. Long ago there was Linux in the host VM (Dom0 equivalent) but never in the ESX product itself. That was just a VM on top of ESX that provided a GUI. But that was removed long ago and now there isn't even that.

Last night made Bahama Mama's for me and the lady, she enjoyed it a lot.

This morning coffee.

@manxam said in Managing Hyper-V:

@dbeato said in Managing Hyper-V:

@scottalanmiller YEah, it is free. I will start the testing.

In my crude testing it appears that one can start, stop, pause, reset a VM.
One cannot modify its settings, access the console, nor create/destroy.

It does provide some basic guest details such as cpu, memory, network configuration, replication status, etc.

It is a little slower than I'd like.

Limited, but not completely useless.

That is the biggest question, really. And also, if it was saved as a DOCX or an ODT from LibreOffice.

@wirestyle22 said in Feedback on Resume:

Barnabas Health: Just standard desktop support, no frills. Printers broken, internet explorer won't load this website, imaging, etc.

Garden State Foot & Ankle: I was hired to build a server for them to house X-rays. I was a resource to the owner. He would come up with things he wanted to do and then I was the one to explain how to do them. Desktop support, cabling, purchasing, etc. I honestly was not called very often, the owner was and is a friend of mine who is a podiatrist.

The Arc: I was the director of IT. I was responsible for every appliance, server, workstation, etc. All devices. I handled all of the purchasing in relation to IT. I was the sole IT person covering 33 sites all over ocean county (very large county).

Will continue to update throughout the day. I have some calls coming in

YMCA: I am the point of escalation for all of the servers and network. Not a lot has happened after my initial walk-through. I found some incorrect entries here and there which were fixed.

City of Trenton: TBD, big list.

Note: I added some of the stuff @scottalanmiller said to do in my lab to train my resume. I am in the process of doing some of that at home

@scottalanmiller said in Dell PERC Question (Server Down):

What's the latest on this project?

Well, I still do not have production servers on it yet. (I was waiting for XS7 to come out.)

But I put a Splunk instance on it (as well as XO, and a few other things) and it hasn't had any issues yet. Of course it didn't with the EDGE drives until I really got things running on it, so we shall see. But nothing was writing to it like the Splunk machine is.

But so far, so good.

There is nothing, and that's why I only look like twice a year.

@nadnerb said in Ridiculous Words Lacking from the Google Chrome Dictionary:

@scottalanmiller said in Ridiculous Words Lacking from the Google Chrome Dictionary:

@nadnerb said in Ridiculous Words Lacking from the Google Chrome Dictionary:

Chrome, Firefox: receival

I have to admit, I don't know that one.

Quite a common word here. I use EN-Au dictionaries and it still isn't there.

Definitely one I've never used.

@Dashrender said in Hours I work/PTO:

@dafyre said in Hours I work/PTO:

@Dashrender said in Hours I work/PTO:

Not to mention the fact that there's a belief (no idea if it's true or not) if your hobby becomes your job, good chances are you'll eventually hate that hobby.

I can safely say that this has not been the case for me. I've been around computers and made it my hobby almost my entire life. I even finally got a job in it, and I do it all day every day... (I'd do it more if I could, lol).

I spend a large portion of my waking life in front of a computer. I talk to my wife all day via Facebook, I talk with you guys on here all day, except when I'm actually needed to be AFK... and I come home and tinker with computers too, while still chatting with folks and talking to the folks at the house... I still love my job, and what I do.

I don't have as much time to devote to it any more...but for good reasons (family!).

Chatting via Facebook is hardly IT related. Granted there are tons of non IT people I know that work on computers all day (as in PowerPoint/Excel/ERP, etc) and they totally want to disconnect from the computer completely at night.
But wanting to be online is simply social, not really computer related, just happens to be way more convenient online than going to the bar or where ever to socialize.

What you say is very true. But for me, the fact that I can chat with you guys and my wife all day as I'm working is a large part of my job satisfaction, and it makes me feel much less disconnected from my family and friends while I'm at work.

Not quite the level of freedom that @scottalanmiller has, but lightly leaning in that direction.

@ntoxicator said in Cannot decide between 1U servers for growing company:

@scottalanmiller

Hi Scott -thanks for the follow-up. I've moved on from that company; hence my absence. Moved back to Upstate NY area.

Ah, congrats I hope. Where in Upstate are you now?

@tirendir said in When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator:

It's dumb to ask for advice or opinions and then ignore them entirely, I agree. However it's also impractical to assume that all things are equal either, as we know that's not true.

The difference is... learning from processes that regularly and reliably result in desired results vs. learning from processes that rarely, if ever, achieve desired results.

Yea, being very explicit here is what would protect the company.

IE No overtime will be approved, unless with explicit written consent from you manager. Any overtime not approved beforehand will be viewed as a breach of company policy, repeated breaches of company policy are subject to disciplinary action.

Edit: ... disciplinary action. Up to and including termination.

@Danp said in XenServer 6.2 servers down. I have no Xen skill. Most likely networking? Help!:

@Dashrender said in XenServer 6.2 servers down. I have no Xen skill. Most likely networking? Help!:

The only cost here would be the drive. Clonezilla is free, the use of the PC is free (of course that user is not ideal, so I guess there is cost there ;) )

The owner is currently out of the country... use his desktop! :grin:

If AD works. Lol

@BRRABill said:

It seems as though you can install another DC, then replicate, then demote the EVAL one.

But I think I'll just go with not doing that. :)

Yes, it wouldn't be a functional AD if you could not do that. You risk schema issues, though.

Youtube Video

@msff-amman-Itofficer said in A Mandate to Be Cheap:

@scottalanmiller

But I work for non profit organization ... where cheap means cheap

As Jared points out, if their goal was to provide whatever service that their mandate is, they would not be cheap. Cheap is just another work for wasteful or ineffective.

@scottalanmiller said:

But there are really convenient options. It's not like those don't exist and aren't used all of the time. It's just that you need to license them. But you CAN do recovery very easily.

The real issue is using Windows systems without being able to or willing to afford the cost to do so. Windows has a cost, which we all accept, to a point. The issues arise when we (or companies) don't want to spend enough to do it "right." Then it feels like there is a limitation with the product, but really it is just a lack of willingness to pay for what it cost to run it. But Windows is always a choice, as are the features like this kind of recovery.

I fully understand this now.

I understand that I can do EXACTLY what I want, which IMO makes for a much safe/better/quicker backup and recovery. As long as I buy another license. Or, in the case of larger companies, am already properly licensed.

My take has always been that making it more difficult to backup and restore is not in the interest of anyone. Even though Microsoft could theoretically make more money,
a -- they probably aren't because most people just run the backups anyway without proper licensing (most probably unaware)
b -- they will push people to other systems when backups fail or they realize the "cost of Windows" as you say

Datto, StorageCraft, etc ... these companies have great products that take great backups, and easily let you know if they are working. We're not talking about running systems here. We are talking about EASILY checking to see if backups have worked. That's it. Yes, it's possible to do another way, but again, that adds complexity and downtime. Yes, there is a cost to those things, but considering how important backup and recovery is, I think it should be allowed.

@Minion-Queen Woo! Can't wait... just need to bring it up to my owners!

@AmanBhogal said:

@thecreativeone91

Not at all about filterning through the PR team. matter of fact, I kinda am the PR team.

It's more of making sure we make the right decisions and make the right steps to move forward.

So three months later.... still no answers.

@Dashrender Oh and look closely at the URL....

:-) I know its a few days early, but come on.... :-)

@mcostan said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:

@stacksofplates

Where is the bit of my posting that says that:

Hold on - where did @stacksofplates quote you saying this? I don't see that in his post.. He only said

Enterprise ready for sure!

Is he taking a jab at the product, for sure! at you? I don't think so.

@worden2 said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

@dashrender For me personally, it's almost stressful, because as an IT educator I straddle both realities. As for your last point, my wife and I just had our 20th anniversary, btw. I know of what you speak, but do not speak of it! :)

20 years, nice. I've been married for 16, together for 23.

@bigbear said in Better Than Aliens:

@wirestyle22 I dont think you should feel bad for thinking this. If you rewind 10+ years vendors like Allworx (grrrr) would deflect every quality issue as a result of you not deploying VLANS and QoS on your 12 phone network. Hah! And I am talking about Allworx with a PRI attached who is telling you your LAN is some kind of bottleneck.

Allworx had and may still have a header issue.

I still come across customers with band issues that have some legacy VLAN/QoS configured (and configured wrong most of the time).

So, point being, you really couldnt fault someone for having this "misinformation".

Except, the misinformation is based on not knowing the fundamentals that IT should be required to know. This is Net+ level stuff. Once you know what a VLAN is, you know this doesn't make sense and that the vendor is preying on you. And if you know business basics, also required for IT, you know that your vendor sales people have an incentive to push you in ways that interest them, not you, and not to get IT advice from them. So while I agree, loads of misinformation out there, the root of it is something everyone in IT has a responsibility to know to question, and the technical basis is considered within the baseline for the industry.

@scottalanmiller said in Exchange Online Migration From POP3:

@Carnival-Boy still looking to move Sharepoint? Any progress.

I'd forgotten that Microsoft has killed Foundation (2013 will be the last version), so there is no longer a free version of Sharepoint. If you need it, you have to pay for it. I'd forgotten this even though I actually posted it on ML a year ago (I think my memory is going in my old age).

Add that to the fact that it appears that migrating from on-premise to online is not a simple task (compared with say Exchange), and I'm coming round to thinking it would be foolish to further invest in Sharepoint Foundation 2013 and we're better off moving to Sharepoint online asap. It will mean extra cost in the short-term, because we'll have to buy a load of O365 subscriptions, but less cost in the long-term (as eventually we will have to migrate from on-premise to online since Foundation is the only product that makes financial sense on-premise and Foundation has been killed).

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@tonyshowoff said:

@scottalanmiller said:

That's why NO ONE complains about the minimum wage being too high, they complain that the minimum wage is "too close to their wage."

Definitely seen that a lot, it's weird.

I've completely missed this on Facebook somehow.

Oh it is huge. I've seen it from a lot of different people... mostly those that earn only a little more than $15/hr and/or military. I've also seen military people mocking those people for not understanding how pay works in the private world.

I've seen the low wage workers arguing this. I have also seen high wage and business owners making the same argument. Everyone I know in the military, except for that one RWNJ who joined just to shoot people, is for a wage increase.

@IRJ said:

Its amazing how many guests have been lurking Mangolassi today. You know what they say....

I have been noticing an increase in lurker activity. Good stuff.

@travisdh1 said in Is this server strategy reckless and/or insane?:

You're job description includes talking to people on web forums now doesn't it? Also, when do you stop drinking?

Fly, Drink, Talk. There you go.

No, hanging out on web forums is not my job.
I actually didn't drink that much this weekend (was too hot, working on the beach house).

My day job involves...

Flying to conferences and speaking. I have 11 conference presentations in the next 4 weeks. Crowd size is 200-800.

Flying to fun places and meeting with people. I'll be in India soon meeting with Customers, Partners, and SE's training them and taking questions, and collecting feedback for engineering.

Breaking things. I technically am classified as a R&D employee and have full access to our nightly builds, our BAT private cloud, and a dozen "Fully loaded" servers for a lab. I test the new stuff, send feedback through my customer [0] Team, and meet with engineers to capture the subtitles of what's coming out. I don't write the technical publications (core documentation), but I do draft thousands upon thousands of words for design and sizing and usage guides, blogs.

I host a podcast for the lols.

@scottalanmiller said:

MangoCon: From the Trenches to the PITS. Ha ha, get it?

probably the best one so far!

@JaredBusch said:

I have never heard of a provider that required a separate trunk for inbound and outbound. that is just crazy.

So, is this just a Vitelity issue? I know many SIP providers have their subtle differences, and you always seem to find them at the most inopportune moments.

@emad-r said in Installing Snipe-IT on CentOS 7 and MariaDB:

@scottalanmiller said in Installing Snipe-IT on CentOS 7 and MariaDB:

@emad-r said in Installing Snipe-IT on CentOS 7 and MariaDB:

@scottalanmiller

Hi,

this guide no longer works on latest Centos

CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core)

I am starting to think that those install helper scripts from dev do more damage than good, and manual way are longer but better:

https://www.tecmint.com/install-snipe-it-asset-management-on-centos-ubuntu-debian/

Which part is broken now?

the script will actually report to you that it is finished installing successfully and you can browse to to your site, and it never works. so no real error was displayed. I reran everything a couple of times, same result.

I dont want you to test or re-write anything, its their installer script and they changed it. Either that or I screwed something up but I sticked to the defaults.

If you ask me installer scripts are nice and all, but they distance you from understanding the whole process, the guide I listed is not very accurate, for instance he actually use this command:
systemctl enable start httpd
but it will make you understand the whole process and troubleshoot it better.

You are not supposed to know how to install this from scratch. The developers supported method is to run the install.sh.

If you do it any other way, then you need to accept that if it fails, it is your problem.

This worked on 7.3 a couple months ago when I submitted the pull request to change it to use git on CentOS 7.

I can test again later this week.

Have you guys done any testing? Would like to hear what improvements you guys are seeing.

I'm so sad that this never happened. This needed to be a thing.

@nadnerB said:

@gbeyhaut said:

@IRJ the Dolphins also make me cry...

I see what you did there ;)

I do too, now that you pointed it out.

@Dashrender said in Has Windows 10 VDI Licensing changed yet?:

@scottalanmiller said in Has Windows 10 VDI Licensing changed yet?:

@Dashrender said in Has Windows 10 VDI Licensing changed yet?:

I really wonder what a broadcast domain looks like Pertino/Zero Tier/Himachi?

Depends on what kind of broadcasts. If you mean Ethernet broadcasts, which is what most people mean (the ones that are limited by VLANs) then these VPNs don't affect them at all.

So an ethernet broadcast storm could bring it down?

Ethernet broadcast storm can take down anything that is using Ethernet. What you are doing on top of Ethernet is irrelevant. But what do YOU mean by "bring it down?"

He means currency.

And... you'd need a database to track the databases!

Actually, as I think about it, separating databases really just becomes semantics. As long as it is a single application, separating the databases adds overhead (mostly for the developers) but in reality, it is always still all one datastore. One way or another, the application has to behave essentially the same no matter which way you do it.

The one advantage to having them separate is that you can have different "versions" for different customers. But I'm not sure that that is a good thing.

@Dashrender said:

The crazy court shows my wife watches says yes, they should have to pay for what they did receive. Half the work complete, get half the pay.

That's if we are talking employment. Not providing the deliverable is pretty big.

I agree from what I know of your setup.

@coliver said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@hobbit666 said:

Man this is all confusing to me :) thank GB for the NHS

Yes, that's one of the biggest issues... that it is confusing. The average American has to maintain a level of insurance expertise that is completely out of scope with their knowledge, experience and expertise in other areas.

That seems to be purposeful. So that insurance and providers can double bill or otherwise extort as much money as they can.

No doubt there. And so that people will give up and just pay more rather than figuring out how to be affordable.

@alex.olynyk said:

is there a way to notify a new user that we have created an OC account for them?

I don't believe so. I think that you will need to hand craft an email message for them.

Nice writeup @shannon

I'm seeing twenty somethings living at home far more today than when I was that age. I don't think that it was all that normal fifteen years ago. Not sure if it is normal now, but I'd say more normal, at least.

@scottalanmiller said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I was just looking at some stats and am wondering.... what about this thread drove it to nearly 10K views! Seems like an awfully weird thread to have gotten so busy.

And now we see it closing in on 20K views. Why this thread? I have to know, lol.

Because it was marked as having a new reply. Have to make sure our internet is actually stable around here by keeping up with all the news, new or not!

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller earlier was mentioning differentials vs incrementals.

I wonder if the terms still apply, or if the industry at large has dropped the two terms and simply moved to the use of incrementals.

Pretty big deal... if you delete a differential nothing bad happens. Delete an incremental and you have a disaster...

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1276968-backing-up-6-pc-s-to-a-nas-using-acronis?page=1#entry-5202270

@johnhooks said:

Oooh, ok. That's the difference then. Must be for a different use. With Alfresco, each time you upload a change, it's saved as a version (major or minor). Then you can restore to versions, see edits made by users with timestamps and some other info.

Right, its even more granular. You can go back versions to individual document components.

@Tim_G said in SMB vs Enterprise:

@John-Nicholson said in SMB vs Enterprise:

@scottalanmiller Always loved CS Lewis's quote on this.

It is a mistake to think that Christians ought all to be teetotallers; Mohammedanism, not Christianity, is the teetotal religion

Actually, alcoholic beverages are forbidden in Christianity. In all of the many different Bibles, old testament and new. The problem is that people see "wine" and think of it as today's alcoholic wine...

And it was. The word used had no other connotations. It's both the word used, and the only one that makes sense in context.

@dashrender said in I am going to start an ISP:

@nerdydad said in I am going to start an ISP:

After thinking it over the weekend, I think I'm going to stick with Wifi, because other companies using "wireless" gives the connotations of a cell phone company.

Examples:
"Verizon Wireless"
"AT&T Wireless"
"Sprint Wireless"

In this company, I am still using wifi technologies (IEEE 802.11ac technologies to be exact) in order to operate this company. Therefore, the "wifi" is staying. This may take some customer re-education but I do believe that it is an important differentiator to make.

Interesting - I've never used a WISP before, I just assumed the communications to the tower was something other than typical WiFi frequencies.

How does using WiFi like this affect network saturation in an area?

Frequencies are licensed at millions of dollars per year. The only WISP I have ever known to have done this is Clearwire, who's parent company technically owned the spectrum.

In the white space you are just competing with local HAM guys. Newer gear allows the multiplexing of multiple CPE's on a single frequency. I think even UBNT has done this for a while. So that generally solves the problem.

Bigger issue is always weather moving CPE around. If you use the best mounting gear its less frequent.

There are plenty of WISPS that offer dedicated internet and charge premium prices i.e. 100mb up/down for $2,000 per month with a financially backed SLA.

@Mike-Davis good thing they didn't go with anything before!

@travisdh1 said in Well, that really, really sucks.:

@scottalanmiller said in Well, that really, really sucks.:

If I wasn't running on zero sleep and had four kids in tow I would have stopped in Wooster for a bit this afternoon as I drove through! I ate at your Taco Bell, though!

@scottalanmiller likes to live dangerously on road trips! Taco Bell is great for a cheap meal, but often times is a cause of distress.

Never bothers me like that. Not at all, in fact it's one of the mildest meals that I can eat.