What Are You Doing Right Now
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Wow, talk about a poor webinar. It's a small business audience, the vendor expert is talking about Fortune 500 solutions that no SMB could afford. The "community expert" that they have talking about implementation is so clueless about how "servers work" that he doesn't realize that your servers are supported as a single unit and he thinks that you have to get Western Digital to support your drives, LSI to support your RAID controller, etc. Um, why are the "experts" always people lacking even intern level experience. Argh. So useless.
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the same goes for VDI - come on.. VDI for SMB? sigh
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@scottalanmiller I was sad I couldn't attend that one until now
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@Dashrender said:
the same goes for VDI - come on.. VDI for SMB? sigh
LOL You can spend under 100K to dip your toe into VDI...
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@scottalanmiller said:
@gjacobse said:
Exposing my spouse to the world of Linux with Linux Mint.... The computer at her office is a slug on the OS,.. can't really do anything on the internet,... so this was a simple way to not affect the computer (no ours) and allow her the freedom of surfing.
You should get her to join here and provide a review from her perspective!
In this case, while the PC booted into LM, it would not find the Linksys USB wifi adapter...
It was then that we both thought of her just taking her practically new Dell laptop with her to use....little late now.
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Off to bake apple pies, pumpkin pies and some pumpkin bread. Family is coming here for our thanksgiving celebration tomorrow afternoon.
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@MattSpeller said:
@scottalanmiller I was sad I couldn't attend that one until now
This is ridiculous. It is two sales guys just talking about all the things that they want to sell, one clueless end user who just graduated from college (and shows why college students tend to be so awful) and an MC that is just asking marketing questions.
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@Dashrender said:
@Dashrender said:
the same goes for VDI - come on.. VDI for SMB? sigh
LOL You can spend under 100K to dip your toe into VDI...
Sure, for two VMs
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Oh... there it is, they said VDI. OMG, lol.
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@scottalanmiller did you miss that 10+ mins ago?
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It stalls a lot here, they are determined to push full video to me so it constantly freezes up and just waits till the stream catches up. So instead of getting real time I am getting it delayed.
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@scottalanmiller Awww... yeah i've stopped listening.. they aren't talking to me.. I don't have 100K in hardware period..
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HA HA HA. They just said $100K PER YEAR for their product is "cheap" for the SMB. $300K - $400K purchase price is what this panel thinks makes sense for the "smallest" companies.
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They also said that SMBs should spend 5% of their budget on IT and said that that means that $100K is easy for them to spend on this product.... um... so zero dollars for desktops, OS licenses, storage, IT staff, applications, etc.
Talk about not getting it.
And their "expert" that they have promoting it just said that you should spend on this instead of hiring IT people.
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They really need to turn off the video and just send the audio. There is literally nothing to look at, it is just talking heads, but I cannot disable it so the bandwidth needs are huge and the audio stops every few seconds. If they send just audio, I could just keep listening.
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Is this one of the Hangout ones? Where everyone is on video the whole time?
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@Minion-Queen said:
Is this one of the Hangout ones? Where everyone is on video the whole time?
Yes. It's fine if you have the bandwidth and watch to watch people. But there is nothing valuable to see, just heads talking.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Is this one of the Hangout ones? Where everyone is on video the whole time?
Yes. It's fine if you have the bandwidth and watch to watch people. But there is nothing valuable to see, just heads talking.
It sounds like there isn't a lot of value in the webinar regardless...
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No they are always like that no matter what the subject it.
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Is this one of the Hangout ones? Where everyone is on video the whole time?
Yes. It's fine if you have the bandwidth and watch to watch people. But there is nothing valuable to see, just heads talking.
It sounds like there isn't a lot of value in the webinar regardless...
Definitely not this one. There was basically no tech experts. It was all very junior guys, guys who called $80K people the "expensive specialists" that they want to eliminate so that IT can be reduced to helpdesk people. All are from really little, limited environments and didn't understand their market or how the products being discussed would apply. And the big enterprise vendors involved are talking about companies with millions in their budgets while the other guy is talking about not being able to afford one $80K IT staffer. So a big mismatch.
