What Are You Doing Right Now
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I'm having a "tearing into vendors" day. Last week I won my court case (small claims) against a towing company and apartment complex that were behaving as predators and towed me illegally. Then I managed to get a predatory medical billing fraudster to back down after two years of trying to scam us.
Dealt with a veterinarian hardware scammer this morning where the vet gave me carte blanche to tear into the vendor for trying to pull a fast one. I'll likely post some of that publicly soon. They basically tried to claim gross incompetence on their own part as an excuse for not doing a good job now to provide support that they sold. And now this encryption scandal that I'm going to be trying to convince customers to talk and go to court.
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SquareSpace ad just came up, lol.
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6,800 unique visitors today! Whoa
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D&D night here.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs someone modified that page today, too. And they are using a litespeed server? Weird. Not bad, just rare.
You'll also want to check any caches. Once fixed, the caches might hold on for a while.
I hadn't heard of Litespeed.
lol
i find that hard to believe
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@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs someone modified that page today, too. And they are using a litespeed server? Weird. Not bad, just rare.
You'll also want to check any caches. Once fixed, the caches might hold on for a while.
I hadn't heard of Litespeed.
lol
i find that hard to believe
I don't manage websites - what's hard to believe.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs someone modified that page today, too. And they are using a litespeed server? Weird. Not bad, just rare.
You'll also want to check any caches. Once fixed, the caches might hold on for a while.
I hadn't heard of Litespeed.
lol
i find that hard to believe
I don't manage websites - what's hard to believe.
Just very standard IT stuff. Like knowing IIS. You know IIS, presumably. They are about equally as popular.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs someone modified that page today, too. And they are using a litespeed server? Weird. Not bad, just rare.
You'll also want to check any caches. Once fixed, the caches might hold on for a while.
I hadn't heard of Litespeed.
lol
i find that hard to believe
I don't manage websites - what's hard to believe.
Just very standard IT stuff. Like knowing IIS. You know IIS, presumably. They are about equally as popular.
I'll have to take your word for it - Assuming I have heard about - it was so infrequent and uninspiring that it didn't stick.
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There is a group of about 5 "older" ladies wanting to share a few files and documents. One of them has OneDrive but doesn't know how to use it. One has a Gmail account but doesn't know how to use Google Drive, etc. The others have email through their ISP with no "features". I'm thinking a $5 Vultr NC instance would be simple enough for them and probably be plenty of storage. Am I overthinking this? I don't think there is a simple way to share between multiple users with OneDrive, etc. personal accounts. Seems like there would be an easier way. They need simplicity.
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@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
There is a group of about 5 "older" ladies wanting to share a few files and documents. One of them has OneDrive but doesn't know how to use it. One has a Gmail account but doesn't know how to use Google Drive, etc. The others have email through their ISP with no "features". I'm thinking a $5 Vultr NC instance would be simple enough for them and probably be plenty of storage. Am I overthinking this? I don't think there is a simple way to share between multiple users with OneDrive, etc. personal accounts. Seems like there would be an easier way. They need simplicity.
What's the difference between NC and OD or GDrive? basically they are all the same.
Why not pick one of the free options and just use that?
Your solution means they have to spend money monthly AND they need support to manage/update/maintain it.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
There is a group of about 5 "older" ladies wanting to share a few files and documents. One of them has OneDrive but doesn't know how to use it. One has a Gmail account but doesn't know how to use Google Drive, etc. The others have email through their ISP with no "features". I'm thinking a $5 Vultr NC instance would be simple enough for them and probably be plenty of storage. Am I overthinking this? I don't think there is a simple way to share between multiple users with OneDrive, etc. personal accounts. Seems like there would be an easier way. They need simplicity.
What's the difference between NC and OD or GDrive? basically they are all the same.
Why not pick one of the free options and just use that?
Your solution means they have to spend money monthly AND they need support to manage/update/maintain it.
He'd still have to get everyone on the same platform.
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@Dashrender That is my point. How do multiple users share folders in OneDrive for example? I realize you can send files or a folder to someone on the free tier but they would still have to create [email protected] account to retrieve the file if they were not already a MS user. Same goes with Google users.
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@DustinB3403 Exactly.
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@brandon220 your issue is two fold, these 5 people all need to get on something uniform. Sharing from there would all be based on their credentials from said platform.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
There is a group of about 5 "older" ladies wanting to share a few files and documents. One of them has OneDrive but doesn't know how to use it. One has a Gmail account but doesn't know how to use Google Drive, etc. The others have email through their ISP with no "features". I'm thinking a $5 Vultr NC instance would be simple enough for them and probably be plenty of storage. Am I overthinking this? I don't think there is a simple way to share between multiple users with OneDrive, etc. personal accounts. Seems like there would be an easier way. They need simplicity.
What's the difference between NC and OD or GDrive? basically they are all the same.
Why not pick one of the free options and just use that?
Your solution means they have to spend money monthly AND they need support to manage/update/maintain it.
He'd still have to get everyone on the same platform.
exactly - so why bring in something that costs money and adds just one more thing to everyone? At least sticking to OD or GDrive - the user who has that won't have an extra thing - it's a minor point, but probably not of zero value.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
There is a group of about 5 "older" ladies wanting to share a few files and documents. One of them has OneDrive but doesn't know how to use it. One has a Gmail account but doesn't know how to use Google Drive, etc. The others have email through their ISP with no "features". I'm thinking a $5 Vultr NC instance would be simple enough for them and probably be plenty of storage. Am I overthinking this? I don't think there is a simple way to share between multiple users with OneDrive, etc. personal accounts. Seems like there would be an easier way. They need simplicity.
What's the difference between NC and OD or GDrive? basically they are all the same.
Why not pick one of the free options and just use that?
Your solution means they have to spend money monthly AND they need support to manage/update/maintain it.
He'd still have to get everyone on the same platform.
exactly - so why bring in something that costs money and adds just one more thing to everyone? At least sticking to OD or GDrive - the user who has that won't have an extra thing - it's a minor point, but probably not of zero value.
I don't disagree, I was just pointing out the real issue.
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@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender That is my point. How do multiple users share folders in OneDrive for example? I realize you can send files or a folder to someone on the free tier but they would still have to create [email protected] account to retrieve the file if they were not already a MS user. Same goes with Google users.
Of course - just like you have to create users in NC - so there's no saving going with NC there.
then, once you have everyone log into their own accounts - that's assuming you even need separate accounts for everyone (can you use just one shared account for all?) - once they are all logged into OD/GD have one person create a folder, share it with read/write privileges for all the people in question - done.
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@Dashrender I agree with you 100%. Just thinking what would be the most simple for less than average users.
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MS allows you to use your own email address, whatever it is, as a Microsoft Account - so do that. Then have them log into OD using those new creds, and create a single folder as mentioned above - share it out.. done.
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@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender I agree with you 100%. Just thinking what would be the most simple for less than average users.
Do you think NC is easier than OD or GD?
Frankly, I've never used the sync client for NC before, so I don't honestly know.
