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    • ObsolesceO
      Obsolesce @scottalanmiller
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      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      KVM is made by IBM at about $63bn USD. VMware is made by Broadcom at about $21bn USD.

      If IBM and Broadcom are $63bn and $21bn respectively, Microsoft is $200bn, wouldn't that (Hyper-V) be the one to use then?

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      • siringoS
        siringo @Obsolesce
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        @Obsolesce No.
        I can help out here.
        The CIO hadn't heard of Microsoft.

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        • DashrenderD
          Dashrender @travisdh1
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          @travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          @travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          @EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          Reading through income tax return.

          We ended up having to pay a little for Fed, and got very little back from state. All around close to even, but still enough to annoy the wife.

          what is her goal?

          Refund.... she's used to getting a large refund.

          Of course I think we came out real close to right.

          She realized that's insane - right? hell - you want to owe every year so YOU get the interest free loan instead of the gov't.... Of course - you PLAN for that and save money to pay when it's time...

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          • DashrenderD
            Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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            @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

            I had someone recently tell me that their CIO wanted to use Vmware over KVM because, and you can't make this stuff up, they liked "working with the biggest vendor."

            Literally, they didn't care if it made sense for the purpose, they didn't care if it was reliable or cost effective, they didn't care if it was secure. They literally only wanted to know which product was made by the largest company. No IT factor considered.

            And then, as incompetent as that is, with only a single thing to research; with no need to check on features, cost, licensing, support, price, or other complicated factors; they got the ONLY thing that they were considering wrong.

            KVM is made by IBM at about $63bn USD. VMware is made by Broadcom at about $21bn USD. IBM is roughly three times the size. And IBM is the KIND of company that should make hypervisors, Broadcom really isn't. But that aside, no matter how insane it would be to consider market cap or revenue of a vendor as the determination of product applicability to a company, they got that one, insanely simple task, ass backwards.

            When you are THAT dumb, it is pervasive. If you are dumb enough to think company size matters in some significant way, you are also so clueless as not to be able to determine company size.

            While they said - the larges company - what they really meant was - the one that advertises the most to people like me - in airports, on TV, etc... If I'm not seeing ads for them - then they aren't worth considering.. /sigh

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            • travisdh1T
              travisdh1 @Dashrender
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              @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              @travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              @travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              @EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              Reading through income tax return.

              We ended up having to pay a little for Fed, and got very little back from state. All around close to even, but still enough to annoy the wife.

              what is her goal?

              Refund.... she's used to getting a large refund.

              Of course I think we came out real close to right.

              She realized that's insane - right? hell - you want to owe every year so YOU get the interest free loan instead of the gov't.... Of course - you PLAN for that and save money to pay when it's time...

              Preaching to the quire here @Dashrender

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                I had someone recently tell me that their CIO wanted to use Vmware over KVM because, and you can't make this stuff up, they liked "working with the biggest vendor."

                Literally, they didn't care if it made sense for the purpose, they didn't care if it was reliable or cost effective, they didn't care if it was secure. They literally only wanted to know which product was made by the largest company. No IT factor considered.

                And then, as incompetent as that is, with only a single thing to research; with no need to check on features, cost, licensing, support, price, or other complicated factors; they got the ONLY thing that they were considering wrong.

                KVM is made by IBM at about $63bn USD. VMware is made by Broadcom at about $21bn USD. IBM is roughly three times the size. And IBM is the KIND of company that should make hypervisors, Broadcom really isn't. But that aside, no matter how insane it would be to consider market cap or revenue of a vendor as the determination of product applicability to a company, they got that one, insanely simple task, ass backwards.

                When you are THAT dumb, it is pervasive. If you are dumb enough to think company size matters in some significant way, you are also so clueless as not to be able to determine company size.

                While they said - the larges company - what they really meant was - the one that advertises the most to people like me - in airports, on TV, etc... If I'm not seeing ads for them - then they aren't worth considering.. /sigh

                Exactly, they didn't even know how to describe what they meant. They didn't want largest, best, best known, most used, most deployed, most support engineers... they wanted "pays the most to trick me."

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                • WrCombsW
                  WrCombs
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                  got very little sleep last night. My daughter is going through growth spurts left and right and woke up quite a bit due to being asleep a majority of the day (as she was not with me.) it's going to be a hard day.

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                  • notverypunnyN
                    notverypunny
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                    Read-Only Friday so checking our Exchange (Online) environment for CVE-2023-23397

                    https://microsoft.github.io/CSS-Exchange/Security/CVE-2023-23397/

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                    • nadnerBN
                      nadnerB
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                      3 power failures this week, and a phone system meltdown.
                      A little more eventful than I'd like 😛

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                      • RojoLocoR
                        RojoLoco
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                        Junk cleaning at the office today. I get to purge a bunch of dead laptops, printers, and battery backups. Oh, and also the whole training room!!!

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                        • travisdh1T
                          travisdh1
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                          Got to deal with realizing I'm triple booked next Thursday, and never got a notification on 2 of the installs today.

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                          • EddieJenningsE
                            EddieJennings
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                            One hour until the live draft for a free Yahoo Fantasy Baseball league 🙂

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller
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                              Just hanging out on the veranda having some coffee this morning.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller
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                                Started the day with two servers down. One was just a power outage, though.

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                                • WrCombsW
                                  WrCombs
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                                  Today is my Friday evening 40 minutes left to go, Was able to write a guide for building items in one of the POS we support. Ready for my weekend

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                                  • jt1001001J
                                    jt1001001
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                                    Printers (and their evil offspring FAX) need to die a horrible death

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                                    • gjacobseG
                                      gjacobse @jt1001001
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                                      @jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      Printers (and their evil offspring FAX) need to die a horrible death

                                      Don’t disagree, but I don’t get that choice… no faxes,.. but plenty of printers. But that’s a shipping environment.

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                                      • RojoLocoR
                                        RojoLoco
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                                        The junk pile has been taken away for recycling! An estimated 2000lbs! And secure destruction of all the hard drives!

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                                        • jt1001001J
                                          jt1001001 @gjacobse
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                                          @gjacobse I'm dealing with a MFP device that prints but wrong font so everything's all messed on formatting; AND then they also want it to fax; through a Grandstream ATA to a SIP service and that keep failing. Trying to convince them to move to an HTTPS fax service instead

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                                          • jt1001001J
                                            jt1001001 @RojoLoco
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                                            @RojoLoco Was there anything good in there? I have determined I need to build the home lab back up.

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