Worth noting that this was recording some time ago. Now Microsoft's new development platform, Visual Studio Code, has C# and F# support, but support for VB.NET has been dropped in it. This is the first time that MS has actively started to remove VB support from part of its ecosystem. Traditionally it was just kept on the back burner or given as an "extra" example. But now, for the first time, it is actually being left out.

@momurda said in Survey of Fake Jobs SAMIT Video: Anyway to get it to transcribe these to a document whose text you could put underneath your videos? Gotta find an easy way to pretty it up. But I know how to get it now, so I can work on that.

With a picture of a flaming fireball shot

@bbigford said in The Entirely Fake Office SAMIT Video: @scottalanmiller said in The Entirely Fake Office SAMIT Video: @bbigford said in The Entirely Fake Office SAMIT Video: Wow. Yeah, amazing the lengths that companies will go through. The fake office in a verified business with the intent of approaching them... I am lost for words on how messed up that is to lure people in as part of the key deliverables & company resume. Shows how much the clients will potentially pay if the recruiters "own" all viable candidates!

@scottalanmiller said in Job Hunting is Like Online Dating SAMIT Video: I can see a podcast mechanism being very handy. I like podcasts on an old fashioned MP3 player with no Internet myself. I can offer to make the podcast on this.

@scottalanmiller said in How to Spot Fake Job Postings SAMIT Video: Youtube Video Fake job postings are sometimes pretty hard to spot. But there are a lot of signs that can help us identify common fake jobs. The truth about this had me gut rolling in the car the other day. Great video.

@pmoncho said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video: @dustinb3403 said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video: @pmoncho said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video: Unfortunately, sometimes the best answer/decision today becomes a bad decision tomorrow. Then it clearly wasn't the best decision at the time. If you are evaluating a system today, and it does everything you could ever need and then some. It cost a nominal amount of money to implement compared to the competition and you go with that solution. That isn't a bad decision. In 3 years there could be a way better system that exist and costs even less and offers more. But you needed a system 3 years ago not 3 years in the future. You picked the best solution for the organization that was available at the time. "At the time" is the key phrase. A boss could say, "Why didn't you look to the future and only see the present? You wasted my money because you didn't look out far enough" That then makes it a bad decision even though it could have been the best smart logical decision ever. I'm not saying its right, just that the boss could say it. I am in agreement that we do our best to make the best decision based on info we have at the time. That still opens the door to a previously best decision becoming a bad decision. That's just the boss making a different bad decision now

@scottalanmiller Thanks man!!! Review time.

I wonder how these really compare to the Sennheiser ones?

@flaxking said in Always Study for the Future SAMIT Video: When I was deciding when if I was going to do Server 2012 or 2016 certifications, I went with 2012, and I'm glad I did because it was still a year from that point that the Server 2016 exams came out, and I was already certified. Maybe I should have worded it "study for the farthest future that there is a test for"

@dbeato said in Are VLANs Needed for VoIP? SAMIT Video: @scottalanmiller said in Are VLANs Needed for VoIP? SAMIT Video: @dbeato said in Are VLANs Needed for VoIP? SAMIT Video: @scottalanmiller said in Are VLANs Needed for VoIP? SAMIT Video: @dave247 said in Are VLANs Needed for VoIP? SAMIT Video: @scottalanmiller Didn't you already post this a while back? I searched and didn't find it. I don't think it got a thread, but it was likely a response to someone somewhere. Yeah, you posted it in SpiceWorks. I think maybe here, too, though. Maybe this? https://mangolassi.it/topic/15518/the-basics-of-voip-samit-video/34 Maybe that is all that I am thinking of.

@scottalanmiller said in All SMB IT Are Generalists SAMIT Video: @jaredbusch said in All SMB IT Are Generalists SAMIT Video: @scottalanmiller said in All SMB IT Are Generalists SAMIT Video: @jaredbusch said in All SMB IT Are Generalists SAMIT Video: it is about time you got your editor to fix the preload image.. It's kinda random. No, it is not. It never has been. It is only random when you have an editor that cannot read. Which is obviously an issue in and of itself. There is a big old button there to put one of your choice on there. That's not the editor that picks that, that's the poster. And that is manually chosen every time, but only from the three choices, need to have someone make a title pic otherwise. Maybe just need to do that. You are correct that I simply assumed the editor would post it to your channel for you. Seems silly to have to send it back and forth.

Lots of screaming in the background of this one!

@coliver said in Comparing Colocation and On Premises Infrastructure SAMIT Video: First one of these I've listened to/watched. I kind of wish you would do an audio version of these with an RSS feed so my podcast app could download them. Shouldn't be too hard other then the hosting aspect of it. I converted to MP3 you can get it from my Dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/s/60qefvg632nnc5c/Comparing Colocation and On Premises Infrastructure.mp3?dl=0

This is the kind of thing I did in the last 12 months on purpose, in all the places where I knew my "boss" (partner with more stock) would read it. Then I would be like "Hey you see that guy online who just shit crapped all over our company". edit: I've exceeded my forum limit today for swearing. We're wearwolves not swearwolves.. Youtube Video – [00:35..]

@biglittle said in The Basics of VoIP SAMIT Video: Just realized today when routing a ticket that our VOIP is pbx based? No idea what any of this means, but excited to learn Essentially all business VoIP uses a PBX. There can be exceptions, but it’s mostly theoretical.

@scottalanmiller said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video: @dave247 said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video: .... haven't had the chance to dig in as I am a freaking "IT generalist" where I work. Youtube Video I have a video for everything these days. yep I just watched that one.. guess I can't call myself a Systems Administrator anymore (jk I totally am)

It's not that college is always bad, it just comes with negatives that have to be weighed against the positives. The standard approach is to assume that instead of going to college (whether at 18 or mid-career) is to assume that the person will do absolutely nothing productive with their free time, accept the same stagnation and all other negatives that come with the educational process, and that they will then compete toe to toe after the one has completed college and the other has just waited for them to finish. But in the real world, someone ambitious enough to have gone to college for career reasons is also ambitious enough to work harder at their jobs, done a side job, gotten certs, learned on their own, moved on to another job, or so forth. Those are the more realistic actions of the other person that had the option of college. So when making the comparison, you have to look at those opportunities and look at the opportunities from the degree process and weight them in that fashion.

Thanks

@dashrender said in Forum Posting Etiquette: @scottalanmiller said in Forum Posting Etiquette: @dashrender said in Forum Posting Etiquette: @dave247 said in Forum Posting Etiquette: @scottalanmiller said in Forum Posting Etiquette: @dashrender said in Forum Posting Etiquette: I do like the idea of many smaller posts - but it also runs into the problem of many thing to respond to at once. While I'm no where near as fast as Scott, I can typically type two to three small posts before the OP (or anyone other than Scott) replies to my first reply. So unlike your I like red. So do I, but have you considered orange, no but, ... you aren't having a real back and forth because you run into the same problem as the wall of text issue. I real time conversation where all involved parties get the information simultaneously, in a forum you have people jumping in in the middle and fleeing, or someone who just throws out 5 ideas, each in their own post before any responses are made, and eventually many people just stop reading anything but the last few posts. I'm not sure you can solve this problem, but it's just good to know it's there. But smaller posts make it easier to respond. No matter how much time you have, making it faster and easier helps you. Wall of text in the same situation would mean no ability to respond at all. I noticed this with how you post back in Spiceworks and I was like, what the hell is this guy doing. But having broken up posts to respond to is kind of nice. It becomes not nice when there are many of them peppered throughout the whole forum page. Then you have to scroll around like crazy to find what it is you need to respond to. This was my point - in other words both situations lead to the same end, people not reading/responding to posts. Keep in mind what you are implying here... that there is a post that is so long, that if responded to, people won't respond. So the answer is to... not respond? Doesn't that suggest two things... Not responding would make it worse, not better - because it would just make the thing that you don't want to have happen, happen earlier? That the source of the issue is the original post(s) that created a situation where you already don't like the length that it would take to respond to them? Well frankly, due to the organic nature of so many of our and other threads, anything more than about 30 posts deep become near pointless as almost no new comer will read the entire thread before responding. If you're lucky, they'll read the OP and the last 4-5 posts very likely repeating something someone already said. But that is the case regardless. Wall of texts just accelerate it.