A classic. These shows are the best.

@mattspeller said in ZTE Shows Off Immersion Server Liquid Cooling at MWC: I would really need to see this myself to believe it. Even with mineral oil you need some kind of heat spreader. I can see this working no problem with a modest hunk of copper on the CPU but bare? Yikes. sceptical.jpg They show them working with no spreaders on the video. Mineral oil doesn't cool anything like a two phase. It's not "even with mineral oil", because it's among the bad options. It moves heat well, but moves physically very slowly. The two phase moves heat SO quickly.

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.

@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.

@wrx7m said in Comparing IT Buyers and IT Pros: @scottalanmiller said in Comparing IT Buyers and IT Pros: @wrx7m said in Comparing IT Buyers and IT Pros: What if you are both? lol That's a hard aspect of it, there is almost always overlap. Not always, but especially in the SMB there is often quite a bit. Any SMB IT Pro will have to buy regularly. Many buyers do IT work on smaller scales so as not to have to go through the process of buying something simple. Yeah, I am an IT pro that has to buy. At some point, all pros have to buy sometimes. Heck even General Motors buys some of their parts from the outside!

@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

@popester said in Hybrid RAID SAMIT Video: @scottalanmiller sounds like a "Hot Mess" Pretty much

Instantaneous Storage Evacuation Event

@scottalanmiller said in The Difference Between IT and Bench Work SAMIT Video: @flaxking said in The Difference Between IT and Bench Work SAMIT Video: @scottalanmiller It is interesting that bench/IT cross discipline experience is so common, but it often happens from convenience/budget constraint or ignorance. (though sometimes it happens as a hobby) And thus being cross trained won't help you that much in advancing your career. However IT/Dev cross discipline is super useful and there is an ongoing spike in demand for it. As well as being well paying. But Bench/IT is more common. That might be changing though. With the cloud providing another layer of abstraction from the hardware, and with learning Powershell scripting meaning you're starting to cross into Dev. My personal belief is that DevOps is not the future of systems administration, only a stepping stone along the path. System admins aren't attempting to do something bespoke or unique, like developers are, so the use of development methodologies doesn't make sense abstractly within IT circles. Right now, a lack of advanced tooling for what admins need creates a need for DevOps, but only to fill an existing gap - one that I know of at least one company working to fill. Once the power of Devops exists without the need for developer knowledge or experience, I think that we will rapidly see that category disappear again. I think you're probably right, when we're talking about interdisciplinary IT/Dev skills and the misnamed 'DevOps Engineer' role. Eventually that will be automated and abstracted away. At which point mixing IT and Dev will as inherently valuable as mixing any other discipline with Dev, and it would make more sense to be talking about the value of Bench/Dev vs. IT/Dev. However the 'power of DevOps' is a whole other can of worms.

This is totally a coincidence that this was the next one up in the queue to post here. But talk about perfect timing! This came up at least three times today alone.

@coliver said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video: @scottalanmiller said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video: @wirestyle22 said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video: BREAKING: Senator Chuck Schumer says there will be a Senate Vote to overturn the FCC's ruling on Net Neutrality -- Only a simple majority will be required to overturn the ruling. Sadly, he needs a majority but the R have the majority and don't want to vote against the companies that have them in their pockets. And there is no point to doing so as this was Trump's boi in the FCC and Trump has veto. So while CHuck is doing a good thing, it won't make any difference. It's posturing. Seems more like he knows it won't work and is just prepping for 2018 at this point. He and Booker are top considerations for president so, very likely.

@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.