What Are You Doing Right Now
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It's amazing to me how many lengthy discussions on SW come down to just not knowing what basic technology is and having crazy assumptions about it. Like if people just knew what SAN and NAS were it would answer 90% of threads. Instead we have to have lengthy explanations over and over because lacking that simple knowledge of "what it is" leads to all kinds of insanity.
Why do you think so many with so little knowledge end up in SW?
My guess is that it is because most IT people aren't really IT people. They may work in the profession but they don't have the critical thinking skills or ability to do much within it. SMBs aren't capable (willing?) of spending the money for competent IT people so they go for whomever is cheapest.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It's amazing to me how many lengthy discussions on SW come down to just not knowing what basic technology is and having crazy assumptions about it. Like if people just knew what SAN and NAS were it would answer 90% of threads. Instead we have to have lengthy explanations over and over because lacking that simple knowledge of "what it is" leads to all kinds of insanity.
Why do you think so many with so little knowledge end up in SW?
IT Buyers community, and the funnel that they use both encourage it. IT Buyers would not be expected to know what a SAN is, and funneling in with the common denominator being "a free, but not open, app that sends a lot of private data out and requires Windows but doesn't work well" makes for a very "entry level" tendency to people funneling into the community.
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@coliver 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:
It's amazing to me how many lengthy discussions on SW come down to just not knowing what basic technology is and having crazy assumptions about it. Like if people just knew what SAN and NAS were it would answer 90% of threads. Instead we have to have lengthy explanations over and over because lacking that simple knowledge of "what it is" leads to all kinds of insanity.
Why do you think so many with so little knowledge end up in SW?
My guess is that it is because most IT people aren't really IT people. They may work in the profession but they don't have the critical thinking skills or ability to do much within it. SMBs aren't capable (willing?) of spending the money for competent IT people so they go for whomever is cheapest.
Most that I've seen don't actually work in IT, they are on the buyer's side so represent the business in acquiring IT, but don't do it themselves, at least not primarily.
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Wow, I just got muted for this post from days ago...
Why would someone mute me over that, especially days later when I've not been on the thread?
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Just the simplest clarification of a request is seen as hostile these days.
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Maybe Kopano users are over there
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It's amazing to me how many lengthy discussions on SW come down to just not knowing what basic technology is and having crazy assumptions about it. Like if people just knew what SAN and NAS were it would answer 90% of threads. Instead we have to have lengthy explanations over and over because lacking that simple knowledge of "what it is" leads to all kinds of insanity.
Why do you think so many with so little knowledge end up in SW?
Because they have been welcoming home users and other tech-tarded individuals for quite some time. "For IT pros" means diddly-squat over there, anyone with a computer and an email address to sign up is considered an "IT pro" on SW.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Why would someone mute me over that, especially days later when I've not been on the thread?
Almost sounds to me like someone is going about poisoning the well.
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I have 2 users right now that can't get any links to open correctly in IE. When a link is clicked, it opens a new window, full screen, that is blank and never loads up. Neither of them have installed yesterday's updates, and, I truly hate to say, we require the use of IE for our CRM and to connect to customer systems. Should be a fun day tracking this down, convincing users that "yes, you actually need to reboot".
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@NDC said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Why would someone mute me over that, especially days later when I've not been on the thread?
Almost sounds to me like someone is going about poisoning the well.
I wouldn't be shocked to find out mods were doing some of that.
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@mattspeller is challenging me to build a PC box....
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp228/undamaged22/can_top_right.jpg
Might do so with an rPi for a fully contained / powered system. Hey, .... why not?!
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@mattspeller is challenging me to build a PC box....
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp228/undamaged22/can_top_right.jpg
Might do so with an rPi for a fully contained / powered system. Hey, .... why not?!
Battery powered!
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That would be cool.
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@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@mattspeller is challenging me to build a PC box....
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp228/undamaged22/can_top_right.jpg
Might do so with an rPi for a fully contained / powered system. Hey, .... why not?!
Battery powered!
Battery (18650s)
Solar rechargable
SDR radio
VHF/UHF HT for Packet radioSigh,... and the list grows.
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@mattspeller is challenging me to build a PC box....
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp228/undamaged22/can_top_right.jpg
Might do so with an rPi for a fully contained / powered system. Hey, .... why not?!
Battery powered!
Battery (18650s)
Solar rechargable
SDR radio
VHF/UHF HT for Packet radioSigh,... and the list grows.
Ohh Ohh Ohh.
Please add this. This has been on my project list forever but just haven't gotten around to doing it yet. Something about kids needing to be fed or something.
GSM Cell card for Raspberry Pi w/ Ting or T-Mobile
https://www.adafruit.com/products/1963?gclid=CL_eqd_Gg9ICFQ5rfgod1joM6w
https://www.adafruit.com/product/2505 -
That OF thread is a perfect example of the state of things. Guy posts that his OF doesn't update. Um, of course not, they've been without updates for something like seven years now. That was the huge beef with them that they built on a useless, dead end OS that went out of business. There is nothing to update. I'm guessing he's run his critical storage for most of a decade without ever trying to update it before?
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@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@mattspeller is challenging me to build a PC box....
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp228/undamaged22/can_top_right.jpg
Might do so with an rPi for a fully contained / powered system. Hey, .... why not?!
Battery powered!
Battery (18650s)
Solar rechargable
SDR radio
VHF/UHF HT for Packet radioSigh,... and the list grows.
Ohh Ohh Ohh.
Please add this. This has been on my project list forever but just haven't gotten around to doing it yet. Something about kids needing to be fed or something.
GSM Cell card for Raspberry Pi w/ Ting or T-Mobile
https://www.adafruit.com/products/1963?gclid=CL_eqd_Gg9ICFQ5rfgod1joM6w
https://www.adafruit.com/product/2505Why would I want a cell phone on this thing?
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@mattspeller is challenging me to build a PC box....
http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp228/undamaged22/can_top_right.jpg
Might do so with an rPi for a fully contained / powered system. Hey, .... why not?!
Battery powered!
Battery (18650s)
Solar rechargable
SDR radio
VHF/UHF HT for Packet radioSigh,... and the list grows.
Ohh Ohh Ohh.
Please add this. This has been on my project list forever but just haven't gotten around to doing it yet. Something about kids needing to be fed or something.
GSM Cell card for Raspberry Pi w/ Ting or T-Mobile
https://www.adafruit.com/products/1963?gclid=CL_eqd_Gg9ICFQ5rfgod1joM6w
https://www.adafruit.com/product/2505Why would I want a cell phone on this thing?
I can think of 2 reasons off of the top of my head.
- Your own cell phone. Don't have to worry about Google monitoring you with Android and more.
- Home Assistant with this could turn into an alarm system that can alert you if somebody was to break the hard line.
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Working on a FreeBSD install.
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Having a pint of Sierra Nevada Celebration fresh hop ale. And a sandwich to go.
