What Are You Doing Right Now
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good morning, 9:22am.
got the word yesterday that we're expecting back on site from the 12th onwards. such ashame, the past many months have been some of the most productive, interesting & joyful with regards to work, of my last 10 years.
normally i move from site to site everyday, forgetting what I did last and wasting time settling into the newly arrived at site each time I arrive.
the past few months i've rekindled my interest in IT coz I had time to sit in one place, complete tasks & investigate new things.
I'm going to spend the time between now and the 12th trying to work out how I can run my work life from the cloud, so everytime I arrive at a new workplace, my desktop will still have tasks, jobs, notes open from the previous site, if that makes any sense.
and what the hell is a Stroopwafel??? ^^^
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anyone looked at 2fa for W10? I'm looking for a way in which I can secure a W10 VM not domain joined and not using any bio security stuff, which would be hard to use on a vm anyway.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
anyone looked at 2fa for W10? I'm looking for a way in which I can secure a W10 VM not domain joined and not using any bio security stuff, which would be hard to use on a vm anyway.
I think Duo and companies like OneLogin that offers authentication, SSO etc can do it.
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D&D night just wrapped
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@Pete-S said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
anyone looked at 2fa for W10? I'm looking for a way in which I can secure a W10 VM not domain joined and not using any bio security stuff, which would be hard to use on a vm anyway.
I think Duo and companies like OneLogin that offers authentication, SSO etc can do it.
We use Duo at my day job and it works well -- even on Non-domain joined systems.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
and what the hell is a Stroopwafel??? ^^^
They're like a waffle cone, but less sugar. Google it.
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@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
and what the hell is a Stroopwafel??? ^^^
They're like a waffle cone, but less sugar. Google it.
Less sugar? Are you sure you're not thinking of cardboard?
Seems like there's a lot of sugar and not so much cardboard in one of those Stoopwafels
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
and what the hell is a Stroopwafel??? ^^^
Very standard European coffee biscuit. Much like biscotti from Italy, but the northern European equivalent. So common that McDonald's sells them and they are the in flight snack on several airlines.
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@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
and what the hell is a Stroopwafel??? ^^^
They're like a waffle cone, but less sugar. Google it.
Less sugar till you add the caramel filling, lol.
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Mine accidentally melted into my coffee this morning and sank.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Mine accidentally melted into my coffee this morning and sank.
Caremel cookie coffee?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Mine accidentally melted into my coffee this morning and sank.
A moment of silence for the fallen Stroopwaffel.
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I've got less than an hour before I need to leave to update another clients servers, and have 2 Grandstream paging gateways with zero documentation that are acting up
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This might be useful for anyone who has large exchange database(s):
https://www.powershellcenter.com/2020/09/20/ps-ex-redistribute-mailboxes-from-large-exchange-database-smaller-db-planner/ -
Discussing how much money companies waste in the name of “unlimited”
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
and what the hell is a Stroopwafel??? ^^^
Very standard European coffee biscuit. Much like biscotti from Italy, but the northern European equivalent. So common that McDonald's sells them and they are the in flight snack on several airlines.
sometimes i feel like i've never been anywhere when you guys all start talking about your fancy european snacks and trips to the south of France.
I've been to paradise but I've never been to me...
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Discussing how much money companies waste in the name of “unlimited”
yep, I get you.
I was looking at my isp last night, looking to cut some costs if possible.
$60/100GB, $62/500GB, $69 unlimited.
so most would choose unlimited.
I went through this exercise with everything last year, TV, ISP etc. Think I ended up saving $120/month just by not going unlimited. -
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Discussing how much money companies waste in the name of “unlimited”
yep, I get you.
I was looking at my isp last night, looking to cut some costs if possible.
$60/100GB, $62/500GB, $69 unlimited.
so most would choose unlimited.
I went through this exercise with everything last year, TV, ISP etc. Think I ended up saving $120/month just by not going unlimited.Nothing is truly unlimited, it's always just a really high cap. Or at least hopefully really high. In the case of a lot of ISPs, for example, the unlimited is often just a small step higher, like 700GB in your case. It's amazing how quickly unlimited becomes "moderately high" only.
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The key to unlimited being useful is when abuse is hard. Unlimited Internet or phone minutes are definitely bad, because you'd have to cover the potential abuse cases of people reselling. If you truly got unlimited of either of those, you can easily let people do all kinds of things with your service, because you aren't the one paying for it. Imagine if a phone company gave you "unlimited minutes" - you could use that to start your OWN phone company charging the lowest rates ever, because it's all but free to you. Hence why those are so capped, because there is unlimited potential for abuse and no natural caps.
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Where "unlimited" becomes very different is when the process of using service or product has a natural limit to being used, and where there is a cost to the user. An example would be our veterinary software.... we charge per doctor, but let unlimited non-doctor users use the system.
Could a customer abuse the software, and have thousands of users using it for every doctor (instead of 2-10 people per doctor like we expect?) Of course they could. But in doing so, the cost to us additionally is minimal and the cost to the customer isn't zero - they need to create the users, spend time managing passwords, and what will all those users do? The software just isn't very useful to someone doing something like that. So while it wouldn't be zero cost to us, the cost of abusing the software would be too costly for someone to do just to spite us.
All "unlimited" has a scope. So while anything that is truly unlimited is certainly going to be costly, you have to look at what it is and how the economics and scope play out.
