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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@brandon220 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch I have an 8 plus and thought I wouldn't like the size but could not go back to a "normal" size iPhone now. With a Pelican case, it still fits fine in my front pocket.
My wife has had the Plus series since they came out (6 Plus upgraded to 6s Plus) So I have plenty of experience with it. She loves it and now that she is on the iPhone XS Max, she loves the extra screen space compared to her 6s Plus.
Fanboy much?
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@brandon220 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch I have an 8 plus and thought I wouldn't like the size but could not go back to a "normal" size iPhone now. With a Pelican case, it still fits fine in my front pocket.
My wife has had the Plus series since they came out (6 Plus upgraded to 6s Plus) So I have plenty of experience with it. She loves it and now that she is on the iPhone XS Max, she loves the extra screen space compared to her 6s Plus.
Fanboy much?
Not at all. Nothing in there is fanboy at all. Don't try to be me. You don't do it well.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Because he is a super fanboy of it.
Not really, but sure let's go with that.
It's open source, the management solution is open source. Both are constantly being updated. Bugs are being found and fixed rapidly.
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Honestly, it is a good solution, but I don't like the risks of things going to hell again now that it is spun off totally separate because of the XS licensing changes or whatever it was that cause XCP-NG to be formed int he first place.
Citrix, made major portions of XenServer closed, and required you purchase support to get updates. That is what caused XCP-ng to come into existence.
It is a fork of the last open source portions of XenServer that were available by the community with no corporate backing to my knowledge. @olivier's company is pretty muc the onyl ones doing anything because the change to XenServer basically killed their previous product.
This is not a solution I will choose to recommend to people to run their business on.
This does not mean there is a damned thing wrong with XenServer via XCP-NG for those that know the risk and have the skill to handle the deployment.
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@JaredBusch I tried switching to a Samsung galaxy S9 a few years ago. It lasted 14 days (took it back before the trial period ended) because I missed iMessage, battery life was poor, and a few other issues. I use wifi calling a lot and it didn't seem to have that at the time. Wouldn't call myself an Apple fanboy. I do love the keyboard on my wife's macBook Pro...
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It will be really nice when Cockpit can FULLY manage a KVM host.
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@brandon220 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch I tried switching to a Samsung galaxy S9 a few years ago. It lasted 14 days (took it back before the trial period ended) because I missed iMessage, battery life was poor, and a few other issues. I use wifi calling a lot and it didn't seem to have that at the time. Wouldn't call myself an Apple fanboy. I do love the keyboard on my wife's macBook Pro...
In my opinion, the Android ecosystem really stabilized, in the last two years, to the point that I totally considered the current series of phones when deciding what to do about my iPhone 8 upgrade (i'm on a T-Mobile plan that lets me upgrade continually). Thankfully the plan doens't restrict my upgrades to a single model of phone. That is why I signed up for it instead of like Apple's continuous upgrade plan or something.
Anyway. Android is solid and comparable IMO, but not ahead or anything in a way that would also want me to get off the ease of being on a single "ecosystem" for the family.
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@brandon220 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch I tried switching to a Samsung galaxy S9 a few years ago. It lasted 14 days (took it back before the trial period ended) because I missed iMessage, battery life was poor, and a few other issues. I use wifi calling a lot and it didn't seem to have that at the time. Wouldn't call myself an Apple fanboy. I do love the keyboard on my wife's macBook Pro...
I'm really a fan of my S9. First Android device in a long time, but it has been great.
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I've had an S8 for about 6 months. Works great
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@scotth said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I've had an S8 for about 6 months. Works great
@pchiodo uses the Active 8
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
XenServer via XCP-NG
What does this mean?
XenServer is a product. XCP-ng is a separate product.
XCP-ng is based on the last open source version of XenServer, and uses XAPI for the toolstack administration. It is also further along with the progression of certain pieces of technology that Citrix has never gotten to developing.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@brandon220 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch I have an 8 plus and thought I wouldn't like the size but could not go back to a "normal" size iPhone now. With a Pelican case, it still fits fine in my front pocket.
My wife has had the Plus series since they came out (6 Plus upgraded to 6s Plus) So I have plenty of experience with it. She loves it and now that she is on the iPhone XS Max, she loves the extra screen space compared to her 6s Plus.
Fanboy much?
There's nothing that says fanboy at all. Just preferred the extra screen sizes of the plus and max.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@brandon220 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch I tried switching to a Samsung galaxy S9 a few years ago. It lasted 14 days (took it back before the trial period ended) because I missed iMessage, battery life was poor, and a few other issues. I use wifi calling a lot and it didn't seem to have that at the time. Wouldn't call myself an Apple fanboy. I do love the keyboard on my wife's macBook Pro...
I'm really a fan of my S9. First Android device in a long time, but it has been great.
I'm a big fan of the Galaxy line... I had both a Note 3 and a Note 4... I'm considering switching back to Samsung for the Note 9 instead of a Pixel XL 3... But I want to see if Verizon is going to get the Fold first. From what I hear, nobody knows yet.
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@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@brandon220 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch I tried switching to a Samsung galaxy S9 a few years ago. It lasted 14 days (took it back before the trial period ended) because I missed iMessage, battery life was poor, and a few other issues. I use wifi calling a lot and it didn't seem to have that at the time. Wouldn't call myself an Apple fanboy. I do love the keyboard on my wife's macBook Pro...
I'm really a fan of my S9. First Android device in a long time, but it has been great.
I'm a big fan of the Galaxy line... I had both a Note 3 and a Note 4... I'm considering switching back to Samsung for the Note 9 instead of a Pixel XL 3... But I want to see if Verizon is going to get the Fold first. From what I hear, nobody knows yet.
Fanboy much?
jk
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I grabbed a Galaxy Tab A in November. Works great for eBooks. 50 bucks at Verizon....$10/mo. added onto my cell bill which will be cancelled as soon as I can without penalty
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@brandon220 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch I have an 8 plus and thought I wouldn't like the size but could not go back to a "normal" size iPhone now. With a Pelican case, it still fits fine in my front pocket.
My wife has had the Plus series since they came out (6 Plus upgraded to 6s Plus) So I have plenty of experience with it. She loves it and now that she is on the iPhone XS Max, she loves the extra screen space compared to her 6s Plus.
Fanboy much?
There's nothing that says fanboy at all. Just preferred the extra screen sizes of the plus and max.
He doens't like it when he's called out on his XenServer fanboy tendencies. They go back a long way.
As I already stated, there is nothing wrong with XenServer/XCP-NG as a technical solution. But I don't push things blindly.
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@tonyshowoff said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@brandon220 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch I tried switching to a Samsung galaxy S9 a few years ago. It lasted 14 days (took it back before the trial period ended) because I missed iMessage, battery life was poor, and a few other issues. I use wifi calling a lot and it didn't seem to have that at the time. Wouldn't call myself an Apple fanboy. I do love the keyboard on my wife's macBook Pro...
I'm really a fan of my S9. First Android device in a long time, but it has been great.
I'm a big fan of the Galaxy line... I had both a Note 3 and a Note 4... I'm considering switching back to Samsung for the Note 9 instead of a Pixel XL 3... But I want to see if Verizon is going to get the Fold first. From what I hear, nobody knows yet.
Fanboy much?
jk
Only slightly.... and only when I'm not quite so concerned about their batteries setting me / my house / my car on fire.
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@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@brandon220 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch I tried switching to a Samsung galaxy S9 a few years ago. It lasted 14 days (took it back before the trial period ended) because I missed iMessage, battery life was poor, and a few other issues. I use wifi calling a lot and it didn't seem to have that at the time. Wouldn't call myself an Apple fanboy. I do love the keyboard on my wife's macBook Pro...
I'm really a fan of my S9. First Android device in a long time, but it has been great.
I'm a big fan of the Galaxy line... I had both a Note 3 and a Note 4... I'm considering switching back to Samsung for the Note 9 instead of a Pixel XL 3... But I want to see if Verizon is going to get the Fold first. From what I hear, nobody knows yet.
I have had an HTC Evo 4G, HTC Evo 3D, Galaxy S4, Galaxy Note 4, Galaxy S8+ and will be getting a Galaxy S10+.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
He doens't like it when he's called out on his XenServer fanboy tendencies.
This is funny, because I actively use KVM, XCP-ng and ESXi. As an ecosystem XCP-ng when combined with XO makes a pretty damn solid solution.
KVM is good as well, but has more to setup, and ESXi is just annoying.
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'Human error' — an Amtrak worker fell on a circuit board — blamed for Thursday's Metra mess at Union Station
The commuting debacle at Union Station on Thursday was caused by Amtrak’s decision to upgrade its servers during peak service hours and a worker falling on a circuit board, which turned off the computers and led to delays that affected more than 60,000 Chicago-area commuters.
The cause of Thursday’s incident was provided by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who spoke to Amtrak CEO and President Richard Anderson. Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari did not dispute Durbin’s characterization.
Durbin said Anderson admitted that Amtrak made a series of errors, the most significant of which was upgrading servers during its peak hours of service, rather than in the middle of the night when fewer trains are running.
