@Bill-Kindle said:

@alexntg said:

@Nic said:

Open plans suck, especially for introverts. I couldn't stand it so I had them make me a real cube.

That's one of the reasons I left my last job. I'd be trying to bang out some detailed project work and have Nerf darts whizzing by. Cubes are better, but I prefer an office. Some of my best work happens when I'm in an office with low background noise and no windows.

Now, there's nothing wrong with Nerf wars, when appropriate though.

That depends on your personality.

@Dashrender said:

Alex and Scott seemed to be on opposite sides of the thought.
lol

This is the norm, no?

@Addie said:

I will be working on that tonight. With the change a couple weeks ago our theme choices were well, the purple one I like purple, but there have been some themes added, and I will get that changed.

Did you mean Soon (TM)? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=soon (tm)

That's a bit basic for what I"m used to. However, I'm a big Fluke fan. I've typically used this: http://www.flukenetworks.com/enterprise-network/network-testing/LinkRunner-Network-Multimeter

@Nic said:

Open plans suck, especially for introverts. I couldn't stand it so I had them make me a real cube.

That's one of the reasons I left my last job. I'd be trying to bang out some detailed project work and have Nerf darts whizzing by. Cubes are better, but I prefer an office. Some of my best work happens when I'm in an office with low background noise and no windows.

If you can get to the point of running 3 miles a day, it doesn't really matter what you eat; you'll lose weight.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Joyfano said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I was wondering that too.

Meaning a Chelpee is a gay word of Selfie
Peace sir Darrel..

I don't think this phrase means what you think that it means.

I think it does.

More importantly, why aren't they covered with a tarp?

@tfl said:

@Dashrender said:

Hold the phone.. XP's listed in there.

Indeed - this is most generous of Microsoft.

Sets an interesting precedent for the future but I think they did the good thing here!

That's a terrible precedent to set. Now XP users are going to want more patches the next time something happens.

@scottalanmiller said:

@alexntg said:

@JaredBusch said:

@alexntg said:

@JaredBusch said:

The problem with all the MMORPG games on the market today is that they dropped the second M. They are no longer multiplayer games. They are a bunch of single players running around in the same world.

That's one of the reasons that I dropped ESO. However, for many games in endgame content, it's nearly exclusively multiplayer. The leveling process may or may not be, depending on the game.

Correct, that the endgame is multiplayer, but the entire game should be.

This is one of the things I liked about the original design of EverQuest 2. Like other games it is changed horribly from what it was. There was solo content and you could level yourself, just slowly. But most content was designed around a group. Additionally the entire crafting system was designed for a solo player, but still required interaction with others (or creation of a lot of alts).

You might like that aspect of FFXIV, then. throughout the game, there's plenty of places where you need to interact with others. In the crafting system, everyone crafts items other crafters need.

That could be fun. Makes time commitments bigger, though.

Not at all. There isn't the addiction factor there. You can put it down whenever.

@Dashrender said:

how much bandwidth do you get with each of these servers/services?

For AWS, gigabit, though unless you have a larger instance size, you won't have the horsepower to make use of it. You pay for outgoing bandwidth; incoming is free.

@scottalanmiller said:

Rackspace uses Vyatta as their UTM. It starts at $160/mo.

Ouch! For what it costs, the feature set isn't quite what I'd expect.

@Dashrender said:

What does AWS charge for hosting your UTM?

It's actually a subscription based license running in an AWS instance. Last I checked, it was $.10 per hour plus instance charges, so you're be looking at around $75 per month for a Sophos UTM with 90% of features unlocked and ~35 per month for the VM to run it on (if you go with small). So for ~$110 per month, you could be the proud user of one of the best UTM products on the market.

@PSX_Defector said:

Hey, I may be many things, a hedonist, a misogynist, a roller derby girl, but I'm not a war criminal.

That anyone has evidence of, at least.

If you're going Exchange, SharePoint has a limited social networking capability of sorts, but it's built right in to the intranet.

@JaredBusch said:

@alexntg said:

@JaredBusch said:

The problem with all the MMORPG games on the market today is that they dropped the second M. They are no longer multiplayer games. They are a bunch of single players running around in the same world.

That's one of the reasons that I dropped ESO. However, for many games in endgame content, it's nearly exclusively multiplayer. The leveling process may or may not be, depending on the game.

Correct, that the endgame is multiplayer, but the entire game should be.

This is one of the things I liked about the original design of EverQuest 2. Like other games it is changed horribly from what it was. There was solo content and you could level yourself, just slowly. But most content was designed around a group. Additionally the entire crafting system was designed for a solo player, but still required interaction with others (or creation of a lot of alts).

You might like that aspect of FFXIV, then. throughout the game, there's plenty of places where you need to interact with others. In the crafting system, everyone crafts items other crafters need.

@Dashrender said:

@alexntg having never used any of the cloud server solutions in any real way (I built a test setup as part of a demo once with SW) I'm unfamiliar with what they have to offer. Does AWS have a VPN appliance gateway device that you can add to your AWS environment to terminate VPN site to site tunnels? (and client to site presumably?)

I can't speak for Azure, but AWS does have an IPSEC VPN instance you can add to your hosted network. That being said, I actually don't use it and rather use a pair of Sophos UTMs.

@technobabble said:

Interesting conversation here. So if you had a hosted MS server with AD (not Azure) it could authenticate desktops?

If you had a way of getting the two to talk, yes. For an office location, a site-to-site VPN would do the trick. For offsite or remote workers, you'd need a pre-login VPN client.

Revenge of the Fifth! May the Force set you free!

What's a ChelPee?