@PSX_Defector said:

I'll give you five dorrar for it.

Five dorrar make you horrar!

You propositioning my wife?

@Nic said:

Remember to test wires with the back of your hand, so the electricity doesn't make you clamp down and keep you getting shocked

Your ears work just as well for that... just sayin'

We used to use LogMeIn, but that had issues with consistently working, and then the price got jacked-up. We moved to Screen Connect, and so far I am liking it. If nothing else, it sure seems to be more stable than LMI was.

He's obviously disturbed. Driving a Ford Focus? Really?

@travisdh1 said in NodeBB 1.2 Released:

@scottalanmiller said in NodeBB 1.2 Released:

when things are slow.

We actually slow down around here?

General relativity...

If the issue is that you can't directly contact them and talk to a human, Jared wins.
If the issue is that they don't respond well to tickets and need to be contacted directly (voice call), Scott wins.
If the issue is that you can't access their website from 3rd world counties, everyone wins.
Stop trying to contact US businesses from 3rd world countries. Problem solved.
Next?

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I actually get the Spice Girls thing more often than anything IT or spice related.

Ditto - I must have been asked if I was going to a SpiceGirls fan meeting a dozen times...

Easily

same here.

Also commonly referred to as the "Exploder"

@AVI-NetworkGuy said:

This is interesting because I always liken being an IT Pro to being a "doctor without the great pay" (not that all doctors make a lot of money, but you get my point). Along this same line, like doctors, IT Pros are challenged with "dumbing things down" to laymen's terms with people who have little to no technical knowledge of what they are discussing with you. In fact, I think they even have curricula in some medical schools that teach you how deal with patients in terms of compassion and speaking in a way that makes sense to someone who just doesn't know what you know.

I suppose my point is that it's always tough to figure out a way to tell someone that they are doing something wrong, or thinking along the wrong lines. I find that it's always best to first put yourself into that person's shoes and imagine how you would like to be addressed by someone that you know is more knowledgeable than you. I believe that empathy is key here. Once you can properly empathize with someone (and this, admittedly, takes some practice lol), the right way to say something kind of comes natural.

With this example, I would take a tact that is along the lines of telling the person that what they are thinking might work in certain situations, but for this, we likely need to go a different route and say something like, "Here are some ideas I have that might fit exactly what you need - let's discuss this and come up with the best way to go about this." This implies that you aren't totally brushing the person off or outright telling them they suck and shouldn't touch anything that plugs into a wall unless it's a fork (ok, just kidding with that one lol)

I like the analogy, but for differing points than stated. IT people, much like doctors, tend to think they are a lot smarter than they are, and quite often don't really understand the root nature of what they "practice" on from day-to-day. But, there is a myth that you have to be really smart to be in IT, so the myth perpetuates the arrogance in the field.

I'm not naming any names, just saying that it is a real thing that I have seen.

Yeah, she leaves me here, sitting at my desk all day while she travels and eats good food and enjoys the sunshine. Where's my burger??

"Taco Bell" is, connotatively, diametrically opposed to "healthy".

Unitrends Free is for VMware and Hyper-V platforms, not Xen. The only way to protect XenServer VM's is agent-based, which Unitrends Free only does for Windows. And, it's up to 1TB of data (the data set size, not the cumulative total of all backups taken).

Letchworth State Park

@Dashrender said:

@Reid-Cooper said:

It's becoming increasingly popular for companies to record meetings and stuff and to have speech to text done more or less automatically so meeting transcripts are universally available in an easily searchable way

Interesting, that's the first time I've ever heard someone suggest that.

and it's one thing for a meeting, another out in public.

I know, I know... we are probably be recorded already through our cell phones by the NSA - but at least that information hasn't leaked out to the general public.

Yes. Soon, Google will be selling your private conversations to marketers, so that they can bombard you with ads for products that may have something to do with what you were talking about. Oh, wait... don't they already do that?

@Dashrender said:

Don't they have like 2 or 3 different Free versions? Not that that would change the situation, but it might?

There is the Unitrends Free (above) and the free-to-Spiceworks-members version of the virtual appliance, which also only does VM's and no Xen, and is limited by sockets.

I feel almost caught up on sleep, but not quite. (yawning as I write this...)

Sounds like a page out of the communist manifesto. It works great, as long as you can keep milking the producers to feed the non-producers.

@Baustin213 said:

@DustinB3403 I'll take this scarlet letter if it will help everyone put down their pitchforks, but I really don't plan on talking about the product much (if at all) while I'm here.

But there's nothing stopping you...
You can certainly put the word out there without being considered obnoxious about it (if you know where to draw the line). What was the name of that product again?

It was a lot of work (far more than the bit I was involved with), but I think the pay-off was well worth it. I really enjoyed the sessions, seeing so many familiar faces, and getting to make a few new friends as well. It already looks like next year's conference will be bigger. We've also learned a few things from this experience that we will put into making MangoCon 2017 even better. What's not to get excited about?

@dafyre said:

Ow, ow ow ow. That's always fun. My 4 year old gets in too big of a hurry and walks into door frames (even if the door is wide open, lol).

Yeah, I know how that is. My wife does that.