About 75% of the people I talk to use Amazon Web Services, 15% of the remaining is Azure, and the rest is split up by Google Compute Engine, Digital Ocean, and Rackspace.
I haven't gotten a chance to compare AWS to Digital Ocean, but there is a huge price difference between the two (AWS being way more expensive).
If you're using AWS, Azure, DO, etc, why did you specifically choose them over a competitor? If there are very differing features, what were those?
@scottalanmiller said in ML you popular beast... 
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Our hits have increased a lot this month. We used to be in the hundreds of thousands of views per day but are in the 4 - 36 million range now (hits, not completely thread loads, but the numbers are important for resource and capacity comparisons.) So our little web server is taking about half of that and CloudFlare is taking almost exactly half. Load seems fine, however. But recently our need to handle high capacity has exploded. Our views so far this month are over 170m.
Wow, I knew the community was organic at this point but that's crazy. What do you think is causing the most draw in views aside from word of mouth?
@scottalanmiller said in Anyone know about six sigma?:
@BBigford said in Anyone know about six sigma?:
I've been getting a crazy amount of recruiters emailing me about Six Sigma. Was starting to get curious what all the fuss was about.
That's similar to asking for ten years experience on Windows 2016. Instant dust bin if they say things like that.
Yeah I didn't really know what it was. I finally just started blocking people. I got like 5 emails just today about it and job openings but they're all in the same category as spam as far as I'm concerned.
@thwr said in Light Gaming Desktop:
@BBigford said in Light Gaming Desktop:
Definitely agree with @thwr ...
AMD's APU is far superior to Intel's iGPU. You can game a fair amount on their integrated graphics unit. You get about 4 cores of CPU, and 8 cores of GPU. An A10 is about as high as you can go. You'll save yourself from having to buy a graphics card since you aren't doing AAA. The flexibility will come in the future if she decides she does want to play AAA, she won't need a whole new PC, she can just buy a graphics card that can keep up. Something like an AMD R9 390 would suffice. Sapphire makes a real good one for $300.
I prefer AMD graphics for budget gaming, and Intel CPUs. But Intel is spendy and you're talking about ultra low budget at $600. AMD can get that done and she could grow into the card if need be. If not, then there is no loss.
But there's one drawback: The A10's CPU isn't very fast and you can't upgrade to a FX series CPU because it's another socket (FM2+ on A8/10 and AM3+ on FX83xx). On the other hand, the total price for a FX8320 and a new board is way below the price of a Core i5 without a board.
I'm not saying there isn't a bottle neck for AAA titles on an AMD APU... FX requires a discrete GPU though, so that is minimum $150 more for the most bottom of the barrel card that could handle medium settings on a AAA. When you're talking about $600 budget gaming, you've really no other option...
@DustinB3403 said in SAN data transfer - very slow:
Can you have the 10Gbe directly attached to the storage between the colos?
You mean don't have the SAN hooked up to the Windows server? How would I manage what is on the LUN if I did that?
@BBigford said in NAS or SAM-SD?:
@scottalanmiller said in NAS or SAM-SD?:
@wirestyle22 said in NAS or SAM-SD?:
Is a SAM-SD a Software Defined Network that is Scott Alan Miller compliant?
All an enterprise NAS is is a SAM-SD that someone built as a black box for you
If someone were to build a white box, or maybe a green box, would that still be compliant?
or these boxes...
@scottalanmiller said in Light Gaming Desktop:
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@Kelly said in Light Gaming Desktop:
In that price range it is hard to build for better or less than OEMs. I've had good experiences with iBuyPower machines, but there are so many options. A refurb might be a good direction to go too.
Yeah, it's hard to beat iBuyPower or CyberPower most of the time. A couple weeks ago I got some friends kid a system from CyberPower, I don't think they've seen him since we got it plugged in.
We found a super cheap CyberPower that might be the way that she goes.
I.... very much disagree. As a prior boutique builder, there is a lot to be said about pre-built rigs vs. building your own. Has little to do with the experience, or saving money. It's the exact comparison I would use as another thread going on that's based around buying a Synology box or building up a SAM-SD. They both serve pretty much the same function, one just performs a lot better but doesn't have a single point of contact for support.
@scottalanmiller said in Our New Scale Cluster Arrives Tomorrow:
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@coliver said:
@Minion-Queen said:
If we wait till Thursday to do everything we can do a full video (would be with my cell phone).
I think ML needs to invest in a GoPro.
but the ultra wide angle on them would mean you saw nothing of what they were unboxing.
You can change that in settings (you know that by now I'm sure, but maybe others don't) I prefer "Narrow" for unboxing or tutorial videos.
That's fake. It doesn't change the angle. It crops. Not the same thing at all.
It's not really that simple. An easy comparison for cropping would be something like full-frame (FX) vs. cropped (DX) and looking at the comparison. The cropped sensor on a DX body really just takes a portion out of an FX shot, and blows it up, making it look a little blown out and blurry compared to an FX photo.
Cause it's not necessarily cropping as much as it is stretching when you go to the wide setting, to get the angles, so the edges sometimes look a little more distorted than medium or narrow. If it were merely cropped, the center would be the cropped shot, and look somewhat warped rather than squared up across the the whole field of view.
Other than only using the center of the sensor, what is it doing?
Hard to find some good supporting material. The only thing I can find so far is going from the (new-ish) 4k and 2.7k down to 1080p. That definitely crops cause you're essentially just taking a 1080 portion of the 4k video, so it'll look a bit enlarged and blown out. Same thing going from FX to DX. I'll see what I can find though. There has to be something out there that explains it a lot better than I can.
Right, that's the cropping that I was mentioning. That's all that I am aware that it does.
It's changing the degree of the shot. Not the same thing... It's the exact same picture, nothing has been cropped or chopped out. If you were to take a picture and crop it, you're essentially just cutting out a piece of that, and blowing it up to scale (which would make it blown out and somewhat blurred). When you change the viewing angle, you're taking the same 1080 picture that you'd see with that sensor (viewing angle doesn't matter except for light, which is a whole different can of worms), and just opening it out to a different aspect ratio.
Except the lens doesn't move. It can only do it through cropping. It's not the same image.
So what I was told from GoPro doesn't equal exactly what their pro tech guys have for their field guide. In short, it is cropping. So you're right, and all my chatter was just white noise.
I knew that it was cropping from GoPro's manual. Maybe they modified it for the Hero4, but I was aware of the cropping option only because of them. Perhaps they got in trouble for pretending that it was something other than cropping.
Skip to 4:39... Doesn't get much more direct than the field guide. Not sure why GoPro over chat suggested that it was specifically stretching.
You could also contact Microsoft to ensure you're compliant: https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/servicecenter/help/contact.aspx
If you do talk to Microsoft... report back so we know. 
@scottalanmiller said in MS System Center Licensing:
@BBigford said in MS System Center Licensing:
@scottalanmiller said in MS System Center Licensing:
@travisdh1 said in MS System Center Licensing:
@IRJ said in MS System Center Licensing:
@BBigford said in MS System Center Licensing:
You could also contact Microsoft to ensure you're compliant: https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/servicecenter/help/contact.aspx
This ^
Talk to the licensing experts. They are easy to get ahold of and very helpful.
But the "experts" at Microsoft can't even get it right. I won't believe anything they tell me unless they get a certified document sent to me anymore.
Yes, unless they legally stand behind what they say, they benefit from getting it wrong. So be very careful. MS normally refuses to take a stance on the situation.
Yeah, that's messed up. Very possible, but messed up for them to either give zero information or worse, false information.
True, but really, at this point, everyone should know that you can't trust them and if you ask them to put it in writing they will always refuse, so it's not very secret. Still wrong, but in a "no one can really please ignorance" kind of way. It's crazy obvious that they won't actually commit. I know of no case where they have actually stood by those statements.
You know licensing is legit when the creators don't even know if something is compliant because of how convoluted it is. Good way to set someone up for failure.
@thwr said in MS System Center Licensing:
All the products are great, that's not the question
That's not the question of this thread... but that is definitely the question I ask myself every single time I log into my System Center server.
Nice response. There is also the notion that the business could pivot as the market changes, and the business needs to adapt, and whatever you invested in initially might be completely upside down from where you end up.
@thwr said in MS System Center Licensing:
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@thwr said in MS System Center Licensing:
All the products are great, that's not the question
That's not the question of this thread... but that is definitely the question I ask myself every single time I log into my System Center server.
Hehe. My point was just that MS did a very large step away from the SMB with SC2012. No more simple workgroup edition, complicated licensing and so on.
5nine can fill that gap, IMHO.
Meh, if we didn't already have SC I'd be using MDT/WDS. Way less issues (except trying to capture & image with VirtualBox... it's incredibly slow no matter what I do). Not sure if that is Vbox issue or SC issue or what. Physical machines fly right on through.
@TAHIN said in MS System Center Licensing:
I'm not a fan of VMM. Literally every time I log in there's something about he console I have to fix. Or the constant WMI queries to the hosts killing my backups. The virtual switch/logical switch/logical network concept is a overly complicated knockoff of VMware distributed switches.
I am very interested in 5nine Manager however. Have you run a demo in your environment?
Oh and ripping it out was fun... Want to uninstall the agent? Yeah you'll have to reboot those devices. Oh you have 75 production servers? Yeah they all have to be rebooted. Lol awesome, saved that for monthly updates/reboots.
@Son-of-Jor-El said in Over Investing Early Can Be Big Time Failure:
@BBigford Understand. In this industry, materials are actually secondary to the investors lined up, as odd as that may sound.
66% of solar companies died in the past 5 years. A lot of it was due to not having the money lined up. It's quite sad...these are real people losing their jobs.
Yeah that's too bad. You have to remember though that a lot of investments are based on those VCs having investments flowing in. If one of their investments doesn't yield a return, it could be cataclysmic all the way down the chain.
On the other side, it's not a new technology but it's starting to get a lot more traction but still fluctuates with support. So big investments have to yield big returns, often those VCs will pull funding at the last minute and the entire project collapses. Risky business to be in.
If we're talking about the same Torch, it's not malware. It has a torrent client embedded in it so that might be throwing up a flag.
Not to say it might be a phishing variant, or be compromised in another way. But the browser itself is fine (based on Chrome). Used it for a couple years before moving on.
Linux noob here... I know there is a distro of Fedora 24 with Cinnamon, but I installed the one with Gnome and am trying to figure out how to replace it rather than just boot and nuke with the other ISO.
I tried sudo yum cinnamon-software and got a reply that yum is deprecated and to use dnf. So I did that and got a reply that cinnamon-software isn't a command (could do gnome-software in Fedora 20 though?). Looked in the GUI software repository for the correct name and I can't find anything under 'cinnamon'.
Do I need to add another repository then do another search to find the correct name?
Thanks
