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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Watching Now:

@EddieJennings no spoliers, still on season 1, watching with the girlfriend

I just completed a month long binge rewatch in anticipation of season 7

The North remembers...

@Dashrender said in Linux Workstation Power Users - What are you running?:

@travisdh1 said in Linux Workstation Power Users - What are you running?:

@bigbear Ideal desktop? I'm happy without a GUI, personally. We've moved to mostly KDE at work. I don't like what Ubuntu and GNOME have done with the interface, but that's just personal preference.

So where do you run your browser if you don't like a GUI? or are you saying that the GUI choice doesn't matter to you as long as you get your browser?

We have a guy here who tries to use curl for everything on cent os cli. He's our Mr Robot.

The CPE units from UBNT are so cheap now you could just call it an install/setup fee and still rent/own the equipment.

@NerdyDad I am curious what speeds and prices the market will bare down in your area.

@wirestyle22 I dont think you should feel bad for thinking this. If you rewind 10+ years vendors like Allworx (grrrr) would deflect every quality issue as a result of you not deploying VLANS and QoS on your 12 phone network. Hah! And I am talking about Allworx with a PRI attached who is telling you your LAN is some kind of bottleneck.

Allworx had and may still have a header issue.

I still come across customers with band issues that have some legacy VLAN/QoS configured (and configured wrong most of the time).

So, point being, you really couldnt fault someone for having this "misinformation".

@travisdh1 said in New Server for the office:

@coliver said in New Server for the office:

@DustinB3403 said in New Server for the office:

With any solution you're going to want to virtualize. So be it Hyper-V, XenServer, ESXi or KVM. Installing anything besides a hypervisor to bare metal really needs a very specific reason. Which I don't think you have.

You may be able to get something from @scale within that price range, but I honestly don't know.

I thought their base price was $23K. May be wrong though.

They're offering single servers now, so I'd assume around 1/3 that price, $7700.

I'd immediately check what @xByteSean has to offer.

Lenovo is a never touch company now. In addition to all the lies around superfish, the BIOS level remote access bug was only ever fixed by a password change. So if you have a Lenovo on your network, you are no longer in control of said network.

Mikrotik do make some good gear, but Ubiquiti has surpassed them in value.

I never really trust them, lol. Early on I was an AS400 admin (oh 18 years ago) and I had always been drawn to IBM. So I gave them a shot.

@irj said in I am going to start an ISP:

@scottalanmiller said in I am going to start an ISP:

Right, what is bad for the consumer is good for the vendor. And loads and loads of consumers actually like being taken advantage of. Don't disappoint them.

Absolutely. Some consumers get mad when you dont rip them off since they have become so used to get shafted.

There are a lot of maxims at play, but you'd have to agree that most customers equate price with value.

To that end, lets say he inherited a WISP network and deals were in place to make the internet free and power free. So perhaps he can offer internet for $5/month and still be profitable.

He would have an easier time selling it at $50 than $5 per month. Even I would just assume it wasnt going to be reliable.

To the other extreme of being taken advantage of I agree. That may not realize it, and sometimes we see it on our end.

Customers are often terrible buyers, and it can be to your advantage in internet/voice and much to your dismay if its IT services.

@coliver said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

Wathing GLOW with @Dominica

I'm liking GLOW so far. Not as good as OitNB but still very good.

Only two episodes in, but it's decent. I like Alison Brie a lot, I am a huge fan of community so glad to see her with this.

That's where my wife and I are as well. I honestly didn't even realize it was Alison Brie until I looked up the actress on IMDB. She just looks so much different then she did in Community.

It was a couple years before I realized she was Pete's wife on Mad Men. Pretty crazy, you see her naked in the first 10 minutes and there is no way you would match that up to Community or Mad Men.

@travisdh1 Discovering vultr.com has really blown everything else away for me.

I have to have the data local because browsing all the huge files at a moments notice for a tower permit or a maritime deployment involves perusing 100gbs of data quickly at a moments notice.

We have an oct192 here and it still isn't feasible lol

@irj said in I am going to start an ISP:

@bigbear said in I am going to start an ISP:

@irj said in I am going to start an ISP:

@scottalanmiller said in I am going to start an ISP:

Right, what is bad for the consumer is good for the vendor. And loads and loads of consumers actually like being taken advantage of. Don't disappoint them.

Absolutely. Some consumers get mad when you dont rip them off since they have become so used to get shafted.

There are a lot of maxims at play, but you'd have to agree that most customers equate price with value.

To that end, lets say he inherited a WISP network and deals were in place to make the internet free and power free. So perhaps he can offer internet for $5/month and still be profitable.

He would have an easier time selling it at $50 than $5 per month. Even I would just assume it wasnt going to be reliable.

To the other extreme of being taken advantage of I agree. That may not realize it, and sometimes we see it on our end.

Customers are often terrible buyers, and it can be to your advantage in internet/voice and much to your dismay if its IT services.

I have been with my girl for about 5 years and I still struggle getting the generic brand of anything. I have shown her multiple times that they come from the same factory in china, but to her if it isn't the name brand it isn't as good. She determines the name brand by looking at which price is higher.

She will buy stuff that isn't name brand now, but she would rather not do it. Not because of quality or anything, but she has the mental block that if it is less expensive, it is worse.

They make Kellog's Cereal not far from me, and at the same plant the make and even box the Krogers and other generics brands... the truck then takes them directly to Aldies, Krogers, Meijers etc.

I took my kids down to show them and there minds were blown all day. Not since their grandpa showed them his TV antenna and how he gets free HD TV out of thin air have their minds been this blown.

@travisdh1 said in Picking a Drone:

@bigbear If you're just learning to fly, or using one with the kids, I highly recommend getting a cheap (really cheap) one first. I'd recommend 2-4 basic Syma ones (you will crash/break them, I'd much rather break a $25 toy than a $750-$1200 pro grade equipment.): https://www.walmart.com/ip/Original-SYMA-X5C-4CH-6-Axis-Gyro-Remote-Control-RC-Quadcopter-Toys-Drone-Without-Camera-Transmitter/251639409?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=4801&adid=22222222227087450751&wmlspartner=wmtlabs&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=203268002306&wl4=pla-330359417904&wl5=9015520&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=114227155&wl11=online&wl12=251639409&wl13=&veh=sem

We have had cheaper ones, Parrots and even lower end. My son is pretty handy with them. When I watch videos of your average moron youtuber unbox and fly a DJI 4 with little to know effort I get the impression that it would be easier than the cheaper ones we have used.

My older two kids are 14 and 16.

That being said I definitely dont want to break one. I just get the impression they are more intelligent with collision detection, hovering, follow me? Maybe I am wrong though.

@JaredBusch said in New Server for the office:

For your solution my question is why are you even looking at Azure AD?

It sounds to me that you only need to file shares of some kind.

Yeah I think figuring out the best storage (some type of raid, a jbod, etc) is the big priority.

The only reason I would want AD at this point is to manage/lock out new and departing employees. And there is going to big a bit of a shake up over the next few months. I don't really need to lock users down at this point, everyone is some sort of engineer or power user here.

The idea of the basic/free AD and not managing a local DC appeals to me.

I would also be looking to apply that directory service to the file shares.

I read some article about gender roles and some study suggested women are more likely to test their male counterpart. Almost like a cave man DNA leftover.

So young men are encouraged to be financially irresponsible to please their significant other. The same as women are expected to be fawn over the man's deep pockets and generosity.

In reality if a man just does what a man does it works out. Save that money, don't give in, don't go out of your way too much. The woman feels secure because you are not easily swayed and also can speak her mind. Compromises are made. Two people become more alike over time.

Also I have read women are more about NOW. Men like to plan. If you are shopping for a house you are saving to buy next year the woman has no interest whereas the man relishes the planning process.

Disclaimer: This was written with no regard to other marriage configurations or mixed gender roles.

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

New physical installs of Server 2008 R2.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2015396-os-install-on-raid-6-greater-than-2tb

I could forgive someone running Netware and Zenworks more easily than this. Does he say what industry the business is in?

@JaredBusch said in New Server for the office:

Oh I'm quite well aware of the brand it's just not not something I've considered for production for 10 years or so I should probably take another serious look at it

I know everything is preference. Ubiquiti has had some hiccups and I am also fond of peplink. With RouterOS it just seems like the sky is the limit and they have a lot of hardware options or you can run it yourself. For under $5000 you can get 24 million pps from their cloud router. We have a high bandwidth environment here so you can really tell the difference.

@scottalanmiller said in Spouses, Furniture and Generic Cereal:

That's not quite it. It's delayed gratification and investing. Women look for payouts today. Men look for payouts tomorrow.

I was taught women are more mature, yet I would say this is a maturity issue. But, I have had a lot of bourbon in me at this fine hour...

@gjacobse I have always felt the same, this is my second week of not having a job so starting to think about things I never had time for before.

Just for future reference, its seems the issues with the 38G was with PJSIP. Switching to CHAN_SIP fixed the issue. Of course even the latest firmware is almost two years old.

Searching around I found a guy who figured it out on the asterisk forums. Ran a simple iptables command to drop 503 responses and it fixed it. Not sure if responsive firewall or a reboot would overwrite it though.

iptables -I OUTPUT -m string --string "SIP/2.0 503 Service Unavailable" --algo bm --to 65535 -j DROP

Here is the post...

https://community.asterisk.org/t/transfer-recalls-via-refer-notify-events/69764

@scottalanmiller said in Spouses, Furniture and Generic Cereal:

@bigbear said in Spouses, Furniture and Generic Cereal:

@scottalanmiller said in Spouses, Furniture and Generic Cereal:

That's not quite it. It's delayed gratification and investing. Women look for payouts today. Men look for payouts tomorrow.

I was taught women are more mature, yet I would say this is a maturity issue. But, I have had a lot of bourbon in me at this fine hour...

I was taught that women reached their maturity level faster.

I will let you know when my wife takes any interest at all in my college savings plan and retirement dealings.

Citadel? More like "Shitadel." Am I right?

Does anyone know if its possible to remove a domain from one O365 account and immeditely add it to a new one?

I tried this years ago when I accidentally signed up for the small biz plan instead of enterprise. They then told me I had to wait 90 days to activate the domain again. Hopefully things have changed since then. It was probably 5 or 6 years ago.