@scottalanmiller said in Is Real Estate Actually a Good Investment on Average?:
Anyone in financial circles or with financial knowledge. Or real estate experience.
Anyone with the common sense that a market cannot simply go up and up based on no underlying value.
You got any links because I've heard no-one predict any kind of "staggering crash" and I have some financial knowledge. There's a massive difference between not going up and a staggering crash.
But I am dictator.
Access is quite unique in that it kind of sits in between full scale database development environments and simple end-user productivity tools. It's use often starts off as simple productivity tool, then develops in to something more powerful and difficult to support.
You wouldn't expect Sue in the Accounts Department to start developing applications using MySQL and PHP, and if she did, the company would rightly raise some concerns. But anyone and everyone can pretend to be developers because historically Access was bundled in with Office. That's dangerous.
Regardless, I get to dictate what software the company uses. If a user decided they preferred LibreOffice then that would be tough on them, as I wouldn't permit it's use. A couple of years ago I banned Lotus Smartsuite, and that worked out fine. It was a hassle for a few users in the short term, but a long term benefit to the company.
Outlook fan here as well. These people who say OWA is just as good are crazy, frankly.
I'm guessing most of you Americans think Swedes are crazy:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sweden-introduces-six-hour-work-day-a6674646.html
How many hours do you work, on average? I suspect I could move to a six hour day. I work much longer hours some weeks, but that often caused tiredness and my productivity drops, so I have days when I'm a bit of a mess at work. So I wonder if I worked more consistently (instead of work, work, work, burnout, sleep, sleep, work, work, work) I'd be happier and just as productive.
A lot depends on the kind of work you do. I burnout quicker if I'm doing programming, as I find that quite intense. Whereas a lot of IT I can now do in my sleep so hardly tires me out at all.
A lot of my colleagues are massively unproductive so I doubt they even manage 6 hours a day once they've finished stupid staff meetings, messing around on their phones, talking about football, arguing about trivial issues, and generally messing about.
I've switched to a 4 and a half day week and I'm definitely more productive now. I guess I'm currently doing about 45 hours a week but I feel my productivity levels dropping through tiredness.
Maybe virtualise Server 1, then use Veeam to backup to both NASs (on-site and off-site)?
Did a routine power down of all our servers at the weekend, as the utility company were doing some maintenance on the electricity supply.
When I restarted the hosts, one of them failed to restart. Initially it hung at the ESXi boot screen on "loading power management". I did a forced reboot and it went past there but hung on "Loading module hpsa". I did another reboot and it hung at the same place ("Loading module hpsa"). I didn't get any HP boot errors. By this stage I was getting extremely worried.
I left it for an hour, and then did another reboot. This time it booted ok. Hallelujah.
Googling, I found one forum post where someone rebooted 5 times before it worked, but the thread ended without any solution or explanation of the cause.
I've read that there is a known problem with hpsa driver version 5.x.0.58-1. When I run:
esxcli software vib list | grep -i hpsa
I get:
scsi-hpsa 5.0.0-40OEM.500.0.0.472560
Not sure if this means my driver is ok. I'm reluctant to do anything in the short term that will require another reboot as I have zero confidence in this machine booting successfully.
This is a Proliant DL380 G6. We have two identical hosts, both with the same ESXi and hpsa version. The other host booted fine. There are no errors listed under Hardware Status in VSphere client.
I've looked through vmkernel.log to see if I can see anything obvious, but that only logs the last, successful, boot. Not the previous boots that hung. I have got the following error message, that is constantly being repeated:
WARNING: NFS: 221: Got error 2 from mount call
The host only uses local storage. However, in vSphere Client, under datastores, it is listing:
VeeamBackup_VEEAM1 (inactive) (unmounted).
What is this all about? The other hosts don't have this datastore and our Veeam server is powered on and has successfully backed up the host, so I'm not seeing any operational issues. I don't think this problem is related to my boot problems, but I'd like to get it cleaned up anyway.
I'm stuck on how to proceed. Any advice, please?
So, you can't run previous versions of Access (Access 2013) on the same machine as Office 2016. The Office 2016 installation will actually un-install Access if it isn't Access 2016.
This is a pain. Microsoft is currently offering free upgrades to Access 2016 if you have old Access retail licences, but how long this will last I'm not sure.
We often run old versions of Access, as new versions aren't always compatible with some of our old database applications. I have never had a problem with this. But this is no longer allowed.
More info here:
https://support.office.com/en-ie/article/-We-need-to-remove-some-older-apps-error-a225347f-e102-4ea6-9796-5d1ac5220c3b
Until today, I've only ever used the native iOS client, but I'm currently using the Outlook client/app. It seems pretty good. I'm using it with 3 accounts - Hotmail, Exchange & Gmail.
Is there anything better?
@scottalanmiller said:
SSL is a form of VPN.
I think that's the key point. I didn't appreciate this until recently when I started a thread on ML. I think it was explained to me by @NetworkNerd, or maybe you. It put my mind at rest and I've since been happy to expose some of our internal web servers to the internet..
I want expose multiple internal web servers to the internet for remote access outside of our LAN. We only have one IP address and one firewall. So the first web server uses port 443 and the firewall forwards 443 traffic from the internet to this server.
The other servers will have to use alternative ports. Which ports should I choose? When I've googled, I can only find answers that state it doesn't matter. But I'm not sure I should choose random numbers should I? So far, I used port 8443 because http://www.speedguide.net/ says it is a common alternative SSL port.
Any other tips/advice on multiple web server on a single IP?
IIS. It would certainly be nice to have everything go through 443 as it's a pain getting users to add a port onto the end of a nice friendly URL.
I may have missed the point of this thread. I'm not sure what the cost of public versus private servers has to do with it?
For consumers I see no excuse these days for not using free services like Onedrive, Google Drive, Flickr etc etc. All my files are stored in Onedrive and all my photos in Flickr. I don't know why anyone would want to store files only on local storage. Apart from anything, most people now have multiple devices which need access to their files - laptop, tablet, phone etc etc.
Unless you have masses of storage needs (and I reckon 99% of consumers don't), there are loads of places to store your files for free.
I have pretty much all my files stored on OneDrive. This scares me slightly, as I'd be screwed if Microsoft "lost" my account for any reason. I keep meaning to setup a system to sync between OneDrive and Google Drive, so that I've got some redundancy if Microsoft or Google decided to screw me over.
It's on my to-do list, along with fixing the leaking outside tap.
@IRJ said:
You are acting like it's a no brainer that she stores her data in the cloud.
I think we now have a younger generation that stores everything on Facebook and Instagram. They're more likely to say "what's My Documents?" and assume everything is stored in the cloud than the other way round.
My colleague is going to set it up, but he's busy. I have taken it out of the box and managed to drop it on the floor though, which is a good start 
@coliver said:
I'm a big fan of the Surface Pro series... but I don't think I've ever seen anyone actually use them as a tablet. Everyone that I know that has one uses it almost exclusively as a laptop.
If you just use it as a laptop rather than a tablet, what has it got going for it versus an ultrabook, apart from maybe cost?
@dafyre said:
Your ultra books aren't going to be much bigger than 15" in most cases anyway, right?
I believe they have to be small than 14" to be called an ultrabook. Mine is 12.6" which is the perfect size for me. Any bigger and it wouldn't fit in my bag.
@Dashrender said:
Assuming you need more than the essentials,
The first question is why do you need more than Foundation? What extra features do you need?
I like restoring user files from backup as it is good way of testing my Veeam backups are working correctly. It's like a random disaster recovery test that I perform every few months.