@Carnival-Boy said:

Any issues migrating a VM from a G8 server to a G6 (and vice versa). I recall there can be issues when running different CPUs, although am I right in think that this only effects vMotion? We don't have vMotion, and so shut down the VMs and start them up on the new host.

As long as you are migrating cold you can move from an HP Intel box to a SuperMicro AMD box and it won't care. Only hot migrations are an issue.

I am everywhere.

@JaredBusch said:

I missed everything this week as I was camping with the family with Internet service only when I went to town for something.

Missed a pretty awesome German win. On to the finals now.

I have been through many adventures and journeys when it comes to taking notes. I have used everything from a golf pencil and a memo pad to a full notebook with a gel ink pen to OneNote on the computer, and I guess it really depends on how prepared you are and how many notes you need to take.

I used to use pen and paper all of the time. In fact, I still carry around a memo pad and a pen with me everywhere. Since I've been taking notes more at my desk, I've been conforming to using OneNote. I also carry a Venue 8 pro tablet around with me with a bluetooth keyboard while on travel so that I can take the appropriate notes there when I am at a client's building or just working remotely. I have that linked into my OneNote notebooks as well and can seamlessly add notes where needed. So far this is working quite well for me because my handwriting is terrible and I can type faster than write, so I can record more information.

I do still have at least five types of paper to write on on my desk though.

Yes. KeePass is super handy. And blind copy to clipboard too. I love that.

Agreed, staff buy in is definitely one of the hardest things of any project.

@Carnival-Boy in that particular case, I would guess that that was an accident. Service providers and vendors do have to be careful as their accident "blast radius" is often larger than in house IT is. But to be fair, we see internal IT people accidentally post rather a bit of stuff when looking for help online or using KB systems that are hosted publicly or whatever.

Publishing tickets without an air gap process, though, that is pretty idiotic I must admit.

@scottalanmiller said:

We are about to subject a non-tech user to their first time seeing Windows since Windows 2000 and it will be 8.1. This will be exciting.

You sir, have an interesting view of excitement!! 😉

I'm a fan but with kids and stuff can't have vinyl anymore. I move too often. Can't have physical media for anything. I'm a tube amp kind of guy too.

We have an open office, but it is filled with only IT people. I love it, it is nice to be able to have a conversation without leaving your desk.

Now that standing desks are common, I've noticed stand up meetings not being so short anymore.

Been looking for a way to print custom maps - but on 36"x 36" paper... Wonder if this'll do..

I forgot to mention Theory of Constraints. It's a great way to shake up old procedures, provided they're the bottleneck. Furthermore, it can sometimes shake up headcount if some people refuse to change. This is a practice that I enjoy, as it closely mirrors what sysadmins and network admins do on a regular basis, except it's at a corporate level. One of the challenges with this can be bumping into standards and regulations. When making procedure changes, don't forget to keep your compliance officer/group in the loop so that they can make sure all the appropriate standards still apply.

@Dashrender said:

Wow.. they hunt you down, that's awful!

just this year they hired another IT staff to be around during night.

Europeans = Cowbell?
We need more Cowopeans...

What's your view on projectors versus televisions? A few years ago we replaced the projector in our training room with a 50 inch telly, and people complain it's too small. But you can get a 60 inch LED now for the price of a decent projector, and a 70 inch for a fair bit more. I'd prefer a television, as I find them simpler to operate and I like lots of HDMI connections. A 100 inch touch-screen monitor is probably a few years away for us.

It annoys me when people complain they can't see something and I ask them if they have glasses and they say "Yeah, but I never wear them at work".

@scottalanmiller said:

One starting point is.... branding. I post as myself. That's really my picture and really my name. All of my social media and all activities that I do consider my branding and I make sure that it is uniform. Articles for publication, facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Spiceworks, MangoLassi, my own websites, etc. Always my name and my picture. No matter what I am doing professionally I make sure that my brand is always well presented - no different than a business would do.

If, after reading your posts here, I was a recruiter and wanted to find you. How would I do that?

Glad to see this.. Yes working on it ,:)

Google forms are ace. We're about to start using them. It's just a very easy way to create a form which then populates a Google spreadsheet. Previously, I've created HTML forms and validated them on the server with classic ASP, and used them to populate an SQL Server database - which isn't trivial (compared with using Google at least). There are various add-ons you can use with Google forms, I believe, but haven't delved into that so far. I don't know why Microsoft don't offer something similar with Office365.

The biggest stumbling block with Google forms is that, as far as I'm aware, you can't remove Google's branding. I wouldn't want Google's logo to be the first thing our visitors see. So it's not an option for this particular project.

The iPad app I'm looking at has the SMS sent from the app providers servers. You don't configure anything yourself. You just upload a CSV of mobile numbers via their website and they take care of the rest.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Katie said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Every day Chromebooks get closer and closer to being really useful.

I'm visualizing a differential equation where Chromebooks is expressed as a lim f(x), where x approaches ∞.
Will perpetually approach, but never quite reach it entirely.

Math nerds 🙂

Actually, not even - I had 4 semesters of calculus in college, but I don't consider myself a math nerd as such.

LinkedIn is good for finding people near you with qualifications who might not be actively looking, but would be open to a new opportunity if it fell in their lap.