Best posts made by ChrisL

Flying in Wednesday! Arriving just in time for beers, actually.

@scottalanmiller said in Smartphone doldrums:

@Kelly said in Smartphone doldrums:

The iPhone is not an innovation leader any more, and hasn't been for a long time. Android doesn't really need to catch up to the iPhone in much if anything. Force touch? I don't think Android lags behind, and in fact I have stated a few times in this thread that iOS has only just caught up with other platforms. It is the one I stated is lagging behind.

Having used both, I can't agree. The place where Android needs to catch up is in the basics, not in the "features." It's ease of use, standard interface and reliability of core services (email, text, voice calls.) The Android is great at being a gimmick and looks wonderful on a spec sheet or feature list... but iPhone just... phones better.

Mounds of OS fragmentation too. A lot of Android users are still on older software versions and that affects security as well.

@NerdyDad said in Data centers and retrofitting:

So, what would you do?

Dedicate Dillards for one client and JCPenney's for another client?

You need to grow? Okay, we'll move you from the small mom & pop shop and move you into where Radio Shack used to be. That will double your space.

"Could we get space near the Panda Express in the food court?"

We're currently getting a pizza that is 3 feet across. Pics soon.

I mean, short of a Mission Impossible-style rappelling from the ceiling kinda thing, it'd be awfully tough for Average Joe Hacker to waltz into a data center and plug a malicious USB in. Key cards, cameras, security guards, etc. are all something they'd have to pass through to get to the hardware.

My favorite, absolute favorite, thing is MANTRAPS.

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@MattSpeller Smoke bleu on a bacon burger sounds heavenly right now.

@scottalanmiller said in The High Cost of On Premises Infrastructure:

@ChrisL said in The High Cost of On Premises Infrastructure:

I mean, short of a Mission Impossible-style rappelling from the ceiling kinda thing, it'd be awfully tough for Average Joe Hacker to waltz into a data center and plug a malicious USB in. Key cards, cameras, security guards, etc. are all something they'd have to pass through to get to the hardware.

My favorite, absolute favorite, thing is MANTRAPS.

Not to mention that they would have to get in, then identify how to get to the right customer's equipment, then figure out which of that equipment was the one that they were there to target. It is layer after layer of complexity to do this kind of attack - any kind of physical attack in this sort of environment. Just getting in the door, which you could potentially do with a tank, isn't enough. You still have to find the target. I've been in many a datacenter and figuring out which server is which is pretty hard in the sea of machines. They all look about the same.

Sure if you've been in there loads of times, know exactly where it is, know exactly what you are looking for it is one thing. But this requires more and more nearly impossible situations.

Whether it is colocation or even corporate datacenters, I have almost never had access to get to the equipment personally - and I'm normally the senior-most technical person overseeing those systems. It's not like you could grab any casual IT person and have them identify equipment for you.

Exactly. It'd be an Ocean's Eleven style heist just to get to the server and it'd have to be AN INSIDE JOB DUN DUN DUNNNNNN

@art_of_shred said in Thank you for the wonderful time at MangoCon...here's a coupon code!:

1. Welcome @SamieWalters !
2. Jenga champion? I seem to remember @pchiodo and I going the distance on one game. Did anyone else accomplish that? You must be referring to quantity, not quality. LOL

I'm really glad you were both there. It was a great time, and you were both a lot of fun to hang with. Here's to hoping you can join us again for MC2017!

I will not stand idly by and let the legitimacy of my Tell-Your-Lawyers-To-Stop-Sending-Letters Jenga Championship be questioned, @art_of_shred. We'll have to settle this next year.

I would always hope that someone isn't naive enough to think that a major financial institution with their contact info on hand would reach out to them through LinkedIn.

Buuuuuut, I've been wrong before.

@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:

@ChrisL said in Binge Watching:

I think you still get that social aspect of the "we are all watching this together" with binging, especially in conjunction with social media.

I feel like you get it more. Now less mainstream communities, which is a lot of people, can participate too.

I AM THE VOICE OF A GENERATION, SCOTT.

@scottalanmiller said in Colocation America- Ask Me Anything:

@ChrisL said in Colocation America- Ask Me Anything:

We've begun offering direct connections to the more popular public cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google) in most of our facilities.

The deadline for our STEM Grant passed the other day and we had OVER 300 APPLICANTS! The first year we offered it, we had 50 applicants, and we're so amazed at the growth of this initiative--thank you to anyone who shared it! We had Ivy League schools like Harvard, Stanford, UPenn apply, plus the US Tennis Academy, various Boys & Girl's Clubs, and even the Tiger Woods Foundation!

Very cool.

An applicant for the STEM Grant takes elementary school kids to an indoor skydiving facility, let's them do participate, and then teaches them the physics behind everything.

Seeing all of these programs and what they offer is amazing. I'm so jealous that all I got to do was dissect a frog.

@wirestyle22 said in What constitutes an IT Pro?:

@art_of_shred said in What constitutes an IT Pro?:

@DustinB3403 said in What constitutes an IT Pro?:

Well by definition your are a professional if you are paid to do a certain task. IT professional is no different than professional wrestler.

Your paid to do X. Which means your a professional

No difference between a pro wrestler and an IT pro? Hmmm...

I performed my signature move the "Tombstone" on that 2003 Exchange server. It's completely out of commission.

I gave an open cabinet door the Sweet Chin Music the last time I visited the DC.

Yeah, if there's not a mango-flavored wheat beer, you should pretty much shut it down.

Congrats!

@scottalanmiller said in Binge Watching:

@Dashrender said in Binge Watching:

That's HORRIBLE! I have to sit through 3 hours of shoot me in the face before I'd care about it? The writers should be fired - well the whole project team should be canned. I give most shows 2 episodes to hook me.

I was thinking the opposite, it's horrible that show writers feel the need to hit people with all of the hooks and interest in the first few minutes or risk the short attention spans causing people to not keep watching. This is why shows and movies keep moving towards the more and more banal - people don't get engaged in the stories. They need constant action or they don't stick with it.

Especially with Stranger Things, which was likely written as one cohesive story and then broken up into "episodes". You gotta build the foundation before you add the slick whirpool jacuzzi, @Dashrender

@Minion-Queen said in Colocation America- Ask Me Anything:

@ChrisL said in Colocation America- Ask Me Anything:

We've begun offering direct connections to the more popular public cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google) in most of our facilities.

The deadline for our STEM Grant passed the other day and we had OVER 300 APPLICANTS! The first year we offered it, we had 50 applicants, and we're so amazed at the growth of this initiative--thank you to anyone who shared it! We had Ivy League schools like Harvard, Stanford, UPenn apply, plus the US Tennis Academy, various Boys & Girl's Clubs, and even the Tiger Woods Foundation!

That's amazing that it increased so much this year!

It really is, but all that credit goes to @SamieWalters who has been busting her ass on this. I feel for her having to read all those grants, but it's a great problem to have

Now you can avoid eye contact with everyone!

http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/8/14207230/nyc-subway-stations-cellular-wifi-service-mta-transit-wireless-new-york

@Nic said in Ok, which one of you broke the Internet?:

@PSX_Defector they don't f***[moderated] around, so to speak

Lowest CTR in all of the Internet too. They really...grab you...and hold on...tight.

@RojoLoco said in Colocation America- Ask Me Anything:

@ChrisL How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood, assuming that the wood is locally sourced and sustainably harvested in a cruelty free manner?

(apparently Opera browser thinks "sustainably" is not a word...)

Depends on the amount of wood in the environment and whether sourcing said wood would affect local indigenous fawna and their habitats. But definitely enough to build a dam.