@LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato our company rocket chat for being "toxic"

At least your honest! lol.

@obsolesce I know most machines have over 4gb of ram these days, but still nice to see a lower footprint..

It's a shame that we don't have many suppliers in the UK that are selling the Edge Router.

Just come across this ticketing system on softalicious. seems ok.
https://www.opensupports.com/

@dafyre Starting to feel the same way, when I do fully move over, I will probably go over to Deepin, quite like where that distro is going. I feel it's just a shame about Windows 10, they had everything so right in Windows 7. Don't get me wrong, there are some nice features to windows 10, like the improved task manager and the right click start menu shortcuts to device manager etc..but that's about it......

@JackCPickup - Well Ebuyer and Misco doesn't supply them and they are probably one of our biggest IT suppliers.

I know the company is frowned here but I Was using Proxmox earlier that a client has, not going to lie, I loved using the interface....

@scottalanmiller that will be a good feature..

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Waiting in line to get gas at Costco.

That's very British of you. Getting in a queue just to get in a queue.

Haha, us British love queuing...I personally get grumpy queuing though

That reminds me, time to make a brew..

@scottalanmiller I agree, this is where Linux shines now....I'd would love to see developers drop windows and push their products to Linux, we only need some big companys like Adobe to adopt this which would push everyone else over..

lol, ok, that was a bit larger than planned...

Still not finished Mr Robot yet, only A few episodes left now though...

He's back...
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/22/linus_torvalds_back/

@scottalanmiller lol, on a serious note, good video.

Just signed up for this webinar, looks like an interesting one:
https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2019/03/07/full-vdi-stack-xcp-ng-xen-orchestra-uds-enterprise/

It makes me wonder how far Microsoft are willing to go down the route of creating their own distribution, would be very beneficial and save costs if they didn't have to manage their own kernel anymore. I'm sure they could make their distribution compatible with windows applications as well.

Head and brick wall comes to mind....

I don't see any security issue, if anything you should allow people to see what's being installed whenever they are silently installed or not.
It just seems strange and you are being vague with what you are asking and you are not listening to the same repeated answers which Scott stated.

Post some of this batch file leaving out any sensitive information you are worried about, but remember it's plain text, so you should not be storing passwords or anything sensitive in batch files anyway and even if you encrypted the batch file, the user will still need to unecrypt to run the file, so thats a flawed option.

If there is nothing malicious in the batch file, then you should have no issue posting it?

@scotth nothing wrong with the specs of that system, perfect for learning with to be honest.
Don't overthink VDI, it's really just a collection of VM's with management tools for automatically creating machines from base images, load balancing, gateway management etc.

Microsoft have their solution built into windows server called Remote Desktop Services, Citrix have their solution which adds more functionality on top of this and use a different connection protocol called ICA which uses less resources than RDP. VMware have their solution called VMware Horizon View.

I don't use VDI per say, I use session based desktops (shared Desktop) and would recommend using this for most scenarios, VDI is expensive, needs fast storage and needs to be setup and planned correctly. I've seen a company use a VDI solution that was crap to use due to the SAN being flakey and the environment not being setup correctly. VDI is excellent if used in the correct manner and for the correct purpose though.

There are trials you can use, download windows server evaluation and start off with RDS and see how you get on, I believe Citrix and VMware have trials for their products as well.

It makes me wonder if Microsoft and Google will use heavy increases eventually that will push companies to use colo and solutions like you have suggested Scott.