I've always had better luck calling a local place to get flowers... It just seemed odd going with an online company when a local one both existed and had better pricing/response.

@technobabble I am going to try that... it has been really bad the last two-three days.

@scottalanmiller said:

VDI is a desktop only thing. VDI = virtual "desktop" infrastructure. While you can sort of make desktops out of server OSes and call it VDI, sort of, because it acts that way, the entire idea of VDI exists only for the Windows desktop licensing world. There is no VDI licensing for servers.

That is what I assumed but your previous remark made me second guess it. Thanks for the clarification.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dominica uses a Verizon extender.

Don't need one for my TMobile iPhone because with TMobile and iPhone you get calls and SMS over WiFi which is awesome. Way better than needing an extender. I love it. TMobile was the best idea ever.

I'm looking at Republic Wireless for personal use. Seems like the same idea.

@scottalanmiller said:

If you install Xen you get hit with VDI licensing requirements for Windows desktops, though. If you use Windows desktop as the "base" OS and install the HyperV role it bypasses that while still virtualizing everything. It's not ideal, but it saves a lot of money. Really odd that MS does that, but hey, it's pretty minor overall. That way we can have both Windows and Linux on the box at the same time.

Does this apply to Windows Server too or just the desktop OS? Although I can see why you would want a desktop OS with cost alone being an issue.

@Reid-Cooper said:

@coliver said:

I remember playing around with it (I would have been 9-10 years old). My first real "IT" experience was supporting Windows ME shudders.

Where did you use ME in IT? ME was labeled, right on the box "for entertainment purposes only." ME came out after the DOS family had been phased out and no business should ever have seen it. Even Windows 98 wasn't for business use as NT 4 was out two years before it.

Hence the quotes around IT. It was supporting family and a few locals (both business and consumer) who didn't know better.

@Reid-Cooper said:

I bet a lot of IT people these days don't even really remember Windows 98. That was sixteen years ago!

I remember playing around with it (I would have been 9-10 years old). My first real "IT" experience was supporting Windows ME shudders.

@ambarishrh Thanks that was helpful to start.

I was watching this live and stepped out of the office on a call just before it touched down.... gah!

@scottalanmiller said:

Linux would allow an unlimited number of NTG staff to be working remotely at the same time, Windows only one.

Does this restrictions still exist when you are just opening a Powershell Session to the Windows server?

@Reid-Cooper said:

What about using a reburbed server. Low cost but you get more memory and drive options than an embedded platform, serial is commonly included and it is already rack mountable.

Agreed, a nice low-to-mid range refurb server would probably be exactly what you are looking for. Just emblazon it with the NTG logo and install Xen on it.

Does anyone know of a halfway decent systemd tutorial? I am trying to figure out the logs for SSH on OpenSuse but I can't seem to get into them.

@thanksaj That would be nice... the new Facebook messenger is basically useless on my phone...

@thanksaj I use Hangouts as well... I am heavily invested in Google Voice and this is one of the better clients for it (the default client is pretty awful and the 3rd party one I tried just didn't work very well.

Funny enough I just had this talk with our President about a 3D printer...

I have two Podcasts that I regularly listen to. Not really provacative stuff but I am a huge pnp gamer so these are good ones to get ideas from.

Welcome to Nightvale (http://commonplacebooks.com/)

and

Role Playing Public Radio Actual Play (http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/)

I sit in the car for close to an hour a day so it is nice to listen to things that get the creativity going.

@thanksaj said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I'm just starting now, in the last month or so, to notice some people talking about moving back to FF after Chrome has lost its stability.

Not sure what they mean by that. I haven't had any stability issues with Chrome. Any examples of what you mean? Genuinely curious.

I've had quite a few stability issues with chrome. Pages randomly crashing, entire application crashing (which it shouldn't do). This is on more then one machine and on different operating systems.... I haven't switched yet because I like the integration that Chrome has with Google (of course) but I'm tempted. I've heard that pure Chromium has actually gotten more stable then Chrome over the last couple of releases although I haven't tested to see.

Oooh, this is a great/weird horror series.

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

I agree with this. The PC has clearly beaten the console market as far as quantity and quality of games goes for this generation. I tend to think this is because of the cost of entry for developers more then anything else. Microsoft saw that and wanted to make their device the go-to for media consumption.

I'm really shocked by the PC game quantity of top title games versus the consoles. Used to be that you needed consoles to play the good stuff, even if the quality was lower. Now it appears to be the opposite. PCs have both the quality and the quantity. The new thing is trying to get as much as possible onto Linux.

I think a major factor is that of "back catalogue." On the PC I have, finally, a decade or more of good, rendered game titles that keep working just fine, constitute a huge library and improve (slightly) as new processing power improves. Unlike the consoles which struggle to play previous generations games or don't do it at all, the PC plays pretty much everything ever made for PC and with emulation can play way more console titles than the consoles can.

If I buy a console, or even all three consoles, I get a total of like two games that I can't play on PC that I want and one of those is the fourth in a series I am still on the first one of and the other is the fifth title in a series that has already got two titles ported to PC and more anticipated soon. But if I buy a PC I have hundreds of games that I want that no console has.

I can't stand my "back catalog".... I have dozens of games (actually probably close to 100) that I have purchased and want to play but I don't have the time to sink into them... Frustrating when you turn on your computer and have to figure out what you can play for 30 minutes to an hour at a time and still appreciate it.

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

How? What? I don't think I've ever heard of or seen this.

I have had major TMJ problems since I was young. I once woke up with my jaw completely off and rolled over on it. That was hell. Generally, though, it's just the left side hinge and it slips out. I know how to put it back on (a doctor taught me because it feels like you are going to break your jaw) and normally it is a minor issue... it slips, it hurts, I replace it. One minute and it is all over and the pain is minor (now.) This morning was tough, though, it would not hook back on and I could not close my mouth for a bit there.

That... is amazing. I've never heard of an unhinged jaw unless there was trauma to it.... Glad you got it back in though.

@scottalanmiller said:

Just spent half an hour with the left side of my jaw unhinged. Boy is that painful.

How? What? I don't think I've ever heard of or seen this.