Posts made by crustachio

@scottalanmiller that's why the N4032's are pretty attractive. You can get them in standard 10Gbase-T copper configs, good port density, stackable, all around decent performance and price isn't insane. Good middle of the road option based on my research.

@scottalanmiller yeah I started looking at Mellanox really excitedly and then stopped when I realized I was out of my depth.

@scottalanmiller said:

Should I add... second 10GigE switch coming too.

What are you using? N4032s?

I was hot and heavy for Scale.

Fast forward a month and now I'm neck-deep in planning a from-scratch VSAN cluster.

The doesn't-want-to-administer-vmware side of me is lusting for Scale, but the government-pricing-means-vsan-is-practically-free side of my boss trumps all.

@Jason said:

@coliver said:
Nevermind.. I'm thinking of Cables to Go..

Cables to go... oh man those are the best. Cheap and always work.

Fun fact: Cables to Go's head office/warehouse is located just minutes from me, but I still just order everything through Amazon!

Support your local businesses, you say? Think of the environment, you say? Well my $99/yr Prime subscription says I don't have to do ANY of those things. So there!

@coliver said:

@crustachio said:

@MattSpeller said:

I love the idea but there's two main obstacles to it for me.

1. StarTech

2. $400

Why the StarTech hate? They make handy little doodads that work fine for me. Why I'm typing this on a PC connected through one of their USB 3.0 hubs + 1Gbps Ethernet adapters and I have yet to have any tro

And in the middle of typing trouble it shat the bed.

@MattSpeller said:

I love the idea but there's two main obstacles to it for me.

1. StarTech

2. $400

Why the StarTech hate? They make handy little doodads that work fine for me. Why I'm typing this on a PC connected through one of their USB 3.0 hubs + 1Gbps Ethernet adapters and I have yet to have any tro

Interesting. We have one of the little Dell W8.1 Atom tablets, looks to be about the same size, but we had a hard time coming up for a use case for it. It got passed around the department like a $3 hooker and now nobody wants to touch it. I gave it the nickname Satan's Tablet because everyone who tried it seems to be cursed by bizarre issues. It has since been cast into the Intern's Drawer of Tartarus, which cannot be opened for 1,000 years, at which point it will be let free to plague humanity. On the upside, its Windows Updates should be finished right around that time.

Anyway, maybe THIS $99 Windows tablet would be different better usable not haunted?

@wirestyle22 said:

All I need is an idea of what is happening. If I could show prints/copiers as two separate things that would be 100% everything I need. Is that possible as far as anyone knows?

Ah, sorry, I'm not sure. I know Print Audit can do this with the Copy Audit add-on, but I'm assuming you would like to keep this free, so that's probably not what you need.

There was a decent Spiceworks thread on this awhile back. Seemed like the consensus was PaperCut. I also remember ThinPrint sticking out as an option worth considering.

We use the reassuringly-named SecureCheck from AP Technology

Unfortunately that's not really my area of expertise so I can't comment on how good/bad/ugly it is. But I can say we have been using it for many moons, so it can't be that bad...

....that's how IT works, right?

@wirestyle22 well to be fair their logo is a giant cock. By which of course I mean rooster.

No comment on the name. But cool app. I was surprised to see this was from Cockos -- they're best known for their very power, popular, and affordable music software, Reaper.

Thanks for the tip.