@jyates said:

@tonyshowoff said:

@jyates said:

Beard length directly correlates to Linux knowledge. Tell them if you shave, you'll know less.

Possibly not a good idea, if he works with Windows exclusively he may have to take off the first layer of skin.

Then he has to value what hair he does have. Hair doesn't survive well in Windows environments.

Spoken like a true Windows Admin, lol.

*I stare solemnly off in the distance, rubbing the short hair on my head, wishing for it to grow faster than I feel the need to pull it out.

@johnhooks said:

@scottalanmiller said:

This is what American collegiate education has devolved into...

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1556683-encrypting-files-to-prevent-ransomeware

What do you expect from the same people that teach you that using an @ sign in a password is more secure than just the letter a.

You mean it's not? What about using 0 for O ?

@DustinB3403 said:

"So I just bought this projector and it supports wireless projecting, how can we have it so that our employees can connect to this Projector SSID and still have access to the network shares?"

.....

FML

Better question... Why did THEY buy the projector instead of going through IT ?

@scottalanmiller said:

Will be in Timisoara tonight. The top Internet access city in the world!

@DustinB3403 said:

@dafyre Our PDC is the time source.

So maybe the internal clock on this system is shot?

I know that used to happen if the CMOS battery was dying, but it usually involved a power outage too.

@Kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I feel like I'm playing Simon Says with my server...

docker run ...
docker ps
docker start

You're playing the more modern version of it...

"Docker Told you to..."

@wirestyle22 said:

Technology changes so much that every few months I have to research it again. You can't give good answers on the spot--you can just give answers. There's a big difference.

I wish I could upvote this 1,048,576 more times.

@NattNatt said in Drobo or Dobro:

they're just branching out - exit strategy.

Not putting all their eggs in one basket.

That's actually great news for MSPs that use ZT with more than just 5 or 6 clients... But even then, being able to run networks of up to 100 devices for free is awesome too! That gives a good real-world test.

@Dashrender said in Don't Stay in School:

@scottalanmiller said in Don't Stay in School:

@Dashrender said in Don't Stay in School:

I'll definitely agree that anything past probably 8th grade, and perhaps much less than that, are really needed by the common man.

Probably a mix. Few 8th graders are anywhere nearly prepared to talk politics. Things like geography and history are necessary for even basic functional citizenship (unless we remove democracy, then we don't have to educate every individual to all of these things - democracy comes at an incredible price.) Math needs to at least go to algebra. Science we go way, way too far. Computing we rarely even bother to introduce in any meaningful way. English lit... way too far.

I definitely understand where you are coming from - and I'll fully admit to my general lack of knowledge in history - but would dropping the general requirements for history really change much in the world we live in today?

History gives us good examples of things that have been tried and worked, or things that have tried and failed... In technology, government, business...

I am all for using places like Mangolassi and Spiceworks as sounding boards for ideas and thought processes. I've learned more in my last year or two on here than my entire time on SW, simply because here at ML much less gets lost in the noise.

I actually wound up in Home Ec. It actually was a great class. We did cooking, and etiquette for when eating at the fancy diners (which helps if you want to get jobs in that field), and we held group discussions in a "formal" home dinner type situation. It was surprisingly a lot of fun. There were more than just one or two guys in there. A lot of the class felt like busy work because there's only so many ways you can burn a biscuit.

It was at that point I actually took an interest in cooking. I enjoy trying new things, as does my wife. It's been fun, for the most part... except when we make Ewwwww meals, lol. Looking back, that's one of the things I would do again.

@DustinB3403 said in What is a better way to say backup device:

Company ownership.

Explain it like car insurance... This what we need for when a minor or major disaster happens (assuming you have this shipped off-site, as you mentioned in your other thread). Just like car insurance, you don't need it until you hit somebody or somebody hits you.

@Minion-Queen said in Don't Stay in School:

There is no place on earth to get away from racism.

I cannot wrap my head around this. I just don't understand why people are so cruel to one another.

@geertcourmacher said in Raid 6 Amateur File Server Setup Questions:

@marcinozga

I was thinking to eventually add Plex somewhere down the line. Right now both my media pc and work pc are much more powerful than the server.
The server is based on the AM1 platform, I just switched out the terrible 2650 (2x1.45) for a slighlty better 5150 (4x1.60). Should be ok for x264, yet I don't know about x265 and whatever may come.
Building my Kodi library has taken a while do, I'd assume the same process would wait for me with Plex (with foreign language movies not being scrubbed correctly from databases, etc...)

Plex should be able to read the media in your Kodi library if it is stored as standard MP4 / AVI files, etc. You shouldn't have to re-rip your entire library just to switch from one to the other.

@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

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Congrats! When do you start?

I've got to do all the paperwork, etc still, but either this week or next. The owner has to get with one of his guys to start getting me onboarded.

Good luck! What kind of work are they going to have you do?

He's the new guy... He gets all the aggravating clients that nobody else wants.

@wirestyle22 said in Raid 6 Amateur File Server Setup Questions:

@geertcourmacher said in Raid 6 Amateur File Server Setup Questions:

@Dashrender
You're quite correct. I wasn't actually sure whether either of those sites were made for what I wanted; let alone that anyone would care about a simple home file server. In academia, as almost anywhere else in life, I'd say its important to listen to those who really understand what they are doing. There is so much info/tutorials out there where people just pass over their "knowledge" of what they have read somewhere, without understanding anything behind the scene/GUI. Kind of like, if I now started to give advice to others on why Raid 6 is such a good idea, how to go about it, etc.. - even though it may work for my purpose, I feel very few users outside these very particular forums have a true understanding of eventual risks, downsides and so on. For instance, aside from a very general article on, I think Cnet, that Raid5 is becoming useless, those forums are still full of people "bragging" about their raid5 setup (quite similiar in size to what I have in mind, not something really small either). Just reading over at spiceworks and some of SAM's articles/comments, I knew that wasn't an option, yet I still had no idea (and had not read anything about it) that a very simple thing such as a BIOS update would screw over fake Raid10 (which, I assumed, was very safe). I didn't even have a reason to do that bios update, I just saw a new one coming out.

Most solutions offered here, honestly, are overkill for what I want and need. But better be overwhelmed and aware of risks, then having a false sense of security.

I know you are all correct and I hate ignorance, but to be perfectly honest - and I hope you don't count that as dismissal of any advice (which it isn't), there is still a great sense of unease for me when thinking about these setups and I would much rather just go about and slap that ol' windows onto the array or even just run it from a seperate disk. I would feel much better if this was a general foray into a new OS without my storage depending on it. Because as secure as these OS' are, the risk of user error is certainly larger on my side. I know this mindset is in conflict with that of true IT guys - that lack of curiousty and exploration surely won't be understood (and, I would have the same idea in my discipline) - but at heart I'm still very content to be just a slightly advanced consumer, not an admin, if that makes any sense.
Again, I hope this doesn't create the feeling of rejecting any advice; I won't. It's just what I could do in the next half hour and know it would work, and something obviously better, yet with a lot of unknowns in it.

There are conversations to be had. I think forums like this are here specifically to argue points and get to the heart of what is best practice for a given situation. Bouncing ideas off of each other is great. Misinformation is the death of progress though and you will find a lot of it. Sometimes it's intentional other times it isn't. I myself sometimes think I understand a topic and find out later I wasn't considering as much as I should have been.

Agreed! I find myself in the same boat. That is why communities like ML are great because we can interact with one another and bounce ideas around and deepen our knowledge in whatever the particular area we have questions about.

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I'd much rather move overseas to Europe at this point. Would need a place with lots of Dairy and lots of IT though.

Dairy is pretty common in Europe. They drink milk just like Americans do. And they don't import it from Asia or anything weird.

Which is funny... because people I know in the industry, connections again, are telling me we export most of our milk as powdered to the Asian markets. I haven't been able to verify that though.

Well sure, because Asia is short of food production. Europe, however, makes a LOT of food. It's an agricultural boom area.

Guess I'll have to keep an eye open then. Moving is hard as we have lots of family in the area.

I can't leave NJ for the same reason. My fiance is very close with her family.

Yep, I'm like your fiance. I spent most of my childhood moving from place-to-place. Didn't have a permanent home until middle school. Thankfully that was in my parent's hometown with lots of family close by.

Between the demands of my job, studying for my CCIE, managing the servers for two doctors offices (friends of mine) and planning for a wedding I don't understand how our families can have any expectations of seeing us in the near future. You'd think they'd at least be coming to us, but no.

EDIT: The real crazy thing too is it's only her family. My brother lives in LA, my dad who lived locally passed away and my mom lives in England. What would we do if we had to appease two families? How do you guys deal with this stuff? I established boundaries for myself but my fiance just does whatever they want. It's rough.

My wife's family is 6 hours away. We see them once every month or so. My parent's, and an uncle, live 8 miles from where we live now. We see them several times a week.

I guess this question would be more for your wife then as I'm in her position. I'm all for family but I don't think that people in our situation (professionally oriented, responsible, extremely busy people) can reasonably accommodate their "needs". Her Dad's retired. Like dude, drive here.

We don't really have these issues thankfully. Unless it is an emergency all visits are planned in advance.

Honest question. Do you think I'm being a dick for asking these sort of questions? Her parents are divorced and her dad alone wants to see us 2-3 times a week. If they were married it'd be different because we'd see everyone at the same time and it'd be done. We have to see her Mom and Dad separately. How can 2-3 days a week be reasonable in this situation? It's crazy to me.

Well, my parents are dead, but if they weren't I'd feel the same way because I really didn't like either of them. As for in laws, it depends. My current wife's father is a pretty cool guy, her mother is a drug addict disaster. They aren't together, we never see her mother, thank god. As far as exwives go, pretty much fairly good, except one wife her siblings were a nightmare, breaking into our house, showing up drunk all the time trying to start fights with me, etc. I hate family beyond my immediate family and my siblings. So no, I don't think you're a dick, I understand.

When it comes to basing things on family, I consider business before family in the sense that without my business my family would be living in dire poverty in post-communist hell. My exwives, both of them, their families in some way or another tried to prevent us from moving or doing things which ended up making me wealthy. I don't let others stop me from accomplishing my goals, especially people without goals. Interestingly this hasn't stopped all the aforementioned people for asking me for money all the time (exwives not included, they're entitled to it for putting up with me).

Disclaimer: I don't really like anyone and most people don't like me, YMMV

I am totally a family first guy. And my employers know it when they hire me... But I also realize that sometimes putting family first means I have to put my job first. My current job, I have no problems with that at all... In an IT emergency, I'd be the first on campus and the last to leave... but if the CXO needs help with his mouse that has dead batteries while I'm at my kid's ball game, or his pre-k graduation... Yeah, it can wait. That got me in hot water a few times at my last job, but I stood my ground every time.

@johnhooks said in Rocket Chat vs. Jabber:

@tonyshowoff said in Rocket Chat vs. Jabber:

@dafyre said in Rocket Chat vs. Jabber:

Is there any reason in particular that it has to work with XMPP? I've not read the OP again... But if you need Desktop / Mobile clients, RocketChat offers those as well.

Yes, exactly what @scottalanmiller said. We've got a lot of communication, notification, and other things which use it. Our web cam and credit exchange system (the messaging aspects) and our chat system also use it, and while Rocket.Chat is more for internal use in our case, pushing/pulling information from these other services will be easier.

I'm also going to be testing out a KVM orchestration system tonight that uses XMPP.

Let me know how that goes... I'm running KVM as my hypervisor in my personal server right now.

I try to keep quiet about my faith... but sometimes I can't, lol. I'm not going to shove it down your throat, and if you feel like I am then tell me and I'll try to shove faster. 8-)

It is up to us to decide where to put our faith... God, Science, yourself... etc. We have to reason out why we put our faith where we put it... From a Christian perspecteive, "God says so." Okay.... How has this been proven in my life?

Or from a perspective of Science: How have I seen this proven in my -- oh, hang on, I hear my cell phone is ringing.

In my brain, faith does not mean blind faith. As somebody else said, blind faith can be quite dangerous... It can [and has] lead to wars and terrorism, etc.