@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Packing. We leave for Costa Rica in T Minus 21 hours!
anything specific going on there - or vacation?
Border run.
oh - still not a resident?
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Packing. We leave for Costa Rica in T Minus 21 hours!
anything specific going on there - or vacation?
@scottalanmiller said in Wix Form "Harry Potter" Issue:
@garak0410 said in Wix Form "Harry Potter" Issue:
@scottalanmiller said in Wix Form "Harry Potter" Issue:
@garak0410 said in Wix Form "Harry Potter" Issue:
@scottalanmiller said in Wix Form "Harry Potter" Issue:
Not familiar with Wix at all, I'm afraid. They don't have a good reputation. The new GeoCities.
Well it does help me as I am still in a SOLO IT shop after 11 years...don't have time to code a website...
Is Wix saving you time? LOL
You don't code websites, you use tools like Hugo or Gatsby if you need something simple, or WordPress if you need a CMS.
One of the reasons those tools are recommended for businesses is the time savings.
It might actually help now, there's every possibility that it might actually be faster to move to something else than to troubleshoot Wix where you are dependent on their support.
Well, it also helps that the owners daughter wants control of website too so this is another reason I did Wix about 5-6 years ago.
That makes sense. WordPress is typically used specifically for that too, but doesn't tie you in to a vendor-only supported product where the host owns the site that you make. WP keeps you from being able to be extorted for support or whatever. That's its purpose (to allow easy editing by a staff of people.) Since WP is the best known tool, it's the one that best allows random third party people to be involved.
Definitely seems odd to pick Wix over WP.
@JasGot said in How Do You Replace Active Directory?:
@Dashrender said in How Do You Replace Active Directory?:
@JasGot Aren't you the one who asked how to do this?
I assume you are referring to my post of the script I came up with yesterday AFTER I read your post suggesting a script to do it?
Geeeeesh. The next time I want to share a solution I came up with, as a result of your suggestion, I won't.
LOL - there was no indication that you just created that -but that's awesome that you tossed something together so quickly.
I just migrated two VMs off Hyper-V 2019 to Proxmox. Overall was pretty straight forward, biggest challenge is just understanding your aren't dealing with HDD files anymore - you import you VHDs into Proxmox and Proxmox deals with the filesystem.
@JasGot Aren't you the one who asked how to do this?
@JasGot said in How Do You Replace Active Directory?:
@Dashrender said in How Do You Replace Active Directory?:
@JasGot said in How Do You Replace Active Directory?:
@scottalanmiller said in How Do You Replace Active Directory?:
Just use local accounts. It's so easy that you can manage the whole environment for less effort than maintaining AD.
Curious.... How are you enforcing password changes at the local PC for users?
Why does this matter?
Because we're required to enforce it.
I assume - because company - not because law...
Anyway - one way to do it would be whatever management solution you choose - Intune/MeshCentral/ScreenConnect/etc - you push a script that flips the switch making them have to change their password as needed.
You could also schedule a job to run locally that could do the same.
@JasGot said in How Do You Replace Active Directory?:
@scottalanmiller said in How Do You Replace Active Directory?:
Just use local accounts. It's so easy that you can manage the whole environment for less effort than maintaining AD.
Curious.... How are you enforcing password changes at the local PC for users?
Why does this matter?
@scottalanmiller said in Is Real Estate Actually a Good Investment on Average?:
Uber was an idea that they knew worked physically. The only question was could they get investors and could they make profit. There was zero question about if it physically worked.
Theranos was a made up product that they couldn't develop.
One was a real service, one was a fake product.
Other than things like "both had investors" or "both happened in the same century", it's a pretty random comparison of vastly unrelated companies that share essentially nothing.
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@scottalanmiller said in Is Real Estate Actually a Good Investment on Average?:
@Dashrender said in Is Real Estate Actually a Good Investment on Average?:
@scottalanmiller said in Is Real Estate Actually a Good Investment on Average?:
@Dashrender said in Is Real Estate Actually a Good Investment on Average?:
Aka Uber and Theranos. Theranos I guess shows the beginning and ending of that crappy situation you talked about.
No, Theranos was a scam. We are talking about solid, American investments, not criminal scams.
I watched one of the shows about it - so take this with a grain of salt - Theranos didn't start out as a scam - it just turned into one once they couldn't get the tech working. and instead of failing, they decided to just scam investors instead.
Maybe, but the Theranos story is not one of honest business regardless of what they convince us was their initial intent.
Well - shows about Uber basically say the same thing... though perhaps now the company has broken away from the bad eggs and is actually trying to be a good company?
@scottalanmiller said in Is Real Estate Actually a Good Investment on Average?:
@Dashrender said in Is Real Estate Actually a Good Investment on Average?:
Aka Uber and Theranos. Theranos I guess shows the beginning and ending of that crappy situation you talked about.
No, Theranos was a scam. We are talking about solid, American investments, not criminal scams.
I watched one of the shows about it - so take this with a grain of salt - Theranos didn't start out as a scam - it just turned into one once they couldn't get the tech working. and instead of failing, they decided to just scam investors instead.
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Twitter agrees to being bought out and taken private by Elon Musk.
Musk of course claims it's so he can ensure free speech, but then I saw tons of people on FB yesterday claiming because they feel they will now be silenced on Twitter.
/sigh - whatever - never was a fan of twitter.
"but then I saw" doesn't really make sense. Of course opponents will make wild, unsubstantiated claims. That doesn't warrant a "but" as if his claims aren't true. They mean nothing, literally nothing.
I'm not happy with this move as he's got crazy ideas and wants to fundamentally change the platform to make it something different and ruin what Twitter has built (good or bad, changing a platform out from under people is bad... like how LinkedIn was supposed to be for career connections and became a job spam house and they CLAIM that people who signed up did so for the new reason, not the reason that they were told when they made the accounts.)
Sure - but this happens all time. Competitors buy companies to get the customers to move to their product by shutting down the one one they just bought - granted not exactly the same...
Right, don't get distracted by something completely different. That's viable and real, but in no way whatsoever what's happened here which is standard "profits through pure investment" strategy. No competitor was ever involved here, and there was never a "shutting down", let alone a shutting down to stifle competition.
yes I completely understand that.
I wonder what Musk's plans are to bolder more 'value' in the company before bringing it public again so he can exit making another 50 billion?
@scottalanmiller said in Is Real Estate Actually a Good Investment on Average?:
In America, it is extremely common to find millionaire or even billionaires who have never made business profits or run a business. This is what other countries complain about when they talk about American capitalism. I'm not commenting on its value, only pointing out that many Americans aren't even aware how their national capital investment system is unique or works. Most Americans never really witness it enough to understand it. But we all participate through retirement schemes and blind investments. Blind investing is the whole thing.
In very few other countries does this happen. Typical investing outside of the US involves active ownership and oversight of a business. Not always, but often. The idea that you would create a business that never makes money and get rich buying and selling that worthless business to higher and higher bidders sounds insane. But all of the US economy is built on that.
Most of the world sees the purpose of businesses universally to do a good enough job to make profits. But in America, you can be a highly regarded company with zero profits even for decades and make your money by increasing the stock value, while losing money.
Aka Uber and Theranos. Theranos I guess shows the beginning and ending of that crappy situation you talked about.
@scottalanmiller said in Is Real Estate Actually a Good Investment on Average?:
Look at SW as a key example. They are exactly a VC style firm from beginning to end. The founders put in "no" money, investors did. Those investors made bank when round A VC money came in. Those VCs made bank when round B VC money came in. Those investors made bank when round C VC money came in. Those investors made bank when IPO Investment Banking backers stepped in.
At this point, THOSE investors got burned because they overpaid for something that they had not properly evaluated. They then sold at a fire sale price to the current owners who paid pennies on the dollar for the remains of the company and now actually operate the business as part of a larger business strategy instead of attempting to run up its investment value.
Of the six or seven major parties involved in that process, all but one of them did really well. And all of them took risks, but the smarter (or luckier) ones made profits (on investments, never the business, the business was always losing money) and only very, very recently does the owner of the business also operate the business and now they are focused on making it profitable for the first time (and maybe they have or will after COVID subsides.)
so yes - you said basically what said only with a lot more detail.
The VCs put money, they found more VCs to put money in, eventually original people were able to take money out by selling shares at higher value - and the suckers at the end of the line are the ones who lost... so that's how VCs work - always looking for the suckers.
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Twitter agrees to being bought out and taken private by Elon Musk.
Musk of course claims it's so he can ensure free speech, but then I saw tons of people on FB yesterday claiming because they feel they will now be silenced on Twitter.
/sigh - whatever - never was a fan of twitter.
"but then I saw" doesn't really make sense. Of course opponents will make wild, unsubstantiated claims. That doesn't warrant a "but" as if his claims aren't true. They mean nothing, literally nothing.
I'm not happy with this move as he's got crazy ideas and wants to fundamentally change the platform to make it something different and ruin what Twitter has built (good or bad, changing a platform out from under people is bad... like how LinkedIn was supposed to be for career connections and became a job spam house and they CLAIM that people who signed up did so for the new reason, not the reason that they were told when they made the accounts.)
Sure - but this happens all time. Competitors buy companies to get the customers to move to their product by shutting down the one one they just bought - granted not exactly the same...
@scottalanmiller said in Migrating to xxxxx:
I have a similar situation. There's no more panic. Just "let me do my job and get on with it." People sometimes see that as not taking it seriously when really, I'm just that much more on top of things.
I've definitely walked into a few crisis that way with my old boss. Actually those were the best of work conditions - the confidence to just roll up the sleeves and get shit done. If only more of my life was like that.
@scottalanmiller said in Is Real Estate Actually a Good Investment on Average?:
Similarly this is why venture capitalists often drive businesses into the ground and businesses looking to make money via investment or via business discuss these things when setting up their businesses. If the business' purpose is profits and operations, you want to avoid venture capital. If your goal is to make your money FROM the investors and not from being profitable, you use venture capitalists who typically play a game of investment hot potato.
I'm lost how venture capitalists stay around then? Unless that it's just the VC company itself keeps finding new foolish money to invest and loose with them?
Along those lines - I can understand why Buffett stays away from tech companies. Supposedly he understands enough of the business to know how he'll be squeezing money out of them... but he's admitted he doesn't understand how he'll squeeze it out of IT companies.
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Twitter agrees to being bought out and taken private by Elon Musk.
Musk of course claims it's so he can ensure free speech, but then I saw tons of people on FB yesterday claiming because they feel they will now be silenced on Twitter.
/sigh - whatever - never was a fan of twitter.
@Mario-Jakovina said in How Do You Replace Active Directory?:
@scottalanmiller Maybe it is complicated if you have User RDS CALs.
We had Device RDS CALs, and things are very simple with them.
Something still has to deploy those CALs.
Since you're on premises you can control the number of devices you have, so device CALs work - if you opened it up and allowed people to work from home, User CALs would likely pay off.
Though I can't imagine what AD would have to do with it in either case?