@JaredBusch said in Health insurance plans:

@PSX_Defector said in Health insurance plans:

@JaredBusch said in Health insurance plans:

@PSX_Defector said in Health insurance plans:

You are bitching about the ACA. You really need to be bitching about getting a new CPA who ain't leaving you to the wolves.

This is true and I will be speaking to a new one as my gross last year was just a fraction over $100k with an AGI listed as $98k last on my 1040.

I suspect I will be filing amended returns.

OK, quick math.

$100K gross is around $80K in a W2 return. Self employment knocks up about $20K in self taxes, be it FICA or income. Federal, ignoring state for the moment.

So yes, your CPA sucks. Even using the standard schedules and layout wouldn't get you that. F(***), even I could do better than that.

Did anyone mention to you that those fun deductions for your health payments? Or your mileage? Or even your home office? Jesus, it's not like he's even trying.

Say what you will about the ACA, but what you got is a bad deal from your CPA. He's a lazy f(***)ing moron.

Are mistaking AGI and taxable income? My taxable is much lower, in the range you are mentioning.

I was wondering where those numbers where coming from.

I have to maintain an active account (but we always need a backup phone so that is fine). As far as maintaining a number because they are all Iphones people can still reach me at my main number it just rings through to the Tmobile phone. The nice part of an ITunes account. I actually have 3 IPhones. One for GS one for NTG (my main number) and one for traveling.

@NetworkNerd said in New book arrived:

@scottalanmiller said in New book arrived:

I love IT books, but the right topic is important.

I really enjoyed the Mastering vSphere series. I have not read the one on version 6, but the ones on 5 and 5.5 were rather enjoyable.

Because 50% of the book was about how to handle that SSO mess? 😉 SCNR

@Dashrender said in Look at Cloud at Cost - what a scam 😛:

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Got the same email. While I won't trust it for anything production wise, I have been toying with it a little. It's there... I paid for it,.. why not.

@jt1001001 said in Look at Cloud at Cost - what a scam 😛:

I stil have I think 8 CPU's from that scam. Maybe I'll set up a free 3CX server on it over the weekend for giggles

I thought of doing a FreePBX install - not so much on C@C, but just to toy with and have an extension for my brother for internal calls... meh,.. maybe...

@wrx7m said in Looking for sounds for cell phones:

Zedge?

Zedge

@Dashrender said in Time to gut the network - thoughts?:

@JaredBusch said in Time to gut the network - thoughts?:

Correct you do have QoS. It is on the VLAN, that contains the voice devices.

So the following is an incorrect assumption.

@scottalanmiller said in Time to gut the network - thoughts?:

You might want to LEAD with.... since we discovered that QoS was not set up properly and has never been a problem we can assume that QoS and ensuring call quality cannot be the reason.

Let them come up with a reason if you head that off at the pass.

No, it's correct. They didn't do their jobs properly. They neither did the sensible, cost effective thing for the business, which would have been to not have a VLAN at all. Nor did they properly do QoS for your VoIP traffic.

So no matter what, they didn't set up QoS correctly for you.

@JaredBusch said in Binge Watching:

TV shows and novels are horrible comparisons in the way you are both using them.

This was the point I was trying to drive to, but clearly missed. The closet I got was when I said it takes me 8+ hours to read a book, and a TV show is 30-60 mins. These types of entertainment are not really comparable.

It's better to compare a typical comic book to a TV show. Though a comic probably doesn't typically take 30+ to read.

@Jason said in Holy crap, did I call this or what?:

@stacksofplates said in Holy crap, did I call this or what?:

@RojoLoco said in Holy crap, did I call this or what?:

@JaredBusch said in Holy crap, did I call this or what?:

More reasons I do not like this guy
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Will uBlock (or any ad blocker) get rid of that nonsense?

You can probably remove that overlay element unless it isn't the article behind it.

There isn't. It's a paragraph of text in the code and that's it

Ah. Ya I do it when I get those ads that cover the whole screen and there isn't a way to close them. Oh well.

These guys usually have free shipping http://www.atbatt.com/

@Dashrender said in Fiber GBICs:

I have an HP switch with an LC SX fiber GBIC.

Do you know, or think - please indicate - if that will work when connected to a ES‑48‑500W with a 10GTeck SFP SX GBIC?

Are you asking if the SFPs will work in the switch or if the SFPs will talk to each other? if you asking if they will talk to each other yes, It's still ethernet. As long as you are using the same type of fiber SFPs (or ones that will take SMF and MMF) and the correct speed and micron then they will work, that is unless you try something stupid like using a SMF run a few feet apart you will burn out the SFP.

But it is standards based and it is still just ethernet, the one side doesn't care what brand is on the other. It's the same as plunging a CAT5 Ethernet cable into dissimilar brands of switches.

@Jason said in Someone doesn't like local storage for large amounts of data:

@stacksofplates said in Someone doesn't like local storage for large amounts of data:

@FATeknollogee said in Someone doesn't like local storage for large amounts of data:

@scottalanmiller Isn't that part of why we all virtualize so we don't have deal with raw?

You can still snapshot raw. Raw can be an image file or a volume or a full disk. Raw doesn't mean not virtualized.

@stacksofplates said in Someone doesn't like local storage for large amounts of data:

@FATeknollogee said in Someone doesn't like local storage for large amounts of data:

@scottalanmiller Isn't that part of why we all virtualize so we don't have deal with raw?

You can still snapshot raw. Raw can be an image file or a volume or a full disk. Raw doesn't mean not virtualized.

RAWs biggest limitation is you can't storage vmotion it. You can vmotion the pointer but if you are retiring a SAN or something you will be doing it manually.

Ya I'm using KVM so I can either move the raw file or the volume to wherever I need it. It's really simple with qemu and lvm.

Good info, thanks. Made the change.

I heard from others that you get a first class experience on either PS4 or the Amazon Fire TV.

I purchased one today.

So far it's significantly better! There is a menu schedule, much like typical cable. Search leaves a lot to be desired, picking one letter at a time, not great. But so far much more user friendly than on the Roku.

@Jason said in Lanier LD117 scan uploads are slow when NetBIOS disabled on remote share:

This is not a NetBIOS issue then..

While you might have assumed I said that it was, The symptom only showed itself after this change was made. Before the user went on vacation and while she was gone, the only change that was made was that NetBIOS was disabled, and DNS added to the printer along with putting FQDN in the SMB paths for the fileshare location.

I have one on order to try with my home automation software -- right now we use followmee.com on the phones but this would be better from a cell phone battery standpoint. Also plan to use https://amzn.com/B00EECXAY8 to extend the OBD port to hide the tracker better.

@Dashrender said in Adobe Reader DC printing black bars after Anniversary update:

@gjacobse said in Adobe Reader DC printing black bars after Anniversary update:

Check for the Print Driver.

I had a printer do this years ago (Windows 2000) I aptly named it my Government driver as everything was blacked out. All the text on the Windows Printer Test pages appeared to have been Redacted.

We've tried three different printers and printing to the Windows 10 PDF Print Driver - all have the same results.

It's not all PDFs either, maybe a third of them.

Is it 1/3 if you print the same document 3 times, or does a document that gets 'redaction lines' always get them?

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takes me to

https://mangolassi.it/topic/10083/piwik/24

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Which is the same place that

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There you go, that's how VSS is supposed to work. Get one taken right before patching and another right after. Then you have lots of options.

@MattSpeller said in Windows 10 won't finish updating:

@Dashrender Broken is the natural state of a WSUS server unless regularly poked at.

that doesn't make me feel better 🙂