@jt1001001 said in New StarWind Virtual SAN Free - All restrictions removed!:

In case you didn't see, the webinar is now up on their site:
https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-virtual-san-free-all-restrictions-removed

THanks

@JaredBusch I was just saying I see this:
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so that is why I am saying it shows up there, I guess the release notes are not there though.

I don't have the time right now to download and install a Steam game or get a Windows game working, but I did install Minecraft and at one point got over 600 FPS in full-screen mode.

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I don't know if the Intel GPU is capable of that or not, but I'm thinking it's the nVidia. How can I tell?

I'll have to compare it to Windows tomorrow.

@RojoLoco I wasn't trying to go down that route, @scottalanmiller went there.

I agree, he's broken mentally and likely needs help. The rational for discussing it is I'm sure these kinds of things will occur more often as AI advances.

Which begs the question, can you marry property?

@Danp said in No NAS is a replacement to a Server, Just because they offer a "Hair Stylist" skill set.:

@DustinB3403 Link broken?

Sorry about that, corrected.

@DustinB3403 said in To fight Tor hack prosecutions, activist groups offer up legal help:

@scottalanmiller said in To fight Tor hack prosecutions, activist groups offer up legal help:

With cocaine, they don't really give it to you. They pretend to sell it. And cocaine hurts no one. There is no victim. This is the government actually causing harm to children.

But the comparison would be the FDA/ATF/Drug Enforcement seizing drugs at the border, and then turning around and selling it themselves.

It's the act of seizure and not destroying / removing access that has me upset.

This is what the CIA did in the 80's. They literally seized drugs from Mexican and Central American cartels and then sold it in US inner cities lower then what their competitors could. It funded a lot of the operations that the government couldn't/wouldn't fund.

There is speculation that the current opiate epidemic may be the result of the same type of program.

@Carnival-Boy said in Tracking User Active Hours for Better Downtime Planning:

@DustinB3403 said in Tracking User Active Hours for Better Downtime Planning:

why would anyone need to be up so late except for in the most urgent of issues is insane to me.

That's the problem you have. Defining "urgent". Logging activity gives you a sense of the quantity of work carried out after hours, but not the quality.

An example we might have: our guys are working on a multi-million dollar deal and the client e-mails them from New York in the late afternoon. The client doesn't care that it is midnight where we are in the UK, he expects an immediate answer. That one e-mail is more important than the thousand e-mails we received during the day. In financial terms, it could represent 20% of our revenue. So 0.0001% of IT activity represent 20% of revenue.

You can't analyse that. You can only trust that if your guys say they need 24/7/365 access, they do.

And that is why I'm trying quantify who and when people are working while not in the office.

Because as @Breffni-Potter said (and is true) the system will have to come down at some point, it might as well be planned, rather than unplanned.

@scottalanmiller said in Why are local drives better:

@StrongBad said in Why are local drives better:

@Oles-Borys do you have any information on the pricing for ACloudA? Seems like a really interesting product.

I'm having beers with aclouda right now.

What? What craziness is that?

@Mike-Davis said in GPO - Install software based on User - Without user involvement:

@Dashrender said in GPO - Install software based on User - Without user involvement:

Many policies can't be applied to users and have to be applied to the computer. that said you might be able to set the Item level targeting to limit it to specific users.

This is your problem.

If you want to deploy the software based on user, you need to deploy it under User Configuration -> Policies -> Software Settings -> Software installation.

You tried to deploy it under Computer Configuration, and filtered by User, so it gets totally ignored.

This is only a problem if your computer is not part of this GPO pool - or you're trying to run things from both computer and user without loopback enabled.

Take a look at Windows Disk Management. Maybe the Disk needs to be assigned a drive letter.

Screenly OSE really seems like what we need. The fact that we don't have to spend a ton of money on hardware is a plus in my opinion.

https://www.screenly.io/ose/

Youtube Video

@scottalanmiller said in Port - Linux login script from AD netlogon share:

Oh, I missed that you were cross posting 🙂

Me too. I was about to congratulate @DustinB3403 on the new job. 🙂

The IPMI from SuperMicro has a web interface where you can do user maintenance for ipmi, remote control of hosts, record video(for recording other people's access to this system i guess), from there you can set Serial over Lan options. Here is the base screenshot
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It does use java for some things still. There are also functions here i have no clue what they are. No idea what RAKP Protocol Setting is, but it is there.
Here is a nice feature, it shows how much power your host is using. It changes every few seconds.
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Might want to mention having a "management guide" in the DR manual. A set of rules about how updates will be given, who can request updates, who can override process and so forth. So that way if a middle manager demands something, the team can pull out the DR guide with the CEO's signature on it and say "sorry, CEO says this is what I do, and that you have to leave now."

The link is more recent, because he mention XS 7.

I got acancel AARP (done, should have check by 4/13 and no mailings by 6 weeks from 3/16)I got about 50% of the way into this, and had to move on to other projects. But I really need to get back to it.

@DustinB3403 said in OneNote - Share Across Devices - User rant:

OneNote locally to their hard drive, and then moan about their hard drive failing with OneNote saved locally.

huh, that's weird.. by default OneNote wants to make you put it on OneDrive (at least it used to) so making it be local would require extra work.

This is the NextCloud information that @scottalanmiller was talking about.