I've just recently heard of INE https://ine.com/

From October to May when the sun's gone away
We long for the summer's hot swelter
But with that warm spell comes a creature from hell
Who sends us all running for shelter

Last night I went out for a brief walkabout
To view starry heavens above me
When I was attacked from the front and the back
By a demon who took my blood from me

He buzzes and bites, he's a damn parasite
And he ain't no respecter of persons
To him you're just meat, though you're slathered in Deet
And he drives you to swattin' and cursin'

Would Pharaoh of old be so cocky and bold
When Moses demanded his freedom
If up from the Nile came the ultimate trial
The attack of the Northern Mosquito?

To be sung to the tune of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and don't forget the buzzing part of the song.

@Emad-R said in Bed Bugs:

@scottalanmiller said in Bed Bugs:

Thankfully, even having lived in NYC and the third world, have never needed to deal with them.

I knew mosquitos in the third world, but let me assure you the mosquitos in Canada are vampires, one of them can sting you like 20 times in 20 seconds and worst of all they are silent

Hmm, well they're not that silent. I can open the window at night and hear their collective buzzing.

@scottalanmiller said in Bed Bugs:

@Emad-R said in Bed Bugs:

@scottalanmiller said in Bed Bugs:

Thankfully, even having lived in NYC and the third world, have never needed to deal with them.

I knew mosquitos in the third world, but let me assure you the mosquitos in Canada are vampires, one of them can sting you like 20 times in 20 seconds and worst of all they are silent

LOL, the third world has it easy with mosquitoes. They carry more disease there, but the quantity of them is nothing compared to Canada, Minnesota, New York, Maine, etc.

When I went to West Africa I was shocked that I didn't see a single mosquito, but one of the people we were staying with still got malaria.

I know someone here who has a B&B that got them. They had two treatment options, they went with the one that wouldn't be as harsh on their antique furniture, I believe it cost a couple thousand.

I here in the winter here you can just open the windows.

@scottalanmiller said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:

@flaxking said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:

@scottalanmiller said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:

It's like if my customer demands that I build them a datacenter. Sure, building a datacenter is a huge amount of work, but I don't do that work. I just call up a datacenter contractor and tell them how big it needs to be.

Completely different power dynamic though. As an employee, typically your only real power move in an SMB is to leave when asked to do things you should be outsourcing.

Not when you get to things that you lack the legal ability to do. Building structures, trenching in right of ways, those things require permits, bonds, insurance, etc.

If your SMB employer doesn't get permits, and you report them, it's because you're already planning to find a new job.

@scottalanmiller said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:

It's like if my customer demands that I build them a datacenter. Sure, building a datacenter is a huge amount of work, but I don't do that work. I just call up a datacenter contractor and tell them how big it needs to be.

Completely different power dynamic though. As an employee, typically your only real power move in an SMB is to leave when asked to do things you should be outsourcing.

@scottalanmiller said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:

@flaxking said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:

@scottalanmiller said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:

@flaxking said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:

OP is just lucky the CEO doesn't want to get a point-to-point connection to the office instead.

That would have been simple, really.

Depends if the OP has to become the company's de facto tower installer.

You just call up the local ISP and have them run the line. In any case, it's something you have to contract out. That it would cost a fortune doesn't come from his pocket, that it requires right of ways or permits or whatever, just things he orders, not things he does. Would be much less work than this.

I was thinking wireless, but your comment still applies regardless.

@scottalanmiller said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:

@flaxking said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:

OP is just lucky the CEO doesn't want to get a point-to-point connection to the office instead.

That would have been simple, really.

Depends if the OP has to become the company's de facto tower installer.

OP is just lucky the CEO doesn't want to get a point-to-point connection to the office instead.

@scottalanmiller said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:

@IRJ said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:

@flaxking said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:

I've been sent to the house of a former owner before, so this scenario doesn't surprise me. Sounds like it will give you some good experience anyway.

Experience for what? No business does stuff like this? They dont put a new facility in a location without wired internet access. It just isnt done.

I bet half our large customers do this. I keep advising them that the FIRST thing you check when choosing a location is the available infrastructure. But they keep choosing places because they are cheap without checking why!!

And around here, if there is not a local ISP, you'd be looking at 10x the price for one of the big ISPs to run fiber, if they even care enough.

@scottalanmiller said in Researching OpenDental Software:

@flaxking said in Researching OpenDental Software:

There's so many industries with niche LoB applications that are ripe for a shake-up by modern competitors. The issue is getting the business knowledge in order to make a competing product.

And getting the customers to care. In many cases, just because you make a better mouse trap, doesn't mean that someone will buy it.

I've seen the prices they are paying, I don't think it would be hard to build a cheaper mouse trap too.

@IRJ said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:

@flaxking said in New ISP Issues at CEO's Home:

I've been sent to the house of a former owner before, so this scenario doesn't surprise me. Sounds like it will give you some good experience anyway.

Experience for what? No business does stuff like this? They dont put a new facility in a location without wired internet access. It just isnt done.

I was referring to standard networking experience. But I guess Canada has third world internet access compared to the US, because there are lots of businesses running with wireless internet, and the percent can be high depending on the industry.

I've been sent to the house of a former owner before, so this scenario doesn't surprise me. Sounds like it will give you some good experience anyway.

There's so many industries with niche LoB applications that are ripe for a shake-up by modern competitors. The issue is getting the business knowledge in order to make a competing product.

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However if you sign up for a free Visual Studio Dev Essentials account, I believe there is still a promo for 3 months of free Pluralsight.

Not quite close enough I'm afraid. I could refer you to a company that I used to work for with an office there.

@DustinB3403 I'm actually really interested in the thought process here, in case it represents a cultural shift.

We pretty much have 'live' interviews on every other broadcast medium, except for text. With text, I can only think of a interview being done and then an article with the interview being posted later, unless it's something like an AMA where it is not a 1:1 interview.

So this thread was supposed to be like a talk-show?

@stacksofplates said in Managing Public Github project with private files:

If you wanted to do more of a true 12 factor native approach, you would use environment variables. That way you can easily change deployments without changing any code base at all.

Good point

I'm used to having to create scripts to inject environment variables into config files for my docker containers because I'm often working with technologies you have to rig up to work well with containers (looking at you IIS)