@Dashrender said:

Now if you want to talk about Linked In or some other Professional FB clone - then sure - fine, you will probably only subscribe to 20-50 businesses, professional people.. and assuming you keep up with that feed along side FB, then you might catch some more people.. but directly in FB specifically, I just don't see it happening much.

and it's still less than useful for a MSP for client interaction - which should primarily be kept private. I'm not saying an MSP shouldn't have a FB page -they probably should. And they should probably put new content up there regularly if for no other reason than people simply expect it.

I think that it is similar to MSPs blogging. MSP clients don't read MSP blogs. I've never heard of that happening. Like SEO, every MSP does blogging, but I know of none that have people reading their blogs (and often the content is terrible.) An MSP rarely has the kind of info that a business is interested in. Same with any consultancy, you write for your peers, not your customers. Customers of IT don't read about IT, that's why they hire IT people externally.

This is just one more reason email needs to die!

I know we need anonymous ways to communicate over the internet, but we also need ways to protect ourselves better.

@wrx7m said:

Is that a stand-alone product?

Please reread the text above, or watch the linked video.

Thank you for providing the transcript!

@dafyre said:

Come up with a way to add a gas powered generator to it so it can kick in if your battery power gets too low or something?

Extra power is easy. But it adds cost, complexity and most critically in a flying machine, weight.

@GlennBarley said:

@scottalanmiller In house is very expensive, yes. What is your take on SMBs that seem stuck in the "break-fix" mindset?

My take is "that's what makes them SMBs in most cases." There are two kinds of SMBs (mostly), those that will never be anything else and will likely fail, and those that won't be SMBs for long. Outside of rare cases like single restaurants and similar, people don't start companies intending to be SMBs. SMB is where they have stalled while they were failing to get where they wanted. They just haven't failed all the way to the point of going out of business yet.

Most of the time, the thing that makes them SMBs is either that they are new and won't stay small, or that they don't know how to run a business and make fundamentally bad decisions over and over again.

@JaredBusch said:

@scottalanmiller said:

At 1TB it is still quite cheap, thanks to Vultr's massive local SATA storage options.

hmm i have a client mentioned in another thread that needs 4+ TB of storage. I do not think Vultr was mentioned.. Does their price break down at that size?

Hits the wall right at 1TB. 1TB and under, they rock. Above that, they don't have an offering, sadly. I looked into them specifically for that thread to make sure that they had not added something above 1TB at the time, and they hadn't.

We don't do tech screenings with questions like this. We interview using conversations. I find the entire idea of having a list of technical question or non-technical weird questions (what kind of bird would you be) to be a waste of time and actively counter-productive. They tell you effectively nothing about the abilities of a useful candidate. Discussions are much more telling and much harder to fake or prepare for while not weeding people out at random based on testing .0001% of their potential knowledge without knowing if it is something that they should know about. Also far less likely that the interviewer is the one that is wrong - which I've seen be the case as often as not sitting on both sides of the table. Interviewers rarely research their questions and this makes it that much worse that you might weed out people based on knowing too much!

@GlennBarley said:

@nadnerB powdered or jelly?

Powdered sounds good 😉

Not new in any way, but I see security, specifically around the strategies emerging from ransomware, arising as a new area specific to those concerns.

@coliver Actually really good. New holiday classic.

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Would you rather all of your IT staff be rabbits or all of management be frogs.

I have no idea what this mean?

Once we are asking fanciful, impossible questions... what is the point? We might as well talk about fairies and talking animals taking over jobs.

Well, Youtube does have the armies of code monkeys.

@scottalanmiller said:

@MattSpeller said:

Best tip I ever had from an old sysadmin:

Never spend more on booze than you do on groceries in a week. Try not to spend much less, either.

When I lived in Dallas, we had a $400/wk liquor tab!!

what would put me in a near comma.

@dafyre said:

With switching to a new ITSP, they are moving to an unknown -- this guy is CHEAP... but is he worth his salt?... Giving their current ITSP (assuming a good relationship) a chance to match it would be more beneficial to the customer, I'd think.

If you deal with enterprise customers, there is no problem here. The problem is in dealing with the SMB market which, as I often say, remains SMB for a reason mostly. So making illogical and non-business sound decisions is sadly a hallmark of the market and as an ITSP in that market you have to account for the fact that with the majority of customers, logic, good service, protecting them are not things that will often be taken into account.