Posts made by handsofqwerty

Wrapping my day at work. Only one job today.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@handsofqwerty said:

Yeah, I see what you mean. Well, if I was able to make a viable thing to help out myself and my co-workers, that would be looked quite well on by many people.

Would it? I've written VB.NET apps to do stuff custom we needed before at the county. It's usually looked at as can you add this feature or that feature. We want this too now. Oh can you write a program to do this too? Not, Thanks for writing this program it's great.

Yeah, I know that response to stuff all too well too... So maybe just something I can use for me to make it easier would be fine then.

@handsofqwerty said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

@handsofqwerty said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

It's based on your Public IP.

Only sometimes. It said that it could not determine it when I went to look into it. But normally, on the same IP, it sets to where I actually am. So it is not consistent.

I get the theory, but that's not a reliable way to tell timezone.

Based on what you've told me, the main uplink is usually satellite, right? That could be it. Or maybe it's relaying to another tower somewhere else.

It's never going to be where your house it. It's wherever the ISP connects to the backbone/peering connections.

That's what I'm saying.

I probably worded something incorrectly but that's what I was trying to say.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@handsofqwerty said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

It's based on your Public IP.

Only sometimes. It said that it could not determine it when I went to look into it. But normally, on the same IP, it sets to where I actually am. So it is not consistent.

I get the theory, but that's not a reliable way to tell timezone.

Based on what you've told me, the main uplink is usually satellite, right? That could be it. Or maybe it's relaying to another tower somewhere else.

It's never going to be where your house it. It's wherever the ISP connects to the backbone/peering connections.

That's what I'm saying.

@handsofqwerty said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@PSX_Defector said:

Verizon Terremark.

Definitely not a player by any stretch for the SMB market. I've never seen a good IT shop in the enterprise that entertained them at all. They seem to be the domain of the "sales people bought you a golf club membership" set and not "IT selected best option for the company" set.

Verizon is an ISP, so that alone would put them on a very scary list. Not completely eliminate them from consideration, but Verizon's track record as Verizon is enough to make Terremark a complete no go for sure. Verizon is not a company I would want in charge of my infrastructure. That's a very scary thought.

Not that I agree or disagree, but there are some very serious entities that disagree with you. Just saying...

...and by that I mean size and scope of the entity's IT needs.

@scottalanmiller said:

@PSX_Defector said:

Verizon Terremark.

Definitely not a player by any stretch for the SMB market. I've never seen a good IT shop in the enterprise that entertained them at all. They seem to be the domain of the "sales people bought you a golf club membership" set and not "IT selected best option for the company" set.

Verizon is an ISP, so that alone would put them on a very scary list. Not completely eliminate them from consideration, but Verizon's track record as Verizon is enough to make Terremark a complete no go for sure. Verizon is not a company I would want in charge of my infrastructure. That's a very scary thought.

Not that I agree or disagree, but there are some very serious entities that disagree with you. Just saying...

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

It's based on your Public IP.

Only sometimes. It said that it could not determine it when I went to look into it. But normally, on the same IP, it sets to where I actually am. So it is not consistent.

I get the theory, but that's not a reliable way to tell timezone.

Based on what you've told me, the main uplink is usually satellite, right? That could be it. Or maybe it's relaying to another tower somewhere else.

@scottalanmiller said:

@handsofqwerty said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

Developing isn't the major task here. maintaining the project would be.

Yeah, but my thinking would be spin up something that is functional to start and probably throw it under GNU/GPL and hand it off to the Dev guys here.

That never actually happens. Just because you GPL something doesn't mean that anyone cares. Unless you make something awesome, it is easier for them to write something fresh than to support your code.

And why would dev guys at the office support your code when they could write this in an hour or two on their own and haven't done so yet? Something doesn't fit. No dev guys wants to maintain someone else's code.

Yeah, I see what you mean. Well, if I was able to make a viable thing to help out myself and my co-workers, that would be looked quite well on by many people.

@g.jacobse said:

I'm pretty sure you could use Zophos ManagedEngine system to do that.. Just customize a few things, and you should be able to get right on things.

At least from what I've read of your requirements.

Is that free?

@thecreativeone91 said:

Developing isn't the major task here. maintaining the project would be.

Yeah, but my thinking would be spin up something that is functional to start and probably throw it under GNU/GPL and hand it off to the Dev guys here.

@nadnerB said:

Finished Mass Effect tonight.
Download and start Mess Effect 2 tomorrow night

Did you play all the DLC? I've been told that the DLC enhances and alters the story considerably.

To be honest, I'd love to develop something from scratch. Partially because I like doing that but also because I like the challenge and want to learn. @scottalanmiller, for what I'm describing, what would you:

1. Recommend to use as a solution?
2. Recommend as a good resource to use to learn to implement said solution?

Thanks!

@handsofqwerty said:

@coliver said:

https://www.toggl.com/

This sort of what you are looking for?

That looks like just a timer. We bill everything in 15 minute increments, so not quite what I'm looking for. Honestly, everything I am looking to do I know can be done in AutoTask but that's a ton of extra functionality we also don't need.

@coliver said:

@handsofqwerty said:

@coliver and an expense that I can't decide on or spend personally, obviously.

Expensive? It is free for up to 5 users with unlimited clients. Looks like it will do most of the things you are requesting. It will log your time, I'm sure the date, and you can probably add a custom field for case number. Haven't looked it but I have looked at the features.

It would be a good proof-of-concept at the very least.

I interpreted his response to mean AutoTask. My misunderstanding.

@coliver, I'm on AutoTask's website and don't see what you're referring to...

@coliver said:

@handsofqwerty said:

@coliver and an expense that I can't decide on or spend personally, obviously.

Expensive? It is free for up to 5 users with unlimited clients. Looks like it will do most of the things you are requesting. It will log your time, I'm sure the date, and you can probably add a custom field for case number. Haven't looked it but I have looked at the features.

It would be a good proof-of-concept at the very least.

Free for up to five users you say? o.O I might have to try this...

@handsofqwerty said:

@scottalanmiller said:

What you need is a book to get started.

Why are you looking for things like PHP and Apache though? If you don't know how to do this, why would you make choices about those components?

That was just what I thought might work. I'm not fixated on those.

I'm pretty sure it'll need a database backend of some sort though, to run queries against, etc.

@scottalanmiller said:

What you need is a book to get started.

Why are you looking for things like PHP and Apache though? If you don't know how to do this, why would you make choices about those components?

That was just what I thought might work. I'm not fixated on those.

@scottalanmiller said:

@handsofqwerty said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

Why reinvent the wheel. Pretty sure there are FOSS time clock type web apps.

I'm sure there are projects similar. If I can take one of those and customize it, that's fine. As long as I can get it to do what I need, that'll be fine. That's why I'm asking...to find out if anything I can use to start with or whatever already exists.

Customize? That's a LOT more work than making your own.

Yeah, by customize I meant within reason. Same reason why remodels for houses are 10x the work of burning what's there to the ground and starting over. It's cost that drives that.

@scottalanmiller said:

@handsofqwerty said:

You aren't allowed to be scheduled at a place of work for less than four hours....

In NY you can, you just have to negotiate it. Both parties have to agree that the compensation is enough to justify the commute. It is designed to protect employers from forcing an employee to quit by making it impossibly expensive to work after they have started working.

Ok, yes, that's true. My retail job can't schedule me normally for less than four hours, but if I ask if I can work for two hours some night, they are allowed to let me.

@thecreativeone91 said:

Why reinvent the wheel. Pretty sure there are FOSS time clock type web apps.

I'm sure there are projects similar. If I can take one of those and customize it, that's fine. As long as I can get it to do what I need, that'll be fine. That's why I'm asking...to find out if anything I can use to start with or whatever already exists.