I think I'm going to look at Honeywell one. Since I'm going with Lurton Caseta for Lighting. It's suppose to work with their app and Apple Home Kit.

@DustinB3403 said:

My question is will this effect MangoCon, I already bought my ticket.....

I haven't heard yet. But I would expect them to honor the tickets to go to SpiceWorld.

I'm thinking some of those cheap "rackable systems" servers on ebay should be easy to make quiet.. the 2U ones.

I had an HP z800 but I sold it and I don't want to spend that much just for a server.

@scottalanmiller said:

Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Max then, the $300 one.

No reason he couldn't use the ERL it has gigabit.

However, he's looking for an all in one DSL Modem, Router and Wifi AP. Blah.

@DustinB3403 said:

@Jason said:

@DustinB3403 said:

My question is will this effect MangoCon, I already bought my ticket.....

I haven't heard yet. But I would expect them to honor the tickets to go to SpiceWorld.

But SpiceWorld is in London this year correct, which means I'd have to buy a plane ticket...

Nope. It's always in Austin and London

@MattSpeller said:

@Jason Shop local

For overpiced junk? okay

http://blacksburg.craigslist.org/sys/5231167470.html
http://roanoke.craigslist.org/sys/5261375008.html
http://winstonsalem.craigslist.org/sys/5262000390.html

@PSX_Defector said:

So judging by the rest of your post, I would expect that Comcast did fire it up, you just don't have wiring to the inside of your house. They should be able to extend the tap out to you, or you can trench a RG6 yourself. Before screaming at Comcast for something make sure your side is 100% up.

My cables are all ran. Outside of the Demarc point is the utilities responsibility. I'm pretty sure I could get in trouble for messing with the lines on their side.

@brianlittlejohn said:

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller said:

The flooding of the market is really causing problems. The market is absolutely full of bodies, but not full of trained or experienced ones.

I can attest to this. I went through an A+ class with an excellent teacher (had us working in software and hardware and he really knew his stuff -- I was just in it for the cert)... At the end of the class, those that had no desire to learn still couldn't tell the difference between USB and PS/2.

I had a similar experience. We had a guy in A+ class (this was in highschool) there the entire semester, couldn't do anything with a computer, still passed the A+ test. Thats when I determined that the cert tests were pretty much worthless since you could just study for the test and have no practical skill to back it up.

The A+ isn't really an IT certification any way so that's not too surprising

I just decided to pickup a Dell Precision R5500 workstation computer that is Rackmount 12GB RAM $300. Might go for a second.

So I've always wondered, why do so many people treat IT Staff (Technicians, Network/server admins and even directors) like crap? Is is because employees think these positions are below them or what?

@hobbit666 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

You can be amazing but your career is over before you have a chance to demonstrate it because all of the managers are the 80% and have no way to know that you are doing well or, more often, do know it and need to crush you to support their own careers.

I've found everywhere I've worked so far that the IT Manager has ever come from the field, they have been managers in different fields e.g. Accounting, and "promoted" into IT. So I found this in one place and got out quick as the "manager" I felt was holding me back and taking advice from a poor MSP over my recommendations.

That's normal for IT directors and CIOs not to be from IT fields/backgrounds. They are usually a little bit technical. But they are business management jobs, not IT. Sounds like they just have bad management skills then. The CIO & IT directors are suppose to hire competent people, who they can trust and listen too their input. Because their employees would be the experts on the matter

People still use IRC? I haven't used that in so many years.

It's connected. 150mb Advertised. 90 Actual. Not to bad.

Sadly most of these applications don't have the features of what they are comparing it to..
These NLEs are more like iMovie, Windows Movie Maker etc than Adobe Premiere pro. Virtualdub isn't even a true NLE it's just a capture/trim program. Neither is PhotoFilmStrip a NLE like Premere but it's still falsely stating it replaces premiere.

This article says that it was done on the 11th but I've seen this exact one years ago. It's always been very inaccurate portraying the programs as something they aren't. .

@shybrsky said:

few week ago just fine ...

I thought you said it was fine two days ago. Sometimes using Fiddler can help you find out what's going on with traffic to a proxy server (though I usually use it for blocked stuff) I'm not sure if it will give you any clues in this case or not: http://www.telerik.com/fiddler

Really USPS?

@johnhooks said in Yakkety Yak Announced:

Too bad they can't call it Yakkety Sax and play that song every time you log in.

Likely because people might make Sax jokes about it

I don't want complexity just for the sake of complexity but, I don't avoid complexity when it's a better solution.

@NattNatt said:

@Carnival-Boy said:

@scottalanmiller said:

It honestly feels really weird that going to the CIO would even be in question at that point. Would the CIO really want shielding like that in the organization? Hopefully not, hopefully he trusting everyone to report up when they see something.

I assume the CIO employed the IT Director? That can make it tricky, because it can sound like you're implying that he was an idiot for recruiting an idiot. You need to tread carefully here.

Not really? You employ someone based on what their credentials etc are...the whole point of a probation period is to check if they are actually fit for the job? And in this case it sounds like this guy really isn't fit for the job...

They go of what he said. He told us he was very strict with security and giving rights. The CIO has the ultimate say but we are part of the process of hiring our boss was well.

@DustinB3403 said in Teamviewer hacked:

@Jason said in Teamviewer hacked:

Is teamviewer still owned by Microsoft?

I believe TV is privately held. I know LMI is owned by MS though.

LMI isn't owned by Microsoft. LMI does own LastPass and Xmarks now though.