I like LGs stuff that is a Black Friday Model though.

Depends on how the switch is running but if you have Macros on the switch or it's in Layer3 mode (even if on the same subnet) it can affect things.

Also if this is cisco switch you might want to enable RSTP (spanning-tree mode rapid-pvst)

@DustinB3403 said in How would you counter offer a job proposal:

And the counter offer was immediately refused.

So if he wasn't willing to negotiate maybe the position wasn't worth looking into.

Not surpised at any job with that low of pay, they are looking for someone they can afford who will not ask for more money latter on.

@travisdh1 said in Video Editing/Production Workstation - Questions:

I wouldn't cheap out on one by putting rust in for scratch/temp work space. Transcoding was always storage bound when I was working on video for me. Getting an SSD for that, if not a PCIe based card, would be my only recommendation besides what you're already looking at.

The Bottle Neck for transcoding is almost never the disks. For live playback maybe, but not transcoding that's CPU/GPU

Workstation Grade isn't just about getting a Xeon CPU my workstation has a Core i7.. Xeons aren't more powerful than desktop CPUs anymore. But you get better quality hardware, and they tend to last longer than normal desktops. Not to mention more upgradable, and bigger/higher quality PSUs. I'd build one or buy a workstation system. Building is becoming less and less popular for video editing though as the cost difference is much closer than it used to be.

I personally do most of my 4k RAW editing on a workstation laptop, with a quadro card, core i7, 64GB ram, 4k 17" LCD, boot PCIe SSD, 1TB editing SSD.

@wrx7m said in Video Editing/Production Workstation - Questions:

Does editing 2D HD video require much horsepower by way of the video card?
I would imagine the CPU would be doing the heavy lifting here, is that correct?
Anything else I should consider?

Thanks!

The GPU depends on the codec... but that is mostly used for effects, color correction and rendering.
CPU does not nesserly do heavy lifting.

CUDA cores of the GPU is an important factor, and using a Mercury playback engine supported card.

Also for video editing you will want to edit off local storage, not the network. Network is just too slow unless you are using a very fast Fiber or 10GB Copper network as a good storage array behind it. . a good local raid for scratch disks/projects is a must then manually or automatically back that up to the network.

@thwr said in What programming language should you learn first?:

@Jason said in What programming language should you learn first?:

I learned Java (not Java Script) first and then VB.net.

That's about the extent of what I know

Java is not related to JavaScript in any possible way, except for the very basic C-style syntax maybe. Same for VB.NET, which is a real programming language in the .NET ecosystem.

No one said it was...

I learned Java (not Java Script) first and then VB.net.

That's about the extent of what I know

there is no bug free version of any software. It does not exist.

@Dashrender said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

They were still building, but there were live systems already on site as well.

If you're doing any construction on a datacenter you do not run live systems.. doesn't matter what it is. That's a very bad sign for that Datacenter.

So is spiceworks censoring now based on advertisers or something?

If you can't figure out on your own using some tools why VDIs are running slow.. you shouldn't be running VDI haha.

Wow He even bought a new VNXe3200 Flash? VNXe is stupid with flash and has lots of yearly licensing or you can't keep using it. Unity devices are the way to go for midrange. but VNXe sucks, and is cheaper initial costs so a lot of SMBs get it even though over time it costs more.

My guess would be it's for SNOW https://www.snowsoftware.com/int It's the most popular one.

It means Software Asset Management

@DustinB3403 said in User to IT ratio:

4,000:1

So you don't have hardware techs, software techs, server techs.

We do, we just have a shit ton of users.

@dafyre said in User to IT ratio:

How can you even function like that?

Everyone is salaried that's how haha.

What does yours look like? we have a 4,000:1 ratio between all users and IT staff (not counting Software Developers). It would be something like 1,500:1 if you counted all our development team.

@travisdh1 said in Pentagon Warns Against Using Lenovo Equipment:

@Tim_G said in Pentagon Warns Against Using Lenovo Equipment:

I see Lenovo adds ALL over the place on spiceworks. No idea why.

Just me?

Lenovo is one of a select few companies that spend lots and lots of money on advertising with Spiceworks. They seem to get special treatment from that. Also makes me question weather I can continue to trust anything at all

Fixed that for you

We have a custom in house ERP it costs us a lot more than $5k/month i'll tell you that.. Probably about $2.8 million a year in our in-house dev team's salary alone.