@MattSpeller said:
@scottalanmiller aren't you the same guy who did 4 grocery store runs the other day? Good grief man, you can get a whole bag of food at a time instead of a handful of carrots, it really saves time!
4 grocery runs in one day sounds normal to me... It is ridiculous that a bag of organic romaine hearts can be $4+ at one grocery store and then be $2+ at another. Gotta get those savings, man.
@BMarie said:
Can I use this in real life?
Neat that it learns you.
Clutter for real life? I'll take two!
@PSX_Defector said:
Don't forget to force logoffs after an amount of time. Usually Acrobat only goes nuts when its been running for a long long time.
We have it set up to force logoffs, but I'm not so sure it is working like it should(obviously 
). We have to manual kick users off, quite frequently. Truthfully, I think the terminal servers and the session broker were set up incorrectly. I'm sure a few other things were missed as well. This was set up before I was hired. I really want to tear it down and build it out, correctly.
Well, we actually found out what was doing most of the CPU hammering on one of our terminal servers. Adobe reader was running in the background. User could't see that it was running. We found it by using a big comb. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4OBUupicWg
@JaredBusch said:
How long has Google done this? I never noticed it before..
My wife thinks Google is creepy when it does stuff like this.
Happy belated Birthday!
@MattSpeller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
Dell has been getting much better with their reps since it went back to a private company rather than publicly traded.
Agreed from what I've seen elsewhere, but we're on our Nth rep this year alone
At my old job, about 1 1/2 ago, we started to have a new rep every quarter it seemed. Of course, it isn't just Dell. I currently have had about 3-4 Reps from our phone provider within a year. I think people move around a lot more in companies, now a days. They get promoted to manager, they don't hack it in Sales and move to a different department, or find a better company/job. Of course, that is just my opinion, I could be way off.
Yes, I have noticed it a bit. I personally just let it go to voicemail and then forget about my voicemail for a week or so... Then I listen to them and end up just deleting the bulk of them without even listen to what they have to say.
@PSX_Defector said:
@jevans said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Have you identified the source of the sluggishness? Is it IO, CPU, memory?
The CPU is getting hammered at least that is one area that I am for sure of now. We have ruled out the IO and Memory is/should be sufficient.
That's something to beat the users on, not upgrade and spend tons of money on hardware.
60+ users on a terminal server is nothing. I have had Citrix farms with 200 users and 15 different servers running against it on much older hardware than you got. You need to take a look at your workload and determine what is causing them to suck down the cycles.
My Sys. Admin and I think it could be an issue with Office 365, mainly Outlook, and having most, if not all, users running that at the same time on the server.
@scottalanmiller said:
@jevans said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@RojoLoco said:
That also shows how shitty most public school teachers are, and why we will always be behind the rest of the world.
My private school teacher didn't know at what time one day turned into another, which meant she could never figure out AM or PM either. Literally, me teacher couldn't tell time or figure out the date for 1/24th of every day.
Was your private school teacher, Jewish? In Judaism, the day ends at sunset and the new day begins.
No, she just didn't know how clocks worked.
wow
@scottalanmiller said:
@RojoLoco said:
That also shows how shitty most public school teachers are, and why we will always be behind the rest of the world.
My private school teacher didn't know at what time one day turned into another, which meant she could never figure out AM or PM either. Literally, me teacher couldn't tell time or figure out the date for 1/24th of every day.
Was your private school teacher, Jewish? In Judaism, the day ends at sunset and the new day begins.
@nadnerB said:
@jevans said:
@nadnerB said:
Kudos to MS for the extended support period
Just need some feature adds
- zoom out
- e=mc2 trooper
- photon man
- hoyo hoyo
- stormbilly
- Jack be nimble
@nadnerB I think most of the time I played the original AOE with my friend it always ended with a photo man. Oh, what about the flyingdutchman?
lol, I always disabled that wehen playing with other people, otherwise it'd end up in a nuke fest and crash the PC's. Kind of like Judgement Day.
We only left it on when it was just him and me. We liked to have that option when the game went too long and we needed some mass destruction to liven things up. I mean, who doesn't like Armageddon with Photon Men and a Rocket launching Corvette?
@thanksajdotcom said:
@MattSpeller said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
The advancement of technology has made many people stupid...
I'll derail this hard, but it's worth talking about
The one thing that really scares me about having technology always around to "google" stuff, is it's making my memory shit. I used to be able to rattle off an absolutely terrifying litany of crap on nearly any topic. Now, I find myself just asking google.
They've done studies on this. More and more people are no longer remembering facts, but rather how they found them. So someone doesn't know something, and they Google it. A month later, someone asks them about it. They don't remember what the fact was, but they remember it was the third link in their Google search result and what the search was.
“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein
@thanksajdotcom said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@MattSpeller said:
@thecreativeone91 Bloody hell man, if we can do it you can too. It takes ~2 generations. My dad can't metric if his life depended on it. I still measure my height in feet. Still worth doing.
You don't realize that most people can't even count. Go to a cashier if they mess up the amount they pull out their phone. Try to make it easier but making it an even number and they still need to do it on the phone.
The advancement of technology has made many people stupid...
“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein
@PSX_Defector said:
@jevans said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Have you identified the source of the sluggishness? Is it IO, CPU, memory?
The CPU is getting hammered at least that is one area that I am for sure of now. We have ruled out the IO and Memory is/should be sufficient.
That's something to beat the users on, not upgrade and spend tons of money on hardware.
60+ users on a terminal server is nothing. I have had Citrix farms with 200 users and 15 different servers running against it on much older hardware than you got. You need to take a look at your workload and determine what is causing them to suck down the cycles.
There are only a few programs and services that our users actually use or have access to use on the terminal servers. AIX(uses SSH), Office 365(2013) Intranet and limited access to intranet. That is about it.
@scottalanmiller said:
If you move to newer hardware, have you considered going to fewer hosts? Once you are taking the time to invest in new, you have a chance to rethink the design. Why three hosts instead of two or one?
We also run many other VMs on these three servers. About 8 VMs per host. We have a mix of Windows and Debian servers. The majority of our servers are VMs. I'm not sure two would suffice. Also, we want to be able to have the ability to move everything off of one host in the event that we need to replace it or repair it and still have enough resources for the VMs.
Thanks for the warm welcome!
Another reason for thinking about upgrading our ESXi license and moving to Win2012 is that we can't increase the amount of CPUs used on the VMs with our current setup. We are limited.
@scottalanmiller said:
Have you identified the source of the sluggishness? Is it IO, CPU, memory?
The CPU is getting hammered at least that is one area that I am for sure of now. We have ruled out the IO and Memory is/should be sufficient.
