@dashrender said in What do you like for a non expensive audio setup for surround sound TV/movies?:

@scottalanmiller said in What do you like for a non expensive audio setup for surround sound TV/movies?:

@dashrender said in What do you like for a non expensive audio setup for surround sound TV/movies?:

@rojoloco said in What do you like for a non expensive audio setup for surround sound TV/movies?:

@dashrender They have a 5 channel amp that's 499. That would knock out the amp side, but I think your needs would be easily met by a simple, all-in-one AV receiver.

So is there any real benefit to using a $600 processor and a $500 amp at this level compared to my $600 receiver?

Also, what is the life expectancy from either the processor or the amp?

Amps nearly last forever.

What if any kind of power filtering does anyone use?

i use Furman for power filtering. can't remember the model right now. had it about 10 years now

Ahh thanks a lot! That was enlightening and interesting. I know just enough to be dangerous with database software lol from using it in wordpress. However, I am going to learn more about this because I like to keep learning.

@dashrender said in What do you like for a non expensive audio setup for surround sound TV/movies?:

@rojoloco said in What do you like for a non expensive audio setup for surround sound TV/movies?:

other speakers, because that's where the dialog comes out when you're watching TV/movies. Placement is still key, so it

My current system is 2 in wall B&W front wall speakers and a B&W in wall center channel. I have a pair of rears, I added them last year, don't recall the brand. I don't have a sub yet. Wife is not looking forward to me adding one.

yeah wives never like subs for some reason

Yeah I use SmartDeploy. Love it. I can deploy over network or USB. Actually choose USB most of time though. I made an image with our software, loaded all the drivers I will ever need, created an answer file, boot to USB, don't have to touch it again until its ready to log in which I then do so to rename computer per our naming scheme.

@scottalanmiller said in What do you like for a non expensive audio setup for surround sound TV/movies?:

@dashrender said in What do you like for a non expensive audio setup for surround sound TV/movies?:

@rojoloco said in What do you like for a non expensive audio setup for surround sound TV/movies?:

@dashrender said in What do you like for a non expensive audio setup for surround sound TV/movies?:

@rojoloco said in What do you like for a non expensive audio setup for surround sound TV/movies?:

other speakers, because that's where the dialog comes out when you're watching TV/movies. Placement is still key, so it

My current system is 2 in wall B&W front wall speakers and a B&W in wall center channel. I have a pair of rears, I added them last year, don't recall the brand. I don't have a sub yet. Wife is not looking forward to me adding one.

So your wife hates the idea of having a true cinematic experience at home? Surround sound is all wrong when you leave out the .1 part.

My wife couldn't see any difference when we upgraded to HD TV.. she finally admitted a noticeable difference going to 4K.

That makes no sense and implies she thinks that she can just lie to you. The jump from SD to HD was massively more visible to the eye than the jump from 1080p to 4K.

yep your absolutely right, it will proabbaly be the largest jump we will ever see

@ambarishrh said in Centralized Imaging- Clonezilla:

They have several packages but on mobile browser i couldn't compare the difference, mind telling what package you use? I need to check this in detail tomorrow morning

We have the basic package. The difference in packages is number of help tickets you are allowed and your response time. I'm not aware of any issues that we have had yet.

@scottalanmiller said in What do you like for a non expensive audio setup for surround sound TV/movies?:

@dashrender said in What do you like for a non expensive audio setup for surround sound TV/movies?:

@scottalanmiller said in What do you like for a non expensive audio setup for surround sound TV/movies?:

you have a false assumption and that X will not happen. Then you tell me that that is not helpful. Then we go round and round

/sigh - ok my assumption was that the audio has to be blended into the mains.

OK sir - please, inform me where the speech track will come from so we can hear it if there is no center channel?

The fronts, of course. The things that produce all of the sound. The ones pointed at your ears instead of at your face. The ones that, in theory, have equal placement so that they have matching colour.

i hate to disagree with you here but this is the same argument as having separate vm's, separate audio components. you want separate audio channels too. Having the center speaker separates the voice channel from the channels that go to the left and right fronts. separating them makes everything sound better in my opinion

Having an affiliate program is not necessarily a bad thing. Its just suspect when people recommend products that don't fit a certain situation. Xero is a great product for most businesses whereas Quickbooks is not. So its a different situation in my opinion, something akin to apples and oranges you know.

@eddiejennings My FocusRite works fine. Probably better out there though

We use DameWare here and it works great. You should like it. Using PDQ for deployment also and we have been happy with it.

@gjacobse Oh nice. I'm from more south, Adair county which is where I went to high school at. My dad still owns a farm there in tobacco land.

Ok I see, I wasn't aware it was a free install. Why don't they just include it natively?

@scottalanmiller said in Why Does Windows Need Special SFTP Functionality?:

@jmoore said in Why Does Windows Need Special SFTP Functionality?:

I can't find anything about it on my Windows 10 machine either.

Like many Windows components, you have to install it. But unlike a third party package, you install it from Microsoft.

https://chocolatey.org/packages/openssh

I will have to look at it. To answer your original question though I believe it is just not known enough. I just Googled for SFTP on Windows 10 and I got nothing but Swish, WinSCP, and Putty. No mention of Microsoft's product at all which is ashame.

@scottalanmiller impressive they kept it going that long

First, I know it would be less money over a period of time. I'm ok with that. I guess I 'Want" to believe that it would pay off in the end over the long term by making good relationships with clients and doing a good job by recommending exactly what they need for their business.

@scottalanmiller said in Free is never free:

As a consultant, open source is not your friend. You make your big money supporting closed source software because it is almost always harder to manage, requires more support hours, and you have whole extra categories of things to manage. It's not very ethical to recommend closed source because of this, but it is why closed source is so popular even with the people who don't have to pay for it. Everyone wins from closed source in general - except for the final customer.

Yeah thats how I would feel by recommending something that did not fit a business's need, unethical. I don't want to win like that. Guess I'm not cut out to be a consultant lol.

@dashrender said in Free is never free:

That's the rub isn't it. Finding new work to fill the time that not supporting those free things leave you with.

Your right, guess i can haunt Mangolassi more and learn more good open source software to recommend to people that won't need me after i do that lol.

@scottalanmiller said in Free is never free:

his is one of the saddest points of IT work - doing the best thing for your customer rarely is beneficial to you or is even appreciated by the customer. Often they will drop you just because you did too good of a job

i don't know what to say to this but I know your right, I've already experienced it. It is just sad though. Well i will keep working on my career I guess.

What IT person could think that was an acceptable thing to do

@scottalanmiller said in Free is never free:

Those that do tend not to stay an SMB for very long.

Yeah that makes sense. If you make the right decisions over a long period of time then you should be growing steadily. Fascinating subject.

@dustinb3403 I have some Woodford's and some Suntory I will partake in then tomorrow

@scottalanmiller said in Wiki Idea Shot Down:

This falls under "not a plausible excuse." He doesn't appear to really know what was a viable bluff and what would make him look foolish.

Alright I get that. Could be right, I really don't know. I just don't think PHP being insecure should be a reason. He also said he never liked it since the last web guy installed Wordpress to play around and they ended up with pharmaceutical ads constantly. That is just the web guy not knowing how to harden Wordpress and Apache though and php has nothing to do with that.