Best posts made by Mike Davis

I live in Bedford Falls (Seneca Falls) from the movie, It's A Wonderful Life. http://therealbedfordfalls.com/ So in addition to our family traditions, we'll be checking out some of the events down town.

I usually round to the nearest 15 minutes. If I let ConnectWise Manage keep track of the time (it has start stop timers) it tracks it by default to the 0.05 and I haven't changed it.

What @Dashrender is describing is per trip charges and minimum trip charges. These are usually spelled out in your agreement as well as if you charge drive time and if you charge that at a different rate.

A continuous ping would tell us what the max ms is to his CRM server. (or if there are drops) It could be the CRM app can't tolerate hangs that you get with wifi, or best effort VPN connections.

@s.hackleman said in US Lawmaker States that Privacy Doesn't Matter Because No One Has to Use the Internet:

Well if you don't make mistakes on your taxes, what does an audit matter?

If you don't value your time and your accountant works for free, it doesn't matter at all...

Marc Mero AKA former Pro Wrestler "Johnny B. Badd." I don't remember him as a pro wrestler when I was little, but he does an amazing and inspiring presentation now. I use some of his lines when I'm talking to young people. "Friends are like and elevator, they bring you up, or they bring you down."

A non for profit is looking for something that can take image based .pdf files and turn them in to text based .pdfs. (OCR) any suggestions?

The HR blockade is not a myth. I did it myself once. I had a position open and I got a stack of resumes so thick I didn't have the time to go through them. I sent the pile back to HR and said, "Show me the ones with a 4 year degree." For a $14 /hr job it only cut the pile in half. It's sad on a bunch of levels.

With that said, there are lots of jobs out there where there is really only one person considered for the job, and it's because the employer has knowledge of the employee's skills, and the degree doesn't much matter.

If I was job hunting, I would go spear fishing in places where I wanted to work, not just applying to every add out there.

It's different if you're in your 20s. You may not have much to show a potential employer.

I volunteered to do a networking breakout at MangoCon. My intended audience is the person that doesn’t really understand the pieces necessary to have a functioning network. I’m thinking I should cover gateway/router/firewall, managed vs unmanaged switches, wireless, DHCP, and (D)DNS. Then go over the classic “the internet is down” and how to troubleshoot all those things to figure out where the problem is.

I think that will fit in the hour session and help out IT people that are a little fuzzy on those things. What do you think?

#networking #mangocon

I have 3 bags at this point. One nice leather over the shoulder bag. Something like this, except it's a top loader:
https://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Leather-Messenger-Briefcase-Laptop/dp/B00FR0JMNE/
In that goes the laptop, charger, notepaper, small screw driver, external drive (HDD and DVD), roll of velro, and a couple of patch cables. It's the stuff I used on almost every job.

Then I have a little craftsman softbag like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Craftsman-9-37535-Soft-Tool-Box/dp/B004VMTG1C/
It's my "troubleshooting bag." I have a toner, crimpers, side cutters, punch down tool, box cutter, and larger screwdriver. That's the one I grab when something on the network isn't working.

The third one is my installer bag. It's something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Custom-LeatherCraft-1132-75-Pocket-Backpack/dp/B0000DYVCY/
It has my butt set, two more toners, a cable testor, more hand tools, fish tape, misc screws for racks, etc All the stuff I usually need on an install or big cabling job.

I have a client that has a remote desktop server and has 50 CALs. The server keeps drawing from the temporary license pool that gets created automatically, and throwing event 22 in event viewer. I'm not familiar with the licensing, but shouldn't you be able to remove the temp pool so that clients take licenses from the purchased licenses? I tried following:
http://www.urtech.ca/2014/02/solved-revoke-option-is-greyed-out-in-rd-licensing-manager/
to revoke the licenses, but that just removed the paid licenses and put the temp pool right back. When I reconnected to remote desktop, the client was in the Temp pool again. I'm probably missing something obvious since I haven't worked with this before.

Guidance counselors should be replaced by loan officers. Problem solved. They would look at what you want to buy (a degree) look a bunch of other stuff such as likelyhood that you can repay the loan (do degrees in this field pay for themselves) and approve or reject your application based on numbers and risk.

I don't think to many art degrees would be approved...

I have 1 -1.5 hours at MangoCon to cover powershell 101 and group policy 101. What do you think should be covered in those?

I was thinking for Group Policy to cover backup, restore, copy, link, apply, inherit, permissions, and then show a couple common uses.

For powershell I was going to give a little background for all the dos scripters out there and then move in the verb-noun construct of commands, how to get help with commands, and then build some commands to work with AD objects.

Can you see (line of sight) any buildings from your house that have high speed? If you're slightly technical, you could set up a Ubiquiti wireless bridge for $200-$300...

Monoprice.com search for hook and loop:
http://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=5828
you can get it in different colors if you want to separate out your voice and data, by floor, etc.

Be the bigger man, which is what it sounds like you're doing. It was cool that you still sent something nice to your contacts from your personal account. Boomerang relationships can be important when you look at your career in the long game. There are probably people in the company that were surprised about your sudden departure as well. By communicating with them they will have an opportunity to reach out to you as well.

What's in your "headed to a client site bag?"

Someone asked for a bigger pipe?

@Breffni-Potter said:

https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-pro/

Watch the video, skip ahead to 30 seconds in to watch "Cysco" sales reps being beat up...

That was the best commercial I've seen in a long time.

This goes against the adage that you don't quit your job, you quit your boss. With a bad boss, even if they do offer more money, do you really want to stay?

@dustinb3403 said in I can't even:

Oh in other news, I started buying stuff for my on-the-way daughter!

Congrats!! If we don't hear much from you in the next 18 years, we'll know what you're up to.