@travisdh1 said:

@NattNatt said:

@travisdh1 said:

@NattNatt said:

@RojoLoco said:

@Minion-Queen said:

Nerf guns maybe (VENDORS YOOOO WHOOO SWAG IDEA).

We can't get Glock as a sponsor?

Why not H&K?

Just not HighPoint.

The reference is lost on me sorry!

HighPoint is the low price leader. They are solid, heavy pieces, but are a pain to clean at best. I've got a 9mm from them, and wouldn't wish it on anyone. Good for target practice and not much else.

Oh, I google HighPoint and got a random IT company (http://www.highpoint-tech.com/) Hence the confusion... But from the looks of their website we should stay away from them too :')

@Minion-Queen said:

@NattNatt said:

@gjacobse said:

@MattSpeller said:

Skype down for anyone else?

LIttle late I know...
But we had issues with Skype yesterday also.

Yeah same, really slow to reply, messages lagging fairly majorly too...

Still getting security sandbox violation errors too...Tried updating to latest full release of flash, but didnt change anything

Yeah we had a bit yesterday where it didn't work at all of about half of us. But fine today.

I'm waiting for my guys in Toronto to wake up and get in the office (about 40 mins or so) then I'll be able to see how mine is...

@scottalanmiller said:

Man is SW slow. Easily five minutes to open a thread. And barely any posts. This has been going on for nearly a month. What is going on over there?

IDK, but there aren't any ongoing issues. Remember that

@scottalanmiller said:

@NattNatt said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Man is SW slow. Easily five minutes to open a thread. And barely any posts. This has been going on for nearly a month. What is going on over there?

IDK, but there aren't any ongoing issues. Remember that

Well, if you define the site as "not working" then there is no ongoing issue

"It's meant to be like that"

@scottalanmiller said:

Couple years on, the Jentu spam army attempted to comment on this old thread but thankfully someone deleted it. Jentu's spam army is out of control over on SW.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/618944-jentu

wow, their website is terrible...

@Kelly said:

@NattNatt said:

Just started two giveaways for FFVIII and FFXIII-2 on SG...never been a fan and got keys in the Square Enix Easter surprise box...also got a 20% voucher for JC3 and the new Tomb Raider if anyone wants them?

What is SG?

Steam Gifts - http://www.steamgifts.com/ - link your steam account, enter giveaways/give games away you have codes for and don't want...I've won a fair few games on it!

@dafyre said:

@NattNatt said:

Just started two giveaways for FFVIII and FFXIII-2 on SG...never been a fan and got keys in the Square Enix Easter surprise box...also got a 20% voucher for JC3 and the new Tomb Raider if anyone wants them?

You are giving them away, or someone else is... and what is SG?

I'm giving them away lol...

@scottalanmiller said:

Power has gone out at least five times today. Wind here is crazy, it's ripped a few windows open throughout the day!

Must be that Greek food

Most toilets flush in E flat.

@hobbit666 Long weekend ahead though!

@RojoLoco said:

@RojoLoco said:

@nadnerB said:

@NattNatt said:

Most toilets flush in E flat.

Mine has a Major and Minor setting. Brown notes are major.

Notes aren't major or minor... chords are.

...also scales and arpeggios.

Youtube Video

Thats all that reminded me of...

Just got into work after a nice 4 day weekend!

@scottalanmiller said:

@Jason said:

@scottalanmiller said:

That they are advertising a partnership with VMware honestly worries me a lot. That's the same "first red flag" that we had with CloudatCost and why we knew something was wrong there right away. VMware is not cost effective for a cloud provider.

Yep.. Allowing you to have your own private ESXi cloud is one thing.. (rackspace and most will do this if you give them enough $$$)..

But running the whole backbone infustructure on vmware is stupid.

Right, there are good reasons to choose VMware in house, especially for a large enterprise. But Vmware for a commodity public cloud AND using SAN... it was quite obvious that they were trying to buy software rather than having to have even a single person who knew how these things worked.

This cloud is run using openstack - we have a partnership with VMWare for some of our enterprise clients etc, we use all sorts of things depending on what the client wants - everything isn't run off VMWare - but we do have a few large clients that demand it, so we offer it... eCloudFlex is a new solution, built in house using openstack etc, designed for Linux mainly...gives a console as standard, but you can connect pretty much anyway you want (putty etc too) - I just use it as it's handy though, it spins up a new instance in about 30 seconds, so can mess, break stuff, then delete and re-create etc without fear...

@scottalanmiller said:

@NattNatt said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Jason said:

@scottalanmiller said:

That they are advertising a partnership with VMware honestly worries me a lot. That's the same "first red flag" that we had with CloudatCost and why we knew something was wrong there right away. VMware is not cost effective for a cloud provider.

Yep.. Allowing you to have your own private ESXi cloud is one thing.. (rackspace and most will do this if you give them enough $$$)..

But running the whole backbone infustructure on vmware is stupid.

Right, there are good reasons to choose VMware in house, especially for a large enterprise. But Vmware for a commodity public cloud AND using SAN... it was quite obvious that they were trying to buy software rather than having to have even a single person who knew how these things worked.

This cloud is run using openstack - we have a partnership with VMWare for some of our enterprise clients etc, we use all sorts of things depending on what the client wants - everything isn't run off VMWare - but we do have a few large clients that demand it, so we offer it... eCloudFlex is a new solution, built in house using openstack etc, designed for Linux mainly...gives a console as standard, but you can connect pretty much anyway you want (putty etc too) - I just use it as it's handy though, it spins up a new instance in about 30 seconds, so can mess, break stuff, then delete and re-create etc without fear...

What hypervisor are you using? OpenStack can be any, it's just the management layer on top.

Honestly don't know - I wasn't involved in the build of it, just know what I've been told in demonstrations etc, will ask and see if I can find out for you if you want? I thought open-stack was the hypervisor and management layer tbh!

@scottalanmiller said:

@NattNatt said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Jason said:

@scottalanmiller said:

That they are advertising a partnership with VMware honestly worries me a lot. That's the same "first red flag" that we had with CloudatCost and why we knew something was wrong there right away. VMware is not cost effective for a cloud provider.

Yep.. Allowing you to have your own private ESXi cloud is one thing.. (rackspace and most will do this if you give them enough $$$)..

But running the whole backbone infustructure on vmware is stupid.

Right, there are good reasons to choose VMware in house, especially for a large enterprise. But Vmware for a commodity public cloud AND using SAN... it was quite obvious that they were trying to buy software rather than having to have even a single person who knew how these things worked.

This cloud is run using openstack - we have a partnership with VMWare for some of our enterprise clients etc, we use all sorts of things depending on what the client wants - everything isn't run off VMWare - but we do have a few large clients that demand it, so we offer it... eCloudFlex is a new solution, built in house using openstack etc, designed for Linux mainly...gives a console as standard, but you can connect pretty much anyway you want (putty etc too) - I just use it as it's handy though, it spins up a new instance in about 30 seconds, so can mess, break stuff, then delete and re-create etc without fear...

What hypervisor are you using? OpenStack can be any, it's just the management layer on top.

I've been told it runs on KVM - I've sent a link to the forum to one of the guys at work that's more knowledgeable on these things (and wants to join the community!)

@scottalanmiller said:

@NattNatt said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@NattNatt said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@NattNatt said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Jason said:

@scottalanmiller said:

That they are advertising a partnership with VMware honestly worries me a lot. That's the same "first red flag" that we had with CloudatCost and why we knew something was wrong there right away. VMware is not cost effective for a cloud provider.

Yep.. Allowing you to have your own private ESXi cloud is one thing.. (rackspace and most will do this if you give them enough $$$)..

But running the whole backbone infustructure on vmware is stupid.

Right, there are good reasons to choose VMware in house, especially for a large enterprise. But Vmware for a commodity public cloud AND using SAN... it was quite obvious that they were trying to buy software rather than having to have even a single person who knew how these things worked.

This cloud is run using openstack - we have a partnership with VMWare for some of our enterprise clients etc, we use all sorts of things depending on what the client wants - everything isn't run off VMWare - but we do have a few large clients that demand it, so we offer it... eCloudFlex is a new solution, built in house using openstack etc, designed for Linux mainly...gives a console as standard, but you can connect pretty much anyway you want (putty etc too) - I just use it as it's handy though, it spins up a new instance in about 30 seconds, so can mess, break stuff, then delete and re-create etc without fear...

What hypervisor are you using? OpenStack can be any, it's just the management layer on top.

I've been told it runs on KVM - I've sent a link to the forum to one of the guys at work that's more knowledgeable on these things (and wants to join the community!)

Cool. KVM is where nearly everyone new goes these days. Xen and KVM are really the only ones that make sense. VMware is way too expensive and limited, Hyper-V even Microsoft won't use for cloud (their cloud runs on Azure, which while related to Hyper-V is not actually Hyper-V.)

Yeah, I've not got experience personally with either of those yet, but then that's never been a part of my job, and it's generally stuff I taught myself when I was bored in order to progress myself, not for work purposes etc

They are the only things that we use ourselves. About thirteen years on Xen and one on KVM.

Will have to check them out and get learning then!

@hobbit666 said:

Hungry!

Same...already eaten my emergency stash of flapjack.

bad times

@scottalanmiller said:

Just saw this on SW, love it...

ChrisB1220:

I just had a deal with a local pizza chain. They have been burned by the company that did the WiFi install as it has not worked at one location for the 7 months they have been open. They have hired my buddy as the GM and he is the one that reached out for my help. When I told him it was going to be $125 and hour, billed in 15 minute intervals. When he scoffed at the rate, I told him I would fix the entire thing for $100 and a large Chicago pie and a pint of Stella. This, he agreed to. 20 minutes later his WiFi was working and I was enjoying my beer. I now have a service contract for $125 an hour.

and thus, ChrisB became a legend.

@DustinB3403 No - it's not a bass

@KyleCaminita

@dafyre I've heard that before...