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@tim_g said in Signal Group Chat:

@nerdydad said in Signal Group Chat:

@dashrender said in Signal Group Chat:

@nerdydad said in Signal Group Chat:

@irj said in Signal Group Chat:

@dashrender said in Signal Group Chat:

@irj said in Signal Group Chat:

Was a signal group ever started? I am in

Yes it was/is...
but as mentioned, the Telegram client is significantly better at this time.

It was also noted, anyone added to a group in Signal, all members received all other members phone numbers.

Interesting comparison of secure messaging apps..

https://www.securemessagingapps.com/

So, based on that table, my preferences of messengers would be:

1. Signal
2. Wire
3. Telegram

No love for Threema?

I'm cheap. I don't like having to pay for stuff.

Threema looks the best according to that chart.

Where does it say it costs?

@tech1 said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

@scottalanmiller said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

Welcome @Tech1

Thank you,

Hello! My name is Angie and I am a complete newbie, I am currently working towards getting certified and get as much hands on experience as I can.

You've come to the right place.

@tech1 Where do your passions lie? DevOps? Servers? Networking? Linux? Virtualization? Storage? Databases?

@ccwtech said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tech1 Where do your passions lie? DevOps? Servers? Networking? Linux? Virtualization? Storage? Databases?

Her passion is Coffee.

There's a group for that here too.

@reid-cooper said in What Are You Watching Now:

@tech1 said in What Are You Watching Now:

The new X-files episode.

That's a thing?

Yeah, they rebooted it. I forgot to Tivo it last night.

@ccwtech said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dustinb3403 something like that.

But for a while now I think I have to pay attention to the road.

let's see... 80 MPH (117 Feet per second) and given the road conditions a 389.25 ft stopping distance, in Fog, while taking a photo with a cell phone... Ummmmm, yeah. You are probably right.

He uses Siri to do his bidding while he is driving.

@dashrender said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@nerdydad said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@dashrender said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

Here's a question for ya'll.

What do you call cooking steaks or hotdogs or burgers on a grill?

Grilling

OK, and what's the difference between grilling and BBQ?

Grilling is just applying the meat to the grill to cook. BBQ requires a sauce.

@dustinb3403 That's been a thing for a few years now. Facebook isn't appropriate, but I could see LinkedIn being used.

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Ordered half of UBNTs warehouse today. At least it feels like that.

Sounds like a big project.

@dafyre said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

@nerdydad said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

@dbeato said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

@nerdydad said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

@dbeato said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

@nerdydad said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

@dbeato said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

Ted Dekker

Have you read his Circle series?

Yes, I have it.

My wife read that and loved it. Mind blowing.

I also have Frank Peretti's Books.

I've been wanting to read his "Piercing the Darkness" series.

I have both of these... But I've got This Present Darkness & Piercing the Darkness).

I've also got Visitation and the Oath.

Gave my Pops Ted Dekker's House for Christmas this year.

We've been buying all of these books for the last decade or so. She's read them all, but I haven't had a chance to read any of them. Still on my to-do list. I did the The Visitation movie, but I'm sure its not as good as the book.

Last night, daughter had math homework and said I was the only one allowed to help her. Why? Because I'm the "smart" one. If that's the case, then we're all in trouble. It was math word problems that were pretty straight forward. I couldn't have complained.

@tech1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr Do you find this soothing? I do

beautiful. a single tear rolls down cheek

Beautiful, yes. But most of those are some kind of coax. The only networking cables in the picture are the blue ones at the very top.

@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Looking for an all in one laser printer.

• Low volume (approx. 10-15k pages / yr)
• Color
• A4 (~ US Letter)
• Scan (incl. scan to fileshare)
• Fax (ya, we'll get rid of this soon never)
• Duplex scan
• Duplex print
• Two paper trays (>= 250 sheets / tray)
• Preferably no bloatware drivers

Ideas?

Looks like a showdown between Kyocera Ecosys M5526cdn and Brother MFC-L8690CDW.

Anyone using one of them?

I don't like Brother printers. At least none of the ones we've got here.
Mrs nadnerB has been looking at MFC's for our house and found Brother doesn't fair so well in the long run, hardware wise.

I despise their "Control Center" software and am not overly impressed with their hardware.

I will state that I'd take one over a Fuji-Xerox.

From what Mrs nadnerB and I have seen in the lower spec space, the Kyocera would be the better of the two.

Brother's have lasted us at work far longer than Xerox and HP printers, both printer and MFC.

@eddiejennings Can't the seat cool off a little bit before they find a replacement?

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I'm spitting my coffee out through my nose as I quote the smallest possible vSAN system from VmWare running ESXi.

https://vsantco.vmware.com/vsan/SI/SIEV

2 VMs with 2 Nodes, over $3 Million dollars for hardware alone.

Who is drinking the Kool-aid?

Huh?

The absolute smallest at MSRP in only ~$70,000 total. I believe that includes licensing as well. How did you set yours up?

With the smallest numbers I could put in, 2 vm, 2 node to meet our current storage requirements.

Nothing fancy, literally as small as possible.

It just sounds like some unethical sales person got a hold of a guillable and unsuspecting IT buyer and just reamed them of what they were wanting.

@ccwtech said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Reading this email from a user...

"So the clinic bought two laptops from the pawn shop and they definitley have a virus or something. The history on one of them is pretty amusing but basically I need to get them scanned and the virus protection put on them. They can have (Redacted) put on them but (Redacted) is not necessary. The computer I have ready is called Laptop-97hj0gjg. Do I need to install anything on the computer for you to log onto it?"

SMH...

So...I assumed that they have already plugged it into the network? WOW!!!

@jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

European Union orders review of daylight saving time

For the sake of sanity, please toss it the fuck out..

Dilly Dilly!

@scottalanmiller said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

Welcome @saltedcaramel

Is this a friend of @caramel?

Closing out helpdesk tickets because the people at the helpdesk can't won't do it.

@momurda said in Non-IT News Thread:

Theyre just as stupid as DST

So, what? We go back to clocks at the train stations? When ever the sun is directly over us, that is when noon is going to be? Everybody going to a single time would get confusing.

So if somebody in the UK wanted to arrange a meeting with me in Texas, they're going have to figure out when I am up and at work in order to attempt to schedule accordingly. Plus, what would make Greenwich Mean time so special that everybody should go to that? Because they were the first to establish the official time?