@travisdh1 That's what I'm trying to get out of. The only thing that is tempting me to stay is the DVR.

Sling has no contracts. You cancel when you want.

@travisdh1 said in YouTube offers new streaming service:

@ChrisL All I really want is History, Discovery, and SciFi. If I could only pay for those 3, then I'd consider it.

How about History + SyFy for $25? They don't get Discovery.


Stupidity - I went to upload a picture about AWS being down to realize that I forgot that Imgur relies on AWS. Here is the link to what I was going to post.

https://twitter.com/DCCampbell/status/836657962164846592

Still waiting to get out of my DirecTV contract to switch to Sling TV. Hopefully their CloudDVR solution will be out of beta by then.

Also affecting SW's cloud helpdesk as well.

https://twitter.com/Spiceworks/status/836664750306029568

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Mt. Etna, our local volcano, is erupting right now.

Its another Pompei!!

I'm thinking maybe some kind of fly-by-night scam shell that is trying to lure those who don't know IT to take their money and close up shop.

Why would somebody advertise protection against Godzilla? That is just bad marketing.

Geographically safe of earthquakes and floods. -This is just tempting God too much.

Question we are missing is "Are these desktops or laptops?"

If desktops, why not redirect their "Documents" folder to the NAS?

If laptops, then I believe that an endpoint backup solution is going to be needed, unless you want to redirect them to OneDrive or something like that.

I agree with @DustinB3403 & @PenguinWrangler Veeam Endpoint backup is the way to go.

The robot uprising started 8 months ago

Youtube Video

@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

@NerdyDad said in Non-IT News Thread:

@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

But, that statement of yours is pure shit.

Please. Tell me how you REALLY feel!

While, I personally feel that Monsanto patented seed lawsuits like this are shit. It does not change the legal facts of them.

I understand that, but it appears to me that you are getting emotional through your words about things that do not directly affect you. They are just facts.

@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

But, that statement of yours is pure shit.

Please. Tell me how you REALLY feel!

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

What is Fat Tuesday?

@NerdyDad is correct regarding people that observe Lent... but to me, it's a debacherous celebration of all that is great about 'Nawlins (food and booze and boobs).

mangolassi.it

@NerdyDad said in Code "markdown" for OneNote?:

How about for internal documentation, such as an IT knowledgebase?

Let me expand this into keeping formatting for stuff such as PowerShell scripts.

How about for internal documentation, such as an IT knowledgebase?

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

What is Fat Tuesday?

Where people go and do everything that they want to do without feeling guilty about it because tomorrow starts 40 days until easter with Ash Wednesday.

@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

@NerdyDad said in Non-IT News Thread:

Game industry against Right to Repair bills

http://m.slashdot.org/story/322963

Glad NY already passed theirs.

Waiting on Texas to pass theirs.

Game industry against Right to Repair bills

http://m.slashdot.org/story/322963

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Downloaded VirtualBox. In the process of downloading CentOS. Already downloaded nethserver and wazo. Currently downloading FreePBX and VyOS. Anything else to consider?

End goal is to familiarize myself with open source systems that would be commonly seen in an enterprise environment and how to best administer them. Some of the resources that I am planning on using is @scottalanmiller SAM: Learning Linux System Administration and @JaredBusch FreePBX 13 Setup Guide

Well, scrap that idea for now. My Lenovo T540p won't handle a Type-2 hypervisor. It handles everything as 32-bit and everything that I am finding is only in 64-bit.

This sucks.

That means you have no VT support on the CPU. Check your BIOS. It is likely just disabled.

That fixed it. Now on to creating test machines.