We are looking at going with LTO-8. The capacity and speed and the ability that it is offline and can be offsite extremely easy were all winners in our books. Offline meaning once the tape is in storage it is not on a network and can get hit by ransomware.

@scottalanmiller said in US Senate Questions Apple About Intentional Slowdown of iPhones:

@bnrstnr said in US Senate Questions Apple About Intentional Slowdown of iPhones:

@scottalanmiller said in US Senate Questions Apple About Intentional Slowdown of iPhones:

A free market depends on things like this being blocked. The senate is spot on to be looking into this. It is a serious crime to use software updates to intentionally cripple products that people have bought. The market doesn't have the power to fix this, this is why we have consumer protection laws.
If the government didn't look into this, THEN it would be picking and choosing.

I guess I didn't think of it like that. Probably because I don't see this as a malicious update, I view it as something similar to Intel's "Turbo Boost Technology." The current state of the device determines the processing power. Granted Intel markets this as a feature and is configurable in the bios, so quite a bit different in that regard.

Well, that's what they are asking... WAS it a malicious update? Or even if it was accidental, did it end up being accidental in a way that isn't allowed?

It's a fine line, and that's why this is an investigation, not a punishment. They want to get to the bottom of this and understand where people are protected, and where they are not.

I have to agree with @scottalanmiller on this one. I get the technical reasons why Apple did this, but the issue comes from them denying it for so long. If they were transparent when they did it and explained it then the market could have decided the issue. Apple covered this up so questions now abound as to why and the motive behind it.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tech1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller I love when you said , "It's the CEO's network, the CEO's company. " I've met some people who have a power struggle about it.

It's a VERY common failing in IT to feel a sense of "ownership" of a network; instead of realizing that we just help to maintain other peoples' networks.

I think it is because in IT we invest so much work into things that when someone wants to do something that would affect the infrastructure we have put in place, we in IT can see it as an attack on ourselves at times. It is especially hard when you have something that when you are done you are extremely proud of because of how much hard work and time we put into it. It is hard to step back from that.

@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

In glass finger print reader.

http://www.moorinsightsstrategy.com/synaptics-shipping-first-in-display-smartphone-fingerprint-reader-with-vivo/

I dont' know about the rest of you, but the lack of a button has really annoyed me with the iPhone X and the Samsung Galaxy S8.

The absolute best place for a fingerprint reader on the phone is on the back. Like it is on a lot of LG phones, and the Google Pixel 2XL I have. It is the natural place your finger rests when you pick it up a lot of times.

@mike-davis Yes, but they are all tied to their ubiquiti account so if they go to video.ubnt.com it isn't too bad. Howerver, the farm is broken up into different sections, 3 primary sections, so it works pretty well for them.

I have done a 60 camera system at a huge hog farm with Ubiquiti. It is always the IOPS. I just broke mine up between 3 servers. Not the prettiest thing to do but that is what I had to do. Ran each with four 2TB drives in a RAID 10

@krisleslie said in Ubiquiti NVR Performance Improvement:

@coliver Also to point out, it's only this 1 vm that needs performance like crazy for all the time writes. I know one idea is to increase the ram to the vm and add more to the RAMDISK to hopefully not saturate the buffer. But that is a limited option.

Ubiquiti NVR does not require a lot of resources if you have fast enough drives. How many cameras are we talking about and what are your settings?

Any honest document management system in the cloud is big bucks. The law firm that I worked at for 7 years, and I just left last October was looking into this. It was going to cost $80,000 for them to move over to a really nice cloud system. Then about $20,000 yearly fees. Talking about 13 million documents and about 1.5 TB of current data. I believe it was called NetDocuments.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

It's fine to use English, it's fine to use something else, what's not okay is me asking questions in gibberish Mandarin.

I agree. I wouldn't try to post something in any language except English. I have taken Mandarin Chinese and many years of German. I still wouldn't attempt it. I might post a google translate of the post underneath the English but that would be all.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I switched from State Farm to Amica a while back. Haven't looked back.

I'm getting ready to switch from State Farm. They've been jacking my rates up every 6 months for the last 3 years... and I go back down to the local office and fuss, and they fix it again... I'm getting tired of that.

I have farmers and they have been doing the same thing to me too. I fuss, but it doesn't do any good. They say that it is a state wide increase. I'm considering other options.

I use Liberty, they've been great.

I am a little jaded about insurance companies. The Law firm I worked at for 7 years represented insurance companies and they will weasel out of anything they can. They are not in business to pay claims but deny them, sure some should be denied but others that shouldn't get caught up in it. Then they pay firms like the one I worked at to battle you in court. They can afford the cost, most people can't.

@hobbit666 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Thought Spiceworks was a IT Pro place?

What is worse is that this person is involved in the education of children, somewhere.

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@wirestyle22 well sure. . .

But I would also assume they have laws to protect the community and punish people that do such things. Thus the child doesn't need to take care of their pedobear parents.

It's a tough thing to prove. And what about parent abandonment, a major issue in a lot of countries. BBC ran a headline article about the problems with the abandoned children of priests just yesterday.

You are right it goes both ways. What this really proves is that there will always be assholes in the world. Abandoning a child just breaks my heart. So does the abandonment of parents. My wife works in a nursing home. She and the other staff always make sure every resident gets a Christmas present. Some of them get no visitors during the holidays or any other time.

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@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/world/asia/taiwan-dentist-court-mother-filial-son.html

This is insane. What if you have the worst parents in the world? Also consider the amount he's already paid.

None of your reaction is appropriate. This is a signed contract between adults that he was attempting to break. It also has nothing to do wit the parents being good or bad.

"The principle is backed up by law in Taiwan, where adults are legally prohibited from abandoning their parents."

The above is the insane part. What if you have terrible parents? Are you obgligated under law without contract to care for them? I understand the contract.

None of that has anything to do with the court case at hand.

You are mixing things.

It's contained within the same article, which is why I bring it up. That is a crazy law that the Taiwanese people have to deal with

Why? Just because their culture codified something into a law that you do not like?

What makes you better?

I agree with @JaredBusch on this one. I believe you do have a responsibility to take care of your parents (notwithstanding abusive relationships etc.) when they get older. I am planning on taking care of my parents. They are in their 70s now and my Dad is in a wheelchair, so I already do all the maintenance I can for them at their house, I will pay plumbers to do plumbing, I can do it but I hate every minute of it. I live about 3 miles from them and one of the reasons is so I can be close if they need something. I do this because they sacrificed for me because they love me. I will do the same for them because I love them. Now I am helping my children get through college and I have sacrificed things for them. I don't expect money or anything as I have planned for my future. I do expect them though to help me when I get old, especially if I become unable to manage my own affairs.

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Donkey: Oh, you leave 'em out in the sun, they get all brown, start sproutin' little white hairs...
Shrek: [peels an onion] NO! Layers.

@scottalanmiller said in Major Intel CPU vulnerability:

@penguinwrangler said in Major Intel CPU vulnerability:

Even before Ryzen, I have always thought AMD to be a good bang for the buck in the desktop market. Unless you had the need for the extra horsepower from the better Intel chips you could get better bang for the buck from AMD.

Desktop lacks the licensing complications of the server size. For desktops, before this AMD was still great. But this gives it a HUGE incentive on servers, too!

I realized that just pointing out the desktop part too. Honestly why go with a Microsoft server the complexity they add with their licensing is reason enough to avoid them. So many ways to offer functions you get with Microsoft servers with Linux.

Even before Ryzen, I have always thought AMD to be a good bang for the buck in the desktop market. Unless you had the need for the extra horsepower from the better Intel chips you could get better bang for the buck from AMD.

I like Black Rifle Coffee Company's Just Black. It is a really smooth cup of coffee.

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

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@tim_g said in Non-IT News Thread:

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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

@tim_g said in Non-IT News Thread:

@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

California Dispensaries can legally sell recreational marijuana starting tomorrow. Good for California.

Yeah, too bad smoking anything into your lungs is bad... smoke itself is... and yes, I know better than cigarettes, but it's all just different degrees of bad or harmfulness. One is worse than the other, but both are bad period.

If you want the health benefits of marijuana, but not the harm or damage from smoke, well... I'm sure there's some healthy baked goods recipes out there ^_^

Still illegal to smoke in public. But edibles seem to be ok.

Glad to hear that - now if they made smoking anything in public illegal.

It's getting closer. At least in CA.

You should see how it is in Sweden... I swear if you dropped someone off in the city who didn't know WHEN it was, they'd think it was 80's or 90's the way everyone is smoking like crazy.

oh, the whole of the US is way ahead of much of Europe, at least the parts I visited.

Panama is the best.... tobacco free country!

My wife and stepson have asthma. Before we got our house we lived next to chain smokers in an apartment building and when it got cold our apartment smelled of cigarette smoke, and it would cause their asthma to get worse. If my wife or stepson got any type of lung illness, pneumonia, bronchitis, etc. We would go live with my parents for a couple of weeks to help them get over it because it just was harder for them to do with the amount of smoke coming from our neighbors. I think they had like 5 people living there who all chained smoked. So we will have to put Panama on our vacation list now.

@tim_g said in Non-IT News Thread:

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@tim_g said in Non-IT News Thread:

It's not the callers fault someone died. It's the ill-trained police jumping in throwing bullets around.

Why didn't the police just shoot everyone and anyone around him and just say... "well that kid shouldn't have pranked us, it's his fault"... same thing.

And what if it wasn't a prank, but they just got the address wrong - even when these things are real they require way more verification than an anonymous phone tip. Or the shooter sent out a hostage instead of coming out himself? Bottom line, the cop murdered a completely innocent guy based on nothing. Imagine if any other job operated like that.

Sadly nothing will come of this. The officer will go on paid leave until the press dies down and the PR will be spun to place the blame on the caller and not the cop that pulled the trigger.

Yup, and the poor family will be left without justice.

The kid should be charged with whatever it would be for pranking the police. Not anything to do with murder or causing death. The police should be.

The person who did the swatting can be charged with murder because his crime causes the events that someone got killed in if you are the getaway driver and someone dies during the crime you will most likely be charged for that murder. The police would most likely be charged with involuntary/voluntary manslaughter. You would have to prove that the police planned on killing someone during their response, in order to charge with murder, which would be unlikely to be proven. I believe both the caller and the police officer who shot that guy should be brought before a jury.

@scottalanmiller The larger ones seem to overpower everything else. The smaller anchovies seemed to be better. You still got the salty goodness from them but it didn't overpower the rest of the ingredients. I think if I made a pizza at home and used quality anchovies that it would be really good. The texture of them didn't bother me but the texture of my food doesn't bother me too much.