@IRJ said in Nine Out of Every 10 Silicon Valley Jobs Pays Less Than In 1997, Report Finds:

I just read article again and realized they are specifically saying everyone but technology workers are getting a decrease. So that means IT jobs are getting increased while everything else is losing.

I hate to be thus guy... But it boils down to economics of a specific area. Obviously the demand in silicone Valley is for IT. In area that is so dense with geeks who work long hours, it's not surprising local businesses may have to pay less. The amount of online shopping for everything including things like liquor mentioned on the article must be extremely high.

I just hope the IT in Silicone Valley start paying up for the Sanitation employees or they will be in a deep pile of S%&*! (pun intended)

@Mike-Davis

So am I wrong in my thinking, anyone who uses MS's MFA auth service is unable to access any of there services?

@scottalanmiller said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

@pmoncho said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

@scottalanmiller
That was a pretty good video till the end. A nice walk through Sallie history.

Yeah, I really liked that one, and good history that really no one is aware of.

I only knew about half of what he mentioned. Nixon, like other past presidential ideas, didn't pay attention to the law of unintended consequences. Maybe they do and just don't care.

@scottalanmiller said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@pmoncho said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@scottalanmiller said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@pmoncho said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@IRJ said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@JaredBusch said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@IRJ said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@JaredBusch said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@scottalanmiller said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@JaredBusch said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

The technology itself makes for a great tamper proof system. but that is not the problem with a blockchain based election system.

As the article states, the hard part about this technology is the loss of anonymity.

And perception problems.

I don't care about perception of people too stupid to even spell blockchain, let alone understand what it is.

Blockchain election systems would be great technically.

100% agree. Blockchain isnt quite ready for this yet, but will be very soon. I have done quit a bit of tinkering with my own Ethereum token with transactions, testing, etc.

It isn't quite ready for the Broadway yet, but it's getting there and the concept is very solid. Some issues need to be addressed such as speed.

The issues will not be technical. If you cannot have a 100% anonymous electorate, then you have people that can sell their votes (and prove it).

The entire point of blockchain is accountability. You cannot have accountability and anonymity with the current design of blockchain.

Retaliation based on political views could be a potential issue as well.

I believe It may already be an issue and would get much worse.

Right now it is based on perceived views. Which is bad. But you can imagine how mad people would be if they learned for certain how people voted.

For the people who want that info kept private, it is a huge issue. Many people have no issue stating who they did not vote for or what party they belong to. Just like many have no issue posting their life on social media.

Claiming and proving are very different things, though.

Good point.

@scottalanmiller
That was a pretty good video till the end. A nice walk through Sallie history.

@scottalanmiller said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@pmoncho said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@IRJ said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@JaredBusch said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@IRJ said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@JaredBusch said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@scottalanmiller said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@JaredBusch said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

The technology itself makes for a great tamper proof system. but that is not the problem with a blockchain based election system.

As the article states, the hard part about this technology is the loss of anonymity.

And perception problems.

I don't care about perception of people too stupid to even spell blockchain, let alone understand what it is.

Blockchain election systems would be great technically.

100% agree. Blockchain isnt quite ready for this yet, but will be very soon. I have done quit a bit of tinkering with my own Ethereum token with transactions, testing, etc.

It isn't quite ready for the Broadway yet, but it's getting there and the concept is very solid. Some issues need to be addressed such as speed.

The issues will not be technical. If you cannot have a 100% anonymous electorate, then you have people that can sell their votes (and prove it).

The entire point of blockchain is accountability. You cannot have accountability and anonymity with the current design of blockchain.

Retaliation based on political views could be a potential issue as well.

I believe It may already be an issue and would get much worse.

Right now it is based on perceived views. Which is bad. But you can imagine how mad people would be if they learned for certain how people voted.

For the people who want that info kept private, it is a huge issue. Many people have no issue stating who they did not vote for or what party they belong to. Just like many have no issue posting their life on social media.

@Dashrender

Just received another notice a few minutes ago. Zayo is doing more maintenance - "Third-party will be performing network maintenance to to add capacity to node for their Memphis ring."

@Dashrender said in Website not working - looking to troubleshoot:

It’s turn out that an upstream provider to cox (maybe Zayo) is/was having issues that was breaking TLS connections.

Many people have been having issues for three days mostly on secure sites.

They have been doing a lot of maintenance lately so I don't doubt that.

@IRJ said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@JaredBusch said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@IRJ said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@JaredBusch said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@scottalanmiller said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@JaredBusch said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

The technology itself makes for a great tamper proof system. but that is not the problem with a blockchain based election system.

As the article states, the hard part about this technology is the loss of anonymity.

And perception problems.

I don't care about perception of people too stupid to even spell blockchain, let alone understand what it is.

Blockchain election systems would be great technically.

100% agree. Blockchain isnt quite ready for this yet, but will be very soon. I have done quit a bit of tinkering with my own Ethereum token with transactions, testing, etc.

It isn't quite ready for the Broadway yet, but it's getting there and the concept is very solid. Some issues need to be addressed such as speed.

The issues will not be technical. If you cannot have a 100% anonymous electorate, then you have people that can sell their votes (and prove it).

The entire point of blockchain is accountability. You cannot have accountability and anonymity with the current design of blockchain.

Retaliation based on political views could be a potential issue as well.

I believe It may already be an issue and would get much worse.

@Dashrender said in Website not working - looking to troubleshoot:

@Reid-Cooper said in Website not working - looking to troubleshoot:

Sounds like a vendor issue.

Considering I do very little to nothing on my side, and just waiting seems to solve it, I find it hard to disagree.

When we have similar payer issues (Aetna, Caresource, CGS Medicare and especially Ohio Medicaid), and it happens on 30+ pc's, I always assume its them. I then check with my cell phone and 99.9% of the time, its them and I move on.

I have noticed with a few past clients that used Athena, ECW, and NextGen, I always start with clearing the cache and go from there.

@wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

@pmoncho said in DNS Update Issue:

@wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

@Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

@pmoncho said in DNS Update Issue:

@Donahue said in DNS Update Issue:

man, after reading all this, I am pretty sure my DNS is not correct.

I think I am with ya on this one.

@PhlipElder

So let me get this straight. On DC0 with AD Integrated DNS, Preferred DNS should be IP address of DC0 and Alternate DNS should be 127.0.0.1?

Currently I point DC0 Preferred to itself and Alternate to DC1. I have not had any issue over the last X amount of years so I don't know what the actual issue is with my current setup.

I currently have a .local also (setup by a contractor a long time ago).

There is no issue with your setup.
It's possible that the NIC itself could have an issue which would make your use of the actual IP fail connectivity, but the loopback would still function - but, I said there was an issue with the NIC, so does it matter if the loopback works when you can't get on the network?

As for having a secondary DNS entry - it protects you against the local DNS service itself failing, provides you a backup, just like secondary DNS to client machines have a backup DNS server to communicate with.

If the dns service fails on DC1 though, wouldn't the reference to the dc fail too and thus switch to the second dns entry, DC2 for the workstation

That is what I want to happen correct? As long as replication between the two DC's was fine prior to the issue with DC1. Am I missing something?

I'm saying the reference to DC2 from DC1 doesn't matter if the dns service fails on DC1. It would stop referencing DC2, right? Specifically replying to @Dashrender's comment.

Oh, I see what your saying. Good question and I am awaiting that answer.

@wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:

@Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

@pmoncho said in DNS Update Issue:

@Donahue said in DNS Update Issue:

man, after reading all this, I am pretty sure my DNS is not correct.

I think I am with ya on this one.

@PhlipElder

So let me get this straight. On DC0 with AD Integrated DNS, Preferred DNS should be IP address of DC0 and Alternate DNS should be 127.0.0.1?

Currently I point DC0 Preferred to itself and Alternate to DC1. I have not had any issue over the last X amount of years so I don't know what the actual issue is with my current setup.

I currently have a .local also (setup by a contractor a long time ago).

There is no issue with your setup.
It's possible that the NIC itself could have an issue which would make your use of the actual IP fail connectivity, but the loopback would still function - but, I said there was an issue with the NIC, so does it matter if the loopback works when you can't get on the network?

As for having a secondary DNS entry - it protects you against the local DNS service itself failing, provides you a backup, just like secondary DNS to client machines have a backup DNS server to communicate with.

If the dns service fails on DC1 though, wouldn't the reference to the dc fail too and thus switch to the second dns entry, DC2 for the workstation

That is what I want to happen correct? As long as replication between the two DC's was fine prior to the issue with DC1. Am I missing something?

@Donahue said in DNS Update Issue:

man, after reading all this, I am pretty sure my DNS is not correct.

I think I am with ya on this one.

@PhlipElder

So let me get this straight. On DC0 with AD Integrated DNS, Preferred DNS should be IP address of DC0 and Alternate DNS should be 127.0.0.1?

Currently I point DC0 Preferred to itself and Alternate to DC1. I have not had any issue over the last X amount of years so I don't know what the actual issue is with my current setup.

I currently have a .local also (setup by a contractor a long time ago).

@scottalanmiller said in Server Setup for Legal Firm:

@Dashrender said in Server Setup for Legal Firm:

@scottalanmiller said in Server Setup for Legal Firm:

@hari said in Server Setup for Legal Firm:

On these VM's which Server OS will best suite?

Windows. Given that it's the only option for some of those workloads and the only one you said you'd allow, what is the purpose of the question? There's only one possible answer. You've already selected the answer and worked back to the workloads, like Sharepoint. So I'm unclear what you are asking.

And since you're locked into Windows why wouldn't you go with Windows Server 2019? It's the most current - you shouldn't use old version unless you have a very specific need that can't be worked around.

Right, that's the current release of Windows. There is no reason to even contemplate older versions, makes no sense. You never go into a car dealership and ask if they can sell you a ten year old model at the current price, that would just never happen.

Have they re-released Windows 2019 yet? AFAIK, they still have it temporarily disabled. I could be wrong if someone has the newest download link.

@hari

I would look at the T430 through www.xbyte.com. I believe Sean @xByteSean still hangs around here and can point you in a specific direction as you can explain your entire needs.

As for Hard drives, RAM and CPU requirements, that is based on your knowledge of the requirements of the CDMS.

AD/DNS/DHCP requirements are minimal (1vCPU with 2GB RAM and 60GB HD)

@RojoLoco said in Windows 10 Performance tweaks:

@pmoncho said in Windows 10 Performance tweaks:

@Obsolesce said in Windows 10 Performance tweaks:

I don't understand how people get hired in the fist place, for a computer job, if they can't understand how to use a computer.

They can learn, I mean, they learned to do what it is they do... they should keep up with the tool used to do the work.

Trust me. You guys are preaching to the choir here. I even make slight comments, while laughing "with" them, after they make such statements, "so basically we should hire a carpenter who doesn't know how to use a hammer?"

To give my users a minuscule amount of credit, they are basically in a single application for 95% of their job and they learn that software inside and out.

So they can't be bothered to learn left click from right click??? Sounds like a bunch of morons who should have flunked kindergarten. I had that user base many times in the past, and I managed to get out without murdering anyone. Run away screaming and find greener pastures. Life is too fucking short to make excuses for fucktards. You deserve better users. Go find them elsewhere.

I would love nothing more but I live with the hand I'm dealt, give them the tools they need to get their work done and then try to avoid them.

@Obsolesce said in Windows 10 Performance tweaks:

I don't understand how people get hired in the fist place, for a computer job, if they can't understand how to use a computer.

They can learn, I mean, they learned to do what it is they do... they should keep up with the tool used to do the work.

Trust me. You guys are preaching to the choir here. I even make slight comments, while laughing "with" them, after they make such statements, "so basically we should hire a carpenter who doesn't know how to use a hammer?"

To give my users a minuscule amount of credit, they are basically in a single application for 95% of their job and they learn that software inside and out.

@manxam said in Windows 10 Performance tweaks:

@pmoncho : I have to ask: why? I understand if you're using Windows 8.1 or the first couple versions of Windows 10 with the weird start menu but with current revisions the start menu differs very little from Windows 7. Turn off the groups on the right hand side and it's just a more modern skin to the old...

Not the greatest answer but, its because my users know what "Start" means and when they are told to "Start and Log Off" they know exactly what I mean and where to move the mouse and which button to press.

Most of my users don't understand what "Right Click" mean. Yeah, its that bad! UGH

Its funny how users can manipulate their home pc's, create and send emails, scan, move, manipulate, attach files to emails and move all around. Then when they get to work, it all goes out the window and "I don't know how to do that!" Double UGH!

Windows Start Menu replacements:

Open-Shell - Formerly Classic Shell (my personal favorite)

@Obsolesce said in Windows 10 Performance tweaks:

@Dashrender said in Windows 10 Performance tweaks:

I have a hard time remembering different tweaks over time.

I figured I'd start a thread. Feel free to add to the list.

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If the system is sluggish and the disk appears to be the main issue, try disabling superfetch and reboot.

Remove the old spinner and use an SSD.

Definitely SSD's. For many of my employees and clients, based on their actual needs, an old icore5 with an SSD makes Win10 run very smooth.