Best posts made by Reid Cooper

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Schooling by Jared done for the night. Doing a few tasks now.

That's like a brand name.

Greetings to @L0ST_0NE

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Watching Now:

House of Cards was 5 or 6 season before it got cancelled.

Hard to tell with that one, might have been cancelled early due to Kevin Spacey's involvement.

@Emad-R said in Just a regular day:

@Reid-Cooper said in Just a regular day:

Sounds like cars in Canada is way too complex.

Cars in Jordan is 200% taxed, so if the car costs 9000 you pay 18000 JOD. The cost of new hyundai car here is 15k JOD which is 20K $

That is just insane. At least the system is simple, though.

Greetings @dimforest

@travisdh1 said in I can't even:

@Reid-Cooper said in I can't even:

Talked to a customer today....

"No, we want nothing to do with the 'complication' of virtualization." What we want is simply 13 physical servers all in a single blade enclosure, all six years old, deployed new and set up on bare metal.

This is what happens when you let developers pretend to be IT people. New purchases of six year old systems, thirteen of them when two would do just fine, blades instead of normal servers. So much cost, so much risk, and they were angry that we thought that they should consider virtualization. They were even considering not doing RAID!

So, are they still a customer?

Money is money.

@scotth said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

US jobless rate at lowest since 1969

The US unemployment rate dropped to its lowest level for more than 49 years in April, according to official figures.

The jobless rate fell from 3.8% to 3.6%, the US Labor Department said, the lowest rate since December 1969.

Does this report count those who are "unemployed" the same way in both time frames?

Not likely.

In this post about SW's viability: Jay mentioned hiring the new community managers as examples of how the platform was viable. Does laying them off imply something? They've delinked both accounts at this point.

Might be the right time to add in this thought, too:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/13/tumblr-once-sold-billion-owner-wordpress-just-bought-site-fraction-that/

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

A little over 12 hours until I take the LPI Linux Essentials exam.

Good luck.

This has to be the best new game that I have seen in a long time.

Customer didn't want to buy a quoted $680 computer because it was "too expensive" and they wanted to get something in a Cyber Monday sale. Customer spent $800 to get something with bad specs and needed a Windows Pro upgrade for another $100. So spent $900 because $680 was too expensive, and lost weeks of time fooling around instead of just ordering the right stuff right away.