@nadnerB said:

@RojoLoco said:

It's just coffee talk... no big woop!

Yet they are not discussing coffee.

You don't remember that old SNL sketch with Mike Myers?

@nadnerB said:

What is this "Coffee Talk" business?
I see no coffee beans or beverage making equipment on stage.
 
Also, it's hard to follow. Perhaps I should just go to bed and watch the reruns another day... yet it's still strangely interesting.

It's just coffee talk... no big woop!

I'm a little depressed because I was just reviewing some web browser histories... My eye locked in on the word "vanilla" in a google search URL (because yummy and I want ice cream)... well, turns out the receptionist was trying to order more folders.... guess what kind...

@coliver said:

Good news everyone. You can now freely use Happy Birthday in everyday life without having to pay royalties.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34332853

GOOD! I have been losing so much sleep over that.... said nobody ever.

@gjacobse said:

@scottalanmiller said:

More to follow. I am sorry they they are yelling.

Customers yell, that's why I'm glad to be 2 or 3 layers away from them now.... I yell back.

@scottalanmiller said:

To win a phone?

Did you see when every post on SW was getting tagged with that phone? Like 2 weeks ago...

@MattSpeller said:

@scottalanmiller Time to order pizza and coke for the office, have a moral boost to get everyone through the poop tsunami

Beers and Netflix until stuff comes back up...

@gjacobse said:

@RojoLoco said:

@MattSpeller said:

Stuff like this makes me glad we have (most) of our junk internal. So much trust to put in another company!

Edit: advantages to cloud are obvious, don't get me wrong.

On-prem for the WIN!!!!

Yes and no. On premises you and your team however small are responsible. The last two Non Profits I worked for I was the sole IT person, supporting (x) staff, (x) servers and (x) locations.

I walked in on Wednesday to a server crash - I walked out of the office at 1pm on Friday.

Ideally, in a hosted arrangement, you would have more than just 2 or 3 people to work on the issue, therefore allowing the task of rebuilding / replacing a system to be balanced - sleep is a good thing to have. You start to make mistakes after so many hours of being awake and dealing with a single issue.

Good point, but I work for a profit driven company that is not afraid to (wisely) spend money to make the infrastructure sound. I am the only official IT person, but my manager knows as much as I do (more), plus he is a developer, so we have tech-minded C-levels. It's truly ideal, and I love my job.

This thread makes me glad we only have colocated systems. We did tons of research into the colo, and we are 200% happy with our choice. They have all the niceties... onsite generators, 2x power feeds, each w/ UPS redundancy, redundant network feeds.... I feel like our little, specialized cloud hosting platform we provide is more robust than MS now.

@MattSpeller said:

Stuff like this makes me glad we have (most) of our junk internal. So much trust to put in another company!

Edit: advantages to cloud are obvious, don't get me wrong.

On-prem for the WIN!!!!

Holy sh*t snacks, that is seriously bad news.... I guess they're all too busy going to Spiceworld this week to remember to make Azure work.

@JaredBusch said:

@RojoLoco said:

I know it's wrong, but I put datacenter 12 as the hypervisor so I could just have at it. This is only a test environment, of course, but even on a T3500 desktop it runs pretty well. No license worries, though....

Nothing really wrong with it in my opinion. Installing it as core+gui for initial setup and then backing it down to core only after the hyper-v setup is done is still a solid hyper-visor.

Ya know, I never thought to put it back to just core... but I use the host machine for stuff too. Q4 is when we get new hardware... dammit.

@MattSpeller said:

@Dashrender I deployed an 8 this week because of licensing. Unless you're 12 on the hypervisor the licencing gets really screwball (which is why we bought datacenter(and the cause of our issues) )

I know it's wrong, but I put datacenter 12 as the hypervisor so I could just have at it. This is only a test environment, of course, but even on a T3500 desktop it runs pretty well. No license worries, though....

@scottalanmiller said:

Introverts were probably happier, they had good excuses to be isolated and removed from people. For extroverts, it was probably horrible for the same reasons.

Extroverts were often spotted in taverns, where they were seen talking the ears off anyone nearby....

How I long for the days of being non-contactable.... now everyone knows you have a phone in your pocket, so they all expect an immediate response. Back in the olden days, if I wasn't home, you didn't reach me. Now people get mad if you don't text/email/call them right back.

Laughing at a butthurt GG on SW who felt the need to message me about a comment that called him out for posting a sensationalized, not entirely true version of an article. He had the nerve to say "I'm not a salesman" to me. To ME of all people. Hilarious.

Corrupt government dealings??? If that's true, then everything I believe is.... true.

Is your NVR set to a static IP? Mine is DHCP, and anytime I reboot it, it gets a different IP (even though that scope is only 4% utilized). UBNT has a discovery tool that will show camera and NVR IPs and MACs.

https://www.ubnt.com/download/utilities

Can you get to any login page by http://[deviceIP] without the port number?

@DustinB3403 said:

If you were the owner, would you honestly care about the feelings of your employees? Or would you find another employee who doesn't care about the words coming from your mouth?

Exactly... If I owned a bank, I would always be busy with my hot wife and giant pile of money.

Rejoicing in my short friday... this will be me in 1 hour:
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