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The virtualization... do we only count hypervisors, or do we count the VMs? Or only the VMs? My desktop has full VMs that are used as if they are completely separate machines. How do we count them? How do we count VDI, Terminal Servers, Thin Clients, etc?

I've seen that a lot. When I import Drupal databases, I learnt to use its Backup and Migrate module instead, it works flawlessly. Downside is you need to do clean Drupal installation first, but that basically is just creating blank database and putting brick on enter key.

@Dashrender said in Compare Azure to Windows On Prem for Normal Business Workloads: @Pete-S said in Compare Azure to Windows On Prem for Normal Business Workloads: @scottalanmiller said in Compare Azure to Windows On Prem for Normal Business Workloads: @Dashrender said in Compare Azure to Windows On Prem for Normal Business Workloads: Hosting Costs 1U Colocation America, /24 IP Range Monthly cost: ~$250/month Yearly cost: 12 x 250 = $3000 5 year cost: 5 x $3000 = $15K Last I looked, 1U was more like $225 with that many IPs. And I think typically you'd get fewer for a lot less cost and/or go IPv6. /24 is two IPs per VM. No need to pay for that. Yes, the basic 1U was $100 with two power outlets and then you get four usable IPv4s. A smaller server, say 16c EPYC, 128GB RAM, 2x500GB SSD, would be about $3500 and something even smaller, like a 8c Xeon @ 3.7Ghz, 64GB RAM, 2x500GB SSD around $2K. So you could scale down everything substantially if you wanted. But if all you are doing is running a few very small workloads then a couple of $5 Vultr VM would be cheaper. another factor is - are you running windows VMs, likely always cheaper to have your own hardware, but yeah, the amount of workloads definitely plays a factor here. That's true, Windows workloads make cloud computing harder to justify. Not much, but a little.

@Pete-S said in How to Rename a Column in SQLite Database: There used to be a lot of databases like SQLite. Often called database engines. dBase was probably one of the first. Later Microsoft Jet engine (aka Microsoft Access) became popular when Visual Basic ruled the world. Basically it's a one user database. You can have more than one user but it's done by multiple users accessing the same database file. Or by having an application on top that accessing the file and shares it out. That thing can be called a "database management system" or any application, really. All databases use database engines. MySQL, for example, isn't a database. It's a database management system. It uses one or more database engines to talk to the files on disk. MyISAM and InnoDB are two database engine options for the MySQL platform. At the end of the day, all databases work like SQlite. You can easily build your own database management system that uses SQlite as the engine and it could work just like MySQL or Oracle or SQL Server. Those are all single users to a file, under the hood. They just have the "multi-access" management built into an extra layer, instead of letting an application handle it. But for most things, you only access a database from a single app anyway, so that extra layer is often unnecessary as it is redundant. Just adds overhead.

@Romo said in Avimark Freezing on Inventory: @LilAng Yep, but nobody reads my wiki guide I read it! thats how i know bro.

@scottalanmiller I haven't used them, but from what I hear it's only network storage. I could easily build something that would be faster for less money.

@scottalanmiller said in Making an RDP Terminal Server with Ubuntu Linux: I recommend the Remmina RDP client tool, it's the bomb. I love Remmina as a client.

@scottalanmiller while using the GUI works, I'm certain you'd appreciate a shell instead.

@scottalanmiller I like your 53 mins intros, but that said you cover and reach all the important parts. I wonder what will be deep dive session how long will that video be.

@wrx7m said in VMware Host Cannot Connect from vSphere Client: Could also be an issue if a vendor-specific ISO was used to initially install ESXi. I ran into a similar problem with Dell; I had to get the Dell ISO from their downloads for the specific server model/service tag. For 6.0 this is fine (you'll use this to get ASNC drivers). You can also add the dell VIB depot to get them this way also. For 6.7 Dell has (thankfully) stopped shipping ASYNC drivers and moved 100% to inbox. It's all for 3rd party management VIBs. Honestly I've seen 3rd party VIBs be a culprit for updates before. I'd make sure you are updating the BIOS/FIrmware also when updating ESXi (People forget this sometimes).

After adjusting the updates to the pve-no-subscription repo and updating (full-upgrade), I had an issue where no templates for Containers were available on the host, to "Download" (under pve -> local (pve) -> "Content" -> "Templates"). Apparently the list of available templates is updated daily through the "pve-daily-update timer". I triggered and update manually (cause i'm impatient) via: [email protected]:~# pveam update ...you can then check the list via: [email protected]:~# pveam available And then I had templates to use under pve -> local (pve) -> "Content" -> "Templates". Just spinning up a Debian 10 CT and VM now.

I've already used this guide again. LOL, boy this is handy.

@Romo yeah, we want that. The MC Router is Windows only, so not very useful as there isn't any Windows involved

@Dashrender said in Comparing a Small Server and a Printer: The waiting for a response on those LCDs and on the web interface I'm assuming are CPU/RAM bound. Web, maybe. LCD very unlikely. Can't be RAM bound, if that was a case you'd need swap space but printers don't have hard drives and swap space. So RAM is either enough or not enough, not fast or slow like a desktop. CPU is possible, but displaying an LCD screen at full speed is trivial for a 486 or an M68000. So it's safe to assume that that is no the case. Web? Possible. But does the web interface impact using the product?

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@black3dynamite said in Mouse Issues on Windows 2019 on KVM Through Virt-Manager: EvTouch USB Graphics Tablet is the default when selecting Server 2019 config template. That's the one. And the template didn't load properly when we selected it! It kept going back to Alpine!

@thwr said in Disk Manager with No Search in Windows 10: @dbeato said in Disk Manager with No Search in Windows 10: @scottalanmiller said in Disk Manager with No Search in Windows 10: @dbeato said in Disk Manager with No Search in Windows 10: @scottalanmiller said in Disk Manager with No Search in Windows 10: @Obsolesce said in Disk Manager with No Search in Windows 10: @scottalanmiller said in Disk Manager with No Search in Windows 10: So in our situation, we had to open PowerShell and run diskmgmt.msc and it was able to open it. You have to have the full name. This came about because someone installed some "Classic Shell" hijack software that removes all of the Windows Vista and later functionality to find tools. So the system is almost entirely broken. You could also hit the "Windows" key + r, then type that in the run box and hit enter. Only if you have the full name. diskmgmt.msc will work that way, diskmgmt will not. We tried. Correct. I am surprised this became a post. However I understand with the whole classicshell situation. Yeah, like I never have to know the whole name. I figured it was diskmgmt.exe. Nearly every guide only has it without the extension. And I've never had to type it out before. Yeah, most applications for Windows are .msc or .cpl that control things as below: Services - services.msc Programs and Features - appwiz.cpl Disk Managment - diskmgmt.msc Computer Management - compmgmt.msc For Control panel you would open just "control" and that's it so it can be inconsistent. And so forth. I usually just start mmc.exe. Three simple characters to type (or seven), no need to remember names (I used to know them, but...) and access to all mmc's in one place. Well we can do all that, I am just saying after a while regardless of the OS you get to find your own shortcuts. Problem with MMC is that you need to do like 5 mouse clicks to get to something.

@Kyle said in Remote Hands for Vet Clinic in Oklahoma City Right Now - Jan 29, 2020: @scottalanmiller I'm downtown and it's a 20min drive depending on which clinic in Yukon. Turns out... it's Kyle's own vet!

@JaredBusch said in Deploying NodeBB 1.13 on CentOS 8 with MongoDB 4.2: You can only remove this line if you are going to host the reverse proxy on the same instance. No reverse proxy needed if you are going to just look at it locally without going over the network.

I asked if they really had customers who would pay that amount. They said hundreds... Ummm ok, not thousands? Really?

@JasGot said in W2, the IRS Test, and Who Do I Work For?: @scottalanmiller said in W2, the IRS Test, and Who Do I Work For?: when a union gets involved and peoples' values are no longer evaluated uh oh! It's not a secret, the point of unions was to represent the value of "breathing" rather than specific values. It is what it is, unions benefit those without skills at the expense of those with them. They only make sense in a "fodder" setting where the value of the worker isn't determined by their work individually, but the availability of the entire pool. Unions are just a nice sounding term for "collective bargaining", which of course is itself a polite way of making it crystal clear that the individuals don't have anything special to offer to can't bargain themselves.

@Danp said in Create an Empty SQLite Database on Windows: @scottalanmiller Yes, Windows 10. Odd, didn't work for me.

@DustinB3403 said in Kari's Law and Special SMB Onus on IT Staff: @scottalanmiller You just said that Enterprise customers can be forced to update their information, but smaller orgs get a pass. I must be misreading what you've typed. Yes, the CUSTOMERS get a pass, IT that supports small customers has to provide the information that they don't have control over. Enterprise customers have to provide the information from the company. SMB customers get to not tell anyone when changes are made and blame someone with no power or way to get that information for certain.

At least the notification requirements are pretty simple and straightforward. For almost everyone, just email out a notification.

Your definition is not relevant. The FCC definition is what will be enforced.