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@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Hid Known Vulnerability According to Senator: @Dashrender said in Microsoft Hid Known Vulnerability According to Senator: you're saying that they can't ever be wrong in their releases? No, I'm saying that whether right or wrong is irrelevant. That it happened is what matters. Deciding if it happened accidentally or on purpose is a different discussion. Things that happen on accident doesn't make them not have happened. Like teen pregnancy....

@scottalanmiller said in LastPass Goes As Predicted Like LogMeIn: @Dashrender said in LastPass Goes As Predicted Like LogMeIn: @scottalanmiller said in LastPass Goes As Predicted Like LogMeIn: @Dashrender said in LastPass Goes As Predicted Like LogMeIn: @scottalanmiller said in LastPass Goes As Predicted Like LogMeIn: @Dashrender said in LastPass Goes As Predicted Like LogMeIn: @travisdh1 said in LastPass Goes As Predicted Like LogMeIn: @Dashrender said in LastPass Goes As Predicted Like LogMeIn: @Pete-S said in LastPass Goes As Predicted Like LogMeIn: @Dashrender said in LastPass Goes As Predicted Like LogMeIn: from the sounds of it - the marketing wasn't paying off, at least not in their opinion. They probably looking at the conversion rate from free to paying customer. If 99% of all free users are happy with the free version then they need to remove features from the free version or remove it altogether. Or adjust their business model. The marketing is of no value if it's successful, but only ever generates "customers" using the free version. A lot of SaaS companies are run on venture capitalist money though and generates no profit, only losses. But that can never go on forever. But some have deep pockets. I think it took Spotify 10 years to have their first quarter that was not in the red. On a yearly basis they still never have been profitable. Yeah that kind of crap is some thing I simply do not understand why the investors continue to pour more money on that fire. Just see that money burn Spotify has nothing on Uber. Uber looses money on every ride still. The business model was setup to take advantage of driverless vehicles, and that's taking longer than they expected to happen. In the meantime, they keep getting the funding to continue operating. Now this is somethign I also don't understand... Are we assuming the cost of the drivers AND administrator/IT staff for the company cost more than the app brings in? that just seems like a crazy idea.. but yet I know it must be true... I wonder what make their costs SOOOO expensive? is there that much need to continue updating the app, are the servers needed to keep the platform running THAT expensive? For Uber, the app cost is trivial. Even if it is $50m USD a year, that's nothing in their revenue. Their costs are around payroll, payment processing, legal teams, marketing, market creation, insurance, etc. Think about trying to make Uber... it might cost you $100m USD just to convince a single city to let you use your product there. The BIG money is in getting the laws and regulations changed to let you exist. The actual app and driving of the cars is background noise to them. oh yeah - I keep forgetting about the requirement to buy off cities, etc to allow the thing to happen... good point. And they keep having to enter and leave markets. All that startup cost and advertising and loss leaders, then they limp along for a year or two, then the city decides to make a competing service and kick them out once Uber paid to develop the market. It's rough. I don't feel this is something cities should be able to do... if you can legally have the business - they they shouldn't be able to stop you.... the whole taxi aspect - selling medallions, - what a raquet! That's the thing, they stop you by changing if it is legal for you to have a business. That's the problem with government, they change "what is legal" whenever they want. I want to down vote this because of the gov't, not because of your post

@scottalanmiller that is edgeos syntax.

@JaredBusch said in Fry's Computer Store Chain Now Defunct: @Dashrender said in Fry's Computer Store Chain Now Defunct: @pmoncho said in Fry's Computer Store Chain Now Defunct: @Dashrender said in Fry's Computer Store Chain Now Defunct: @pmoncho said in Fry's Computer Store Chain Now Defunct: @Dashrender said in Fry's Computer Store Chain Now Defunct: @marcinozga said in Fry's Computer Store Chain Now Defunct: @Dashrender I think they failed because of lack of e-commerce and their prices sucked. Best Buy survived, despite being almost a clone of CC. Frankly BB just sucks today too. They barely carry anything. I buy mice/keyboards and USB sticks from there all the time because I dont' want to wait for delivery (almost no next day delivery here). I agree, In mid-late 90's, most of their floor space seemed like it was for music, movie and software CD/DVD's. Now it seems wide open an kinda eerie when they are not busy. I see mostly TV's and appliances when I scan the place - oh and phones... then they have a smattering of the consumer - rape my network please electronics crap... That is what I see also. Something inside me keeps telling me, never to buy an appliance from there or anything over the occasional mouse/keyboard, USB wireless and/or SSD drive that is on sale. I bought a new refrigerator last May, we looked at BB first, but they didn't have what we wanted - used a local furniture place, not sure it would be really any different buying from Nebraska Furniture Mart or BB - or hell Costco. Our kitchen appliances all came from Ikea. It is all black label of known brands. But this does remind me - BB was known for getting units from manufactures with unique model numbers so they didn't have to price shop against other vendors - this also caused warranty issues too, if I recall. Not sure if they are doing that anymore or not.

@flaxking said in SAMIT: The Three Components of Web Hosting: @scottalanmiller said in SAMIT: The Three Components of Web Hosting: @flaxking said in SAMIT: The Three Components of Web Hosting: I'm liking these non-IT technician focused videos. Thanks! I'm hoping to broaden the audience and make tools that IT staff can either use directly by sharing with management or learn from on how to present to management. Far too often IT is pressured to make business decisions that other business stakeholders should be involved in. And vice versa, tons of times untrained people with no IT insight or knowledge make all the critical IT decisions and just have the staff classified as IT deal with the mistakes rather than avoiding them.

@Skyetel said in Phone Outages for February 19, 2021: Skyetel’s President is addressing this personally, and all options are on the table. He’s, uh, pretty upset. Hahhhaahahahahhah

I would like to say that I have not spoken to people who disagreed with the title. I would like to, but...

@scottalanmiller said in MS RDS: How Do You Reset Device License Assignment: how do we reset it to allow for updated devices? Open "RD Licensing manager", browse for device who's license you want to "revoke", leftclick on it and choose "Revoke license" As said, up to 20% of total licenses can be revoked before expiry.

@Pete-S said in SAMIT: Business Owner's Need to Stop Requiring Sales Skills from IT: Movie looks good too. You have way too much head room though in your framing. Just angle the camera down slightly so your eyes are above the center of the frame. It'll look more professional that way. Thanks, I switched to the media attachment on the GoPro Hero Black 9 so still getting used to that. Overall it seems to work okay, and having a room full of lights helps a lot. But still a bit of learning curve.

@EddieJennings said in Dead Professor Teaching Classes: If I meet my demise in the near future, I know my RHCSA practice session videos will live on. And that some university might list you as faculty and sell your as the professor to their students!

That awesome news.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-weve-open-sourced-this-tool-we-used-to-hunt-for-code-by-solarwinds-hackers/

@Obsolesce said in SAMIT: Apple M1 ARM Silicon: @scottalanmiller said in SAMIT: Apple M1 ARM Silicon: So completely by coincidence, my Mac M1 arrived yesterday! I didn't know that it had been ordered, @pchiodo and @ysapir hid the order from me and surprised me with it. So I am posting from the M1 right now! Which M1 device did you get? MacBook pro 13"? Mini, I'm a big desktop guy. Well, I'm big on desktops that are small.

I believe Ubuntu just announced that 5.10 was coming in 21.04 as well.

@stacksofplates said in Nginx Config Need to Point Folder Reference Without Stripping: Couldn't you just use a rewrite for this? Not at a computer but like rewrite ^/api /api Maybe, I'll try it!

Could it also be that Texas gives more tax incentives than California. Making Texas a business friendly state or better to do business with?

@scottalanmiller said in I'm Ready to Convert to Console Gaming: Actually, this is the best of both worlds. A console built with PC components. Don't forget the Chicken warmer

We use Google services here. We had a quirk around 6am-7am on Monday. No end-user issues reported since that 1 hour. However all of our facilities are within TX.

@hobbit666 said in Topics of Systems Administration: e.g. I'm down as being Infrastructure/Network Manager. But in peoples views where do my duties start and end? (But maybe this is for another topic) Well the first question is, why is "network" mentioned, given that that's a subset of infrastructure? That's like saying you are a vehicle/car mechanic. Saying you are a network manager, if that's all you are limited to (85% of the time at least) is one thing (I doubt this can be true, network anything doesn't exist outside of the enterprise space, even companies with many thousands of people generally don't need even a single dedicated network focused role), makes sense. And if you cover everything in the infrastructure space, but don't cover things like helpdesk, databases, applications, etc., then infrastructure makes sense (that would include systems, networks, platforms, etc.). But stating both doesn't. Either you are focused enough to say network and infrastructure doesn't apply. Or you are broader and should say infrastructure, and network doesn't apply. But then "manager" becomes a question. Admins run things, managers manage people. The terms are used very loosely outside of IT, but inside of IT they generally aren't. You admin hardware/software, you manage people and vendors/businesses. The title "IT Manager" is generally considered to be (and this holds up very universally when you talk to people) someone focused on managing people under them and/or vendors. But an IT Admin, would not be assumed to manage people or maybe not even use vendors, and just administer everything that falls under IT.

@Dashrender said in Adding 8GB of RAM to the Acer Aspire 7 A715-41G-R7X4: @hobbit666 said in Adding 8GB of RAM to the Acer Aspire 7 A715-41G-R7X4: Personally i always like to match RAM - Size Make Speed etc. For the average person - hell, the average IT person too, does it even matter? It's not like you're likely running a gaming rig you're trying to squeeze every last ounce of power from. I know Scott is doing video editing - perhaps on this device.. so it might matter to him, a 1% performance increase could be several saved mins on a video... More than anything, matched sticks means the least potential for problems. THe price on matching was within about $1 of anything else and anything faster would be wasted.

@EddieJennings said in Do You Look Like a Real Business To Your Customers?: @DustinB3403 said in Do You Look Like a Real Business To Your Customers?: @EddieJennings said in Do You Look Like a Real Business To Your Customers?: @Pete-S said in Do You Look Like a Real Business To Your Customers?: A real business also have procedures for almost everything. This cannot be stated enough. hahahahaahahahaha Glad I could entertain you. I needed a laugh, especially before my evening went to shit yesterday.

@scottalanmiller said in First Look Ubiquiti Unifi UXG Pro: The new, unreleased Unifi UXG Pro just arrived here at the NTG Dallas offices. Woot! It's dual power supply, dual WAN, dual LAN, touch screen LCD and up and running! More details as we get to play with it. DAMN IT!!!

@StorageNinja said in Apple Officially Releases their ARM M1 Powered Lineup: @scottalanmiller said in Apple Officially Releases their ARM M1 Powered Lineup: USB4 is TB3 compatible. Intel removed licensing for TB3 as part of agreement to make part of USB4 spec. That's great. The two have been way too close.

@JaredBusch said in LinkedIn and Overseas Outsourced Software Development: Just the latest spam campaign. It's been going on for a while. It might all be one organization, but it really does feel like multiple. But I suppose, good spam will feel that way.

@Pete-S said in How Many HCI Nodes for the SMB: But if you run a generic benchmark that is not designed to give inflated numbers, the situation is different. I don't run generic benchmarks in production for a living thankfully The reality is most CPU intensive stuff takes advantage of at least some of the new offload extensions and libraries. Also memory throughput is often the limiting factor for databases and other intensive IO applications.

So one of our guys tracked it down. It was a typo in the .htaccess file that we received from the customer.

@scottalanmiller said in ScreenConnect Unable to Start on Fedora 33: @JaredBusch said in ScreenConnect Unable to Start on Fedora 33: @scottalanmiller said in ScreenConnect Unable to Start on Fedora 33: Some updates can cause this to revert, so be aware that you might want to set something up to verify it. What Updates? I have not seen an update to the Linux server version in months. Something that touches that library. ah, Fedora updates.. Understood.