@alexntg said:

@Dashrender said:

Alex, aren't your clients Scott's clients?

what would you recommend?

For advanced-user home use? Netgear makes some reasonable entry-level business APs. For the Apple-oriented household, Apple AirPorts can be configured for AP mode. If you're looking to go all-out with features like captive portals, VLANs, and central management, a jump up to Meraki may be an option, if one plans to get some heavy use out of it.

I've has great luck with Netgear ProSafe APs. I've had Apple Aurport too but found them to be unreliable. And very overpriced.

MAME doesn't cover anything but arcade machines, does it? It didn't used to.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Joyfano said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@technobabble said:

yeah, he told me that the had people writing drivers and such. I was only half listening to his ramblings waiting to get paid for the parts I was going to throw away!

Drivers you can get, it's patches and fixes that you cannot.

Hahahah We are still using Windows XP, Virtual Mode..

Do you have any plans to migrate off of it.

Yes.. its still connected with my problem last time ( RSA token not working in some windows 7)

They had a great time.

@scottalanmiller said:

@alexntg said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Not the same idea. With SVN, for example, we can look up changes over time, do rollbacks, see who committed changes, deploy to other systems, do comparisons.

Both are good to have but version control is a different thing than those technologies.

I'm not sure about device comparison, but LANDesk does the remainder. It logs every action taken. if you push out a bad patch or package, you can roll it back/call the uninstaller.

That's pretty nice. Not free though 🙂

What's it matter if it's free? If it can save a few techs' worth of salary per year and makes managing thousands of computers much easier, it's paid for itself.

Ah, I found a Chome plugin called 42 that lacks the tutorial stuff but is a nice, clean interpreter.

@Dashrender said:

Makes me wonder how much of that xp install is legal?

More than you would have guessed or this would not have been a problem.

It really is and Ubuntu's consumer focus is not hurting either.

@ambarishrh said:

@scottalanmiller Nice writeup on that actually.

Few of our servers are hosted in London and some in Vancouver. I was just wondering if loggly is safe enough to push all server logs. A centralised logging option is always in my mind, but am still thinking of having a self hosted log management server to collect and analyse logs from all our servers.

Loggly is the leading hosted log platform. It is likely safe to consider it safer than hosting your own log collection platform. Loggly is a major player.