frosty morning here today, but the sun is out.
I plan on having a bludge day today ...

had a david Vs goliath moment.
missed out on a govt tender coz the 3rd party site they were using blah blah, didn't work.
sent a few articulate, intelligent, non inflamatory emails and have been granted late access.

you CAN negotiate with the bag man and win .... sometimes.

I ended up using a tool from RDPSoft. You can take out monthly subscriptions to use their software. Very impressive stuff.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CQWrvYGLqvt/

When is everyone heading down here?

When will you have open rooms?

From now until ~December. It's the slow season here (local winter), so lots of open space.

looks like north eastern & north western australia.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Do you find the position of the power button on your laptop a little irritating?

not really, why do you ask??

I'm a really crappy typer.

Heh

That looks like a Dell5420

macbook, bootcamped...

@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Do you find the position of the power button on your laptop a little irritating?

not really, why do you ask??

I'm a really crappy typer.

Just looks like you'll shutdown by accident a lot

hahaha, nuh. don't think i've done that yet. probably will from now on, thanks mate.

@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Do you find the position of the power button on your laptop a little irritating?

not really, why do you ask??

I'm a really crappy typer.

Thanks guys I'll check themnboth out.

setting up a new samsung phone..

I need to get a list of RDS user log in times & dates, logoff times and dates and connection times.

I need to be able to put that info into Excel.

I'm sure you can get it with Powershell but ATM I can't find anything to work with.

I've looked at the RDPSoft apps, but I think I'll have to pay to get the reports I want.

Thanks for any help.

@pete-s said in So Windows 11??:

@nadnerb said in So Windows 11??:

Not impressed. Have to replace my CPU (Ryzen 5 1600) if I want to upgrade.
Yeah yeah, TPM blah blah blah. Still not happy about it. I've only had the CPU for 3 years.

Granted I don't have to move until 2025 (WIN10 EOL) if I want to retain my hardware that long.
Just irritated that I can't upgrade straight away.

These requirements may not seem too strict, but having a look at the list of supported processors, you’ll notice that the 1st Gen AMD Ryzen CPUs aren’t supported, and the 2nd Gen Zen+ processors are a bare minimum on AMD’s end and the 8th Gen Kaby Lake-R is the least supported on Intel’s end. Keep in mind that although the OS will run on systems using older processors, it’s “not recommended”. Microsoft’s list of supported processors doesn’t make sense as there’s little to no difference between the 1st and 2nd Gen Ryzen processors. Similarly, the Kaby Lake-R (8th Gen Intel Core lineup) is essentially a rebranding of the 7th Gen offerings.

• BBQ Sauce: https://www.hardwaretimes.com/windows-11-wont-support-1st-gen-amd-ryzen-processors-tpm-required/

More Dipping Sauces

• Supported AMD CPUs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/minimum/supported/windows-11-supported-AMD-processors
• Supported intal CPUs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/minimum/supported/windows-11-supported-intal-processors

It's called planned obsolescence. It's not done for any technical reason whatsoever, so looking for what makes "sense" doesn't make sense.

This @Pete-S you're spot on. It's just about making more money. If the software is kept up to date security wise, why would anything ever need to be replaced/updated, but we all know that.

When's the release date for 11?

thursday morning, road trip coming up..

continuing the fun with wsus...

I've done this many times over the years, I always end up back on Windows as that's what I support.

My advice would be to boot into the OS you support and have VMs of the OS's you want to learn.

I've done it the other way around, and found it too inefficient to work with.

For example, I needed to print something, so I had to go and google how to install a print driver, then chase up some hacks to get it to work. When if I was in the OS I knew, I could have printed immediately.

If you don't move around, it would be much easier, as you setup once and you're good to go. I move around, so it was a continuous hassle.

@obsolesce oh no, not already.

@jasgot I signed up 6 servers this morning with Pulseway for $US107/yr or thereabouts.

@dbeato said in Simple cheap RMM:

@siringo What about these ones:

https://bluetrait.io/pricing

https://www.action1.com/free_edition.html

https://www.atera.com/pricing/ (COmpare to Pulseway Pricing)

https://www.pulseway.com/pricing

Thanks for the info.

Looked at Bluetrait, don't seem to have a mobile app.
Looking at Action1 now
Atera is way more expensive that Pulseway
I can add devices at Pulseway for ~ $17/yr

site24x7 is $9/mth for 10 servers over 12 months, that's even cheaper.

@black3dynamite Already using MC, it's pretty good, just missing a few things I'm after.

Just logged back into my Pulseway account. Looked at their pricing on the home page, but my pricing is $17/device/year. Don't know why, not arguing, hard pressed to get better than that.

Problem solved, close the ticket.