@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Getting posts deleted like crazy over on SW for pointing out that people are claiming that I took a thread off of the rails when it was actually Dustin and a vendor doing it. They didn't mod people insinuating that it was me for no reason, but did moderate me saying who had actually done it when pointing out that it wasn't me. And their excuse? Cleaning up "off topic" items even though the moderator in question was the first one to post something that took us actually off topic.

Argh. No accountability. I've emailed the powers that be.

We're all just humans. But moderation requires some - how to say in English... - Looking at things with a distance or to be as objective as possible. With great power comes great responsibility. You know what I want to say an I guess

No, just requires doing what the vendors tell you to do

Ah, we're talking about democracy 2.0

@hobbit666 checked other links here at ML, it's not generated by the system. So a typo, I guess.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Getting posts deleted like crazy over on SW for pointing out that people are claiming that I took a thread off of the rails when it was actually Dustin and a vendor doing it. They didn't mod people insinuating that it was me for no reason, but did moderate me saying who had actually done it when pointing out that it wasn't me. And their excuse? Cleaning up "off topic" items even though the moderator in question was the first one to post something that took us actually off topic.

Argh. No accountability. I've emailed the powers that be.

We're all just humans. But moderation requires some - how to say in English... - Looking at things with a distance or to be as objective as possible. With great power comes great responsibility. You know what I want to say an I guess

The link is bad, that's all:

<a href="lhttps://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Routing-Switching/USG-setup-a-frustrating-account-from-a-new-user/td-p/1203990" rel="nofollow">this post</a>

Could you provide an example? Like when exactly links wont work?

Just tried them with Edge, working fine

@hobbit666 can you try any of the links in this post? http://mangolassi.it/topic/9445/gog-summer-sale-2016

Huge amount of good old games on sale:

https://www.gog.com/

Found some great titles, like Lucasarts titles (Loom, Monkey Island, Sam & Max Hit The Road), X-Com, X Rebirth, Total Annihilation, JA 1 & 2, Galactic Civilizations, Homeworld Remastered, Syndicate, Neverwinter Nights Diamond ...

@John-Nicholson said in Vmware Audit:

@thwr 7 days isn't actually that hard to meet with if your a Fortune 500 who properly tracks your licensing. If you don't then you need to ask for extra time (Which even Microsoft and Oracle will give you) and assistance (VMware has licensing optimization scripts that can be run even outside of audits to make sure your in compliance).

Do you just install Office on computers, and Windows and create Windows SQL servers without tracking your usage vs. licensing or do you just use BSD licensed software?

I'm in public EDU. We're running quite a bunch of MS products like SQL Server, SharePoint, Forefront UAG, System Center and others. I have a very exhaustive stack of paper about where we use what since when - and it's driving me nuts. It's very hard to keep track, especially in case of upgrades. Try to keep track of a machine upgraded since XP. Very funny.

That's why I am replacing quite a few things with FOSS alternatives wherever possible.

@scottalanmiller said in Vmware Audit:

@John-Nicholson said in Vmware Audit:

@thwr said in Vmware Audit:

Xen

The cost of System Center with VMM isn't much cheaper at scale, and it also comes with a yearly audit call from a 3rd party in India who doesn't understand virutalization which leads to hilarious conversations. A Microsoft EA does not simplify auditing requirements.

YOu mean... Hyper-V. Xen is license free (other than GPL.)

Actually, there are quite a few papers out there comparing the TCO of all major virtualization systems at large scales. Basically, Xen is the cheapest followed by Hyper-V with MSSC (SCVMM + SCOM) and vSphere being the most expensive.

@scottalanmiller said in Vmware Audit:

You would think. But it's a major reason why I've moved us to zero Windows servers. If you have a lot, whatever. If you get down to like just one, the audit risk could just go away. So we pushed hard to eliminate all of them. Why carry that risk unnecessarily.

Funny, in another thread that prompted this one to pop back up elsewhere, someone laughed at me for even taking audit risk into consideration with "you'd have to eliminate all audit risk" which, of course, makes no sense as each risk stands on it own. But we did just that... eliminated everything that had audit risk. It's very freeing.

Risk management has to be taken care of.
Not a question at all.

@scottalanmiller said in Vmware Audit:

@thwr said in Vmware Audit:

Sure, but wouldn't it be fun to see an auditor explaining to his boss why an audit resulted in the loss of a big customer?

Often, at least with MS, they use external audit firms who are so far removed from wanting the customer to be happy that there is almost no way that things will go well. No idea how VMware does it.

I know, and that's the problem. Anyway, there's a company selling something, there's a customer who spends a reasonable amount of money and I would do virtually anything to keep that customer happy. It's not just about the money, but also about reputation.

@scottalanmiller aye

@scottalanmiller said in Vmware Audit:

@thwr said in Vmware Audit:

@Jason said in Vmware Audit:

Not sure yet, but they want a lot of stuff and we have thousands of Vmware servers. It's due within 7 days.

TLDR, but if it were me who had bought thousands of VMware licenses and some guy shows up and wants an audit in 7 days I would just ask him if he knows the current pricing of Xen or Hyper-V with MS System Center in such a scale.

Auditors don't care, they aren't paid through sales. They only make money, if they are paid that way, through penalties.

Sure, but wouldn't it be fun to see an auditor explaining to his boss why an audit resulted in the loss of a big customer?

Seven days is a joke, no matter the size. In case of being such a big customer, I would expect the audit to be announced at least a few months in advance and that the auditor will bring donuts and coffee. Sorry, this is driving me mad.

@Jason said in Vmware Audit:

Not sure yet, but they want a lot of stuff and we have thousands of Vmware servers. It's due within 7 days.

TLDR, but if it were me who had bought thousands of VMware licenses and some guy shows up and wants an audit in 7 days I would just ask him if he knows the current pricing of Xen or Hyper-V with MS System Center in such a scale.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Then there is this...

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1653608-computer-hw-failure

You are mean

The very second I tried to reply with "Power cord missing?":

Gnaarrr.. this is causing headache. Just thought about a student lesson: "Ladys and gentlemen, please create an array of ushort with a total size of 4 KiB".

Had a test once with a 99% result. Only failed question was a calculation for some backup storage sizing. The calculation itself was correct, but I did a mistake with KiB and KB. I'm somehow proud of that "failure"

For me, it's 128 * 8 = 1024. End of story.

@dafyre Nice find, but the white font ("Unattended laptops...") looks a little like Photoshop?

Edit: It was photoshop'd. There are more pictures in that thread.

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

In a chat with plusnet to find out why it will take over a month to transfer my Fibre service as it will leave me without internet for over a week!!!!
I was told before signing up it takes 10days - my current provider is switching my service off on the 3rd July so thought order now and it'll be done early. Order showing 5th for the phone switch over and 5-10days after that for Fibre!!!!

30 days? Really?

We had an outage after a storm in 2009. I was without access to the internet for eight weeks, and all this started exactly 8 weeks before the day of our wedding.
Great to be without internet access shortly before the event - HSDPA/UMTS was not an option back then.