@BRRABill said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Now you want to test out a few OSes. You might have a VM for 2012 R2, 2016, 2012, 2008 R2, 2008, 2003 R2, CentOS 6, CentOS 7, Suse Leap, Suse Tumbleweed, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 15.10, Fedora 23, Arch Linux, Debian Jessie, FreePBX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly, Solaris, Windows 10 and Gentoo.

That is "a few" OSes?

Hey, to each their own. I have a hard time just managing my Xbox One.

Oh, that's just a start. Much easier to manage today that it was "back in the day" as well! Over the whole Y2K thing I was interning, and had setup a computer to multi-boot Windows 95, 98, ME, XP, OS/2, OS/2 Warp, Red Hat 4, and I'm not sure how many different x86 compatible machine control things. I was ECSTATIC when that new thing called VirtualBox came around. Just thinking about what, and how easily, we can do things today compared to back then can make my head spin.

Edit: I forgot NT3.5, 4.0 and Windows 2000 as well.

I'm waiting for the scp of the backup vm to finish up, so I can latter import it to the XenServer. waiting.... waiting... waiting... 700GB over a Gb network link.

@Dashrender said:

@IRJ said:

@Dashrender said:

I had a friend that worked a consulting company - that consulting company (for lack of a better term) rented out employees to other business for 6 month to 1 year contracts. Who does that employee work for? the consulting company or the renting company?

That is basically what I did. It is different than working for a MSP, because ALL your daily tasks come from COMPANY1. The staffing company just wrote the paychecks. COMPANY1 paid Staffing company and the Staffing company wrote a check to me for 70% or whatever they were paid and kept the 30%. (I am guessing on the numbers, but I would suppose it was something similar to that.). I never talked to the staffing company, my hours, tasks, and everything else about my job was approved by COMPANY1.

And things just keep getting weirder.

So my employer, a medical office, considered laying off their entire workforce, and hiring a company that would employ the entire staff, and staff them back to my company.
The purpose for doing this was to reduce the cost of health insurance to the company.

Medical offices pay very high medical insurance rates (I'm guessing numbers wise their employees use medical insurance more than the norm, so the rates reflect that).

The use of a staffing company is a loophole that could have been used to have the appearance that these employees worked for a non medical office, thus lowering the rates.

The staffing company is who would actually be providing all benefits, but of course all of those expenses would be passed back to the medical office.

Discuss.

Capital does not like to be wasted. It's convoluted yes, but MUCH less so than the general day to day hoops tossed at medical offices in dealing with insurance companies and government reimbursement programs (where they actually get 25 to 50 cents on their billed dollars.)

@Dashrender said:

What are/were the limitations of free version? I have forgotten.

1TB of storage. I think that's counting amount of protected storage, but it's been long enough I forget for sure.

Edit: Works real well for me here, adding servers and services as I set them up. We've been using crashplan for file level storage for a long time, so I don't have much being pulled in by Unitrends currently.

@DustinB3403 said:

@travisdh1 said:

@DustinB3403 said:

This seems like another one, but with enterprise grade hardware...

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1392732-w00t-excited-for-this-project?source=homepage-feed

Apparently we're all to mean for the Spiceworks community? Thread not found now.

Yeah the OP requested that the SW Moderators delete the post... there is a cached copy without the OP's responses to the topic still on SW under scott's topic

Somewhere in there...

/popcorn

@DustinB3403 said:

This seems like another one, but with enterprise grade hardware...

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1392732-w00t-excited-for-this-project?source=homepage-feed

Apparently we're all to mean for the Spiceworks community? Thread not found now.

Just started cloning the backup server off of my ProxMox server. It'll be moved to the new XenServer. Then I get to install XenServer instead of ProxMox, and get HALizard setup, woo!

I have a feeling I know someone who works for this MSP. I wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole, or a remote connection. They expect you to have no life and never sleep. For what my advice is worth, don't bother. Not even wroth it for practicing interviewing skills.

@MattSpeller said:

@mlnews said:

GAS HITS $.789 in the US!!

Houghton Lake, Michigan: Gas Prices Drop Below $1 Per Gallon in Apparent Price War, Report Says

Gas prices of 78 cents and 95 cents were reported at Beacon & Bridge Market and Marathon, respectively, in Houghton Lake, GasBuddy reported after verifying user-submitted photos.

To the best of my knowledge, this is by far the cheapest fuel prices, after adjustments for inflation, in history.

Ugh, tax that stuff already. I pay $4.13CDN/gallon = $2.84USD

That's the cheapest it's been since the 90's here.

This differs state to state here, but in Ohio we're paying 46.4 cents per gallon. That's close to half the cost at the pump currently....... just don't fill up in Pennsylvania whatever you do, 68.8 cents per gallon. So I'd say that the tax on gas at the pump is already at insanity levels here.

Edit: I won't even get started on road use taxes for commercial vehicles, unless someone really wants to know part of why it costs $50 to have that $5 wigit delivered via next day service.

Taking a look at the network monitor before heading out to lunch.

@gjacobse said:

LOL - have children and find out.

Easier said than done. I'd be willing to give it a try, but it's kinda hard as a single male

@scottalanmiller said:

Doesn't Ubiquiti have something for this? There was some vendor that I looked at in the last year that had nice options and now I cannot remember who it was.

If I'm looking at $200 entry fee for just a networked temperature sensor, well, a Raspberri Pi with a $3 temp sensor and $.10 resistor looks real good.

Knowing how Ubiquiti does things, they probably drop the DIY route off the cost curve. Yep, looked at B+H Looks like you can get a temp sensor on the network for ~$96, which you'd be at or over that price just for components of a DIY kit.

@scottalanmiller said:

For home laptop use (non-gaming) be sure to check out PC-BSD. It's screaming fast, super stable and very responsive.

In this particular article it was a solid, but not fastest, performer in the transcoding benchmarks they ran, which were about as close to web serfing and video watching. PC-BSD is the fastest bar none if you're compiling software or iops intensive workloads.

@DustinB3403 said:

TL;DR can you tell me which is the best?

Only if I know the exact workload. (That was only 4 pages long, short for a Phoronix article!)

@mlnews Never has been picking the right OS so hard. Those are some crazy performance differences on the same hardware.

@dafyre said:

What a day... I think I just blew my audiologist's mind earlier this afternoon... Apparently I got 70% comprehension in my testing today... and my tone range (pitch) is roughly equivalent to what a normal person would hear.

She didn't expect me to do so well with it.... Honestly, I didn't either. I am blessed that it works so well!

I've got a hearing loss in my left ear while my right ear is fine. Don't let jokesters know this, people I used to work with liked to call my name from across the plant just to watch me looking everywhere for where they were.

@MattSpeller said:

@Dashrender said:

Hit a huge lottery - I used to think I'd buy fancy car or two - but then I realized I'd never be home. I'd be like Scott - I'd be living all over the world.

Frankly I'm envious as hell of his current lifestyle. Though, My wife wouldn't accept it.

lol I am a bit sometimes too but ultimately I'd just end up lonely and come back home. I want all of the travel with none of the working - just see and experience new stuff in a new place for a month, then return home.

And that is 80% the reason I quit driving a truck for a living..... now it looks like I'll need to find a job programming the computer to drive them

@BRRABill said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Because it stores a copy locally. It is better than a mapped drive, but isn't fully decoupled from the local filesystem. Assuming that they install the client, that is.

I mean, is there any way around that if you want to give users a convenient way to access files?

As these viruses have progressed, all the ideas we had to prevent contamination have been overcome. (We're not at risk because we use UNC names. NEXT VERSION. Oh crud.)

Call me a cynic, but they'll figure out a way to go after cloud files some day, too.

Kinda hard to call you a cynic when you've just 100% accurately predicted the future!

@johnhooks said:

@travisdh1 said:

I'm not forgetting some basic principal of file servers here am I? That means they had write access to other folders, that were not their own!

I haven't had a chance to read the article, but wouldn't have setting the sticky bit just solved this problem (not write access but editing other files by other users)?

Not that they should have write access to other folders at all, but for all the more work chmod +s is I would think that would have been done.

Assuming the file server was on Linux that is.

Right. We have no information on which hosting company and what platform(s) they use are yet. Might be a month or two, but we'll find out eventually.

@Minion-Queen said:

Morning everyone. TIGF!

We have 4 out of 9 people in the building this morning. Apparently most are getting a head start on the weekend.