@scottalanmiller said:
@travisdh1 said:
Ever visit Amish Country? We have more IT people around than you'd think, but the market is still tiny.
Which of the Amish Counties are you in? I'm a Bucks County descendant myself.
Wayne/Holmes Counties Ohio
We've lost the largest Amish population in the US title I think.
@Dashrender said:
@travisdh1 said:
@Dashrender said:
WTF? is your machine not a Domain Joined machine?
It's one of only 2 Windows computers left here. Only 10 computers total means things are manageable, but I still want to get them setup on a proper domain and file server.
You want to setup a domain for 2 Windows computers? Using a Linux distro as a Domain controller I hope? $800+ seems like a lot to spend if you were thinking a Windows Server for just two Windows machines.
As for file server, what's wrong with a NAS or standing up an Owncloud box. Owncloud will be safer - less risk of Cryptolocker problems.
Zentyal actually. Business wise because most of the users jump between computers all the time and it's so much easier to make file shares follow them around with an authentication server. Also for my piece of mind because I'll probably be changing jobs in the next 1-2 years and it'll be a lot easier for someone else to manage. (Most likely an MSP, but they'd need to be able to send someone in which is going to be the stumbling block.)
Ever visit Amish Country? We have more IT people around than you'd think, but the market is still tiny.
@scottalanmiller said:
@travisdh1 said:
That was the server, not my workstation. So yes, software raid, but Linux style mdadm/LVM.
XenServer?
That one is the old ProxMox. The latest server is XenServer. The remaining proxmox box will be moved to XenServer as well. Time to actually do it is the sticking point.
@scottalanmiller said:
@travisdh1 said:
At least the internet thing was an easy fix that I was expecting. A hard drive got replaced in the server yesterday,.....
Windows Software RAID then?
That was the server, not my workstation. So yes, software raid, but Linux style mdadm/LVM. Getting firewall rules to prevent the local box from communicating on the WAN interface was one of those fun learning experiences. Now it'd take me minutes instead of an hour.
It was very annoying having to go through all that "Microsoft will collect all the data" settings before being able to hit putty and get the raid fixed.
@Dashrender said:
WTF? is your machine not a Domain Joined machine?
It's one of only 2 Windows computers left here. Only 10 computers total means things are manageable, but I still want to get them setup on a proper domain and file server.
I feel a need to rant a bit.
So yesterday I'm typing away on an email when something pops up and steals my mouse cursor focus right before hitting the space bar, and the popup box disappeared. Well. ****. Safe mode, MB scan, combofix, reboot, nothing wrong. Get in this morning to "The internet is down" and my desktop sitting in the Windows 10 initialization window. Rarely have I had the pleasure of a double fu from any vendor, but Microsoft sure managed it this morning.
At least the internet thing was an easy fix that I was expecting. A hard drive got replaced in the server yesterday, so all the vms were mounted in a read-only file system till the rebuild finished. Shut down all the vms on the host, remounted into rw mode, restarted vms, good to go.
I've heard way to many nightmare stories about rolling back from 10, so it gets to stay for now. Only glaring issue besides me not wanting this to happen yet is a USB3 card that refuses to load it's driver.
@coliver said:
It actually isn't bad... my Sister-in-law is a vegan and most of the imitation stuff isn't too terrible. Not meat by any stretch but not bad either.
Most vegan diets are actually horrible for me being diabetic. I'm much better off getting my calories from fat rather than carbs. So I've got a slight phobia about fake meat. Still, it's better than no bacon!
"Please do not shut down or restart your computer." Quick, reboot!
Veggie Bacon? What an evil sort of thing.
Peppered bacon? Why would you ruin perfectly good pig. Best bacon EVER? The ones that are fed nothing but dairy products for 2 months before being processed. I don't know of anything being sold in a store, but it's like bacon candy.
That's a lot better than my welcome back from the weekend. "On the second day of Christmas, Santa gave to me, 2 failing raid batteries."
@Dashrender said:
man, you guys have completely left out Software Assurance, which can be a HUGE savings here.
One step at a time. Microsoft Licensing is a beast, that even they themselves don't understand.
It's not a Faraday Cage, and it has no connection to ground......
Must work SO well.
@scottalanmiller For sure. The OBGYN I used to help out with the office computers for was a big advocate for avoiding C-sections. They almost always cause more complications down the road that also need to be managed properly. She actually dropped the contract with one of the local hospitals when the board decided they wanted a 100% C-section rate, just so they could fully book the birthing ward.
@DustinB3403 said:
This Phallac Martin Shkreli's attorney raises his rates by 5000%.
Hell yeah.... !
I don't believe I'm saying this, but nice move lawyer, nice move.
@scottalanmiller said:
Here is a thought experiment...
What if a single rich person could hire every doctor that there is - this doesn't just give them access to all existing legal healthcare but the right to control the creation of more (only doctors can make more doctors legally.) The market is not free, someone new is not allowed to just become a doctor by knowing doctor stuff, you have to have other doctors and political groups approve you. It's a gated thing. So, in theory, access to healthcare can be controlled by a single person without the ability to have competitors.
In a free market, that situation cannot arise. Someone could always invest the time, effort or money to compete. But in the current framework, it is completely possible although totally impractical, to literally buy up all healthcare and with non-competes literally shut down the healthcare systems totally if one so desired.
We may be closer to that reality than people realize. Around here The Cleveland Clinic owns and runs 90% of the healthcare facilities and has the same amount of doctors under contract. My wife was in their main facility before she passed, and it is larger than most mid-sized cities. Just a small idea of the size, the window in her room looked out over the helicopter landing pads, all 4 of them. To get to her room from the parking lot, you walked 3/4 mile.
@johnhooks said:
@dafyre said:
There's also the question as to whether or not management is needed... . which will always depend on the situation.
Maybe instead of using the controller it would be nice if the EdgeRouter could control the AP.
I think it's really nice that everything is split, it's just you still need the Unifi AP no matter what.
Isn't that all managed through the same software?
We'll be getting our first Ubiquity APs whenever they get in stock. May be another week or two before they ship yet. So it'll be interesting for me to know how well the AP and switch/router all work together.
@Dashrender said:
That few dollar difference isn't always worth it.
Scott's made mention of times where he went with unmanaged because the throughput was faster than the managed ones.
True. The big difference is LAG availability. I can run a backup in the middle of the day without bringing the rest of the network down because everyone's on the same 1Gbit trunk. I can see how something like a dedicated storage network would be slowed down by adding a management layer on top of switching for sure.
I've changed from unmanaged switches to HP 1910s. Mostly for the price and warranty, managed switches for close to the same price of unamanged, yes please. Not really impressed with the ancient 3com management interface. I had a laugh when I spotted some 3com labels on the JG538A I got to replace the abomination that was our central network core (even with only 10 people employed at any single place it was still an abomination.)
@scottalanmiller said:
@dafyre said:
The Scale systems are excellent. I know NTG has one. I've worked with their systems a couple of years ago, and the performance was night & day VS VMware and a similarly sized SAN. And their systems work really well.
Scale especially kicks butt for Windows performance because of their stack.
In the demo we had the @scale tech was able to install a Windows Server before my ADD kicked in. It was impressive, almost nothing is fast enough to avoid that.