NJ here too. Crazy how real to life Mad Max Fury Road was

CIV V Complete is 82 cents right now. Ultimate steal. Games are great.

The PST file was moved outside of the local drive and was no longer on the local machine. This is why I was unable to find it. I eventually found it inside of an obscure folder deep within the file server.

@tonyshowoff said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

The real thing here: Unless you have actually used survival skills in a real setting (reading about them doesn't count 99% of the time) the chances of you actually being able to survive a stressful situation are pretty slim. Book smarts will not do you a whole lot of good in bad situations where you have to react quickly.

Yup, pretty much the military will be who survive. Only people trained AND experienced in anything even remotely similar. A few others will survive, but the first hours will wipe out essentially everyone. No matter how many great ideas you have, those first hours will kill you almost certainly so no amount of "you know what would work well" will help.

I was in the military. All of your meals are provided. It's not like they really teach your survival in the traditional sense. My AIT wasnt mountain man

I imagine it also depends on which military, I came from a newly formed country which was extremely poor, but the Americans did drop some MREs from time to time. That's how I discovered the other love of my life, Tabasco sauce.

Yeah. If Tabasco Sauce can make an MRE edible then that is really a testament to it. I'm American

@MattSpeller said in Recovering Archived files via .OST:

@wirestyle22 said in Recovering Archived files via .OST:

The PST file was moved outside of the local drive and was no longer on the local machine. This is why I was unable to find it. I eventually found it inside of an obscure folder deep within the file server.

good grief

From what I understand this guys mailbox size is 32 GB and the last guy here had to show him how to partition the files and move them outside of his local machine? I was like wat

Moving over to Veeam within the next few weeks. Awaiting approval.

Well Scott. Like every other day, you are a godsend.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I, for one, welcome our future robot overlords.

Maybe they can filter my blood so I can eat cheeseburgers again /wrists

You can still have one... just don't tell your Doctor or your girlfriend.

I can't lie to her

@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

Had to share this one, it's unreal. Dell charging $2700 PER DRIVE for cheap, $200 hard drives. We expect a premium, but that is insane.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1733428-vmware-nas-suggestions?page=4#entry-6045504

It's more of just a warning about what storage vendors will potentially do to you if they think that you are a trapped audience with no other options. Or if they think that your management are suckers. Or worse.

It's not really a best practice issue, but didn't know where else to put a horror story of this nature and the dangers of prop solutions is real.

This guy had me at pixie dust and dreams

Just ordered by home test environment from @BradfromxByte Can't wait to play with it. Thanks Brad!

@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

Had to share this one, it's unreal. Dell charging $2700 PER DRIVE for cheap, $200 hard drives. We expect a premium, but that is insane.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1733428-vmware-nas-suggestions?page=4#entry-6045504

It's more of just a warning about what storage vendors will potentially do to you if they think that you are a trapped audience with no other options. Or if they think that your management are suckers. Or worse.

It's not really a best practice issue, but didn't know where else to put a horror story of this nature and the dangers of prop solutions is real.

I'm hoping that the person who had this issue posts over here, too. But he followed up with me that they saved tens of thousands of dollars and got a better solution by building a SAM-SD to replace the Equalogic.

My next project involved a SAM-SD

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Cup of broccoli cheddar soup, a Redd's, and some french fries.

That's a good workday lunch right there.

They say being slightly inebriated is actually what brings people to their peak performance levels. Wish my company would adopt that.

I certainly support this theory.

Everyone has told me not to try to keep up with you so obviously whenever we meet I'm going to try. It's been nice knowing you ML

My father in law (soon to be) just received my server! yessssssssssss @BradfromxByte

@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Talking to people in India who are telling me it's against policy to give me access to systems that I am required to use in order to do my job...FML

They are just doing their job... exactly the way they have been instructed to do it. Word by word.

Not saying it's the same with all the people from India (that would be stupid, there are > 1 billion people), but I've heard a story once where an Indian company was tasked to build a small website. "There shall be links on the left side in a menu". They did just that: Putting the word "links" multiple times there.

I love getting told to send emails and open tickets when we've done this, MANY times, and we constantly just get ignored...

Maybe you missed to add some keywords like "inquiry", "invoice" or "order"

Or words like "DO YOUR F***ING JOB ***HOLES!" Well, maybe not...

Everyone could say that to you too though. I try to give people the patience I want. Granted I'm human and I'm depleted of resources sometimes.

@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

@travisdh1 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

@eneeldssi Great examples of Why we don't take advice from vendors., no, really, never, ever.

I get the same "look" when offering advice for free, as a completely outside party. As if I'm not a vendor or reseller my advice must be skewed.

How do you guys recommend getting around this kind of stubbornness?

I ask questions that show them the error of their ways.

User: Did you break my computer?
Me: Do you accuse your mechanic of breaking your car when you bring it in to get fixed?

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Today has been...interesting.

How so? ... and Interesting good... or interesting Bad?

I've just been running around like a nut. It's been wild. Tomorrow I have to find every phone line in the entire place and check to see if all of the devices are capable of T.38 -- If so we are going to save a ton of money.

@chrisnbrooks said in What is the Upside to VMware to the SMB?:

Thank you for voicing so eloquently what some of us have been trying to wrap our heads around. I personally come from a frugal era of IT and will always scout free solutions before coughing up the cash or subscribing to a (shudder) recurring licensing fee. We used to buy our modem banks by sniping eBay auctions, and that was at a tri-state telecom. I realize you need to spend money to make money, but unnecessary expenditures should still be avoid if possible, imo.

XenServer + CentOS is a huge moneysaver. Virtualization period is a pretty big money saver.

@scottalanmiller said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@wirestyle22 said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

Anxiety

Delicious. With a side of stress.

I've been eating too many bytes when I should be eating bits. 8 times the calories.

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@thwr said in

10 EUR for 1GB and flat for all landline and Vodafone internal calls here in Germany.

Used to be way more expensive a few years ago.

Things work the opposite here in the US>

Prices on that stuff keep rising and rising...

Took it from drug dealers. Get them hooked and relying on it and then hike up the price.