@travisdh1 said in 16TB spinning rust is here:

@wrx7m said in 16TB spinning rust is here:

@travisdh1 said in 16TB spinning rust is here:

@wrx7m said in 16TB spinning rust is here:

What would be the best brand/model high capacity (8+ TB) SATA hard drive today?

HGST. Owned by Western Digital, but still running their own production lines. They're a little more expensive, but also more reliable. You have to decide if the extra cost is worth the reliability difference.

Ever since those floods several years ago, HDD drive quality has gone down.

Yeah, and anyone that doesn't believe you just needs to go look at the annual failure rates Backblaze publishes.

Yeah I saw that posted here recently. Man, it is a horror story.

@travisdh1 said in 16TB spinning rust is here:

@wrx7m said in 16TB spinning rust is here:

What would be the best brand/model high capacity (8+ TB) SATA hard drive today?

HGST. Owned by Western Digital, but still running their own production lines. They're a little more expensive, but also more reliable. You have to decide if the extra cost is worth the reliability difference.

Ever since those floods several years ago, HDDquality has gone down.

What would be the best brand/model high capacity (8+ TB) SATA hard drive today?

@IRJ #TrueStory

I came across these guys while searching for some digital signage hardware-

https://store.immediasys.com/pages/About-Us.html

Has anyone used them?

@IRJ lol

I am looking at BrightSign for retrofitting some existing displays. Anyone deal with them?
https://www.brightsign.biz/digital-signage-products/XT-product-line

Battle won. War... TBD

@Emad-R said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

@wrx7m

Once you reach those avanced requests, Wordpress is not what you want , you need to check Drupal.

Yeah. According to the initial request, it really is funny how simple the site is supposed to be and how they are just pushing and pushing-

Also, note that they are planning on building a forum. I don't trust them with a 3 page website. They certainly aren't building a forum.

@DustinB3403 said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

@wrx7m said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

@DustinB3403 said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

I think the only real response required should be to this.

"Let me know what you think"

R: I think it's a horrible idea that you have administrative rights to anything.

lol - I think she is being coached by Pam (the former web design firm owner).

Tell the owner to pound sand, even if she has experience "designing" sites doesn't mean she has any practical understanding of how to maintain a site or server of any kind.

Yeah. Exactly. If she is working here, in a different capacity, it doesn't give me any confidence in her ability to correctly manage any of this.

@DustinB3403 said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

I think the only real response required should be to this.

"Let me know what you think"

R: I think it's a horrible idea that you have administrative rights to anything.

lol - I think she is being coached by Pam (the former web design firm owner).

@DustinB3403 said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

@wrx7m said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

@marcinozga said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

@wrx7m said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

@marcinozga said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

I know they are not experts, that's the line you use to teach them a lesson when they screw up.

@DustinB3403 said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

That's what we try here but with the "if you have admin access, we aren't touching it any more".
It takes it from an IT system to a different class with where we work.

I am the only IT guy here. I don't have time to teach people lessons after they screw up something that should have been restricted in the first place.

Do you have time to keep explaining why admin access is a bad idea?

No, but I can copy and paste a response I can't clone myself yet.

I would make the final explanation that, administrative access is for people who are going to be fully accountable for the site, including not just the content, theme, users or addons but also with ensuring the site is backed up and updated regularly.

If an addon, theme or user needs to be invited they can contact the IT department to request these changes are made.

If contacting IT is to cumbersome and they insist on Administrative access, save that communication as a CYA with a declaration that IT can't be asked to "Fix the wordpress" because there have been to many chefs in the kitchen.

I will tell them the first parts and hopefully be done with it.

Going back to the original question- If management wants them to be able to edit themes, is a plugin for creating granular permissions good to use?

@marcinozga said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

@wrx7m said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

@marcinozga said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

I know they are not experts, that's the line you use to teach them a lesson when they screw up.

@DustinB3403 said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

That's what we try here but with the "if you have admin access, we aren't touching it any more".
It takes it from an IT system to a different class with where we work.

I am the only IT guy here. I don't have time to teach people lessons after they screw up something that should have been restricted in the first place.

Do you have time to keep explaining why admin access is a bad idea?

No, but I can copy and paste a response I can't clone myself yet.

@marcinozga said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

I know they are not experts, that's the line you use to teach them a lesson when they screw up.

@DustinB3403 said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

That's what we try here but with the "if you have admin access, we aren't touching it any more".
It takes it from an IT system to a different class with where we work.

I am the only IT guy here. I don't have time to teach people lessons after they screw up something that should have been restricted in the first place.

Me:

Her:

Me:

Her:

@marcinozga said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

@DustinB3403 said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

@marcinozga said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

@wrx7m said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

LOL - It has begun.

Isolate it, give him admin, and let them crash and burn. Just make sure to CYA.

What fun is that. . . we have elevated users here and they just constantly install plugins as shortcuts to doing their job and then ask us to fix it.

It doesn't fix the problem and just causes more problems for us down the road.

You ask whoever is admin to fix it then. They asked to be admin, they must be Wordpress experts, no?

I highly doubt anyone here is a wordpress expert. I was told by one of the marketing ladies that she used to own a web design firm for 20 years. She also said that she didn't want to use wordpress for something else because it was open source so there was no accountability and there were too many hands in the cookie jar. So, I wrote her off on knowing anything of real value when it comes to this stuff.

LOL - It has begun.

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:

@wrx7m said in What Are You Watching Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Watching Now:

@wrx7m said in What Are You Watching Now:

@Joy said in What Are You Watching Now:

I am watching a Series called: Lillehammer

Lillehammer= is a Norwegian-American television series starring Steven Van Zandt about a former New York-based gangster named Frank "The Fixer" Tagliano trying to start a new life in isolated Lillehammer, Norway.

Loved Lilyhammer. Too bad it didn't last more than a few seasons. I also love Trapped (Season 1 is on Amazon prime), an Icelandic show. Season 2 was just out in Iceland. Waiting for it to come to the US in any form that has English subtitles.

Trapped was great. Season 2 was good but not as good as Season 1, it's already been shown down here in Oz.

Another great show based in Iceland is Fortitude, 3 seasons. Stars Richard Dormer who gets more awesome each episode.

On what medium was Trapped S2 available?

One would assume broadcast since it was just released in Feb/Mar, and Australia got a broadcast release of S1. Though it was also on SBS on demand down under.

Ahh. I didn't know that. That would be cool to get here.

@siringo said in What Are You Watching Now:

@wrx7m said in What Are You Watching Now:

@Joy said in What Are You Watching Now:

I am watching a Series called: Lillehammer

Lillehammer= is a Norwegian-American television series starring Steven Van Zandt about a former New York-based gangster named Frank "The Fixer" Tagliano trying to start a new life in isolated Lillehammer, Norway.

Loved Lilyhammer. Too bad it didn't last more than a few seasons. I also love Trapped (Season 1 is on Amazon prime), an Icelandic show. Season 2 was just out in Iceland. Waiting for it to come to the US in any form that has English subtitles.

Trapped was great. Season 2 was good but not as good as Season 1, it's already been shown down here in Oz.

Another great show based in Iceland is Fortitude, 3 seasons. Stars Richard Dormer who gets more awesome each episode.

On what medium was Trapped S2 available?