@scottalanmiller said in SAMIT: Should You Provide Equipment for Work from Home Staff?:

@Mario-Jakovina said in SAMIT: Should You Provide Equipment for Work from Home Staff?:

I do not see that anyone needs to make "general rule" and select people based on what they prefer to use.

So you agree with my points. My point was people should HAVE it, not hiring based on which they preferred.

I agree with some of your points (i.e. definitely person who wants to work in IT should already have personal PC/laptop...)

But I think there is no need to "draw a line" and make general rule, whether the company will provide business laptop to someone or not, pay for internet...
(I was answering to your question "Where do you draw the line")

Why is the Nicaraguan real estate market so depressed right now?

Youtube Video

@Carnival-Boy said in People Fear Change More Than They Actually Hate the Change - SAMIT:

Yeah, time is a big problem with dealing with change. I work in the Microsoft SaaS ERP space and Microsoft release a new version every month and they're constantly changing things and sometimes it feels like a full time job just to keep up with it all. I can lose 15 minutes just trying to find something after they've moved the menus around.

Sometimes I just think "slow down, I can't keep up".

That's a weird thing that I find from Microsoft. They make "staying on the same product" sometimes harder than "switching to a totally different one that feels more familiar to end users."

Office 2007 was the famous example. LibreOffice felt more like O2003 than O2007 did. People wanting to stay with what they knew, changed.

@tenunhealthy said in Self Promoting - But, Old.:

@thanksajdotcom said in [Self Promoting - But, Old.] (/post/24876):

Never seen that before. Well done! What level is it for? High school or is that a professional competition?

I thought vendors were supposed to buy ads on this site....

Nope, they are allowed to of course. But ads are purely optional. The self promotion group is here so that vendors big and small and even open source vendors with absolutely zero budget can get the word out. Of course only in self promotion so that it is clear that it is a free "ad" of some sort and no spam. Ads are different and run on the side or bottom and are not free, but also not a requirement.

Part of the mission of MangoLassi / RepublicOfIT is to guarantee open access to vendors without having to pay to play. The requirement of paying to participate so that only large vendors willing to invest in a platform would get a voice to end users or customers was specifically one of the problems we saw in other communities and were adamant about avoiding.

@scottalanmiller said in Scott Alan Miller Sites:

Well we have a blatant self promotion group now, I'll take advantage of that to get my name out there a little bit more. I'm never one to shy away from some blatant self promotion.

My personal diary / identity blog since 2000: http://www.sheepguardingllama.com/

My Linux blog: http://www.scottalanmiller.com/linux

Where most of my articles go: http://www.smbitjournal.com/

My most popular article ever: http://www.datamation.com/storage/do-you-really-need-a-san-1.html

Thank! You this awesome journal i used to read this before 2 years ago.

@amarendra said in My iOS scratch pad:

A blog where I randomly post about issues that I face. Rule of thumb if I face it twice better post it on the blog amarendrasingh dordle.

I shall sometimes put down on paper the challenges that I am now confronting. As a general guideline, I should definitely write about anything on the blog if it's something that I've encountered twice because it demonstrates that I'm competent in the topic.

@stuartjordan said in Book: Linux Administration Best Practices:

Congratulations on your book launch Scott.

Thanks!!

@deleted74295 said in How to make a techie buy your brand/product/service.:

If you google search how to make a techie buy your _____ brand or product or service

The article on darait.co.uk is top of the search. Somehow no one else has written about this with those keywords before. Really surprised.

This link was SO successful, they took the entire site down. jaja

@scottalanmiller said in Beyond Computers and Cables: Achieving the Full Potential of IT at your Clinic:

@obsolesce said in Beyond Computers and Cables: Achieving the Full Potential of IT at your Clinic:

Nice video, but I ran into quite a pet peeve. I would like to point out I wholly disagree with Allen's definition of "cloud" about 15 mins in... that, as he says, "it's just somebody else's server... just means the server is hosted somewhere online over the internet".

I know. He always does the "tee shirt definition" rather than the real one. It's because vet customers can't even begin to understand cloud and all the cloud vendors in the industry aren't using cloud but just using it as a proxy for hosted.

That's a horrible thing to tell customers and in no way whatsoever does anything for the customer except misinformes them and solidifies their misunderstanding of cloud and why it's used. That basically tells the client cloud is if you want something off prem and over the internet. That couldn't be any further from what it is and why it could be beneficial or not to them. Yall are straight up reinforcing myths by saying that.

@gotwf said in SAMIT: IBM Is Killing Off CentOS:

@scottalanmiller Yes. This I know. But this isn't bare metal but rather SmartOS hypervisor in a Triton datacenter. So I presume all is atop ZFS. I never delved deeper so honestly do not know.

Hopefully not, as ZFS isn't all that fast. But you need XFS touching WiredTiger... what's lower in the stack isn't what it is concerned with. You still control your own filesystem regardless of what the datacenter may or may not use elsewhere.

@mr-jones said in SAMIT: The Roles of Web Hosting:

@scottalanmiller I don't know how new any of this is, but I'm really digging the transitions and logo stuff you got going on. It's got the RGB feel to it, but not over the top.

All that stuff is done by our marketing team in La Paz!

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