Espcially if you go the route of providing a computer or them bringing there own (but really either way it's best) a switcher is the cleanest solution. And they could have it mounted somewhere hidden with wall jacks.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/630497-REG/Kramer_VP_728_VP_728_9_Input_ProScale_Presentation.html

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1008588-REG/kramer_vp_770_8_input_presentation_switcher_switcher.html

I recently came across this comprehensive resource for BASH on Reddit's /r/bash.

The BASH Hacker's Wiki ---> http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/

@anonymous said:

Nice Guide. Can you please add a link to the Jumpbox guide, I missed it.....

http://mangolassi.it/topic/6143/linux-lab-project-building-a-linux-jump-box

@IT-ADMIN said:

loooooooooooooool
what is the diffirence btw Xeon and i7 ??

At the highest level, the i7 is the top of Intel's desktop line. The Core i line is the i3 at the entry level, i5 in the middle and i7 at the top end. The Xeon is the server processor line, so while related it is listed differently. Xeons have been around eons longer than the Core i naming convention. Xeons come with more cache, cores and features and can be used in multi-processor configurations. At the low end an i7 and a Xeon would be close, at the high end Xeons get pretty crazy.

I agree, AFAIK Windows 10 Pro FPP will do what you need.

I've deployed Win10 to two user so far for testing. Everything has worked well so far. I plan to do the major upgrade this spring.

@scottalanmiller said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

Example: the security settings for the public wifi are less than the security for our hidden network. Ex: I can get on Facebook from the public hotspot, but not if I use the hidden network...

Yes, I get that the network is a little odd. I'm unclear how the one recovery method that would have been applicable to an Windows Home OEM machine, slaving a drive, was blocked. If it wasn't blocked, why was anything else considered? If it was blocked, what does the network have to do with it?

Never mind. If the computer is still there, I'll check that folder location tomorrow.

@BRRABill said:

@RojoLoco said:

hey why did you use an @ in the f word once but spelled it out later, lol?

🙂

Because the mods edit my posting. They apparently need better tools.

@scottalanmiller Light control is the main reason, sometimes space saving by being able to bounce it off a mirror.

@WingCreative said:

They they can help you build a digital marketing plan with clear goals, documented methods for achieving them, and metrics that you can use to measure the ROI on each method. Otherwise, it's all too easy to spend money trying out a smattering of different methods without ever really knowing which, if any, actually helped.

True marketing is black arts, you can gather some metrics, but only a little bit. Because a marketing campaign today might influence sales next year with no direct connection the metrics can actually show things not working when they are, or lead you to believe that things are working that are actually driving away a lot of customers, too.

@Dashrender said:

I think this makes the situation even worse than I believed it was before.

It's one thing if Lenovo takes a piece of software from a 3rd party and just installs it.. that software then goes and installs a shim to the network to allow them to do whatever they want....

it's whole different when the vendor, Lenovo, actually modifies their own driver to install the shim as low as possible to prevent it's lack of use - it's one of those situations where "they couldn't have helped but to know how bad this was."

Yes, it is really hard to overstate just how bad this was.

@scottalanmiller said:

@JaredBusch said:

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

LOL - Will IE let you do that? We are an IE only shop here. Works best with our EHR.

It would give you away.

That's crazy.... all that work to secure IE. Bangs head on desk.

I think the bank would require the software with Chrome or FF as well, but can't be sure because, well we don't use them.

I'm sure that they would. That the software allows IE points to how silly it all is. "We have to be SO secure... but we'll allow IE." It's all a joke, just a chance for the banks to exert control.

If I had the choice, I'd ditch any bank that requires IE for something like that. The Trusteer app does work in Firefox and Chrome the last time I used it.

Yes, it installs in all three. Not sure how well it will play with Edge since ther is no add on support built in yet.

Interesting that it being Windows only might cause it to not work on Windows! Although IE is still there, just has to be re-enabled.

IE does not need re-enabled. It is there always. just not the default browser, nor pinned to the start menu by default.

Saw it over the weekend... Might be in the order pile soon..

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Docker containers run their own OS but share the parent's kernel. They don't have discrete kernels. So if you want to modify the kernel itself, you have to reboot the parent and everything reboots. But libraries and such are all in the containers.

Where, is the flexibility vs a straight up VM, then? Each VM also contains its own Kernel, so any tweaking that I desire can be done inside the VM without affecting the Host OS (Xen, Hyper-V, et al). I get live Migration with VMs...

Docker is about application flexibility, not OS tweaking. You can't tweak a Docker container, it is set and forget. Docker is about making deployments fast, easy and dense. The DevOps ecosystem doesn't let you tweak running systems anyway.

If you want to log in and tweak running systems, you are in a snowflake systems administration model. You have to separate the two mindsets, they work on completely different problem sets.

Interesting.

Frankly it only makes sense for MS to allow all their services access to online versions of Office whenever possible, for example your EOP1 plan - that's really cool that they will open an Excel sheet in Online Excel when using OWA, if they didn't it would severely limit the use (not that we weren't limited for decades).

@Dashrender said:

I'm definitely interested in trying out StarWinds vSAN, but I don't currently have anything to use it on.

VM-based stand is OK. also we're in Azure Marketplace so you can play with StarWind using free $200 Microsoft Azure trial hardware-less.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/partners/starwind/starwindvirtualsan/

Hope this helped 🙂

@BRRABill said:

BTW: from Googling around tonight, it appears the SYnology can also be setup to use commercial backup programs like CrashPlan.

Though that CloudSync that @MattSpeller is talking about also looks killer.

It does, but we have a VM specifically for that. I don't how it would perform on the synology, but I didn't want to add any more services to it. The VM just mounts the normal shares and backs them up to Crashplan.