Haven't seen an issue here yet, will try to pay attention.

Pretty much the idea is partially to address rapid rebuilds to disparate hardware like @BRRABill was looking for (but it is BYODrivers so you have to have that prepped) and partially leveraging the simple market pressure that has caused traditional workstations to be about the same cost as thin clients and when you remove the local drive on a traditional PC you can acquire and maintain them much more cost effectively (or whitebox your own easily) than a thin client while getting all of that extra CPU and memory that you can leverage.

@dashrender said in Is Most IT Really Corrupt?:

@scottalanmiller said in Is Most IT Really Corrupt?:

@dashrender said in Is Most IT Really Corrupt?:

@storageninja said in Is Most IT Really Corrupt?:

@dashrender said in Is Most IT Really Corrupt?:

Then I'm lost how you say IT cares more about the business than the owner/CEO does? They don't know the IT side of things, so they more or less have to rely on others to help them, if they choose not to follow those recommendations is another matter.

Lifestyle businesses where they don't care about making money beyond xxx amount to maintain their lifestyle. Pretty common in SMB.

Is there a problem with that type of thinking?

Problem? No, not if they are the owners rather than fiduciaries. No one implied a problem. The point was that you asked how IT could care more and he was pointing out entire categories of businesses where IT often cares more.

Yeah - Coliver already beat you to that comment.

Sorry, just answer them as I go 🙂

@scottalanmiller someone is salty with Joe.

One of the most important steps of taking backups is testing them. Not just the processes, but that is how you verify that the backups are being taken correctly too.

@Dashrender Hey Dash--our typical 1U in our top LA facility starts at $75 with all bells and whistles and goes up from there. Send me a message and maybe I can point you in the right direction.

But Dragon Media argues that it is merely facilitating access to online content rather than providing pirated TV itself. "The entertainment industry for decades, even going back to Sony Betamax cases, have been fighting tooth and nail against innovation and technology and losing almost every single battle," Syverson said. "There is no reason for plaintiffs to be optimistic in any way."

"I remember a young company called YouTube whose business model was copyright infringement. It was sued, and it didn't turn out too badly for YouTube, did it?" Syverson also said. (Viacom sued YouTube in 2007, and the case was settled in 2014.)

"Generally speaking, linking to content online has been cleared by almost every court in the land," he said.

@JaredBusch they made PyCharm CE open source? That's new. I've followed JetBrains on this for a long time, I had no idea that they made that leap.

@Nic said:

For anyone who is a satisfied customer, cast your vote here 🙂 http://community.spiceworks.com/spice_list/show/397

Done!

@scottalanmiller said in OReilly Deal of the Day:

OMG, remember when we used to buy BOOKS! LOL

I still buy books, just not the dead tree variety.

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@NetworkNerdWifey said:

@thanksaj said:

I don't think I will be returning to NY.

Becoming a Texan, are we?

No, just because I live in Texas doesn't mean I'm a Texan. I am, and forever will be (regardless of physical location), a displaced Upstate New Yorker.

FTFY.

Thank you. Good catch.

@cdaffara said in Simplivity - anyone use them?:

@scottalanmiller Thanks! Love the sysadmin communities 🙂

This one is pretty active and has a big geographic, industry and size spread.

@travisdh1 said in Why QuickBooks Is Not a Business Tool:

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Be aware my iphone sucks

Oh, we're all painfully aware of the issues with posting from telephone screens and/or personal assistants.

Screw you and your elitist typing with fingers on a keyboard attitude.

lol

Did you SEE my posts from my phone the other day?

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@reid-cooper

It's not thattttttttttttttttttttttttttt old.

@dave247 said in Disaster Recovery as a service companies that support IBM iSeries / AS400 systems?:

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@dave247 said in Disaster Recovery as a service companies that support IBM iSeries / AS400 systems?:

@scottalanmiller said in Disaster Recovery as a service companies that support IBM iSeries / AS400 systems?:

Some important things to keep in perspective...

The average CEO is incompetent. The average business loses money and will go out of business. The average business that survives doesn't do well. The average IT person is incompetent. The average of any position, in any field, is incompetent.

Averages are quirky things. The average is crap. So that "most" companies and IT people are like this, shouldn't really make us upset or worried. No one worried about this stuff is average or looking to be average.

LMAO. So I am actually correct in constantly thinking that I am incompetent at my job and should technically be fired.

LOL. Assuming you are AVERAGE then you are incompetent and should NOT be fired because incompetence is all that is normally expected 😉

But like I have said elsewhere, if you are taking time to post on a professional forum, that already puts you above average. And as I said here, if you are worried about being average, that puts you above average.

None of us are average. That can make this harder, because we start to feel like the average is pretty good. But it's the average of a highly self-selected group. It's like trying to determine who well the average person would do in hand to hand combat by evaluating the results of Roman arena gladiator fights. The average gladiator is nothing like the average person, they've already self filtered heavily.

Well thanks. I do trey very very hard to make the wises choices with everything for work. I mean, I worked a decade in retail and hated it, and now I have an IT job where I'm in charge of an entire environment... it's a very massive learning opportunity and I've learned and done so much.. but yeah, there's a lot of times where I feel like I'm not qualified, at least until I learn and do the thing and succeed at it.

That's a different effect. IT is a HUGE field. No individual should ever feel like they have enough knowledge to do the job at any significant level. It's just not realistic. That's why, no matter how small a company is, they need a team of experts. IT is just too big. Most only need to work a few hours a year, but they are all needed. The best CIOs still hire consultants or in larger companies internal IT experts, for nearly every functional area.

I hate when I jump over a fence and find out, too late, that it is a brown field.

@Obsolesce I bet that that company is just gone, now.

@johnhooks said:

@BBigford said:

@johnhooks said:

Here's what it looks like now. Ignore the eth dialog box, it was stuck there for some reason. The second image is the wizard you run through. It's really easy to set up.

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What OS distro is that? Looks good.

Fedora 23 with Gnome 3.

Sneaky way to promote Linux desktops. 🙂

Here is a link to what the rest of us missed from VeeamOn 2017 -

https://www.veeam.com/veeamon/product-announcements#announcements-section

@krisleslie said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:

Sadly - sometimes it's due to the fact that they are trying for SUPER thin and SUPER light.. so making things modular costs both thickness and weight.

Hell no it's not because of the "lightweight" and "thin size". That is cost-driven to make you purchase the same model that adds one frigging slot. If you look at the PCB, it's got the solder points there already! I hate to say it, this is the same effect and the same thing as what Apple does in certain scenarios.

I did mention reduced SKUs also - which is basically what you're talking about.