@JaredBusch said in Tell me about how HP deal registrations work:

@Carnival-Boy said:

Exactly, Breffni. That's why I wrote earlier "So one of my main criteria for a "good VAR" is that when I order something, the right product turns up at my door at the right time."

In many ways, I find the Account Manager more important that the VAR. A good account manager will do lots of chasing for you to make sure everything is ordered and delivered prompty, and know the right people to talk to if you have any queries or problems. Several times I've ditched a VAR because the account manager leaves and I don't like his replacement.

The account manager IS the VAR for all intents and purposes. If they suck you tell them to piss up a rope and get you one that has a brain or you will take your business to a different VAR.

And good VARs work hard to maintain good account managers, keep them with their clients and give them the tools to be successful.

The Win10 VM I'm running on KVM in Fedora shows up in WSUS like this:

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That one update needed is the 1703 upgrade. I didn't push that yet.

All seems well so far!

@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.

You're welcome 🙂

Sounds terrible, there no relation to things. Move 3 meters and youre listed as something unrelated to where you just were.
blue.crap.done
move 3 meters
flan.flap.dumb

Just use GPS, Lat and Long, problem solved forever, everywhere. Also more accurate.

@tim_g said in Cell phones survey:

@wrx7m said in Cell phones survey:

@tim_g Remove it for a couple days and see if your freezing stops.

I'll try that.

Crossing my fingers XX

@penguinwrangler
You seem to have a basic misunderstanding of what GBI is.

As well as some unfounded bias that Red states contribute more than Blue states. In fact the exact opposite is true. I think if you do some actual research youll find most of your opinions on governance are wrong.

Every single "Red state' is dependent on "Blue states" for money. Yes this means places like WV, KY, FLA, all of them depend on places CA WA NY, DE. You can actually look this up.
https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700/

@stacksofplates said in Ansible Agent Option?:

Yeah it's obviously bad to treat it like a LAN but if you stop using tools just because it can be treated that way you are sometimes stopping yourself from doing some really interesting and helpful things.

Yes, LAN-like tools are only LAN-like if you treat them in that fashion. The behaviour is rarely intrinsic.

@scottalanmiller said in So we are leaving..............:

@coliver said in So we are leaving..............:

Either way it seems like there may have been some uneducated voters on both sides.

A ton of people have come out saying that they voted to leave based on...

Protest voting because they didn't believe anyone would actually vote to leave Voting based on the healthcare lies that they should have known were impossible but they were so blinded with thinking that they could get something for free that they did it anyway Had no idea what they were voting on at all.

I was reading some of that too. That's on top of the usual anti-immigration and xenophobia that was blatantly marketed.

@penguinwrangler said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@scottalanmiller said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@coliver said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

Of course now the Department of Education (which I'm not sure what authority they would have here) is saying they are under no obligation to respect the federal loan forgiveness program. Hopefully that will be ironed out by the time you need it.

In America, the government is under no obligation to anything.

It is a gamble that they won't end it before 10 years. I am still willing to take that gamble. The job still has better pay and retirement so it is still a win if they don't.

The flip side of this is they did change pension benefit programs in Houston and Dallas recently and Colorado I think allowed changing them retroactively.

@nadnerB said in MangoLassi Meetup in NYC:

@scottalanmiller said in MangoLassi Meetup in NYC:

We need to get another one of these scheduled. Maybe one in Europe this time?

That may be difficult for some members over in that general area post Brexit...

One of the major components of Brexit was the banishment of fruit-based meetups, so y'all might be S.O.L....

@travisdh1 I knew it!

@Donahue said in file sharing in the 21st century:

There is a LOT more to a CAD system then just check in and check out. It's the other bits that don't work well for us.

So you're a snowflake company that the specializes tools, that do way more then just check in and check out, won't work for?

Sounds like you have a bad implementation to me. I've been part of this battle before with engineers. Get one of the savvy ones on board and the rest will follow.

@wirestyle22 said in Sunk Cost Fallacy?:

@DustinB3403 said in Sunk Cost Fallacy?:

@Dashrender said in Sunk Cost Fallacy?:

A solution is always about money. If money isn't affected, then why are you doing this?
We're a business right? All decisions are driven by money, right?

And money can not only be saved, but earned more rapidly by doing X,Y,Z.

So is it time to create a project proposal. (is that the correct term?)

I made a 5 year proposal for an old job that saved them 40k a year and improved everything. They didn't do it

Worth examining in another thread. You should post about it. Maybe it's related to presentation skills or tactics.

Yeah, no question that everything medical in America is awful. You know it is bad when all of the Americans living in Nicaragua rave about the healthcare here!

@stacksofplates said in Converting to a virtual environment:

@Veet said in Converting to a virtual environment:

@scottalanmiller said in Converting to a virtual environment:

@Veet said in Converting to a virtual environment:

@scottalanmiller

This is precisely what we were discussing in the "Starting own IT consultancy .." thread ...

This kind of crap happens all the time ..

I recollect an instance, when a vendor went as far as to insist that the compute-name of the Server be a specific one (I think it was the name of their product), or ELSE, the application would not work properly .... Luckily, this was one of the rare occasions when the client backed us, instead of the vendor... I put my sparring gloves on, and TKO'ed the vendor.

Wow, just... wow. I wonder if anyone thought to ask if it was the hostname or a DNS entry or the NetBIOS name 😉

I'll explain ...

The client side of the application, obviously needed to be pointed to the server via the hostname of the server ...Once it so happened that we installed a new desktop, and could could not connect to the product's tech support, to have them install the client app... So, we went ahead and installed it .. Upon starting-up the app, we were confronted with a "Server not found error" ... Upon digging around a bit, we discovered that the installation folder contained an ".ini" file, with the hostname of the server, and database path, predefined ... Stupid app design ... stupider tech support ...

I can sympathize. The one place I did work for had an ERP that was written in FoxPro and it had a hard coded path to V:. If you mapped the drive under any other letter it wouldn't work. And since it was FoxPro it used DBF tables in that mapped directory. Awesome design.

Where's the duck tape? I need to collect the pieces of my head.

@jaredbusch said in Notorious Short-seller labels Ubiquiti Networks $UBNT as FRAUD:

@zachary715 said in Notorious Short-seller labels Ubiquiti Networks $UBNT as FRAUD:

Additionally, the Cavs aren't publicly traded, therefore there aren't necessarily shareholders who are pushing him to make the Cavs as profitable as possible.

Not public, does not mean there are not shareholders. Just that they are not traded on a public exchange.

Haha I knew when I typed that someone would say that. I almost spent extra time clarifying, but didn't. Yes there are possibly other shareholders/part-owners involved. Those few individuals can scrutinize the ownership/financials all they want for their company. (If they want to sell, it's probably a bit more convoluted than just hitting up ETrade.) The general public has no view into that info though and it's mostly irrelevant to them. In the case of UBNT, it just applies to a wider audience since there are many more investors that they're relying on to keep happy and keep the company's value as high as they can.

I would recommend looking at StarWind SA for example.
That solution fits your requirements perfectly, it will also provide you with HA storage that will ensure the business continuity.
As for support, they offer a single point of contact no matter what issue you face, plus the system will be shipped to your site fully preconfigured and pretested.

I've worked with multiple companies that had the opposite issue, all of their equipment control software ran on Solaris on Sparc only. So they had to maintain proprietary hardware and Solaris for everything.

One of the confusing pieces here is that Linux actually does things more clearly but the Windows world is so confusing that if you carry that confusion into the Linux world, it makes things harder. Windows rarely uses or discloses the names of their product components. So Windows Software RAID is used to describe part of the Windows OS. But what if you have software RAID on Windows that is not Windows Software RAID? Windows Admins typically have no good terminology to discuss this, even though it is common. They just.... don't know what's going on and don't document it. But in Linux, we have the terms on hand all of the time (MD, ZFS, whatever.) So the Linux side isn't as bad as it seems, but if you are used to a weird blend of generic names being used as if they are specifics from the Windows world and assume that the Linux world is just as crazy, then it seems crazy.

The technology certificate is an encryption certification that expires in the spring of 2018, which may open the product up to potential security vulnerabilities. We've refocused development resources on newer technologies, and therefore, we are not updating the Harmony Link certificate. We first communicated to affected customers in August 2017 that we are offering a free Harmony Hub to replace a Link (if within warranty) or a discount on the Harmony Hub (if out-of-warranty).

Makes me wonder if they used a SHA1 cert and the device doesn't support an upgrade. lol