What Are You Doing Right Now
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
writing up recommendations for the Windows 7 end of life. what do you do with PCs that have never given you a second of trouble, are 3-4 years old, but run Windows 7?
I make more money by recommending new PCs and the industry says replace at 3-5 years...
I am the worlds worst salesman.
Interesting. I guess I would ask myself - Am I a consultant - i.e. THE IT department for the company - or am I a VAR?
If your primary relationship with the company is to be their IT department - then you propose the most financially sensible solution from the company's POV. If you are a VAR, then you could go completely the other way - though, if you value them as a customer, you might be a bit more moderate and find a medium place.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
writing up recommendations for the Windows 7 end of life. what do you do with PCs that have never given you a second of trouble, are 3-4 years old, but run Windows 7?
I make more money by recommending new PCs and the industry says replace at 3-5 years...
I am the worlds worst salesman.
As the IT department - I would keep the current PCs - even look at replacing all drives with SSDs (so cheap these days) and RAM (if needed). It's likely you could get another 3-4 years out of those machines.
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Very basic question(s) if it needs a deeper dive into it i'll start a new discussion.
I what to monitor the traffic on our network. What's talking to what and bandwidth used etc.
Our MPLS has this
So from here i can see PC1 is talking to Windows Update servers
(ok not a lot of bandwidth on this site but i do see some site using 20-30Mbs just to MS Updates) anyway.....The question is can this be done on the LAN level, so i can see what traffic is flowing from PC to Server and WAN etc.
I think it's NetFlow/sFlow but do i need specific "Switches/Routers" to do that? Or should all switched give off this info? Can it be done with just Zabbix and SNMP data?
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
writing up recommendations for the Windows 7 end of life. what do you do with PCs that have never given you a second of trouble, are 3-4 years old, but run Windows 7?
I make more money by recommending new PCs and the industry says replace at 3-5 years...
I am the worlds worst salesman.
Interesting. I guess I would ask myself - Am I a consultant - i.e. THE IT department for the company - or am I a VAR?
If your primary relationship with the company is to be their IT department - then you propose the most financially sensible solution from the company's POV. If you are a VAR, then you could go completely the other way - though, if you value them as a customer, you might be a bit more moderate and find a medium place.
The better question is why are 3-4 year old computers running Windows 7?
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
First band concert. Mine is in the right with the trumpet.
MORE AIR!!
Forgive me. Slipped back into middle school band director mode for a moment.
Hope she enjoyed her concert
She wants to try out for the district jazz band she says. But that is not for 2 more years. The district jazz band try outs is the end of the 7th grade year. So basically only 8th graders.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So random these people requesting account deletions. Why the heck would anyone ever want an account deleted that is free? And who comes back two years after leaving a place to do so? So weird.
My guess is that the great and powerful site-that-shall-not-be-named is urging its members to stay away from here.
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Playing this new game where you search up "Florida man" and your birth month and day and see what headline you get (year not necessary)
Florida Man thought he stole opioids, got laxatives instead.
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@LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Playing this new game where you search up "Florida man" and your birth month and day and see what headline you get (year not necessary)
Florida Man thought he stole opioids, got laxatives instead.
Mine isn't nearly as fun as laxatives
Truck Blast Kills Florida Man
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Florida man tried to steal vending machine from apartment complex, police say.
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@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Playing this new game where you search up "Florida man" and your birth month and day and see what headline you get (year not necessary)
Florida Man thought he stole opioids, got laxatives instead.
Mine isn't nearly as fun as laxatives
Truck Blast Kills Florida Man
OMG! that was intense
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Florida man tried to steal vending machine from apartment complex, police say.
why didnt he just break glass and steal the stuff inside???? Oh, Florida.
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@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Playing this new game where you search up "Florida man" and your birth month and day and see what headline you get (year not necessary)
Florida Man thought he stole opioids, got laxatives instead.
Mine isn't nearly as fun as laxatives
Truck Blast Kills Florida Man
There was another one where a Florida man was fishing and found a live WWII grenade and took it into a taco bell and got arrested.
http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/2019/01/28/florida-man-finds-world-war-ii-hand-grenade-brings-it-with-him-taco-bell/ -
@LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Playing this new game where you search up "Florida man" and your birth month and day and see what headline you get (year not necessary)
Florida Man thought he stole opioids, got laxatives instead.
Mine isn't nearly as fun as laxatives
Truck Blast Kills Florida Man
There was another one where a Florida man was fishing and found a live WWII grenade and took it into a taco bell and got arrested.
http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/2019/01/28/florida-man-finds-world-war-ii-hand-grenade-brings-it-with-him-taco-bell/Thats.
So.
Florida. -
I have a few choices:
Florida man shot dead over parking space (shooter not arrested, 'stand your ground' law cited)
Teens film and laugh as Florida man drowns
Florida man live streams police chasing him on the beach
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I have a few choices:
Florida man shot dead over parking space (shooter not arrested, 'stand your ground' law cited)
Teens film and laugh as Florida man drowns
Florida man live streams police chasing him on the beach
that second one is messed up
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@LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I have a few choices:
Florida man shot dead over parking space (shooter not arrested, 'stand your ground' law cited)
Teens film and laugh as Florida man drowns
Florida man live streams police chasing him on the beach
that second oneFlorida is messed upFTFY
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@LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Playing this new game where you search up "Florida man" and your birth month and day and see what headline you get (year not necessary)
Florida Man thought he stole opioids, got laxatives instead.
Florida man gets second victory at the Supreme Court. Not nearly as fun until you read more. The city took his house boat for "unpaid fees" and destroyed it. They destroyed the guys house!
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
First band concert. Mine is in the right with the trumpet.
MORE AIR!!
Forgive me. Slipped back into middle school band director mode for a moment.
Hope she enjoyed her concert
She wants to try out for the district jazz band she says. But that is not for 2 more years. The district jazz band try outs is the end of the 7th grade year. So basically only 8th graders.
Good! Best thing for her now is developing good tone and range flexibility — as well as rhythm (especially) and note reading skills. Perhaps start feeding her some audition materials as those aforementioned things are progressing.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
writing up recommendations for the Windows 7 end of life. what do you do with PCs that have never given you a second of trouble, are 3-4 years old, but run Windows 7?
I make more money by recommending new PCs and the industry says replace at 3-5 years...
I am the worlds worst salesman.
Interesting. I guess I would ask myself - Am I a consultant - i.e. THE IT department for the company - or am I a VAR?
If your primary relationship with the company is to be their IT department - then you propose the most financially sensible solution from the company's POV. If you are a VAR, then you could go completely the other way - though, if you value them as a customer, you might be a bit more moderate and find a medium place.
The better question is why are 3-4 year old computers running Windows 7?
eh - that could be debatable - perhaps they had an app that didn't work or work well.
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
First band concert. Mine is in the right with the trumpet.
MORE AIR!!
Forgive me. Slipped back into middle school band director mode for a moment.
Hope she enjoyed her concert
She wants to try out for the district jazz band she says. But that is not for 2 more years. The district jazz band try outs is the end of the 7th grade year. So basically only 8th graders.
Good! Best thing for her now is developing good tone and range flexibility — as well as rhythm (especially) and note reading skills. Perhaps start feeding her some audition materials as those aforementioned things are progressing.
She's been playing piano since she was 5. She reads music fine.
