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    • dafyreD
      dafyre @Obsolesce
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      @Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      Living the dream in the world of Windows Server Slowness.

      Living in the dream in the world of Azure where everything is like Windows 95... Make a change, and reboot your VM, which takes somewhere beteween 5 and 15 minutes.

      And the cost... Just... I can't even... [EDIT: Lots of Policticking involved above my pay grade].

      Why you running VMs in Azure?

      I imagine somebody higher up the totem pole heard the buzzwords "Cloud", "Azure", and "Microsoft" from the same person and they said, "Oh, we NEEEEEED this."

      My boss is not happy about it at all, but they put some money towards it, so we have to use it at least for a couple more months. My boss is definitely interested in cloud-hosted stuff, but not with Microsoft, lol.

      As to Why? It's hosting some stuff that integrates with our public web site (which will also likely wind up 'in the cloud' if things keep going the way they are now).

      It wasn't a lot of Money, but my boss is tracking all our time for managing it and learning it to show the real cost of it. And the numbers ain't pretty at all... We spent 15 minutes waiting for a Server 2019 system to be restarted yesterday... I can't wait until the first Azure outage hits, lol.

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      • EddieJenningsE
        EddieJennings @siringo
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        @siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        @EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        virsh domifaddr VMName has changed my life 😄

        Is that some type of mushroom?

        Yes. It's a shroom that when eaten allows you to see the network information for a VM about which you think in front of your eyes like a heads-up display. 😄

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        • dafyreD
          dafyre @EddieJennings
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          @EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          virsh domifaddr VMName has changed my life 😄

          Only returns blank for me.... Oh well.

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          • jt1001001J
            jt1001001
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            Junk pile. I've been told the switch does work but is Netgear so grain of salt
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            • dafyreD
              dafyre @jt1001001
              last edited by

              @jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              Junk pile. I've been told the switch does work but is Netgear so grain of salt
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              But... did any of it make you happy like they promised?

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              • JaredBuschJ
                JaredBusch @jt1001001
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                @jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                Junk pile. I've been told the switch does work but is Netgear so grain of salt

                Not a fan of Netgear, but they do generally work.

                THe optiplex's might be decent basic KVM hosts for a small lab, but otherwise, meh, old junk is old.

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                • valentinaV
                  valentina
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                  Drinking my first coffee, about to uber eats something greasy for breakfast

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                  • jt1001001J
                    jt1001001 @JaredBusch
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                    the Optiplex 9010's are "loaded" have dual NIC's and 16GB ram so lab vmware/Kvm/Hyperv hosts. Switch does work it may route not sure yet, and has 8 PoE PLUS ports and the rest are regular PoE; but no console port all config through web browser or SSH cli. The tower server's junk. Someone also left some old Juniper AP's that went right in the trash.
                    Not super happy but the switch is good and no pink slip.

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                    • ObsolesceO
                      Obsolesce @dafyre
                      last edited by

                      @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                      @Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                      @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                      @EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                      Living the dream in the world of Windows Server Slowness.

                      Living in the dream in the world of Azure where everything is like Windows 95... Make a change, and reboot your VM, which takes somewhere beteween 5 and 15 minutes.

                      And the cost... Just... I can't even... [EDIT: Lots of Policticking involved above my pay grade].

                      Why you running VMs in Azure?

                      I imagine somebody higher up the totem pole heard the buzzwords "Cloud", "Azure", and "Microsoft" from the same person and they said, "Oh, we NEEEEEED this."

                      My boss is not happy about it at all, but they put some money towards it, so we have to use it at least for a couple more months. My boss is definitely interested in cloud-hosted stuff, but not with Microsoft, lol.

                      As to Why? It's hosting some stuff that integrates with our public web site (which will also likely wind up 'in the cloud' if things keep going the way they are now).

                      It wasn't a lot of Money, but my boss is tracking all our time for managing it and learning it to show the real cost of it. And the numbers ain't pretty at all... We spent 15 minutes waiting for a Server 2019 system to be restarted yesterday... I can't wait until the first Azure outage hits, lol.

                      I was thinking a lot of times, people spin up a VPS when they can actually go serverless. It's cheaper and more reliable, potentially.

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                        srsmith
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                        QuickBooks this morning:
                        Oh, you want to have a report emailed to certain users on a schedule? No problem! I just need you to turn off UAC and leave QuickBooks running, logged in to your company file and running in single user mode.

                        What idiot at Intuit (or whoever Intuit bought QuickBooks from) thought that this was an acceptable solution? I can understand the need for things like a verify and rebuild, but for running and emailing a simple query report? Anyone with the correct permissions can manually achieve the same thing in multi-user mode...

                        Once again, due to Intuit's extraordinary ability to screw up basic functionality, I need to create a custom app, using their own SDK, that I can automate with the Windows task scheduler.

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                        • travisdh1T
                          travisdh1 @srsmith
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                          @srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          QuickBooks this morning:
                          Oh, you want to have a report emailed to certain users on a schedule? No problem! I just need you to turn off UAC and leave QuickBooks running, logged in to your company file and running in single user mode.

                          What idiot at Intuit (or whoever Intuit bought QuickBooks from) thought that this was an acceptable solution? I can understand the need for things like a verify and rebuild, but for running and emailing a simple query report? Anyone with the correct permissions can manually achieve the same thing in multi-user mode...

                          Once again, due to Intuit's extraordinary ability to screw up basic functionality, I need to create a custom app, using their own SDK, that I can automate with the Windows task scheduler.

                          You sound like they have enough developers left to do more than give it a facelift every couple of years. Don't get me or @scottalanmiller started on Intuit and QuickBooks.

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                          • WrCombsW
                            WrCombs
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                            just got back from lunch .
                            Happy Friday Eve peoples.
                            Ready for the weekend, Sadly I'm on call all weekend.

                            looking through tickets and we're in pretty good standing for the day .

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller
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                              Been a busy morning here in Houston where I am all day.

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                              • WrCombsW
                                WrCombs @scottalanmiller
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                                @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                Been a busy morning here in Houston where I am all day.

                                How's the weather been down there? Lots of fun stuff?

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller @srsmith
                                  last edited by

                                  @srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  QuickBooks this morning:
                                  Oh, you want to have a report emailed to certain users on a schedule? No problem! I just need you to turn off UAC and leave QuickBooks running, logged in to your company file and running in single user mode.

                                  What idiot at Intuit (or whoever Intuit bought QuickBooks from) thought that this was an acceptable solution? I can understand the need for things like a verify and rebuild, but for running and emailing a simple query report? Anyone with the correct permissions can manually achieve the same thing in multi-user mode...

                                  Once again, due to Intuit's extraordinary ability to screw up basic functionality, I need to create a custom app, using their own SDK, that I can automate with the Windows task scheduler.

                                  No one at Intuit thought that it was acceptable. It's the customer who buy it that tell them that they accept it. It is acceptable because the customers vote with their wallets that it is so. The quesiton is, why do so many customers think that this is good?

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller @valentina
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                                    @valentina said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    Drinking my first coffee, about to uber eats something greasy for breakfast

                                    Never got a chance to look at coffee this morning. But did go out ot breakfast with my niece.

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                                    • DustinB3403D
                                      DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
                                      last edited by

                                      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      @srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      QuickBooks this morning:
                                      Oh, you want to have a report emailed to certain users on a schedule? No problem! I just need you to turn off UAC and leave QuickBooks running, logged in to your company file and running in single user mode.

                                      What idiot at Intuit (or whoever Intuit bought QuickBooks from) thought that this was an acceptable solution? I can understand the need for things like a verify and rebuild, but for running and emailing a simple query report? Anyone with the correct permissions can manually achieve the same thing in multi-user mode...

                                      Once again, due to Intuit's extraordinary ability to screw up basic functionality, I need to create a custom app, using their own SDK, that I can automate with the Windows task scheduler.

                                      No one at Intuit thought that it was acceptable. It's the customer who buy it that tell them that they accept it. It is acceptable because the customers vote with their wallets that it is so. The quesiton is, why do so many customers think that this is good?

                                      Because there is nothing quite as comparable to the ease of use from an accounting standpoint.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
                                        last edited by

                                        @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        QuickBooks this morning:
                                        Oh, you want to have a report emailed to certain users on a schedule? No problem! I just need you to turn off UAC and leave QuickBooks running, logged in to your company file and running in single user mode.

                                        What idiot at Intuit (or whoever Intuit bought QuickBooks from) thought that this was an acceptable solution? I can understand the need for things like a verify and rebuild, but for running and emailing a simple query report? Anyone with the correct permissions can manually achieve the same thing in multi-user mode...

                                        Once again, due to Intuit's extraordinary ability to screw up basic functionality, I need to create a custom app, using their own SDK, that I can automate with the Windows task scheduler.

                                        No one at Intuit thought that it was acceptable. It's the customer who buy it that tell them that they accept it. It is acceptable because the customers vote with their wallets that it is so. The quesiton is, why do so many customers think that this is good?

                                        Because there is nothing quite as comparable to the ease of use from an accounting standpoint.

                                        I find that unlikely. It's painfully slow and problematic. That people already know it, yes, given. That it is easier for an accountant to learn and use, essentially impossible.

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                                        • DashrenderD
                                          Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                                          @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          @srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          QuickBooks this morning:
                                          Oh, you want to have a report emailed to certain users on a schedule? No problem! I just need you to turn off UAC and leave QuickBooks running, logged in to your company file and running in single user mode.

                                          What idiot at Intuit (or whoever Intuit bought QuickBooks from) thought that this was an acceptable solution? I can understand the need for things like a verify and rebuild, but for running and emailing a simple query report? Anyone with the correct permissions can manually achieve the same thing in multi-user mode...

                                          Once again, due to Intuit's extraordinary ability to screw up basic functionality, I need to create a custom app, using their own SDK, that I can automate with the Windows task scheduler.

                                          No one at Intuit thought that it was acceptable. It's the customer who buy it that tell them that they accept it. It is acceptable because the customers vote with their wallets that it is so. The quesiton is, why do so many customers think that this is good?

                                          Because there is nothing quite as comparable to the ease of use from an accounting standpoint.

                                          I find that unlikely. It's painfully slow and problematic. That people already know it, yes, given. That it is easier for an accountant to learn and use, essentially impossible.

                                          Well, I'd love to hear you're believed reason why so many people use it.

                                          The ONLY reason we don't here is because it doesn't offer true two sided accounting (so I was told).

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                                            @Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            Well, I'd love to hear you're believed reason why so many people use it.

                                            Beyond the huge one that I already said? Sure, marketing. Accountants, like most people, are total suckers for marketing. Tell them it is "what everyone uses" and the lemming response takes over.

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