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    • gjacobseG
      gjacobse @nadnerB
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      @nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      Good news, bad news, good news...

      Good news, I found the dea mouse that had been stinking out or storeroom
      Bad news, it was in the box of HDMI cables
      Good news, only one cable that wasn't still in its plastic bag had dead mouse sticky on it

      “Seems odd to have a whole box of defective HDMI cables, guess we should throw them out and order new.”

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      • EddieJenningsE
        EddieJennings
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        Reading through income tax return.

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        • siringoS
          siringo
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          battling with my brain for control
          it seems determined to just wander off and please itself
          I on the other hand need to get some work done

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

            Reading through income tax return.

            We ended up having to pay a little for Fed, and got very little back from state. All around close to even, but still enough to annoy the wife.

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            • DashrenderD
              Dashrender @travisdh1
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              @travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              @EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              Reading through income tax return.

              We ended up having to pay a little for Fed, and got very little back from state. All around close to even, but still enough to annoy the wife.

              what is her goal?

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

                @travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                @EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                Reading through income tax return.

                We ended up having to pay a little for Fed, and got very little back from state. All around close to even, but still enough to annoy the wife.

                what is her goal?

                Refund.... she's used to getting a large refund.

                Of course I think we came out real close to right.

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                • EddieJenningsE
                  EddieJennings @travisdh1
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                  @travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  @EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  Reading through income tax return.

                  We ended up having to pay a little for Fed, and got very little back from state. All around close to even, but still enough to annoy the wife.

                  My goal is to be even as well. I dislike giving an interest-free loan.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller
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                    How's everyone doing?

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                    • siringoS
                      siringo
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                      need coffee #2
                      monday morning

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller
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                        I've gotten to that point in my career and life that I'm past sugar coating the BS or looking the other way at companies. If your staff is openly incompetent or stealing from you (or the customers) or double dipping in the coffers, I'm just going to tell you. Don't expose your dirty laundry if you don't want it pointed out.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller
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                          I had someone recently tell me that their CIO wanted to use Vmware over KVM because, and you can't make this stuff up, they liked "working with the biggest vendor."

                          Literally, they didn't care if it made sense for the purpose, they didn't care if it was reliable or cost effective, they didn't care if it was secure. They literally only wanted to know which product was made by the largest company. No IT factor considered.

                          And then, as incompetent as that is, with only a single thing to research; with no need to check on features, cost, licensing, support, price, or other complicated factors; they got the ONLY thing that they were considering wrong.

                          KVM is made by IBM at about $63bn USD. VMware is made by Broadcom at about $21bn USD. IBM is roughly three times the size. And IBM is the KIND of company that should make hypervisors, Broadcom really isn't. But that aside, no matter how insane it would be to consider market cap or revenue of a vendor as the determination of product applicability to a company, they got that one, insanely simple task, ass backwards.

                          When you are THAT dumb, it is pervasive. If you are dumb enough to think company size matters in some significant way, you are also so clueless as not to be able to determine company size.

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

                            I had someone recently tell me that their CIO wanted to use Vmware over KVM because, and you can't make this stuff up, they liked "working with the biggest vendor."

                            Literally, they didn't care if it made sense for the purpose, they didn't care if it was reliable or cost effective, they didn't care if it was secure. They literally only wanted to know which product was made by the largest company. No IT factor considered.

                            And then, as incompetent as that is, with only a single thing to research; with no need to check on features, cost, licensing, support, price, or other complicated factors; they got the ONLY thing that they were considering wrong.

                            KVM is made by IBM at about $63bn USD. VMware is made by Broadcom at about $21bn USD. IBM is roughly three times the size. And IBM is the KIND of company that should make hypervisors, Broadcom really isn't. But that aside, no matter how insane it would be to consider market cap or revenue of a vendor as the determination of product applicability to a company, they got that one, insanely simple task, ass backwards.

                            When you are THAT dumb, it is pervasive. If you are dumb enough to thing company size matters in some significant way, you are also so clueless as not to be able to determine company size.

                            I've run into that attitude a LOT.

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                            • dafyreD
                              dafyre
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                              Yay, Tuesday. That is all.

                              Things have been crazy around here with Vendors being stupid, and higher ups knee-jerking about "major security vulnerabilities" in apps that we don't have available off-site.

                              Finally got all the fires of the last week and a Monday put out.

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                              • gjacobseG
                                gjacobse
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                                Been a few days but dang near made the local news again- in a bad way. Forklift took out a beam within 30ft of the main six inch gas line… yikes! Glad it missed. No, it wasn’t me.

                                Shutting down the previous warehouse this week and moving it to the new,.. mad scramble really starts now… getting printers moved and reset. Need printers for shipping.

                                Gonna be fun. Oh- and still no heat, and it’s in the 30’s and light snow.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller
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                                  Had a vendor try to sell me cloud hosting. I couldn't see the pricing (turns out they block their cloud from LATAM so I couldn't use it if I wanted to) so was asking about how they ran it and was told it was VMware and ColdFusion. I had no idea anyone was still so clueless as to build a public hosting infrastructure on Vmware, of all places that's where it makes the absolute least sense, and .... I learned that ColdFusion wasn't actually discontinued, more or less.

                                  So I learned that CF, which we had used back on the Token Ring network at IBM circa 2000 and it was a total joke already by that point, was discontinued as its own language and is now a scripting layer that runs on Java. The ColdFusion language itself was discontinued with CF5 that died in 2002. After that, CFML is a Java extension. Which is better, in a way. Except who really wants to be running Java servers for web hosting today outside of super specialized enterprise applications? For normal, every day web needs, that's no bueno. No knocking on Java, it's got its place. It's CF that seems super goofy.

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller
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                                    And, not surprising, their cost is about double that of the top enterprise players. Zero upsides, just high cost and no technical support team behind the scenes.

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                                    • RojoLocoR
                                      RojoLoco
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                                      Waiting on the dough to chill so we can make some Jamaican beef patties!

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                                      • siringoS
                                        siringo
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                                        more of the same today.
                                        we had monday off so today is like tuesday, but it's wednesday
                                        arf way through the week already

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                                        • ObsolesceO
                                          Obsolesce @scottalanmiller
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                                          @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          KVM is made by IBM at about $63bn USD. VMware is made by Broadcom at about $21bn USD.

                                          If IBM and Broadcom are $63bn and $21bn respectively, Microsoft is $200bn, wouldn't that (Hyper-V) be the one to use then?

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                                          • siringoS
                                            siringo @Obsolesce
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                                            @Obsolesce No.
                                            I can help out here.
                                            The CIO hadn't heard of Microsoft.

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