What Are You Doing Right Now
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Of course, more SWisms... Guy with the bad SAN setup... once he learns that he totally misused SAN and has a device that he should not have his setup what does he do? Instead of asking IT pros for advice or hiring a storage expert or taking a class he immediately calls up the vendor that screwed him and asks the sales people what he should.
Seriously, you can't make this crap up.
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Right now: Building a system to stream the desktop from Raspberry Pi2 #1 to Pi2 #2 for a fair using VNC. Pi #2 will be attached to some large screen while Pi #1 does some presentation on the official Raspberry Pi 7" touchscreen. There will be a little distance (a few meters) between both.
Why no HDMI wireless repeater? You can render to both (DSI and HDMI) just fine, but not on X on a Pi AFAIK. There's just a single framebuffer [1, 2, 3, 4]. That's why I had to fetch a stream from the desktop
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Of course, more SWisms... Guy with the bad SAN setup... once he learns that he totally misused SAN and has a device that he should not have his setup what does he do? Instead of asking IT pros for advice or hiring a storage expert or taking a class he immediately calls up the vendor that screwed him and asks the sales people what he should.
Seriously, you can't make this crap up.
About 18 months ago I had explained to a client (software only, if we ran his network this wouldn't have happened) that his three VM hosts having a single NAS was a bad idea for all the obvious reasons, such as when the NAS fails, it'll be a bad day. He kept telling me that it makes it really easy to move from host to host if he needs to (AFAIK he never did this) and that, and I quote "a NAS doesn't really fail anyway it's not a big deal, I've never had one fail on me before." Plus he "gets more space with a 20TB NAS than on all the VM hosts," which I think the largest server he had was using something like 120GB, and at any rate the NAS itself was only at about 30% full.
Well, a few weeks ago, it failed, and he asked us for help, because having different VMs across hosts for redundancy for AD and Exchange doesn't mean dick when they all fail at the same time.
Anyway after an expensive ass bill, we did actually manage to recover a lot of his information, and reset things up properly, but he then called me up personally to tell me he was upset we didn't use the new NAS he just paid $2,500 or something for. He wanted me to come personally reset it up, I explained that #1 that's why I have employees and #2 I'm about 12,000km away, but if he wants it set up the old way, he'll still have to pay for it to all be redone, it won't be for free, and he'll have to sign a waiver for when it inevitably fails. We didn't have to do that.
I just don't even get this mindset, as if they believe their hardware is made of diamonds or something and nothing could ever go wrong.
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@tonyshowoff It's their overwhelming sense of shame for having bought something so obviously crazy and pointless and trying to make it less obvious to others or to lie to themselves that it wasn't totally irrational and/or that they weren't played for total suckers by a sales guy that they should have seen coming a mile away.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tonyshowoff It's their overwhelming sense of shame for having bought something so obviously crazy and pointless and trying to make it less obvious to others or to lie to themselves that it wasn't totally irrational and/or that they weren't played for total suckers by a sales guy that they should have seen coming a mile away.
Often it's shame, but other times I do get the sense that it's outright delusional behaviour. We've got a few customers who definitely have delusions of grandeur and an over inflated sense of self-worth and ability because they own a business. There's one in particular who I've watched destroy his own business to where his revenues were about $1 million per year in 2013 and last year they were a little over $500,000.
Granted it's a small business, but we've gone out to lunch a few times over these last few years and he has repeatedly told me that advertising via the Internet is a waste of time and that direct sales work best, and that the Internet aspect of his business isn't that important. He's losing all of his clients to other businesses which do focus on the Internet.
By the way what they do is essentially provide merchant services for credit card processing, all of which is handed off to a larger company, but they're one of hundreds of independent sales organisations which provide merchant services to other businesses. They did lose about $45,000 in revenue from one client last year because he switched to authorize.net because he does all of his billing via his web site and he could say 5 cents per transaction. I only know this because we also provide IT services for him.
Then again, the Internet ain't all that important, and he insists to me that he can recover the losses of these businesses leaving him in droves by hiring a sales person, yet again, his third one in the last four years.
.* Some details altered to protect clients
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
God damn Scott, you're telling everyone there's no tourists in Chișinău by the time I get there, hopefully the next few months, it's gonna be packed balls to the walls. Knew I shouldn't have left that town up to you.
I do love Moldova though, way more than
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We were checking out apartment prices. Seems really reasonable.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
We were checking out apartment prices. Seems really reasonable.
I usually stay at Hotel Dacia, it's a really crappy hotel, but it's right near the Stafan park, it's about a 5km walk from the train station. It's a really ugly off grey building in a sort of brutalist architecture style. Inside is like taking a time machine, and that's what I like about it
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@tonyshowoff said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
We were checking out apartment prices. Seems really reasonable.
I usually stay at Hotel Dacia, it's a really crappy hotel, but it's right near the Stafan park, it's about a 5km walk from the train station. It's a really ugly off grey building in a sort of brutalist architecture style. Inside is like taking a time machine, and that's what I like about it
We rented a penthouse about two blocks up the hill from the train station on Izmail. It was two floors and had great views (a lot of the videos were from the balcony.) Very close to the Hotel Chisinau. And it let me walk to the Armenian Cemetary very easily.
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Just found out my Sky contract runs out 3/7/16 so looking at new deals and ditching the TV altogether.
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@hobbit666 for internet/phone? I switched to PlusNet and got a really good deal, I paid line rental up front for a year, reduced rate means just under £180 I think, then for £14.99 a month I have unlimited 40Mbps fibre...no site restrictions as they're essentially BT with English Call Centres, and no delay/throttling that I've seen...
Their "hub" is ok, but I'm currently waiting till Ubiquiti stuff drops in price on Amazon to get a dedicated FW and WAP to link off the back of them...
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I'm wondering when they are going to come out with an owncloud app for the chromebook/chromebox or can it be done through webdav? I see a WebDav app. Hm.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm wondering when they are going to come out with an owncloud app for the chromebook/chromebox
Why would they need an app? Just browse to the website.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm wondering when they are going to come out with an owncloud app for the chromebook/chromebox
Why would they need an app? Just browse to the website.
To Sync the files
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm wondering when they are going to come out with an owncloud app for the chromebook/chromebox
Why would they need an app? Just browse to the website.
To Sync the files
Isn't the whole point of a chromebook is that nothing is local? Everything is accessible via a web browser?
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm wondering when they are going to come out with an owncloud app for the chromebook/chromebox
Why would they need an app? Just browse to the website.
To Sync the files
Isn't the whole point of a chromebook is that nothing is local? Everything is accessible via a web browser?
Yes but you still need to be able to edit a document and then have the edit apply to the file in the oC server, right? Kind of a pain to re-upload it manually.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm wondering when they are going to come out with an owncloud app for the chromebook/chromebox
Why would they need an app? Just browse to the website.
To Sync the files
Isn't the whole point of a chromebook is that nothing is local? Everything is accessible via a web browser?
Yes but you still need to be able to edit a document and then have the edit apply to the file in the oC server, right?
Sure, but they have a built in editor for that, otherwise you would probably be looking at Google Docs for most things.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm wondering when they are going to come out with an owncloud app for the chromebook/chromebox
Why would they need an app? Just browse to the website.
To Sync the files
Isn't the whole point of a chromebook is that nothing is local? Everything is accessible via a web browser?
Yes but you still need to be able to edit a document and then have the edit apply to the file in the oC server, right? Kind of a pain to re-upload it manually.
Then use the owncloud built-in document editor. Or as @coliver said, Google Docs.
