What Are You Doing Right Now
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@MattSpeller said:
Marvelling at a company that I support that spends more money "saving money" than you'd ever believe was possible
Eh that goes - I worked for a Top Five rated Automaker, who would reengineer a 25 meter section of the assembly line to attempt to improve production, only to return that 25 meter section of assembly to what it was 18 months later...
@g.jacobse said:
Currently tracking a storm cell,.. it's within a 10 mile radius of the house right now. Guess I should lock it down. Don't need to add water damage to the other repairs needed.
Missed us, heard reported hail just 8 miles from us,.. glad it went around us.
@g.jacobse said:
Awaiting word on when the HVAC tech will be by. Second opinion / review.
It's worse than dead.. ugh.. didn't know that the refrigerant could convert to a type of acid. The failure of the compressor motor generates enough of a spark and heat to create smoke inside the system too..
And it'll be next week before anything can be replaced.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I am badgeless for the second year. It's actually good being a little anonymous.
You have an iconic face,.. I don't think you are really that anonymous....
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@coliver said:
@dafyre said:
@coliver said:
I'm sure that was the case... a decade ago? I've only been playing with Linux for about that amount of time and remember the... words... for people who didn't compile themselves. Haven't seen that attitude in a very long time though.
Aye. You are right. That time has, fortunately for us, passed by, for most things. I like to compile things to get the bleeding edge version some times (Suricata, Gambas, etc), but there's no real need for an IT pro to custom compile a whole Linux OS anymore... Thank $diety!
Agreed.
The funny thing is most of them were complaing they can't use it because no one makes Enterprise level software the works for linux; Especially ERPs. Yet many of the enterprise ones do and many even use a web interface. A lot of them are FOSS enterprise projects with paid support options. I think what they really mean is there is no simple SMB packages like MS Dynamics which is restrictive and very very overpriced.
It seems like with SMBs the more something cost the better it automatically is. Most where saying you can't use open source "in the enterprise" yet most of the software they mention (especially network based) are almost fully open source project made into commercial with some gui changes.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@coliver said:
@dafyre said:
@coliver said:
I'm sure that was the case... a decade ago? I've only been playing with Linux for about that amount of time and remember the... words... for people who didn't compile themselves. Haven't seen that attitude in a very long time though.
Aye. You are right. That time has, fortunately for us, passed by, for most things. I like to compile things to get the bleeding edge version some times (Suricata, Gambas, etc), but there's no real need for an IT pro to custom compile a whole Linux OS anymore... Thank $diety!
Agreed.
The funny thing is most of them were complaing they can't use it because no one makes Enterprise level software the works for linux; Especially ERPs. Yet many of the enterprise ones do and many even use a web interface. A lot of them are FOSS enterprise projects with paid support options. I think what they really mean is there is no simple SMB packages like MS Dynamics which is restrictive and very very overpriced.
It seems like with SMBs the more something cost the better it automatically is. Most where saying you can't use open source "in the enterprise" yet most of the software they mention (especially network based) are almost fully open source project made into commercial with some gui changes.
I can't argue with anything you just said... although I won't go into it. I've heard the "You get what you pay for" mantra a few times.
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Wonder how secure the rest of the people's networks are worried about wireless keyboards? My guess is they have some gaping holes and yet are focusing on the least important one: http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/944805-wireless-keyboards-should-i-be-concerned?page=1
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@thecreativeone91 said:
The funny thing is most of them were complaing they can't use it because no one makes Enterprise level software the works for linux; Especially ERPs. Yet many of the enterprise ones do and many even use a web interface. A lot of them are FOSS enterprise projects with paid support options. I think what they really mean is there is no simple SMB packages like MS Dynamics which is restrictive and very very overpriced.
It seems like with SMBs the more something cost the better it automatically is. Most where saying you can't use open source "in the enterprise" yet most of the software they mention (especially network based) are almost fully open source project made into commercial with some gui changes.
Agreed. I think a SMB a lot of times may not have the in-house expertise (experience?) necessary to properly maintain / update the FOSS applications in a production environment. That being said, the only way to get experience is to do it. Especially if the application being used offers some kind of paid support!
Don't even get me started on MS Dynamics, lol.... *shudder*
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I think the average wireless keyboard is likely far more secure than the average wired one. How easy is it to tap a standard keyboard? Not hard at all. SO easy, even if you are using RF externally. A wireless one might not be hard, but it is not as easy as the wired ones.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I think the average wireless keyboard is likely far more secure than the average wired one. How easy is it to tap a standard keyboard? Not hard at all. SO easy, even if you are using RF externally. A wireless one might not be hard, but it is not as easy as the wired ones.
Most have encryption too these days.
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@dafyre said:
Agreed. I think a SMB a lot of times may not have the in-house expertise (experience?) necessary to properly maintain / update the production environment.
FTFY
Most SMBs that I see lack the skills that I generally assume are a minimum bar for running internal IT.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I think the average wireless keyboard is likely far more secure than the average wired one. How easy is it to tap a standard keyboard? Not hard at all. SO easy, even if you are using RF externally. A wireless one might not be hard, but it is not as easy as the wired ones.
Most have encryption too these days.
Exactly, that's why. That they do anything makes them many times more secure.
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Trying to follow along. I came it to see what was going on and found it pretty busy.
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How are you guys doing over in London?
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@Reid-Cooper said:
How are you guys doing over in London?
Great. Weather is nice and having a good time at the conference. Quite busy now that the sessions are really underway.
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I'm leading the pub crawl tonight, so looking forward to that!
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Reid-Cooper said:
How are you guys doing over in London?
Great. Weather is nice and having a good time at the conference. Quite busy now that the sessions are really underway.
Any good sessions so far?
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I've only attended the one so far.
But Unitrends announcing new free stuff is pretty exciting. -
@scottalanmiller said:
I've only attended the one so far.
But Unitrends announcing new free stuff is pretty exciting.That seems like a pretty light session load.
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Yeah, I tend to get busy and not have very much time for the official sessions.
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Networking seems to have a much higher value than attending sessions, and a great time to really develop relationships with vendors.
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@art_of_shred said:
Networking seems to have a much higher value than attending sessions, and a great time to really develop relationships with vendors.
The vendor time is a huge deal. If you talk to them during sessions you get time to actually talk not just walk by and smile.
