What Are You Doing Right Now
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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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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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@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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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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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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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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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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Waiting on the dough to chill so we can make some Jamaican beef patties!
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more of the same today.
we had monday off so today is like tuesday, but it's wednesday
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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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@Obsolesce No.
I can help out here.
The CIO hadn't heard of Microsoft. -
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@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.
She realized that's insane - right? hell - you want to owe every year so YOU get the interest free loan instead of the gov't.... Of course - you PLAN for that and save money to pay when it's time...
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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 think company size matters in some significant way, you are also so clueless as not to be able to determine company size.
While they said - the larges company - what they really meant was - the one that advertises the most to people like me - in airports, on TV, etc... If I'm not seeing ads for them - then they aren't worth considering.. /sigh
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@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.
She realized that's insane - right? hell - you want to owe every year so YOU get the interest free loan instead of the gov't.... Of course - you PLAN for that and save money to pay when it's time...
Preaching to the quire here @Dashrender
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@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 think company size matters in some significant way, you are also so clueless as not to be able to determine company size.
While they said - the larges company - what they really meant was - the one that advertises the most to people like me - in airports, on TV, etc... If I'm not seeing ads for them - then they aren't worth considering.. /sigh
Exactly, they didn't even know how to describe what they meant. They didn't want largest, best, best known, most used, most deployed, most support engineers... they wanted "pays the most to trick me."
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got very little sleep last night. My daughter is going through growth spurts left and right and woke up quite a bit due to being asleep a majority of the day (as she was not with me.) it's going to be a hard day.
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Read-Only Friday so checking our Exchange (Online) environment for CVE-2023-23397
https://microsoft.github.io/CSS-Exchange/Security/CVE-2023-23397/
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3 power failures this week, and a phone system meltdown.
A little more eventful than I'd like
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Junk cleaning at the office today. I get to purge a bunch of dead laptops, printers, and battery backups. Oh, and also the whole training room!!!
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Got to deal with realizing I'm triple booked next Thursday, and never got a notification on 2 of the installs today.
