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    • BRRABillB
      BRRABill @scottalanmiller
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      @scottalanmiller said:

      @BRRABill said:

      Like if you don't want to do backups, perhaps have a second DC DEFINITELY.

      No. Never. If you don't have backups shut down the DC and don't have a server at all. It would be insane to have two servers and still no backups.

      If you don't have backups, shut down the business and go home.

      That was kind of tongue-in-cheek, but you are absolutely right.

      Backups are so key.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        On tongue in cheek a little. If your server isn't backed up, scrap it - it isn't worth keeping powered on. If your business itself relies on data and isn't backed up, back it up and shut it down. If your business doesn't care about data (maybe you are a car detailing business and you just get paid in cash) then don't have a computer in the first place.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller
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          OMG, this one might be a record setter. I can't even fathom what is going on here. This sounds like Slade doing a post.

          http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1311682-vdi-application-and-sql-server

          I. Can't. Even.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller
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            I had to unsubscribe, what a train wreck. And it is one of three posts already!

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            • stacksofplatesS
              stacksofplates @scottalanmiller
              last edited by

              @scottalanmiller said:

              OMG, this one might be a record setter. I can't even fathom what is going on here. This sounds like Slade doing a post.

              http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1311682-vdi-application-and-sql-server

              I. Can't. Even.

              http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1311783-should-i-change-to-a-non-it-career

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              • brianlittlejohnB
                brianlittlejohn
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                Just caught up on everything ... wow

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @stacksofplates
                  last edited by

                  @johnhooks said:

                  @scottalanmiller said:

                  OMG, this one might be a record setter. I can't even fathom what is going on here. This sounds like Slade doing a post.

                  http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1311682-vdi-application-and-sql-server

                  I. Can't. Even.

                  http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1311783-should-i-change-to-a-non-it-career

                  is that him? he sent me a PM but I decided not to read it, at least not tonight. Is he honestly considering a career change?

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                  • stacksofplatesS
                    stacksofplates @scottalanmiller
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                    @scottalanmiller said:

                    @johnhooks said:

                    @scottalanmiller said:

                    OMG, this one might be a record setter. I can't even fathom what is going on here. This sounds like Slade doing a post.

                    http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1311682-vdi-application-and-sql-server

                    I. Can't. Even.

                    http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1311783-should-i-change-to-a-non-it-career

                    is that him? he sent me a PM but I decided not to read it, at least not tonight. Is he honestly considering a career change?

                    Ya he said that he started some threads to make you and some other people complain.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @stacksofplates
                      last edited by

                      @johnhooks said:

                      @scottalanmiller said:

                      @johnhooks said:

                      @scottalanmiller said:

                      OMG, this one might be a record setter. I can't even fathom what is going on here. This sounds like Slade doing a post.

                      http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1311682-vdi-application-and-sql-server

                      I. Can't. Even.

                      http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1311783-should-i-change-to-a-non-it-career

                      is that him? he sent me a PM but I decided not to read it, at least not tonight. Is he honestly considering a career change?

                      Ya he said that he started some threads to make you and some other people complain.

                      He's claiming all of it was a farce?

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                      • stacksofplatesS
                        stacksofplates @scottalanmiller
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                        @scottalanmiller said:

                        @johnhooks said:

                        @scottalanmiller said:

                        @johnhooks said:

                        @scottalanmiller said:

                        OMG, this one might be a record setter. I can't even fathom what is going on here. This sounds like Slade doing a post.

                        http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1311682-vdi-application-and-sql-server

                        I. Can't. Even.

                        http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1311783-should-i-change-to-a-non-it-career

                        is that him? he sent me a PM but I decided not to read it, at least not tonight. Is he honestly considering a career change?

                        Ya he said that he started some threads to make you and some other people complain.

                        He's claiming all of it was a farce?

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller
                          last edited by

                          Sounds like he is trying to cover his tracks after posting some seriously embarrassing stuff. Is that stuff that he is posting in public or in a secret forum because it did not come up in my feed.

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                          • stacksofplatesS
                            stacksofplates @scottalanmiller
                            last edited by stacksofplates

                            @scottalanmiller said:

                            Sounds like he is trying to cover his tracks after posting some seriously embarrassing stuff. Is that stuff that he is posting in public or in a secret forum because it did not come up in my feed.

                            He made that two hours after he posted the other one, it's public.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller
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                              Seems an odd things for him to post given that we honestly tried to help him, and he really went on a whole thing with legit posts that at least I only saw because I was directed there by other people pointing out what a disaster it was.

                              So he is either so embarrassed that he's willing to claim to be a troll to cover his tracks or he was just trolling. Either way.... par of the course I suppose.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @stacksofplates
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                                @johnhooks said:

                                @scottalanmiller said:

                                Sounds like he is trying to cover his tracks after posting some seriously embarrassing stuff. Is that stuff that he is posting in public or in a secret forum because it did not come up in my feed.

                                He made that two hours after he posted the other one, it's public.

                                In the same thread or another? I posted that I had unsubscribed. Once I knew he was trolling, wahich was long before that point, I had left.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller
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                                  Odd that they so often mod people for genuinely helping people but no one mods someone that openly admits to being a pointless troll.

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                                  • stacksofplatesS
                                    stacksofplates @scottalanmiller
                                    last edited by

                                    @scottalanmiller said:

                                    @johnhooks said:

                                    @scottalanmiller said:

                                    Sounds like he is trying to cover his tracks after posting some seriously embarrassing stuff. Is that stuff that he is posting in public or in a secret forum because it did not come up in my feed.

                                    He made that two hours after he posted the other one, it's public.

                                    In the same thread or another? I posted that I had unsubscribed. Once I knew he was trolling, wahich was long before that point, I had left.

                                    Different thread. Someone linked to it in the original thread that you were a part of in the beginning.

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller
                                      last edited by

                                      Oh okay. Odd that the new thread did not come up in my feed.

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                                      • stacksofplatesS
                                        stacksofplates @scottalanmiller
                                        last edited by

                                        @scottalanmiller said:

                                        Odd that they so often mod people for genuinely helping people but no one mods someone that openly admits to being a pointless troll.

                                        I don't hardly go on the site any more. I think most everyone I want to learn something from is on here.

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                                        • stacksofplatesS
                                          stacksofplates
                                          last edited by

                                          And discuss things with.

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller
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                                            I think he falls under the category of "not worth responding to." I posted once that I respond to people because I value them as humans and as professionals and that's why I take the time to try to vet solutions, figure out what is right, etc. It's when I stop responding that I no longer see them as worth the electrons. He's past that point.

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