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Apple: "We'll change our headquarters like other businesses, to get tax breaks. Let's go to Ireland."

3 years later...

Ireland: "Aaaalrighty, taxes are due!"

Apple: "But our headquarters aren't here... they're in the Cayman Islands."

@MattSpeller said in Hours I work/PTO:

@BBigford said in Hours I work/PTO:

Lol thanks for the laugh. It made me feel worse, but at least I got a good laugh out of it.

You'd be welcome up here in America's hat my friend. 37.5h/week, mediocre healthcare that you don't have to pay for directly....

Well I pay about $280/month for mediocre health care already so I'm game. Insurance is pretty important to me...

Hey you experts! A Linux admin of ours is having an issue copying a file via scp from one server to another remote server. Here's the script they are using:

[root@ourftpserver msftp]# cat transfer_cdr.sh 
#!/bin/bash 
for i in `find /home/msftp/cdr -type f -ctime -1`
  do
    sshpass -p 'mypassword' scp $i [email protected]:/
  done

Any ideas what is wrong? I'm told going the RSA route isn't possible at this time or we'd try that.

@scottalanmiller said in Got a Very Touching Message on SW Tonight:

@BBigford said in Got a Very Touching Message on SW Tonight:

I went and saw Zach (zuphzuph) and Drew (CrimsonKidA) in Denver a couple weeks ago. Awesome time hiking and going to breweries!

That's very cool. Did you happen to mention how cool it would be if they were hanging out over here, too?

Actually, yes! I think I mentioned it to Drew quite a while back but we don't talk a whole lot. Mostly just in passing on the forums. But I have reminded Zach to join quite a few times as we talk pretty much every day. Lots of that conversation is about what we're seeing in the communities and I bring up ML a lot (whereas his conversations typically stay within Spiceworks threads).

Which reminds me... I need to tell him again to join and check it out.

@scottalanmiller said in Apple Watch 2 Announced:

http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/7/12695182/apple-watch-2-announced-price-features-release-date

I donno... still not as innovative as Russ Hanneman.

@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:

@scottalanmiller said in Hours I work/PTO:

@Jason said in Hours I work/PTO:

@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:

@scottalanmiller said in Hours I work/PTO:

@Jason said in Hours I work/PTO:

@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:

@scottalanmiller said in Hours I work/PTO:

@Dashrender said in Hours I work/PTO:

@johnhooks said in Hours I work/PTO:

Library's have free internet. Most restaurants have free wifi.

The Library's is an OK start, but they are only available when the Library is open. This can be very limiting.

And only for people who live near one. Most poor people do not.

Huh? Most poorer demographics are inner city, which is where libraries are.

And pretty much every local government provides libraries.

Maybe where you are from. Not in the north. Certainly almost nowhere near me.

Of the ones that were around, most were one room deals that have since shut down. No way they would exist or have Internet today.

Well I live in the North and they're here. Even in small towns like the one I grew up in. A town of about 4,000 people.

I grew up in a village of 800, still had a library and internet.

We STILL don't have a gas station, restaurant or store of any kind. Having a library would be weird.

In NY more people live in the open area between villages than in them. The poorest are in the open spaces.

And for the cost of one library you could have just provided Internet to their homes!

False. If you're talking about people out in the middle of nowhere, if there is no line running there, the cost will be much more than a Library.

Long distance microwave, just like anywhere else rural. We cut down on cost for rural customers substantially. It's also not like the high satellite costs. One dish can service a village (moderate speeds) for 5-10 years before we replace it and the dish costs 5-10k... At $1000/year or less at our cost, that's not bad at all.

Got it figured out. Turns out that the directory being called, didn't exist. All good now though, thanks for all the quick responses!

@NerdyDad said in Out of the ditch and up the mountain I go:

Might want to put a ring on that finger because she seems to be a keeper.

Oh she is, and I will. As soon as we're both out of school.

Checking out Edward Snowden's real day to day and best practices on his own devices and services would be really interesting to me.

@scottalanmiller said in Hours I work/PTO:

I've had affluent, well educated New Yorkers who think that Canada is a state or that the northern US border, just two counties away from them, was France. That the average person has little to no grasp of geography should not be a surprise.

I haven't been to the north East, but I've been to the south East. I live in southern Idaho. If you're not aware, the KKK used to have a huge compound in northern Idaho (about 8 hours away). Our state is famous for potatoes... but also tech. Micron is about 5 miles from my house and they're worth a bit of money. We also have an Oracle building and some other tech companies.

Everyone I met in Florida: "Where are you from?"

Me: "Idaho."

FL: "Iowa? That's cool."

Me: "No, Idaho."

FL: "Oooooh.... OHIO... Got it."

Me: "No! Idaho! The state between Montana and Washington."

FL: "The one with the KKK? Are you all racist then?"

Me: "That was a small radical group in the north... like 20 years ago. No, all of Idaho doesn't share that same view."

FL: "So you're probably a potato farmer then, runs in the family? Idaho Famous Potatoes?"

Me: "We have good potatoes, but we aren't all stupid racist potato farmers. The hell is the matter with you people?"

I was talking to like 6 people in a group (sober), and this was a round robin of questions like this. They were completely serious.

So I've used SCCM, WDS, and FOG in the past. Recently I left a network (where we used SCCM) to move on to where I am now as a sysadmin. My sysadmin co-worker also left, and became the director at a school district. In his environment, there was nothing, and we both agreed that his scale (about around 800-1200 machines) that FOG would work just fine as he isn't reimaging them a lot (maybe 20 or so a month). In my environment, I chose to setup WDS as we're scaling but not at a crazy rate (we have a lot less machines than the school district, but I figured why not). I setup a SCCM proof of concept over a couple days (per management's request), but I chose not to continue with it because our scale is WAY under its capabilities and showed management side by side the differences in overhead. So even though we're already paying and using System Center for other services (SCOM/DPM), it's too much administrative overhead to take SCCM seriously.

TL; DR= Why are you using WDS or FOG over the other, other than shear preference? I've saw both scale pretty darn well up to a couple thousand machines, and both are efficient in multicasting IME.

I always start with a computer, then work inward to the rest of the network. That computer touches services like DNS, DHCP, AD, etc. So I explain networking, then from there I explain a domain controller. Once we get through that, then storage. From there, virtual machines and hypervisors. Then email systems. That'll be about 6 months to a year worth.

@scottalanmiller said in Slack Adds Video Calling:

Just saw it pop up a few minutes ago. That's a very new feature. Maybe I'll get to test it out shortly.

Everyone's been waiting for that and screen sharing. As soon as that happens, the only thing left to put a silver bullet in Skype for Business would be the price.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Thanks @BBigford for the shout out a few minutes ago

I promote ML to people where it's possible. There are a TON of people at school that see my Spiceworks and various tech polos and strike up conversation but I always mention they definitely need to get on ML along with SW. @scottalanmiller

Hey everyone,

I've setup Spiceworks before, and now I'm setting it up again, but with trouble accessing it from other workstations. I have the installation out on a VM, port 80 wasn't being used so I left it as default 80/443. I changed the email URL in settings to http://help/portal. The only thing left was to put in a DNS entry but I can't remember for the life of me what I did on that portion because a CNAME of help/portal obviously doesn't work for the generated FQDN, and I didn't think I put in an A record. Any thoughts? I only need this to be used internally, so I'd rather not setup IIS. I checked this how-to but step 4 (the step I'm missing) has zero substance.

This sounds very complicated. Haha I'll just clarify, I'm receiving pay for all time entitled plus PTO pay out.

@Breffni-Potter said in User's thoughts on Windows 10. #frustrated:

Now, I have my own thoughts and feelings about this but the user is someone I know and they are keen for this to be seen so I'm "sharing" in the old fashioned way.

https://www.facebook.com/christine.daniel.129/videos/10153391239151910/

I have no idea what happened prior to the uploading of the video. I leave this here for the community to give an opinion on the video above. Yes it is only on Facebook but you don't need an account to view.

Opinions?

Nana couldn't get to Facebook for 2 hours... And doesn't own a smart phone? The afternoon is absolutely ruined.

I know if my mom couldn't get to Facebook to see her grand kids she'd... Probably just give up on waiting and physically go and see them. Problem solved.

I still call my family on Sunday's... Then again I don't have Facebook anymore because of the crap my family thinks people want to hear about.

I've been trying to setup System Center Operations Manager 2012 and I can't get the disk alerts setup. I found this article link text and it shows something that I'm not seeing. The logical disk in availability is missing. I thought maybe it's a management pack that I'm missing but I can't see it anywhere in the list. What am I missing?

Wow.

@Dashrender said in User's thoughts on Windows 10. #frustrated:

While I can see the novelty of the remote printing, I don't see the real use of it. But then again, you're talking to a guy who has a printer at home but can't tell you the last time he printed, probably 5 months ago.

I even argue with businesses that require me to fax something, or print it out and mail it in. "It's more secure"... don't tell me those lies! I'd rather print to PDF and email it to you.