Posts made by BRRABill

@RojoLoco said in What Is Golden Milk:

Fact checking a comedy joke is really pedantic.

If it means anything I LOLed in my office at your post.

Plus the thought of YOU probably giggling as you wrote it.

I've used this in the past. Works well, and much cheaper than $8.

https://simplemdm.com/pricing/

@scottalanmiller said in Webroot Agent Removal:

@JaredBusch said in Webroot Agent Removal:

I've never had to do that yet.

We've got tons that won't uninstall from the console

Are you sure it isn't uninstalling?

I seem to remember doing it from the Add/Remove, and it looked like (from the message) it wasn't working, but it really was.

@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:

@Dashrender said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:

@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:

@Dashrender said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:

@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:

@Dashrender said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:

@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:

@Dashrender said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:

@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:

@Dashrender said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:

@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:

@Dashrender said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:

@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:

@JaredBusch said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:

@scottalanmiller said in StarWind V2V Converter: Now with Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversion option!:

Think of the alternative... how much hardware and man hours are going into working around extracting the data?

No where near as much as reverse engineering the database to create the output needed.

This is something I have done more than one time. It is not that easy.

Depends on the database. But it's something we do from time to time and often is pretty basic. I mean days of work, yes. But maintaining all that stuff is also days of work, plus the cost of hardware, isolation, risk, etc. On top of maintaining all that old stuff, we assume that there is no support should something break, either.

The system is basically in a static state. So if it breaks - restore to a known good working state and move on.

The problem I see running into over time is hardware and hypervisor tech that can support this until the kill date of 2036.

we can manually use the built system to do what is called a CCD export of the children's files - while this will be extremely manual in nature, it will likely be less expensive than hiring NTG or whomever to learn the DB layouts and extract the desired data.

Maybe, personally I think this seems very unlikely given 2036. That's 18 more years of dealing with stuff already in a ridiculous state today. Remember that you are going to be dealing with people that are not you and have no memory or knowledge of this system decades from now, a system already insanely old, trying to do restores or run systems 30 years old.

I doubt that that stuff will be cheap at that point, or anytime between now and then. A one time conversion to text files or PDF is over and done. Yeah, it's a bigger up front cost, but it is a single cost that never comes back to haunt you.

Oh believe me - I completely agree with you. Personally, we need to run a report to find all patients who were under 13 years old, export those. Then we can kill this system off in 2023 for all patients, and we'll have the children who have a longer hold requirement already exported.

Once you can export one, export all of them. The cost of one is the same as the cost of all.

With a script, you're right - I'm not looking to hire someone to make said script at this time.

You mean doing it manually? That'll likely take a really long time.

Well - the report will tell us how many patients we have, then management can make the determination if they want to hire someone to script it all - or just do it manually.

Any idea how long manually takes? Is that like just taking a screen shot of the current output?

No, the manual for children will likely be 1-4 mins, likely more on the 1 min side. But that's only a guess, I haven't done the process in years.

Oh, that's really fast. If it is that simple, let's say you have 10,000 customers. That's 10,000 - 40,000 minutes. I bet that it gets faster with someone doing one after another. That's a maximum of 33 weeks of full time work for 10,000 customers to be transferred.

And that is a lot of customers. And that is assuming four minutes per customer. And assuming that you realistically get four productive hours of doing a task like that per day.

wow - you really do build in the 'a person wastes half their work day away' don't you?

LOL, you have to, especially with a tedious task. You can't do that eight hours a day without bleeding from your ears.

Try it sometime. Time a task like that once. Then try to keep it up for an hour. Then realistically think about eight times that in a day. Then think about how hard it would be to do in an isolation chamber versus the real world with interruptions and other tasks that happen. Four hours in an eight hour day is actually quite hard.

I couldn't even read this post without checking my phone and buying something on Amazon.

Time to set up a filter to just delete that e-mail automatically.

@JaredBusch said in Don't eat romaine lettuce:

The "News" category is for IT news.

It is news for IT people who eat romaine.

@NerdyDad

I was mentioned more for the "for the kids" comment above.

Though I think their BF deals are already live and shipping.

DELL has one for $129 for BF.

@DustinB3403 said in Why Job Titles Matter, and Don't.:

@scottalanmiller said in Why Job Titles Matter, and Don't.:

@Dashrender said in Why Job Titles Matter, and Don't.:

@dave247 said in Why Job Titles Matter, and Don't.:

@scottalanmiller said in Why Job Titles Matter, and Don't.:

@dave247 said in Why Job Titles Matter, and Don't.:

@Dashrender said in Why Job Titles Matter, and Don't.:

@dave247 said in Why Job Titles Matter, and Don't.:

I'm actually dealing with this right now. I was asked by my boss to come up with a better job title for myself since I am basically a system administrator, network administrator, server administrator, IT manager, among other things.

I think job titles are a good thing simply as a starting point descriptor of what a person's job role is. It shouldn't determine pay as much as all the line items that are listed in your actual job description.

That said, I've landed on IT Administrator since it seems to encompass everything and sounds better than "IT Generalist".

Are you actually a manager? as in you have direct reports that you manage?

What kind of reports are you referring to? I manage various things in IT, like some reports, vendors, some credit card statements & things..

Direct report = employee that reports directly to you that you can hire and fire.

oh no, I can not fire anyone. However, I have indirectly caused people to get fired, but that's another story..

OK - then like me, you're not an IT manager, because neither of us manages people for IT. At least that's my POV.

I choose IT Admin as my title as well - also didn't like the sound of IT Generalist - most people say - WTF is a generalist?

A Generalist means you cover all the bases. What the heck is an Admin?

An admin isn't forced to use the plunger.

Or catch bugs.

@JaredBusch said in question on veeam backup:

The OS doens't matter to Veeam beyond being Windows.

That's a good piece of knowledge.

@travisdh1 said in So I built: Pi-hole:

@BRRABill said in So I built: Pi-hole:

Where is @scottalanmiller to chime in that isn't the purpose of DNS?

Careful, sounds like he's already infected you!

Yes but I can't yell at people as good as him.

Where is @scottalanmiller to chime in that isn't the purpose of DNS?

@scottalanmiller said in Server Setup for Legal Firm:

@hari said in Server Setup for Legal Firm:

Server Brand, Family Model and Server OS (security has to be top notch no opensource please )?

This is a conflict in two ways.

First: Never apply arbitrary rules when they aren't in line with your goals, this is illogical.
Second: Open source is specifically vastly better specifically for security. I think you worded this incorrectly. If security was your goal, it is closed source you'd be wary to use, not open.

Do you have a macro to respond to stuff like this, or do you type it up each time?

I've often wondered about my phone.

I need my Hay Day activity to be discrete.

@scottalanmiller said in Traffic statistics for self-hosted WordPress:

Check out Matomo

I've also never been a huge GA fan.

Will check this out.

But I mean you can start with one user (or a few) to see if it fits the bill.

Also, depending on what it is, you could just share the stuff out.

@guyinpv said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:

Our account level of O365 doesn't include Sharepoint, just 1TB of OneDrive space.

What are you on the "Business" plan?

Maybe it's worth upgrading someone to the $4 a month more plan and getting a sharepoint site.

Just think of what a different discussion this would be if MS just allowed you to spin up a free AD server, that just had AD, like Hyper-V Server.

@dominica said in MangoCon 2019:

@rojoloco said in MangoCon 2019:

@donahue said in MangoCon 2019:

Is there any cost for bringing a guest? I would love to bring the wife. I doubt she would be interested in the tech, just a vacation.

I was wondering about that as well. I'll probably be bringing the girlfriend unit if I'm able to attend.

We hadn't really thought about this yet, because let's face it, nobody's main squeeze was interested in going to Rochester, NY

Not really sure they would have ANY interest in going, even it was in an exotic location. Because then they would want to be out on the beach and not in some IT thing.

@obsolesce said in What are you using to track daily tasks?:

Also, the "O" in "OWA"... do you know what that stands for?

I have found that a combination of Outlook tasks and then someplace to store refernce stuff (such as e-mails and files) that you can point to is a great option.

I also have no issues using Outlook.