Posts made by dafyre

Now where did I leave that Q 238 explosive space modulator...?

@thanksajdotcom In the morning, I have to drink coffee or tea by the pot to even get a little buzz. At night, a cup of coffee or tea and I'll be up for hours!

@Joyfano said:

@nadnerB said:

@Joyfano said:

Good Morning ML .

Morning

Pretty sure people from other side of the world are already sleeping.
@nadnerB Coffee time.

I'll just leave this here for you...

@thanksajdotcom said:

Got a speeding ticket last night, and all I can say is I'm quite glad I've researched how to handle being pulled over and I handled it perfectly. It didn't hurt the NYS Trooper was such a nice guy, and I was completely upfront and honest with him, and he told me he rewards that kind of honesty. Even with that, the night still ended well.

Glad you are in one piece and all that. Having a nice police officer (aka one that treats you as a human) helps tremendously!

I wonder if it is powered by the Kamerad 64?

Watching Lost with my wife... Waiting for her to go to bed so I can get on Nostalrius Classic WoW uninterrupted...

Still... It's always fun to name the pets... If he misbehaves... T-Bone or Chuck might be good names, lol.

Let's go ahead and get the obvious ones out of the way... Somehow, I don't think T-Bone would work.... Nor would Chuck Roaster...

I would post an ansewr of... Arnold! lol.

@scottalanmiller How do the Azure VMs connect to each site? VPN to each site? or does each site VPN into the Azure instance or what?

@coliver said:

The interface really isn't modern, as @scottalanmiller mentioned. Which I find to be the case in a lot of FOSS software. However it works fairly well for what we use it for. It has much the same functionality as the Spiceworks helpdesk does, including reply-to-email ticketing, email querying, user portal, etc. Really the feature set is there but the interface leaves a bit to be desired.

I think this is a lot of the reason why we see commercial helpdesk packages -- or helpdesk packages backed by a company -- because the FOSS developers are focused a lot on adding features, and not necessarily the interface.

I bet some of us could get together and code a great helpdesk with any feature we wanted... but unless we have some folks who can do graphics / website design, it would be ugly as sin. I'd be ashamed to show you some of my early stuff, lol. (Aw, heck, I'd be ashamed to show you some of my more recent stuff, lol).

@scottalanmiller said:

I have looked at a few open source ones and they all seem to lack active support and modern interfaces.

At my last employer, we went through three open source helpdesks in the span of about 2 years. The last one we used was alright, but it was just too much, but it worked better than most of the other ones (It wsa GLPI -- http://www.glpi-project.org/spip.php?lang=en -- (Their primary language is French, I believe).

Then we found Spiceworks that did Inventory and Helpdesk (we didn't actually switch until Spiceworks hit version 6, I think. It was easy quick, and most importnatly for us, easy to customize!

Servers survived windoze updates... (Linux servers survived updates too, but this is no suprise to me)...

Also ready to be done with this week. It has been a long one, for sure!

@coliver said:

We moved from Spiceworks to ManageEngine's hosted solution. It is free for basically everything that matters. Although you may have to do inventory a different way.

The Hosted version is free as well?

I've used everything from Pine (yes, the one over SSH) to Thunderbird, Windows LIve Mail (/cry), Outlook Express (/weep openly), to Outlook (/sigh ...still waiting for email to send)... Even the Linux Email client that had exchange connectivity (I haven't used it in eons, and can't remember the name of it)....

I generally prefer webmail... but sine Outlook 2010 (am on 2013 now), I have actually ejoyed Outlook... I don't use it for anything but email and calendar (calendar sharing does work if you know where to click). It is usually relatively snappy while working without O365 environment here... I don't really like the Outlook.com web interface too much. I'll use it if I'm not at my desk...

All of the above is for Exchange... If I'm just doing straight Pop or IMAP, Thunderbird! ... and sadly, I am GMail junkie...

@scottalanmiller said:

Why not use OWA? Something making that not a good option?

Lack of push notifications?

I switched from my Android "Email" application over to Outlook on my Note 3. It seems pretty good to me.

Sorry... but right now, any site that I develop will not be responsive enough to read on a 2 inch square. You want to view my site... Use your phone.

@scottalanmiller If you use IMAP, you lose the Contact & Calendar sync, don't you?

I am waiting on people to come and help me finish up a software install on my VDI image.

Using Server 2012R2 and Hyper-V for the base... It seems to work halfway decently, much to my suprise! I'm not getting as good of performance out of the Graphics as I want (NVIDIA GRID K2) in the VMs, but it works "well enough" for a test drive. Big boss is doing a demo today at 3.

@g.jacobse said:

Trying to employ the 'last place looked' to find some parts I'm in need of. I know they are here,.. on my desk,...- the other desk,... the one buried in stuff.. It pretty much has to be here... in theory. Hmm...

I need a Remember-all.....or something.

Sadly, no... The Rememberall only shows a cloud of red smoke when you have forgotten something... The only trouble is that you can't remember what you forgot!