@scottalanmiller said
For MSPs, for example, things like XO are godsends. Centralized management for multiple installations, no need for Windows licensing just for a GUI interface, etc.
Oh I'd happily be a XO user if Xen itself was not the ugly step sister of the VM world. Some of the stuff it is doing is just too special to really throw it into the mix of offerings, so its hyper-v or (heaven help us) VMWare.
ZoHo products leave much to be desired.
Why is a third party manager for Hyper-V needed?
@Carnival-Boy said in How Do You Evaluate IT Skills for Hiring:
Let's take an example. I'm recruiting for an IT role and @JaredBusch applies (he fancies a change of scenery).
Two points on this:
- Although I'm not an IT pro, I know enough about IT to know that Jared knows his shit.
- I don't know of any headhunter that is likely to know more about IT than Jared. That's not really a headhunters role.
Yes but a good head hunter does not just look at that, that is trivial and easy to discover.
What type of person do you want? What is your culture? Do you need a rapid fire-fighter or do you need a longer term project bod? Two completely different skill sets in IT and although you could get someone who can do both, for your team you really want someone who is one way or the other.
AV technicians in London get placed at 5* hotels by head hunters, because you absolutely have to have the right skills, experience, personality and match what the clients (often CEOs) are wanting. And some of those roles are £22-26k per year, yet the AV firm still does out 10-15% of the salary to an agency to get it right first time because the cost of failure is too high.
I would not use recruiters, many of them are generically average at best, incompetent at worse. I would seriously think about head hunters though.
Two people I picked for Dara IT were on Spiceworks and I looked at their post history both recent and past. That tells me far more than any certification, CV or reference ever has.
@scottalanmiller said in Is ZeroTier failing:
@Breffni-Potter said in Is ZeroTier failing:
@scottalanmiller said in Is ZeroTier failing:
And me. Basically all people using SSH on Windows as that's how MS delivers that feature of the OS.
Could you explain that? Really bold statement.
Nothing bold about it in the least. It's a little like saying water is wet.
Well, you did say that all people who use SSH on Windows use Chocolatey, which is bold.
@scottalanmiller said in Is ZeroTier failing:
And me. Basically all people using SSH on Windows as that's how MS delivers that feature of the OS.
Could you explain that? Really bold statement.
With powershell, MSIs, group policies, who cares about this? I find a load of articles from 2014 "look exciting" on a few sites but...I don't see anyone jumping up and down with excitement.
But I repeat
Are there enough chocolatey users to invest time into this?
Do enough people care for Chocolatey?
Is this another "Why won't you support Windows phone" thing.
I really struggle with getting Eaton products in the UK. Even when reaching out to them directly its like unless you are after the high end DC stuff, they have no interest.
@Francesco-Provino said in Modern iPad security: the most secure endpoint ever?:
@Breffni-Potter said in Modern iPad security: the most secure endpoint ever?:
Yes but Apple has always had a walled garden approach to their iOS devices.
You can have more freedom and more risk or more security and less freedom, not both.
No problem with iOS freedom as of today. If I have a good ssh client, RDP, mail, nice browser, dropbox/other cloud storage, I'm set
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I made the switch to Android from iOS. I have a huge amount more freedom, I will not go back to iOS after this. Even the little details like mass closing apps, 1 button on Android, iOS you have to swipe a load away. I have all my messages on my Windows computer so I can reply to texts and make voice calls from a comfy headset.
So many of the little things add up to make it a pleasure to use.
Yes but Apple has always had a walled garden approach to their iOS devices.
You can have more freedom and more risk or more security and less freedom, not both.
They had an appointment for a meeting, you have an appointment too. Lack of efficiency on their part does not mean an emergency on yours.
Listening to any vendor consulting will lead to a p*** poor system but for the vendors profit.
I have 3x office 365 accounts in there right now. All distinct logins.
Just try it guys...
Different websites, email accounts, services, all in one tab, with notifications for key ones.
There is no such thing as a non profit plan. You get the exact same plans as businesses, you just get a different pricing rate after you prove eligibility.
So, you can Get E1 free of charge.
E3 is maybe $2 a month per user.
There are no differences in features, you get the exact same thing.
Oh come on Scale.
Don't turn me into a lead, leads are for dogs. Let me qualify myself by getting the pricing straight away.
https://www.scalecomputing.com/scale-computing-pricing-and-quotes/
What I don't get for a sales team looking to make money, surely they want to qualify the client as in or out as fast as possible, so by showing the ballpark range the client can already opt into the solution and you waste less time on people "Looking for pricing" and then you can focus on less people but the spenders get more attention.
There's just this madness that if we hide the price, we can fiddle with it up or down depending on the client we get.
Not convinced anyone would notice here. ML has a tiny tiny amount of traffic with all the compression going on, given most content is text, there's barely any load.
Yes it could be paid for as a trial as its cheap but...yeah.
The real performance gains would come from other details. Have a read of this:
Two seconds of load time are down to image banners on the page.
