I've had an approval process before to get things paid that are reoccurring. AV was one example, annual bill.
Every time "Dustin do we really need AntiVirus?" Yes, yes we do, Its approved "OK well I just have to check with one more person..." they come back to me "Dustin do we really need AntiVirus?"
See how this goes....
@scottalanmiller said in Broadcom Acquired VMware: Does KVM Have a Chance?:
@DustinB3403 said in Broadcom Acquired VMware: Does KVM Have a Chance?:
@scottalanmiller said in Broadcom Acquired VMware: Does KVM Have a Chance?:
@Oksana Does KVM have a chance? It's the only game in town. VMware is such a backwater of out of date, out of touch, "why would anyone use this" tech. If you use KVM, then you use VMware, it's like going from living in a beach front mansion to a caveman's cave where they are still pooping in a dark corner in the back.
VMware has been dead tech for years. It's so antiquated like they think it is the 2005 era.
XCP-ng is picking up a ton of customers as well, since there is a support model behind it.
Yeah, two great (and free) solutions on the market, and VMware that is costly and requires so much overhead to manage and maintain. It's such a disaster.
Broadcom just cancelled the free version of ESXi as well, so any small customer shops are just going to migrate, they have too.
The sick part is "When Mike did not die, Olsen instead decided to care for the bird. He fed it a mixture of milk and water via an eyedropper, and gave it small grains of corn."
Olsen is a psycho
@scottalanmiller I don't think that's a quote from "The Big Bang Theory" ....
Hey All,
Just a reminder I'll be raising money tomorrow for Extra-Life and Golisano Children's Hospital.
Help me reach my goal of $100 by donating here!
https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donate.participant&participantID=287104
If you explain clearly what the monitor is for, and what it can't do to your client they should never blame you for it.
have you had similar experiences with this client?
I prefer ENTERPRISE server parts like Adaptec RAID controllers.....
But hey that's just me 
@johnhooks said:
So I figured it out. Just like most every other problem I've had, it was something stupid I did. I initially started with a user "john" and set up permissions but decided later to use "jhooks". I had accessed the shares with the "john" username first and that's why some worked. I never added the jhooks username to samba (must have forgot since some shares were working) and that's why I couldn't log into the other shares with that username.
That will teach me to try to do this stuff on Friday night when I'm tired.
Well worse things have happened, it could've been a client outage
Sometimes a thanks is all that's needed to keep a valued employee.
This year I'll be participating in my second Extra Life event, raising money to donate to children's hospitals and charities. This is a 24 hour marathon gaming event. The event is taking place this weekend:
To check out my Extra Life page and if you can make a donation you can go visit here
I'll be streaming whatever I play on Twitch, and it should be good fun!
Thanks in advance!
How come my users never understand the simple things, like how to connect to the VPN. Launch the application, click connect, enter your password.
Or "can you open the remote support tool, teamviewer?" and the response I get is "What's Teamviewer"
Now granted we have alternative ways to get to their machine when they aren't on site but come on....
I'd love a grilled cheese competition. SAM must participate.
Not exceptions.
@AshleyJR said in Is this the right place to troll SAM?:
@gjacobse thank you!!!!!
Now get your avatar setup, and a MangoCon ticket!
See you in Rochester in a little over a week!
@Dashrender Yeah .\localuser is so much simpler.
You don't have to remember the computer name. I use it constantly.
We use NAUBackup and schedule it within Crontab for our XenServer.
So as we're building a script, with the intention of running xenserver from a USB drive, and using the built in mdadm functionality. It would be pretty awesome to showcase this.
The benefits of mdadm and how, as a Software RAID combined with a great hypervisor make for a really powerful solution.
In the case we're building this it's a simple 4 disk Software RAID system. Purchasing a hardware raid controller is out the question. So mdadm is the only option.
SW must be really slow.
They're double posting the same article....
So to sum it up, a little over a month ago, a massive Health Insurance Provider gets hacked, and 10 Million customers information is at risk. (The original hack was found to have occurred on December 23, 2013)
Here's an article about it.
Only people with the follow Insurance plans appear to have been affected.
I'm already making plans for it!
MangoCon: Just Drink IT
Better be a banner of that somewhere 
I like Minecraft, even though its such a simple game...
But i get quickly bored playing alone...