The fact that this is Tax Free, means 10's of thousands of positions like this are filled across the country.

Of which no taxes are being paid on. That's a lot of money to just ignore and not collect taxes on.

Hell if I fart in a public office there's a 25 cent fee!

@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Windows Server 2016

Why 2016? You'd want to get 2019 and if you really had a requirement, you'd install 2016.

This is what I was told to order by My micro manager

Good luck, you can't even buy CALs for Server 2016... Only the current version. (of course they are backwards compatible)

That's what I was getting at. . you can't purchase old, you get downgrade rights for sure, but they don't sell old stuff

@scottalanmiller said in DLP (Data Loss Prevention) solution:

@DustinB3403 said in DLP (Data Loss Prevention) solution:

So wouldn't it be prudent to inform your insurance that data can be emailed, printed, dropbox'd, OD4B etc and that there is no way to control each of these and still operate the business?

Way more ability to control all of those.

How so, you would get tracking and a speck of more control over the data. I wouldn't see it as being the golden rule here.

@penguinwrangler said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@dustinb3403 said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@momurda said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

That isnt how it works from @PenguinWrangler description.
The forgiveness will be taxed as income, probably at the rate bonuses/lottery income, much higher than regular income unless he is making tons of money(he isnt if working for feds).
He is essentially an indentured servant to the federal government for the next decade.

Also, people saying the government shouldnt be spending money on education, LOL.
It should be the highest expenditure of the federal government and local governments.
It should dwarf the War Department's budget.

Spending on education is fine, spending to remove debt that someone agreed to is that individual persons responsibility. Not the public's responsibility.

I understand what you are saying. I get where you are coming from. I have set myself and family up to have my loans paid off in the next 5 to 7 years. Without the forgiveness. I have been eating a lot of ramen and pb&j for lunch. We have been watching our money closely. Whether or not the government should do this is one thing. I would be stupid not to take it though when it is available to me.

My stance isn't with you. It's with the system, how it's rigged and royally helping 1 and screwing over 1000.

You said your self that this 63K debt is tax free. That's insane.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Windows Server 2016

Why 2016? You'd want to get 2019 and if you really had a requirement, you'd install 2016.

@Dashrender said in DLP (Data Loss Prevention) solution:

@scottalanmiller said in DLP (Data Loss Prevention) solution:

@Dashrender said in DLP (Data Loss Prevention) solution:

Ultimately the client decided it wasn't worth the hassle of buying/deploying DLP just so they could use USB sticks.
Instead - they will email or OD4B or Slack the files around that they nee

So in this case, it seems like the insurance requirement turned out to be a good thing. Pushed them to do things in a controlled, logical way rather than a crufty, silly, legacy way.

yes - sure, that's true, but come on, we both know that's not what the real intention of this request is/was - or at least I personally don't believe that someone at the insurance company has a personal vendetta against USB storage - but really, they are trying to prevent insurance data from being leaked... and when they were considering how things get leaked - they crazily started and stopped with USB storage.

So wouldn't it be prudent to inform your insurance that data can be emailed, printed, dropbox'd, OD4B etc and that there is no way to control each of these and still operate the business?

@mike-davis said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@scottalanmiller said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

I'm the opposite, the gov't should put everyone through college. It's the picking and choosing that is the problem.

This is something that is often overlooked. People often site Finland as having free college - and they do - but they don't tell the whole story. Finland's department of education realized that if any more than 69% of the population goes to college, they won't have enough blue collar workers, so they have national entrance exams. If you don't do well there, you don't go to college.

But you also have to realize that not everyone in a "college for everyone" approach would go, even if offered. You'd also have grade maintenance programs to ensure that the people attending public funded college are actually going to be valued individuals in the future.

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Driving home from St. Louis and dealing with my 11yo causing drama.

Better than a 9 year old setting a house on fire and killing 5, being charged with murder.

@Dashrender so you are or aren't going to be superglueing the USB ports?

@penguinwrangler said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@momurda no it is not taxed as income. https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service/questions

Even worse! Meaning they are just giving you an extra $63K over the term. Go find a job that pays that extra money per year and pay your debts.

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

you can see what appears to be a car in a retention pond that is flanked by homes.

And no one has noticed a car in this pond for 22 years?! It's not so far in the water that it isn't plainly visible..

@Dashrender said in KB4512941 might break 1903 search:

If you've disabled cortana or Bing search in 1903, then KB4512941 might cause your local filesystem searches to have issues and high CPU usage.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search

Make BingSearchEnabled = 1

This enables Bing Search.

Um not to sound like a dick, but who the hell uses Bing Search? And more importantly if a superbly low used feature is breaking your computer, it's time to remove said feature.

Stupid MS.

But good fix.

I agree higher education will and does better the community for everyone. I don't agree in handouts to remove someone's responsibility to something they agreed too.

@scottalanmiller you're only an hour behind me?

@PhlipElder said in AWS Catastrophic Data Loss:

@DustinB3403 said in AWS Catastrophic Data Loss:

@PhlipElder said in AWS Catastrophic Data Loss:

@DustinB3403 said in AWS Catastrophic Data Loss:

@PhlipElder said in AWS Catastrophic Data Loss:

Most of our clients have had 100% up-time across solution sets for years and in some cases we're coming up on decades.

Really, decades of uptime. Not a single bad ram module, raid failure, CPU, PSU or MB issue. No site issues (fire, earthquake, tornado etc) in all that time.

@PhlipElder said in AWS Catastrophic Data Loss:

Cloud can't touch that. Period.

You're full of it.

I'm quite proud of our record. It's a testament to the amount of time and money put in to research, proof, and thrash the solution sets we've sold over the years. We don't sell anything we first don't proof.

So you're using technology that is at least a decade old for every one of your customers, because by your own word you can't possibly have had the time to test anything from this year and sold it to a customer!

Not sure how that conclusion came about but far from it.

We've had plenty of NDAs over the years to proof with upcoming tech so that we're on the right page and current.

You've said you've tested everything that you sell. How could this possibly be true to make claims of decades worth of up-time. Power supplies fail, switches die, disks die, MB's die, sites lose power (which people still have jobs to do - just because the lights are out. . .)

So you're still full of it. Not to mention performing any update will eventually require a restart. Windows updates, file server migrations etc. All require some downtime.

@momurda said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

That isnt how it works from @PenguinWrangler description.
The forgiveness will be taxed as income, probably at the rate bonuses/lottery income, much higher than regular income unless he is making tons of money(he isnt if working for feds).
He is essentially an indentured servant to the federal government for the next decade.

Also, people saying the government shouldnt be spending money on education, LOL.
It should be the highest expenditure of the federal government and local governments.
It should dwarf the War Department's budget.

Spending on education is fine, spending to remove debt that someone agreed to is that individual persons responsibility. Not the public's responsibility.

@scottalanmiller Isn't it like 7AM where you're at?

@PhlipElder said in AWS Catastrophic Data Loss:

@DustinB3403 said in AWS Catastrophic Data Loss:

@PhlipElder said in AWS Catastrophic Data Loss:

Most of our clients have had 100% up-time across solution sets for years and in some cases we're coming up on decades.

Really, decades of uptime. Not a single bad ram module, raid failure, CPU, PSU or MB issue. No site issues (fire, earthquake, tornado etc) in all that time.

@PhlipElder said in AWS Catastrophic Data Loss:

Cloud can't touch that. Period.

You're full of it.

I'm quite proud of our record. It's a testament to the amount of time and money put in to research, proof, and thrash the solution sets we've sold over the years. We don't sell anything we first don't proof.

So you're using technology that is at least a decade old for every one of your customers, because by your own word you can't possibly have had the time to test anything from this year and sold it to a customer!

@momurda said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

That isnt how it works from @PenguinWrangler description.
The forgiveness will be taxed as income, probably at the rate bonuses/lottery income, much higher than regular income unless he is making tons of money(he isnt if working for feds).
He is essentially an indentured servant to the federal government for the next decade.

Again, this is still not a public issue.

His failure to be able to find a decent paying position has no bearing the loans he agreed to at the start of college. That is his debt.

Even if he is being taxed on this money at some insane rate, he's still being released from $63,000 of debt.

If he went to public college those loans may have been total $30,000 for a 2 year degree, which is way the hell cheaper.

Not my problem to pay for his or anyone's choice of going to a private college and not finding that sweet sweet money bags job to pay off the debt that they agreed too.

Drawing up some plans on how to rearrange and backup our shares, especially for our large file users <4GB. Since those are the biggest trouble items we have to deal with today.