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Fixing to start reading my new book, "Kvm Virtualization Cookbook" at lunch

Thanks Scott for all these videos. You cleared up a lot of actual and implied questions, along with correcting my erroneous thought process. Much appreciated. I'll be questioning things I read much more now.

@LilAng lol I always assume a comment I made is successful when I get an eyeroll so I can appreciate this!

@scottalanmiller I'm the same way, I get that habit from my Av days. I bought Allen & Heath mixing boards, QSC amps, and small Community speakers. This is all professional equipment and it had more options and lasted a lot longer. In fact all those pieces are still working today.

@LilAng Of course he knows, thats why its fun:smiling_face_with_halo:

One thing I found about portable apps is occasionally a smarter user will install these. Yeah, it gets around our permissions in Ad because they do not modify the registry. so I do not like them for that reason. I can't have users installing whatever they want.

That is awesome! Good job integrating that with some newer technology.

@scottalanmiller said in Why I Choose LibreOffice:

It's totally free. This is a bigger deal than it seems because it means no time spent dealing with licenses, or counting deployments or deciding which people qualify for tools or not. We just deploy across the board, automatically.

This is a huge deal. Why isn't this more important to everyone? I mean I know LibreOffice and Zoho docs do not have all the features that MS office does, but everyone knows those features are never used, by anyone. Certainly no one with my users. So we and many other organizations are paying for features that are never touched. That is a lot of money paid for nothing year after year.

Hah, funny. I was looking up something for c++ and saw one of my own articles is ranked #2 on google for beginning c++

@scottalanmiller said in Why I Choose LibreOffice:

The other being our terminal server. Yes, you can put MSO on a TS, but it's a pain. We have customers doing this and it's a licensing headache. LO, just works.

Yeah not having to deal with licensing compliance and having it cost so much money for an organization are real drawbacks to using it. If I was in charge I would have people use whatever makes sense. So 90% or more would be on LibreOffice or something similar and the occasional power user, if they demonstrated a need, we could easily just pay for those few power users that needed something in MS office. I would also do this for several of our Microsoft products. Use them only for people that needed. Save all that money and spend a fraction of it on training people how to be proper users and save the rest. We would come out very far ahead financially.

@JaredBusch I have not seen that. I must correct that.

Morning all. Been so busy lately as I'm doing two peoples jobs and traveling between locations. Just caught up on one thread here, 900 more to go, which probably won't happen ever at this point lol

Setup up Publii and imported one of my Wordpress sites. Pretty nice.

Found the craft beer garden at Dallas zoo and a big Christmas tree.!

Testing the win_updates module in Ansible on a couple test systems here to better update the Windows systems here.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20191218-film-review-star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker

Haha what a review. I've never liked Abrahams so it isnt a surprise. I agree with the last paragraph especially. Lucas had a great imagination and it showed in his movies.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I put 7 down because 1) I was in front of my computer until 4:00 pm 2) i spent time taking care of my son as well which would equal 2 hours of the work day not worked.

1. When did you start?

Started at 8:00

2. Not relevant. They can't stop paying you when someone talks to you at the water cooler or you get distracted by work conversations. Those things happen at the office or at home, they are part of your work day. When in the office you get loads and loads of time that you can't answer the phone, get to emails, etc. It's just normal day.

That's fair.

So definitely an eight hour day. There has to be some kind of soft limit, like stepping away for half of the day and not being available is one thing, but being slightly unavailable for a short period of time is just normal work day stuff.

so walking away from work to help my son get lunch, get him drinks, etc through out the day would equate to the same time away from my desk at work or stuck in conversations with other people.

Yes exactly. If something had come up that was important during that time you probably would have delayed the other things. You were available to work and often do therefore you should claim that time.

Morning everyone. First day back after being out for two weeks from a surgery. Trying, and failing, to catch up lol.

@hobbit666 Yeah I just got their smartwatch too. Its the GT. I love it. Just a small computer on your wrist. I was hesitant for a long time but finally I thought what the heck and tried it. I really like this thing. It has like 10 different watch faces you can choose from with different information on them so you can choose what you care about. It has a lot of built in software I havent even explored all of it. The other night I was cooking rice and needed a timer so remembered it had one and when I opened it it had presets for 1, 2, 5, 10, 15, 20, and 30 min. I chose one and off I went. Dont have to listen for the timer anymore because it just vibrates on my wrist now. I guess what I'm saying is everything they just seems well thought out.

@mlnews This was in textbooks 20 years ago, I dont understand how this is news from those Scientists. I'll read article soon.