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@dashrender said in Windows 10 Reset password:

did you pull the bitlocker key out of AD somewhere? or was it bitlockered outside of AD and you had it printed out?

I keep all of my bitlocker keys on a separate NAS. I don't know enough about storing the keys inside AD to feel comfortable with doing that yet.

@nerdydad said in SodiumSuite Pricing Model:

Like...free forever, no restrictions? How are you going to monetize this? Ads such as ML?

Discussed has been ads and extra services such as logging.

@nerdydad said in Password Managers:

I finally took the plunge and put my stuff on BitWarden.

LP was too persistent about wanting to autofill for me and ALWAYS closing sessions, forcing me to login more than I would have liked.

Yeah DL liked to crash occasionally too. The Windows app was especially prone to crashing. There were several times where I had to do full reboots to be able to use DL again.

Bitwarden has yet to crash on me.

Veeam's free monitor is decent.

The built-in stuff works great too. (perfmon)

Just an overlook: https://aws.amazon.com/it/blogs/aws/glacier-vault-lock/ .

It should be cheaper than tapes or HDD for that range of data.

I guess the ISP thing never happened.

@john-nicholson said in Company Benefits:

@scottalanmiller said in Company Benefits:

@dashrender said in Company Benefits:

@john-nicholson said in Company Benefits:

They have challenges at large companies because managers don't want to have the hard conversation and cut someone's bonus who didn't perform so they can pay someone who DID perform.

Eh? That whole pool thing is just crap to me. That company I always relate back to - they have a yearly, I guess I'll call it raise pool. It's like 2-8% of the entire teams salary into a single pool.

Let's assume 2% was put in the pool. The top earner made $210K/y and the bottom guy made $120K/y. Let's also assume that the top guy just did a stellar job this year, and the boss wants to give him 5%. If he does this, he has to allocate many of the 2% from the $120K/yr guys to cover that one $210 guy, basically cutting the $120K guys completely off (or at least someone on the team is getting nothing or next to nothing). I'm sure someone here thinks this is OK, I don't. I know this isn't about bonuses, this is about annual raises. And even that is a crap thing! Raises should be tied to two separate things - cost of living adjustments (not really a raise, just keeping the status quo) and merit increases (raises).

Much like forced ranking.

Forced rankings are dumb, but never having any layoffs means large companies starts to accumulate bozos as better workers will go somewhere that will reward success and managers try to amass huge armies of reports to justify bigger titles. Layoff's force companies to re-evaluate projects and departments and enable them to hire and double down on growth area's.

I agree. Forced ranking was super terrible in a three person team where two people knew they would be kept and one knew they would be let go. The two would always want to hire someone TO BE FIRED each year to make sure that they were not the one to be let go. Forced ranking forces good people to avoid the company, bad people to cycle through and mediocre people to focus on keeping good people out.

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I will post response to this but on new topic, based on my experience with docker, but in a new thread.
https://mangolassi.it/topic/14536/i-really-dont-see-docker-as-stable-and-perhaps-neither-should-you

The summary of it, dont use Docker for your new project.

Also FREE training books are below:
https://www.ubnt.com/download/trainings/

@eddiejennings said in FOSS Software (Alternatives of paid ones):

I was going to start a post series getting folks suggestions for this. Alas, I became distracted.

You still can.

I had sling.tv subscription over a year ago and it was horrible experience. Initially everything worked just fine, but about 2 weeks into, outages started happening every evening. AMC or Epix was impossible to watch. Picture quality also wasn't the best, someone reverse-engineered their streams to find it wasn't even 720p. We switched to PS Vue after 3 months, it currently is $55/mo for one of the higher packages (I think they have 4 available). There's no comparison in quality and reliability, Sony wins here.

@scottalanmiller said in Jawbone files for liquidation:

I doubt that anyone will notice 🙂

A few years ago when I was researching which fitness band I wanted they were in every review but I never saw anyone wearing one in real life.

talking about number of packages, this has always been my reference:
http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/

if a distro has it packaged it is quite sure they have anything 😛

both debian and suse have it.

@dbeato said in SW First Post Thread:

@scottalanmiller I should write a script on it 😛

Not a bad idea. Make a collection of links to everyone's first post!

Anyone seen ExaGrid pricing?

@coliver said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:

@NerdyDad said in Pure Accelerate conference - Worth going to?:

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Going to turn your storage into a file server.

Why wouldn't you just bring up a Linux SMB or Windows server? I can't imagine why you would want user access directly to the hardware?

Thank you. That doesn't make sense to me at all either.

Managing Servers, Desktops and Hyper-V via PowerShell.