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@scottalanmiller said in What is the Upside to VMware to the SMB?:

@John-Nicholson said in What is the Upside to VMware to the SMB?:

@scottalanmiller Softlayer will offer someone with a few hundred a month 24/7 service. If your wanting burst API driven bare metal with over 20 pops around the world who would you use?

Soft layer throws in monitoring, and free private transit between their pops so when comparing price to something else its kinda apples/oranges to look at raw costs vs. someone like AWS who charges per GB even between zones.

A few hundred for dedicated hardware? What kind of hardware is it? (Lenovo, I would fear.)

Softlayer is a Dell shop, if I remember correctly.

We are a Dell blade shop. Big red V was an HP shop, although using Dell for everything else. Rackspace uses Dell AFAIK and other stuff, like Tyan white boxes for POWER.

@scottalanmiller said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

But we lack the numbers as to average interest rate... we only know that it is greater than 4.3%. But is it 4.4% or 7.9% or, likely, somewhere in between? Hard to say.

This is why I say don't spout about shit you don't know about.

You didn't even know the difference between subsidized/unsubsidized federal loans and private loans. Then there is what it says it costs and what you actually pay. Then there is the real amount you borrow to do school. Not to mention this magical money fairy bringing oodles of cash when you are 18.

Your research is flawed, that's all I'm going to say about this.

@scottalanmiller said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

@PSX_Defector said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

$1400 a month would be for the $135K number you are throwing around with a nutso 30 year note at usury rates of 8%.

The rate that I used was 4.3%, the one directly from the US Department of Education that is the lowest one available. Grad students and professionals all have to pay higher rates. I specifically went for the most conservative possible numbers to ensure that you couldn't argue that I used an artificially high number.

Which is for the subsidized loans. Which is capped at $3500 per year. Total cap is $9K per year for both for undergrad.

https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/types/loans/subsidized-unsubsidized

The rest if you were to use your numbers would be on private loans, which are not at 4.3%. Not usually 8%, but not by much.

@scottalanmiller said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

@PSX_Defector said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

@scottalanmiller said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

@PSX_Defector said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

@scottalanmiller said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

The more that they have to borrow, the harder it is to pay back. So that's why I showed how devastating a student loan would be on average.

Then use the average, not some DeVry jizz fest number.

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/05/08/congratulations-class-of-2015-youre-the-most-indebted-ever-for-now/

$135K is insane. $35K is nuts, but that's the cost of a new car now, not impossible to pay off. Repayment would be on 30 years, not 85, making the note somewhere around $1400 a month if the rate was good. Even if someone racked up a huge number, it would most certainly fall under the rule of allowing someone to discharge it in Chapter 7.

No matter how insane it feels, those are the average numbers.

Did you not read the WSJ article?

Average for 2015 is $35K. $135K is insanity, cherry picked bullshit numbers to make your argument.

Wasn't cherry picked at all, it was the number I found when I looked it up. I did not find a lower number.

IOW, you read a blog verses the Wall Street Fucking Journal. Someone with an agenda versus someone who is paid to research this shit day in and day out.

$135K is the MSRP for a for-profit, two year "school" like ITT Tech. The MSRP for Texas A&M is $27K a year. http://admissions.tamu.edu/freshman/cost

Only suckers pay MSRP.

@scottalanmiller said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

@PSX_Defector said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

@scottalanmiller said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

The more that they have to borrow, the harder it is to pay back. So that's why I showed how devastating a student loan would be on average.

Then use the average, not some DeVry jizz fest number.

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/05/08/congratulations-class-of-2015-youre-the-most-indebted-ever-for-now/

$135K is insane. $35K is nuts, but that's the cost of a new car now, not impossible to pay off. Repayment would be on 30 years, not 85, making the note somewhere around $1400 a month if the rate was good. Even if someone racked up a huge number, it would most certainly fall under the rule of allowing someone to discharge it in Chapter 7.

No matter how insane it feels, those are the average numbers.

Did you not read the WSJ article?

Average for 2015 is $35K. $135K is insanity, cherry picked bullshit numbers to make your argument.

@scottalanmiller said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

@PSX_Defector said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

$35K is nuts, but that's the cost of a new car now, not impossible to pay off. Repayment would be on 30 years, not 85, making the note somewhere around $1400 a month if the rate was good.

Absolutely, but keep in mind that those are payments that people not having gone to college can, on average, make as well.

Guess I wasn't clear.

$1400 a month would be for the $135K number you are throwing around with a nutso 30 year note at usury rates of 8%. $35K would be somewhere around $250 a month on a 30 year repayment plan. $35K would most likely be on a 10 year plan, making the payment $425. Same $135K would be $1600. Using the average, the real average, is much more realistic. Crazy, but not insurmountable. And certainly more possible with a BS from Texas A&M in your hand than a BA from the school of hard knocks.

Not getting into this magic saving of huge sums of money when you are starting to work. That's utter bullshit. The only way one could do that at 18 to 22 would be to either slang rock out on the streets or you came out of the golden crotch of someone already rich. Someone would have to be clearing $27K a year NET before that could even start to make sense. Assuming the standard deduction for federal plus a low tax state you would need to not have a single expense and make $16/hr from the get-go just to get to that number. And since we live in the real world, we need a place to live and eat, tack on ~$1500 a month for bare expenses.

Using all these numbers, you expect a person fresh out of high school, without a golden crotch to lean back on, to make $60K out the fucking gate?

No, only through nepotism would that happen. Which leads to the real crux of the argument. It doesn't matter how hard you work, or how good you are at what you do. Your fate is decided well before you even attempt it. Sure, some people can somehow break loose and become richer than astronauts. But the only surefire way to make lots of money is to come from money to begin with. Hence why I will probably never have millions.

@scottalanmiller said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

The more that they have to borrow, the harder it is to pay back. So that's why I showed how devastating a student loan would be on average.

Then use the average, not some DeVry jizz fest number.

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/05/08/congratulations-class-of-2015-youre-the-most-indebted-ever-for-now/

$135K is insane. $35K is nuts, but that's the cost of a new car now, not impossible to pay off. Repayment would be on 30 years, not 85, making the note somewhere around $1400 a month if the rate was good. Even if someone racked up a huge number, it would most certainly fall under the rule of allowing someone to discharge it in Chapter 7.

@scottalanmiller said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

People with higher per year incomes pay much, much higher tax rates.

From $50K to $100K, my effective tax rate went down from ~18% to ~17%. In 2014, where I had tons of W2-G income I was able to knock it down to an effective 15%. My nominal tax bracket is currently at 25% and won't go higher until I make $300K+.

So unless you literally have no deductions, no, it's not "much, much higher". And since you speak about student loans, the interest is deductible even if you don't itemize. So $2500 off your AGI, not bad when you are making $40K.

https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc456.html

@Dashrender said in Scale Computing Brings First Fully Featured Sub-$25,000 Flash Solution to SMB Market:

Do you really need SAS interface? Does it provide that much more xyz over the SATA interface?

Double the bandwidth and full duplex. A lot closer to PCI-E than SATA is.

All the current SATA SSDs are at peak performance with the SATA bus, with the pipe being the limiter. SAS is the next logical step for making things run faster in enterprise. PCI-E offers crazy nuts performance, but the infrastructure currently available to utilize it is not nearly as expansive as SAS. You can add 24 disks in SAS with one cable versus PCI-E with as many lanes you can supply.

SATA is perfectly fine for 90% of what people do. It's the 8% that need something more that would need SAS based while the last 2% will need PCI-E performance.

@nadnerB said in Scale Computing Brings First Fully Featured Sub-$25,000 Flash Solution to SMB Market:

Perhaps, I should be thinking of media and graphics businesses more than roller shutter and gardening tool businesses.

You should be thinking gardening tool business.

The main reason to use SSDs is for database IOPS. SMBs seem to have some kind of aversion to outsourcing stuff to other providers so they hobble along on 7200RPM SATA drives because "Oh I don't need that". So when the WORX Aerocart takes off and people are buying them off your site left and right, you can't keep up because the database is getting choked by requests.

If you hosted your shit with us, you would be getting nothing but SSDs. But since SMBs love to keep shit inhouse, this is a great option and dirt cheap for what it is. Off the shelf, non-custom SSDs makes for a fast deployment and future proofing. So when those Samsung 950Pro's come down in price and in SAS interfaces, you got yourself a monster database system with just the minimum of swapping the disks around.

@ntoxicator said in Microsoft update KB3159398:

call me old school.. But sysprep is waste of time -- much faster to get baseline machine and create images...

Considering sysprep has existed since Windows 2000, someone is just being lazy. If you said Ghostwalker, that's old school and hasn't worked in years.

Your GPOs broke because the patch addressed Keberos authentication and GPO.

https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/MS16-072

Since you have the same SID on all those boxes, whomever grabbed the token first won. All my clients didn't have a single problem with this. Between the hundreds of domains, I haven't heard a single person complain about GPOs. And we have 15 domains just for our corp environment, not to mention the 50 or so with customers VMs.

In other words, work shit right and shit works right.

@mlnews said in First Numbers from CloudFlare:

Serbia gets talked about a lot, perhaps that has caused us to show up there enough to get a lot of traffic?

I'm pretty sure there is one person for the cause of that.

https://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/dominowiki.nsf/dx/Importing_Data_from_Notes_Database(.nsf_File)_into_Excel_.xls_File

Hope your shit is up to date, the last time I tried to do this I was running Domino 4 and I didn't have an OBDC driver to leverage.

Files are also flat, so you will need to rebuild your relationships if you have them. If all you need is the data and don't plan on adding to it, export it out into Excel spreadsheets and format accordingly.

@tonyshowoff said in Homeschool Resources:

My biggest criticism of homeschooling is that parents often avoid topics they don't understand or just don't teach them at all.

I would cite the documentary "The Waterboy" for full examples of this.

@scottalanmiller said in Don't Stay in School:

It's a single country's oversight, a single accreditation system - if anyone does it, the bar is lowered.

This is why you shouldn't talk about shit you don't know about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_accreditation

There is no single accreditation system. The "national" accreditation "systems" are used by for-profit diploma mills like DeVry and UoPHX. Each region uses their own standards and are used as the benchmark of a educational institution.

The process is more detailed than a SOX compliance audit. I've done both.

You want to knock down the national ones? Fine, it's been a hot topic within higher ed for a long time. We know they are stupid, but people have been doing this crap for centuries. International Business Machines (IBM) is a different company than International Baccalaureate Ministries (IBM). But don't dare lump their lax standards against the regional accreditation boards that have been doing this shit for a long time. And if you can't tell the difference between the two, you deserve what you get.

When India does this shit:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703515504576142092863219826

The weight of the argument that US schools are shit is complete bullshit. Even if US education systems were as bad as you think, other countries are far, far, far worse.

@scottalanmiller said in Linux skills are hard to find:

@PSX_Defector said in Linux skills are hard to find:

@scottalanmiller said in Linux skills are hard to find:

@PSX_Defector said:

Yeah, Windows is so fast on how it does things. Never mind the same driver method has been used since Windows 98. Or that the same command line utilities still work from NT 3.51. Or that Explorer hasn't changed since NT 4.0.

Windows 98 wasn't even the same OS family! Things have changed a LOT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Driver_Model

You were saying?

So one thing hasn't changed since 1998? I don't see how this supports that things don't change. Yes, since 2000 the model hasn't changed. That's great, but not impressive. And it is only one thing and it is a cross-OS item.

Windows is evolutionary and revolutionary. There are tons of things from Windows 95 still in use, e.g. appwiz.cpl and Windows key shortcuts. There are tons of changes under the hood and look/feel is drastically changed from the desktop. But at the core, the same things I've done for close to 20 years still works. Even in Windows 10, Win+R brings up the run line, Win+Pause/Break brings up the system properties, cmd processes a batch file the same, and appwiz.cpl brings me the Programs install/uninstall. On the server side, dcpromo (from NT 4.0) brings up domain functions, MMC still runs all the management functions, and GPO items still refer to 2000 a lot.

You say Windows changes too much. I say that is complete and utter bullshit spouted by the same mentality that drives our Linux admins to never touch Windows.

@scottalanmiller said in Linux skills are hard to find:

@PSX_Defector said:

Take for example log reviews. Many of our Linux people cannot comprehend not using grep. Or even something as simple as disk cleanup. The C:\ drive is almost full, let's try nothing! Many don't even know what C:$Recyclin.Bin is, let alone empty it.

Where are you finding these people? I've never found a Linux admin that can't do Windows. Complain that it is convoluted, slow and silly, of course. But I don't know any that don't support Windows on the side and do so, mostly, in their sleep.

Half work at AWS, the other half at SoftLayer. They are complete and utter assholes when it comes to Windows.

It's rare to find anyone who is competent in both at a high level. I can find goons all day long.

@scottalanmiller said in Linux skills are hard to find:

@PSX_Defector said:

Yeah, Windows is so fast on how it does things. Never mind the same driver method has been used since Windows 98. Or that the same command line utilities still work from NT 3.51. Or that Explorer hasn't changed since NT 4.0.

Windows 98 wasn't even the same OS family! Things have changed a LOT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Driver_Model

You were saying?

@scottalanmiller said in Linux skills are hard to find:

@Dashrender said:

My question - why would you think that - was in regard to Jason's assumption that more people would like Linux - why would he think that?

Ah, they would like it because it is easier to learn, the knowledge lasts longer (Linux takes less retraining than Windows does as it changes more slowly)

Yeah, Windows is so fast on how it does things. Never mind the same driver method has been used since Windows 98. Or that the same command line utilities still work from NT 3.51. Or that Explorer hasn't changed since NT 4.0.

Oh, I know, SQL Server. That certainly changes every revision. Oh wait, the only thing introduced recently is AAG. Same ol' SQL Server Management Studio from 2003. Same old database stuff since 6.5. Everything else is under the hood enhancements.

Yeah, Windows is hard because it changes so much. To hell with the Start menu!

@scottalanmiller said in Linux skills are hard to find:

@PSX_Defector said:

We have the opposite problem. Linux people who have been in multi-tenant environments are a dime a dozen. Windows people worth a damn have been hard to find.

I agree. Linux people who know large scale management are far, far more common than Windows ones. But you can normally leverage Linux people for Windows work in most cases.

No, because Linux people are assholes and bitch/whine/complain if they have to do anything related to Microsoft at all.

Take for example log reviews. Many of our Linux people cannot comprehend not using grep. Or even something as simple as disk cleanup. The C:\ drive is almost full, let's try nothing! Many don't even know what C:$Recyclin.Bin is, let alone empty it.

I can do lots of things in both types of environments, but that's because I'm old and have seen it all. I stick with Microsoft because its more lucrative, being that people expect if you know Windows then you know SQL, Sharepoint, Exchange, and XBox. Opens more doors for me.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender trying to hire Linux is hard. The number of people with the skills is small and anyone who has them is already employed. So the market of available people is tiny.

We have the opposite problem. Linux people who have been in multi-tenant environments are a dime a dozen. Windows people worth a damn have been hard to find.