@mr-jones said in SAMIT: The Roles of Web Hosting:

@scottalanmiller I don't know how new any of this is, but I'm really digging the transitions and logo stuff you got going on. It's got the RGB feel to it, but not over the top.

All that stuff is done by our marketing team in La Paz!

@gotwf said in MangoLassi: Seven Years:

@scottalanmiller Lots of newness in 16.x. Been kicking it's tires a bit myself as of late. But... ya' know... 1.17 is almost here! 😜

Congrats & Happy Anniversary!

Yeah, 17 already in beta!

@scottalanmiller Thanks! It had me in a sad state for weeks....

@dafyre said in Bad Pings from Windows, Good from Linux:

How old is this IOGear device? Could it be a bug in the IOGear's firmware that dislikes (recent changes to) Windows? ...I mean we know Microsoft never breaks printing, right?

:face_with_tears_of_joy:

@Pete-S said in Adding 2FA to BookStack Wiki:

And if the client for instance use google for email (workplace) then they already have an SSO solution without needing anything extra.

They have no SSO source right now.

@Pete-S said in MariaDB Package Issues While Updating from CentOS 7 to CentOS 8:

But nobody in their right mind...

...uses LTS releases. So we have to accept we are working from a crippled situation anytime that this comes up. It means we are already dealing with politics over function. So knowing that, it should explain why we have to deal with what we have to deal with. Would have been super fast to do a fresh install.

But you'd not do a fresh install of CentOS 8 or Streams if it wasn't for politics. We'd be putting in Fedora, Ubuntu, or OpenSuse. So not getting to do a fresh install is just one artefact of many when doing what's best for the application platform isn't what drives decision making.

@DustinB3403 said in Solarwinds Blames Intern for Laughable Password:

@scottalanmiller said in Solarwinds Blames Intern for Laughable Password:

@IRJ said in Solarwinds Blames Intern for Laughable Password:

They should be required to do audits and pen testing yearly due to requirements of government systems. It sounds like solar winds worked with pen testing firms that that just gave passing grades. Sometimes organizations purposely hire bad security talent so they don't get exposed as doing a bad job.

You mean like how the government hires Solarwinds?

I have a client that uses at least one solar wind product and I shudder....

Me too.

@DustinB3403 said in Microsoft Hid Known Vulnerability According to Senator:

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Hid Known Vulnerability According to Senator:

@Dashrender said in Microsoft Hid Known Vulnerability According to Senator:

you're saying that they can't ever be wrong in their releases?

No, I'm saying that whether right or wrong is irrelevant. That it happened is what matters. Deciding if it happened accidentally or on purpose is a different discussion. Things that happen on accident doesn't make them not have happened.

Like teen pregnancy....

LOL, exactly.

@scottalanmiller said in LastPass Goes As Predicted Like LogMeIn:

@Dashrender said in LastPass Goes As Predicted Like LogMeIn:

@scottalanmiller said in LastPass Goes As Predicted Like LogMeIn:

@Dashrender said in LastPass Goes As Predicted Like LogMeIn:

@scottalanmiller said in LastPass Goes As Predicted Like LogMeIn:

@Dashrender said in LastPass Goes As Predicted Like LogMeIn:

@travisdh1 said in LastPass Goes As Predicted Like LogMeIn:

@Dashrender said in LastPass Goes As Predicted Like LogMeIn:

@Pete-S said in LastPass Goes As Predicted Like LogMeIn:

@Dashrender said in LastPass Goes As Predicted Like LogMeIn:

from the sounds of it - the marketing wasn't paying off, at least not in their opinion.

They probably looking at the conversion rate from free to paying customer.

If 99% of all free users are happy with the free version then they need to remove features from the free version or remove it altogether. Or adjust their business model.

The marketing is of no value if it's successful, but only ever generates "customers" using the free version.
A lot of SaaS companies are run on venture capitalist money though and generates no profit, only losses. But that can never go on forever. But some have deep pockets. I think it took Spotify 10 years to have their first quarter that was not in the red. On a yearly basis they still never have been profitable.

Yeah that kind of crap is some thing I simply do not understand why the investors continue to pour more money on that fire. Just see that money burn

Spotify has nothing on Uber. Uber looses money on every ride still. The business model was setup to take advantage of driverless vehicles, and that's taking longer than they expected to happen. In the meantime, they keep getting the funding to continue operating.

Now this is somethign I also don't understand... Are we assuming the cost of the drivers AND administrator/IT staff for the company cost more than the app brings in? that just seems like a crazy idea.. but yet I know it must be true... I wonder what make their costs SOOOO expensive? is there that much need to continue updating the app, are the servers needed to keep the platform running THAT expensive?

For Uber, the app cost is trivial. Even if it is $50m USD a year, that's nothing in their revenue. Their costs are around payroll, payment processing, legal teams, marketing, market creation, insurance, etc.

Think about trying to make Uber... it might cost you $100m USD just to convince a single city to let you use your product there. The BIG money is in getting the laws and regulations changed to let you exist. The actual app and driving of the cars is background noise to them.

oh yeah - I keep forgetting about the requirement to buy off cities, etc to allow the thing to happen... good point.

And they keep having to enter and leave markets. All that startup cost and advertising and loss leaders, then they limp along for a year or two, then the city decides to make a competing service and kick them out once Uber paid to develop the market. It's rough.

I don't feel this is something cities should be able to do... if you can legally have the business - they they shouldn't be able to stop you....

the whole taxi aspect - selling medallions, - what a raquet!

That's the thing, they stop you by changing if it is legal for you to have a business. That's the problem with government, they change "what is legal" whenever they want.

I want to down vote this because of the gov't, not because of your post 😞

@scottalanmiller that is edgeos syntax.

@JaredBusch said in Fry's Computer Store Chain Now Defunct:

@Dashrender said in Fry's Computer Store Chain Now Defunct:

@pmoncho said in Fry's Computer Store Chain Now Defunct:

@Dashrender said in Fry's Computer Store Chain Now Defunct:

@pmoncho said in Fry's Computer Store Chain Now Defunct:

@Dashrender said in Fry's Computer Store Chain Now Defunct:

@marcinozga said in Fry's Computer Store Chain Now Defunct:

@Dashrender I think they failed because of lack of e-commerce and their prices sucked. Best Buy survived, despite being almost a clone of CC.

Frankly BB just sucks today too. They barely carry anything. I buy mice/keyboards and USB sticks from there all the time because I dont' want to wait for delivery (almost no next day delivery here).

I agree, In mid-late 90's, most of their floor space seemed like it was for music, movie and software CD/DVD's. Now it seems wide open an kinda eerie when they are not busy.

I see mostly TV's and appliances when I scan the place - oh and phones... then they have a smattering of the consumer - rape my network please electronics crap...

That is what I see also. Something inside me keeps telling me, never to buy an appliance from there or anything over the occasional mouse/keyboard, USB wireless and/or SSD drive that is on sale.

I bought a new refrigerator last May, we looked at BB first, but they didn't have what we wanted - used a local furniture place, not sure it would be really any different buying from Nebraska Furniture Mart or BB - or hell Costco.

Our kitchen appliances all came from Ikea. It is all black label of known brands.

But this does remind me - BB was known for getting units from manufactures with unique model numbers so they didn't have to price shop against other vendors - this also caused warranty issues too, if I recall.

Not sure if they are doing that anymore or not.

@flaxking said in SAMIT: The Three Components of Web Hosting:

@scottalanmiller said in SAMIT: The Three Components of Web Hosting:

@flaxking said in SAMIT: The Three Components of Web Hosting:

I'm liking these non-IT technician focused videos.

Thanks! I'm hoping to broaden the audience and make tools that IT staff can either use directly by sharing with management or learn from on how to present to management.

Far too often IT is pressured to make business decisions that other business stakeholders should be involved in.

And vice versa, tons of times untrained people with no IT insight or knowledge make all the critical IT decisions and just have the staff classified as IT deal with the mistakes rather than avoiding them.

@Skyetel said in Phone Outages for February 19, 2021:

Skyetel’s President is addressing this personally, and all options are on the table. He’s, uh, pretty upset.

Hahhhaahahahahhah

I would like to say that I have not spoken to people who disagreed with the title. I would like to, but...

@scottalanmiller said in MS RDS: How Do You Reset Device License Assignment:

how do we reset it to allow for updated devices?

Open "RD Licensing manager", browse for device who's license you want to "revoke", leftclick on it and choose "Revoke license"
As said, up to 20% of total licenses can be revoked before expiry.