@scottalanmiller Thanks. I was thinking that but the switch seemed pretty small in terms of port density.

As someone who does not have an account, I do not see the SATA option anywhere.

Compute shows all SSD:

Block storage shows a slider with only SSD options:

Reading ML forums

No maintenance for me this weekend. We had a ton of orders (great for business) bad for downtime/maintenance and people are working to ship them on last day of the month. I did manage to outlast everyone last night to replace an Eaton ATS.

@scottalanmiller I'll bring some popcorn.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

On the prep call for the CloudFlare / DDoS webinar on Spiceworks. Sign up and watch me, I'll be on in 20 minutes.

would have liked to see this. Recordings available later?

@Jason And up to about a year ago, I believe, IT/O365 admins were not able to access the page with which devices a user had installed Office onto. I found that quite odd and nonsensical.

Thanks, Provantage. $952.25 for 128 GB of legit DELL RAM, Shipped. 16x8GB (DELL part number A6996808). The only thing that kinda sucks is that because I am in CA, they have to do a weird roundabout shipping to their Ohio warehouse first, then out to me.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

I guess the hard part is - how do you set real workable metrics on work to ensure people are working but not having unrealistic expectations.

Well, you have two core means that most places use...

• Other people as a baseline. If people are below average, they need to stay close to the baseline. If they are above the baseline, who cares why or if they do it in one hour instead of in ten. Be happy that you have a good performer because it means that they could demand WAY more money from you if they wanted to.
• Negotiate for a rate of work. This is how most places work. You want X output, they want Y money. You meet at a rate of each that makes each other happy.

When I worked for the big bank, they could not afford my seven figure rate, so in exchange I was on call all the time and only worked fifteen hours a week. I was paid at their cap. I could drink (and did) and go home and watch movies and whatever. They got an employee that they couldn't afford otherwise and I got a schedule that worked for me. Firing me would have made no sense, at fifteen hours a week I pulled the weight of several full time people.

You, sir, have arrived.

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Trying hard on a new record for tissue usage. Currently measured in tissues / minute.

Yikes. I still have a cough from a horrible head and chest cold that started on December 19th.

@scottalanmiller said:

@wrx7m said:

@scottalanmiller Also, I am one of the people who does tons of work at all hours of the day and night but sometimes I do have things going on during office hours that aren't necessarily work-related but I get my work done and am constantly coming up with ways to improve and learn (i.e. posting on IT forums). Fortunately, my boss (who does not have any technical background) is very easy to work for in most cases because he lets me do things the way I want.

Right, so you can appreciate how having those metrics out there could be very, very damaging as someone might claim that you don't do any work based on them.

I totally do and that is why I am very specific about letting them know when they request this information that it is very misleading. I would rather not have to deal with any of that stuff. If employees aren't getting stuff done and it isn't a training issue, let them go.

LMAO
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The only level of control I want is for people not to be able to browse notoriously potentially infected sites and those that can potentially create legal issues.

@momurda said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller How is unique visitor counted? Once per day for people like me who visit all day long? Once per month?

I think that makes you a resident, not a visitor

@scottalanmiller Ha! I meant to say working at the level asking for more responsibilities, in addition to what your current role requires.

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

helping global warming. walk into room i must sit in today. it stinks. open window, 4 degrees outside. turn on heater, 26 degrees on that. let's blow up the world!

It took me a second. Must be southern hemisphere lol

Just finished some GPO clean-ups and reworking. Some Windows 7 settings interfere with Windows 10, so it was time to separate the GPOs and use the WMI filters for OS version.

@Carnival-Boy I agree. Nothing is 100% certain except failures will happen. Systems and services are much more reliable than they used to be but no matter where the system or service resides there can be a problem. Ideally, hosted services provide economies of scale that you can't get without huge expenditures, in-house, which usually mitigate a lot more risk and generate more reward.

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Watching whilst working.

@scottalanmiller I would also say people have the same view of MS Windows updates. There have been several over the past couple of years that have really screwed some people. Just like a hosted outage can affect a large number of users, so can these updates. The main difference, for many, is they have a degree of control over when/if the updates are applied but is not necessarily true of hosted services. So when something breaks it tends to be more surprising because they weren't expecting a change.