I came across these guys while searching for some digital signage hardware-

https://store.immediasys.com/pages/About-Us.html

Has anyone used them?

What if you are already a Veeam customer and use Veeam One?

West Ventura County, CA
Verizon FiOS
75/75
$40/month
Bundled with TV service so this is the cost as shown on the bill after $20 discounts. The discounts are good for 2 years. It was $45 for the first two years so it is a pretty good deal.

Edit: I forgot to mention that I got my work to pay for it, so to me, it is free.

Thanks, SAM! I had my VM installed and ready last night.

@tonyshowoff said:

@wrx7m said:

I hate when vendors gate their pricing.

If they don't tell you how much something costs right away it means it costs too damn much.

That's what I always think.

I kind of look at it from the mention of cloud in a can and it being a "four node cluster" dances around the edges of the HA. To SAM's point and counter to the points of HPE, you would need more than one of these and/or combine it with Azure proper to get the HA aspect down.

@anonymous Yes. More than 2, actually.

@JaredBusch Good call!

@IRJ said in Resume critique:

Bad resume skills look like this:

• Customer Service Oriented
• Microsoft Windows XP, 7, 8.1, 10
• System and Network Troubleshooting
• Network Configuration
• Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu, and Fedora
• Active Directory
• Server Migrations
• VPN
• Cisco Switches

Good Resume Skills would look like this:

• Proficient in Active Directory - Experienced with AD upgrades, migrations, client deployments and domain trusts
• Strong in Linux Administration - Deployments, upgrades, scripting, and management of all common distributions (RHEL , Fedora, Ubuntu, and others)
• Secure Network Implementation - Managed deployments and configuration for routers , switches, VPN devices, all types of firewalls, and more. (Cisco, Palo Alto, Juniper)

I love this format. Going to apply it to my soon-to-be-updated resume. Thanks.

I use Keepass and update via Ninite Pro. And I have never seen anything to do with ads in the 10 years I have been using it.

@anonymous The website is hard to use, although it looks nice and simple. They keep mentioning the running your own controller but I have yet to find the link to download it/instructions on how to implement it. I went around in circles last week going from FAQ to Documentation and back again.

@scottalanmiller The tag and the link back will help a lot.

Interesting read. I hope I never need to use it. Though, I would rather have it and not need it...

@scottalanmiller Yeah, that is for sure. I have also never been a fan of laptop gaming and skipped right over their laptop section and went for the desktops.

Title pretty much sums it up. I was recently reading some threads here about colos and the pricing seems to make sense for some of my workloads. How do I find the best local colo for me?

Just in case it matters... Southwest Ventura County, CA is where I am located.

Congrats! Great IT forum/community.

@DustinB3403 said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:

@wrx7m said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:

Oh thank goodness. I thought this was going to be a sob story post about these people who should be able to earn something even though they made horrible decisions to take out insane student loans for something almost nobody cares about. It's not. It is about people wanting the rest of us to pay them to do something society doesn't really want or need.

These people need a dose of reality and a lesson in the sunk cost fallacy. Cut bait, head into the real world and learn a real skill.

Now at the same time, I do not think teachers are worthless, but teaching is not a societal need, but a societal expectation.

Higher education is expected to be available and had by everyone, but not everyone wants to go to college. They might just want to go and work for a stone mason, and learn how to work with stone.

Its informal but practical education that teaches real world skills.

I agree. Teachers are not worthless. My mother was a teacher her whole life.

Higher education should be just that- higher education. Don't coddle people in their pursuits of degrees or studies that serve no real purpose. There should never be loans given for those degrees. Imagine if people had to pay cash as they went for a degree in something that nobody needs or cares about. I would be very surprised if there weren't less than half the number of people in these self-created conditions.

I would imagine that it has to do with the fact that nobody wanted to use it and nobody knew it existed. I was like, Microsoft Band?

I have been seeing some posts on here regarding Snipe-IT. I am interested in it but currently (and for the past 5+ years) actively/passively use SpiceWorks for inventory. I am the only IT person for an SMB of 85 employees and all sorts of servers, desktops, laptops, mobile devices, printers and all the stuff that goes along with it.

I am only using SpiceWorks for network connected devices that it can scan. Everything that can't automatically be scanned isn't really "tracked" other than a PO with an invoice in a crude FileMaker database with a person's name next to it. Honestly, I haven't even tried to manually enter in assets to SpiceWorks.

Would there be a benefit to use both? Or move from SpiceWorks to Snipe-IT? Or Do everything in SpiceWorks? I do like the automated scanning aspect and the remote agent for laptops in SpiceWorks. BTW, I also use Meraki MDM for mobile devices asset tracking.

What do you think?

@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:

@wrx7m said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:

@DustinB3403 said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:

@wrx7m said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:

Oh thank goodness. I thought this was going to be a sob story post about these people who should be able to earn something even though they made horrible decisions to take out insane student loans for something almost nobody cares about. It's not. It is about people wanting the rest of us to pay them to do something society doesn't really want or need.

These people need a dose of reality and a lesson in the sunk cost fallacy. Cut bait, head into the real world and learn a real skill.

Now at the same time, I do not think teachers are worthless, but teaching is not a societal need, but a societal expectation.

Higher education is expected to be available and had by everyone, but not everyone wants to go to college. They might just want to go and work for a stone mason, and learn how to work with stone.

Its informal but practical education that teaches real world skills.

I agree. Teachers are not worthless. My mother was a teacher her whole life.

Higher education should be just that- higher education. Don't coddle people in their pursuits of degrees or studies that serve no real purpose. There should never be loans given for those degrees. Imagine if people had to pay cash as they went for a degree in something that nobody needs or cares about. I would be very surprised if there weren't less than half the number of people in these self-created conditions.

No loans, period. No degree is for getting a job, university training is for "general learning", it's not a trade school. So no degree should have loans.

Fine with me. Imagine how much the cost of education would drop without loans.