@scottalanmiller said in Generating content ideas for topics, posts, articles:

I find getting into online arguments is a great way to come up with things to write about.

No doubt!

@nadnerb said in SolarWinds is trying way too hard now:

@nerdydad said in SolarWinds is trying way too hard now:

What is so special about September 19th?

International Talk Like A Pirate Day.

Boom

@guyinpv sign up for a demo i guess this might be a good fit

@reid-cooper said in XByte sale on R510s:

@grey said in XByte sale on R510s:

Just ordered an R510 from them with 32g ram, eight 3tb drives and a pair of 2.13ghz processors. This will replace my 2950 (still running!!) with 16g ram, six 1tb drives with a pair of processors that are dreadful.

Nice little lab system.

Which one? The 2950 or the R510?

@scottalanmiller
Yeah, lower bar to reach 🙂

@scottalanmiller said in Rocket.chat:

@jaredbusch said in Rocket.chat:

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@dashrender said in Rocket.chat:

@scottalanmiller said in Rocket.chat:

@bigbear said in Rocket.chat:

3.) Can a single install host multiple tenants

I've not tested this but you normally would put it behind an Nginx proxy which would make that trivial.

How does this make it multi tenant?

You can run an instance for each tenant on one system. One database server, one proxy, unlimited tenants.

That is not multi tenant.

I didn't call it multi-tenant. I explained how it could be used to answer #3 and Dashrender called that multitenant.

You specifically replied to a question about multiple tenants. You made no attempt to say your recommendation was not multi tenant.

@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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@bigbear said in CEO Fraud Attacks Were Far More Lucrative than Ransomware over the Past 3 Years:

You get an email, it says "hey some guy you know is sharing a google doc or whatever, you need to sign in"

Then you pick on the website whethere you use Office 365, Google Apps, etc

Next thing you know the doc says cannot be found, so you forget about it. Meanwhile all your information has been compromised and it starts sending out emails to your contacts list.

With 2FA there is no way to use your login information because the attacker cant get that second stage of info when logging in. From what I have seen those phishing attempts dont even attempt to collect it.

Of course, thats hardly the only type of socially engineered attack.

Good attacks definitely do get and pass that info through.

@jaredbusch at certain volumes there are even things akin to dealer holdback on automobilers and buyback liquidations.

I can move 300 to 500 items per month. If I could get closer to 1,000 I feel like that would unlock the next level.

But you are right, based upon the levels of pricing I see at VOIP Supply, etc there are people who probably buy VOIP hardware once or maybe once per year if they are an IT Reseller.

But that whole strategy could be pandering to a crowd so small that it would never help achieve the sales volume I am hoping to get to.

@bigbear said in What do you think of SIPDOJO.COM as a brand?:

@rojoloco would you serve mangolassi's?

Yes. With or without rum.

So I am clicking through and I see the "Chief Hacking Officer" of this company is Kevin Mitnick?

And I'm thinking....

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@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.

@davedemlow said in Scale HC3 cluster for sale:

SM863

Samsung Midrange. Not bad actually. Those are closer to 90 cents a GB if memory serves (If Dell Firmware, could maybe get a buck 20 per GB).

I don't understand what's going on with Dynamics. The transition from Dynamics CRM to the new Dynamics 365 seems to be more than just a re-branding exercise, it feels like an entirely new product. Or rather two products, as Microsoft has been its usual annoying self and decided "why offer one product when we can confuse users by offering two?". So there's Dynamics 365 for Enterprise and Dynamics 365 for Business. Where "Enterprise" is defined, somewhat arbitrarily, as a company with 250+ users.

Worst still, Dynamics 365 for Business isn't even available in Europe yet, and yet neither is the old Dynamics CRM, leaving SMBs seemingly in limbo.

If anyone understands what's going on and can explain it to me, I'd be very grateful, as the concept of Dynamics 365 is pretty appealing.

@Breffni-Potter

I don't disagree with you at all on that front. I'm just so used to over-zealous sales teams that I was a little annoyed when the rep. didn't reply before my trial had expired.

With anything Solarwinds (n-able), I've become used to thrice-daily calls asking if I want to purchase, if there were any questions, and promises that their application does X (even if it doesn't or, at least, not well). Not that I condone this behaviour, but a prompt reply to an inquiry is always nice.

Sorry @magroover, I haven't helped you at all; è colpa mia.

If they are going to be your only client like this, I would just do the VPN thing. The fixed costs and overhead of some of the other tools are not going to be worth it.

I've tried to import the Multi-Tenant Director .ova into XS & convert the .ova into vhd & vhdx.
It will not boot in XS or Hyper-V, I get a black screen.
It boots in vmWare Workstation.

Nakivo support says the .ova is ONLY for use in vmWare (not for XS)

I think the question about how to do you find a good IT company and how do you find a good accountant are very closely related. There are a ton of parallels.

Take the onsite vs remote thing. In some companies they don't want to ever touch a plug, the same way they don't ever want to scan in a receipt. They want someone to show up and do the job. In other companies they have someone with enough IT knowledge to do the hands on stuff, the same way they have someone that does the daily accounting tasks, but needs help with the year end tasks.

In both lines of work when owners are searching for a service provider a recommendation from a friend will outweigh most everything else.