@Dashrender said in Computer Crash Wipes Out Years of Air Force Investigation Records:

@momurda said in Computer Crash Wipes Out Years of Air Force Investigation Records:

Right, Dashrender, they do it so they dont have to pay for their own USAF IT people, or pay USAF IT people a wage worth working for. But at the same time, they pay so much money to these contractors are they actually saving money? Im not so sure, esp with the intangible costs like this situation right here.

No they are not, they can't be!

My brother made 20K in the military, got out became a private contractor doing the same job fro $120K.. WTF? Why aren't they just keeping military people and paying them say $60K or $80K.. whatever.

Not how it works for IT. I've worked for Lockheed, there are plenty of VERY low paying jobs there. Not all, of course, but lots.

@Dashrender said in Municipal for Last Mile Connections:

Johnhooks has a great point, as long as it's managed correctly, this could be an awesome idea. Though logistically, I'm wondering how IPs get assigned and transported to the end user with not NATing.

Because you route. That is how IP works.

@jospoortvliet said in THANKS TO YOU: Nextcloud 9 is here - and all open source, now and in the future!:

And here a blog about migrating to Nextcloud:

http://blog.jospoortvliet.com/2016/06/migrating-to-nextcloud-9.html

Thanks for that!

Very good news!

http://news.microsoft.com/2016/06/13/satya-nadella-email-to-employees-on-acquisition-of-linkedin/

@scottalanmiller said in Want to Up Vote a Thread but Not the Poster:

@JaredBusch said in Want to Up Vote a Thread but Not the Poster:

@scottalanmiller said in Want to Up Vote a Thread but Not the Poster:

@aaronstuder said in Want to Up Vote a Thread but Not the Poster:

I am still at a lost about why we use the MLNews account. What purpose does it serve?

Same as news posting accounts on other communities. A means for a generic account for posting news items.

It would be less of a problem if Scott did better about not mixing up his tabs.

That's true. But I do keep them straight most of the time.

Most of the time, yes.

The acronym SOS (Secure Open Source) really isn't the best one is it?

Save Our Souls.... many people who haven't the slightest clue might immediately think that open source is dangerous and that auditing is required because of "how insecure it must be".

I'm totally for it but I'm curious as to why they couldn't come up with a better name / acronym.

@aaronstuder said in Linux Mint 18 Beta Has Released:

@scottalanmiller said:

limited to 4GB of RAM

Ouch.....

Yeah I know. It was a "lot" of memory for early 2012. Today it is terribly anaemic.

@david.wiese said

The software is installed on over 300 computers so it is going to be a fun project.

Have you checked to see if any of them were compromised?

If you look at the reddit threads on the beginning of this thread, they detail exactly what to look for.

Might have something to do with most Samsung computers still being incompatible with Windows 10.

Also, beat you to it 😉 🙂
http://mangolassi.it/topic/5345/samsung-disabling-windows-updates

What if we picked on other arbitrary artefacts of travel like being able to use the bathroom while moving or being allowed to sleep? We don't normally point out how restrictive cars are today for lacking these things, but as a long distance driver I can assure you that they are very limiting. I often choose things that you consider "non free" or "movement restricted" because they give me "more freedom".. freedom to go places that I can't drive due to needing sleep or wanting to eat or use the bathroom. Trains allow this.

Which restricts movement more? Kids can take trains. So can drunks. So can the elderly or disabled. Trains provide a lot of freedoms that cars do not. Neither is free or not free. They are just different. But both allow you to go wherever you want, just in different ways.

@Dashrender said in Is a Mid Career Sabbatical a Good Idea:

@scottalanmiller said in Is a Mid Career Sabbatical a Good Idea:

And how many tiny companies with only one staffer do "projects" at all? And how many of them? I know a lot of SMBs and year or longer delays because of management alone is not uncommon.

But again... how long would these delays be if you quit?

I agree the projects, that I tossed on the pile aren't that many/big, but they wouldn't be zero over the life of the tech, sure may be years between.

But even the day to day stuff, can't print, can't get on the network, my mouse is dead, etc.

Most companies with a single IT person will have a MSP as their backup, which is our case.

Right.. and doesn't all that sound like a year off once or twice a decade wouldn't have much of any impact? Especially when you consider that you'd be fresh and ready to go when you return? And maybe they'd be ready to make decisions faster?

The rubber banding effect might seriously absorb the whole thing!

@hobbit666 said in The World's fastest ISPs & Mobile Networks 2015 as per speedtest.net:

@thwr said in [The World's fastest ISPs & Mobile Networks 2015 as per speedtest.net](/topic/9456/the-world-s-fastest-isps-Germany sucks here, that's not my point. Average here is like 6-16 MBit/s with ADSL2 or 25 MBit/s with cable

That doesn't suck!!! Average for wales is about 2MB/s!!! if that! we still have connections that can only do 800K-900K

<justkidding>
Well, you(*) are eating french fries with vinegar. You just don't deserve faster internet access.
</justkidding>

(*) Not you personally, but I guess I owe you a beer now 😉

@Dashrender said in Dreading upgrading to Windows 10 and longing for that Windows 2000 look and feel:

So, if MS starts giving away Windows 10 free, will that kill this project?

No, why would it even affect them?

It's Nest tracking you through Google 🙂

@Dashrender said in HP unveils versatile gaming line for adult gamers:

@travisdh1 said in HP unveils versatile gaming line for adult gamers:

@Dashrender said in HP unveils versatile gaming line for adult gamers:

@travisdh1 said in HP unveils versatile gaming line for adult gamers:

@Dashrender said in HP unveils versatile gaming line for adult gamers:

@Grey said in HP unveils versatile gaming line for adult gamers:

I always check out http://www.pcper.com/hwlb for the latest on the gaming parts for my PC upgrades. My current system is an ASUS GENE motherboard with an i7-4790, 16gb of RAM and an nVidia 970. It's not the greatest, but I can still play everything just fine. Using the pcper site, it's easy to pick and choose where to upgrade.

The monitor from HP looks nice! I wonder how it will compare to the Dell monitor (http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&sku=210-ADTR)?

Nice site, I love the decisive recommendations, something I always felt was missing from Tom's Hardware.

I quit building my own rigs after I found a couple sites like Cyber Power PC. The prices are about what I can put the same components together for, they ARE standard components, and I have a 1 stop place for warranty work for a year or two. Most of those systems have lasted a long, long time because they do use industry standard motherboards/cases/power supplies/etc. So upgrading down the road is super easy.

Industry standard? What's that when it comes to components? If you want just some random collection of components, why not buy a Dell or HP? When you're building a white box, it's normally for power components, for gaming or other high intensity stuff. I'd want to pick out my components, or at least take higher end recommendations like pcper.com mention.

Have you ever replaced a Dell or HP power supply or motherboard? Good luck.

Yep but only with OEM parts.

OEM sure, but they're generally more expensive than the standard ATX models. If they're still under warranty it's easy, send me the new part!

@travisdh1 said in Crypto-currency miners have known this for years CPUs are effectively useless:

@johnhooks said in Crypto-currency miners have known this for years CPUs are effectively useless:

@travisdh1 said in Crypto-currency miners have known this for years CPUs are effectively useless:

@johnhooks said in Crypto-currency miners have known this for years CPUs are effectively useless:

Ya we def couldn't do CFD Solves with GPUs. Our new cluster has 20 nodes with 20 cores each.

Clustered?

They use a job scheduler to read and spread the load over free nodes. So they can be used together or separately.

They all have an infiniband backplane too.

MMmmm, good stuff. Any sort of job scheduler means they are being used as a cluster. Really all a cluster needs is something to tell everything where to run what. At least as I've always understood them.

Infiniband is just good stuff.

Right. I didn't want people thinking it was like a RHCS or something like that. It's a separate scheduler.

Ya we have a couple guys that will generate around 450-500GB per day of solves. We need the speed lol.

@Dashrender said in Looking for a new phone here is the top 5:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a new phone here is the top 5:

@Dashrender said in Looking for a new phone here is the top 5:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a new phone here is the top 5:

@Dashrender said in Looking for a new phone here is the top 5:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a new phone here is the top 5:

@wrx7m said in Looking for a new phone here is the top 5:

@scottalanmiller Why do you "need" iOS?

Because I travel internationally and the ability to get repairs and support and for the devices to be reliable are critical for safety. I've made the mistake of switching off of iOS to Android while travelling before and was left dangerously out of touch. A mistake that I won't repeat.

when was that? Android is much more mature today. I'll definitely give you that Android 2-4 years ago could leave you wanting compared to the "it just works" of the iPhone.

That's exactly what everyone said at the time. I've heard the rhetoric ad nauseum. Android "used to be bad", but it is good now. No one has problems... until you cant get one that works and then everyone comes out and says "well except for X problems on any device not made by Y" and that info always conflicts with what all the other Android people say. Hearing it today just reinforces my concerns about Android. It's the same statements repeated now as then.

But you can say the same thing about iPhones - features that simply don't exist. Who knows.. I might just be blowing smoke up my own ass right now, I haven't been on a modern Android in nearly 2 years.

that said, my wife has a S6 and likes it just fine, never complains, it does what she wants - but then again, like me she barely uses its. She has email, calendar, texting, calling and words with friends - she's happy.

This is the same conversation every time. Yes, even at the time I knew lots of people that adored their Androids. But none of them could get me a device that was reliable and, it turned out, most of them simply didn't use theirs enough to know that they were missing calls, texts or emails. In case after case the people who raved about their phones simply weren't in situations to notice or care when communications channels went out for a day or two (until the phone rebooted) and so they felt that they worked great because, for them not needing them to do anything, they did.

Oh I know I'm not that out of touch. I might be able to go a few hours without realizing, but never a whole day.
But I'm sure there are others who are.. hey - they kids using instagram.

Problem is... it's all three. We tested Android after Android and normally one or two functions would work. Only if you consistently get calls, texts AND emails all the time would you notice. Most people do not, so pretty much everyone thought that their phones were working. Like me right now, I could go months without getting a call and not notice at all. I accept no voice calls and my phone is set to not ring. So I would never know.