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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller
      last edited by

      Why do companies insist on polls for things that are not opinion pieces, but have an obvious technical answer, that just make everyone involved look like an idiot. Anyone that answered this poll obvious doesn't understand the question, right?

      https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1788367-how-much-ram-is-needed-for-virtualization

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @dafyre
        last edited by

        @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        I'm busy trying to hack the admin account back into some software that we use... Some doofus [note: I was not the doofus this time...] deleted it... Whoops!

        They DELETED it? The software let them remove all admins?

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        • DustinB3403D
          DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
          last edited by

          @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          Why do companies insist on polls for things that are not opinion pieces, but have an obvious technical answer, that just make everyone involved look like an idiot. Anyone that answered this poll obvious doesn't understand the question, right?

          https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1788367-how-much-ram-is-needed-for-virtualization

          haha... does SW just constantly send you nasty-grams for picking on vendors?

          I feel like they must...

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
            last edited by

            @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

            @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

            Why do companies insist on polls for things that are not opinion pieces, but have an obvious technical answer, that just make everyone involved look like an idiot. Anyone that answered this poll obvious doesn't understand the question, right?

            https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1788367-how-much-ram-is-needed-for-virtualization

            haha... does SW just constantly send you nasty-grams for picking on vendors?

            I feel like they must...

            LOL, no, actually they don't. This is definitely a vendor shooting themselves in the foot. How dumb do they think the community is?

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            • DustinB3403D
              DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
              last edited by

              @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              Why do companies insist on polls for things that are not opinion pieces, but have an obvious technical answer, that just make everyone involved look like an idiot. Anyone that answered this poll obvious doesn't understand the question, right?

              https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1788367-how-much-ram-is-needed-for-virtualization

              haha... does SW just constantly send you nasty-grams for picking on vendors?

              I feel like they must...

              LOL, no, actually they don't. This is definitely a vendor shooting themselves in the foot. How dumb do they think the community is?

              I don't believe they actually think about the audiences intelligence at all, they are just looking for a way to creating marketing material, that at a glance would keep someone's attention to the point of finding the vendors name.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
                last edited by

                @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                Why do companies insist on polls for things that are not opinion pieces, but have an obvious technical answer, that just make everyone involved look like an idiot. Anyone that answered this poll obvious doesn't understand the question, right?

                https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1788367-how-much-ram-is-needed-for-virtualization

                haha... does SW just constantly send you nasty-grams for picking on vendors?

                I feel like they must...

                LOL, no, actually they don't. This is definitely a vendor shooting themselves in the foot. How dumb do they think the community is?

                I don't believe they actually think about the audiences intelligence at all, they are just looking for a way to creating marketing material, that at a glance would keep someone's attention to the point of finding the vendors name.

                Finding the vendor's name to say... "these people are idiots and don't know IT and will say anything to make a sale."

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                • DustinB3403D
                  DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
                  last edited by

                  @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  Why do companies insist on polls for things that are not opinion pieces, but have an obvious technical answer, that just make everyone involved look like an idiot. Anyone that answered this poll obvious doesn't understand the question, right?

                  https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1788367-how-much-ram-is-needed-for-virtualization

                  haha... does SW just constantly send you nasty-grams for picking on vendors?

                  I feel like they must...

                  LOL, no, actually they don't. This is definitely a vendor shooting themselves in the foot. How dumb do they think the community is?

                  I don't believe they actually think about the audiences intelligence at all, they are just looking for a way to creating marketing material, that at a glance would keep someone's attention to the point of finding the vendors name.

                  Finding the vendor's name to say... "these people are idiots and don't know IT and will say anything to make a sale."

                  Pretty much, the end game for everyone (NTG included) is to make money to continue on wards. If they insult someone's intelligence doing it, they don't care. So long as they've made a sale off of the marketing campaign.

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                  • dafyreD
                    dafyre @thanksajdotcom
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                    @thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    I'm busy trying to hack the admin account back into some software that we use... Some doofus [note: I was not the doofus this time...] deleted it... Whoops!

                    I assume it's not the just the Windows admin, but something software-specific?

                    Just software specific in this case. I'm considering attempting to manually insert a user... software is run on Firebird. O.o

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                    • dafyreD
                      dafyre @scottalanmiller
                      last edited by

                      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                      @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                      I'm busy trying to hack the admin account back into some software that we use... Some doofus [note: I was not the doofus this time...] deleted it... Whoops!

                      They DELETED it? The software let them remove all admins?

                      There's still one admin account, lol. I just can't get access to it because I don't know the password and the guy is unavailable.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
                        last edited by

                        @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        Why do companies insist on polls for things that are not opinion pieces, but have an obvious technical answer, that just make everyone involved look like an idiot. Anyone that answered this poll obvious doesn't understand the question, right?

                        https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1788367-how-much-ram-is-needed-for-virtualization

                        haha... does SW just constantly send you nasty-grams for picking on vendors?

                        I feel like they must...

                        LOL, no, actually they don't. This is definitely a vendor shooting themselves in the foot. How dumb do they think the community is?

                        I don't believe they actually think about the audiences intelligence at all, they are just looking for a way to creating marketing material, that at a glance would keep someone's attention to the point of finding the vendors name.

                        Finding the vendor's name to say... "these people are idiots and don't know IT and will say anything to make a sale."

                        Pretty much, the end game for everyone (NTG included) is to make money to continue on wards. If they insult someone's intelligence doing it, they don't care. So long as they've made a sale off of the marketing campaign.

                        But they can LOSE sales, too.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @dafyre
                          last edited by

                          @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          I'm busy trying to hack the admin account back into some software that we use... Some doofus [note: I was not the doofus this time...] deleted it... Whoops!

                          They DELETED it? The software let them remove all admins?

                          There's still one admin account, lol. I just can't get access to it because I don't know the password and the guy is unavailable.

                          Ha ha. Reset it!

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                          • DustinB3403D
                            DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
                            last edited by

                            @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            Why do companies insist on polls for things that are not opinion pieces, but have an obvious technical answer, that just make everyone involved look like an idiot. Anyone that answered this poll obvious doesn't understand the question, right?

                            https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1788367-how-much-ram-is-needed-for-virtualization

                            haha... does SW just constantly send you nasty-grams for picking on vendors?

                            I feel like they must...

                            LOL, no, actually they don't. This is definitely a vendor shooting themselves in the foot. How dumb do they think the community is?

                            I don't believe they actually think about the audiences intelligence at all, they are just looking for a way to creating marketing material, that at a glance would keep someone's attention to the point of finding the vendors name.

                            Finding the vendor's name to say... "these people are idiots and don't know IT and will say anything to make a sale."

                            Pretty much, the end game for everyone (NTG included) is to make money to continue on wards. If they insult someone's intelligence doing it, they don't care. So long as they've made a sale off of the marketing campaign.

                            But they can LOSE sales, too.

                            Of course, but they are taking the odds that most people just don't care to notice it. Or actually don't know the difference. Micron in this case is a RAM manufacturer so if they came out and said "Hey it might only take 4GB to run a virtual environment" they'd be losing even more money up front.

                            Even if it were 100% accurate.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
                              last edited by

                              @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              Why do companies insist on polls for things that are not opinion pieces, but have an obvious technical answer, that just make everyone involved look like an idiot. Anyone that answered this poll obvious doesn't understand the question, right?

                              https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1788367-how-much-ram-is-needed-for-virtualization

                              haha... does SW just constantly send you nasty-grams for picking on vendors?

                              I feel like they must...

                              LOL, no, actually they don't. This is definitely a vendor shooting themselves in the foot. How dumb do they think the community is?

                              I don't believe they actually think about the audiences intelligence at all, they are just looking for a way to creating marketing material, that at a glance would keep someone's attention to the point of finding the vendors name.

                              Finding the vendor's name to say... "these people are idiots and don't know IT and will say anything to make a sale."

                              Pretty much, the end game for everyone (NTG included) is to make money to continue on wards. If they insult someone's intelligence doing it, they don't care. So long as they've made a sale off of the marketing campaign.

                              But they can LOSE sales, too.

                              Of course, but they are taking the odds that most people just don't care to notice it.

                              Right... back to thinking we are idiots.

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                              • hobbit666H
                                hobbit666
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                                Feeling sick and want to go home!

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                                • dafyreD
                                  dafyre @scottalanmiller
                                  last edited by

                                  @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  I'm busy trying to hack the admin account back into some software that we use... Some doofus [note: I was not the doofus this time...] deleted it... Whoops!

                                  They DELETED it? The software let them remove all admins?

                                  There's still one admin account, lol. I just can't get access to it because I don't know the password and the guy is unavailable.

                                  Ha ha. Reset it!

                                  The thought has definitely crossed my mind. Boss wants me to try to get access to the 'admin' account rather than hijacking the user's admin account if we can... so I gotta try that first.

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                                  • DustinB3403D
                                    DustinB3403
                                    last edited by DustinB3403

                                    Although the part that I find completely laughable (outside of what you've mentioned is this line here)

                                    0_1472135352148_chrome_2016-08-25_10-29-04.png

                                    This means that literally 50% of all "IT Pros" in the survey are providing at least 64GB of RAM to a Virtual machine.

                                    Come on I may have been born at night, but I wasn't born last night!

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                                    • RojoLocoR
                                      RojoLoco @DustinB3403
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                                      @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                      Why do companies insist on polls for things that are not opinion pieces, but have an obvious technical answer, that just make everyone involved look like an idiot. Anyone that answered this poll obvious doesn't understand the question, right?

                                      https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1788367-how-much-ram-is-needed-for-virtualization

                                      haha... does SW just constantly send you nasty-grams for picking on vendors?

                                      I feel like they must...

                                      LOL, no, actually they don't. This is definitely a vendor shooting themselves in the foot. How dumb do they think the community is?

                                      I don't believe they actually think about the audiences intelligence at all, they are just looking for a way to creating marketing material, that at a glance would keep someone's attention to the point of finding the vendors name.

                                      Finding the vendor's name to say... "these people are idiots and don't know IT and will say anything to make a sale."

                                      Pretty much, the end game for everyone (NTG included) is to make money to continue on wards. If they insult someone's intelligence doing it, they don't care. So long as they've made a sale off of the marketing campaign.

                                      But they can LOSE sales, too.

                                      Of course, but they are taking the odds that most people just don't care to notice it. Or actually don't know the difference. Micron in this case is a RAM manufacturer so if they came out and said "Hey it might only take 4GB to run a virtual environment" they'd be losing even more money up front.

                                      Even if it were 100% accurate.

                                      Micron had a funny, "trying to be helpful" how-to post on FB. How to fix a slow computer. Guess what the answer was? "Buy an SSD and more RAM... hey, we make both those things! Whaddyaknow!"

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                                      • nadnerBN
                                        nadnerB @RojoLoco
                                        last edited by

                                        @RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                        Why do companies insist on polls for things that are not opinion pieces, but have an obvious technical answer, that just make everyone involved look like an idiot. Anyone that answered this poll obvious doesn't understand the question, right?

                                        https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1788367-how-much-ram-is-needed-for-virtualization

                                        haha... does SW just constantly send you nasty-grams for picking on vendors?

                                        I feel like they must...

                                        LOL, no, actually they don't. This is definitely a vendor shooting themselves in the foot. How dumb do they think the community is?

                                        I don't believe they actually think about the audiences intelligence at all, they are just looking for a way to creating marketing material, that at a glance would keep someone's attention to the point of finding the vendors name.

                                        Finding the vendor's name to say... "these people are idiots and don't know IT and will say anything to make a sale."

                                        Pretty much, the end game for everyone (NTG included) is to make money to continue on wards. If they insult someone's intelligence doing it, they don't care. So long as they've made a sale off of the marketing campaign.

                                        But they can LOSE sales, too.

                                        Of course, but they are taking the odds that most people just don't care to notice it. Or actually don't know the difference. Micron in this case is a RAM manufacturer so if they came out and said "Hey it might only take 4GB to run a virtual environment" they'd be losing even more money up front.

                                        Even if it were 100% accurate.

                                        Micron had a funny, "trying to be helpful" how-to post on FB. How to fix a slow computer. Guess what the answer was? "Buy an SSD and more RAM... hey, we make both those things! Whaddyaknow!"

                                        0_1472135654554_mrBurns-excellent.jpg

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                                        • prcssupportP
                                          prcssupport @scottalanmiller
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                                          @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          Guy claims his auditors indemnify him and he has no culpability for not being PCI compliant. While violating every PCI requirement that we can determine remotely...

                                          https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1784629-starting-from-scratch

                                          He definitely held to that belief. He stated in his last post they use a POTS line, and credit card swiper. Don't know what's on that server, but seems like they are paying trustwave for an unneeded service (if I recall)

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @RojoLoco
                                            last edited by

                                            @RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            Why do companies insist on polls for things that are not opinion pieces, but have an obvious technical answer, that just make everyone involved look like an idiot. Anyone that answered this poll obvious doesn't understand the question, right?

                                            https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1788367-how-much-ram-is-needed-for-virtualization

                                            haha... does SW just constantly send you nasty-grams for picking on vendors?

                                            I feel like they must...

                                            LOL, no, actually they don't. This is definitely a vendor shooting themselves in the foot. How dumb do they think the community is?

                                            I don't believe they actually think about the audiences intelligence at all, they are just looking for a way to creating marketing material, that at a glance would keep someone's attention to the point of finding the vendors name.

                                            Finding the vendor's name to say... "these people are idiots and don't know IT and will say anything to make a sale."

                                            Pretty much, the end game for everyone (NTG included) is to make money to continue on wards. If they insult someone's intelligence doing it, they don't care. So long as they've made a sale off of the marketing campaign.

                                            But they can LOSE sales, too.

                                            Of course, but they are taking the odds that most people just don't care to notice it. Or actually don't know the difference. Micron in this case is a RAM manufacturer so if they came out and said "Hey it might only take 4GB to run a virtual environment" they'd be losing even more money up front.

                                            Even if it were 100% accurate.

                                            Micron had a funny, "trying to be helpful" how-to post on FB. How to fix a slow computer. Guess what the answer was? "Buy an SSD and more RAM... hey, we make both those things! Whaddyaknow!"

                                            At least those are normally good ways to actually accomplish that goal.

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