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    • DustinB3403D
      DustinB3403
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      Or more realistically, alcohol with a bit of coffee!

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      • gjacobseG
        gjacobse @DustinB3403
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        @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        Or more realistically, alcohol with a bit of coffee!

        Irish Coffee

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        • thwrT
          thwr @gjacobse
          last edited by thwr

          @gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

          Or more realistically, alcohol with a bit of coffee!

          Irish Coffee

          Speaking of Irish Coffee... watching Jadotville right now. Not yet sure if it is good or meh.

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            Texkonc @scottalanmiller
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            @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

            @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

            @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

            @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

            @coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

            @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

            @travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

            Just thinking on how the documentation here at Mangolassi.it is better than XenServer's official documentation, and heading to lunch.

            There is Xen here at my new job. It looks simple. I havent spent much time in it and already feel comfortable.

            What are they using to manage it?

            XenCenter

            Get XenOrchestra. Free and So much better.

            They say this and dont like it, they want all the features. https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/pricing

            That's XOA pricing, the appliance, we are talking about XO. All the features of the appliance, 100% free.

            I didnt tell them to pull up the site. They did while I was standing there telling them it was free.
            I believe they just finished a SAM audit and had to buy a crap load of stuff. They are now MSDN and Partner licensed.
            Since I am new to Xen I am clueless on the difference.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @Texkonc
              last edited by

              @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              @coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              @travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

              Just thinking on how the documentation here at Mangolassi.it is better than XenServer's official documentation, and heading to lunch.

              There is Xen here at my new job. It looks simple. I havent spent much time in it and already feel comfortable.

              What are they using to manage it?

              XenCenter

              Get XenOrchestra. Free and So much better.

              They say this and dont like it, they want all the features. https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/pricing

              That's XOA pricing, the appliance, we are talking about XO. All the features of the appliance, 100% free.

              I didnt tell them to pull up the site. They did while I was standing there telling them it was free.
              I believe they just finished a SAM audit and had to buy a crap load of stuff. They are now MSDN and Partner licensed.
              Since I am new to Xen I am clueless on the difference.

              It's not a Xen thing, it's just a standard open source thing. XO is software, it is licensed in such a way that they never need to look at the pricing. That's the miracle of open source licensing, it's standard industry knowledge and stops them from ever needing to do what they did. If they read the site carefully, they would notice a free download that is unrelated to what they looked at (yes it says for personal use but never says not for commercial use and the license is for commercial so they are obviously clear and the owner states this as well) and that what they were looking at what an appliance based on XO, not XO itself. So they weren't even looking at the pricing for what we were suggesting.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @Texkonc
                last edited by

                @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                They did while I was standing there telling them it was free.

                And even though it is free, they denied it? There is a download link and licensing that says that it is free.

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                • travisdh1T
                  travisdh1 @Texkonc
                  last edited by

                  @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  @coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  @travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                  Just thinking on how the documentation here at Mangolassi.it is better than XenServer's official documentation, and heading to lunch.

                  There is Xen here at my new job. It looks simple. I havent spent much time in it and already feel comfortable.

                  What are they using to manage it?

                  XenCenter

                  Get XenOrchestra. Free and So much better.

                  They say this and dont like it, they want all the features. https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/pricing

                  That's XOA pricing, the appliance, we are talking about XO. All the features of the appliance, 100% free.

                  I didnt tell them to pull up the site. They did while I was standing there telling them it was free.
                  I believe they just finished a SAM audit and had to buy a crap load of stuff. They are now MSDN and Partner licensed.
                  Since I am new to Xen I am clueless on the difference.

                  XO is open source.... no licensing involved. Support contract if you want to pay for it, but no licensing. Audit's don't come into play.

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                  • BRRABillB
                    BRRABill @scottalanmiller
                    last edited by

                    @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    @coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    @travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                    Just thinking on how the documentation here at Mangolassi.it is better than XenServer's official documentation, and heading to lunch.

                    There is Xen here at my new job. It looks simple. I havent spent much time in it and already feel comfortable.

                    What are they using to manage it?

                    XenCenter

                    Get XenOrchestra. Free and So much better.

                    They say this and dont like it, they want all the features. https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/pricing

                    That's XOA pricing, the appliance, we are talking about XO. All the features of the appliance, 100% free.

                    I didnt tell them to pull up the site. They did while I was standing there telling them it was free.
                    I believe they just finished a SAM audit and had to buy a crap load of stuff. They are now MSDN and Partner licensed.
                    Since I am new to Xen I am clueless on the difference.

                    It's not a Xen thing, it's just a standard open source thing. XO is software, it is licensed in such a way that they never need to look at the pricing. That's the miracle of open source licensing, it's standard industry knowledge and stops them from ever needing to do what they did. If they read the site carefully, they would notice a free download that is unrelated to what they looked at (yes it says for personal use but never says not for commercial use and the license is for commercial so they are obviously clear and the owner states this as well) and that what they were looking at what an appliance based on XO, not XO itself. So they weren't even looking at the pricing for what we were suggesting.

                    In anyone's defense, it DOES say personal, which is most other licenses means no business use.

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                    • garak0410G
                      garak0410
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                      I'm anxiously awaiting my Pixel XL Phone since I was "ordered" to turn off and return my Note 7. 🙂

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @Texkonc
                        last edited by

                        @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                        I believe they just finished a SAM audit and had to buy a crap load of stuff. They are now MSDN and Partner licensed.

                        Could there be any better reason to move to open source and protect yourself from an audit 100% then? They are being emotional and reacting backwards to the problem. Instead of learning from the audit and fixing things, they are having a fight or flight reaction and not learning from the audit at all.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @BRRABill
                          last edited by

                          @BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                          In anyone's defense, it DOES say personal, which is most other licenses means no business use.

                          It does, but it also has an open source license to ensure that there can be no confusion in the end.

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                          • DustinB3403D
                            DustinB3403 @garak0410
                            last edited by DustinB3403

                            @garak0410 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                            I'm anxiously awaiting my Pixel XL Phone since I was "ordered" to turn off and return my Note 7. pull the fuse on my old enhanced dynamite 🙂

                            FTFY

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                            • garak0410G
                              garak0410 @DustinB3403
                              last edited by

                              @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              @garak0410 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                              I'm anxiously awaiting my Pixel XL Phone since I was "ordered" to turn off and return my Note 7. pull the fuse on my old phone 🙂

                              FTFY

                              Exactly...as mentioned in another post...I have an option of using a Moto G4 or an iPhone 7+ 256GB until the Pixel arrives...why am I so scared to try the iPhone, beyond not having a case for it... 🙂

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                              • BRRABillB
                                BRRABill
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                                Damngit ... forgot that if you sync just ONE directory in OneDrive it won't pull from the cloud. Stupid.

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                                  Texkonc @travisdh1
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                                  @travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  @travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                  Just thinking on how the documentation here at Mangolassi.it is better than XenServer's official documentation, and heading to lunch.

                                  There is Xen here at my new job. It looks simple. I havent spent much time in it and already feel comfortable.

                                  What are they using to manage it?

                                  XenCenter

                                  Get XenOrchestra. Free and So much better.

                                  They say this and dont like it, they want all the features. https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/pricing

                                  That's XOA pricing, the appliance, we are talking about XO. All the features of the appliance, 100% free.

                                  I didnt tell them to pull up the site. They did while I was standing there telling them it was free.
                                  I believe they just finished a SAM audit and had to buy a crap load of stuff. They are now MSDN and Partner licensed.
                                  Since I am new to Xen I am clueless on the difference.

                                  XO is open source.... no licensing involved. Support contract if you want to pay for it, but no licensing. Audit's don't come into play.

                                  I am aware that it doesn't involve possible audits.
                                  I was referring to the Microsoft SAM audit, not Xen Audit. They are just generally cautious right now.

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                                  • travisdh1T
                                    travisdh1 @Texkonc
                                    last edited by

                                    @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    @travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    @coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    @Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    @travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                    Just thinking on how the documentation here at Mangolassi.it is better than XenServer's official documentation, and heading to lunch.

                                    There is Xen here at my new job. It looks simple. I havent spent much time in it and already feel comfortable.

                                    What are they using to manage it?

                                    XenCenter

                                    Get XenOrchestra. Free and So much better.

                                    They say this and dont like it, they want all the features. https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/pricing

                                    That's XOA pricing, the appliance, we are talking about XO. All the features of the appliance, 100% free.

                                    I didnt tell them to pull up the site. They did while I was standing there telling them it was free.
                                    I believe they just finished a SAM audit and had to buy a crap load of stuff. They are now MSDN and Partner licensed.
                                    Since I am new to Xen I am clueless on the difference.

                                    XO is open source.... no licensing involved. Support contract if you want to pay for it, but no licensing. Audit's don't come into play.

                                    I am aware that it doesn't involve possible audits.
                                    I was referring to the Microsoft SAM audit, not Xen Audit. They are just generally cautious right now.

                                    They're reacting emotionally instead of logically, means things are being done that aren't good business decisions.

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                                    • travisdh1T
                                      travisdh1
                                      last edited by

                                      Started syncing 2.56TB of data across a 1Gb network. Thankful for a little program called rsync this afternoon, as I doubt this will finish in one go. Hopefully this time the backup box won't croak.

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                                      • olivierO
                                        olivier @scottalanmiller
                                        last edited by

                                        @scottalanmiller Careful, that's exactly that kind of talk that would destroy Open Source done by small companies. I have a lot of work to convince investors that's a possible business, same with consultant helping with business. If they read this, tomorrow every new stuff will become closed source 😕

                                        XO is the software, XOA is the product. That's not a miracle, you pay for a service to enjoy XOA (turnkey, updates, QA and support). When you are running a reasonably sized company, time is even more important than a relatively small monthly fee.

                                        But yes, we'll add more services in XOA, to help people people to understand more the real value of it 🙂

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @olivier
                                          last edited by

                                          @olivier said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                          @scottalanmiller Careful, that's exactly that kind of talk that would destroy Open Source done by small companies. I have a lot of work to convince investors that's a possible business, same with consultant helping with business. If they read this, tomorrow every new stuff will become closed source 😕

                                          The biggest, most successful open source investors do so by embracing it, though. Look at Red Hat, Ubuntu and Suse. They make their "free and open" message as loud and clear as possible. They know that the money is and always has been in support, not in software. You want to sell your investors on investing in your support business. Just explain that the software is the marketing tool for your support business, not the business itself. If they are looking at your software as what you are selling, they are not very smart investors (not that dumb money is a bad thing, but you know.)

                                          You don't want big investors who are irrational and emotional and don't understand the marketplace. That's a dangerous place to be.

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @olivier
                                            last edited by

                                            @olivier said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            XO is the software, XOA is the product. That's not a miracle, you pay for a service to enjoy XOA (turnkey, updates, QA and support). When you are running a reasonably sized company, time is even more important than a relatively small monthly fee.

                                            He is not, very small shop that couldn't justify any support expense but could someday grow to be one.

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