@handsofqwerty Me too... Sadly, I am not much of a morning person. Getting up at 5:30 AM one day a week is torture.

@scottalanmiller said:

I've worked in banking and actually know of few fields that are so good about how they handle this stuff. That said, I was 24 x 7 on call, 365 for eight full years. But they compensated me well for it, we all knew the score when we agreed to the rate and they put in a lot of effort to make sure that I did not burn out.

It is different when you are on call 24 x 7 x 365, and your employer is working with you to help keep you from burning out...than when your employer is doing it so they can keep track of you all the time. I don't think I could work for an employer that wanted me to be always available all the time and they tried to go as far as track me via GPS.

From what I understand is that the VMs need to have a virtual Floppy Drive actually installed on the VM in order for them to own the hypervisor... Is that right?

I think that by and large tracking of corporate employees like that should be illegal. They don't need to know that I spent 5 hours at the gym last night. They don't need to know that I'm driving 20 miles over the speedlimit while I am typing this reply...

And they certainly don't need the ability to get GPS directions to my current location after hours...

I could see this being optional and maybe for the higher level execs and family (in case of kidnapping, etc)...

@scottalanmiller I am a victim of this at the moment... I have been at my new job for coming up on a year. I still don't have access to the VMware console to take care of my VMs, nor do I have keys to the server room where the physical machines I am responsible for live.

I don't have even read only access to AD, while I have to manage a VDI deployment and RemoteApps.

I get that you don't give a stranger the keys to the kingdom on his first day -- especially in a large-ish IT department...but after a year, t hey should realize I'm only a little crazy and won't go breaking things on purpose...

That would be nice for unlocking my phone (of course, I don't have glasses at the moment)... but I wouldn't want my phone to misinterpret a blink as a "Buy this ridiculously looking thing you are currently window shopping for".

lol.

@handsofqwerty Or just use your preferred name when filling out applications / new hire forms, etc.

If you want traffic on 10.0.1.0/24 to be able to hit the cameras at 10.192.0.0/24, why not simply connect the DVR cameras to Eth0/6 and then configure the ASA to route between 10.0.1.0 and 10.192.0.0?

That completely eliminates the need to go out to the internet and then turn around and come right back on. You should also be able to configure the detault route for the 10.192 subnet to go out the Second Cable modem on Eth0/7.

@thecreativeone91 Ha ha ha . That is what he was trying to tell me.

I am wondering how the name MangoLassi came to be. A close friend of mine told me an interesting story about mango lassi in his area...

@MattSpeller Are you kidding? You can run your whole house off of that!

@art_of_shred said:

Questions? lol

Yes. What about deuplication? Would a system that handles storage deduplication see "Oh this full OS image, and that agent imaged share a bunch of data! Let's deduplicate!" ?

Or is that dependent on the storage back-end where the backups are actually stored?

Well, I think they got their issues straightened out or something.... This is a mostly idle box with OwnCloud and an XMPP server installed...

My iowait is between 0.01% and 0.25%... It's a hundred time better than what it was. It even feels more responsive too!

My thinking was more along @scottalanmiller's this time... But like everything "it depends" on what the server does. For a File Server, or an application server (Exchange, et al) that we previously mentioned, to me an agent would make more sense.

However, I thought that restoring to different hardware was actually a function of the restore process, and not necessarily part of the backup process. (I guess it depends on what backup software we are talking about).

@coliver I would think an Agent-based backup would be better in general.

Why would one use a Host-Level backup vs an Agent-based backup?

@Minion-Queen Eehhh... On second thought, maybe not. Swag sounds better.

Aww man... I was hoping for a subscription to Cat Facts Weekly!

@scottalanmiller said:

PHP was very young then. It has been growing steadily in capability since then. It is very powerful now, but it has really stiff competition now too.

Don't know who said it, but competition breeds excellence!

@scottalanmiller There's almost always creative ways to get things done... Even if they are a bit outside of the box... outside of the box in somebody else's garage, lol.

I didn't really get in to PHP much until around 2005 or so. That may have been the case in 2003.

@thecreativeone91 said:

The funny thing is most of them were complaing they can't use it because no one makes Enterprise level software the works for linux; Especially ERPs. Yet many of the enterprise ones do and many even use a web interface. A lot of them are FOSS enterprise projects with paid support options. I think what they really mean is there is no simple SMB packages like MS Dynamics which is restrictive and very very overpriced.

It seems like with SMBs the more something cost the better it automatically is. Most where saying you can't use open source "in the enterprise" yet most of the software they mention (especially network based) are almost fully open source project made into commercial with some gui changes.

Agreed. I think a SMB a lot of times may not have the in-house expertise (experience?) necessary to properly maintain / update the FOSS applications in a production environment. That being said, the only way to get experience is to do it. Especially if the application being used offers some kind of paid support!

Don't even get me started on MS Dynamics, lol.... *shudder*