Posts made by Jason

What RDS/Terminal Server on a DC.. Worst thing you could do.

@Dashrender said:

and mentioning ethics, I'm assuming you're talking about how they promised LMI Free would be free forever.

Technically it was free forever, til the end of the LMI free products life.

@coliver said:
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Cool! I've used tape in the past but it was always considered the primary backup method... probably why I'm a bit jaded to it.

It sucks to do daily and weekly backups on tape because those are the ones you restore most often. They are still hard to beat for long term storage and will be around for a good while with many place now being required to keep data forever.

@coliver said:

I didn't realize it was physical tape. Wow. I thought tape was getting to the price/gb line where disk is less expensive. Is tape that much more reliable?

We use some of both. The problem is with harddrives you need to have it 4 places when you are complying with retention periods of forever, it does not take that much for multiple drives to go because of it's rust.

Tapes seems to hold up a little better if stored in controlled environments, you can get away with two off site ones at different locations. But yes, retrieval sucks. We use HDDs for our normal backups and replicate to others.

Well, then you really need two devices in different locations for archival storage.

What is the intended use?

@Jason said:

@Minion-Queen said:

I can look up shipping costs tomorrow (if you remind me).

I forgot to remind you, can you look for me tomorrow?

Or maybe tomorrow

Always separate your GPOs out in to specific functions/goals.

Disable the Computer or User configuration if you aren't using both on the GPO.

You work on users personal devices?

But, I would think that middle grey cable that goes in the green circuit board is it. You should be able to look up the board part numbers and get more of an idea.

@chrislaz8592 said:

Basically I have it on a separate subnet and the the interfaces (4 of them) . Enabled DHCP server on the inside interface and provided a pool of addresses. Created access rules for connecting.

Now when testing I receive perfectly an IP and all settings in ipconfig /all are shown correctly on the new subnet, but still I have no internet on this new network!

Any ideas?

What is your router config? You'll need to create the policy for routing on that subnet.

We use Logmein Rescue which works great for us.

I personally have a LastPass and Xmarks subscriptions and plan on keeping them.

@Minion-Queen said:

I can look up shipping costs tomorrow (if you remind me).

I forgot to remind you, can you look for me tomorrow?

I gave up on Spiceworks when they started becoming the "Facebook of IT".

@Breffni-Potter said:

What you are both forgetting is that the primary target of Apple's market is no longer the studio/production house, it is exactly the home user/prosumer market that they are targeting that they will hurt the most with this.

I wasn't forgetting I was just replying to you saying this will effect studios, video production houses etc.

@dafyre said:

How hard should I troll a facebook scammer?

What happened?

@dafyre Not really a change as much as an expirement/draft test that was never adopted as an RFC. It's like if you have draft 802.11n devices, then it didn't work out and was never adopted as standard and you went back to 802.11G.

@Dashrender said:

I hear what you are saying, but having a regulator between the batteries and the laptop/device is still probably a good idea.

An inverter and regulator are two different things. and inventer will waste a lot of engery but may include a regulator. you don't need one to have the other. You can get inventors without regulators. and regulators without inverters.

@Minion-Queen said:

We learned very quickly not doing that burned batteries out quickly. The inverter is the safest route. You can get them with USB charging plugs in them and that was fine.

You just need a circuit to filter the power, an inventor and then a power adapter is just wasting 50% or more or the energy. The home Solar panels (for whole house) are usually done at 24v and then go into a battery bank to store and a capacitor. Then you have a buck or boost circuits for your devices that don't run at 24v, since some will be 12v and some 48v.

@Dashrender said:

I wish there was an altruistic set of funds to do a mad advertising campaign for just these types of things - SAN = normally a bad decision, tantamount to the cigarette ads.

I wouldn't say SANs are a bad decision, it's how you implement them and design your system that is the bad decision usually. It's not the products fault.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

Who does that leave? How far off from a monopoly are we?

HDS is #2. IBM is #3. NetApp is #4 (for the moment.) HP is #5. That rounds out the big boys. If the "rule of threes" makes sense then the big storage field is still oversaturated with vendors. Even if you discount NetApp because they make a very different style product than the others, that leaves four massive players, not three.

And then there are the little guys like Nimble, Exablox and many others. The field is still very open and broad.

And Yet somehow the Storage vendors have some of the most over-priced, over-sold products. I believe there's a lot of profit margins to be made.