Memory and CPU are fine. Network throughput looks pretty much fine. Remaining space may/may not be depending on if you want to use more than 250 GB or so.

@scottalanmiller said in Reading a DPACK:

@dashrender said in Reading a DPACK:

@scottalanmiller said in Reading a DPACK:

There is no trivial way to measure CPU performance. The simple means used here is cores times speed. This is misleading as an Intel G6 core is not the same as an Intel G8 core is not the same as an AMD core. So this can be pretty misleading. But as long as you are getting faster core architectures in the future, you know that meeting or beating the coreXspeed calc of the past is more than enough.

So you have 22GHz of cumulative performance here. Likely this means that dual quad core procs in a new server will be plenty.

Scott - Looking at this DPACK, assuming the architecture is good, would there be any reason to upgrade this system, assuming nothing is being added (load wise)?

From a capacity perspective, not at all. You are way over provisioned.

Agreed, unless you want more room to expand. Looking at the DPACK you only have 2.58% of storage left available. If the VMs have plenty of room you could take space back to put in to 'available'. But, if the VMs are full, and you cant take any back... 2.58% sounds low to me...

@scottalanmiller said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@jimmy9008 said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

Should it be called a bonus though if you are taking, say, $10,800 less than peers outside of the same company due to this 'benefit'?

Yes, if it is more than the peers INSIDE the same company.

True. Each to their own.

@scottalanmiller said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@penguinwrangler said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@scottalanmiller said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@penguinwrangler said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@scottalanmiller said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@penguinwrangler said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@jimmy9008 said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@scottalanmiller said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@dashrender said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@scottalanmiller said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@dashrender said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

His number of $140K includes interest (assuming he pays 100% interest over the life of the loan. So you if you are using this as the reference, it's more accurate to use the $70K number.

Sort of, but interest is part of the overall system and cost. Because we are talking about people pre-career and pre-adult, the interest is part of their cost, not an option.

Sure, but then @Jimmy9008 needs to include the interest costs on his education as well, assuming he has them, currently we don't know.

Oh sure, needs to be apples to apples, of course.

Indeed. I'm pretty sure its 1.25% APR. So, I believe £18k left unpaid in any way for the year would gain £225. (I think).

I am sure though that currently students in the UK have it far worse than I. The prices have rocketed upwards.

I have 85,315 in total loans. The interest rate is 4.875%.
30 year payment plan:
Monthly Payment: 451.49 Total Principal Paid: $85,315 Total Interest Paid: $77,222.84 Total: 162,537.84
20 year payment plan:
Monthly Payment: 557.17 Total Principal Paid: $85,315 Total Interest Paid: $48,405.01 Total: 133,720.01
10 year Payment plan:
Monthly Payment: 899.69 Total Principal Paid: $85,315 Total Interest Paid: $22,648.31 Total: 107,963.31

That's a year or two at a pretty good salary just lost to loans

Not now that I get the forgiveness, that is why I couldn't pass the job up.

How long do you have to stay to earn the foregiveness in full?

10 years but I am planning on retiring from the Federal Government, so that is 25 years. The retirement is really good as well.

So it could be calculated to be a $10,800 annual bonus in that regard.

Should it be called a bonus though if you are taking, say, $10,800 less than peers outside of the same company due to this 'benefit'?

What happens after 10 years and the loan is written off? Do you then get $10,800 added on to yearly normal salary as the benefit is then, erm, gone?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Relaxing at home following an interview earlier in the day.

How did it go?

Seemed to go well. Was supposed to be 30 minute face to face, but ended up 1h 30min... so, I take that as a good sign. We'll see. Not that length is anything to go by of course. Thanks for asking

Yeah, that's definitely a good sign.

Had a phone interview the other week with an Infrastructure Lead that run a similar amount of time and didn't get taken forward on that role... so who knows. The Lead said 'You've not used x software, and I won't have time to show it to you.' - fair do's, even though I disagree. I guess he didn't take in to account that i've not needed somebody to show me anything so far and have used my own willpower to learn what I need to know - but hey, if that is his way of thinking I wouldn't want to work with him anyway...

(I still sound bitter on that one, which is fair - he could have saved me over an hour and some battery life on my phone if he ended the phone interview at that point).
#want_my_wasted_time_back

Maybe HE doesn't know how to learn things on his own and doesn't understand that other people do, or, more likely, he's afraid of people that don't need hand holding because they will pass him up.

Yeah, probably. Or some sort nepotism where he already has a family member/friend targeted for the role and is just going through the interview process to satisfy politics/Law.

Either way, was far more pay and lots of benefits. Still, have a job that's decent pay so no bother really.

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Relaxing at home following an interview earlier in the day.

How did it go?

Seemed to go well. Was supposed to be 30 minute face to face, but ended up 1h 30min... so, I take that as a good sign. We'll see. Not that length is anything to go by of course. Thanks for asking

Yeah, that's definitely a good sign.

Had a phone interview the other week with an Infrastructure Lead that run a similar amount of time and didn't get taken forward on that role... so who knows. The Lead said 'You've not used x software, and I won't have time to show it to you.' - fair do's, even though I disagree. I guess he didn't take in to account that i've not needed somebody to show me anything so far and have used my own willpower to learn what I need to know - but hey, if that is his way of thinking I wouldn't want to work with him anyway...

(I still sound bitter on that one, which is fair - he could have saved me over an hour and some battery life on my phone if he ended the phone interview at that point).
#want_my_wasted_time_back

You dont want to work for a company like that anyways.

Thanks dude. Yeah, totally agree. Not the right place to work if a manager has no time to sit with a sub - not that it would really be needed IMO anyway.
Shame though, until he said that after the long call is seemed to go well and said 'loved the in depth conversation about storage and virtualisation, and you have great stuff that would be useful..... BUT..' lol.

If one piece of software is a problem, then fine. But gosh, pretty crappy outlook.
It was something like System Centre DPM. Which is their backup tool... i've not used it because I just go Veeam lol

@penguinwrangler said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@jimmy9008 said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@scottalanmiller said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@dashrender said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@scottalanmiller said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@dashrender said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

His number of $140K includes interest (assuming he pays 100% interest over the life of the loan. So you if you are using this as the reference, it's more accurate to use the $70K number.

Sort of, but interest is part of the overall system and cost. Because we are talking about people pre-career and pre-adult, the interest is part of their cost, not an option.

Sure, but then @Jimmy9008 needs to include the interest costs on his education as well, assuming he has them, currently we don't know.

Oh sure, needs to be apples to apples, of course.

Indeed. I'm pretty sure its 1.25% APR. So, I believe £18k left unpaid in any way for the year would gain £225. (I think).

I am sure though that currently students in the UK have it far worse than I. The prices have rocketed upwards.

I have 85,315 in total loans. The interest rate is 4.875%.
30 year payment plan:
Monthly Payment: 451.49 Total Principal Paid: $85,315 Total Interest Paid: $77,222.84 Total: 162,537.84
20 year payment plan:
Monthly Payment: 557.17 Total Principal Paid: $85,315 Total Interest Paid: $48,405.01 Total: 133,720.01
10 year Payment plan:
Monthly Payment: 899.69 Total Principal Paid: $85,315 Total Interest Paid: $22,648.31 Total: 107,963.31

Ouch.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Relaxing at home following an interview earlier in the day.

How did it go?

Seemed to go well. Was supposed to be 30 minute face to face, but ended up 1h 30min... so, I take that as a good sign. We'll see. Not that length is anything to go by of course. Thanks for asking

Yeah, that's definitely a good sign.

Had a phone interview the other week with an Infrastructure Lead that run a similar amount of time and didn't get taken forward on that role... so who knows. The Lead said 'You've not used x software, and I won't have time to show it to you.' - fair do's, even though I disagree. I guess he didn't take in to account that i've not needed somebody to show me anything so far and have used my own willpower to learn what I need to know - but hey, if that is his way of thinking I wouldn't want to work with him anyway...

(I still sound bitter on that one, which is fair - he could have saved me over an hour and some battery life on my phone if he ended the phone interview at that point).
#want_my_wasted_time_back

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Relaxing at home following an interview earlier in the day.

How did it go?

Seemed to go well. Was supposed to be 30 minute face to face, but ended up 1h 30min... so, I take that as a good sign. We'll see. Not that length is anything to go by of course. Thanks for asking

Relaxing at home following an interview earlier in the day.

@scottalanmiller said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@dashrender said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@scottalanmiller said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@dashrender said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

His number of $140K includes interest (assuming he pays 100% interest over the life of the loan. So you if you are using this as the reference, it's more accurate to use the $70K number.

Sort of, but interest is part of the overall system and cost. Because we are talking about people pre-career and pre-adult, the interest is part of their cost, not an option.

Sure, but then @Jimmy9008 needs to include the interest costs on his education as well, assuming he has them, currently we don't know.

Oh sure, needs to be apples to apples, of course.

Indeed. I'm pretty sure its 1.25% APR. So, I believe £18k left unpaid in any way for the year would gain £225. (I think).

I am sure though that currently students in the UK have it far worse than I. The prices have rocketed upwards.

@dashrender said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@jimmy9008 said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@scottalanmiller said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@jimmy9008 said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@penguinwrangler said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@DustinB3403 I calculated my savings wrong. Yes, I will have 70,000 to 75,000 forgiven. I also don't have to pay interest on that so my savings are more in the $140,000 area. Just for the record, yes I am poking the bear, and having a lot of fun while I do it.

$140,000, wow! I assumed UK education was a lot. I feel lucky now my total is £18,000. ($24,000)... Of course, get it paid by somebody else if you can. Good luck

US is, AFAIK, the worst in the world. Very high cost, very low quality. Not the lowest quality, but the highest cost.

It sounds like a crazy high amount. Current courses here, at least last time I looked, had gone up to £9k per year. So £28k for the 3 year course. Plus, if you take accommodation too, its likely double. So I figure about £56k, now. That's still nowhere close to what the US is paying...

Is $140,000 at least from a top higher level institute? Or is that just a standard cost for normal college?

Where are you pulling the $140K number from? was it from here

PenguinWrangler about an hour ago
@DustinB3403 I calculated my savings wrong. Yes, I will have 70,000 to 75,000 forgiven. I also don't have to pay interest on that so my savings are more in the $140,000 area. Just for the record, yes I am poking the bear, and having a lot of fun while I do it.

His number of $140K includes interest (assuming he pays 100% interest over the life of the loan. So you if you are using this as the reference, it's more accurate to use the $70K number.

I was using the 140k total as that includes interest. My £18k doesn't include interest, but in the UK for pre 2012 course its supposed to be small. Not sure the exact amount but think around 1.25% APR.

@scottalanmiller said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@jimmy9008 said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@penguinwrangler said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@DustinB3403 I calculated my savings wrong. Yes, I will have 70,000 to 75,000 forgiven. I also don't have to pay interest on that so my savings are more in the $140,000 area. Just for the record, yes I am poking the bear, and having a lot of fun while I do it.

$140,000, wow! I assumed UK education was a lot. I feel lucky now my total is £18,000. ($24,000)... Of course, get it paid by somebody else if you can. Good luck

US is, AFAIK, the worst in the world. Very high cost, very low quality. Not the lowest quality, but the highest cost.

It sounds like a crazy high amount. Current courses here, at least last time I looked, had gone up to £9k per year. So £28k for the 3 year course. Plus, if you take accommodation too, its likely double. So I figure about £56k, now. That's still nowhere close to what the US is paying...

Is $140,000 at least from a top higher level institute? Or is that just a standard cost for normal college?

@dashrender said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@jimmy9008 said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@DustinB3403 You just sound bitter. You could go and find a job in the same area, and take the pay cut, and then have your student loan paid. Its not unfair at all. You have the exact same opportunities IMO.

Are you responding to old messages, or are messages being deleted?

Just a comment on the original post. Didn't read the whole following thread.

@DustinB3403 You just sound bitter. You could go and find a job in the same area, and take the pay cut, and then have your student loan paid. Its not unfair at all. You have the exact same opportunities IMO.

@penguinwrangler said in Student Loan Forgiveness Rant:

@DustinB3403 I calculated my savings wrong. Yes, I will have 70,000 to 75,000 forgiven. I also don't have to pay interest on that so my savings are more in the $140,000 area. Just for the record, yes I am poking the bear, and having a lot of fun while I do it.

$140,000, wow! I assumed UK education was a lot. I feel lucky now my total is £18,000. ($24,000)... Of course, get it paid by somebody else if you can. Good luck

@scottalanmiller said in eh? you want to what? something about my DNS and Domain?:

Why are you talking to them? Move your DNS to CloudFlare. Done.

Agree, entirely.

@hobbit666 said in Office + RDS + Citrix + Licensing = Confused:

Actually I might need to look at this a different way. Maybe remove Access and keep it on the desktops instead of RDS.

If I have 400 users accessing the server but only 50-60 need any form of Office, what's the cheapest way of doing it?
Guessing if all 50 need a mailbox then E3 via the Office365 plans
OR
50 Volume Licenses if I went down that road and keep 365 mailboxes separate.

Or do I need to license for the total number accessing the servers even if they don't need office?

I could be wrong, but, if they don't have a license in 365, opening Word, Excel, Outlook etc wont work. It will open, then ask for activation, and close. For those with a license, it will open, activate, and they can work. So, just buy the E3 plans as needed for those that need it and install to the servers. Those with a license will work, those without wont.

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Normal people avoid all kinds of failures every moment, of every day. Imagine if you bought a Corvette and came home and your wife is furious because you spent $150K that you didn't have, on a car you didn't need. Now explain to her how dumb she is because you ACTUALLY saved $300K by not buying the $450K Ferrari that you also didn't need. Boy will she fill dumb once she realized how much success you had in not buying that Ferrari.

The success would have been on the wife's CV saying 'Saved 100k through purchase of a Ford'. In your example they both failed

How do we know that Hyper-V was not like the Corvette? Nowhere was the business process or success mentioned, only the avoidance of the Ferrari. We have no reason to think that Hyper-V was the right, or even a good choice, only that what other option was considered was worse.

But you've highlighted my point. The "success" is skipped here. We have the Ferrari and the Corvette only in the CV example, never the Ford. So you've caught my point, but I'm not sure you've applied it to the problem at hand.

The fact that the CV writer is saying it's a success and explaining why... Is why.

There is no explanantion and no foundation for calling it a success. Hence my assumption that it is a lie.

It must suck to assume everything is a lie. Pessimist?

Your approach is to just assume anything, no matter how illogical or unlikely, on a CV is the truth?

Until I meat them and question them, yes. That's the point of the face to face. To assume it's not the truth is just a bad place to be.

It's not when the statement is a fundamental lie. There is no foundation for a statement like $150K being saved under those conditions. There is no truthful statement to make in that manner because such a valuation cannto be made. So it is a known falsehood.

It can be said. If the director is about to sign off on the purchase but the Candidate stopped it and convincing them to change.. that can be said. Along with any savings etc. Who are you to say they lied?!

I'm the person evaluating their statement, in this situation, I am the sole person to determine the truth. Clearly the director can't understand the problem domain enough to know what savings vs. failure looks like, and the candidate had to work for that person and their perspective is coloured by their impression of intent from someone other than them.

Also, your statement is based on assumptions that dont' exist in the scenario.

Like I said a few times... Let's just disagree on the CV. I personally like to have the reason a word is listed. You I guess dont. So, that's it.

I didn't disagree with having a reason. I just said to put on facts, not opinion (and especialy not easily challenged opinion.)

Saying you saved money is not an opinion. It's a fact if they did it. Of course, you can never know it's true. But it can still be their fact.

And if true, is a great thing to brag about that you stopped that failure.

The whole point in meeting them is to them discuss this stuff.

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Normal people avoid all kinds of failures every moment, of every day. Imagine if you bought a Corvette and came home and your wife is furious because you spent $150K that you didn't have, on a car you didn't need. Now explain to her how dumb she is because you ACTUALLY saved $300K by not buying the $450K Ferrari that you also didn't need. Boy will she fill dumb once she realized how much success you had in not buying that Ferrari.

The success would have been on the wife's CV saying 'Saved 100k through purchase of a Ford'. In your example they both failed

How do we know that Hyper-V was not like the Corvette? Nowhere was the business process or success mentioned, only the avoidance of the Ferrari. We have no reason to think that Hyper-V was the right, or even a good choice, only that what other option was considered was worse.

But you've highlighted my point. The "success" is skipped here. We have the Ferrari and the Corvette only in the CV example, never the Ford. So you've caught my point, but I'm not sure you've applied it to the problem at hand.

The fact that the CV writer is saying it's a success and explaining why... Is why.

There is no explanantion and no foundation for calling it a success. Hence my assumption that it is a lie.

It must suck to assume everything is a lie. Pessimist?

Your approach is to just assume anything, no matter how illogical or unlikely, on a CV is the truth?

Until I meat them and question them, yes. That's the point of the face to face. To assume it's not the truth is just a bad place to be.

It's not when the statement is a fundamental lie. There is no foundation for a statement like $150K being saved under those conditions. There is no truthful statement to make in that manner because such a valuation cannto be made. So it is a known falsehood.

It can be said. If the director is about to sign off on the purchase but the Candidate stopped it and convincing them to change.. that can be said. Along with any savings etc. Who are you to say they lied?!

I'm the person evaluating their statement, in this situation, I am the sole person to determine the truth. Clearly the director can't understand the problem domain enough to know what savings vs. failure looks like, and the candidate had to work for that person and their perspective is coloured by their impression of intent from someone other than them.

Also, your statement is based on assumptions that dont' exist in the scenario.

Like I said a few times... Let's just disagree on the CV. I personally like to have the reason a word is listed. You I guess dont. So, that's it.