@fuznutz04 I believe I just recommended that Synology model to my Museum director. It is for his home and he is just using Western Digital passports. When he complained about losing some family photos I inquired as to what he was doing for backup. Since he is not overly technical I recommended the Synology and offered to help him with it if he wanted. I have complete confidence in Synology because you get what you pay for.

I enable the local admin and set a secure password for everything here as sometimes machines quit responding to the Windows domain controller and I have to have a way to reset things.

@nerdydad said in Common paths to VDI?:

What avenues does one go from normal laptops and desktops to full VDI with zero-client terminals?

In my limited knowledge which I also freely admit, I understand that economically it doesn't make sense unless you have at least 400-600 workstations. That's my understanding anyway and if I'm wrong I wont be offended if anyone corrects me.

@scottalanmiller Yeah I'm sure your right. I was referring back a few years ago now from what i was thinking then. Yeah my opinion hasnt changed any lol. Now I know your right lol

I heard about this on the radio and the woman obviously knows nothing about guns or gun law. She was saying how wrong is it for any normal person to have a submachine gun and we should just ban guns altogether. Well whichever side of the gun laws you stand on she obviously doesn't know you can't just go down to walmart and buy something like this. From what I heard it was a military rifle of some sort but I don't know if that was verified or someone again just guessing on the radio. So who knows.

The point is that he most likely obtained gun illegally anyway if it really was that sort of rifle.

It just seems that she shouldn't give her opinion unless she knows something about it. That's how so many misconceptions start!

@tim_g said in What are the highest paying IT careers?:

If one were to search those types of jobs on indeed for example,

It could just be me but I am thinking the jobs on Indeed are on the verge of fraudulent. There are so many in the tech fields that seem unrealistic. Again it could just be me and when I was looking, but there were many IT jobs that wanted at least 5 years experience in a networking, system admins, sql expert and so on with 5 years experience in each category.

Each job was different but it was some combination of skills that just seemed unrealistic such as jobs with 15 years experince in both Linux and Windows admins. When I would try to contact about these jobs to see if they would entertain a person with less experience I could never get in touch with anyone, ever. I'll never use Indeed again because I think many or most of those IT jobs are just fraudulent but maybe thats just my experience.

@scottalanmiller Ok thanks!

@scottalanmiller What about the Linux versions, which are they using?

Linux is fine. Thanks for the suggestion.

I am looking to play with something at home but not Active Directory. What alternatives are out there? I have heard about Zentyal and its a possibility. Is there anything else that would be better just to learn that would be useful to know?

@dustinb3403 I'll take a bag please, I'm going to the gym tonight so will probably be low when I'm done!

@dustinb3403 said in Enterprise 15K SAS drives vs consumer grade SSD in a Dell server?:

It would be like cooking a hot dog by standing behind a fighter jet as it preps to take off.

Love that analogy

@stacksofplates Oh that is interesting, I didn't know that.

@dustinb3403 Understood and thanks. I was planning on that I just didn't type it.

Ok thanks for the info everyone. Seems Yealink is the consensus here. Ill see what meets the budget. Also learned a bit from the other discussions lol. Interesting how that works

@scottalanmiller Yeah but these are the stories the news media runs with. It doesn't matter if it virtually no one is affected:/ Dumb media.

Is there a general consensus for brand here over what phones are the best value for 20 or less users in a PBX setup?

I would vote Office365 btw, the ecosystem of apps available combined with users already being aware of Microsoft products makes this hard to beat.

@eddiejennings Oh I understand that, a person only has time for so much.

@eddiejennings said in E-mail and file storage services for Non-Profit entities:

One of the members on our board has stepped up to create and manage what will be our new website (using Wix).

Oh of all the things to do a website with:(