@scottalanmiller Light control is the main reason, sometimes space saving by being able to bounce it off a mirror.

@WingCreative said:

They they can help you build a digital marketing plan with clear goals, documented methods for achieving them, and metrics that you can use to measure the ROI on each method. Otherwise, it's all too easy to spend money trying out a smattering of different methods without ever really knowing which, if any, actually helped.

True marketing is black arts, you can gather some metrics, but only a little bit. Because a marketing campaign today might influence sales next year with no direct connection the metrics can actually show things not working when they are, or lead you to believe that things are working that are actually driving away a lot of customers, too.

@Dashrender said:

I think this makes the situation even worse than I believed it was before.

It's one thing if Lenovo takes a piece of software from a 3rd party and just installs it.. that software then goes and installs a shim to the network to allow them to do whatever they want....

it's whole different when the vendor, Lenovo, actually modifies their own driver to install the shim as low as possible to prevent it's lack of use - it's one of those situations where "they couldn't have helped but to know how bad this was."

Yes, it is really hard to overstate just how bad this was.

@scottalanmiller said:

@JaredBusch said:

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

LOL - Will IE let you do that? We are an IE only shop here. Works best with our EHR.

It would give you away.

That's crazy.... all that work to secure IE. Bangs head on desk.

I think the bank would require the software with Chrome or FF as well, but can't be sure because, well we don't use them.

I'm sure that they would. That the software allows IE points to how silly it all is. "We have to be SO secure... but we'll allow IE." It's all a joke, just a chance for the banks to exert control.

If I had the choice, I'd ditch any bank that requires IE for something like that. The Trusteer app does work in Firefox and Chrome the last time I used it.

Yes, it installs in all three. Not sure how well it will play with Edge since ther is no add on support built in yet.

Interesting that it being Windows only might cause it to not work on Windows! Although IE is still there, just has to be re-enabled.

IE does not need re-enabled. It is there always. just not the default browser, nor pinned to the start menu by default.

Saw it over the weekend... Might be in the order pile soon..

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Docker containers run their own OS but share the parent's kernel. They don't have discrete kernels. So if you want to modify the kernel itself, you have to reboot the parent and everything reboots. But libraries and such are all in the containers.

Where, is the flexibility vs a straight up VM, then? Each VM also contains its own Kernel, so any tweaking that I desire can be done inside the VM without affecting the Host OS (Xen, Hyper-V, et al). I get live Migration with VMs...

Docker is about application flexibility, not OS tweaking. You can't tweak a Docker container, it is set and forget. Docker is about making deployments fast, easy and dense. The DevOps ecosystem doesn't let you tweak running systems anyway.

If you want to log in and tweak running systems, you are in a snowflake systems administration model. You have to separate the two mindsets, they work on completely different problem sets.

Interesting.

Frankly it only makes sense for MS to allow all their services access to online versions of Office whenever possible, for example your EOP1 plan - that's really cool that they will open an Excel sheet in Online Excel when using OWA, if they didn't it would severely limit the use (not that we weren't limited for decades).

@Dashrender said:

I'm definitely interested in trying out StarWinds vSAN, but I don't currently have anything to use it on.

VM-based stand is OK. also we're in Azure Marketplace so you can play with StarWind using free $200 Microsoft Azure trial hardware-less.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/partners/starwind/starwindvirtualsan/

Hope this helped 🙂

@BRRABill said:

BTW: from Googling around tonight, it appears the SYnology can also be setup to use commercial backup programs like CrashPlan.

Though that CloudSync that @MattSpeller is talking about also looks killer.

It does, but we have a VM specifically for that. I don't how it would perform on the synology, but I didn't want to add any more services to it. The VM just mounts the normal shares and backs them up to Crashplan.

@Dashrender This is only moderate density DDR3, no where near 128GB. Every color is another layer of copper. Check out his grid size for scale! 4 thousandths of an inch!

Now consider that each trace from the chip to the pin needs to be the same length or you start to induce latency errors. That should blow your mind sufficiently 🙂

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@adamevans4 said:

@DustinB3403 I just virtualized our servers but not our desktops. I have been asking to upgrade our phones, but to have the money to do so I need to get some more customers. Great advice though. Thank you.

What about your phone system do you want to upgrade? The number of lines you have? the switch? the phones themselves?

VOIP and SIP only applies if you're talking about upgrading the lines and assumes the current system supports SIP.
If he's talking about the phones/system, that won't be free (for the phones).

Hopefully his phone setup is less complicated than mine.

Migrations are something that any user could want to do, and should be able to do . Moving something like Voice Mails and text messages, while not commonly needed - i've personally never cared about migrating them - shouldn't be considered outside the norm either.

Does Windows do something that nearly no other OS does in the requirement/user of extensions to know what programs to use to open a file - yes, is this now a legacy problem, sure, doesn't change the fact that people want to migrate every day from iphones to androids and vice versa. Just this year 4 of my doctors switched from iphones to galaxy notes, mostly at the behest of their teenage children. Frankly I couldn't believe they were doing it!

So Personally, yes I think migrations are a highly common thing. That said, if apple doesn't want to support that ability, that's their prerogative.

I'll agree that backups don't equal migration tools.

Try this...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO

@KOOLER said:

@creayt said:

Have a new laptop coming and I'd like to run something like Time Machine for OS X where I can just restall the whole system from it if possible. Any suggestions?

Veeam or wrong! (c) ...

https://www.veeam.com/endpoint-backup-free.html?ad=menu-products

🙂

Yeah, do this to a local NAS or USB attached storage.

@scottalanmiller said:

Best practice, which almost no one follows, is to use explicit paths in scripts rather than implicit. then you don't need that at all.

I guess that makes 100% sense since you have to start the script with an absolute path ha.

If you want to really switch people over, redirection encourages them to not change their address books.

Looks like

xm shutdown -a

will shutdown all of the vms

@johnhooks said:

Oooh, ok. That's the difference then. Must be for a different use. With Alfresco, each time you upload a change, it's saved as a version (major or minor). Then you can restore to versions, see edits made by users with timestamps and some other info.

Right, its even more granular. You can go back versions to individual document components.