A lot of people also never look at the big picture. Things like whenever someone quits to go to another job they forfeit their bonus. Of course they do, makes sense. But it is a major point of cost savings to businesses that employees often overlook and never realize that they agreed to lower their income "on job change" when they signed up.

I'm just not out there enough to justify the cost to put in heat and then to keep it heated. If I were heating it up and letting it cool off at night, think of what that does to raw wood. It's so much simpler to say screw it, I don't do much in the winter months. I stay inside where it's warm.

Actually we have a static html site which is shared with clients just to give them a feel of the site before we move to production. And its enabled with directory browsing and you know how it looks. Just to have a decent look, we were checking on options and found Apaxy, its super easy and nothing to install, just download, extract files, make changes on htaccess file mentioning the path and thats it. Looks way better than the traditional listing.

VGA just can't scale up to that. You need a digital output.

We have wanted to get one of these kits for a while but with all of our travelling it fell by the wayside. Maybe we will get around to getting one now. They are very cool. It is a great idea and I'm sure that my seven year old would love it.

Nice, that is very cool that they added that.

@Dashrender said in Starting own IT consultancy - Gathering list of tools required and recommendations:

@Dashrender said in Starting own IT consultancy - Gathering list of tools required and recommendations:

@Meik92 said in Starting own IT consultancy - Gathering list of tools required and recommendations:

@Dashrender

I just asked to join the service providers group. I think that's the closest I can get.

Awesome! This wasn't a knock on you, just the current functionality of ML - I rather like the way SpiceWorks does it Some name at some company - made it really easy for each employee from a company to have their own identity at the time being tied to that company.

Huh - just had a thought. What about asking all vendors who want to be known (and post as) a vendor update they name to be name@company?

They could but seems like that would make for easy abuse as anyone could do that.

Checking in on this one, is this one ready to be closed out? Is there any additional information to be included?

Just installed the sync tool on my windows as well and it's not heavy plus the sync settings i mentioned on my MAC, automatically worked on windows too (sync specific folders & files). Not sure if ODFB works the same way, but for me one of the reasons we are thinking between O365 SP onlive vs box and leaning towards box is the sync tools for all platforms, (When i tried preview of ODFB on our MAC, it crashed both on Yosemite and El Captian), plus of course the unlimited storage.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Carnival-Boy said:

And what do you mean "this is done by default in Windows 10"? The Quick Edit mode isn't checked on my PC (and I don't understand why I would want it to be).

That's odd, on by default here.

Yep, just check in 1511, enabled here.

The nice thing about robots is that they do things like run more often, do it while you are away, get far back under things that you would normally miss yourself...

Yes and probably install rootkit hunter as well! http://www.tecmint.com/install-linux-rkhunter-rootkit-hunter-in-rhel-centos-and-fedora/

@Dashrender said in Backup of Office 365 Sharepoint sites:

Necropost!

Scott - do we know that MS takes backups? and where is the page stating as such (no I haven't looked myself).

@scottalanmiller said in Backup of Office 365 Sharepoint sites:

It is very important to remember that you have outsourced your hosting as well as your reliability and backups. Nothing wrong with taking your own backups, just keep in mind that they are already taking backups and your backups are a third party backup above and beyond the normal backups and a degree of backup that you would never consider (normally) doing if you were not hosted. The desire to take your own backups is generally an emotional one and not one based on actual, statistical risk.

So you're saying that you can call up MS and say - hey I need you to restore all my ODfB account to yesterday because i got hit by Cryptowall - and they will do it?

Doesn't that tool give you version rollback built in?

It is a very cool tool.

@scottalanmiller said:

Good info, thanks!

Hope no one gets this! 🙂

@MattSpeller said:

@gjacobse I'll take the raft, stoked with gasoline, fired at by the largest naval guns using high explosive my estate can afford

Modern day Viking 😉

@garak0410 said:

@MattSpeller said:

@garak0410 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

What GPU does that have?

It is a custom GPU along the lines of a Nvidia GeForce 860M. So it isn't a gamers dream, but that said, I CAN game and game well on the go. I've not loaded GeForce Experience on it since this is a custom GPU and before the last firmware update, there were many unstable issues with both the Surface Book and Surface Pro 4.

I've played ALIEN: Isolation with details maxed but but a much lower resolution. Video Rendering speeds with Adobe Premiere have been quite impressive.

Does it have dedicated vram or does it sneak around like a thief in the night, hungry for some delicious ram

It has 1GB of dedicated, GDDR5 video RAM.

That is the only reason we got them. Sales wanted Surface Pro 4's, but lacked the video to support certain services. Got Surface Books and they faired a little better. Keep in mind, $350 of the cost is going into the keyboard whereas I think the Surface Pro 4 keyboards are a bit cheaper so the price difference is something to consider. If you don't need the VRAM, the Surface book isn't a much better device in my trials. The kickstand on the Surface Pro 4 (without the keyboard attached) essentially turns the Surface Book into using the keyboard as a flexible stand. I prefer the kick stand but using either device on your lap, I prefer the Book.

@Carnival-Boy said:

And yet the US produces more highly successful entrepreneurs than pretty much anywhere else in the world...which just backs up my theory that these aren't skills that entrepreneurs need or generally have.

But that's not why. The skills are universal. The US produces entrepreneurs in droves only because we produce investors in droves. Nearly all countries have entrepreneurs at similar levels, I'd argue that Central America produces them in much higher quantity by percentage of population. But the US produces rich ones because there is startup capital available. Almost no one else has that.