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We are looking for a new Radiology viewing solution. Of course the docs have their list of desires, the radiology techs have theirs, but what should IT's be?

I have the following list.

Does not use Flash
Does not use Java (on the PC)
Prefer HTML 5 based
Does not require local admin rights
What is the upgrade/update plan
Mobile device accessible (Android and iPhone)
Supports IE, Firefox and Chrome (and why not - Edge too)

Let's assume the server components will be hosted and someone else's responsibility.
Can you think of others?

@scottalanmiller said in Huge Mistake:

@Obsolesce said in Huge Mistake:

@WrCombs said in Huge Mistake:

@Dashrender said in Huge Mistake:

@WrCombs said in Huge Mistake:

@Dashrender said in Huge Mistake:

@scottalanmiller said in Huge Mistake:

@WrCombs said in Huge Mistake:

@scottalanmiller said in Huge Mistake:

@WrCombs said in Huge Mistake:

but since we have to try and Screw over our customers as much as possible, and not do it the right way, and just replace both hard drives

While often that appears to be the logic, how did this screw over the customer here? Wasn't this going to get the customer up faster and cheaper?

It was my understanding that the customer was planning on buying new hard drives since we couldn't put a Western Digital with a Seagate.
It wasn't until I got to the office.

Why can't you mix the drives? It's software RAID, it doesn't care.

Because they have crazy people at his work who don't know this.

FYI - you could even put a larger drive in, you would just end up only using the amount of space on the smaller one.

guess that would make sense. Not sure anyone here would it see it that way.

As mentioned by others, it's not advisable - you end up with likely performance issues because the drives might operate at different performance levels, but at worse really, you should mostly only be as bad as the slowest drive (but I can think of reasons why it could be much worse than that).

I tried Doing it one time on site, and it was so slow that I had to call my boss before they would let me leave because they couldn't do anything on the PC while it was rebuilding the drive.

Why would anyone expect a PC to be really usable while it's rebuilding a spinning disk RAID, regardless of the drives being identical or not? It's a PC... and likely a shitty one.

Well, someone paid for that functionality from the beginning. So what was sold to them, if not that?

A bag of lies! and what the customer was sold was likely not what was wanted, but what was forced upon them for deciding to go with this vendor.

Sadly - as I gain more exposure to POS systems, most of them are crap and sell super overpriced crap at that.

I won one of these in a live Q&A a few months ago. It's definitely a handy little device. The higher model has WiFi too, you can connect your mobile device to it and manage the data on the fly too.

Youtube Video

JB, how much you wanna bet they have an IPOD?

@nadnerb said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

So sad but true!

Why do so many companies have to hear it from an outsider before they believe it?

@dafyre said in SSL query:

I'm still unsure why companies will no longer issue certs for .local domains. It seems to me that complicates things for those of us who are stuck with them for a while longer.

What I've heard some folks wanting to do is make their internal domains something like int.mydomain.com, which isn't really all that terrible... but it can complicate things if you want to use an external web host that expects some level of control over DNS.

Since they don't work on the internet, why do you need a CA to issue it? Stand up your own internal CA, publish the root via GP to your clients and go to town.

@obsolesce said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@nadnerb said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

no wonder they don't typically make trays that hold the whole ream.
lol

Yes they do. Not home printers, but many business class printers do. I've seen some that hold 2 or 3.

you missed the joke I was trying to make.

Lol, sure... But if a graphics design person can't work out this situation, they probably belong on another line of work. Considering the OP.

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Reading a DHCP v6 RFC document.

How fast did you fall asleep?

it's a log, open it in notepad/wordpad/excel, etc

It's just raw text, nothing special.

If you want a fancy GUI around it, then use something like LogStash to send the logs to, then use it's GUI.

Today I begin the recovery from my rotator cuff surgery I had this morning. Today is mostly my wife sterning telling me to sit down and stop doing stuff... I'm way more restless than normal. ug.

why do you still work there?

@Alan said in what windows server should I choose for Active directory?:

@Dashrender
-most of the Pcs are running windows 7 pro, we have few windows 10 pro

Please remind the client that Windows 7 only has 3 more years of support left. Jan 2020 is when MS stops making security updates. Definitely not to early to start looking at the requirements to get away from Windows 7.

You might have to get lawyers involved.

The registar's relationship is with the old MSP, not your client, not really sure they have any legal ground to provide you access unless court mandated.

One more reason I always tell my customers to handle this themselves. Of course someone trying for lock in will keep all the keys to the kingdom to try to prevent someone leaving...

OK I had to do some digging before posting.

I recall seeing @scottalanmiller post many times that SSDs don't suffer UREs, but perhaps he was meaning that they are so unlikely in current use patterns we can ignore them.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/07/flash_banishes_the_spectre_of_the_unrecoverable_data_error/

This post talks about this topic exactly. But I'll shorten it for this post.
https://i.imgur.com/JfTT7E0.png

You asked - is it all about the bits, yep, it sure is. As you can see in that graphic, even consumer SSDs are 10x less likely to hit a URE than an enterprise HDD. And there are two levels greater than that. You can see where Scott got the 12 TB basically means 100% likeliness that a resilver will fail. You'll notice that a 600 TB array has about a 50% chance of failure, 300 TB has 25% 100 TB is around 8%.

I think the new question we need to ask ourselves, what level of risk are we willing to accept? Which isn't new at all, it's something we should have been (and continue) to ask ourselves.

Seems to be working so far.

https://i.imgur.com/Fgs0xvC.png

@NerdyDad said in Domain/Server Upgrade Options:

Option 2) Would salt be a good alternative instead of Samba?

Option 3) AzureAD could be another viable option for something like this, along with all of the additional features, such as SharePoint, Skype, Email, OneDrive, etc. But are those features worth more than the $3,600 / year to the company? That would be the question for you to ask the stakeholders.

Salt alone doesn't replace SAMBA. Salt can replace the GPO portion of Windows AD, but not the file share part. So even if not using the SAMBA AD features, assuming Bill doesn't move to something like NextCoud, he'd still need SAMBA for file shares.

@Oksana said in Managing Hyper-V:

StarWind is currently working on the new product - a flexible and customizable web-based platform which will allow users get the full control over their IT infrastructures from a single HTML5 graphical interface including S2D, Failover Clustering and Hyper-V. More information to be found in a nearby thread: https://mangolassi.it/topic/14114/help-starwind-to-pick-the-name-for-the-upcoming-product

Very cool - but the big question - will it allow the launching of a console connection to a VM?

I visited someone's home tonight that had two Unifi APs, one at either side of the house. Though one half the house had horrible connections. Turns out the second AP had no power. Reset connections, tada! AP back online and wifi is awesome!