@scottalanmiller said:

Here is a thought experiment...

What if a single rich person could hire every doctor that there is - this doesn't just give them access to all existing legal healthcare but the right to control the creation of more (only doctors can make more doctors legally.) The market is not free, someone new is not allowed to just become a doctor by knowing doctor stuff, you have to have other doctors and political groups approve you. It's a gated thing. So, in theory, access to healthcare can be controlled by a single person without the ability to have competitors.

In a free market, that situation cannot arise. Someone could always invest the time, effort or money to compete. But in the current framework, it is completely possible although totally impractical, to literally buy up all healthcare and with non-competes literally shut down the healthcare systems totally if one so desired.

We may be closer to that reality than people realize. Around here The Cleveland Clinic owns and runs 90% of the healthcare facilities and has the same amount of doctors under contract. My wife was in their main facility before she passed, and it is larger than most mid-sized cities. Just a small idea of the size, the window in her room looked out over the helicopter landing pads, all 4 of them. To get to her room from the parking lot, you walked 3/4 mile.

@johnhooks said:

@dafyre said:

There's also the question as to whether or not management is needed... . which will always depend on the situation.

Maybe instead of using the controller it would be nice if the EdgeRouter could control the AP.

I think it's really nice that everything is split, it's just you still need the Unifi AP no matter what.

Isn't that all managed through the same software?

We'll be getting our first Ubiquity APs whenever they get in stock. May be another week or two before they ship yet. So it'll be interesting for me to know how well the AP and switch/router all work together.

@Dashrender said:

That few dollar difference isn't always worth it.

Scott's made mention of times where he went with unmanaged because the throughput was faster than the managed ones.

True. The big difference is LAG availability. I can run a backup in the middle of the day without bringing the rest of the network down because everyone's on the same 1Gbit trunk. I can see how something like a dedicated storage network would be slowed down by adding a management layer on top of switching for sure.

I've changed from unmanaged switches to HP 1910s. Mostly for the price and warranty, managed switches for close to the same price of unamanged, yes please. Not really impressed with the ancient 3com management interface. I had a laugh when I spotted some 3com labels on the JG538A I got to replace the abomination that was our central network core (even with only 10 people employed at any single place it was still an abomination.)

@scottalanmiller said:

@dafyre said:

The Scale systems are excellent. I know NTG has one. I've worked with their systems a couple of years ago, and the performance was night & day VS VMware and a similarly sized SAN. And their systems work really well.

Scale especially kicks butt for Windows performance because of their stack.

In the demo we had the @scale tech was able to install a Windows Server before my ADD kicked in. It was impressive, almost nothing is fast enough to avoid that.

Love that add they have pictured in the article. "rsync.net now supports ZFS send and receive over SSH. If you're not sure what that means, our product is not for you."

Apple Creek, OH
10/768k
Cable
MCTV Ohio
$50(guess, included with rent)

Can't even begin to tell you all how much this "Grinds my gears". The www.onecommunity.org fiber loop is on the pole in my front yard and that is the best internet we can get at home currently! If someone has a little cash to invest I'd love to start a wisp in the area!

@scottalanmiller said:

@travisdh1 would that be Brian?

I think so. It's missing from my stack of business cards, so I'm not sure. Probably gave it away to someone that had an actual project.

@scottalanmiller said:

It can be done automatic. It's not that it is not automated, it is that the scheduler is not exposed and you have to put in a ticket for Scale to set up the schedule for you. So the miss is not in functionality but in interface.

Completely forgot, the tech did mention that. Yeah, they sent one of the 'engineers' and not a sales guy to the NE Ohio Spicecorps meeting. One of the best vendor sponsored meetings ever.

@lhatsynot They have backup options in the gui, tho I don't know that they have a scheduler yet. Yeah, backup without an automatic run.... I really, really like what Scale is doing, but at least of last year that was the only major bit missing.

You can backup to any NFS target from within the management interface to get backup copies off the cluster.

That's in addition to the normal snapshot functions we'd all expect of course.

I have a story about that! In my case it was my legal firm, they were even worse!

Privacy story time. A law firm (I've since fired) had those "legal" notices in all their email they'd send me. I told them multiple times that email is considered public and any information sent via email is the equivalent of shouting it on the street corner. Nothing happened for the longest time. Then I get an email from them out of the blue "Your closing documents are ready." Closing documents, what closing documents? Suspecting spam/phishing I check the header and it's really from who it says it's from. All the scans of the pdf they sent come back as clean, so I take a look. They had sent me the closing documents for some poor guys house. I had ALL his and his wife's PII (personally identifiable information, I've done too much PCI compliance by now.) Fired off another reply, copying the state attorney general office, this time including a couple of references to Ohio law cases that made it clear email is a form of public communication unsuitable to any sort of private correspondence, no matter what sort of disclaimer is contained within said email. Haven't heard from them since (good riddance.)

Guess if I ever turn to a life of crime I'll be all set for using an alternate ID..... Not really, deleted it after having finished dealing with the AG's office. Wish they would have let me know what came of that whole deal.

Doesn't AD automatically do this?

We're up to 10 users here and roaming profiles would be a very good thing as they all jump between different computers. This sort of thing is nice to know before hand.

Gasp, a place you can't lurk in the background for a year or two before people realize you're here. I'm one of those crazy spiceworks people (travis5295). Tho most of the internet recognizes me by this travisdh1 handle. Lots of familiar faces around here, feels nice'n cozy.