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I always recommend keeping it updated and ready to go. That way you are always thinking about it, thinking about what goes on it, where it is weak and it is ready when it is needed.

@Dashrender said in Windows 10 Update -- Hard Drive No Longer Recognized:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows 10 Update -- Hard Drive No Longer Recognized:

@Dashrender said in Windows 10 Update -- Hard Drive No Longer Recognized:

I'll side with Dustin here. Will MS still help you solve the problem because it came from WU? Probably, but really this is a manufacturer's fault for providing a bad BIOS update to MS.

Not to me. The manufacturer did not provide it to me, MS did. No one but MS and me are involved. If MS has an upstream provider not doing their job, that is purely between MS and them. By the time that it gets to me, MS alone is responsible for it.

And I gave that to you by saying that MS will help you fix it, which I know from experience when a RAID controller driver was updated by WU and hosed my system over a decade ago.

Sure they will fix it. But not because they want to, because they are responsible for it.

@Danp said:

I don't know of any off hand, but I am involved with a NP that also works with the developmentally disabled. I can check with them to see what they are using if you would like.

Have you checked on techsoup.org to see if they offer anything that would fit your needs?

Thanks I would appreciate that. I use Techsoup regularly so I've seen what they offer. It's a good resource but I haven't seen anything mind blowing, not that it's required. I'm currently building a Raspberry Pi project that uses a capacitive sensing board to allow clients (verbal and non-verbal) to interact with different objects. When touched the Raspberry Pi will play an audio file that names what it is. This is an example of the types of projects I would be looking for. Even ideas would be great although take it easy, I'm new to Python.

@coliver said:

Yes, I'll be there Saturday and Sunday.

We should meet up!

@wirestyle22 said:

I appreciate all of the help guys. Sorry if this frustrated you at a point 😞

It's how we all learn bro - no worries!

@scottalanmiller lol

I don't have a book that's been that much more amazing than others, but I believe it's not going out of your way to take ICND1 and -2, splitting the CCNA test into two halves and ending up with the CCENT halfway through. If you're on the fence about splitting it up or taking the combined test and getting it all knocked out at once, the tests added up to cost the same through either route.

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@Dashrender said:

yeah, but $500 is 40% less than that. I could give up 2 years worth of warranty and move to a ProDesk 400MT for $599 for an i5, with 4 GB RAM

Sure, but you aren't comparing against thin clients.

LOL - now mind you it's been years since I looked at thin clients, they were $299/ea on average from HP and other big name thin client providers, and that was without a monitor.

Thin clients definitely aren't cheap.

Yes... but what about the RDS Server cost, the RDS CALs, the management overhead....

Like I said, ain't cheap $299 isn't cheap - especially when you compare all the other stuff needed to make Thin Clients work compared to a desktop PC.

Even if you take my listed HP at $599, you'll be hard pressed to get a Thin Client solution in place for less than $599 per station when you consider the MS licensing, the server hardware, etc.

I would never use Microsoft specifically because the licensing

You were thinking Linux terminal server?

Yes if possible. I have no experience with it. NOTE: I did put this in my original post as well

I missed that. That's better, still crazy, but better 🙂

Can't do Zero Clients with that generally.

Better to be less crazy than all crazy I say

hmm.. sounds like our issues were/are different then.

The USG is an all in wonder device. I hate it.

But there is a market for it and I absolutely do not blame Ubiquiti for putting stuff out there.

@DustinB3403 said:

For Meraki? maybe we were grand fathered into some plan cause we have way more than 100 devices.

I bet you were. They totally did that at a time. I was quoted and verified with Meraki directly--100 devices free and when you go to a paid model you have to pay for those hundred devices as well.

@wirestyle22 said:

Sorry for the lack of information. I'm currently researching LAN-less technology and was looking at thin clients just for funsies. We would be using ZT already and I was just wondering if thin clients would even work over the WAN. This is something I would possibly implement. We used to have them on mobile carts at the hospital I used to work at (LAN based). Bear with me here. I came in to get my cup of coffee today and someone didn't re-fill the Keurig so my life is meaningless for the next five minutes.

Well thin clients are used over a WAN all the time. Think about any time you RDP into a remote server. Remember a WAN isn't a different technology from a LAN, the devices can't tell them apart. It's all just the same TCP/IP network to the devices.

And when you use ZT, there isn't a WAN, it's all LAN.

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@brianlittlejohn said:

RDS Gateways push all traffic over SSL, effectively making it a single app ssl vpn.

This I would need to verify.

Are you saying that the RDS Gateway uses something more than just the RDS client on Windows to establish that SSL connection?

and even so - that doesn't make it safer.

Google also wraps your login inside a SSL connection - but you can still attempt to log in until their system denies you for to man invalid attempts.

How is that different than a VPN?

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@scottalanmiller said:

Ah yes, I believe that those, like WD, are still RAID 5 only.

STILL!? Just shoot me now.

Last that I knew. They promised us some demos back at SpiceWorld 2014. We've been waiting for two years for them to arrive. They've stopped talking to us, we've asked a few times but radio silence.

They've switched from being community friendly to having their bulldog in Germany pushing RAID 5 as the best thing since sliced bread in public, so it looks like their "sell RE drives and put them in RAID 5 to hide the cost" strategy has replaced their "get good feedback" strategy.

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@wrx7m said:

Can you log in to your spam filter/log and search for mail coming from that person who claims they are sending email to the correct address?

In my Barracuda SVF 300 I can see all the messages coming in that are to non-existent email addresses. In fact, I have had this problem before and had to show a department manager that they were sending it to a person who got married and since changed their last name and, of course, the email address had to be updated.

It's showing her e-mails coming it at 0 KB but all other e-mails coming from that domain are fine including secure e-mails.

Are they actually being received, or are they being rejected?

It shows the attempt. Apparently they fixed it but they didn't tell me what they did. shrug

PEBKAC error

I'm sure

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And, one that SMBs never seem to see but I've seen a lot in the enterprise, is a failing memory chip can cause crazy stuff to happen.

Man, trouble shooting that has to be a huge pain!

Thankfully ECC memory tends to catch it. Have it happen without ECC memory and you are in deep doo doo. It can cause ANYTHING to happen. Random crashes and file corruption are most common, but the scary things are time leaps, miscalculations, and things like that.

Is there a log when ECC does it's job?

Yes, in the ILO on a Proliant.

That's very interesting as this is a ProLiant by chance. Good to know. I'm going to run a lot of tests tomorrow. It's a very odd issue. Too much to do and not enough time to do it 🙂

@anonymous said:

When will this be out of Beta? I need this service ASAP!

You could start using it now, how critical is your fax service? If it meets the need after testing, why not use it in beta?