@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread: @black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread: https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/gates-says-hell-invest-billions-to-build-factories-for-7-potential-coronavirus-vaccines/ Damn Johnson & Johnson announced a similar thing. They have a likely vaccine candidate going into testing. But instead of producing it in quantity after testing, they are ramping up production it now in case it proves viable. Large monetary risk, that I am surprised they are able to get done as a publicly traded company.

@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News: Numbers speak. Not desktop use numbers. Those are meaningless as there is no known way to track them. It's all just estimates and absolutely no one knows what they are supposed to mean. Systems purchased? Systems deployed? Systems used? I don't have any clue what that chart is pretending to show us. What I do know is that in working on machines all over, we see alternative OSes often enough that while Windows is clearly still the most used, it's amazing how often non-tech people have already tested and deployed Linux. And how there would be no way for anyone to get a stat on that. Which makes me wonder... how do we get charts showing deployment rates when there is no known way to collect that data? But more importantly, it's about usage. Not deployments. And numbers would speak, if we had some.

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Same plans for all other recent weekend. Try and take over the world..........from home....again.....

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even: @travisdh1 said in I can't even: English manufacturer thinks a network switch needs to be improved to handle audio better. https://www.whathifi.com/news/chord-company-revives-english-electric-debuts-network-switch Wow, that's a complete scam. It's amazing how much equipment in the digital audio space is targeted at selling "analogue fixes" to digital systems in the hopes that the customer doesn't know what digital is or how it works. It's a huge market. Yeah just like so much of the monster stuff.

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@dustinb3403 Sure, let me just get some rainbow unicorn farts sent their way and everything will be good.....

FCC “consumer advisory” panel includes ALEC, big foe of municipal broadband A committee that advises the Federal Communications Commission on consumer-related matters now includes a representative of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which lobbies against municipal broadband, net neutrality, and other consumer protection measures.

@Romo That is correct, the red "Agent Tag" is a "meshagent.tag" text file that is in the same folder that the "meshagent.exe". It can contain up to 1k of data sent to the server on each agent start. It's there so if you have some sort of automatic installation of the agent, you can put a serial number of something in that file and it gets sent up to the server. It pre-dates the other blue tagging that is server side only. All this to say, the two tagging systems are completely separate. I can add you a "atag:<agenttag>" filter if you like? Let me know what you need.

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@BRRABill it's been a full year since hte last follow up on this thread. How about an update after another year of use?

@ChrisL said in What does your desk look like?: After some careful consideration, I realized I can do like 95% of my work on my iPad through the various social, cloud, and productivity apps. This is my current setup that I'm testing out. Anker Bluetooth keyboard, my iPad Mini, and a cardboard box so that my neck doesn't get tired from looking down. I'll probably upgrade to a refurbished 9.7" Pro at some point, but so far, so good. Is it an ipad if you add a keyboard? Seems like a Surface.

From the OP, I was going to post about the inherent risks of being an entrepreneur, but seems this is not where the thread went...

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Well... plug-in downloaded source, compiled, installed and activated. In "Setting/Plugins" I can see now the "backup-reports" and "transport-email" plugins. I made some simple test with "Backup Jobs" and all seems ok. Thanks guys.

@Dashrender said in Domain Controller Down (VM): perhaps the discussion of HA should always be left at the door unless the OP specifically says something to the effect of - this was supposed to be an HA solution, why is it not - Perhaps. Often someone says something that leads us to believe that there might have been a reason for HA. But this is a case where just nothing suggests it. Not even the lack of panic or concern once things were down. They really seemed to have no care that things were down - which is fine, their design suggests that. In this case, with @wirestyle22 not having been there, he too would have to decide how the system should be viewed. But he needs the information to take back to management "Oh, you thought that this would be HA? THat's odd as it is designed exactly the opposite of that in every way and all of the policies and procedures go against that as well. How were you expecting HA without HA processes, staffing, technology, design or setup? What led you to believe something so contrary would achieve HA?"

@scottalanmiller said in Fitness and Weightloss: not gonna lie, when i saw this chart, i literally drove to kk and ate an entire dozen. but only drink water now. water is great.

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@StuartJordan said in Backup File Server to DAS: Wow what a thread, took me a while to read through it We don't fool around around here!

@Dashrender said in Why Do People Still Text: @Obsolesce said in Why Do People Still Text: @scottalanmiller said in Why Do People Still Text: City texts at 5:30 that there is a tornado emergency and you should shelter in place till 6:45. Message arrives at 6:32. Real useful warning system. We'll it's not like the city has everyone's email address, and if they did, not like everyone would see or be alerted of the email. The best way is via a phone feature all phones have that can alarm and alert, outside of sms. SMS signals are more likely to be assured than a phone call I'm guessing. As far as I know, the cell company keeps trying for at least a while to get SMS messages through until an unknown timer expires or the mobile confirms receipt. I never mentioned phone calls...

@jmoore said in Web Application VS Windows Application: @scottalanmiller Certainly could be. He has over 1,200 posts, one of our top posters over the years.

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