Rebuild issues and returned and almost no one can build VMs anymore.

For months my boss has been having a weird issue where certain parts of her screen would pull in ghost images of the windows behind the primary window. The only way to get it to go away was to close all of the windows and relaunch.

Well today she noticed just before it happened that she got the up/down arrow that one gets when clicking the scroll wheel (though she never understood why she was getting it).
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Just after seeing that icon and then scrolling (which was her goal, scroll through an Excel spreadsheet) her screen went crazy.

She decided to try cntrl + Z (undo) and the problem went away. Clearly something weird is going on when she click scrolls.

I asked her if she always 'clicks' while scrolling and she said yes. I asked her to stop clicking and instead be feather light on the scroll wheel and see if the problem goes away.

This is the second time a person has had an issue in the last 2 years with click scrolling - I guess it's just not obvious enough that clicking is it's own thing, and scrolling is a separate action.

Time for some training.

@Bob-Beatty said:

I don't train any longer - I'm not sure if anyone does to be honest.

My understanding was that the program was shut down. But maybe there is a small, lingering component still left.

I giggled a little because this thread reminds me of:

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Well, actually the whole scene

@Dashrender Well that is to be expected...always some sort of weird Outlook stuff like that. I've had this issue in the past, good to know about the single click vs double click for this issue. Hopefully Outlook 2016 will address this, but not holding my breath!

@thecreativeone91 The main issue/the point which force me to choose a mac is the fact that we have several users who work keynote files for presentation rather than PPT and needs to be shared during the Skype call. If it was for just skype call, I would like to get Logitech TV Cam HD which I am planning to get for our mini conference rooms, that only needs Skype for video/voice calls and no presentations.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

What app store are you looking in? https://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store

The one on the phone. Worst feature of the phone. You search for a common app that you want and you get scores of results of malware, all with the exact name of the product and/or company that you were looking for.

I've never had that happen. and I've had a few different windows phones.

We had a few. But there is only one store. It was very much a "CloudatCost" level of service. Looked good till you actually search for an app then realized you had no assurance of which one was real. It made me appreciate the lock down of the iOS system that someone was vetting the vendors and at least attempting to ensure that products weren't trying to trick you.

Biggest ones were things like the Chrome browser. Search for it and it didn't exist, but hundreds of things called that did.

@Danp said:

They've been advertising the CloudPro option for a while now, so I suspect it was functional at some point.

They've been SELLING CloudatCost for a long time and just this morning announced that it was never production ready. So that something has been advertised by them does not suggest that they were planning on it working.

@thecreativeone91 said:

It's funny noticing everyone on Twitter posting congratulating them on how well they handled this outage. Really? that's considered handling it well - especially when you had the resources to fix the issue the whole time with redundant links.

Yeah, the degree to which they failed is unforgivable. This was an intentional outage, not a mistake. They chose to keep it down all that time. And now, the servers that are back up are broken. No power cycles, no re-images. They have effectively lost the service completely.

@thecreativeone91 said:

Not sure how they claim they can backup esxi free at the vm level. That's disabled in the free version.

I did not even follow the link, but it is not trivial to perform VM backups with the free ESXi, but it can be done.

You have to enable SSH and then you log in that way, issues a snapshot command then SCP the snapshot off and merge the snapshot back in. There you go.

No, you cannot use the API stuff, but it can be done.

@IRJ said:

I see alot of conferences in Vegas, Orlando, and Atlanta because travel to those cities is so cheap. Its pretty easy to fly in or out of Orlando for right around $100 (one way) from anywhere on the East Coast. Vegas seems to be even cheaper sometimes under $100 (one way).

Exactly. And they are cities with huge accommodation to size ratios. It is cheap to get there, easy to get around, cheap to stay...

The easiest test here would simply be to set up her profile on a different system altogether.

I assume OWA works?

Well, it is safe to say it was this Internet Monitor...Still off and no errors...and since their support has stopped responding to my emails, we may look for another option soon but it isn't high priority.

and that's on "max performance" lol
crunk up to 11

@thanksajdotcom said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Doesn't take much on Ubuntu 😉

The CaseSentry application my company developed that does all the monitoring and case generation for basically everything we do here is built on Ubuntu. They use a MySQL backend. I was thinking of talking to the Dev guys and recommending they check out MariaDB to help improve performance.

MariaDB? I'd use postgres for something with monitoring

Ok, I'm kinda loopy today. You can replace MySQL with Postgres? Brain is running at half-speed at best today...

MariaDB is just MySQL forked. PostgreSQL is the big MySQL competitor. It's a different product but generally way more powerful.

Interfaces are not their strong point in their products.

@s.hackleman said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Not cheap, I can buy a "real" house for less than that!

Many people build them themselve. If you take advatange of a local habbitat for humanity, you can build one for around $10k if you have the tools and the know how.

That's not too bad then.

@Kelly said:

@dafyre said:

I highly suspect that Apple has been working on something secretly.

Have you seen anything that would indicate this? Based on Apple's post Steve Jobs' record they haven't innovated much in quite some time. I don't think they have ever officially acknowledged that anyone would want a keyboard for working on an iPad. I'm not trying to be critical, but a solution like this doesn't fit with the Apple I know and support.

It seems like I remember reading some things about OS X having touch screen support built in a couple of years ago, but I can't seem to find it now. Maybe it was a dream, lol. A cursory google shows up somebody with a youtube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeHFRpj_zC8) of the Yosemite beta with a Lenovo touch screen.

I fully expect to see "OS X" go away, and IOS become the next Apple OS... If they pull it off right, it will be like what Microsoft is trying to do with Continuum.

@thecreativeone91 said:

Why the heck are they using Quad CPUs instead of just 2x CPUs with High Core count. I think the core count on the CPUs they were using ways pretty low (quad core I think). Seems like that's being cheap. 8 & 12 Core CPUs are pretty efficient and cost effective these days (for what it is, 12 cores are about $1,000).

Eight cores according to their Facebook post. But still on the low side. The R810 doesn't have good efficiency with quad sockets, it's not architecturally meant for that. So the power per CPU is lower than you would expect. You need the bigger R9xx to get the real efficiency. They'd definitely do far better with beefier dual socket systems.