@scottalanmiller said in VPN File Transfer Problems:

@JaredBusch said in VPN File Transfer Problems:

Contracts don't mean shit. You can always cancel. So what if you have to pay out some portion of the remaining contract (even 100%).

This is a specific case of the general case "sunk cost fallacy". What Jared is pointing out is that we tend to see a cost already spent (or already committed to) as being a lock in for that vendor or service. But even when that still exists, it's all still just math and in the long run, we often miss financial opportunity because we assume that money already spent is better than money saved in the future.

I've cancelled a $13k T1 service less than a week after it was turned up because coax became available. FYI, Charter can KMA for not telling me they were building out when I asked. Because they certainly had to know it.

But still, client didn't care. they cancelled it. Sucked to eat the cancellation fees. But 1.5/1.5 versus 80/10? When this was a remote branch office that needed to use everything via RDP and shares across the VPN? Yup cancelled.

Edit:
This also enabled the ability to add them to the hosted PBX system, so their other telecom costs dropped by losing POTS lines, and also interoffice calling went to free.

See how nothing works in a bubble?

Edit 2: This was before I met @Phil-CommQuotes.. So much better now that I don't have to deal with this.

@scottalanmiller said in DD-WRT:

I use Steam at home to play video games, it's not a business decision.

What if your job is to play video games?

@360col said in RequestTracker:

Also have a look at https://zammad.org/ free / opensource. They also do a paid hosted version.

Wow this looks like it probably checks all my boxes at work, except for knowledgeable, but it sounds like they should be releasing that feature soon.

The concept of organizations is something that seems to be missing from most solutions, but is crucial for us. And chat is a requirement too.

I wish I knew about this before we got on the verge of spending $15,000-$20,000 on another solution.

@DustinB3403 said in MS Visual Studio Update: KB4336999:

@notverypunny said in MS Visual Studio Update: KB4336999:

Haven't put any more time into this, as it seems that my machine is one of the only ones hit. Weirdly enough the KB shows as already installed and needed at the same time..... this is worse than old school linux dependency hell....

Worth noting that Linux has fixed a lot of their issues and will at least tell you, dnf install <something> required before this can proceed.

Oh for sure, I've yet to play with dnf in depth, but yum was pretty stable the last time I had much of anything to do with a RH based distro. apt-get has been rock solid for years now, last time I can recall anything messing up with an apt based distro was on ubuntu 8.something if my memory is correct. zypper seems pretty solid too, but I've never been able to warm up to opensuse.

@notverypunny

hehehe based on ubuntu 10 years, that came days after IBM purchased RedHat so it was more like Mark wanted to get attention. you really should not have added it to your factors.

That said anything with XFCE is good for me for desktops and LXDE for small form factors computers like Pi or thin clients.