Best posts made by scottalanmiller

@Jimmy9008 said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

@scottalanmiller said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

@Jimmy9008 said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

@Obsolesce said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

@Jimmy9008 said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:

Originally, I was looking at proposing a 20 - 30 TB NAS populated with SSDs in the local office, with 10 Gbps NIC. This would provide high speed local access over the LAN to 6 marketing users.

If their PCs accessing a NAS at 1-10Gbps isn't good enough because their primary concern is speed, why would they push for way slower cloud storage, assuming no on-prem cache?

1 - 10 Gbps would be more than fine. That is what I proposed. But, the CIO is asking that the storage is Cloud only. Leading to this issue where the editing workstations are in office and the storage is remote.

I would connect the CIO with the users and ask if waiting hours or days to work on a file is good enough. Let the CIO take that up with users.

The CIO is pretty much of the opinion that the user should plan better and download files they need for editing whilst working on something else.

That's fine, make them have that discussion together.

Basically you have users saying "We need X." And the CIO is saying "No, you don't." Both are reasonable, so they need to hash it out.

BUT, let's say that they do what the CIO says... now... where do they store those files and share them? Oh wait, now they need the solution that they asked for in the first place again, right? So the CIO is actually proposing an additional solution, and ignoring the request. Cloud storage of the archives seems like it was always the obvious answer. And it in no way addresses the local cache.

That he is saying that they should "plan ahead and have a local cache" doesn't disagree with what they have requested. That's exactly what they are asking him to provide.

@BraswellJay said in Can the target of a One Drive link be changed ?:

@scottalanmiller said in Can the target of a One Drive link be changed ?:

@BraswellJay I must be confused. Don't you just edit the file itself, it should be a text file containing the link.

That's what I want to be able to edit. Unless I'm missing something you can't edit the url link file directly in the onedrive portal. If you try to edit from the portal you're taken to editing the target of the link and not the link itself.

I can download the link file and edit it and reupload. I just thought there would be a way to accomplish that directly from the portal without having to download, edit, and reupload, but maybe not.

Oh, no, you definitely have to download it and edit it. OneDrive doesn't give you a generic desktop to edit files from. It's just a storage solution itself. I don't know any platform like that that has built in editors to modify the files that are in the storage except for NextCloud. And it's always super limited because there are challenges to that.

Final Cut Pro in the latest 10.4 release added functionality for NFS and SMB shares, as well as clustered Xsan SAN. However, a key note for that, is that Windows SMB and Windows NFS are not supported. Windows file servers lack key functionalities for SMB and NFS that MacOS and Linux with Samba provide that are required for use.

This is the netdata load report from the underlying system...

@srsmith Sorry, I never saw this thread. In this case, the first thing that I'd do is consider ripping everything out and going with something better suited (we presume) that you can manage yourself. Cisco is a red flag product, generally sold by VARs pretending to be MSPs to lock you into high cost support needs, licensing contracts, and to sell scams like SD-WAN (generally all they are selling is a VPN that they brand as something else). Things you can generally do BETTER for next to nothing yourself, with less effort. If you DO need someone to do it for you, an ITSP will normally handle all of this for peanuts and provide the expertise your team needs to be able to ask networking and security questions, without being sales people pushing bad products to make you need more support.

Rip and replace is almost always the answer in this kind of scenario. In the end you don't want to end up with Cisco gear or an SD-WAN or some remotely managed network that can extort you. If you need management of your networking, have them manage YOUR networking. Don't make a vendor own part of your company network, that's a terrible idea.

@pmoncho said in Beelink PC issues:

@scottalanmiller said in Beelink PC issues:

@JaredBusch said in Beelink PC issues:

@stacksofplates said in Beelink PC issues:

I've bought a couple of the micro form factor Optiplex computers (9020) and have been happy with them. You couldn't have saved too much by buying something like this I can't imagine? I think I paid $250 for the last one and it came with 8GB RAM, an i7, and a 250GB SSD.

This? Yeah, it does not compare, except price.

Wow, that can't be worth $40 new, but $240 used? What the heck?

It should be worth $40 and my guess for the higher price is economics. It was built well and keep on chugging along. It seems they are continually in demand for a basic pc that needs just a web browser or to act as a kiosk.

Yes, but you can get brand new with much more performance for that price. Why get something that is a decade old, AND used when new and new is possible? Much less flexible. And can that unit even run current Windows?

@JaredBusch said in Is it legal? Windows 10 or 11 as a server:

I put client in quotes because they are acting as their own IT. Why are they bothering to hire you.

Right, in this example, this isn't an IT relationship. It's a store relationship. @CCWTech is a legal representative of Microsoft in this case and the client literally told @CCWTech (and asked them to repeat it on to Microsoft) that they wanted to not pay because they intended to pirate the software instead.

In this case, the theft is not only from Microsoft, but from @CCWTech as well. Both have financial damages to claim from the theft. And the "client" actually stated TO THE VENDOR their intent was to pirate the software.

So it's not actually about reporting to Microsoft, it's only about filling out the official and required documentation internally.

Not doing so would actually be actively covering up an act that the client themselves reported.

Yeah, overall they seem to be headed in a poor direction. I'm not doom and gloom, their new Dream Machine strategy is extremely foolish to me, taking something that worked so well and making it convoluted and fragile by comparison. It's not the worst thing, but there are benefits to the old, proven approach.

I'm not 100% against the Dream Machines now that they have the rack mount units. But they used to have a far better lineup of hardware and the software approach was better and now documentation has gotten even worse.

@Pete-S said in Allow Binaries on Linux to Run on Well Known Privileged Ports:

FYI
https://mangolassi.it/topic/25022/bind-linux-process-to-well-known-web-ports-when-not-root

I THOUGHT I had posted that, but I couldn't find it in a search. lol

The issue is that it is a VM file used by Hyper-V. If it was a normal VHDX file, used for say file installation (they are basically ISO files) then Defender does need to be scanning it. Ideally, Hyper-V would tell Defender where its resources are and at least default to not scanning them.

Some people want their VMs scanned from the base platform. Hosting companies sometimes, for example. But that should not be the default.

@jt1001001 said in Unifi cloud controller going the way of home office?:

@CCWTech The Omada products "mirror" Ubiquiti; so much so that I wonder if they stole Ubiquiti's interface? They use a model of hardware controller; self hosted software controller, or their cloud controller; that model requiring a license per device per year. I have some demo hardware at my office we're just getting set up to play with I'll let you know the results later this week. You can have super administrators with access to all sites and an admin per site.

Now that is honestly promising.

@gjacobse said in Unifi cloud controller going the way of home office?:

@jt1001001 said in Unifi cloud controller going the way of home office?:

One bad mark already (well,for me anyways) right off the bat; the software controller requires Java.

Ouch,.. but so does Ubnt controller Iirc.

Yeah, hence the suspicion that it was copied.

@scottalanmiller found it. I hate how hard this is to find. I really like this tool, but wish that it was slightly more robust.

http://logio.org/

@PhlipElder said in Staying in Ethics and Legal with ChatGPT usage?:

Being able to stand back, look at something, and say, "I did that!" is a pretty amazing experience. So, did none of the folks bastardizing their writing ever have that experience?

Yes, but college isn't work. It's busy work. The entire point of university isn't education or work, but to buy a degree. ChatGPT is the logical path to that. If the students (or their future employers) valued education, they'd test for that. As long as they prefer a piece of paper over actual learning, there is no dignity in the process.

@PhlipElder said in Staying in Ethics and Legal with ChatGPT usage?:

Have we really gone that far that "grey" justifies virtually any kind of behaviour?

Try it in reverse. Try to justify to me being a PhD student or an employee and having access to ChatGPT and not using it. As an educator and employer, I see avoiding the use of the available tools as lazy and wrong. If you feel that it is justified to excuse the grey area of doing manual work where none is needed and doesn't add value (in my estimation) then explain to me the opposite.... how do you even excuse not using the available tools and just filling the student and/or employee's time with pointless busywork?

@Obsolesce said in Staying in Ethics and Legal with ChatGPT usage?:

That sounds more like the kind of situation being those people would have gotten infected just the same regardless of web browser used. Latest version of the web browser prior to infection?

As far as we can tell. It's on managed systems that are automatically updated, AV is up to date and active, firewall is on. But just takes clicking on something.

We project that Edge puts people at additional risk because it is the default product on the most insecure platform, that is also a default choice. It makes it super likely that your target is "accepting everything because it is default" rather than being thoughtful in their technology choices. It makes it an ideal public "flag" to make someone a higher than average potential for malware.

@PhlipElder said in Staying in Ethics and Legal with ChatGPT usage?:

I've come to realize that will never again trust anything from anyone without proof that they know what they have presented.
That's going to be the differentiator in my mind.

Ah, but I think this just exposes something big. Why did you feel that they knew the material before? This is why PhD students defend their thesis... anyone can produce the paper, it's explaining and defending the concepts live that get you a degree, not the paper.

If you were using the written paper as a proxy for testing someone's knowledge on something then yes, I can see why you care about the mechanism rather than the output. But I'd say, again, all that is happening is that what was already true is being exposed.

As someone who made a living for a while in high school writing essays by request, I know how common it is to not have written your own paper. I don't know why people bought essays from me, whether they used them as source material, cited them, used them to summarize research, or turned them in as their own, not my concern. I was hired to write papers on topics. I didn't even know who got them. But I know actual intelligence went into writing papers that were used by people who knew nothing of the material.

When I went to university, the top ranked uni in the US at the time that I went, it was expected, that you had copied answers from previous years. They assumed what other places called cheating as a baseline and tested only above that. If you didn't take the time to obtain and memorize previous years tests you would almost certainly fail. They didn't test only on that, they assumed it as a baseline of available knowledge.

So I see what you are saying, but what I'm saying is that the inability to trust that producing a paper that has good words on it to reflect on the knowledge of the person turning it in was already there. ChatGPT isn't changing the game there, in any way. Authors of works, even if they wrote every word themselves, rarely understand the material deeply. Writing an essay simply is not a good test of that.

So the issue, and the solution, should be pretty clear. Essay writing was not ever a great process for education (or work), we've just exposed it beyond question now. But for many of us, that happened long, long ago. Now you need to focus on discourse, which has always been the case.

@stacksofplates said in Beelink PC issues:

I've bought a couple of the micro form factor Optiplex computers (9020) and have been happy with them. You couldn't have saved too much by buying something like this I can't imagine? I think I paid $250 for the last one and it came with 8GB RAM, an i7, and a 250GB SSD.

The 9020 lists as running a Four Generation processor. That's eight generations old. That's dramatically old. Ten years, in fact. Those came out in early 2013.

Similar price for high end, brand new genuine AMD fro Beelink. The fact that it died sucks, so that's a real issue. But the two aren't comparable in performance.

Maybe you have the wrong Optiplex number of Dell has the wrong info on their spec sheet? That looks like a $20 computer to me....

https://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/optiplex-9020-micro-technical-spec-sheet.pdf

@PhlipElder said in Staying in Ethics and Legal with ChatGPT usage?:

@scottalanmiller said in Staying in Ethics and Legal with ChatGPT usage?:

Every generation spends time learning new tools. Every old generation feels like this is lazy. But just as we use printers instead of type writers. And our grandparents used typewriters instead of pen and paper. And their great great great grandparents used pens instead of chisels and rocks... it's not that we are increasingly lazy. It is that we are able to reduce the amount of wasted effort so that we can spend more time on the parts that are important.

Today we can write more intelligent discourse and communicate about it in minutes than stone age man could record in a month and share with no one. The use of tools to eliminate or reduce the unnecessary allows time to focus on real learning, growth, and productivity.

Just remembered another example: Cole's Notes.

Papers written based on a reading of Cole's Notes as opposed to actually reading the book, absorbing it, understanding it, and then being able to see the author's intent would be very different.

I want real the real person and their real experience.

https://open.spotify.com/track/73CKjW3vsUXRpy3NnX4H7F?si=ac956108dbb54fd4
^^^
Fake Plastic Trees

If reading Cole's Notes produces enough to write a good paper it tells us one of two things...

1. The notes are as good as the "real thing" or...
2. The evaluation of the assessment is bad and pointless.

If the goal is to enjoy the material, you don't need to be tested on it. If the goal is to pass a test, the notes are normally vastly superior.

If you know the goal, you can decide which is the better approach. If doing this for school and not for personal growth (the two are opposing concepts) then Cole's Notes are much better as the time spent reading something not good enough to read without it being assigned is wasted and the value is in passing the assessment.

@dashrender said in Remembering the MCSE+I, Microsoft's Terminal Certification:

the NT 4.0 workstation books left out all kinds of unix/linux connection/printing part meaning you didn't stand a chance on those parts on the workstation test unless you had external knowledge.
I barely passed the workstation test because of this.

I never took the NT4 Workstation. I did the WIndows 98 / DOS test instead, the one where the study book was over 2,000 pages. It was harder than the rest of the MCSE+I combined. It was definitely the foolish choice as it was easily 20x the work of the NT 4 Workstation test and not one single item of all of that did I ever use, ever, in my entire career.