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Husband, Father, IT Pro, military service.

Don't assume, ask. Don't assume questions are statements or accusations.

I'd rather talk about difficult and nuanced topics in personal one on one situations over espresso or beer. Such discussion is very difficult in Internet written form.

I believe everyone should be treated with dignity and respect, but that doesn't mean I agree with everything or everyone.

I have conservative and progressive views. I believe people can be both.

  • Keep Tier-One Applications Out of Virtual Environments

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  • Yeah, that's pretty risky for this point in time.

    I guess the MBA people look at total cost of revenue/reputation loss for things like ransomware recovery, restoration of backups vs the cost of making their IT systems resilient?

    Personally, I don't think so (in many cases) or they'd spend more money on planning/resilience.

  • Keep Tier-One Applications Out of Virtual Environments

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  • Seems like your org has taken resilience and response planning seriously. I like it.

  • AT&T sues Broadcom for refusing to renew perpetual license support

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  • contract "options" are indeed normal. You could also lump in government contracts into the category your thinking about. I've never heard of a scenario where the vendor broke contract by not honoring the options. I also have never dealt with a vendor getting bought out and then not honoring existing contracts. Super fun to watch the corporate drama. I personally don't care for the private equity style business that seems to be an even bigger problem than the investor first/profit centric model that I thought was the worst thing.

  • What are You Working on Wednesday

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  • I have been painstakingly laying the ground work for segmenting network into data center management plane, and future overlay networks for internal applications and dmz / public services.

    It would have been easy to burn the place down and start over...

  • What are You Working on Wednesday

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  • Ever look at emby?

  • How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money

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  • My mid life birthday gift was an electric zero turn mower. Already had all electric yard tools. Will buy Tesla or best option in couple years. Never going to a gas station again!

    So indeed, fuck gas

  • Post your Servernames!

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  • Office culture nuances... I enjoy them.

  • Post your Servernames!

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  • DomainCode-SiteCode-Function##

    ACME-USCA-WEB01 ACME-GERM-DC02

    I worked for a company where the previous IT dorks named the servers after startrek ships. It's cute at home. Had to rename everything and readdress the whole organization.

  • IBM sues a Zurich-based startup over 'unlawful' use of mainframe technology

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  • It's pretty plain to see IBM afraid of loosing vendor lock-in, but running a software solution designed for an open or distributed platform shouldn't be that big of a threat, right?

    All their selling points for z series are the insane hardware performance, redundancy, and tuning.

    Isn't it unlikely you're going to get that on some virtual or abstracted mainframe platform?

    If I was one of the businesses that's been paying the fortune keeping IBM mainframe alive, I'd stay on it. They measure profits in the billions and saving some money going away from IBM and risking loosing countless dollars per minute seems like a risk...

    Oh wait, I forgot, all American Corps are currently (since the 80s-ish), worthless greedy fucks solely focused on short term profit and stock price regardless of long term consequences. Maybe they should save some money on one of the things that's helps make them billions...I bet that golden goose tastes amazing 😄

  • Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites

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  • We are just a little behind trying to elect our new dictator...

    But just for a day...

    /S 🙄

  • Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers With AI

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  • Nice. Then what's the Spanish equivalent?

    I have only visited Rota. Neat place.

  • Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers With AI

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  • Wow, classic.

    Merica

  • Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers With AI

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  • Here's a clue:

    If the paper isn't terrible, it was AI...

    😋

  • Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV

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  • Agreed.

  • Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV

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  • I think it's because people (some) are all talk. We bitch about corporate greed and stuff like this, but when it comes down to it, when you need a new electronic device and one's half the cost, which one do people buy?

    The one with ads and that's made by slave wage third world workers, or the one that's twice as expensive?

    As a whole, we tend to be garbage and materialistic...

    I won't be buying Roku either.

  • Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling

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  • Every piece of shit greedy corporation can't hide from their lies when they say things are too expensive to implement correctly or pay people appropriately when they are simultaneously posting profits measured in billions...

  • Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

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  • Fair enough.

    Maybe everyone agrees it sucks and all change?

    Turn it into a group 'stick it to the man' effort?

    I don't have friends,.no problem for me 😋

    Also,.I'm old and just text my friends!

  • Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

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  • Vote with your feet. Have to leave the platform if you want to stick it to them.

  • Election of Donald Trump ‘could put world’s climate goals at risk’

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  • I don't mean to downplay the environment, but I think we'll have a long list of worries... 🫨

  • What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane

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  • This story, like most corporate stories these days, frustrates me.

    This is a tale as old as time...the time when American corporations went to shit as our elected officials ensured there was no liability and realistic legal consequences to executes or MBA decision making.

    I'm not a business scholar obviously. I've always been led to believe that in order for the world to turn and air to be breathable, corporations and businesses need liability protection for those who run it. Why?

    If I kill someone with my car, even if it was completely an accident, I'm still liable right? Should I account for the death of that person, child, etc?

    How would things not be better if, instead of the bottom line and stock price being the ultimate concern of CEOs, it was them not going to court to face charges because they allowed their company to kill people with its negligence? I know there's some nuance here, but ultimately, I feel like everything sucks because there's no incentive to care about anything but investors and greed.

    If industry, aerospace or other, was run by people who cared about not killing people and going to jail, would they in turn ensure their design and production met the quality and ambition of the type of people here, discussing their accounts of cutting corners or experienced personnel just to save money?