What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller And you like ChromeOS enough not to put a flavor of Linux on it?
Of course, I find the entire idea of buying a vertically integrated device and then switching out the OS to be odd. Fine for playing around, but you give up so much.
All of us when we say we have Chromebooks mean we have Chromebooks. Once you put Linux on it, you just have a really low powered Linux laptop.
Right. I guess you really just need to define a main purpose for the device. For example, I need to use a Windows VM every day, due to a piece of custom software that only runs on Windows. I also need a Windows VM for Hyper-V management purposed. However, neither of those scenarios will work without an internet connection anyway. So, in that case, I can just really connect to a Windows VM somewhere else on my network via RDP, and have the same functionality.
Then my second main purpose for the device is SSH.
The Chromebook would be used as a secondary device when traveling, and when I don't want to work with my laptop. So in that scenario, the Chromebook would be perfect.
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@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller And you like ChromeOS enough not to put a flavor of Linux on it?
Of course, I find the entire idea of buying a vertically integrated device and then switching out the OS to be odd. Fine for playing around, but you give up so much.
All of us when we say we have Chromebooks mean we have Chromebooks. Once you put Linux on it, you just have a really low powered Linux laptop.
Right. I guess you really just need to define a main purpose for the device. For example, I need to use a Windows VM every day, due to a piece of custom software that only runs on Windows. I also need a Windows VM for Hyper-V management purposed. However, neither of those scenarios will work without an internet connection anyway. So, in that case, I can just really connect to a Windows VM somewhere else on my network via RDP, and have the same functionality.
Then my second main purpose for the device is SSH.
The Chromebook would be used as a secondary device when traveling, and when I don't want to work with my laptop. So in that scenario, the Chromebook would be perfect.
Is there any task than an IT person would need to do offline? I have none.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller And you like ChromeOS enough not to put a flavor of Linux on it?
Of course, I find the entire idea of buying a vertically integrated device and then switching out the OS to be odd. Fine for playing around, but you give up so much.
All of us when we say we have Chromebooks mean we have Chromebooks. Once you put Linux on it, you just have a really low powered Linux laptop.
Right. I guess you really just need to define a main purpose for the device. For example, I need to use a Windows VM every day, due to a piece of custom software that only runs on Windows. I also need a Windows VM for Hyper-V management purposed. However, neither of those scenarios will work without an internet connection anyway. So, in that case, I can just really connect to a Windows VM somewhere else on my network via RDP, and have the same functionality.
Then my second main purpose for the device is SSH.
The Chromebook would be used as a secondary device when traveling, and when I don't want to work with my laptop. So in that scenario, the Chromebook would be perfect.
Is there any task than an IT person would need to do offline? I have none.
I was really trying to think of some, but I can't come up with any. We do use 365 for Excel and Word online. Does that work offline? I'll have to try that.
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@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller And you like ChromeOS enough not to put a flavor of Linux on it?
Of course, I find the entire idea of buying a vertically integrated device and then switching out the OS to be odd. Fine for playing around, but you give up so much.
All of us when we say we have Chromebooks mean we have Chromebooks. Once you put Linux on it, you just have a really low powered Linux laptop.
Right. I guess you really just need to define a main purpose for the device. For example, I need to use a Windows VM every day, due to a piece of custom software that only runs on Windows. I also need a Windows VM for Hyper-V management purposed. However, neither of those scenarios will work without an internet connection anyway. So, in that case, I can just really connect to a Windows VM somewhere else on my network via RDP, and have the same functionality.
Then my second main purpose for the device is SSH.
The Chromebook would be used as a secondary device when traveling, and when I don't want to work with my laptop. So in that scenario, the Chromebook would be perfect.
Is there any task than an IT person would need to do offline? I have none.
I was really trying to think of some, but I can't come up with any. We do use 365 for Excel and Word online. Does that work offline? I'll have to try that.
Office 365 is just licensing. The online Office editors might or might not work offline, I've never tried. Google's online editor tools work offline.
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How often do you want to be working on documents offline? While in theory for traveling sales people or something that could make a lot of sense, it's not a task I ever really want in IT.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
How often do you want to be working on documents offline? While in theory for traveling sales people or something that could make a lot of sense, it's not a task I ever really want in IT.
In reality, not that often. However, there are rare occurrences where I could be working on a "guide" or something similar. Those are rare cases though, and in those rare cases, I'm sure I could use Google Docs to capture whatever I need to capture.
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@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
How often do you want to be working on documents offline? While in theory for traveling sales people or something that could make a lot of sense, it's not a task I ever really want in IT.
In reality, not that often. However, there are rare occurrences where I could be working on a "guide" or something similar. Those are rare cases though, and in those rare cases, I'm sure I could use Google Docs to capture whatever I need to capture.
Yeah, lots of ways to do that. I never use things like Word docs for IT guides, not generally a good format for that compared to a wiki or similar. But in cases where I need to work offline, I normally use text editors or whatever and transfer to a final formatting later.
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MS Office is specifically problematic because they make it in order to sell MS Office on premises deployments. So they don't make their online version work offline like everyone else does.
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Sunday afternoon releases around here.
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Waiting for food
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@fuznutz04 the only app that really works with RDP and Chromebooks is
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-rdp/cbkkbcmdlboombapidmoeolnmdacpkch?hl=en-US
And it has a cost of $9.99 perpetual license.
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@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 the only app that really works with RDP and Chromebooks is
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-rdp/cbkkbcmdlboombapidmoeolnmdacpkch?hl=en-US
And it has a cost of $9.99 perpetual license.
10 bucks is fine if it works well. Do you have experience with it? How is it?
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@fuznutz04 Yes, I have experience it a lot. It is the best app for it . Though it doesn't save RDP files or run remote apps.
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@texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Waiting for food
Food.. Yes,.. that would be nice. Skipped lunch since it was to hot
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I think I can get the data off of this still.
BTW: This is one of the four drives out of the Dell PowerEdge Server I got from NTG HQ last year.
@art_of_shred, @Minion-Queen and @scottalanmiller are rough on drives...
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I think I can get the data off of this still.
BTW: This is one of the four drives out of the Dell PowerEdge Server I got from NTG HQ last year.
@art_of_shred, @Minion-Queen and @scottalanmiller are rough on drives...
One of the things I did when I needed to relax and make sure data never left the building, tearing platters out of drives. That one's even more epic than most of my failures have been. Doesn't look like there is a read/write head left on it!
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Nope - Completely gone. There was a lot of fine dust in the can... Of all the drives I've torn down over the last thirty years,... this is the worst ... by far. I think all the platters I have (supper glued into a single stack) are still 'prestine'
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Nope - Completely gone. There was a lot of fine dust in the can... Of all the drives I've torn down over the last thirty years,... this is the worst ... by far. I think all the platters I have (supper glued into a single stack) are still 'prestine'
Yeah, most platters I've pulled out have looked fine (tho they almost all had obvious indentations on the platter(s) when you ran a knife edge over them.)
I always wanted to melt them down in a forge.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Nope - Completely gone. There was a lot of fine dust in the can... Of all the drives I've torn down over the last thirty years,... this is the worst ... by far. I think all the platters I have (supper glued into a single stack) are still 'prestine'
Yeah, most platters I've pulled out have looked fine (tho they almost all had obvious indentations on the platter(s) when you ran a knife edge over them.)
I always wanted to melt them down in a forge.
I really want to perform Destruction by Thermite. I keep meaning to contact the local State Police office to make sure that making or having Thermite isn't illegal.... I know the Railroad companies use it to weld new track... but...
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Really getting tired of no wifi or cell service.
Only have connectivity while at the clubhouse.
