What Are You Doing Right Now
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installing a gazillion updates onto a 2012 server that was decided to be repurposed in place of simply knocking up a quick 2019 server instead. Why????
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this is how stupid some people are.
At a school yesterday, got handed a student ipad. The iPad was logged into using a staff members personal apple ID and had a Yahoo email account logged into with another staff members personal credentials.
This device was being used by students.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
this is how stupid some people are.
At a school yesterday, got handed a student ipad. The iPad was logged into using a staff members personal apple ID and had a Yahoo email account logged into with another staff members personal credentials.
This device was being used by students.
And these staff are allowed to vote, drive, drink and freely roam around society.This is why I don't believe in democracies. Or teachers.
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there's just so much that your average Joe and Josephine just don't comprehend when it comes to accounts, IDs, logins etc. They just don't realise how much information and access they give away when sharing devices, throwing away old devices, logging into services and so on.
i've also come across ipads used by students where a teacher has used their personal credit card to buy an app and the card info is still there and their apple id is still logged in.
technology changes so quickly and the demand to have it used, progresses way ahead of any training or shared knowledge that is available to people.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
there's just so much that your average Joe and Josephine just don't comprehend when it comes to accounts, IDs, logins etc. They just don't realise how much information and access they give away when sharing devices, throwing away old devices, logging into services and so on.
And if they don't understand that about things that impact their direct lives, they are trained on, and are every day necessities, imagine how little they know about global politics and economics!
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Downloading 10TB of games!!
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Downloading 10TB of games!!
Hahaha, do you think that's enough???
It's the darn middle of the year already.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Downloading 10TB of games!!
Hahaha, do you think that's enough???
It's the darn middle of the year already.
Actually, probably not. It's 10TB more, 2TB we already have. I'd really like 20TB but I'll never have time to download that much.
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Hi All Y'all!
Long time, no see! My personal and work life have been really kicking me in the pants lately. The past 6 months or so have just really blurred together for me, lol.
Popping in to pester with a question again and hopefully go back to being around more soon.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
this is how stupid some people are.
At a school yesterday, got handed a student ipad. The iPad was logged into using a staff members personal apple ID and had a Yahoo email account logged into with another staff members personal credentials.
This device was being used by students.
And these staff are allowed to vote, drive, drink and freely roam around society.The sheer amount of don't care about security is... Amazeballz is the best I can come up with this morning so far.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Hi All Y'all!
Long time, no see! My personal and work life have been really kicking me in the pants lately. The past 6 months or so have just really blurred together for me, lol.
Popping in to pester with a question again and hopefully go back to being around more soon.
Welcome back.
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end of month meeting; our I-T department has been moved to reporting to the finance VP so its an introduction meeting
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One of my customers called in..
"SO it was doing windows updates..."- Okay, sucks that it ran this early but windows updates are necessary.
"i shut it off and turned it back on. Now it wont do anything.."
- Wait, was it doing windows updates when you turned it off?
"yes.."
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
One of my customers called in..
"SO it was doing windows updates..."- Okay, sucks that it ran this early but windows updates are necessary.
"i shut it off and turned it back on. Now it wont do anything.."
- Wait, was it doing windows updates when you turned it off?
"yes.."
Usually the screen says, "Do not turn off."
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@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
One of my customers called in..
"SO it was doing windows updates..."- Okay, sucks that it ran this early but windows updates are necessary.
"i shut it off and turned it back on. Now it wont do anything.."
- Wait, was it doing windows updates when you turned it off?
"yes.."
Usually the screen says, "Do not turn off."
At least it's billable.my exact words were : "okay.. why? the screen says do not turn off for a reason.."
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Long shot, but worth asking
If you have two servers, each with 2x 10 Core CPU so - 40 Cores overall all.
I someone buys a single Datacenter 2019 Volume License (16Core License), Can we just spin up a few VM's that equal 16 Cores?
Or do you "have" to license all cores even if your only going to run 3-4 VM's? (Even if it was limited to run the VM's only on one host)(DON'T SHOUT AT ME) - Both servers are connected to a SAN.
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I someone buys a single Datacenter 2019 Volume License (16Core License), Can we just spin up a few VM's that equal 16 Cores?
There's no such thing. Every VM is using hardware with 20 cores. The licensing is by how many cores are in the server, not how many you present to Windows.
So no, you have to license 20 cores. Even for a single VM, even if that VM uses only 1 vCPU itself.
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Long shot, but worth asking
If you have two servers, each with 2x 10 Core CPU so - 40 Cores overall all.
I someone buys a single Datacenter 2019 Volume License (16Core License), Can we just spin up a few VM's that equal 16 Cores?
Or do you "have" to license all cores even if your only going to run 3-4 VM's? (Even if it was limited to run the VM's only on one host)(DON'T SHOUT AT ME) - Both servers are connected to a SAN.
Others will chime in with more detail but you WILL need to license for at least 20 CPU's. So you need at least another 2 2-core packs.
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@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
One of my customers called in..
"SO it was doing windows updates..."- Okay, sucks that it ran this early but windows updates are necessary.
"i shut it off and turned it back on. Now it wont do anything.."
- Wait, was it doing windows updates when you turned it off?
"yes.."
Usually the screen says, "Do not turn off."
At least it's billable.actually - probably not billable - under contract.
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Or do you "have" to license all cores even if your only going to run 3-4 VM's? (Even if it was limited to run the VM's only on one host)
Every VM has access to a system that can put 20 cores under a single vCPU. The number of VMs, the number of cores assigned to a VM, are not factors in the Windows Server licensing picture.
