Blake

okay... except if your looking for a GPU in the $2-300 range you now have another option. How is that a bad thing? are there better GPUs? Yes, your complaining about there being more competition in the market. Sure it's not Vega 2.0, but why would expect a 590 to be that? look at their naming convention recently, it'd be call vega 74 if it was going to be that. Yeah, basically what I'm seeing is the 290 -> 580 is ~10-20% bump (https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-RX-580-vs-AMD-R9-290/3923vs2171) So if the 580 -> 590 is another ~10-20% I'd be fine with it. Not looking to spend ~800+ on a GPU again.

Anyone have a graph comparing the R9 290 (X or non-X) and this? I might consider something like this with the 3 free games.

for Putty? PuttyCM for configuring Cisco Switches? poor mans NMS: tftp server and a powershell script that will tell a Cisco to look for it's config file on the network. Eventually I'll have time to create a powershell function that will maintain the 99% of config files that is the same network wide...

You want Windows 10 for PCI-DSS/HIPAA/Other Acronym. Windows 7 Only has another 13 months or so before it's out the door for the same reason. so it's down to Windows 7 now, and then spend time upgrading it in a year, or choose between Windows 8/8.1/10. Choice is easy, go with Windows 10 (or a server OS) and then add it to your patching process as per normal. As you said, containers are the best bet to do this cheaply. I'd say the reason it can be run only once per OS, is hard coded paths or some other BS reason.

Remember when people said Bitcoin wasn't a bubble? No, you diversify in different types of investments. Property, National Stocks, International Stocks, Currency, Gold etc etc. The idea being that when the stock market makes a loss, the other markets absorb that loss (and if you diversify correctly, you still make a profit).

If you've just added the NIC drivers, but the NIC is behind the chipset, there is a good chance you need to install the chipset drivers before it will even expose the NIC to the OS. Also did you run the commands correctly? did you run them on the install and boot .wim files? Are you sure you even have a .wim file? most windows 10 builds are now .esd files. The other thing to consider: WDS is the defacto pxe boot server for windows, why not use that? you know something that actually has market penetration so you can call your MSP if you have any major issues?

Okay... 1. When did India land any 1st stages back in a usable condition/if at all? 2. When was India a 'private organisation'? 3. China's been doing rockets longer then anyone, don't mean shit. 4. Care to prove they are doing it cheaper?

You have more faith in humanity then you should. Everyone knows about password security, but it don't change anything unless you enforce a password policy. Even users end up doing the bare minimum next time they have to change their password (i.e. count from 1 at the end of your password)

yep.

I think you mean Marxism doesn't use tradition class classifications that we are all used to: Low-middle-Upper class. But it segregated people into classes (e.g. Glorious Communist Brothers v Bourgeoisie) Also, when talking about Marxism, you need to distinguish between Political and Economic, as they are very different.

well, easy: 1. they are making it easier to do devops on their systems (and others), more people using their systems means larger market share. 2. More devs that only know or are primarily .net/azure developers mean businesses/enterprise are more likely to push for MS solutions. 3. Most businesses are not open source, therefore they make their money in the closed source space. It's not rocket surgery, they did this back in the 90's and 00's, there is a reason most businesses run off .net internally. Not saying there isn't a large chunk of business not running off the ms platform, but a significant proportion of SME are running of MS' platform. The issue that you, (and others) take is that in the 90's they then tried to use this position of power to stop competition from entering the market.

Correct response here. It's like when everyone jumped ship from github when MS purchased them. Nothing wrong with the product, and most people where like "oh no it's going to be another skype" MS know not to fuck with IT people (apart from ops people, you can test their patches in production now), when every 2nd org with a cloud presence is moving or has moved towards a cloud agnostic approach.

WSUS will do proactive caching of updates. but caching is really the wrong word. I'd describe it as a patch distribution server. Caching works by saving a local copy of files as they are requested, then when subsequent requests for the files are processed it serves the local copy. I'd suggest looking into Dynamic DNS and keeping your quicker residential setup (depending on what your wanting to setup - i.e. exchange would be a no go, but most other things would work fine).

They make vertical racks you know? https://www.4cabling.com.au/3ru-19-wall-mount-frame-vertical.html

No, Im pretty sure if anyone has any amount of VMs on the storage they'd love dedup. Or if it's a backup server, dedup is amazing for that. Don't just rule something out because you can't think of a benefit for it.

Okay, try runing “MOFCOMP %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsVirtualization.V2.mof” on the Hyper-V server only. Make sure your have correct user rights assigned to your domain account (try using domain admin creds, to be sure). Lastly, go look in the Event log, you should be able to do it from power shell, or via the GUI. This will tell you the right path to look down, i.e. NETLOGON errors or Security Audit Failures (if configured).

You need to setup trusted hosts, among other things. Unless your using a domain, setting up a stand alone hyper-v Server is a bitch. see: https://serverfault.com/questions/852144/how-do-i-remotely-manage-hyper-v-2016-standalone-via-windows-10 There used to be a script that you ran on the client and the host that did everything for you, but that was for 2012, not r2 or 2016

it's docker, you do the exact same thing, as docker on windows emulates Linux.

Well, the only thing that does all this is Windows server. If your just after virtualization use what your most comfortable with.

1. Make sure the RDP file you're using has saved credentials (correct ones, if you changed your password on the host system, you'll need to update the rdp file). 2. Run gpedit.msc on the host system. 3. change Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Remote Desktop Services\Remote Desktop Session Host\Security\Always prompt for password upon connection to Disabled. 4. Run a gpupdate /force and reboot the server. Every time you close the RDP window, the session WILL disconnect. but this should be the same as locking your screen. Next time you connect it should have all your apps open as it was left, unless you have it configured to close disconnected sessions after some time.

Yes, The AMD side runs on all 'supported' windows platforms. The only issue you'll see is if your installing to Server 2012 (not r2) as that isn't supported. Quadro will also have the same/similar issue, I suspect, but don't have first hand experience with installing a quadro on a non-supported OS.

setup a srv record.

Well... your only partially right. If he doesn't want any videos/media or anything 3d accelerated (games/etc) he'd be fine In-fact using the CLI in linux seems to look better when done remotely.

I think I just found the guy that leaves ancient boxes in the back corner of server rooms, running business critical processes. Can you at least start the virtualise these servers?

Try to isolate the issue. Do you know if it's a WAN issue or a LAN issue? Does it happen on all systems or just the one? etc etc Easiest first step: ping your gateway (your modem in 95% of cases), while pinging the server/whatever it is that has the 800ms ping