Oh yeah, I agree. I just activated a switch with a 6 year (one year free) license and my end date for all my equipment went forward by a whopping one week. And yeah, it sat in the box for two months before I could get to it -- and I did notice the license started at purchase date.
Then again, I like it because it forces my employer's hand. Too often in the past they've let service contracts expire despite my pleading because they say they are comfortable with the risks, then when a failure happens they hold ME responsible because they say I didn't adequately explain the risk allegedly. If I try to show evidence I did, then I'm seen as making excuses and not being a problem solver.
There's no grey area with Meraki. You don't pay, it stops working. Period.
Also, I'm not in a big shop. I do it all so I'm truly a jack of all trades, master of none. I've had regular Cisco kit in the past and I swear that shit is way more complicated to make work than it really has to be. I don't want to have to be a CCIE just to make my network work. I just want it to work.
Like I currently have a Cisco UCS 560 phone system that I need to replace -- but I'm certainly not getting Meraki MC now. So I've learned THAT lesson at least!:-)
It's near impossible to actually predict when your devices will expire because of the complexity of the contract.
I'll let the other bits of your rant go but this one is not true. It's pretty straight forward. Go into Organization -> License Info and it says right there the date when everything expires. And since everything co-terminates, your entire infrastructure goes tits up at the same time.
I used to work for a union and I helped organize a grocery store -- Jewel T -- in Philly area in the early 80s. They had just ventured into the northeast market from Chicago at the time. I organized one small store of 10 people. And to avoid going union the chain closed down EVERY FUCKING STORE IN THE ENTIRE REGION and moved out of the region. To this day Jewel has not re-entered this market. Hundreds, maybe thousands of people lost their jobs. I felt horrible, and my boss's response was "good, at least that scab chain is out of our territory."
So yeah, I know there is a dark side. There's also a dark side to management too.
But the answer is not to throw out unions, but to reform them and make them work better.
And this is yet another reason why the middle class has been dying. In the old days people would support each other even if this time it wasn't their own job on strike.
But now it's like no one gives a shit about anyone else but themselves so we are all weaker as a result.
But we don't just go putting them anywhere arbitrarily. We rely on local governments and DOTs to tell us where to put them. How? By determining if it's a private road or if there are regulatory signs prohibiting through traffic.
So if the homeowners don't want traffic routed through their neighborhood they need to go to their local government and get that done. Then soon as that's legally accomplished, then us editors for Waze will take the steps to prevent through routing through the neighborhood.
No. The city needs to put up a sign that says no through traffic and us Waze editors will make it a private installation.
https://wiki.waze.com/wiki/Pri...
I have SA for server licenses. It's ridiculous for desktops -- especially when businesses rarely upgrade their desktop OS and more often than not want to downgrade the OEM license that comes with a box.
Meanwhile many companies don't get that option. I managed a few small companies... like 10-20 computers each. I took the OEM version of Windows 7 Pro and replaced it with a standard install using a volume license key that each company purchased to make management easier.
Well unless you have Software Advantage, they can't upgrade to Windows 10 without paying.
That's ridiculous. They paid for Windows 7 with purchase of new PC. If I hadn't wiped it and replaced it with a vol license install, they could upgrade to 10 for free. But no.... So you have to pay for Windows once, then again for the volume license install, then again to go to 10.
It's the free market at work. If these jobs keep paying better and better, more and more people will get the training to go into the field and balance it out. But that's not happening because...
I teach computer information science at a college. We have a hard time recruiting students into the program because they pretty much all say they don't want to spend years learning how to be a programmer when all of the jobs are being replaced by foreigners or outsourced overseas.
Way back in the early 90s when we first got a Unix box at work, one of the admins felt that all the programs in/bin should really be owned by bin so he did a chown bin/bin/*/usr/bin/*
Apple's non-iPhone revenue is comparable to Microsoft's *total* revenue.
As a guy who bought a 128K Mac in 1984 and has been with them all this time (except for a brief period in late 90s) I would have never dreamed a statement like that would someday be true (and oh do I wish I had, and bought the stock!)
So if isn't registered, would it become unavailable for someone else to grab? Most other one letter com, orgs, and nets are reserved. Only a few are grandfathered in, like x.org.
Last Summer we had our cousin and her two kids stay with us for a week. The boy at some point asked my wife to buy him something on his Android phone for $5, so she plugged in her payment info. He apparently saved it or she saved it accidentally. Two weeks later she noticed numerous $49.99 charges to Google Play totaling just shy of $2,000.
Ah, those were the days. I also remember posting stuff to Usenet with my real name and WORK email address.... and then eternal September happened....:(
That's my fear too. I live in a small town in Appalachia with dirt-poor but stubborn^H^H^H^H^H^Hproud conservative folk. When they get sick, they just don't go into the hospital. They ride it out at home. They have no health insurance and won't even sign up for it if they can because -- Obamacare. They *may* go to the free clinic in town that's open Tuesdays from 1-3pm. They live in remote areas down dead-end gravel roads that lead to the side of a mountain that other locals know you don't drive down if you have no business going down. If Ebola comes to visit it'll wipe out my mountain town.:(
He didn't deserve to die for stealing the pills...... but soon as he chose to put the life of an officer in danger instead of surrendering, then he did.
For a small shop that it's not feasible to hire their own IT shop, I think it's viable. Other than that, no.
I was a very early advocate of moving stuff into the cloud and a very early victim of getting screwed by it. Before the cloud I could spend countless sleepless hours pacing around dealing with things like praying that a SAN spins back up after an extended site power failure with a backup generator fault failure or dealing with irate users on a Christmas morning wondering why I scheduled an email migration to happen that required email to be down for 24 hours. But at least it was my fault and I was in control.
After moving to the cloud I had things like extended service outages where I had irate users and I could do nothing but sit around and look stupid and helpless saying "the vendor is working on it" and not know even if anyone was actually doing anything besides refreshing the ticket system and occasionally posting a ticket update begging for a status update.
Most US cards being issued with a chip are Chip and Signature, not Chip and PIN -- because banks have trained Americans to think PIN means debit so banks fear applying a PIN to a credit card would confuse people.
I have one of these Chip and Signature cards and on my last trip to UK it was a real PITA, especially at self-checkouts. Like at ASDA there was a signature signing pad but I had to wait for a clerk to come over to give me the pen and then she checked my signature real closely. Same thing at the duty free at the airport. The self-checking stopped and alerted the clerk to come over to check my signature. Then at other stores the clerk couldn't find a pen, or was surprised when paper spit out and had to ask a manager what was going on.
(I had one clerk hand me the slip to sign, checked my signature, then put the signed slip into the bag with the receipt! If I was an "arse" I probably could have disputed the charge and gotten away with it because they couldn't produce a signed slip)
At the ASDA (far away from where tourists usually go) the clerk remarked it's been years since she saw someone have to sign for a charge. I apologized, said I was an American, and that our banks think we are too stupid to remember a PIN. She got a good chuckle out of that...
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I do believe Turkey blocks on individual IMEI. At least that was what I was warned of before I went for a visit. It happens after a few weeks so tourists are probably fine.
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Oh yeah, I agree. I just activated a switch with a 6 year (one year free) license and my end date for all my equipment went forward by a whopping one week. And yeah, it sat in the box for two months before I could get to it -- and I did notice the license started at purchase date.
Then again, I like it because it forces my employer's hand. Too often in the past they've let service contracts expire despite my pleading because they say they are comfortable with the risks, then when a failure happens they hold ME responsible because they say I didn't adequately explain the risk allegedly. If I try to show evidence I did, then I'm seen as making excuses and not being a problem solver.
There's no grey area with Meraki. You don't pay, it stops working. Period.
Also, I'm not in a big shop. I do it all so I'm truly a jack of all trades, master of none. I've had regular Cisco kit in the past and I swear that shit is way more complicated to make work than it really has to be. I don't want to have to be a CCIE just to make my network work. I just want it to work.
Like I currently have a Cisco UCS 560 phone system that I need to replace -- but I'm certainly not getting Meraki MC now. So I've learned THAT lesson at least! :-)
I'll let the other bits of your rant go but this one is not true. It's pretty straight forward. Go into Organization -> License Info and it says right there the date when everything expires. And since everything co-terminates, your entire infrastructure goes tits up at the same time.
I used to work for a union and I helped organize a grocery store -- Jewel T -- in Philly area in the early 80s. They had just ventured into the northeast market from Chicago at the time. I organized one small store of 10 people. And to avoid going union the chain closed down EVERY FUCKING STORE IN THE ENTIRE REGION and moved out of the region. To this day Jewel has not re-entered this market. Hundreds, maybe thousands of people lost their jobs. I felt horrible, and my boss's response was "good, at least that scab chain is out of our territory."
So yeah, I know there is a dark side. There's also a dark side to management too.
But the answer is not to throw out unions, but to reform them and make them work better.
And this is yet another reason why the middle class has been dying. In the old days people would support each other even if this time it wasn't their own job on strike.
But now it's like no one gives a shit about anyone else but themselves so we are all weaker as a result.
Jennicam!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
My credit card is Chip and PIN preferred and it was wonderful using it in Europe last week.
Unfortunately, it was issued by Diners Club (a Mastercard) and they stopped accepting applications.
Waze has methods of dealing with this. It's called a private installation...
https://wiki.waze.com/wiki/Pri...
But we don't just go putting them anywhere arbitrarily. We rely on local governments and DOTs to tell us where to put them. How? By determining if it's a private road or if there are regulatory signs prohibiting through traffic.
So if the homeowners don't want traffic routed through their neighborhood they need to go to their local government and get that done. Then soon as that's legally accomplished, then us editors for Waze will take the steps to prevent through routing through the neighborhood.
No. The city needs to put up a sign that says no through traffic and us Waze editors will make it a private installation. https://wiki.waze.com/wiki/Pri...
I have SA for server licenses. It's ridiculous for desktops -- especially when businesses rarely upgrade their desktop OS and more often than not want to downgrade the OEM license that comes with a box.
Meanwhile many companies don't get that option. I managed a few small companies ... like 10-20 computers each. I took the OEM version of Windows 7 Pro and replaced it with a standard install using a volume license key that each company purchased to make management easier.
Well unless you have Software Advantage, they can't upgrade to Windows 10 without paying.
That's ridiculous. They paid for Windows 7 with purchase of new PC. If I hadn't wiped it and replaced it with a vol license install, they could upgrade to 10 for free. But no.... So you have to pay for Windows once, then again for the volume license install, then again to go to 10.
It's the free market at work. If these jobs keep paying better and better, more and more people will get the training to go into the field and balance it out. But that's not happening because...
I teach computer information science at a college. We have a hard time recruiting students into the program because they pretty much all say they don't want to spend years learning how to be a programmer when all of the jobs are being replaced by foreigners or outsourced overseas.
Way back in the early 90s when we first got a Unix box at work, one of the admins felt that all the programs in /bin should really be owned by bin so he did a chown bin /bin/* /usr/bin/*
As a guy who bought a 128K Mac in 1984 and has been with them all this time (except for a brief period in late 90s) I would have never dreamed a statement like that would someday be true (and oh do I wish I had, and bought the stock!)
So if isn't registered, would it become unavailable for someone else to grab? Most other one letter com, orgs, and nets are reserved. Only a few are grandfathered in, like x.org.
Last Summer we had our cousin and her two kids stay with us for a week. The boy at some point asked my wife to buy him something on his Android phone for $5, so she plugged in her payment info. He apparently saved it or she saved it accidentally. Two weeks later she noticed numerous $49.99 charges to Google Play totaling just shy of $2,000.
Ah, those were the days. I also remember posting stuff to Usenet with my real name and WORK email address. ... and then eternal September happened.... :(
That's my fear too. I live in a small town in Appalachia with dirt-poor but stubborn^H^H^H^H^H^Hproud conservative folk. When they get sick, they just don't go into the hospital. They ride it out at home. They have no health insurance and won't even sign up for it if they can because -- Obamacare. They *may* go to the free clinic in town that's open Tuesdays from 1-3pm. They live in remote areas down dead-end gravel roads that lead to the side of a mountain that other locals know you don't drive down if you have no business going down. If Ebola comes to visit it'll wipe out my mountain town. :(
OK let's get this out of the way...
He didn't deserve to die for stealing the pills... ... but soon as he chose to put the life of an officer in danger instead of surrendering, then he did.
For a small shop that it's not feasible to hire their own IT shop, I think it's viable. Other than that, no.
I was a very early advocate of moving stuff into the cloud and a very early victim of getting screwed by it. Before the cloud I could spend countless sleepless hours pacing around dealing with things like praying that a SAN spins back up after an extended site power failure with a backup generator fault failure or dealing with irate users on a Christmas morning wondering why I scheduled an email migration to happen that required email to be down for 24 hours. But at least it was my fault and I was in control.
After moving to the cloud I had things like extended service outages where I had irate users and I could do nothing but sit around and look stupid and helpless saying "the vendor is working on it" and not know even if anyone was actually doing anything besides refreshing the ticket system and occasionally posting a ticket update begging for a status update.
Yeah, I was just going to say I wonder how many April 1st's will go by before this one is retired.
At least it takes a grad student.
Magnetic swipes can be cloned by anyone. Heck, you can easily buy a cloning card to do it.
Most US cards being issued with a chip are Chip and Signature, not Chip and PIN -- because banks have trained Americans to think PIN means debit so banks fear applying a PIN to a credit card would confuse people.
I have one of these Chip and Signature cards and on my last trip to UK it was a real PITA, especially at self-checkouts. Like at ASDA there was a signature signing pad but I had to wait for a clerk to come over to give me the pen and then she checked my signature real closely. Same thing at the duty free at the airport. The self-checking stopped and alerted the clerk to come over to check my signature. Then at other stores the clerk couldn't find a pen, or was surprised when paper spit out and had to ask a manager what was going on.
(I had one clerk hand me the slip to sign, checked my signature, then put the signed slip into the bag with the receipt! If I was an "arse" I probably could have disputed the charge and gotten away with it because they couldn't produce a signed slip)
At the ASDA (far away from where tourists usually go) the clerk remarked it's been years since she saw someone have to sign for a charge. I apologized, said I was an American, and that our banks think we are too stupid to remember a PIN. She got a good chuckle out of that...
So if one of your friends gave them permission, then they can grab the photos that way.
So yeah, what you share put to your friends can be given away by them.
Opinion: Facebook shouldn't allow an app to gain access to friend's data like this unless that data is marked public.
So basically you give them access to all of your data, and then they tell you all about you.
What a shock.
I do believe Turkey blocks on individual IMEI. At least that was what I was warned of before I went for a visit. It happens after a few weeks so tourists are probably fine. Reference: http://www.turkeytravelplanner...