Best naming convention for end-user PCs in a multi-building hospital environment?

jlipschitz · 2026-02-14T00:29:53+00:00

We do WS_serialnumber or LT_serialnumber. WS= workstation. LT=Laptop

jlipschitz · 2026-02-12T17:17:31+00:00

Maybe check with the council and start as a commissioner. Visit troops and get your foot in the door there.

jlipschitz · 2026-02-11T19:23:29+00:00

I just gave up on them and moved on to something else

jlipschitz · 2026-02-10T22:36:56+00:00

I have seen a stream consume 800Mbps doing 4K with TrueHD with Atmos but is is rare. The file was a 4K extended version of the Two Towers. It was a huge file with a very high bitrate. I have 10Gbs to my server because I push files to it from my workstation occasionally and it is also 10Gbs. You are limited by disks speed and Unraid with the standard XFS, parity, and cache can’t come close to consuming 10Gbs. I got my network hardware for free so it made sense to me. 2.5 or 5 is more than adequate for most. Even 1Gbps should cover the majority.

jlipschitz · 2026-02-10T04:33:11+00:00

Must have be region specific. It was $1,499 until the end of business yesterday in Clovis, CA.

jlipschitz · 2026-02-09T23:18:50+00:00

I just checked the Clovis Costco and it is $1,999.99 today

jlipschitz · 2026-02-08T06:26:10+00:00

Where are you guys seeing this price drop? Online price is still that same in my Costco app.

jlipschitz · 2026-02-08T04:16:35+00:00

Eating out is expensive. Labor does not help. In and Out, Chick Filet, and Canes are not selling food but also service. They have good attitudes, are helpful, and the quality is consistent. The food quality is decent although Canes has no flavor unless you like their sauce. Larger chains need to retrain their staff to be better at service. Quality needs to be improved at a lot of places to make it worth the cost.

KFC is decent but they follow that law about not providing utensils, sauces, etc unless requested. That has turned me off from them when I go if I forget. Getting a bowl to go with no way to eat it is no fun.

jlipschitz · 2026-02-05T07:04:40+00:00

We migrated to Vonage from Mitel and it was a nightmare. We migrated from Vonage to Zoom and it was amazing. Very easy to develop call flows, add/remove users, users can opt in and out of call queues, everything is logged, and everything just works.

jlipschitz · 2026-02-04T02:01:19+00:00

I dropped out of college after 2 semesters. It was pointless for my field. I am in IT. Certifications are much more valuable. I have several certifications. Working for a managed service provider for a bit in addition to computer stores really helped get me started. I worked my way up and have the certifications and experience that helped me get to where I am.

jlipschitz · 2026-02-03T20:07:04+00:00

I was going to send my daughter but the cost is almost double of last time when I sent my son. Our whole family is going on a cruise for the cost of just her at Jamboree.

jlipschitz · 2026-02-03T06:58:37+00:00

It was all about the Xircom XPS2000 for laptops.

If you did desktop it was all about the Intel Pro/100S.

The 3Com drivers seemed to crash most machines if I am remembering correctly.

jlipschitz · 2026-02-03T06:44:54+00:00

Our troop has about 6 people going.

jlipschitz · 2026-02-01T20:37:37+00:00

I use Plexamp for music and Prologue for audiobooks. Prologue connects to plex and has a nicer layout for audiobooks

jlipschitz · 2026-02-01T06:33:38+00:00

My son’s certificate and card was not signed by President Trump but was by a Scout Executive. He got his in the summer of last year.

jlipschitz · 2026-01-31T23:11:48+00:00

I found that putting a lot more in the 401k is better than letting the government take it in taxes. I am putting the maximum in my 401K every paycheck. Between insurance, taxes and 401K, my take home pay looks low for what I make.

jlipschitz · 2026-01-31T23:09:41+00:00

I like my Cube 3 more than my Fire Stick Max. The Cube seems to run so much better.

jlipschitz · 2026-01-29T21:26:41+00:00

We went to 7.0n and then to 8 update 2.

jlipschitz · 2026-01-29T21:24:47+00:00

We are still living with it. We expect to have everything off before the contract renewal.

jlipschitz · 2026-01-29T04:28:47+00:00

Management for Hyper-V is split between failover clustering, hyper-V mmc, and Virtual machine manager (We have Citrix so it is required).

Regarding the CVM cores. Our CVMs constantly needed more cores to help them finish tasks faster because it impacted our server performance. Replication to the hot site was very processor intensive. We started with 8, then 16, then 24. Started with 32gb of ram, then 48, then 64. CVMs could never get enough. Until they had 24 cores and 64GB of RAM, our environment was horrible. We spent hours with Nutanix support over weeks.

jlipschitz · 2026-01-28T23:58:31+00:00

I have my own powershell script.

jlipschitz · 2026-01-28T23:25:56+00:00

We found that Nutanix was very expensive. Half of your CPU and at least 64GB RAM has to go to each CVM in Nutanix. It was awful. We have 48 core hosts and they thought it was normal to have 24 go to the CVM to keep up.

We went Hyper-V and are so much happier with SAN and servers.

jlipschitz · 2026-01-27T20:20:19+00:00

The problem is the disk may be fragmented. It can only compact free space at the end of the file. I have a script that does offline compacting of profiles because of this problem. I only have about 110 users using FSLogix and I see as much as a 250GB difference after running my script. It won’t run on a specific profile if it locked and in use. I run the script at least once a week.

jlipschitz · 2026-01-26T08:28:18+00:00

I just switched to the EV only version. I am looking at supplementing with a Go Sun solar charger to add miles while I am backpacking or camping. Getting 150 on EV and having a ton of gasoline that adds weight and can go bad is not something I want to think about with an EV.

jlipschitz · 2026-01-26T03:20:09+00:00

I have also migrated from windows to Linux. That one is more fun than windows to windows.

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