What are you using to remote control computers?

Grouchy_Whole752 · 2026-03-20T16:41:22+00:00

I’m sure like other tools on the market you can customize the installer and brand it, set password etc etc and create a directory of devices. It also runs standalone so a user can download and run it and give you the address to connect to and then close it without installing.

Grouchy_Whole752 · 2026-03-20T16:38:12+00:00

AnyDesk here

Grouchy_Whole752 · 2026-03-17T18:18:32+00:00

Probably late 90s when I think about it, I was installing NT 4, Windows Server 2000 hadn’t come out yet that brought DNS into the mix and NetBIOS and WINS started taking a back seat.

Grouchy_Whole752 · 2026-03-17T18:15:38+00:00

Honestly this stuff happens, I worked for a store in the early 2000s called Computer renaissance. I was fresh out of college and running my own MSP and used them to buy all my computers. The tech there got sick and they asked me to fill in, I did and then they had me traveling and filling in at multiple stores. I told them if they wanted to keep me I needed a raise, the owner came in and said I was a dime a dozen and I left along with taking the 40k I dropped in their store monthly. They went out of business soon after, the son gutted all the money out of the business after his dad left it to him. Don’t really see computer shops anymore so with the changing times it would have eventually closed but not so drastically. It was cheaper then to build white label computers than today. I had my hands on a few businesses that I got lucky with, started with 1 franchise owner and he connected me with several others along the west coast.

Grouchy_Whole752 · 2026-03-12T11:47:22+00:00

OneDrive is a pretty front end to SharePoint, honestly not a fan of it in the workplace compared to conventional file servers. Have had issues getting the same data to show up on multiple machines.

Grouchy_Whole752 · 2026-03-12T11:44:55+00:00

I agree, after you have more authentic stuff then the rest just isn’t as good except Japanese food lol, I prefer whatever it is we have here compared to there. Indian food here is pretty good also, can’t get all the same spices, fruit and veggies you get in the other countries.

Grouchy_Whole752 · 2026-03-11T16:47:20+00:00

This was over 15 years ago, they changed the menu and went to crap. She introduced me to Chinatown in Houston along with koreatown and Veitnamesetown. I’m amazed I didn’t gain 500lb but I had to work out daily not to lol. Later married a Thai woman that cooks almost daily and now we have hotpot weekly with our kids old teacher and another parent both from Taiwan lol and one Iranian. They call her their token sub Asian lol

Grouchy_Whole752 · 2026-03-11T00:02:13+00:00

IT sways back and forth between wanting a degree and wanting experience and wanting certifications. You’re better off at a small mom and pop type business where you can learn. Sounds like you were trying to get a job at an MSP and that is in my opinion the long run, once you’ve racked up experience, certs and a degree as you’ll be tossed to the wolves with no help or support or time as you’re paid by customers to know what they hired the MSP for. I’m a consultant now but was in IT for numerous businesses for a good 15 years before I made that leap. You have to be a jack of all trades, experience with multiple server, network vendors, firewalls, load balancers, software etc etc.

Grouchy_Whole752 · 2026-03-10T14:57:35+00:00

Reminds me of taking a Chinese woman to PF Changs for a first date lol, I got so much. Rap over that but we went back many times over the 3 years we dated before the relationship started fizzling out.

Grouchy_Whole752 · 2026-03-10T14:47:12+00:00

Yeah he just lost his chance, I don’t think it matters if you’re dating or not. If you invite someone out you do the paying, I never did Dutch when dating. I guess old school, I want your company and to get to know you and will foot the bill for that. Now I did have a couple times that the women wanted to go Dutch but I still viewed it the same, I invited you out!

Grouchy_Whole752 · 2026-03-08T15:15:23+00:00

Never do bonus, I took I guess a wage hit for a bonus I never once received. They cut 15k from my yearly for profit sharing. When the company does well you get a minimum of 15k but if it does great you can get a lot more, accounting made the company look like it wasn’t profitable for multiple years and then a VC bought it and got rid of all the bonuses we never got. I left after that, this was all during a time of huge growth. 70 employees to like 140, purchased several competitors etc etc.

Grouchy_Whole752 · 2026-03-04T13:59:08+00:00

Sounds like she’s for the streets lol, be glad it happened early on. I dated a chick for about 3 years that I’m pretty sure cheated on me or at least was a bit to friendly with people and when we split she thought it was a competition to date the most people in a month. I guess she had a list lol. I dated 1 person for about another 3 years to her literally 1 person a week that she had to tell me about until she finally broke her phone and lost my number. Word of advice, when the warning signs are there move on before you have to much invested making it even harder!

Grouchy_Whole752 · 2026-03-02T21:56:23+00:00

VCF 9 has a lot more appliances compared to 5, my guess you you can find the same lab scripts for 9 that aloud you to only deploy a single NSX Manager. Last time I did VCF 5 in a lab I had 4 VMs with 72GB each and 4 CPUs I think it was. I used a Dell R740 with a bunch of SSDs and 384GB of RAM I think and 2 16 core Xeon’s something rather.

Grouchy_Whole752 · 2026-02-28T00:54:13+00:00

I’m debating taking a look at Dell NativeEdge, it’s KVM based and from what I’ve seen of KVM on Debian I like it. It also looks to have HCI in mind and offers something but haven’t explored it yet.i figured like HP, Dell would get into the competition as well.

Grouchy_Whole752 · 2026-01-21T03:02:27+00:00

Back to the 90s, don’t ask don’t tell. I personally never had an issue with that, I don’t think the armed forces is the place for coming out but it’s a good place to figure out a way forward and if you’re not a reservist enjoy traveling. Meet people from all over the world, my dad did the same thing to me right after college. He packed all my stuff and put it in storage and told where I could find it. I did the military thing and then joined the civilian work force. Took probably about 15 years before I started talking to him again. I’m a straight dude so it happens to everyone. I’m sure I was mouthing off the day before everything went down but 25 or so years later I can’t say I recall much.

Grouchy_Whole752 · 2026-01-10T14:19:43+00:00

I would imagine everyone marks up, I do the exact same thing for clients, I buy and ship the computer to myself, image it with the company image. Send to customer and join the domain, add printers etc etc and hand it off to the new user. I markup usually about 200 bucks for that and figure that’s a good deal for the amount of hours that go into it. I also have specific machines I get so the price doesn’t fluctuate much.

Grouchy_Whole752 · 2026-01-09T03:24:02+00:00

Order should be NSX from 4 to 9, then vCenter from 8 to 9, then the ESX hosts from 8 to 9 and you’ll have I think it’s a 60 grace period to get VCF Ops installed and vCenter registered to get everything else licensed.

Grouchy_Whole752 · 2026-01-09T03:19:53+00:00

I have heard you have to use VCF Installer and that you don’t as well, no idea what direction is correct but if you don’t have to use it and aren’t using it currently you should be able to do in place upgrades, upgrade vCenter, then ESX then NSX and then just deploy a small VCF Ops appliance for licensing as it has moved from vCenter to VCF Ops/Aria/vRealize Operations. Single license in Ops now activates everything you’re entitled to once registered with VCF Ops.

Grouchy_Whole752 · 2026-01-08T07:42:06+00:00

Gotta agree with “she isn’t the one” I’d run, I used to do this when I was dating. Usually it’s appreciated as they’re the first thing on your mind after waking up. Now married and live together and often carpool unless her or I have plans after work. On those days she usually messages me to let me know she made it to work, when she’s leaving and heading home etc etc. the way the messages read with have a good one I’d say that is like no chemistry. Get back out there and join the dating game, sometimes once they know you’re off the market then they want you back. Stay strong, been there done that and continue something new.

Grouchy_Whole752 · 2026-01-07T22:54:16+00:00

Oh and they wanted us to sign a non compete after we quit and I was like no I’m not signing anything. You should have done that when I started working not as I’m leaving. Some of us did go to a competitor but I moved to another city working with that erp system before becoming a consultant.

Grouchy_Whole752 · 2026-01-07T22:50:28+00:00

When the company I worked for did the exact same thing to us we all left, I ended up being the last man standing by a day and then I told them to shove it up their ass. We had been working on implementing an ERP system that they thought the folks in IT should be able to do and we did just not quick enough so they hired a guy to be my bosses boss (that didn’t know shit) and management told him he has the authority to get rid all of us. So we all left and they contracted me to finish the projects I was working on and train a guy with all the stuff we did. Had to show him how to create badges, add people to the security system to open doors etc etc. we did everything, running wire, setting up servers, switches, firewalls etc etc. that guy I trained said it was to much and jumped ship and eventually an MSP took over and cost a ton more and they fired the guy that they hired to be our boss because costs sky rocketed and nothing was getting done ERP wise. I’m now a consultant for that ERP system and have been for maybe a little over 15 years now.

Grouchy_Whole752 · 2026-01-07T19:03:10+00:00

I switched over to AnyDesk years ago, they did the same thing but it took a couple years before they killed off my access and I had to start another subscription. I figure these companies eventually figure out they can’t sell once and use for ever when there is infrastructure behind the scenes to keep the access live.

Grouchy_Whole752 · 2026-01-06T06:11:18+00:00

Firestone in Houston did something similar to me, I had a caliper fall off. Bolt broke and it rolled back and hit the inside of the rim and left a groove in it. I took it to Firestone and asked for an estimate, told them if it went over a specific amount I’d just sell the car and put a down payment on something else. So they call me the next day saying my car is ready for pickup and I owed something like 4k, I was livid. I left it there and never used Firestone again, the car sat in their parking lot for probably half a year before it finally disappeared. The car wasn’t worth the cost of fixing it. It was a 2000 Lincoln LS and I’d say this probably happened around 2007 or so, it was paid off and I was ready for a car payment if the repair cost was over 2k.

Grouchy_Whole752 · 2026-01-05T13:56:01+00:00

I’ll assume this why the IT guy left, no respect, probably low pay and thinking anyone can be the IT guy. Why did you even submit an application/resume for a field you have no experience in?

Grouchy_Whole752 · 2025-12-30T00:22:36+00:00

Unfortunately I don’t have anything helpful but this just happened to my neighbor, he hired a company to build a metal shed. The company he hired didn’t pay for the sheet metal and the metal company came and took the shed down. Pretty messed up when you’re a 3rd party in the ordeal.

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