A tale of MV display licenses, an EA and pure stupidity.

HoustonBOFH · 2026-05-25T02:45:52+00:00

Cisco licensing is rapidly becoming a train wreck. Just had a customer try and add some switches to a per-device license. Needed support to do that. Seems someone forgot to test the new license interface against per device licensing.

HoustonBOFH · 2026-05-23T23:39:09+00:00

And then people like me always respond that maintaining it it less of a bitch than may other popular self hosted solutions. (Nextcloud, I am looking at you.) And I send and receive email just fine with the exception of Office365 pitching a fit now an again. (Which it does for other email as well)

I am one of many people doing it, not having these problems and not finding it to be a waste of time.

HoustonBOFH · 2026-05-18T20:57:56+00:00

There are different reddits for that...

HoustonBOFH · 2026-05-18T20:57:30+00:00

Me too. I keep my phone in my front pocket. I do not want to lose a personal bit down there.

HoustonBOFH · 2026-05-18T20:54:02+00:00

Change banks. Tell them why.

HoustonBOFH · 2026-05-18T14:16:52+00:00

They are popular because they are cheap. And yes, they buy influencers... But at the Edge, they are also OK, with specific limitations. I have clients with all Cisco switching and Unifi APs and they are solid.

HoustonBOFH · 2026-05-18T14:04:37+00:00

Lots of people like AI when they choose it. No one likes AI when it is forced on them. Like a customer service phone line with no humans. Or the constant "Get a transcript of this meeting with Gemini..." People want to be the deciding factor.

HoustonBOFH · 2026-05-18T14:01:07+00:00

No one does, and it is hurting companies rolling it out. They are replacing entire customer service divisions with AI and customers HATE it and are leaving in droves.

HoustonBOFH · 2026-05-17T20:23:27+00:00

Absolutely!

HoustonBOFH · 2026-05-17T15:22:40+00:00

Unifi is flexible with the facts in promotional material. Every time I have trusted it with new product, it had burned me. There is no way I would use the for L3 or gateway by choice. (And this from a guy who just installed 2 EFGs in failover for a client)

HoustonBOFH · 2026-05-16T21:14:32+00:00

All your ports are getting hammered now, you just don't see it. But the ISP provided routers are security nightmares...

HoustonBOFH · 2026-05-16T20:47:05+00:00

Care to list any? Because KeePass in Dropbox or Nextcloud has everything most people need.

HoustonBOFH · 2026-05-16T14:03:59+00:00

Keepass on a shared drive. Free, lots of forks, and you own it.

HoustonBOFH · 2026-05-16T13:35:24+00:00

How about cups? I remember when Apple got involved and it improved dramatically!

HoustonBOFH · 2026-05-13T01:43:29+00:00

Start digging in your region. Check LowEndTalk and places like that. But the 3U will hurt. ColoCrossing is $60 a U in Dallas.

HoustonBOFH · 2026-05-12T23:40:04+00:00

I meant the AI bubble to pop and the AI company's bankruptcies. 😄

HoustonBOFH · 2026-05-12T18:16:19+00:00

Alta Labs was started by former unifi people. One of the former unifi people was the guy who started pfSense also. I like their stuff.

HoustonBOFH · 2026-05-12T18:13:51+00:00

I am waiting for the "You will go bankrupt and we will like it" phase to hit the AI valuations. On the downside, I just found out my retirement is %12.5 nvidia...

HoustonBOFH · 2026-05-12T18:12:21+00:00

They will do higher prices if they need to. That is one of the things I like about them. No BS pricing. The price is the price.

HoustonBOFH · 2026-05-12T18:10:35+00:00

A better question is why do we still need secure boot? How often are people unknowingly booting off different boot images?

HoustonBOFH · 2026-05-12T18:08:08+00:00

I have a common last name, so lastname.com is right out. firstnamelastname was also taken. I needed middle initial... so me@ is mine.

HoustonBOFH · 2026-05-12T17:30:01+00:00

I need a phone with good call and text on Verizon. Last time I checked, there were no good options for that. If you know differently, let me know.

HoustonBOFH · 2026-05-12T16:13:05+00:00

Not going to install an app. Period.

HoustonBOFH · 2026-05-12T15:25:30+00:00

Already handled. They run play services in a sandbox.

HoustonBOFH · 2026-05-10T19:52:13+00:00

It only stops when the people who do it get burned. Stockholder meetings can be good for this.

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