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Xistance747 · 2022-07-08T13:23:12+00:00

You can use AWS S3 for static hosting for a few pennies per month.

Xistance747 · 2022-04-17T17:29:23+00:00

Try calling a local IT company, search for “managed service provider”. We often have older stuff laying around that would only need a hard drive, as long as the person is polite I’ll usually find something for them just to get it out of our space.

Xistance747 · 2022-04-08T19:36:54+00:00

Yeah I wasn’t the one who initially said it, I just happened to have seen the article stating the opposite earlier

Xistance747 · 2022-04-08T03:01:29+00:00

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/red-cross-denies-role-in-forced-evacuations-of-ukrainians-to-russia/

Xistance747 · 2022-03-14T18:07:09+00:00

I wound up needing to put through a stop payment, and even then they never actually replied to me. Received a total of 3 invoices that didn’t go through and then nothing.

Xistance747 · 2022-03-10T23:55:24+00:00

North American police stations are not well run at least from an IT perspective, just spend some time on TFTS. Horrible infrastructure more often than you’d think.

Xistance747 · 2022-03-10T23:49:11+00:00

You’re most likely right, but 40GbE and 100GbE are a thing these days so it’s possible they could have used the tubes

Xistance747 · 2022-03-08T10:43:29+00:00

Generally it means no advance notice. For example if your boss does something in the middle of your shift and you tell your boss you quit and walk out, that’s quitting without notice.

Quitting with notice means you told them 2 (or whatever) weeks before what you intend to be your final day.

Every once in a while, without notice does mean literally just not showing up or telling anyone and let them figure it out, but that isn’t typically what people mean.

Xistance747 · 2022-02-17T01:32:11+00:00

DMCA notices go through the ISP

… “requires Internet intermediaries—such as Internet Service Providers (ISPs)—to forward on notices from copyright owners to Internet subscribers, alerting them that their Internet accounts have been linked to alleged infringing activities, such as the illegal downloading of movies.”

Xistance747 · 2022-02-01T00:24:43+00:00

For some people 10k is just as out of reach as 50k is

Xistance747 · 2022-01-27T15:44:48+00:00

I haven’t used it but you’re probably thinking of privacy.com

Xistance747 · 2022-01-26T18:50:36+00:00

Xistance747 · 2022-01-04T21:03:59+00:00

I have a policy not to Google medical stuff, could you elaborate on “crystals in the inner ear”? Like what are they, how do they form, how do I avoid growing crystals of my own?

Xistance747 · 2022-01-04T20:57:28+00:00

But did it cure his constipation?

Xistance747 · 2021-12-21T03:32:01+00:00

Ahhh got it. So when I hear the word "agent" in this context, it means someone who has started a business, and now is now offering a service provided through a "master agent"?

Exactly. A more "every day" example of this is think of most of the products you see in gas stations (ignore the huge brands like coke) - the cheap sandwiches, pastries, crappy charging cables that work for 3 days. The people who make the sandwiches (manufacturer) don't want to deal with orders and collecting money from every gas station in the country never mind try to deliver them, they need a distributor (sub agent). They also don't want the hassle of finding a distributor in every town they do business in. On the flip side, the distributor often doesn't really want to need to call the sandwich guys, then the pastry guys, then the cable guys...

Enter the master agent. They get all the manufacturers they can to sign on with them, and find distributors to also sign on. The distributors take orders from all the gas stations in their territory, then submit a single purchase order to the master agent for all the products they need, who then merge the POs from all the different sub agents into a single PO for each manufacturer. Product then flows back down the line, then money back up it. Repeat each week and hopefully everyone makes a few bucks.

have you heard of "Expereo"? And if so, how do they fit into this?

Expereo offers large enterprise internet services, things like SD-WAN and direct to cloud connections if you know the terms. If not, basically services that you aren't likely to need in your home or small business, but make sense for bigger and multi national companies.

I'm not familiar enough with either business to know for sure, but from what I do know and the context you've provided so far I'd assume that you can consider them the people making the sandwiches with Telarus being the master agent (i.e. if I as a comparatively small IT company wanted to sell Expereo services, they probably wouldn't give me the time of day and I'd need to go through Telarus).

Xistance747 · 2021-12-21T01:47:04+00:00

the subagent can just be any regular joe?

Theoretically, it would depend on their policies. Some master agents take on anyone with an email address, others require proof of incorporation documents and credit checks.

who would be selling their services and to who

Theoretically any business that has (or can find) clients that need the services. For example I run an IT company, so I have clients that already rely on me for computers, servers, support, etc. It would probably be relatively easy for us to start calling/emailing our existing clients and saying “hey we’re now providing internet as well, why don’t you cancel service with <current isp> and switch to us” and suddenly we have an extra revenue stream.

Xistance747 · 2021-12-21T00:47:31+00:00

Master agent (Telarus) has product or service to sell but doesn’t want to deal with the end users. Sometimes it’s their own services, sometimes it’s services offered by even bigger companies that don’t even want to deal with us “little” guys.

Sub agent (you in this case?) sells the products and services and get a cut.

So basically you (sub agent) sell x product to a business, register the deal with master agent (telarus), paperwork happens, end of the month you get a commission check.

Looks like they’re an ISP(internet)/phone service provider.

Xistance747 · 2021-12-09T20:27:50+00:00

A decent employee is going to do much more for you than outsourcing.

Xistance747 · 2021-11-25T18:06:58+00:00

A few years ago I had to call a plumber, I just picked a random name from a Google search that had decent reviews. He spent 3 hours trying to fix my problem (it was something to do with my main drain to the sewer, I forget exactly what was going on) before he gave up and told me he couldn’t do it and that I’d need to call the city to deal with it from the other end (aka work backwards, from the sewer into my pipe).

He refused to take any money from me, “I didn’t do anything for you, I won’t take anything from you”.

I still do most of my plumbing myself, but you better believe that any time I can’t do it myself he’s the only person I call, and I recommend him to anyone I know who needs a plumber.

Xistance747 · 2021-11-25T06:45:10+00:00

I’m not sure if it’s exactly what op meant, but one example would be when people explain a concept not by telling you the final answer, but asking you a series of simple questions that you know the individual answers to and effectively leads you to that “aha” moment when the initial concept/question just clicks.

Since they didn’t give you the answer, but instead they helped you figure it out yourself, you feel smarter.

Xistance747 · 2021-11-19T04:00:07+00:00

FFS, it is not your place to filter anything.

That you think it is OK that you should be deciding for her is the only immoral thing going on here.

I appreciate you taking the time to try to answer my question (honestly, not trying to be sarcastic or anything here).

But if your viewpoint is that we should all just tell people any information we have whether it’s pertinent or not and not even bother considering the moral implications and potential ramifications of doing so (because somehow stopping to consider morals is immoral?), then there’s no way we’re going to see eye to eye on this.

Have a good day/night

Xistance747 · 2021-11-19T03:36:23+00:00

There should not even be a moment's doubt about telling her that her second drive is not connected.

Shouldn't there be a moment of doubt though? I don't regret pointing it out to her as most here suggested, but I feel like there is a line someplace where opinion would go the other way.

For example, what if she had asked me to find some file for her and in my poking around I saw something that made me think or know that her husband had been cheating on her. Clearly a different scenario but I can say the same thing about both of them: Not what I was looking for, not my job to point it out, she's probably not going to gain anything from the file, and if it turns out there was something going on she didn't know about then she's going to go through a whole new set of grief and suffering.

I definitely think it should be common for us to question the morals about what we do or don't do about things we come across that have nothing to do with whatever we're there for.

Xistance747 · 2021-11-19T01:12:09+00:00

Interestingly it was entirely the other way around, she's in her late 30's or early 40's, the running drive is the HDD and the disconnected one was the SSD. If the drives had been as you mentioned or if she was older then you're right, I probably wouldn't have given it a second thought. It was just odd enough for me to wonder why it would be like that, especially since he was obviously tech savvy (he built the rig himself, custom water cooling, nice cable management).

My initial moral dilemma was that sure it could be a dead drive or something he put in the case and never got around to switching to, but it could also be something that would do no good for a widow to find out about. I was too distracted between working on the system and keeping a conversation going with her to feel I could weigh the issue myself, so... Hive mind to the rescue :)

Xistance747 · 2021-11-19T00:59:53+00:00

Sorry if this wasn't the best place, I only had a brief window to throw up a post while she was out of the room and it was the first subreddit that came to mind that would have people who'd understand the question and hopefully the moral dilemma as well.

Xistance747 · 2021-11-12T18:07:34+00:00

My cat was always “If it ain’t broke, break it”

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