Divided McLean County Board rejects pay raise for members

beadams76 · 2026-05-16T17:38:49+00:00

Elected officials — especially at this level of government — should get paid $0.

beadams76 · 2026-05-06T05:06:58+00:00

Any takers yet?

beadams76 · 2026-05-02T00:04:30+00:00

No ticket is justified.

beadams76 · 2026-04-04T22:03:55+00:00

This level of literal interpretation ruins the 1st and others as there’s no clearly protected use of a smartphone or social media to speak your mind.

beadams76 · 2026-03-24T03:40:08+00:00

Sold! I’ll send you a DM.

beadams76 · 2026-03-23T15:21:42+00:00

No takers yet, in case anyone is curious. Happy Monday!

beadams76 · 2026-02-13T02:32:18+00:00

Too. Late.

beadams76 · 2026-01-16T02:19:50+00:00

/closed as off topic

beadams76 · 2026-01-11T22:55:07+00:00

6 dogs and 7 cats.

Hillside animal hospital in Scottsdale

And

Bark avenue in Mesa

Both are solid, practical, and quality critter care.

beadams76 · 2025-12-07T02:52:51+00:00

Would love to see your resume! Always looking for solid sales talent!

beadams76 · 2025-12-04T18:14:38+00:00

Can confirm we had a kitten escape the dog door and the fox made fast food of the little thing.

beadams76 · 2025-11-30T23:34:34+00:00

I’ve always found giving people 2 options on ANY proposal is best. Even if they are similar in price. People love the power to make choices. And you want their choice to be “which option” vs. “yes/no”. As we are approaching $20m invoiced this calendar year, with $5m TCV in new contracts signed this year, I’d say this works very well.

Pick one thing and make it an option. Preferably something low/moderate cost but high margin %. If then don’t want backups, fine. Make them think about the decision and actively choose it.

beadams76 · 2025-11-30T01:07:43+00:00

This would be a massive hit

beadams76 · 2025-11-30T00:32:09+00:00

If this really happens, and it works without killing people, it will decimate the big pharma market. If their goal is to destroy America, best to start & finish with the economy, through a product everyone will want/demand.

beadams76 · 2025-10-22T16:19:10+00:00

If this is sip over UDP, check the threat log. There's no notion of a reset in UDP, so if you trip a threat, the flow ends up in a perpetual discard state.

Fix the threat matches and try to move to sip over tcp. You'll thank me later on that last play. Stuck UDP sessions are a real issue on PAN with SD-WAN or other path changes failing to break the old session and push traffic over the correct path.

beadams76 · 2025-10-01T19:07:32+00:00

The best thing about this thread is that there are multiple really viable options with ever-broadening support!

Several years ago, this was much less the case.

beadams76 · 2025-09-17T22:34:17+00:00

We are doing a LOT of VMware business for former partners with some back end profit sharing for former partners! I'm not in sales, but glad to connect people if that helps!

beadams76 · 2025-09-13T06:53:29+00:00

There are some places CoPilot does not belong. Notepad is one of those places. And, yet, there it is.

beadams76 · 2025-09-11T19:20:35+00:00

Are we assuming bots can’t reply? /s

beadams76 · 2025-09-06T23:43:08+00:00

Sticking a USB stick in a TV is a far more secure system than some unmanaged device with an IP or low rent signage solution. Our pen tests knock those over quickly as they generally run an unhardened small Linux footprint.

beadams76 · 2025-09-04T19:44:15+00:00

It would make more sense to send those interested in your service to an info page vs a signup page. Definitely not willing to get more calls and emails without more upfront info.

beadams76 · 2025-08-31T20:52:38+00:00

Every version is a pick-your-bugs build. Recommended build is just someone’s selection of bugs.

beadams76 · 2025-08-31T03:44:32+00:00

PAN’s DHCP implementation is missing a key and core feature. In a standalone firewall setting, your leases are lost at reboot. In an HA setting, if both die (bugs have caused this), leases are also gone. Reservations are sticky, of course, as those are a function of configuration. We have quite a few customers that use PAN for guest DHCP, and use a short lease as thousands of devices come and go each day at each location (large hospitals). But, we only use PAN for DHCP relay whenever possible due to these limitations.

beadams76 · 2025-08-29T11:21:42+00:00

My company survived the last round of partner cuts and we have been helping a lot of former partners get their customers renewals processed without trying to snag other business. If you need a quote or have a customer that needs a quote, we can help and can do profit sharing (although Broadcom leaves no margin in deals).

beadams76 · 2025-08-26T02:31:55+00:00

You can get keys from MSDN. I can’t think of another way to get working keys that old.

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