 Welcome to vlog Thursday. We're a little off today. Yeah, just a little bit of a late start. That's okay, though That's it's all right. We're gonna get through this and we're gonna straighten it all out. You can correct this. Don't worry Well, go back Yes, we've corrected we've corrected cuz Marvin will go nuts. Yeah, it's not right now Has Marvin noticed something else that's not right? Project Pac-Man that it's not right. There is a dot misplaced Somewhere in the office. Yes. Oh you dirty sunset. I know now. He's gonna go look for it I will yeah, and all of us are like it's good enough But we know Marvin will be like why is that dot not with the other dots and project Pac-Man is a this is what's left of it We are just doing Pac-Man all around the office Insert video here for Pac-Man. Yeah office decorations and art and things like that You know, we got a style things to make sure we got Super Mario in the bathroom We got Pac-Man in the hallway. Yeah, so this is these are important aspects because you just eat Yeah, and then something like that Mario So that works It absolutely is anyways, so we got off to a late start because I was asked to speak at a Group of a CPA conference. I don't know what you want to call it. That sounds exciting. Oh, yeah Wow CPA conference tough crowd tough crowd CPA conference Slash insomnia treatment. So I got a stand before a bunch of accountants and we had Went off topic several times because they want me to talk for two hours now I actually Specifically and generally my talks are always one hour. That's how they budged it You know they say an hour they mean 45 minutes because you got some intros and you have Some Q&A follow up at the end. So that's there's there's like a cadence I do is I do a lot of others public speaking engagements and it's always the same other than when they're short talks because they're like something real brief but They wanted me to talk the I thought they said for two hours turns out I'm talk for two and a half. So whoa, okay Yeah, so I was so like in here. Well, you would think accountants could account for that. Yeah. Yeah, it's some clarification they also did a lot of things verbally But nonetheless, it went really well and we went over by five. What were you speaking to them about? So we started with social media and we mostly stayed on the social media topic We occasionally got way off topic was we jumped into a lot of cyber security questions Which is another thing they'd already they it's funny when I was done before I got back to the office here We're starting up to record my phone rings and it's the person who runs the B They didn't want to invite me back to speak again, which was exciting and get enough of you They couldn't get enough. So as I said, it's interesting who it was I'm like, so you didn't hear enough of me and I was like, you know want to open up light-hearted It was making sure it wasn't a complaint for getting too off topic He actually said he already got a lot of positive feedback and I had noticed right away a jump in views We move as soon as I checked my phone how many extra people have viewed our Facebook page and things like that so that was kind of exciting and Yeah, social media, cyber security and password management and some security practices Which I still been wanting to do a video on which it's gonna be forced into a video because if I put all the content together to do an entire Small business security talk. That's definitely gonna go on YouTube as well. So mm-hmm all free folks Oh, this is free speaking of free. That's always interesting So a customer came in and they want to know how to remove a password on Windows 10 and I guess they figured it out They sent me a message on Facebook last night But I told them they're like well What are you gonna charge me for the video because I told them if you didn't want to pay us We have a video on how we do things and it's funny cuz There's always a like what's the catch? I'm like, there's no catch we make an explainer video on how to do things how we do a lot of the tech things and There's not a catch. This is part of the way we work because we will find us It's a little bit of marketing. So I guess there is a catch. We do things but we give them away I don't hide things by hiding paywalls or email lists and things like that Maybe I should but I'm doing well by just being upfront and honest and Companies ago that looks interesting that you made a video on it But I would rather hire you to do it then that's my clients people who want to do it themselves They were determined to do it themselves no matter what so they're not my client But it still attracts more attention to my website and more people contacting us is generally good for business There are a lot of businesses though that do put that stuff behind a paywall of some kind and like You know they lure you in with like three easy steps to do this But if you really want to know how to do it you can buy our video package, right or whatever So yeah, we've always just steered away from that. I don't know being a little bit different. So interesting Kind of segues into but related to Microsoft contacted us again, and it turns out My excitement was you know, they wanted to bring us out for another talk But after talking then we found out they want to bring us out for three talks And this is indirectly but some related to my YouTube channel I don't cover a lot of the Microsoft stuff I did on there or or Linux stuff because I have a podcast that I co-host with a few other people which actually gets Recorded here in the same studio And my co-hosts we have the SMLR podcast So that's a lot of fun and we were flown out earlier this year to Seattle to interview executives over at Microsoft And it was a great time We're Linux podcast and Microsoft's doing some Linux stuff. So they wanted us to talk to them It was really cool And now they liked our interviews we did with these people so well that we're doing more of them and this time They asked for The YouTube statistics for my channel as they said they want me to they mentioned doing video So that's actually what's the discussions going on this morning. I was answering some questions about them They want to know current subscriber lists and things like that. So it's really interesting Don't forget to tell them that I'm a part of the Thursday vlog every week. Yes So I gotta get more people I should really be included in this whole thing. That's happening Yeah, there's always some concern because we had some less than favorable feedback We have a very engaged audience on our for our Sunday morning Linux podcast And so they reply a lot and so some of them are less than favorable about Microsoft saying we're selling out But we're not and we have plans for how we do these things But a lot of it has to do with don't you want someone with opposing views to be in that same room with those people Now the other thing we're doing is we're encouraging some of the people Inside of Microsoft who do have interest in doing things in the market when we're doing things in open source You can always fork the project you can always do something else But so it's not like Microsoft's maintaining control once you put it in the open source world You don't have real control over it. You build community around things So it's a very different concept and so to my answer also of people who say oh ask them about their lawsuits You know what the guy who's developing some cool application has zero influence other than maybe he probably has an opinion on it My guess is opinions the same as ours. They shouldn't be suing other companies But it's outside of his control and if you want to do interviews you don't hit him with a question that he won has no power No control over and he's trying to tell you about something he's doing and we've got an impression before When we went to the Microsoft conference that there's a lot of people who don't agree But they work for a company because this is the company that is a market leader in certain industries You can say they should all quit their jobs But that's not the most sensible way the idea is they should help guide and foster change in the company And we have seen the company change government reservations about Microsoft not selling out But I like the idea of having someone like us who has opposing views and prefers Linux And that's why they have us there is they want to I know their goals to win us over But we're skeptics and it's all good, you know, it's seeing both sides of the If they take the steps to win you over though I mean then that you have affected change then if they if if you get them to do that you they make the Changes that that you oh hey look at that So it's yeah, it's not about selling out as much as is yeah You see that and Microsoft is making changes as a company They're giving away a lot of stuff and putting their talented developers that they do have On projects that then get released to the public that just serves the greater good So you can't really say that Microsoft or we're selling up to them They've actually come over to this thing that we've been advocating for for years that Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer the previous administration of Microsoft had No interest in doing so there's a big change you see in that Changes a common change is a kill the winds of change Yes Yeah Also speaking of more free stuff if you want to stay on the free stuff thing I want to give a shout out to Michael Crossman from crop from club surf probe He gave us some pretty cool swag yesterday It's a spongy van CCD's running all around stress a We're gonna call this a cola koozie cola koozie, but I think we know what kind of can is really gonna go in there Clean your glasses and this I believe is used in various religious Ceremonies for cigars. Oh, oh, that's what it is. Okay. All right. Never mind. Yeah You know what I may use it for people who haven't paid us just like oh, you know Anyway, thanks Michael great presentation. You gave yesterday at our connections meeting Hopefully you don't have disasters in your home or business, but if you do yeah, sir pro maybe consider serve pro Yeah, our friend has a serve for franchise. Yeah, nice guy, and they are I like the green Mm-hmm. Yeah, I did consider this as my color my old shop was painted with a bright green and black Which was kind of a cool color. Mm-hmm. Um, that's sir pro with a suit you for using their color. Yeah Well, they don't have hexagons. We have hexagons, but that's true Oh, which someone brought up and I don't know if that same person replied to them asking the question pentagons, aren't they? One two, oh, no, I'm sorry. These are hexagons. Never mind hexagons in the future pentagons are to past We've got an extra. I stand corrected. I stand correct. You're really forward-thinking you do dodecahedron Oh, it is a cool word. Yes 20 sides, right? And apparently and I just didn't know this because I don't pay attention to the wardrobe Linus media group Linus Tech Tips the famous YouTube channel and amazing guy who does lots of videos on all kinds of cool technology stuff And over the top I admire his channel someone said I was apparently copying his shirts and I'm like I am I've always seen him just where the red is his line is tech tips I think it says tech tips and white and line ish red I because I was looking at this just before we started the vlog Someone said apparently he has a shirt that I ripped off and I'm like This has been our company logo for a number of years with this design Around it on our church for like roll back a few years in my videos And you'll still see these shirts and I think predates me making videos We have shirts like this so I like someone's like, oh, you know, you ripped them off blah blah I'm just letting you know and I'm like, I didn't even maybe I just don't know. I haven't really searched it I mean does he sell a lot of swag? I know he mostly talks about hardware and I've never paid attention to his wardrobe So did you find anything with his logo then say again? It looks like ours or doesn't it's not his logo He just happens to have a shirt. Oh, okay, so it's not even his logo. It's interesting. Okay Yeah, so apparently he sells a shirt on there, so I guess that's the question I don't know when he started selling these shirts and it wasn't clear when I found my search of lion lion a shirt for sale I don't know when they started selling them. So I guess it's why do I care? I don't know. I really don't these are the problems I have occasionally is some of the comments in YouTube some random person that I don't know to say you ripped this off And I know it now. I'm like time. He's down the rabbit hole Tom can't let it go Just got to let it go man. I do I do haters gonna hate. Yeah, you know Yeah, it's always those things and back to the wrong problem, you know someone else they and I doubt they watch our vlogs But you know they called me out and said I was wrong about something and I looked I'm like you they're wrong And so now I got a reply to them and I'm just like Okay, we'll reply that you're wrong It may be wrong. It may be wrong of me, but I get a really The high level of satisfaction from somebody telling me I'm wrong only to then just show them that they're wrong Yeah, there is there's a it's a really there's a German word. I'm sure. Oh, I'm sure there is yeah German word for everything Yeah, I guess it would be related to shyden fraude. It's like shyden fraude. That's related to it I suppose Which is getting pleasure from other people's misfortune. Well, I guess yeah, it's related to that Germans have a word for everything Oh, yeah, and they're and they're like that long on interesting note, we we had to work on our Server we built that of course that once again someone tells me that I'm using a card that's not compatible a free NAS But it works and I've said it's been supported since free NAS 9 this one someone else recently called me out on this one I'm like it works. Where do you see it doesn't work? I even googled the forums and didn't even found people complaining about it in the forums Well, they did in 2012 before they had support for it. So it's been supported for five years. Anyways Yeah We we something unusual all we had some airflow problems of the server So we closed up the vents on it to change the airflow no big deal And but we did something we don't normally do we properly use duct tape to close a duct Because we duct tape the server you can do that. I know Because people don't know that you actually can use duct tape for that. That's actually kind of interesting So we're kind of laughing and some of the commenters is end up on Facebook like you actually use duct tape for its intended purpose I'm like that feels kind of weird. Yeah, I can't remember the last time I've used it for its intended purpose. Yeah Yeah, so fixed a friend of mine's in his car his his What do you want to say like I guess you we're gonna call it anyway The plastic part broke like on his for his heating system in his car So it was just blowing the air all so we put duct tape on there and then his car smelled like pancakes. Yeah I'm assuming it's the glue they use on the on the duct. It's very sweet But yeah, when you when you turn on the heater in his car, it would smell like pancakes I kind of miss it. Yeah We need to make pancakes now have a pancake breakfast here. You should have a pancake breakfast. Oh, that's a great idea Pancakes chill talk tech is a brilliant idea. Please forget what I was gonna say next. Oh Oh So that with the freelance build which leads us to We're working on some 10 gigabit stuff We're gonna be documenting how 10 gigabit works and we're changing up our network to be that Which leads me to I don't know. I'm gonna segue into a plane ride. I Should post a plane video. I did of course you did video. Yeah, I did a video It was pretty interesting. I just I hopped on Facebook the other day and I was like Tom's getting on a little Tom's on a plane So it's like how does this happen? I should probably post the other video that led to that So now the our YouTube friends will have the whole story. I Get here on Sundays at 5 a.m. Or 5 15 depending on how early I drag myself out And that's when we record our Sunday morning Lent's for your podcast And I just kind of ripped off one of those videos real quick I'm like I seen the camera We already had sitting here before I took it away I record a video and just talking about success and drive and things like that because there's also five You know 30 in the morning and we're here setting it up because a lot of people see the success of our podcast and my commentary was You see it now, but we have we were recording that day episode 242 242 produced episodes the first hundred and fifty episodes if not more We're mostly talking to dead air. We just kept producing content when we're not sure anyone Listens episode one you can find it though. It's still out there. We have it all archived, but that being said You know, it's one of those things that people see. Oh, you're got lucky or that and someone made a comment I'm like, you know, it's you we've been doing this for years Before we got there even my YouTube channel to get even to where we're at with subscribers Which is really tiny in the YouTube universe We've been doing this for quite a while and only recently started really working on content There's no easier shortcut to it and that's what the video is about is that there's no shortcuts You know, it's just it's hard work smart work constantly putting stuff out there That's how you get lucky being prepared for when luck happens Well, the cat my friend watched it. This is how it goes into a plane video And I have another IT friend that I've known on Facebook cool guy We chat about different IT things and then out of the blue. He says, yo Want to go grab my tea in Ohio and fly in a plane. I'm like, how can I say no? You know, has he seen the video and he had his own thoughts on it So then we kind of hit it off and mostly we didn't talk about it We talked about planes which I learned a lot about planes. They're really cool. And now I want a plane I Know I was thinking too. They're not as expensive as you thought though. They're less than I thought I mean, they're not cheap, but planes are not cheap I would have assumed that planes start at a hundred thousand dollars planes do not and a matter of fact a lot of people own Them as a time-share also something else time learn so you basically all share ownership of the plane I mean you can get a Cessna in good shape like quality even the forty thousand dollar range 40-50 I mean new ones are more expensive. These are used but still pretty cool. Yeah, and there are some used Lincoln's You can't buy for forty thousand dollars. Yeah So you you can get a plane you can go places and it was just kind of cool to be able to I Learned about the whole avionics and all that stuff. So that was a lot of fun That was a little Side trip I did and I was that's always that debate like should I post more of my personal stuff finder I don't mind sharing it I just try to make sure things fit the content because I all ends up on Facebook But I like I don't want to dilute just like if I filmed all the random things like the fire javelin that Steve made And we just stuck it on YouTube. We'd have a complete random channel of things Tom does and I don't know how to put them all together So just have a rando playlist or something maybe I thought about that because I have a personal YouTube I don't really do nothing with yeah, I archive videos there So yeah kind of a decision. Do I make a personal one? Do I do I become one of those daily vloggers? You know what we'll do We'll put it out to the viewers. Do you want do you want more random content? Yeah, I like that I mean I like doing the the more focused firewall content. I did the talk on ZFS to talk about how Snapshots work we didn't have a chance to do any more torture tests because we were being tortured by some problems We were having with clients. So when we get busy with client work We have to go back to working on customer stuff. Yeah, I will say this We should do some more food videos. We'll work on more food videos. So if anybody wants to give us food We'll do a video for you. Yes, and we're working on and this was a discussion actually with me and my other IT friend He was asking how we are able to get away with filming some of the things and like it's we literally asked permission first and in nature He does a lot of sensitive IT work. That's in restricted industries can't film It'd be too hard to film and as it's problem. I want to do more on-sites But you know like the customer I was at the other day We're do we got a proposal I just finished emailing to them for redesigning their network and doing a bunch of new stuff You can't get past the lobby without signing a non-disclosure agreement. They don't want our cell phones with us while we're in there They are they are a prototyping company. They care a lot about security and privacy of everything that's in there. Therefore It makes it really difficult to do any of these on-sites other than for some of the random small businesses and Like we did it one for the pest control company. You know we're able to go there Yeah, small business no big deal, but these larger corporate entities were the cool jobs I can film some afterwards stuff at once. They become a live business We can't really film it so sadness sadness We're trying though we do ask and I don't know if the lab one coming up We're gonna be able to do or not, but we have a friend there so we can find out I'd say we probably would be able to they were they were they were a hip to the idea of flying the drone Oh, so they did the walk-through so okay, so yeah, but there might be a good lab one coming up I'd be a good one coming up, but Anyway, we should probably cut it there because I think we've drawn down for like Drowned on Yes, oh So make sure of course like subscribe clickety-click all the good things Yeah, we'll be back next week be back next week and more videos in between matter of fact Like you have a couple more this weekend my wife's going out of town. Oh, which pretty much means I'll live at work Yeah Probably this is what happens. I'm just I don't need to leave it all now Yeah, I think my wife is going out of town this weekend to party time and maker spheres this weekend son of a Okay, that's happening. That's happening. I'm gonna I'll be there Sunday morning. All right. Thanks guys. See ya