 And I think it's working This thing on Will it turn on here? This is always tricky when you do it from my phone. I'm homely again, so I Decided to do it from my phone again So today was certainly a fun day. Why does it still say I'm offline? How do I find my life? I want to be able to interact with the people chatting. Hey, I see see I can see them on my phone But I easier to reply to all of them here So we're are my live streaming events bear with me here a second. It still doesn't think it's live Thanks to you for being super confusing It's hard to go live from your phone because it's hard to reply So there we go. Now I'm live here All right, now I can see it. Yay. It's all showing up. All right now. I'm in real time And I can see my own replies so very cool another Blog Thursday that happened really late because everything happened today Everything was scheduled for today way more than I wanted it to be so this morning. I started out doing something Entrepreneurship that I do from time to time so I get invited to do public speaking and events and I was on the stage with about I don't know 400 businesses there roughly and it was really interesting So I it was part of the Michigan Michigan Economic Development Council I was speaking as an entrepreneur running a business in the downriver area along with a couple of friends and It was really cool So that was kind of a fun thing I did but that was like the first part of the morning So I did that talked about economic development talked about running a business starting a business and all the things related to that Entrepreneurship things we different as an IT company Which nothing's new to any of you who've watched this channel for any length of time or have gone through and looked at my business talk Videos, we're very open about how we do business and how we do things So that occupied a whole lot of my morning Oh We have shirts for sale below so look below We haven't decided to sell these shirts to say learnologies But we have some other shirts that have our logo on it that are available So we we haven't really made an announcement about that We just kind of been trying to figure out how it all works and throwing t-shirts up for sale So that's a thing. They are there just below on the video anyways So talked about our furniture talked with a lot of people and this is kind of fun because someone one of the questions I thought was interesting Was from the president of the Chamber of Commerce of which I'm on the board and he says, you know What do you guys think about community and that's one of the things that kind of said well? That's why we're here, you know, I care a lot about developing Community developing and helping other entrepreneurs and other businesses in the area Anytime I came with my expertise and the reason for that is, you know, just simply I don't like the area I'm living into suck. So I want more things around me I like to see more people succeed and I don't subscribe to any economic theories Because they're very old when you think about things like well for my business succeed another one has to fail That's a very old economic mindset that just isn't how it works, especially in the technology age So that was the big topic of discussion we had and it's just kind of fun having those discussions, you know, then After that when you're taking a drink whiskey Just a glass today, not a bottle Last time I got a bit excessive Um, so from there I had my usual business things I have to do and that kind of leads into the Things Tom doesn't want to do what does Tom not want to do Lots of business stuff sometimes I did for Because I did make sure before I do my vlog Thursdays I always feel awkward if I don't do them this way because I'm very self-conscious of this that I've replied to everybody's email possible Just I make sure that You know, everyone's replied to that I try to take care of all the business responsibilities Sometimes they get a little bit grindy. I do have at least one quote Or two quotes that I have to get back with someone with It's because I sent a quote. They need another quote and I got to follow up with another quote on there Then I've talked about this before because when does the quote become consulting because it's such a back and forth Thing because I don't know if someone's just using my pricing to gather other pricing information or they're serious about buying something from me Um, then that's kind of the you know, roll the dice play the gamble Buy the ticket take the ride you try to figure out whether or not That is going to be a sale and it's just part of the process The good news is like outside of you know, people contacting me from youtube a lot of the local sales Everybody said yes at once and it's been like, okay, great. I'm excited And i'm happy that all this is want to use me, but it's also like It's it's a dumbest thing Um to complain about I I laugh because you know, I was at that one m&m song that was you know I like his line he he had he goes It's it's not a not a cloud in the sky, but i'm acting like it's raining out. I know I shouldn't be upset by this But sometimes i'm just being very honest like it's not upsetting But i'm just like I gotta do all that work and all those things So i'm always looking at ways I can delegate more of that away to my staff And at what point we're gonna have to hire more staff to um Keep up with the work demand. So it's it's a big balancing act And you know, these are things I talk about with you on this channel and I talk about at these businesses that entrepreneurship You know, I haven't been 15 years, but there's still these constant changing decisions because once you start stagnating in business And you just say status quo is fine. The customers we have are fine. I make good money with them. And that's it It starts falling down and uh, you don't realize that just through attrition You either lose clients or there's two stagnation in economics You don't make as much money even if you made the exact same money You don't make as much money. So that's the title of things town doesn't want to do Is sometimes all the business admin stuff that comes with all of that and coordinating all of that And uh before I wander off too much off topic from talking tech, which is where my passion really lies I did make a mistake And that mistake cost me about 300 bucks. I think 300 or 400 dollars Um, I don't want to think about exactly how much but it it did cost me some money Nothing substantial in terms of what the job was Uh, but it's well those questions that comes up like you would if you make a mistake when you're quoting something I did um The job got changed. So we bid the job the client says, you know That came in under what our budget was so we're going to add more so the job got expanded So there was a second quote to do a second part of their building, which is awesome And it got filled out and then Corey said hey, can you review this? I said yeah, he goes I didn't put a price in this line item And I said yes, and then I put a price in one line item not the others It was actually two line items and he said it right. I look back He sent the message exactly not his fault at all Um, and I gave him a shake and ended up not charging the client for $300 work Now here's the question. Do I go back on actuals when it comes to billing and build that client for the work? They approved the quote It's $300 short because I just didn't put it in there. So That is kind of a um Interesting problem. So some people um, I briefly from 2004 2005 had a business partner His answer were those mother-effers will pay for every damn dollar. That was always his attitude, but I have a different attitude towards that and my answer really is I don't charge them for it Um, I eat a couple hundred dollars. That's just cut out of the margin. I was gone They'll 300 bucks. Let's just say 300 just not there now and uh, that's life. So It's one of those things that I always try to stand by all my quotes I'm not going to just arbitrarily add 300 dollars to the quote Think we got already picked with the deposit check the work is almost finished by next week and we finished So it it's one of those things that this is comes down to an integrity of your company and playing the long game As I call it this client will probably be a long time client now This is the first big job we've done for them But there will be a series of smaller jobs and everything they come with it and not Scoring around with them the first job and adding In the bill over 10,000. So adding 300 could probably be slipped in But I'm not going to and this just comes out to integrity and how you want to do things and making sure you're doing things in a way that Is always honest integrity there. So that's kind of my Final rant on all of that, but those are some of the problems. I've run into being a business admin The other stuff I have no interest in doing is 89, I don't know. I have a HIPAA compliance talk tomorrow With a client who made mistakes and did things. Well, they're a client. They don't listen to us So they're not a managed client. They don't just say what tom says is gold We give them guidelines They choose other things and now they're in trouble And that becomes a cleanup issue. So I have uh, I'm will be on my third phone call about their breach And what happened and debriefing and going through logs and all the things related to it That also falls under categories of things tom doesn't want to do But this is kind of that finessing of businesses that I have to do To make my business function to make it work. Um, and obviously there's some billable opportunity So there's, you know, I'm not trying to make money off misfortune. Um, I'm making money off I told you so maybe a little bit because they were told not to do things a certain way and I don't know sometimes that happens and then they called today Um, one of the other managing partners in this company decided to call and wanted to continue breaking the law And we told them it was just a horrible idea. They said, you know, I wasn't handling the phone call my Um One of my staff was handling and I heard them in the other rooms and the speaker phone They're like Just because you didn't get caught breaking the law or your friend didn't get caught breaking the law doesn't mean You can continue to break the law. By the way, tom is on a conference called tomorrow about you guys breaking laws And not following the rules for HIPAA. So Yeah, that's always this all falls in the category. I don't know how to delegate that out I as much as I trust my staff it absolutely when it comes to doing technical problems It's a very different concept to sit and deal with a legal team and a breach team in a six person conference call and working your way through Politically correctly as you may say, um and making sure that works. So that's it falls under category I don't know who to delegate to these things happen very infrequently for us This isn't like a daily thing or anything for me But it's just something I have to do and play You know with all these companies get a run play nice together do all the research make sure I understand What the requests are what needs to be changed and do all the implementation. So Kind of fun stuff that I have to talk about So now I want to go in I don't ever want to ignore any of you. So let me start by See, how do you transfer unified video system from windows to linux? Just back up restore Vincent's answer is simple and correct. Just back up the config file restore the config file. No big deal there Can you shelby can you share your bash rc? Please go to my github and I'm almost positive my github is linked Below. Let me look to verify this Our patron. Ah, it's not I'm sorry Uh, my github is and I let me try this someone allegedly says I can paste links Let me try. I bet it won't let me Maybe oh, they changed it. They I can paste links. My github has not been posted. Uh, all of my, uh Stuff is available on github. I'm up as anyone who has followed me for more than five minutes knows I'm an open source nut and um, so there's a lot of open source accuracy, which means Not only am I sharing with you about my business, but I share with you like hey my bash config file If you want it, you can have it. There's nothing, you know, you can't have it for $5.99. You can have it for free Yeah, just the way I handle things Let's see. What else we get here Uh, get a bunch of code screws awesome, but now you're buried. Yeah, that's exactly what happened, Vince Everyone keeps saying yes. I keep raising the price. They keep saying yes. It's a tragic problem I'm an idiot for complaining about it. Uh, thank you, uncle skeet. Thank you for zack Carter Both for donations don't know about here. That's awesome Uh, let's see here I got some hellos uh Never had issue plug in plugin. Have you ever had issues with freenias plugins? Sure. Why not? um They don't always here's my problem and everyone keeps saying oh, can you do own cloud own cloud? I'm like It's a few or next cloud either one Dude picks it's the problem. There are a lot of versions behind so Um, I'm going to be doing some ioc age videos with the new versions I've been learning ioc age because it's cool and I really love the bsd gl system I just think it's pretty cool and fun to play with but When it comes to the uh package maintainers and I'm not myself much of a package maintainer And there's a lot of dependency issues doing that. I'm just not really my thing To do that. It's not where my discipline lies. Um, the package retainers are very busy people And I'm thankful for all the work they put into it But there some of the package maintainers for certain packages like next cloud own cloud are very behind with freenias It is what it is. It's unfortunate, but it that means we we are going to be waiting for a little while Before we get them to catch up to have a recent or current version inside of there, so You know, that's uh, that's kind of issue. Why don't I do QNAP or senology? I might do some senology reviews. Um, senology recently reached out to me wanted to talk to me about that But a big open source guy and big zfs guy, uh zfs open source freenias Show me another platform that it's you that has had that level of development and stability and feature sets I can consider it but uh, it has to be open source But that's not senology Uh, senology, I'm not sure what raid they're based on at all. I double reach her show I know they're a popular tool in market I don't want to be biased or I never like to be Monoculture to say I only support one product because we do support a diversity of private effect Um, I believe technology and this is because I'm not the one working on it I don't know Steve and uh, one of my other techs have been working on it They have a whole bunch of systems. They're supporting I think are all senology that all use that senology DVR system The clients like it the clients that we support. It's a it's a fast food chain and we work with all those and they're They seem to work fine. We don't have a problem with them. They seem to be a nice device for the solution, but Yeah, uh, no butters fast and zfs two different animals zfs is here butter fs wants to be there That's my opinion. I'm sorry for the butter fs lovers their butter fs and zfs They're both similar in concept, but not the same uh as They're not the same thing They're not so let's see what else we get here Uh What are my thoughts to scale your business? Um more youtube so that's it Does this count towards scalability? I don't know. So that's what i'm drinking. It's jack Uh scalability is really really hard. Um is probably consistently uh one of the Problems when you think about business and entrepreneurship. It's it's the common topic You try to build a scalable business. So I spend time more reading less replying Because i'm just trying to get the pulse of the market like I look at reddit slash arts as an entrepreneur I look at lots of and it's a lot of discussion. It comes up. It's how to build a scalable business It is it is the challenge for any business now with a product's business when you're selling XYZ product you're making mice or whatever scalability makes a lot more sense You just keep selling more and if you have a machine that produces this mouse Then you get more machines that produce the mice so on so forth and away we go So it's really cool. Yeah read a msp I I spend most of my time in the tech ones. I spend a little bit of time in the entrepreneur ones. Um I do better face-to-face dealing with entrepreneurs Um, but it's it's interesting because it's always a challenge, especially in a small business market And they quickly become a big business once they have a a solid scalable business process It is one of those industries that has a hard time scaling. Now, why does it have a hard time scaling? Well, that's really the gist of it here It has a very low barrier of entry. How'd you become an it guy? I put a hat on says I fix computers I'm an it guy, right? Well, yeah, that that really is the base of it And you build your business around that and you scale upwards, but you got to remember Uh it's interesting We're just going to go by the u.s. Market because I have the numbers for it. I'm sure it's bigger global Um substantially, but you talk about the 2017 u.s. It market was a roughly a 40 billion dollar market was zero zero major players so That becomes kind of interesting you have zero major players in a 40 billion dollar market. How does that work out? Well, it's a little barrier of entry So there's not a big advantage to franchising so a lot of you overcome barriers by franchising You overcome barriers by creating processes that are hard and difficult to reproduce But the challenge in it isn't reproducible processes the challenge in It is getting clients all the time and so people don't buy into franchises easily So there's not many of them the only the only big kind of msp franchise I've even seen is referred to as the 20 And I'm less than clear about their whole business model and things like that They kind of provide back-end support and they're basically just a back-end support if I understand their business model correctly for your msp I don't need back-end support. We are back-end support I'm not trying to brag but we have a very group of highly skilled people In a lot of disciplines and the same with me I mean some of the other technicians and they don't have as many things So they kind of need or they need extra help for us, but that's kind of an itch for us People contracting us to do specialized projects. Why not? We have an expertise in it. We're very good at these projects So other IT companies many of you own IT companies I know they're probably watching this channel right now or watching this live stream And so you watch this live stream and then you You go, hey, I want to contract Tom and that's kind of our business That we've been growing into is other IT companies contracting us for work. So it's been a lot of fun Um But it's I for my growth plan is mostly been through this and hiring more people to work at my office To do this type of work, but it's not the same as a growth model where I can say, okay, we're going to put together A easy way to grow this company by doing this In the way you grow any msp. There's plenty of them much bigger than me is grinding away at it You follow any of the major sales people that have sales plans for this and they're like you need this many touch points You need to call this many calls when I need you I need each of your sales gotta do 100 calls per day 100 co-calls 50 LinkedIn messages And you grind away at it until you have a bunch of customers I I don't want to really pursue that path. I know how it works. I know that it works They're not wrong at all, but that is the growth path for it Oh, let's see here Windows software raid. Um, I mean it works. I guess I'm using forever. I know it's a thing The software rating went out. I don't really use windows at all Oh, let's see Oh An experience of cloudberry thoughts. I like cloudberry did a video on them I've actually done some interviews on them and I was the first guest on their podcast Uh, that the cloudberry labs does I like their product cloudberry is a really cool Company who I think has a great product Uh, yeah, getting clients is difficult. It is the challenge. It's a challenge and not a challenge. This is um This is how the growth challenge is a lot in it And I I give it your sandwich But one of the other sides is I know some IT guys and I'm not barely going to call them IT guys boy They're people who have are well well connected and they're charismatic They have no technical skills But they have an IT company because they have a lot of people that they know enough about computers and this group of people they have has put them in a place to um become an IT company so I see a lot more of that And but that's fine. That's just a different business model where they're mostly working on sales and not very tech savvy Any country companies like me and that's actually seems to be better for me Um, so I don't have to deal with the grinding part of the process because I just don't like it Oh, let's see Uh, do you use a local version of invoice center? Sure do self-hosted love it works great Questions solar winds. Have you had any issues with the avie installing on your customer's machines running Windows 10? No Uh It works great. So that really hasn't been too much to an issue Uh, which flavor hi ben Which flavor of linux, uh, would you recommend? Uh a bunch of that's a bunch of and some of the close family of a bunch of ones like I'm using pop o s but if you just use a bump a bunch of direct great system for that, so Um, don't have any problem with that. So The uh running linux full-time Not really been a problem for me. Uh, I've been doing it for Quite some time. So hold on one second here. We're gonna God I run and post it on twitter We are live on Vlog thursday episode 92 there we go tweet Should be a little it should chirp when I click tweet that seems like a doable thing, right? We are So 92. All right. I spelled thursday wrong. That's all right I have no idea how this works. I'm sharing it on facebook. Why not? There we go. All right back to this We really need to do a hack sauce video. So yeah Definitely on my uh to-do list. All right Uh I find issues with Winston wireless being intermittent. Is there a trend recently? I don't know What if any shortcomings is your x250 you have? It's a low powered i5. So this I'm assuming Ben's asking about my Lenovo x250 It's a low powered i5 I don't know. It's not very fast doesn't render video fast, uh, but it does everything else I wanted to do So it it's super lightweight I've done a review of it. Hey look There's like a infinite versions of me showing you me and It's got stickers It's not big enough for all the stickers. I'd like to put on it. Um, I don't know if that's I don't know if that's an issue anyways Oh single barrel rye, of course Oh, let's see What else do we have here? Uh, I don't Cubes os but, uh, my friend phil on the sunday morning linux review We've done both a review of cubes os and he's a big qs cubes os advocate and really into it. So it's great Yes, we do provide cloud services backup and all that fun stuff Ice because he blocked file possible of free now, of course it is I'm got an entire video coming up. That's not done yet because I've been busy Um, we're doing some storage consulting. Maybe the person I'm doing the consulting with is watching But it's kind of fun because sometimes clients have a couple questions that throw me going I've never done that like in that scenario and that's what may lead to another video But they had a couple questions about ice fuzzy and I realized I have an ice fuzzy with free nas with zen server Kind of big video. So I'm going to do some very specific videos With free nas and ice fuzzy just to talk about the ice fuzzy protocol Because it's pretty damn amazing and how ice fuzzy works. It's sometimes Uh fun and it came up at our sunday morning linux review podcast So we were talking about how to present Uh storage solutions to servers and just you know got into a discussion of how ice fuzzy works And I kind of realized that some of the other people one of the other people on the podcast didn't realize Exact functionality was so it became a very interesting discussion And I realized I'm like what are you watching to our video? I'm going to make a different video on this topic So there's going to be some specific Um ice fuzzy solution videos and free nas is the back end. Those videos are coming. They're kind of fun I've been playing around with it. So Let's see Uh, why am I at home? Because of events after events followed by another event That eventually led to me 10 o'clock at night And I didn't feel like driving back to my office because I'm going to bed after I'm done talking to you guys I love you, but I'm going to sleep after So because I got to be up early in articulate to do all the things I do again in the morning So I didn't feel like driving all the way to my office while I'm at home Well, let's see I'm going to keep doing vlog Thursday at work, but these last couple of vlog Thursdays Um, it's really just weird. So I'm part of the golden sacks business program. Uh, so that's something I've talked about before on this channel. There was a golden sacks event tonight. Then I met up with my wife, uh for drinks at another place Um, and then before that I was at the medc. So my day has been just this whole go go go go go all day um And I just like I didn't feel like driving all the way back to my shop because then when I'm done and tired after talking at the shop I have to drive home. Well, now I don't matter of fact. I I don't have pants on I got shorts on because I was going to go like walk over the bedroom and fall asleep after vlog Thursday And uh, that's about it This is saved a step of driving all the way back home Uh, let's see Let's scroll back up a little bit. Let's see. I see my wife commenting on stuff Uh, do you offer cell phones to your employees or do you give them all a mount per month to cover to use your own cell phone bill? That is currently how it's done. It's it's uh paid for So, um, hasn't been an issue because there's not god they they hardly do We don't do much calling on our phones most and we so most of it is With the exception of quarry probably calls a lot a lot of them don't use the phone as much the we use slack and signal and um That doesn't require much data. So it's not really been an issue. So it's just kind of covered in Part of their payroll that's separate as a separate cell phone There's actually not much business on their cell phone either. There's not uh, they don't have any like the apps on their phone That are directly business related Let's see. What else we get here does launch system do any marketing stuff in-house. I'm thinking about a vinyl cutter Oh Uh, I haven't found any value in bringing any of that in-house. We don't do any good marketing materials either matter of fact 2018 represents the time when we cut our marketing budget to zero dollars. Um, we don't market anymore We just do youtube. That's my marketing. So I can't say we don't market anymore I can't what we don't spend money on it in any traditional marketing sense I have bought zero dollars in ads. I did spend six dollars on facebook ads to promote an event So my marketing budget for 13 six dollars um If that helps Clear that up. So I have it but that's me that is clearly not for everyone As a matter of fact, that was one of the business topics that the medc is what percentage do you spend on marketing? and some of the other entrepreneurs talked about spending as much as 10 percent of annual sales just on marketing. So you definitely have to have a marketing plan. You have to have a marketing budget This is hugely important. Um We're at a point now because my youtube channel is is bringing money in And affiliate links to your amazon. Thank you for anyone who's bought things from amazon store I appreciate it greatly and thank you for those of you who have donated right now on this live stream All those are different ways that bring money in torus and um, it's kind of weird I mean, I'm I don't mind sharing complete amounts of knowledge But it's actually led to a lot of inbound leads for us to for people hiring us for consulting So I look at this is our growth path of marketing Oh, I take that back. I um, I keep my chamber of commerce membership, which is a several hundred dollars a year So I guess that is my marketing budget. So that does fall under the same place CNS tier four two two four one one sixteen was the easy sweetie Is easy as just the dims I have do any other set up a free nest. I don't understand that question Tomorrow I'll be swapping my free nest ddr4 memory for two by four to one by sixteen Yeah, just it's just memory free free nests doesn't care about what memory changes you make Check my twitter that I do something wrong on twitter Oh, let's see what we get here. Hello from Switzerland. I love that So the one of my favorite things about youtube is there's such an international audience That always makes me smile because the too many people get caught up and not thinking about the global things and uh, it's just cool I mean, there's a big world out there. It's not just us So I love when I hear shout outs from other countries. It always makes me smile Oh and swirl for Lawrence. That's the interesting. Okay We're using free nest with ice because the storage solution at one of our windows servicer works great Yes, that's one of the things I'm talking about for the free nest and ice because he is the fact that you can present it to a Window server and it works very well. It's a good solution. For example, if you go, hey, I don't want to deal with any active directory integration with free Ness. I want to have my windows server Controlling all the permissions and all the traditional ways as a hard drive. Well, when you build your z-ball Then map it to ice because he and then present that over the network to your windows server You have the back end advantage of zfs and snapshots. You have the front end Windows system that you're absolutely traditionally used to that you share a windows server Um with all the permissions So it works as a hard drive in windows and it just it does work really really well There's not we're going to cover that's one of the things I'll be covering in the video Is how to present it in different os's Um, I zen servers one of them that I've done a video on but I'll also be doing it on how to do it in windows And just how it works. It's pretty cool There's also it's not gotchas at all, but I would say there are some tricks to doing it There's things you need to know when you're doing it But for the most part the windows auto discovery tool when you present ice cozy set up into windows the windows auto discovery tool for ice cozy just works and it just creates the hard drive And it's done. There's no No real secret sauce Um, let's see here We're using ever do dnspl for ubiquity. Nope. Have not um So if you don't spend any what do you find the most helpful thing that I did I quit my local chamber not very good Chambers hit and miss they're not going to all be um Absolutely great. So that is what it is uh The the reality of it this is my 15 years me sharing what I can tell you work for me I see all these bs things just create a great web page No, we have 300 clients that we have for it services that we're providing and those it services are being Because we met them through events. I did meet a lot of them through the chamber of commerce But we also met a lot of them through our current customers through referrals word of mouth is the best um And before and I talked about this I have another video we break down referral program where we talk about it The referrals are best when they're organic when they're paid because people if they know if let's say bob refers your company Well, if the company about a reference you find out that bob's getting paid to refer you Bob's credibility just went down a few notches But if you make bob really really happy and he goes I want to share the happiness that your it company Um with my friend over here who also has another business because guess what us entrepreneurs You know a lot of other people business owners interact with other people Doing that will grow your business faster, but you have to ask him. Hey bob. Who do you know that he used my services? That's a better way to than the less organic way of let me give you a hundred dollars for your person you refer The they don't want to be a cheap salesman for you. Matter of fact, if they own a business They probably don't care about a hundred bucks or two hundred bucks. Maybe they do But I'm gonna throw it out there that yeah, anyways, I won't I won't go too far off topic Uh, how much for the t-shirt? I don't have this one for sale, but you can find the other ones below Uh, I was worried that I'll have to change some settings and freelance to optimize. No, it's just it's let it run let it run It's automatic. Just add more memory. It'll freelance loves memory Uh We have not Done any of the edu access points. I would the ubiquity ones. They sound kind of cool We actually kind of when we seen them we want them for our office so we could just yell through them We we don't have real actual use case. It just seems like fun Why not? Oh, let's see Only your own business. Do you ever get in legal entanglement with companies if they don't like your service? Uh Kind of yeah, I've had to go to court Once in 15 years But for the volume of invoices legal dealings, um Not much not much. I mean it's happened once and it was just a non-payment. They chose not to pay me Um, they went to court and argued the judge looked at them the same way I did You're an idiot pay the guy and uh, so we got paid So that was that was my um 15 years in business one time. I've been the court It hasn't been a big issue. Maybe I am lucky I don't know that it's all luck, but for the most part I avoid things if they look litigiously messy or if I think a client is suspicious Um client that tells me they have tons of bad it people I take with a grain of salt. Sometimes you realize the client's not the right fit And I avoid people who look like they may be problems. I avoid companies that say things like I want you to send an NDA before you even talk to me Why me and and yeah, so I I try to Sneak smell them out and say there's there's some problem here that would make me not want to do business with you Um, so maybe that's how I've avoided it. I don't know, uh, but I haven't really had any legal problems um I heard a good idea is becoming LLC so you can downside So damages it may not help a lot, but at least it's better than nothing So LLCs and escorps depending on what states you're in depending on illegal protections Uh are a topic really best discussed with your uh, whoever's helping you form your business I highly recommend a good accountant. Um, taxes are complicated. They're stupid. They just infuriate me Because of the complexities that don't make any sense. So highly recommend getting a good accountant getting a good CPA firm Um, I've had the same one now since I started so that helps me a lot Helps me keep out of legal trouble with the government entities that be both state and federal And they also helped with my structure of my business. My particular business is an escorp But for you it doesn't mean you should be because tom's an escorp doesn't mean you should be an escorp Uh, you may do better as an LLC. You need to have an accountant look at that and make those determinations for you Oh, let's see How much lawyers cost for your business? I've not had much legal fees for my business They're very inexpensive because I haven't spent a lot of money Um, sometimes you have to have some forms drawn up that if you want a lawyer to go over You may spend a few hundred dollars having a legal firm review it It you know because you have a certain type of engagement agreements Um, I've avoided most of that. I'm kind of Um, anti bureaucracy because I worked in corporate. So I've done everything I can to fight it So most of my agreements are super light. They don't have much in them Uh, and I do that on purpose because One of the things I've kind of prided myself on is the we're all adults idea It's a crazy concept. I know um that I agree to do business with you and people do um business with me and that engagement agreement who It just works out and it's really strange because I am a little reference someone who is completely out of Uh context for a lot of people here, but pendulette is an interesting character who I follow Um, and he he's one of the only magicians who doesn't make his um People who work for him in his crew sign NDAs Um, you're generally legally bound because you're working in the magic industry not to share that And I said that's interesting. So I make no one sign NDAs not my clients not my staff And um that kind of let's be an adult policy was very interesting to me and it's worked out very well for me I mean we do well unprofitable as a company and uh, we don't have a ton of legal forms Maybe one day when uh, you'll you'll find this video and you're like, we see a ton guy He did that video On back in october of 2018 where he said he didn't have all the legal forms and look at him now He's in trouble. I don't know maybe that'll happen one day, but right now it hasn't Uh I get a ton of client referrals, but then more and more my Uh, but more than my ubiquity sales rep. Okay What cp man would you use to recommend for what kind of load would you choose for what? That's an issue. Uh, I don't know for what uh taxes are stupid c8 taxes. Oh, yeah lots of fun taxes Uh, as carb is better for tax shelter. Yes it is Yes, it is I get it. I'll stop there. Um Tom's a escort not working any tea. Hey, why not? I don't know Someone pay me for that LLC cheaper to start and maintain Um, yeah, LLCs do cost less the tax filings cost. Yes By the way, when you're talking to an accountant one of the questions you have to ask is what do my year-end filings cost? Because once you say escort, there's more forms and for every form There's more money. So that's the thing Hey, thanks Zach. Awesome Uh, us is going complicated. I have been in germany for 30 years Uh, boy if things change, it's very complicated the way the taxes work here stupid too Uh shirt see that shirt, uh tom guy with amazing t-shirt. Okay. I wonder where I get that one So I'll be out of tired No, let's see Deployed engineered fridges with unify access points On the second poe port of the bridge clients. We seem to drop access points once while ava poe bridge experience We use ubiquity bridges and we use ubiquity products and they work wonderfully. I've Never deployed an ingenious bridge. I I can't speak to them. I can't speak whether they're good or bad So I really don't know so I um Not sure about that one. So I don't I don't have an answer using those. So yeah, I made everyone yawn. Let's see. I have uh 100 people on here. Can I make a hundred people yawn? That's my superpower right now Um, I cpu and mem was meant Oh use case. Do you have a thumb rule? The fastest you can get I I need context again I guess it varies because I don't know what time it is everywhere you're at It is 10 18 p.m. Here in the motor city Detroit, michigan. I'm actually south of detroit. I'm about 15 miles south of detroit for those of you wondering And that is a sticking point Uh with people in detroit that this debate goes on forever. Are you a detroiter? What if you say you're from detroit? Well, you're from the burbs. You're not really from detroit That that argument goes on all the time So for people outside of detroit area, I can say I'm from detroit for people who live in detroit They're calling me. No, you're not really from detroit. You are yeah, you're from somewhere else. So Oh, just uh, send the link to tom at lornsystem.com for people things like re upload my videos Um, I send out take notices. There's a process. I It's is what it is happens all the time. Um There's people that just keep cloning other people's videos not just vine There's lots of them that get happened with this and it's kind of a problem. It's kind of a Yeah Ever tried blanton's bourbon. Maybe all this stuff can help you get a drink I have not tried that one, but I am always open to try different types of bourbon Oh, let's see. What do we got here? um Do you like touchscreen laptops not at all? I don't think my fingers should be on the screen I don't want fingerprints on my screen. So none of my laptops I've ever owned or touchscreen don't like them um Oh, there's a bunch of led controllers. I think there's probably half a dozen led controllers Steve keeps installing more of them So I don't have an accurate count of how many led controllers are in office But there's certainly a lot of them. I gotta do a new office tour because boy, uh, I wish I could share this photo I don't have a way to share photos with this Um, but yeah, there's all kinds of new leds that just went in actually there is kind of a way I can share photo This is gonna make you guys laugh a little bit This is the things that go on at my office that I kind of walk into occasionally Where did it go? Here it is So I'll show you the pictures so you guys can see it out here Here we've gone to holding a laptop in front of a cell phone holding a laptop in front of a cell phone to show pictures um That blue picture Well, I should twitter that but that's them installing more leds and more Uh stuff So yeah, there's more and more going in all the time. That's just the thing that's happening Oh, let's see 2319 in brazil awesome You know wiping my tears after you talked about taxes We just cry here in the u.s. When we talk about taxes Uh, uh, I keep a local mirror of your channel, but I don't upload to youtube. Okay Yeah, that's Someone asked me permission to do that. They I thank you for asking Um, and they did I emailed them. Okay. They just wanted to mirror all my stuff locally in case youtube ever fell apart I get it data hoardings the thing and uh, holding on to things. I'm a little bit of an internet hoarder I have a lot of old stuff. It's one of my few things that made the best of reddit is the fact that I um Did that I I talked about my data hoarding. So You can dig it. My reddit is flip side creation. It's just like my, uh, get hub For those that care and want to try and figure out everything tom's ever posted Hey Oh, willy can't hear me, but he can see me. Hi willy So i'll just write hi willy here because he can't hear me. I guess. All right. There we go Go watch willy's channel, please willy's awesome Uh, but controlled by raspberry pi that'd be fun Uh, willy just make stuff up dude. It's awesome. I we were talking about the other day One of the advantages of owning a business means I can just make up what I do for a living every day. I could change it How do I block vpn on pf sense which vpn what service and some of them the answer is no you can't Uh, can you do an end of video on? The foam and led background you have I love it. I think it's really cool. Yeah I've actually covered that in one of the studio setup videos If you look for like studio launch systems or go through my channel There's probably there but i'm gonna be doing newer ones too of how we did some of that. Um, no secrets Just haven't got around to covering it all I think you I think willy did do a review of the lights or maybe chris did want I uh, one of them did anyways Uh Well, you can unblock that character wants to be unblocked on twitter. Good luck That's willy's for you. Uh I literally seep on top of 128 terabytes and servers in my basin. Hey No, they're not with that So we'd have ps assigned as a gateway in unify. No You can't just sign it a gateway and you like Well, I I mean it could be the gateway, but it can't be It doesn't work Unified doesn't work With ps sense it won't integrate into the dashboard if that's the question you're asking They are two separate products Is what it is What do I think about unify protect? This seems to be a lot of opinions on it. I haven't done my research. I think willy has a video on it um Here here's my take on unify and their video so One of the quotes that maybe the person's watching but I know I haven't finished I'm goal is to finish tomorrow after all my other stuff Uh Unify video most of the problems we've seen with anybody and anyone we consulted with who had a problem with the unify video server was Our unify video server was not specced properly by them Because they custom built it download the software and then oh my unify sucks And I'm like, yeah your your unify setup sucks Um, you did not build a system adequate to handle all the cameras you put in there so Now you're bad mouthing unify and saying unify sucks And I understand from unify standpoint that complete problem You are complaining about their system that you underspect You tried to put 30 data streams 30 cameras On a single hard drive and go wow, it doesn't perform the way I thought it would really You're shocked and so from the unify standpoint, I haven't dug into the protect system But I think unify is going to be very careful And I think this is the challenge of building an nvr system when you build these you have to build them with Good specs fast enough hard drives really hard drives are a big bottleneck when these we talk about how many streams you have Writing in effect that you're trying to pull that data back You have data writing at the same time you're like hold on Let me go through all these files and pull them back and review them. Well That takes a lot of horsepower. So from a unify standpoint I understand not wanting to give away the software and have a lot of problems that can come from Giving away software and having an expensive product. So we also do exact vision Maybe one day I'll do a video on it, but that's one of the other products we sell And they do let you build your own servers, but exact vision is very expensive And so generally it's not being used by the I'm not gonna. Sorry the home user market That can cause a lot of problems for a company going Yeah, all these home users complaining about my product, but my product is not the problem My problem is you're building it on really inexpensive. They found an old box and put it on there Exact vision because it's expensive from the get-go to buy the software We spec it out. I mean we just built a I don't know I think it was nine thousand dollar server just to handle exact vision for one of our clients That's just their server. That wasn't the exact vision license We transferred the license from their other server to this one So you're talking about a large camera system But it wasn't like I said, there's about nine roughly nine It was just under 10,000 for this server to just run a camera system So that definitely is a challenge for the unify has of people because they're less expensive I can buy the cameras at a good deal. I can buy these sometimes used cameras for a good deal I can get the nvr software for free and then I'm gonna go grab some random box I have and build it and I'm gonna go on a forum and go this thing works like hell And we're like, what are you running it on? You're like penny and four You're like you're the problem So I understand some of the perspective. I don't know what the big picture is on all of it though Uh crash php and my p.m. Sense and attempted to recover usp recover config. No, we're wiped and reinstalled. Yep, that happens um Manual gateway seven I don't understand exactly what you're going for you can just set it as the gateway um I have a 25 camera seven. I have a Need I need overkill rack mount. Sure. Send money will build Uh Unifying various crap for me until I set up windows. I asked nice. Okay. Sorry. We're trying out um Linux works great for that. So, uh, do you do any monitoring work with prt choice wins nagios? uh, yeah, we're I'm gonna be doing some Xavix videos soon and some other stuff too solar winds is mostly what we use because that's the product platform We're on for the enterprise work Uh, unify fully qualified domain name forwarding is your way don't have static IP. This would be sweet, but how I'm not Hosting the cloud make your life easy just stick it for five dollars a month in a In a line odor digital ocean droplet make your life easy Uh, seriously ever had the five giga channels on the same. All right If you take a jab it needs $50,000 worth of up front recording. Do you front the money or charge your customer later? um, so When it comes to jabs We really really make clients pay Uh upfront for a lot of it. So we are working on a bid for roughly 137,000 I think is right roughly where the quote is for just just Wi-Fi install Um, so a lot of that money is up front matter of fact They're gonna have to give us I think 90 thousand dollar deposit to get this job started So that's a big thing when we're doing these is making sure that that money's up front Even for some of the smaller ones. This is the same thing and unless we have a great relationship with the client I don't front the money. I have to really understand their payment terms Uh, because at some point especially as the numbers get bigger you're you're into financing at that point You're financing their project for 30 days or whatever the installed time is if you're buying it up front Um, if they're using my money, they're paying for it. You're paying for it Maybe not as a standard bank loan, but I'm essentially loaning your money So I always ask for large deposits and most of that comes up front. So that's a big piece of it Uh, juniper sysco Uh, I don't know. I don't have an opinion on them. They're both corporate They both make good products juniper's had some pretty big security things, but sysco live ssh anyone Holy crap. Sorry sysco that you chose live ssh and that no one validated that stink That's a big mess for those of you that don't know the big vulnerability and live ssh. Wow, that's a mess Uh I'm a long time linux guy who uses windows because my client's doing any too Um, let's see. Do you have an opinion on blue iris nbr software? What's the best for unified cameras? The unified cameras work best for unified blue iris works We have clients that use it. It's okay You have 20 servers that you got for free. Do I want any? What are they? That's the bigger question We're gonna find a list of ip addresses for vpm providers. I don't know the question Uh, what kind of servers? Oh, excuse me. That's why you use open ssh. That's why we use open ssh Power edge. Well power edge are cool. What power edge are they? We need to know some specs here Um, because I don't really have a need so tell me you have some really old servers I'll recycle them. I guess I don't know. I don't know what to do with really old servers Um, when they're out, we pull we have old servers laying around clients We pull them out. We crush the hard drives you recycle them Yeah vlog there's he got moved to nighttime. I should just start doing them at night I like when I'm at home because once I'm tired of you guys I'm going to bed My bedroom is just down the hallway over there I should turn on my fireplace too. I'm actually kind of cool Let's see PE series 12 and above I I don't know You want a house tour? I can walk you around my house. I don't think it's that exciting I have not used the mic for a failsafe on the sg-3100. It hasn't really been a need As a matter of fact we stock sg-1 sg-3100 uh, so yeah We so we keep our clients Uh config files on file. So if one were to go bad we can grab an sg-3100 Or even any other free nest I'm sorry. P. F sense off the shelf We load the config file right on it and then we take it to the client and it's already working and we swap it out That's a repair procedure This happened recently. We're gonna maybe I'll do a video about that Having stuff on stock because one of the cool things is because we always keep all the back of their clients for their pfSense boxes If they say that firewall is not working I can quickly program a firewall to be matching what there is when I dispatch a tech Even if it's not the firewall in case it is the firewall I have a preconfigured ready to go ready to rock firewall with all their settings in it. Um, so Being able to be quick like that man It really sells it for the client because they go wow you were prepared You got this problem solved very quickly. So they keep a good perception of you 1850s and 1750s. It was some old stuff The problem with the old servers like the 2950 is a very powerful server to del we just remove some for some clients But man, that thing's like a blow dryer coming out of the back. They're hot as hell They use a ton of wattage. So what you They may have some little bit of usable life, especially if you're spinning up a bunch of small Linux VMs or something but Your power bill will suffer for it So where you're cooling bill Uh, do you have some clients that run Without windows directly shares shares, uh all the time I got a lot of clients to run without any, uh directory policies and shares Oh LT connection. No, we do. Um We don't have any clients on LT connection So michigan is a weird place, uh for all the problems we have here in michigan. We have five Providers for internet. We've got two major cable companies DSL and and three fiber companies competing with each other So we actually can have redundant fiber connections to some of the buildings And then we to go on top of that rocket fiber The Detroit company is doing a wisp provisioning in the city So Their failover is fiber with wisp backup. So there's a ton of options. We haven't really needed to go to lte options I don't know where you'll find a list of popular vpm providers so you can block them all good luck with that That's that's a challenge. Um Because a lot of them run inside of aws. Good luck blocking aws Uh, what drives do you prefer for faster transfer? I am a big fan when you're talking about building a consumer not an enterprise sass free NAS drive, but a consumer based one Um, well, it is enterprise somewhat because a lot of people they work good for storage. The hgst drives are great I've talked a lot about those Uh, debbie and sorry, I'm not a big centOS person. I used it but more I'm more debbie and then sent os Personal preference, you know after being at 18 years of debbie and admin um Keeping firewalls in stock makes your life easier Uh, let's see what I have an old power edge in any 500 to use to those game servers 300 watts at idle. Yep. Sounds about right Yeah, r7 10 is where del started getting more power efficient. So those are nice servers to have Do you have a good gaming worse router is west diesel drive good for backup device? Uh no Western digital that has a lot of security issues if you're talking about their my cloud system Uh, and wireless gaming I I like unify Let's see here I'm 15 and oh six hundred pounds of computer and I'm sure you can guess how excited my parents are for having an embasement. Yep. Hey, you know what though? That's where it starts You start out with a bunch of computers in your basement and your parents get mad and where you go I was a kid. I just took everything apart and I was a pile of electronics Because we didn't have all those computers when I was a kid because I'm old One computer might have weighed 600 pounds when I was a kid back in my day Um, I yeah, I have comcast from my office. That's correct Slackware for servers. Yeah. So that's where it's been around still Uh comcast and well the reason I have comcast and not fiber at my office is price comcast is killing it Um, they offer really good speeds for really reasonable prices compared to what the fiber connections are Um, their fiber connections are about seven times what I want to pay and I just don't have a need for them I don't why would I pay that much if it doesn't offer me that much fast? So Uh Hgst desk and ultra star both great drives check out my um Back plays review I talk about the drives and the models the exact model numbers that are reliable because they're the same ones we buy Where are you pulling these questions? My chat's not updating. I can't help you as there's Zach on that My chat is updating. So I'm pulling all these questions. I see all of them. I block no one Well, I will block people but I am not blocking anyone at the moment If you're giving a unify be sure to able up and p fact. Yeah, that's a thing Um I had a pile as a kid cool Uh raid z2 Raid 10 is not bad. Um, if you need the speed go raid 10 That's where you're gonna get the speed from if you just need value Dundancy get a bunch of drives and do it raid z2 or raid z3 If you don't need as much redundancy raid z1 so It it comes down to use case. Do I need high speed access to data? Then raid z10 is an ideal way to do it. Um, there is I've talked about it before but there's a guy who took the time to do extensively good write up about how The raid works inside of free nas And all the different speed advantages for all the configurations is an excellent write up I've shared it before you can easily if you type in zfs performance It's a excellent blog post to break all that down It comes down to scenarios. What about they work for you? Uh, do you have an ssd cash setup on your sas? Nope. I do not I do not some clients do because it they need it. So this comes back down to use case scenario Uh, the best thing for slack wear in modern world is it's not infected by linux destroying virus. That is system d Yeah, whatever Matter of fact, if you want to laugh Google search this Savage by system d Yes, there is system d erotica written by my friend michael lukas. That is Interesting tidbit. I'll throw out there. He was on my youtube channel a few months ago How do you feel about bartering at t services for other servers? Do you ever barter away for pills? um Baby, uh, there's back to remember how I hate taxes. All right, that's well. That's where I'll table that discussion You gotta be careful any barter system bartering is taxable Um, it can get you in trouble And it doesn't always work out. We have money. There's a monitor system for a reason Maybe you can't work it out. It's kind of figuring out the value. You have to put prices on it I'm upgrading super micro case with right now with a sas back plane seven x price 8x lane 69 slots. It's gonna go dual zions awesome Go for 56 90 not go for the fastest if you're gonna build it go fast I want to start signaling my home and network with vlands. Well, yeah, if you don't have a switch that understands vlands, it's not going to work um You know in for the home It doesn't have the best security, but that tp link I reviewed is a great 35 dollar switch for the home Where you can start learning how vlands work. It's a cool switch Would you be better off with a unify? Yeah, yeah, yeah You're definitely gonna be with a unify much easier to manage and um everything else But if you're looking for something basic for home that fits a budget I did a tp link switch review and the reason I did it was to answer the exact question I want to get started. I want to play with vlands. I don't have a big budget for the last I seen that switch was like 35 box It's a managed eight port switch with 35 dollars. That's a great price It's not amazing. It routes perfectly fine in terms of speed But the user faces the security is And you know, I cover that in my review My glass is that I know I have now finished my glass whiskey Does that mean I take you guys on a tour of my house and go get more whiskey? Virtual LAN So, yes For that's what vland stands for So, yeah, virtual lands are a big Important part. I've done videos if you look at any of vland steps I walk through how vlands work and everything else in a couple of videos Take you to bed with me That's awkward. I like you guys, but uh That's awkward. So Pearl makes my eyes hurt. Um But that doesn't mean it's bad. It just means it makes times eyes hurt I look at pearl and go cross-eyed. Um python. I at least can read But I'm not a programmer. So my opinion matters, none Uh, maybe buy a c5 drawless power run cooler. Da da da da Yep Never tested the sonology wi-fi switch. No opinion Reliability is important. No, that does not make me choose syscore hp I have no problem putting ubiquity switches in places We knock on wood. I'm not saying it's impossible. I'm not saying it doesn't have anyone We have not had any ubiquities switches fail. All the ones we deployed are working as happily now have Past every firmware upgrade and just worked wonderfully with no problems So that they make a very high quality product there have been reports of certain models having problems years ago I have not seen that and any problems within a matter of fact are one of the most impressive things is We have returned zero cameras Zero now we have had a weird anomaly with a couple cameras We don't know at all what happened. The camera goes white We replace it. We've had two of them and we're talking I don't know 600 cameras that have to try and figure out 600 or 700 cameras. We've installed the camera goes white And uh, we reset it starts working So we replaced it with another camera and then we put that camera in our office That each of the cameras that are at our office is one that had the it goes white problem It's never gone white at our office. We've never had to reboot it. I don't know So I've never actually had a camera go bad. And this is anything with the wi-fi. I've had zero Zero five units go bad. Um, one of the clients we're bidding on has 280 Unify units across their campus. They haven't had any go bad They're they're asking us to replace them because they're most of them are 2.4 gigahertz because they were installed so many years ago They've been working for like five years and haven't died So I the quality of their products has been excellent That being said, I think we're at a point in technology Think about how many wrt 54 g's are floating around out there still working We're at a point in technology where a lot of this solid state stuff just doesn't die that often So if you take some time in engineering and I think unify did this Um, we are just really well aware of how to make reliable equipment that will last until obsolescence rather than fall apart sooner than later So Let's see 16 x g is sweet. Sure is Uh, do you buy amazon direct from unify? When it's the right price if not we find elsewhere. We hunt down prices. Uh, mostly it is amazon and won't lie They're really reasonable Yeah, just let's go Ubiquity when it comes to pro simmer price reliability Yeah Hard to justify 16 x g so Four devices that kept 10 gig 10 gig switches are are just expensive. That's all there is to it um The hp switch cheaper than ubnt interesting hp pro curve. We've done work with them on numerous clients We never found any problems with them. I don't think from a management standpoint They're near as easy to manage from an msp or management standpoint as the unify equipment But they work When we here's one of the things that I don't understand it on our t guys do They come in and go you have to be on everything Uh, the same And we must have these switches because these are the ones that we use We don't come in and tell our clients to switch out. We see a bunch of hp pro curve. We're like Yeah, cool. They're working. They're secure. We'll review a configuration It looks like it's set up properly. Everything's good. All right. We'll leave it And simple as that. I'm not a big sonic wall fan. I have a client He's running numerous sonic walls with vpns contacting all the sites together I don't like them, but they work. I just don't like the interface. I think they suck In terms of interface it just doesn't make a lot of sense to me But they're functional so i'm not ripping them out until they become end of life and obsolete Yeah, microcenter carries some of the unified stuff for good price Ubiquity led no thoughts on it. I haven't played with it. Um I wish sfc plus was on the 24 port as well. That would be great But hey, we can't get 10 gigabit on all over 24s Uh, ready by reaction clients amazon Uh work work work. Yes so much work Uh boy, it's been a while since I played with open w tier open wrt or tomato um pf sense well actually Vlog thursday is being brought to you by google fi on my phone And i'm chatting with you on a lower bandwidth connection connected through an edge router Uh Because I don't have a lot of bandwidth at all because why? I don't have a need So why spend the money? Uh wake up land with unified switches never tried it Never tried wake up land with unified switches. I I don't have an opinion on it because My lands are all awake. I don't want to go to sleep. So I haven't seen what the computer's on there. I don't have any Yeah, so I don't really Uh client compare my price to amazon. Oh all the time Um, I don't worry about that if matter of fact, I we send them our amazon link. That's uh happens a lot So what this is an example unmanaged client. I just know they're cheap Um, and they use this on it as needed. They email me a price Well, they email me how much can you get me? I need five monitors that I knew they're price shopping So I just said get them from amazon. I just reply with that, but I often reply with uh our amazon store link because we have an amazon influencer store and It's been a little I can look again try to remember how much we've run through our influencer store But the numbers are are are good and uh That's where we push people just buy it from amazon. Matter of fact, one of the best things we have done is um Share that with people that are amazon links if you look at our website We quit selling computers in the store over a year ago now And what we do is uh Our reports. I think it's in our reports We just tell people go look at our amazon site go look at amazon site even local people And they just buy things on amazon and then we just charge them the labor. So I don't really I don't mind at all. We some that know no vincen don't set up an amazon store It's a lot of work just some of my amazon store. It's way better. Just do that Uh, how many what was bought off my amazon for? Here i'll be i'll be open and honest almost 200 000 dollars has gone through my amazon store in the last few months From people buying stuff online That's yeah So that's we just tell them buy it from amazon. I can't beat their price and I don't care There's no margin in it if I sell it to you I'm gonna put a mark up on it and I'm very clear with my clients If you want to buy it to me you're gonna get the warranty You don't have to deal with amazon and I'll I'll take care of it and that comes out of 30 markup You're like, oh you want to save 30% Keep your receipt from amazon. You have to deal with the shipping back and forth and the problem with the computer That's I that's my pitch It's simple. You either give me money or You don't buy the insurance by buying it from tom and you then go buy it from amazon direct And that's not a problem. You'll save the money. So we have a client and they did this the other day Um, they brought a computer back that they bought off an amazon recommendation that they bought They it doesn't turn on no more. I don't know it died We looked at it. It's the motherboard. We're like, there's a new motherboard How much we told them and they're like, well, it's under warranty. We have to send it back Do you have a replacement in the meantime? We can borrow and I'm like, no Because you didn't buy it from us. So you can buy another one and have it overnighted and so It's just a play out for that But don't worry. We got all the labor for everything and when the new one comes in We'll get the labor to transfer they decided to buy another computer for them And they're gonna pay us the labor to transfer and I make more money in labor than I do trying to mark up a product There's no money in marketing a product. It's a race to zero margin Uh home network tour would be so so sad You would be disappointed at how sad my home network is. There's not much to it That tp8 link manage switches 3345 awesome That's it's a good price Worth it to be a go markers of gold or silver partner. I'm thinking about action packs. Yeah, that Probably worth it. Oh, what else do you have? Are you still happy with switching free pbx over wrenching? Absolutely. I love free pbx. I got no complaints. No regrets Matter of fact, I paid the bill today. Uh our back end provider to free pbx is vitality. It's really, um Yeah So that's I'm happy with how low the bill is RFQ for floppy drives Ah That client is We we're it's now become just serial cables. No floppy drives that never have that all fell apart The the office manager Who may well shop manager was there today at our office just bitching up a storm not at us about everything Is going out at the company and it's been entertaining We're gonna do another video ranting about them But uh, no they finally we we sold them some tough books instead of floppy drives How we from from floppy drives to to panasonic tough books So they can be dropped off machines or being programmed for CAD It's a fun story that i'll let steve tell you because I stepped away from it because it looked aggravating Remember the zip drives. Oh, yes, we remember the zip drives I need to stretch now. That's it. You're too long. I usually get up on small I've been actually sitting in an hour and 20 minutes. I sit cross-legged in case you didn't know It's actually how I sit all the time and uh I have to stretch so normally I get up and walk around every 40 minutes But um, I'm talking to you folks, but of course, I do have a phone here So I could just pick up my phone and walk around through my house But I am probably getting a bit tired and I do have to be up in about five hours Think about that. So then I get to start this whole fun game all over again Oh 3cx I like 3cx they make nice stuff. Uh, we might become a reseller for them. So We're looking into it. I've been busy having that time to really dig into it that much Bernoulli, so yeah, remember the first uh, Bernoulli drives those are that's an old stuff there, man Those have been around for a minute. All right. That's doing that That's doing that. All right. Just seeing if I had any messages that looked interesting. They didn't Um up at 4 a.m. I get for yep Uh, did you call bbsc for internet? Of course I was on bbs Uh I was using not the tandy one thousand. I did a tear s 80 and then I uh had an old packer bell. So Uh, I've been in business since 2003. So this is my 15th year of being unemployed Yeah, dx 36 25 man. I had a I had a dx 36 33 megahertz and lemmings was my favorite game on that Man, I played that for a while Rusty and eddies bbs. Yeah, you know, it's kind of fun. There's a bunch of um ssh enabled bbss I think still exist out there. So there's still a few of them out there. It's kind of cool Yeah, I'm up late and Early and all that fun stuff. It's kind of it's all over the place. I don't sleep a lot Yeah ssl and telnet bbss are still out there. They're I haven't played with them in a while They're kind of novel when I found them a while a few years ago It was like kind of those novel things and then I was like Oh, yeah, I know they're still dialing ones too It was like novel for a while and then my interest level went to oh, yeah The internet's become kind of cool now and bbs is nostalgia is not a big thing for me I don't get excited about nostalgic things. Uh, it's like, oh, that was neat I remember when I played with it and then I kind of fade away from it pretty quickly Well, he's a shoot Larry. That was a great game Metcom information system. Wow Yeah, you know, it's weird to think about people using modems because I used to have um In 1998 I managed a RAS server Or my corporate job I worked in corporate then and that was how we dialed in for vpn service was we had a four port RAS box Um, you know four modems in it um on one card that would control for the dial in an authentication Yeah, I'm missing the muds were always cool playing in multi-user dungeons back today, man Uh, yes Do you have other network it youtube channels you watch? Uh Dare I say Linus? Sometimes very rarely I don't have nothing against Linus He's not the most technical person though in terms of his youtube channel Um, I do like some of chris's videos. These videos are both good There's not a ton I watch that are technical. Um I There's like, you know, it's weird. There's a lot of computer building channels There's a lot of gaming channels out there. I don't See a ton of channels out there now. There's these weird one-off videos There's a guy who made a series a three-part series that was top match for 10 gigabit videos. They were awesome He didn't make anything else. He did this great job on his videos and then didn't share more videos I'm like, I don't remember the guy's name right now, but I thought the videos were really good So there's occasionally like these one-off videos. I'll watch it. I'm like, wow That was a great video, but then it's a it's a dead you can't dead youtube channel doesn't produce a whole lot other content so, um There's just some people that do some really great videos and maybe that was a one trick they did They don't commit to it as much as the channel. Uh, so yeah, but I have referenced, uh He doesn't seem to produce Mark Fermo firma He made some great pf sense videos. They were really top-notch Especially his traffic shaping one and then he didn't produce anymore. I think he got a job. I don't know So there's not one I regularly watch because I don't know a lot of them that regularly produce content Well, Wendell, yes, uh, Wendell from level in Texas. I should have mentioned him I've got to meet Wendell, um at penguin con. He's a great guy Just a wealth of knowledge and has a great youtube channel He lied to the computer guy. Didn't he fall off the planet or something? That dude was just too ranty for me. Uh, Group is great for so many stuff. I don't watch everything Rossman does but I like A lot of what I have seen uh with Rossman. So he's definitely fun I'm not I'm not a board level repair guy, but I kind of like his insights and things Oh, like yeah, uh, Eli the computer guy is mad in a forest somewhere. I seen someone said that Before I seen some video he posted on somewhere else He hates youtube and he lives in a forest and he seems angry That's but he always seemed angry when he was on youtube. So now he's not on youtube, but he's still angry That's the common theme I see with Eli the computer guy He's popular because he hasn't named it right. I've never really watched much of stuff I have no idea if unifiability became successful I have my finger is far from the pulse of the market or I would be selling product. I'm not a product guy As a matter of fact, I'm a minimalist and not much of a consumer. I'm I'm Uh, yeah, I guess if you live in a forest, maybe you come less angry. I've seen someone said Eli's less angry Well, good. I hope so he lives in the forest Um, but I'm not a consumer guy when it comes to buying stuff. I'm a horrible consumer because I don't buy things I buy very very few things. I should say Well, I think I'm gonna end this here because I'm starting to really get tired Um Explaining computers is cool. If you're in it. Yeah, he does a couple neat things explaining computers. I've seen a couple videos Um, there's also that guy. I think called space invader one kind of weird name uh, but Like He's got some videos on unraid that I've watched so I could get a better understanding of unraid I don't have anybody using it and after watching his video. I said, oh, okay Yeah Um, but I have no interest even after watching his videos. Nothing compelled me to go Okay, I should be using unraid or nothing about it. Maybe go. Yeah, I should replace everything with that Didn't so I do watch some of that but not a lot Uh lawn care not lately. My lawn is dominant. Wow um Long care boy, uh I'm 40 something years old now and I thought at one point I would care about my lawn. I don't I don't care about my lawn It's a nuisance to me. I can't wait to sell my acre property in downsides to somewhere Where I don't ever have to think about long care again Um Hey, tell me any suggestions on xcp and gvm trade running in a virtual box was I have no idea how to make xcp and g working to vm. You don't virtualize it. You run it on real hardware From 35 and it's our game. I thought one day I would care lawn is a nuisance. Like I said, I'm 35 and you're caring this You're awesome, but yeah Hey, thank you. Alex cooper awesome for throwing some money in my way. I do certainly appreciate it Okay, you guys have talked me into some type of house tour, but you're gonna be completely disappointed Um, yeah getting trouble for stuff in high school. Definitely. I was there too I hacked a cobalt machine and messed around with it was fun No, there is no homeowner's association. So I um, don't like A cookie cutter homogenized neighborhoods. So I live on a custom built ranch house On about an acre of property. No homeowner's association Um, yeah Hell, I could take you guys outside and show you my property, but it's night out. So you can't see much There's not that nothing that interesting Yeah Well, I have to keep it looking decent the city probably would have rules about me getting rid of all the grass And I know for resale value not to dump um 100 tons of rocks in my garden because my goal is not This is not the house I plan to live in forever. This is the house I live in now It's an investment And then the investment has um done very well for me about this house 10 years ago And I have substantially increased my equity in it and at some point I plan to sell it That's my economic view of this house So Yeah 30 acres of property. No, no that sounds much worse than one acre one acre is hard 30 acres really hard I grew up on a farm. I know about acreage. I don't want it I so it's not of Tom, you don't have the right perspective. No, no, I completely have the perspective I was on a farm when I was a child. I don't have me not to be on a farm Let's see what else we got I wouldn't say you rent or move to another state Yeah, it's hard to buy a house in CA that the housing prices are Substantially higher So that's a very Very very different thing living in CA BIOS BIOS is awesome. If you know how to use it It's a it's a Linux based switching platform for a hand-doing routers cool. It it's complicated. So Um Mountaintop city Montana blot. Well, I don't know where I want to live. I live here now I don't know where I will end up living. I wanted to live in Detroit for a little while now I don't so yeah, all right. I seem to have exhausted technical topics There's my fireplace There's crap on my table Um I don't know my legs are popping because I'm old Living your own Oh someone had asked me about this so I'll show you guys Yes, my uh sirwin re 30s and a 70 inch T 4k tv speakers and Um lots of artwork. I have artwork on the walls. This is what my house actually looks like Whoops, where else do I take you? Uh Oh flip the camera around. Oh, it's really fun. You want to see my face, right? Oh gaming rig That's probably someone cares about this I have a whole video just on my gaming. It's probably the only few gaming videos. So um Yeah, uh, you can't flip a live camera. I have to do it like this I guess I could spin this around But I just got a notice on my phone that my battery is getting weak Kitchen so I have an open floor plan. So kitchen over there. Um I don't know if you really care about my house. It's a Hold on. Sit down if you really care. It's a 2000 square foot four bedroom ranch with three bathrooms. Um And it's all one floor no basement. It's kind of it's not big. I don't know I guess it's a really matter of perspective is 2000 square feet big to you I don't know Fireplace is gas it was convert it's converted to gas So can you see my bikes? I'm not it's it is uh 30 degrees out right now. So no, I'm not going outside Maybe another day Oh, let's see Yeah, red and black. There's um, I uh, you know, if someone cares I can find photos of all that But I got a whole we custom built and custom fabricate Oh, we custom put together a bunch of IKEA furniture So we have like a massive couch that sits eight people wide. So yeah Um, so, you know, if you notice just kind of a minimalist There's not a lot of things in my house just artwork on the walls and things like that There is no network rack at my house. Uh, there is a Well, there's no network rack. There's just a computer and a small switch in a closet. It's really minimalist minimalist Um, home automation. Nope. Don't have any Show us your network rack. Nope. Don't have any Um Solar tends to be less efficient further you go out north you yep We have too much darkness. So the solar efficiency sucks here and I have a yard full of trees There's nowhere to put solar panels here Uh, you're not alone in your house straight Uh My life is here My kids are elsewhere today. They're out and about doing stuff Uh, 30 degrees Yeah, it's uh, it's actually probably below 30. It's pretty cold. It was frosty when I woke up. So Um, yeah, I mean I can go out to my garage, but If someone really want me to go out to my garage, I don't I don't think so. My garage is a mess Um, it's uh eastern time here. So The garage door. Do you really want to see my garage? I mean is there is if there's enough people I only see like one person saying this here Eastern coast like I I don't You don't have to really talk me into why I should go outside into freezing cold and open my garage. That's uh I don't really feel it. It's really Vince is curious. You just want to know what's in my garage It's uh Not that exciting It's good. It's good for the health the russian say yeah See my vehicle Is that many people want to see my garage really? I guess Pantry Oh, what grub There's more food at my office than there is at my house so All right, we're down to the last few percentage of battery on this phone Actually, hold on We're gonna put a jacket on one second here I'm not a complete idiot There's a jacket on a chair here details I don't know when that got there I apparently have googly eyes And away we go I drive a scion if that matters at all By the way, I can't see chat messages So I will well, I can see them very briefly But when more than one of you chat at a time it just goes away. All right. Uh, there's a motorcycle That's my ninja That's my S40 If you're not familiar with that that's my tractor that I should use to cut the grass that needs to be cut That I don't want to cut There are Some Hondas over here. These are some classic scooters. I have I got a couple CT 90s This is the top of my wife's Jeep that's in here. We got to put this somewhere else, but it's another classic Honda So there's that Oh, I at bicycles is something else I do Um This is an HP Vella technique And this is a bike imported from Germany I'm a recumbent bike that I ride a lot of miles. I go about, you know, 70 80 miles at a time riding that So, um, that's most of my garage. Everything else is organized Um, oh something someone may find at least somewhat amusing is Our extra fiber runs are all stored in my garage in here and through that back door is a another Area of my garage. It also has more fiber in it. Uh, we store all the spare fiber And look in the back here In my garage, so whenever we're doing fiber work, uh pulling fiber It's just too bulky to hold at my shop. So it's all here at my garage and my staff That does that work has keys to my garage so they can just stop by here and do it. So It's certain degrees. What's the fan for well, that's an interesting story. We had a flood and Man, I know you can't my camera does not pick up how big my backyard is but there's a lot of property behind me and, uh Through all that property there is it's a flooding issue and it flooded up into towards my garage We had a flash flood here. So um, I put the fan because some of the water was in the back and I I haven't been in my garage in a month and apparently I left that fan on for the last month So that fan's been on for a while now I'm cold. All right, let me try to Let's see. Holy crap. You guys had a lot of questions Uh hot sauce at home a more hot sauce does it work than are at home? Let's see I'm first trying from the north from your location. It's quite cold today. Yeah Uh, Jeffers Oak never tried it. Sounds like a trap First shot first shot out Not american made no Detached garage. Yes. Uh, my garage is uh detached Miscellaneous garage doors. Yeah, sure. We'll go with that. I do Hairstown Rockout. Yeah. Yes. I my old scooters are one of the things I play with a lot. That's what a lot of fun A lot of people have those in germany if you're cool boil. I don't know what that means It's 30 degrees. What's the fan for you? Okay, I answered that one. Um, do you prefer the ubg3 or ubg3 pro? The depends on the use case Um, sometimes splice sometimes predeterminate it really depends on what it is Bowflex. No, there's there was no exercise equipment in there. Um Yeah, there's no exercise equipment start a fire I do I have a uh campfire area out back So that maybe we'll do one of my vlog Thursdays in front of the campfire Garage tour. Yeah All right, I'm gonna leave this here. You guys can always rewind it for the garage tour. Um Someone did ask me and it just doesn't fit the channel. So I'm like, hey, can you review your motorcycles and stuff like that? I'm like I can but it doesn't fit my channel. So Uh, I haven't done it But I will at some point do something like that I I have a personal channel if you search for my like bicycle my hp vella technique I did a review on it And it's very popular actually. So, um I don't um, I don't know how to send the link to my other channel, but I might hold on Um, let me look I can for those of you that care, but there's very little on my other channel I don't hardly post anything on it. It's just not I used to and then I quit because I don't know No real purpose for it, but somewhere hold on I'm looking for it looking for it Hey, look, I found me. There we go So for those of you looking for me Uh, no, I'm not good at charming if I ever I can't do videos on it It's not my to-do list. I'll get around to doing something like that. So Yeah, romantic romantic candlelight dinner vlog sounds like a fun game I'm going to bed So I've had enough I gotta turn this off my phone's making beeping noises People are falling off the channel because time is becoming irrelevant. I don't blame you for leaving So thank you for everyone that took the time to stop by Uh, awesome. I loved doing vlog jersey. I don't Uh, no I don't know If I'll be doing the next one from home or not, we'll kind of play it by ear and see how it goes So thank you very much. Have a great night. Awesome. Go enjoy your Motorcycle Ride Vince and I hope the garage tour was worth it I don't know and you guys seem to like it. So maybe we'll do that again All right, good night all