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So every video I started was disrupted by so many phone calls and Not really issues but things that had to be dealt with things that had to be done And it's kind of why I want to talk a little bit about business today Because it's what does Tom do when he's not doing videos. I mean, okay in general, you know I run an IT company. So Yeah, I have my traffic shaper said I do but it's well I test too many firewalls at home So things aren't always configured right home is where all the Lab testing goes on when I'm testing firewalls good news good good good news is gonna be The SG 3100 video should be done this weekend There has been a lot of back-and-forth with the folks over at PS sense. I had questions About the product and understanding of how it works and also I'll give a shout out if you look for SG 3100 Someone who's a fan of my channel also did it want it. So hey awesome. Get out there start doing, you know great content I like that There's there's never enough of it out there and it's hard for me to review everything So I'm excited to say though that that review is coming So and I I mean if you want to know the short of it, I like the product a lot. So the SG 1,100 is a great product. So I can already tell you I don't think that's gonna be too surprising It's working out some of the details about its routing speed and questions. I Doesn't matter if you leave that off Seems fine So my life's trying to light sound off in a room So it does it does have not really issues, but there's little details about it And I try to be very thorough. So when I had questions about it, I reached out to the people over at PS sense I'm gonna make sure I understood a couple things about it So that's part of the reason for all of those little things Seeing issues with the unify updates. Yes. That's also been part of keep me busy It's not that the updates really cause problems, but it is interesting They went from like the 12 to 15 to 17 release to solve some of those problems and you're exactly right that the SG 30 SG 1100 the price point is excellent So we had a hacker night at the office last night and that was of course one of the firewalls I had out because we had a discussion about firewalls at the def con 313 meetup and The SG 30 100 it's it's just kind of even you know, the performance of it is good It's not as good as the SG 30 100 But it's also a lot less and for a lot of home users, especially people who want to get started with PF sense It's it's right in the price range that you want I mean, it's less than half the price of the SG 30 100 so you've got a really good price zone and it works fair Oh Okay, I think my zero-tier appliance. We should all just yeah, they don't tears one of products I want to look at too. I know there are actively in the forums people talking about the unifies and some of the updates Or some firmware changes you can do to fix that so not a big deal. The unifies are the unify People are working on this, you know this upgrade seem it sees it only effect with the really old products so far We really haven't had that many issues. We have a couple products that Offered downgrades, but they're working so we're kind of like I don't know why it's asking this, but it's functioning I'm going to probably do a follow-up video on unify tomorrow I also and I was gonna do it the office, but everything just kept coming at me I have a Luxe encryption video. I started I have to finish it. I have all my notes There's you know what my video start with notes, of course and making sure that I can clearly articulate things So I don't need them because they're your products. I use so much I use Luxe encryption all the time, but I wanted to make sure there was some detail behind how it worked So it has a few extra notes that are for part of the video to make sure I'm very thorough with it I have to mention next. Oh, okay. Awesome. Yeah, I love that. You're going to Def Con. That's great So yeah the SG 30 the the firewater user coming if everything goes well, I'll be doing it this weekend But now there's at least 50 of you here and there's actually 50,000 of you which is awesome. Thank you very much I'm so happy we have that 50,000 under our belt now and the last week has just been Painful from a business standpoint Because there's just been so much and it painful because I didn't get to do what I want to do any time I don't get to do what I want to do which means something interfere with it But those are always opportunities anytime you have problems problems or opportunities And it sounds like an optimistic thing to say, but I try to be very optimistic I look at what processes need to be put in place and we have the last couple weeks You've seen him do a couple of business videos with me Brett has been helping me out with my business and we're doing some more structuring in the company to help solve any of these problems And anytime you have a problem you put a process around it So the problem doesn't re-occur and they're not big problems But they're their growth problems that you have when you get too many things coming in once or process procedures not followed And things like that the other side of it that's occupied so much of my time It's not just that we have been busy, but we took on some very large structured projects that we're doing and I Knew the project was going to be troublesome. The good news is it's well funded. So I'm willing to work with problems I'm working to work with all the trouble. It's going to require more management time But I am compensated for that therefore I am fine with that and that's kind of an aspect that it's it's not that I want to deal with those problems There's a bunch of architectural issues and the design issues with the way they want to architect this very very large project We also had to work on the money side of it because we had to decide how much of the project We were gonna front before we got certain deposit checks and I kind of joke So I talk about this a lot like even with my staff if you've played any resource management games You have the same thing going on where you are trying to balance all of the resources You have the budget you have and making it all work in balance and mitigating risk There's a certain amount of risk You're going to take on as a business while you wait for certain checks to clear and things like that and that's the scales up of The projects PS sensing ubiquity unifying the same server seems like a horrible idea. I probably there's a way you could make it happen I wouldn't even try I You want the least amount of things on your firewall. That's a security problem. I also realized that there's some What's up cuz? Are you my cousin Or are you just referring to it I have very very few cousins so it's interesting if it actually is my cousin I'm going to be doing to some network architectural videos. I realized some people want some more Bigger picture how we design a network and some of the methodologies and I realized that's a really important aspect that just missing I looked through my channel I never really covered the why and I think the why I do things is anytime you do something I don't want to just tell you how the why is really important because the why allows you to extrapolate how to do something better So that's going to be some up-and-coming videos, but that's it some of the business stuff So that's one of the things that yes, I'm a geek who runs a business But I and I'm an entrepreneur by definition. I definitely have like an entrepreneur spare But the other side of it is too. I really prefer to have my hands on the tech. So I am less happy dealing with the business aspects and It's one of those things it's not that I don't want to own my business But sometimes you kind of don't want to deal with business because it's the more painful part that I have to deal with So it's been that way the other side is We've had a lot of projects come through and the margins were really good. So therefore That's yeah That's an other side of it too. What up kid links awakening is getting remade for the switch Yes, it is. Did you look at the remake of it? No, this is important news links awakening is getting remade for the switch. This is This is exciting. I know I seen it Did I miss the follow-up on a pf cent keeping unlimited. No, you didn't I I've actually just referred to Mark Ferman's videos because his videos are really damn good on on traffic shaping It's hard to top them. They're granted there for the previous version of pf sense But the menus haven't really changed since their version updates So Mark Ferman's videos are still as excellent as they have always been on that particular topic He put a lot of animations and stuff like there and there and put it there. So it's really good Back to some of the business stuff So one of the things I've been really working on though is process procedure process procedure and making sure everyone Understands their process and and we're trying to fill some gaps in the company So I can delegate more of my process to the process and even delegated is some of the market automation tools We're using some of them. We need to use more to make sure we follow up on people to make sure we get Yeah, can switch play crisis. Yeah, right The whole Aspect of those to make sure that all these processes can easily be handed off so they don't require me as much So I usually start by doing some of the sales processes, especially with this YouTube And then once I understand it and compartmentalize it I pass it off to a staff member or hire a staff member to do that and Go from there. So it's how we've been doing some of the workflow with the jobs and stuff like that So that's been a slow in the long time coming to make all that happen And that's actually why Brett who you like I said, you've seen him in some of the business talk videos Me and him are gonna be doing a few more business talks. He's actually gonna be Talking from coming in from another industry and working in IT So that's gonna be we wanted to have a juxtaposition because Brett's an experienced business manager Who is also now coming into the IT fold of things and seeing how we see things So he's double IT vendors before working for one's very different. So that's been Kind of exciting because it's gives me an outside perspective of my business And hopefully we'll offer some insights and things maybe I didn't share because I think it's weird when people ask me like What didn't you share about your business? Like are you trying to keep some secret? I get the weird emails like that or you know contacts like that. I'm like, no Maybe I didn't cover something because I didn't know you want it covered But that's different than I it's not that I have any problem sharing any of it. Oh, you have kids They do that too He's got a you know jump in once in a while we're not playing video games He's upset because I keep beating him with Smash Brothers with Mennonite Like he's spamming the same button all the time he says Yes, I have looked at tools like Odoo, I don't like that. I think that's how you say it. They're way More extensive than I think I need I'm still happy with invoice ninja for my open source platform And then we have a few other things we use HubSpot and some of that to follow up on some of the sales so Yeah, that's we're looking at things but the Odoo is it pull up as neat but boy is it extensive It's well beyond it's it's a process into itself to onboard it. It's not like a turnkey system It's a very extensive system that requires a lot of customization. It's definitely targeted towards very very large companies I am not I am a niche focused company with fewer staff. I have like 10 people working So it's very different. We don't we don't use QuickBooks at all We use k-by-money and invoice ninja for all of our billing and ledger I Would build materials as soon as proposal accepted Make sure it's clear when discussing proposal new clients and large projects. Yeah, there's There's some of that too, but it's also There's also just a lot of it's a little more complicated net because Scope of work has already changed from when we bid the project and got the deposit Because the blueprints have changed now twice since we bid the project and scope of work matter of fact It was reduction in scope so scope creep. Yes, it creep the other way But we know there's gonna be a creep in other directions They ask to do something else so the budget shifted and this is part of like I said I've got a video that says reality versus expectations on Wiring projects and it hold I have not seen any large-scale project and this project is in the $200,000 range So there's all kinds of dynamics and they're gonna change So when you're dealing with that larger project and there's many many vendors involved Electricians and other builders all in this giant building. There's just this back and forth I said just the IT Infrastructure is like a $200,000 piece of it. So there's just a lot going on You just have to be on top of it all the time. So that's just Yeah, that's one of those things that we have to deal with it's it requires some my time But you know, there's money involved So I make sure we do it because that's what funds all their stuff I mean, I make a few dollars off YouTube, but my real money is still made in my IT business I mean I I could probably support myself Independently with YouTube, but it doesn't near pay with my business base. So that's just the reality of it right now But you know, it's things you have to be on top of a pint of crown No, we actually have some buffalo trace next to me as well one of my other favorites here. So Point of sale not really point of sale, but invoicing is done through invoice Ninja We have really scaled back on the retail over the years. We've just pulled way back from it Retail's not really a market. We've actually watched all the retail stores around us all just kind of disappear So, yeah, oh the pint of voodoo ranger. So for those you just joining us again So that's definitely Some of the issues, you know, like I said, I it's kept me from doing videos because I really had to put the priority there But I'm coming back to it. Now the fun thing about doing videos Podcasts just being a creator in general is all the opportunities that may come from that and that's where it's also been exciting because the I'm presented with interesting opportunity, which I'm following up with a company tomorrow They want to use some of my content and it's just it's not really licensing. We just have to make sure it's the legal terms going to be Contract in lieu of or let's say Rights for consideration. So there's a company that wants to use some of my content If with part of their newsletter, so I'm gonna be working out some deals Then he want me to do some other Content form the one of the agreements that we work is I like the broader audience of YouTube So I just they tell people I'm too expensive to produce private content for But if we do co-branded content and things like that, so I it may open some opportunities That's something I can't there's not any NdN. He does. It's just there's not enough solid for me to give it It's it's my goal that I want to work towards is keep doing the geek things I do man have someone else help manage more of my business then produce a lot more videos I want to get back to where I'm producing constantly four or five contact and it's gonna one of my goals Is eventually include where I can travel and go to some of these places and go to events and bring more content to you In the enterprise tech and in enterprise networking I want to see how many people I've been meeting with even some of the red teams and people I know that work on higher level Pen testing network testing and these are great people to know because I they they have no problem sharing your knowledge They don't have a good transport method for that knowledge to get it to you So me Consolidating this and this is something I've had a dream of for almost a year and a half I own a domain called how they got hacked and I want to interview some of these red teams to talk about the breaches talk about the How the breaches happen and that's just more exciting content and it that maybe end up Being sponsored content eventually by some of the companies that helped mitigate that and it's not that I'm trying to Someone has to pay for all the time that goes into this But it's also to share with you some of the products that are out there. So it's yeah, it's definitely a It's a whole aspect that's got to be covered. I think on this because the more knowledge we can get out there The more we can get better at securing our networks the better we get more better items are bad term I just said but better at securing networks better at applying these Um kind of related and segue into this. We are now one of the other things we've done is we've signed up with officially We've been testing it. We officially signed with well the details aren't the ink isn't dry How's that but we've agreed to via email So that's I guess as an official contract in 2019 until they got money coming Hunter slabs and I'm gonna be doing some interviews with them talking about their product and because we're using it We're deploying it. It's absolutely an amazing product. So That's gonna be Awesome and yeah the security videos. I want to be very practical because you can only learn so much from school I want you to learn from Real world experiences and you one of my heroes, you know, you look at daring kitchen hack five awesome people That's right there. We need more daring kitchens. We need more people like that. We see on hack five We need more if you haven't looked up j street and talk about his physical pen testing stuff Jay streets amazing and he was talks. He spoke at Defcon many times That's the content we need more of out there because that's how we get better at cybersecurity is have a better understanding of it Have a lot of different learning tools out there. That's the goal So, you know, these are all those things that I want to put into both my channel It's stuff we're doing in a business and I don't think there's any secrets on this It's not about being secrets about, you know, public disclosure And this is one of the reasons that I connected with hunter slabs was they're huge on public disclosure of any vulnerabilities to follow Their twitter they break a lot of it down. They talk a lot about it These are these are what we discovered. This is how we discovered it. They share that information with everybody Yes, their product helps them discover it, but they're still sharing back out with the greater crowd That's the important aspect of cybersecurity. This is why I help out with defcon 313 project here in detroit I want more people in cybersecurity We need more people getting interested in it not to be afraid of it to start asking questions and getting a better understanding of it Uh, so hoping you can get those security videos together really looking forward to it. Great. Yes. Absolutely. I enjoy you the hell out of doing it for sure Um, we save physical printing. How about that? Uh Deviant olem I'd say he's pretty good at source real estate. Yeah, there's all kinds of people out there I jay street is someone we have mutual friends. So he's really interesting um Free pbx, uh, excellent So for those of you don't know if uh, I switched over free pbx I should quite a while ago now almost a year. I think we are really happy with it. No problems I have some videos. I'm going to do is a couple follow-ups on that. Um, I'm also we have a big pbx project We're doing and we're coordinating the project chris is a friend of mine from crosstalk solutions And we're having him do the free pbx side. We're doing the physical side for a big company here in detroit There's a lot of integrations going into it. So it's not like just a basic pbx system is larger He's also a fan of the youtube channel. So I'll see how much of it I can Put on youtube because it's you know Gotta be kind of fun too. So We'll talk about some of that physical side and maybe I'll even talk to chris about co I think the project's all gonna go. Well, there's a lot of question the client has but it's a big Company with a lot to do. So it's kind of be a fun project And like I said the company because the guy knows me from youtube It's a company and they don't have any, um, there's not is they're not a medical company So there's not a risk of personal information being leaked Which is some of the challenge with our some of the clients we go out to if they're medical or Anything where there's a problem plus if they don't know that I broadcast on youtube or they're older companies that go What's a youtube? um They aren't welcoming for me to wander around with cameras in their building. So He may be even watching now I may reach out to this person when we do some of the projects and talk about hey How much can we turn into a video? You know and what I already know the guy who asked me for a discount for doing it Hey, why not the video get a lot of views. It'll be a lot of fun to do. So I'm fine with that So yeah, and like I said, I outsource some of the free pbx up to chris. He's an expert at it I am not I can get my way through for you pbx. I could figure it out. I'm good at searching it We definitely have no problem customizing our system. Uh, but it's it's a time over value thing for me. It's, um It's one of those things it's cheaper in the long run for me to outsource a Project with some complexities to chris. Go. Hey chris set this up. Get it done. Um, I put my mind on it Everybody wins. I make some money chris makes some money. Um, we're all good I didn't have to try and get my my staff is not well trained up free pbx. They can get through it They can fix things on it. Um Setting one up from scratch you're gonna be a little bit slower and by the way my staff is all very busy right now So it's been hard to reply to even all the jobs because we have to schedule them out a couple days So, uh at this moment, we're not hiring but eventually we will be because of when the staff gets all busy You can do it. So we outsource work like that um What kind of challenges are involved in radio broadcasts? I have no idea Uh, I have a herd of high tech. Let me look over here. It disappeared off my screen Uh, have you heard of ice head doctor's the it company in claire county? I have not heard of one Uh ipv6. Nope. Don't really do any ipv6. Nobody's asking for it Um, anytime I hear people talking ipv6. It's it's generally not in america Um, we we just pretty much everything here is legacy ipv4 and I don't see that changing anytime soon Yeah, oh, yeah chris's channel's crosstalk solutions. So yes case you didn't know which chris i'm talking about chris from crosstalk solutions a great channel a lot of great videos, so Um Edge max switches are fine use them. I have no problem. I prefer the unified ones But if you need the features that are in an edge max switch go for it. They're great switches They come down to do you have the feature needs that they have they the edge line has more features than a unified line Do you need said features if you do then that's what you go with? Or for example, if you're already using unms the edge lines, uh, is maintained through unms And if you already have an existing unms, we just help the client Set this up. They're already using it. They didn't want anything But edge switches because all their all other existing systems are already on unms. Therefore They went with more unms products because they're familiar with them. They have use cases for them. So There's the switches physically are so similar to each other. It's just different software runs on them Education intelligence are not the same thing. That's very true. Um, are you ever going to do tutorials on the edge switches? No, I don't don't have many clients. So any of the clients I have that have edge switches are so one-off Um, they're generally people who I'm doing minimal amounts configuration and they take care of the rest. I don't I'm not a big edge switch person. We have a few deployed in there Um, and for a few clients because of the systems they have set up But yeah, I think they're a great product. I just not probably will he does a lot of tutorials on I'm not taking the time to get really good at him. One of my staff is but he's really bad at tutorials I won't lie. He's good at setting up switches. Uh, he's not good at some of the tutorials. Hey, awesome. Thank you 50 bucks Next bottle of buffalo trees in the bottle of hot sauce that Yes, uh I have to go to sit and send from uh, san for me traffic. Yes. I hear traffic sucks there Have a good vd. It's all that cat 69 cable. Oh, I like it. Hey Love it Cat 69 I you why did I not think to call this cat 69? Why I wasn't thinking so you think you uh, you and x format you were thinking for me here Uh, this vlog should have been titled cat 69 I like it. Also anyone who wants to fling money at me Always always welcome. You can fling any money you might want. Um, you know, uh, I It does cost money to do all this stuff and takes a lot of time and things like that So it's it's always greatly appreciated. So or just hire us hire us for stuff Hires for things. That's a great way to throw money at me find things that you need done and hire my staff to do it Yeah, I you know, I love that I have people of uh, that are you know, I've got to meet some really awesome veterans of the field I have a business owner that contacted me today who's got a sizeable it company in a couple states So it's fun. Um, the camaraderie between people who are you know, season veterans gray hair like myself and the Justification of helping out people who go, I just want to get started and I want to get started in this field Um, I had someone reach out today to me, which is awesome. I'm assuming he's also a fan of the youtube channel That he he happens to live locally and he's uh, 16. He's already done some unify installs. I'm like, hey, that's awesome You know, that's great. I love here when young people are already diving into a lot of this Because I drove into it young so it anything it when you're dealing with tech It's it's about experience. You spend a lot of time doing it. You get good at it So if you started at 16 as opposed to Uh, 26 you're 10 years ahead of that person. You spent 10 years really working at it. So you can get that much better Uh, do you think opens our software will hit a point of no return? Like electric vehicles are hitting uh with the model three Not at all More and more things are going open source because of cyber security issues because of supply chain attacks The only solution to things like supply chain attacks the only solution to software development like this Is open source. There's not any question anymore. Microsoft's embracing a matter of fact It's it wasn't worthy of sharing, but it was funny. Some company tried to create some, you know The fud as they call it fear uncertainty doubt um About some open source and things like that and microsoft came to bat going you guys are completely wrong And it was it was kind of a feel-good read about that, but it's one of those things There's not really, um There's not going back from open source It's one of those things more more companies realizing it and the the value of open source I've talked about this in another video, but one of the biggest open sources it puts It puts importance on the people not the code the code's free So before the the concept in some companies and you can go back and um, Eric Raymond wrote the book. Please read it if you haven't uh the theater in a bazaar It's a short read. It's an essay not really a book. There's a book, but there's an essay you can find the essay and it's a short read Um theater in a bazaar and it talks about the different concepts of software development It's it's fundamentally important book But the other side of that is When you take all these way the older markets worked these companies would put great value on their code And they could find any group of code monkeys to keep writing a code So the code was valuable and not the people and what would happen in that circumstance would they would build a product But the people that were really good at making teaming the product might leave and then it the product may fall apart If not be so good you take ibm buying red hat completely different dynamic than anything they bought red hats codes free So ibm couldn't have bought the code. They can't own it ibm bought a bunch of smart people that maintain code They realized keeping those smart people that maintain code is the value of red hat So open source puts the value back on the people which is important. The code is free. Anyone can have a copy of the code But do you have the person that can maintain the code? Do you have the person that can create better versions of that code? That's where the value is and that's also the other dynamic of open source for why you're seeing so much open source And why you're not going to see it go away Catch up on my comments from here Do you think opens your software will hit a point and I'll return nope don't know Uh, I know you've been playing a unified video jobs use case for the product you have play with synology surveillance station Yes, I'm not like this someone knows I say that all the time. We're going to get shirts made this I don't have a use case for that That's actually one of the next shirts we're making Because I say that a lot How to mount to unify without drilling holes in a renter. No, I'm sorry. I cannot because you have to drill holes The mountain there's not an easy way to do it just set it on top of something like a shelf That's how you not drill holes. Don't stick it to the ceiling Um, they should open source Hawaii code so we can all check it's um that it's not spying us. Um There is So I have friends from china. I have friends that have spent time in china And there is a different dynamic to the way they think it's not good or bad. It is different and therefore they Ah Yes, what a lot of who I did was wrong, but you I also see the The other side of it where to them there's not wrong It's all about winning and I think that's wrong myself that my own opinion is I don't agree with Hawaii's They've been in trouble for a few different things. I think recently they got in trouble for stealing Some secrets on glass, but um open source is going to be the only way if they are not going to ever be transparent they're going to keep losing trust and uh china will either a shift how they think about those things Or they will lose more and more out to other open source competitors. That's just how it's going to work on there. So Uh More importantly our children are using closed source software in schools google They're uh, google's a weird. Yes, I know mostly closed source But they're also able to provide things that you can't easily do in the open source world So I gotta you're not going to get google out of schools. As a matter of fact google got microsoft out of schools We traded big companies. There's always going to be a level of influence in that Um, but google is more favorable to open source than microsoft used to be now google and microsoft are in a feel-good Fest for who could be nicer to open source who loves it more They realize they both embraced it as their company their monetization Is different microsoft monetizes azure microsoft monetizes the tooling that you use to build things and google monetizes you So different different dynamics. I don't know how that really plays out for schools when when they monetize the existence of human beings So Yeah, I don't know. It's kind of interesting. Uh, how do you back up open source systems such as pre pbx? Is there a bdr solution? Uh pre pbx is well, there's two different ways to do this you if you care about um Redundancy you can do high availability on pre pbx. That's one option Another option is uh, pre pbx has a backup file Exports a database file that you can restore to another pre pbx box So if the phone system dies, you just reload it with pre pbx and restore that file Therefore creating a solution if you need redundancy they make redundant systems for failover for free pbx It does support that as well. Uh, you don't really need to do a bdr solution with it It's just not necessary because you can just reload it other options are though you can virtualize free pbx Which is our solution um in virtualization is more or less the same as a Bdr solution at some point. I have a video. I'm going to be doing on that pretty soon too Hey, job. Thanks for all the great content Ordered some of your shirts last week and hard time deciding all the designs are great. Thanks So kyle is the designer Who does all the shirts internally? Sometimes I come up with ideas and kyle's the implementer of them in case you're ever wondering So kyle's got a pretty good He's good at drawing and things like that. It's a skill. He definitely has kyle primarily he does a lot of MSP stuff But he also is the assistant to some of the web things as well in case you're wondering all that how that works internally Uh Soon on the Synology hit you're asking and so is Synology Um, I they're very understanding. They sent me the box. I did the video. It's got a lot of views I have I've already tested like the backups and a few other things under and I'm making sure I am concise on the videos So I have kind of a beta video, but it's not done um I'm particular about things if I start a video and I um too much these live streams are kind of uh, Not nerve wracking for me, but I'm uh more careful and I'm humming a little more right now But I think about that a lot to make sure that the content's very solid very good very concise So I've actually scrapped probably more videos than I recorded because I recorded I played back I go this isn't the content that I like I'm very harsh on myself and I even have looked at videos that got through that are published it I know I have some views, but I'm also like I don't think they were very good. Um, I've debated about deleting them at times Uh, so I'm I'm really particular about that. I also double check for accuracy if I think I said something that was inaccurate Um, because I re listened to the video I may have produced. I also will cancel that video So that's another another aspect of so the technology videos are coming. They are really uh, I'm excited. I like the product Uh, we're you know, we we deploy these for clients. These are solutions we deploy So it's not that I'm not familiar with them. It's that I use them a little bit less than my staff does My staff knows some of this more. So um part of the video process that you don't see is me going Hey, how does this work steve? Those are real things that happen in my office. I know a lot, but on occasion I have an knowledge gap Yeah, they're they're nice boxes I still am a preferred free NAS person. That is what I run myself as free NAS Uh, but I think I think Synology is a great solution and for some of my clients It is a better more rounded solution. We pitched one. Uh, there's a proposal I'm waiting on an approval for that is a small Synology box. Just a two drive one for a small business But it's a better solution for what they need to do the thing They need to do with it works better with Synology and it will free NAS because of the particular use case And we always want the best solution for our client We're not a cookie cutter it company that tries to push the same solution down everyone's throat We customize those solutions to the clients as long as they're easy to manage There's something that fits within the ethos of what we do Ah fun stuff a lot of that's mouthful But um, I'll bring back though I'm excited um about the hunter slabs because we discovered a few things that was kind of missed here and there Um, so the hunter slabs videos. I'm those are ones that I hope they have done next week I'm really excited about uh unraided versus free NAS. I don't have a use case for unraided. So free NAS all day Um, plus unraided is not open source or completely free. I don't need a bad product Those are just facts. Um, and it doesn't run on ZFS if when it comes to large scale enterprise storage Free NAS all day every day Um, we we have someone reach out to me and I'm being engaged in a company that wants us to build a new sand for them That's going to be quite large That's going to be free NAS. That's what they already decided. That's what they want. They want free NAS They want zfs Boom, that's that's the important parts of those. That's why I like them I have a whole lot of free NAS videos. I want to finish right now I have we we do a lot with free NAS. It's very flexible I'm uh, I was just talking to the one of the engineers there the maintainers Is some of the iokage plugins. There's a whole bunch of new iokage plugins coming. Um, I've actually debated about even Getting more involved in the development of iokage plugins because they really they made the format looks easier to use So yeah, definitely, um The iokage videos are coming as well. So Synology or Free NAS, like I said, there's not it depends on the use case For a little home box, uh, it's hard to beat the Synology if you want to have those features If you're like me, I want to hack all the things and customize a crap out of it with Lots and lots of options I'm going to go with free NAS because I like being able to get to the source code and actually modify it But which one's easier to use? Oh, I'm sorry. Synology. That's not even a real question. I'm sorry I think free NAS is easy. I think Synology is going to be a little bit easier But it's a commercial product. It's a closed source product. I like the open source So I don't have a Synology for myself, but I'm the guy who's going to take it apart and learn If you're not and you know, someone had put on our forums Oh, by the way, join our forums if I haven't mentioned this, um, you know, I try to participate a lot there But someone mentioned forums, they want a friend who just wants to use Plex to get things set up if they don't care about um The other side of it and they're tinkering it with a free NAS They want to set it and forget it box. The Synology is great for that. It's it's it's kind of a no-brainer pop And in Synology, uh, just use it for the basic features that you have to use case for And this person's like, I just need some storage. I need Plex done Use it. It's a great box for that. It's very affordable. Um, it's a it's a nice, tricky product So it's not as much about comparison. It's kind of like is this all you want to do is there are no limitations And you're fine with it great um If I can get another box, uh, I'm gonna stick another nick in it and uses my free NAS box. Cool. Yeah Because why not? So yeah, it's just Any one thing you talk about in tech it's there's so many options out there And it's not that these other options are wrong Sometimes it just comes down to personal preference So the way you like the menus laid out the way you like the features laid out That's going to judge or push you and be the judging factor of how you decide which products you're going to use Um, it's like when you come down to phones or things like that. It's not that they're dramatically different They're all based on that same snapdragon. You're like, oh, but I need two cameras in the back or one camera Do you have a need for two cameras? Do you care about it? Does that matter to you at all or are you just going? I just want something dials and makes phone calls and I can reply to emails on Well, now you narrow you lower the bar so much you can go with a cheap phone You don't need the pixel 2xl for that. So, uh, yeah, that's It's it is hard choosing tech. Uh, we were talking about the day like when you build a new computer AMD intel do I go with this build that build which video card do I do? I mean the choices are endless in here in the end Both of them may play the game at the same frame rate and the the price difference may be very Nominal between them to get the same game at the same frame rate. And it's always a joke. I love, uh reddit pc master race It always makes me laugh, but it is it's like you the the game isn't even playing the game on the computer It's about choosing the computer. Sometimes it's more of the game than the actual game itself So and it comes with any tech, um, switches People don't talk as much about it, but it's one of those things if you don't have much more than just even just a couple vlans Or could a smart switch you had no vlans all you have a flat network like at home And you go i'm not even second writing my network in any way Why would you buy any that you just go with that? But then when you look at the cheap switches You're like do I buy this brand or that brand? They both run a gigabit I did some testing because I was curious. I grabbed a handful of random switches a tp link A sysco and something else. I want to say what I did by testing. I did never did a video on this But they were all less than 1% away from each other in speed That's not enough to even do a video over you're talking about a 1% variance in speed between expensive brand and cheap brand switches Not features just dumb switches They becomes kind of a no-brainer for some of this stuff. So What are you gonna do? Yeah, I'm alive. I didn't uh make a video for a few days. That's definitely an issue, right? Uh Zone liner zone liner. I didn't like I didn't feel it was a very complete project. There's a couple new projects I can't remember at the moment That are looking a little bit better open source nbr is really hard. There's not been a big push for it I the demand is kind of there That's part of the problem. It's also really hard to write nbr systems. It's not easy You're dealing with a lot of streams. You're dealing with a lot of data You have to figure out how to manipulate and index that data in a reasonable way at scale So i've not seen a lot of I'm not seeing a lot of uh good open source projects on that I think it's just a really challenging project with not enough people focused on it From the open source. I'd love to see it, but I don't know Yeah, that's it is. I don't know that there's going to be a problem Like sell switches. I've used them. They're fine Uh plan on doing a videos on exact vision They're really tough to do because we don't have an exact vision server. We deploy exact vision servers We've deployed them for large. We've put a lot of them for school districts I can't show you the videos on those I would have all kinds of Potential legal pitfalls just bringing cameras into schools with minors and filming issues and things like that Matter of fact, I laugh. Casey Neistat He one of his videos he talks about that I thought it was really funny when he's giving kind of a business talk And he talked about how he got in trouble for going to the school and just filming something like uh He had no permission to be there So it caused a problem when he was working for Nike and he's like I didn't know and I so I take cues I know there's probably potential legal issues or things like that So I kind of avoid them by not bringing a camera into school I just don't and that's every exact vision and saw we have is at a school So I can't really I can't review it because it's never made it to our office We delivered them directly to the school. They're big big servers that have hundreds of cameras on them. There's not yeah Whole different thing. Um See what else we got here exactly There's actually Supreme court of canada decision Involving a teacher called filming a female student out of permission. Yeah There's a lot of that. Um Skip Olivia is right. By the way, look up skip Olivia There's a legal blog put together where there's a lot of insight Uh, he that he's been putting together and it's actually been very interesting. I follow it He's actually a long time follower of my YouTube Sends me some interesting things that have sometimes have turned into videos I've mentioned. So I'll definitely go check that out See, I think you can google it. I don't know Well, I'll I'll post that I'm gonna do Some more videos about some of the stuff and about articles posted on skip Olivia's blog Now thoughts on unified protect. I'm going to be sharing my thoughts in there We finally got one and we've been testing it. It's in my lobby The video, uh, we'll make no I think if you look in the thumbnail of this, I don't know if the thumbnail of it or not Either way, there's a unified protect in the in there. So yeah Uh, have I tried wave over exact? No, I have not uh I just hate the sonic wall interface if you want to know why one pf sensors open source two sonic wall is Has a confusing interface. I don't like so that's my answer for sonic wall. I don't like sonic wall at all I was amazing and lord of the rings. I have no idea what that means at all I I don't get the reference I'm maybe it flies over my head I am going to keep this going a little bit longer Is there uh, I'm not that I'm running out of things to talk about but I am uh, slowly running out of beer Well, not ran on whiskey. I can't drink too much whiskey. I won't dare Uh, will they allow it in docker? No, not likely at all Um, I don't predict that they'll put it in docker I think unify is I don't know where they're going with this They're unfortunately not the best people about releasing good roadmaps. I think they put things out to market like this as a test Um, here's the other thing. They're actively updating the other software. There's a 3.10 version We haven't updated to it yet because we're waiting a couple days and gotta find some downtime But they're actively updating the other software as well So unified protect is getting updates and the other software is getting updates the other software though Is the one you build yourself which creates its own challenge and thank you Oscar for mentioning that I use a wiki server documentation that is still true We still use the wiki server documentation That is still our main documentation method because it's one of the easiest ways I've seen to do documentation and have an internally hosted server with not Not any external access so we can keep it very locked down very limited number of people use it Not even all my staff has access to it. Um, that's how we yes We have a video on exactly how we're using it for management. Uh, it's an important kind of integral piece for that Uh The pfs document based off looks cool. Let's learn that yet So hopefully that's helpful on that part of it. Um, what was I gonna say? I got my my train my thought train got derailed uh Are you gonna do a video getting started pfs at 2019 video my 2018 video is absolutely relevant So there's not I don't know if I'm going to do a 2019 because there's not any changes that have happened since I did My 2018 video. Um, it's all the same version. There had been some subversion changes But they're mostly like updates to things not adding any new there's not been any dramatic feature changes or not Been any dramatic interface changes. Um, it's more like tweaking and tuning features In updating to newer versions, but not really adding any major breakthroughs in terms of menus So my 2018 video was absolutely relevant Maybe I'll redo it because people like it. Maybe I'll retitle my 2018 video to 2019. I could do that Uh Oh pf sense firewall rules and the details. Yeah so the um I'm going to be doing go reviews on like I think one of the things I like that they're focusing on Over at netgate is they want to bring pf sense to the masses. Um pf sense does uh Oh did one of the coders from pf sense Yeah, I think one of the engineers I don't know the details, but yes, I think that happened So, uh, I can't remember the person's name one of them did Switch companies, uh, there's honestly, there's not a lot of people that know how to design firewalls That's firewalls are critical to the to infrastructure, but good firewall designers are few and far between It's not easy to be a firewall designer. Um I mean, it's not impossible. It's something one of you could learn. So yes. Yeah That's absolutely a uh something that I think there's probably a competition between these companies to hire each other across there on there Uh, can you update pf senses you two for to always have error messages? Look those error messages up on their forums. You gotta figure out why they're uh, do I will I do a video on tns? Or I don't know I've not really messed with it and they're not Their documentation on it's fairly poor. So I've not really done much with it. I don't know where they're going with it Um, I don't know why they don't have like maybe I'll have to watch maybe they've done some release videos on it That I just haven't taken the time to watch Oh, look at you it Like I said, it's on my to-do list. That's why I'm yawning getting a little tired. It's uh Nine o'clock and I've been up since four a.m So I'm slowly not enough on you here Uh, let's see. So maybe I will do a video on it one time Um, it's kind of like on my to-do list, but not on today's to list and not any not It's not in the queue at all. I've not done any research on tnsr to really uh to give you a concise video on it Yeah, go through all my I have an entire things on there. Um The on pf sense, so there's a ton of videos I have on it are great Um that you can really go through and learn a lot of partner. Uh, oh, yeah, thank you very much on the 50k subscribers Yeah, heavy recommendations on defcon videos or specific defcon presenters to look into I'm going to say watch them all but that's obviously not reasonable or rational at the time. Um, I will be uh, I would probably j streets videos are amazing J street or j y s o n. I think that's how he spells it. You can find jason street. Oh, they're good Oh, yeah, plenty of more xcp and g videos. They just updated to 7.6 point Three that added ext4. I have to do a video on that. It's on my to-do list. I talked about it They added two things that are really important. They're added better compression for the backups. They added also, um The ext4 so your lvm volumes are always stored in a ext3 format So they moved and added ext4 so they're definitely that's going to be a big improvement It's all those things that citrix never wanted to push upstream to the zen server So i'm really happy that oliver lambart. He's one of the head programmers For the xcp and g project and for the norks project and they pushed it all upstream So i'm going to be doing a video on that soon. Um, I need to just do some comparisons I just got to get the time to do it so I can show you the difference like I could tell you the difference Now that's also in a blog post. I want to show you the compression difference And I want to learn myself the compression differences between them and talk about how the backups work. So Uh To-do lists, I thought my list was long until I share what should be When I'm only giving you my video to-do list because I think it's relevant to you My to-do lists of clients to follow up on Taxes need to be done. I have to have my corporate filing by march 15th. I got most all that finished I just finished my p&l for january every month. So I have a really long to-do list For my business outside of just what you guys see here on youtube How do I convince my wife that I really need my tech toys start a company? Then you'll have all the tech toys you want. You won't even know what to do with them all So hey, you look I think my daughter's here and I have to go do something about her. So all right I am going to jump off of here Awesome. Thank you for 90 people here at vlog thursday Uh, do I have to go take you to somewhere? Okay Yeah I gotta go do a thing So uh, go hang out with kids. So yeah Have fun talk to all you later Uh, I will see you guys in the next thursday is the next live stream and uh, we'll go from there Later There's the off button