 Alright, we're good. We're good Welcome to vlog Thursday. Hi, I'm back. He's back. Yay. This guy or maybe not. I don't know how to go last week I forgot he didn't even watch it when he's not here. He's like I wasn't part of it there for I will not watch it Basically, yeah, I wasn't even gonna share it, but I was like I probably should probably should share it Even if he wasn't part of it I did I did not get a chance to watch it, but I did like this the screenshot though Steve just chilling legs up like Yeah, and you actually got Kyle in I was very surprised. Yeah Kyle even Kyle's not he wasn't sure you he kept debating whether Now do you want to just have us back to the camera and sitting like where he sits in the other side? So I just said we'll just come over there And he didn't want to be in here and because of the timing of everything that was going on last Thursday We didn't start vlog Thursday till after the store was open. So we're like well to see if any customers come in so But more importantly I have my pumpkin spice latte. Oh, yeah, and we did reverse this. Oh, yeah My jet my test this morning was taking Children to orientation in school. One of my children is still there. She's right over there. Yeah, it's gonna be quiet And so yeah, I passed Timmy Hose and didn't pass my favorite big bees But I will I will I enjoy Timmy Hose to it. Not bad It's just that shows you how the best laid plans of mice and men right I specifically went to Bigby because I'm like, oh we can match today. I'll go to Bigby so that we have the same Nope Yep, that's laid plans. Yeah, but I also wanted a pumpkin spice latte because I'm basic Yeah, and I admit that yep, it's what we enjoy Why not do the things we enjoy So good pumpkin spice latte so so good. Oh, I gotta grab a thing. Okay, then we forgot about oh the shirts, right? There's those talk about shirts. I'm too lazy to put it on at the moment I forgot I was gonna put it on before we'll put them on next time these shirts say free Nass and the reason they say free Nass and IX systems is because this is our whole plan. We really don't like free Nass We just kept playing with it and deploying it all these clients in hopes of finally get free. Yeah, and it's finally starting to pay off We've got our free swag. This is all it was No because of our free Nass the people over at IX systems that Implement this they enjoyed our video of destroying free Nass, which we would try to come up with some more videos on that To try to get you know to do some more data Destruction we're trying to get the bad memory thing to work I actually shot a video trying to get the bad memory thing to work We kind of corrupted the free Nass system and I say kind of because the whole thing doesn't work anymore So it didn't exactly corrupt as much as that computer quit working And we really been trying with the bad memory thing every time I put bad memory Even when I'm running a scrub or any of the other things are supposed to crash free Nass It crashes the OS so I have not been able to simulate now I know a lot of people have sent me that they've had this problem where they have bad memory And that's what caused the free Nass system get corrupted I have just had the hardest time because it keeps doing an OS level crash and we're talking I put lots of RAM in I've done a lot of stuff and it's so hard first We can't get install a bad RAM at all always fails So we're able to get some bad RAM to do it But it just kept we can never get any thorough testing because he spent all day rebooting the stupid computer Because it would just lock up or it will not really lock up It would the equivalent of a boot screen in free BSD when it would just Kernel dump and wouldn't accept any more commands So I was never able to get the result of I'm trying to corrupt the hard drive Because every time the memory had an error we would get a kernel error And I couldn't get the computer do anything more reboot it and it would come up fine And so I was never able to get the corruption done in what they are right though When you initiate the scrub of the hard drive is what would cause the kernel dump because it wouldn't use all the memory Until you did that and once you did that that it was just dumb and so it never really destroyed the hard drive So we never really we didn't finish publishing a video because it was like it was a pain in the butt Plus the computer we use was such a pain in her butt because it just didn't boot all the time It was random. It just said I'm just not coming out even with good memory in it So that was yeah, that was a problem because the bad memory on newer motherboards just it weren't it just says It's bad and won't count it and it stops. So Yeah, but they drew us a shark the logo. It's awesome. Yeah, and I handwritten. No folks. Yeah, that's that's a loose leaf paper Yes, a loose leaf paper. No, they actually sent this a little while ago and there was an incident with the box and The box got delivered to our Detroit address, but not to the Detroit suite so I Actually purposely don't have the Detroit suite on there And it's for retail reasons because we don't want people thinking that's where the retail location We said it's not we said it's only business only office but We purposely kind of omitted this week So we don't want mail going there and I just did not tell the Frayn asked people that when they said we sent you some shirts They described the Detroit address our Southgate address is where you want to ship things to because we have the complete address on there So when you send the shirts and swag send it to the Southgate address 14140 Pennsylvania Road Southgate, Michigan 48195 Because that's a single-level building that we have right here in the beautiful city of Southgate. Six signs on it and everything But it brings up to an email I got from someone and it it's a psychology thing at the same time as it is a Way things are doing it is a psychology of it. Okay, so people say Tom You seem in a valid email. You seem to have a lot of success when others seem maybe have not had success on running some of these Enterprise applications and things like that on consumer hardware. I said, that's where the concept breaks down very quickly So I've been in the computer industry for 22 years and this is the psychology part of it I have let go of the notion of I've got a phone from XYZ company And it was bad therefore every product from XYZ company is bad And that is a that is a hole that technicians just fall into all the time. I Can't ever maybe there's other issues are like this I'm just too deep into the tech one But I will tell you I meet opinionated texts and there's already some of you probably watching it know those greybeard texts They're like, oh, yeah, they once had a thing that worked and it's the only thing and it's the only best thing ever I'm never coming off of this old operating system because it's perfect, you know And they they lack any concept the progress and how that relates to the motherboards and things like that So consumer hardware has long been problematic. It failed. We used to replace memory all the time That was a common thing and I started out at the end of the sip era for those who know what type of memory that is then into the sim era and Memory we used to have and if you remember these things old memory testers that you would plug in Physical devices outside the computer. You didn't test the memory in the computer. You tested with memory testers I mean, it's like the tube testers like it anyone knows like what But because of that and just the engineering and the levels of things But then we had the the capacitor to boggle that didn't affect the server world because they never used that formula Well, it's a little bit But then the consumer hardware was very much affected by that all these iterations and generations later Consumer hardware today is so much like the server hardware of only a few years ago And it just doesn't have those failure rates that it used to have so Because it's so much more reliable. It's let it's not that I'm having success I'm just using new hardware that just has it much much lower failure rates Based on the motherboards we choose and things like that. So there's the entire Concept in it's a psychology so many people say but it says consumer the areas become super gray For those things. It's not like this is the pro version that's it's not always is black and white anymore So things have gotten cheaper easier to manufacture faster to manufacture, right? So and we get better at manufacture I'm just overall there's been a lot of progress made and things are more reliable than ever It's true. It's very very true So it's it's just an interesting concept So it is still about choosing it and there is when the budget allows, you know And it's discussions come up a lot of times So your data needs to be on more than one place at a time. That is a huge thing So you should have a replicated copy onsite and a replicated copy copy off site and in revisions of it at both Locations that's this just standard principles of backup But if I spent my entire budget building the ultimate server that should never fail But I still have now no more budget to build a second replicated copy onsite. I Didn't really improve the customer I may have lowered the risk by using higher-grade hardware, but I didn't eliminate the risk that they need of doing that So you if the budget says look I only have $4,000 $3,000 to spend that's all I can spend we need to get this thing done So we can grow as a company so we can have more money later and upgrade then we go, okay Here's the best solution build this rate array on you know decent equipment But don't you know, but then build another machine that copies it So we can have two copies of everything with their visioning on it That's a lesser machine, but it keeps a duplicated copy and so have their outside backup copy I've now taken that budget and Created a better system. Yeah, you're not you're you're doing them a disservice by creating the un Corruptible or the on the uncrashable server, right that Titanic was an unsinkable shape But then the argument is using the old servers and one of the problems I I really the old servers are such power hogs what it will cost them an electricity They will not save the you electric bill goes up everything goes up and being old servers It's harder to find parts from when you use consumer hardware. It's really easy to find parts I can go grab a motherboard from Micro Center and have a server running the same day not to mention I have some other words on the shelf right now By the way, we're lucky Micro Center's on the street from us. So it's like it's an easy thing That's a relative term down the street about 45 minute drive down the freeway down the freeway up the freeway up the freeway Yeah, and with traffic it sucks. We go at night, but Luckily, they're open till how late are they open are they them tonight? Yeah, I thought they were opening later than that with all these things being said that is how the rationale now I like really high-end stuff and we have a lot of clients that we put those in You know we did that medical place which unfortunately like I said when they started putting all their hardware And we couldn't film there anymore, and we just did a chemical factory which has some really nice equipment We put in and we there's all these little things going on like this So it's not like we're not using high equipment just if the budget allows it. We're Finishing up a project for a client That they built one hell of a server and I mean the reality is when I build a server like that It's just for it. We just get a Dell because it's easier and Dell has a five-year warranty and a lease agreement They have a super low lease payment with a one dollar buyout after five years It's it's costing them so little for this server that has a sticker price of seven grand Yeah, so and because they were able to negotiate with Dell's finance on some of the stuff because they got that and got a Bunch of computers why why would we buy them? You know we just help spec out the server and we're setting it up for remote access Which I might try to figure out a way to do a review of this I set them up with duo security And it's just so nice the if you haven't heard of duo. They're a pretty amazing company That's kind of expanded very rapidly filling in the space of two-factor authentication for things that need two-factor Where the companies haven't wrote it. I'm looking at you Microsoft Like why does RDP and Microsoft not have normal two-factor. This is like does a missing thing. Oh, so Anyways, that's yeah, it's a great stuff So I do have a lot of reviews in the pipeline, but all the things related to deploying all these servers have kept me really busy and because I kind of muddle through it and not a Concise fashion Setting these things up occasionally. I didn't make a video about setting up a server 2016 with RDP like I want to But if you watch me do it sometimes it is a oh man this and this and this So like I engineered it and I got it all done, but it's just yeah It's not as exciting to be in a while. Maybe it is maybe you guys really so Tommy should really do a video on it We'll do some we'll do some insert cuts to like dancing and we'll have a musical number of some kind Just gonna spice it up a little bit if you watch me work There's Google in one window and then I'm doing the thing in it or I don't I got like some step-by-step Google instruction to one side no joke. I saw read instructions, but this Yeah this here is A test board that we use for some virtualization stuff. I'm working on we may be migrating everything to Zen I've been testing a lot with it and I'm gonna do I'm gonna do a Zen video for sure For the virtualization, but yeah, that's this is on my project list. We need something We're probably gonna build with the Ryzen we're gonna build a high-end system So that's kind of a fun thing that I got as a project We're gonna move all our stuff over but I need something so I can start doing I think there's probably enough people asking for some of the videos on Windows Server stuff We you know, I'm a very big Linux guy, and I love sharing all the Linux stuff The reality is I you know, what do I do at my day job deploy servers for clients that can't run Linux stuff? Because their app was written for Windows. No, we saw we just spent 10 minutes talking about Consumer-grade products and yeah what not you have to include Microsoft in there. Yeah Yeah, so as much as we run a Linux stack and everything in house this That is quite a that it balances like really well. That's like really cool So anyways back to you back to actually round yeah, yes, there's videos coming on that I may do some Microsoft videos. Oh by the way and my podcast is That's some other podcasts that I do we just interviewed one of the Microsoft developers for the Azure app So I thought about maybe I'll do some Azure videos I didn't find a lot of them and I'm like, I wonder if you probably demand for this and because I'm actually interviewing the people I tested them and now I don't really have any Azure deployments myself for what we do most of our stuff is on-prem equipment even though we do virtualization everything's generally on-premise or In the enterprise level that we work with with some of our clients their vendor hosts it in whatever cloud platform they want So we don't usually deal directly with spinning up the servers But we're we're getting more into doing that So I've been looking at this. I may do some Azure videos, but the interview we did with Nazdom Nazdom. Lala, I think was his name super nice guy The interview went really well We had a lot of technical questions especially because the other co-host on the podcast some work in compliance level industries where We had to ask a lot about the data storage stuff. Yeah, that's one. Hold on Cory Come walk around here behind us real quick By the way, this is what it's like working with Tom all day all shiny thing. Hey, come here Yeah, you have no head squat. Yeah squat down so you can wave at the crowd Here's Cory everybody Cory snuck in and he's gathering just actually it was a big pile of stuff that Cory's gonna go install now Yep We're gonna do a what it's like to work at large systems video and everyone's gonna be part of it brace yourself I got home at 1 20 in the morning. See he get home at 1 20 in the morning He's that's the dedication that he has he does he worked until 1 o'clock in the morning To make sure make them dollars. Yeah hustle them dollars. Mm-hmm. Actually. We look what time was the text from you? Dollar dollar bills Yep Yeah, that's that's just all he rolls. Yes at 1209 this one in me. Oh, I did I replied So that's when he finished one of the jobs you're working on where it's no joke Cory likes working at night I haven't rolled out the possibility that he's part vampire That's yeah, I'm not I'm not saying he is I'm not saying he isn't yeah, but he could be He doesn't sparkle like a vampire though. He does not sparkle. I hear that's in so Vampires don't sparkle. I'm just gonna go ahead and put that out there You are no Robert Pattinson sir No one will ever mistake you for Robert Pattinson, but that's a video I want to work on we're gonna Turn the camera on every individual employee without me there and I'll let them say something And then I'm gonna decide how I want to edit it like will I even watch it or I'll just string them all together I'll let Marvin like just string them or whatever you guys say and then I'll watch it on YouTube So I'll release it to you guys They said that over reaction reaction video of me watching what we should do like an undercover boss thing You should dress up Some other costume and pretend to be somebody else. Yeah, we were a bigger company will work instead We will we will just let you guys record things and publish it on YouTube and then I watch it on YouTube We'll do like a confessional booth like this is real world still on is that she'll still on we'll do we'll do it in a Super Mario bathroom Yes, we'll do a confession I like it that would be funny Yeah, we should cut this off though because we all have stuff to do we all have stuff to do battling on Yeah, as much as I preach it all the time and once again history repeats itself and I repeat myself There's a server over there is running some type of diagnostics Turns out they wanted to run the backups themselves In yeah, or something the other IT company You know managed it for them and no one ever stopped to test it and if you have in An untested backup you just have some hopeful thinking well turns out they backed up last in May of 2015 September checking of 2017 sorry Just about we're last day of August. Okay, so pretty much September They're missing a couple years with the data if we can't of 15 May of 2015 Wow Yeah, so and they discovered that when they tried to restore it That's why it's now here and we're working on recovering it once again has a radar a has all the right things It's completely messed up and we're seeing what we can do with it, but it does have a radar a it's it's a redundant drive Oh, by the way enterprise hardware it is an HP Pro why at top-end server with you know 24 gigs of ACC memory like this is not a it's got a zeon processor It's all the things that everyone wants to harp on me about like oh you gotta use enterprises Yeah, this is top enterprise and it's corrupted and sitting on my desk because they didn't have a backup, so yeah oops Their budget would have better been better allocated to buy a consumer. Yeah And paying for a really high quality backup point proven Thank you. Thank you the defense rests. Yeah, we'll relieve one more thing. I'm gonna come over here Give that look Yeah, that is a valid point actually Yeah, so I Gotta deal with my daughter, but I told her she could be on the vlog She's she counts her dad's credibility based on number of subscribers Much fun. That's that's fine. I think it's good like you're not a cool dad until you have at least me subscribers as the youtubers I like well how many subscribers do you have well? I watch PewDiePie, so Yeah, I don't have any subscribers Why I don't post anybody. Oh, well you should the level of your father's pride in you depends on how many subscribers you have You know, that's how we motivate I really don't care you're like, oh you're at 500 I could be a hated child and be like cool. Whatever. I was like hey How many of the other kids you go school with have dads on YouTube at all? Well, their dads are never Well, I'm a home dad. Yeah, so ouch. We just oh things are getting real. Yeah Cori's already making faces at us All right, thanks for watching like and subscribe all as of today. I know there's well over 9,100 there's a lot of you that is awesome I'll be a 10,000 pretty soon. Yes more videos coming. We have a three-day weekend holiday coming up here in America, so America so maybe I'll get a couple more videos done on Monday because even though the business may be closed I usually come in for this videos Tom. That's what Tom does. Yeah, I love making this up And I have all the stuff that I've started but because I've actually had to work It's Labor Day, so Tom will be hard at labor making videos I'll be hard at labor making videos some people are barbecuing But I'm also here at 6 30 every morning and we're recording our podcast till this weekend because that doesn't stop except this morning Well, that's cuz I had kids well Just kids children. I rolled I rolled up and I was like really not here I so I so you know said he was late because yeah, but I still beat him here though. Yeah by like two minutes Listen go back over there right over there go bye