 So I've never done this from my phone, but I have a feeling my phone's bandwidth is better than my home's bandwidth Which is a sad state of affairs So vlog Thursday is really messed up today due to all kinds of fun Which I'm gonna do some videos about which they include security breaches Not by us at all. This is the unfortunate Happening of clients so some clients Unfortunately, our client acquisition process occasionally is I have a security breach and I'm in trouble And I don't know who to call but I found you because my friend recommended you and it turns into a complete disaster So that's kind of a problem and I ended up jumping in on conference calls I ended up just everything that could have been went wrong did go wrong I'm trying to see sorry if I'm if I'm looking over here It's because I can see you, but I don't know how to interact in Message people while I'm doing this so I'll answer your questions, but I can't see I don't know how to on YouTube live I guess I could try to type while I'm doing it But I have to move the phone around which is the feed so that just seems like it'd be a big mess So I'm seeing over here to see if they're live stream. Can I? Can I look and do it from here? I'm I'm learning. We're all learning together. That's the important part about this. I Want to see if I can do the live from here So will it show my live so I can interact and type on the keyboard, but then engage with you here on the phone Let me look it doesn't look like it does that unfortunately well, that's that's a shame Because my goal would have you see to be to interact with you guys on my live stream for my channel I see all you guys hold on So here's the other challenge All messages here we go and move the camera up a little so we don't see inside your nostrils Yeah, okay. I'll work on that a second Nobody really wants to see inside my nostrils. Don't worry. I get it Let me see can I view my channel and Can I see myself lie? I won't be able to type that's when I'm working on it right now So hold bear with me is briefly as possible Hey, look there it is and will it let me lie interact wise with people No Well, this is aggravating. I want to type to you guys. I want to interact directly. Oh, here we go Hey, it lets me do it here. All right. Hey, Rochester, New York. That's awesome. I and I have a Collin from Singapore awesome. I can I can keyboard over here. I can hello from over here now We're doing good now now. We're gonna fix the nostril issue. You're going on top. Oh, by the way Hey, this is interesting This is my gaming rig that is ahead and that's a What is this? I forgot this thing does How does how does this thing work? Yeah, if you want to know what it's like to be at Tom's house Okay, my house is weird. Anyways, yes, my house is red. That's the thing Crap, you know what this ain't gonna work. I'm just gonna move it over a little bit Sorry about the nostril thing maybe I'll lower the chair a little bit. You'll be less at nostril level I don't want to get too far away from the Yeah, there we go I don't get too far away from the camera or the audio will probably really get bad Anyways as I started to say today was Well, I won't use profanity, but I will talk about the whiskey I'm drinking So Client breaches. Yeah. Well potential client new clients coming in. This is kind of what happens to occasionally So the biggest thing in it and many of you know this you work at it your client acquisition process frequently becomes emergencies A bullet rye for those who wondering what risky that is rye. There we go. Anyways client emergencies Potential client emergencies. What happens is clients get themselves in lots of trouble Despite the advice I give them despite the suggestions I have Um, and these are unmanaged clients. You're not clients that we are dictating IT technology for where they've delegated to us These are your break fix on managed clients. Well, occasionally they do things Uh, like not follow any of your advice at all And when they don't do things like that, then you end up with uh, hey, I'm in a whole lot of trouble And I violated HIPAA. We had a security breach Like everything went wrong that like you proposed to fix but didn't do And uh Yeah, so what happened was I ended up on a conference call trying to he um Navigate this for them. I'm not legal counsel. As a matter of fact, my my ended advice after my advice after getting on the conference call and Uh, talking with them and dealing with all the trouble they're in was you one are going to need a attorney By the way, because you did definitely break some laws here When it comes to compliance and I am not an attorney as I can say it's you should get an attorney That's as far as my legal advice goes, but I help them. I'm going to help them with the cleanup We're going to put in a remediation process. Uh, so but these type of things uh to this week now And these are both new clients kind of sort of people we know that weren't actual clients But are really willing to talk about security now they've been breached So, uh, that has been my process and unfortunately those just took precedence and all that happening Um really took a notch out of my day and cut into vlog Thursday Yeah, I can't even talk anymore about this stuff because it's HIPAA related breaches So, yeah, it's definitely HIPAA related. Um big big mess. Um Well, you're right. They do ask your opinion and here's the thing. Here's what happens Some of my best clients are clients that were previous breach Why because there's no question. There's not tom being scary They legit know how expensive a breach is they know expensive of data loss and they go, hey um I understand the cost of this. Let's make it fixed. So I want to run my business and you can run the it And it's good. So it's one of those things that you're I'm playing the long tail of that game of some people I wouldn't even talk to a client like that. Well, there's times I cut them off There's times I go, I'm not dealing with you because you are and I see someone call them an ass coal Yes, some of those people are just lots of asking but not any doers So, yeah, those are people you got to figure out where to cut them off But these clients I knew if we keep working them along and I don't want them to have a security breach It's unfortunate when it takes a security breach Uh for them to go wow security's real dude. I'm like, yeah You know, it's kind of um It's it's unfortunate when it has to come to that sometimes they just have it happen to someone they know Or did this decide to get serious about it because they see the risk of things. So yeah, it can be a mess So that's the why Vlog Thursdays running late. So let me look here. Uh, yeah, we email internally, but don't I can't give them an email to stand outside their station Ah, you know, it's even more than that with HIPAA. It's not even about internal emails is about understanding where you have personal identification Maybe I'll do some talks on HIPAA. Maybe I'll get some people on that are more an expert than me Um, I'm always I tread lightly and people have to do HIPAA videos I'm like, you know, I very much tread lightly on those subjects I don't want to talk out of turn of anything. I mean, I got the concepts. I've done some of the training, but I really want to go um, I I I'm I'm hyper uh sensitive about the accuracy of any knowledge I put out there This is something I care a lot about when I put things up for my youtube channel I care a lot about the accuracy of all those things to make sure Um That I'm accurate. So that's when I when I pause on why and I'll even go a little bit further Like when people say hey, tom do a review of this if I can't Give you an honest review. I don't do the review at all. That's an important aspect of how I plan to keep my channel It's a reason my channel doesn't have a ton of sponsors. It's really interesting growing a tech channel means the sponsors keep reaching out to me more and more Uh, I'm I'm slow and hesitant to just take them on I don't want to buy it's that one of my friends asked me if the sysco video I did recently was sponsored and I'm like, no, no, um that's You know, no, I I don't uh debt was not sponsored and that's because I didn't want it to be sponsored I wanted to just me given honest review of sysco. I don't hate the product thing like that I do start out with saying hey, I have a bias towards uh unified because I like and we do deployments and then but I don't think this is a bad product and it's one of those weird divisiveness people think if you like This you must hate that. I'm like, no, no, no, that isn't how the world works Maybe in your head that's how it works. Maybe that's how politics and all kinds of other things work to you If you hate one thing or love one thing you hate the opposite of that thing or you even think the opposite of that thing Is hate and it's not it's mostly indifference. So For a ramblin off topic So the video um today and the reason is called rfq for floppies is my Screenshot for the proper vlog Thursday that was supposed to be a live stream that broke. I don't know. I tried on my laptop It fell apart in about the first two minutes and I'm like, uh So that that whole mess uh over there was because an rfq for floppies is the title of an email I received this morning That made me smile and the reason it made me smile So I we work a lot in manufacturing and I did a video talking about the old tech We work with all the time and I'm like, okay, I'm gonna take it a step further I need to do it off some follow-up videos because like rfq for floppies There's a reason why and it's because all these cnc machines and everything else are using floppy drives to make these things happen so It's it's really interesting. Um that there are all these little old components that are manufacturing parts that you uh are using today and You know in manufacturing and They're running on these old machines. There's a whole reason for and they're not worried about security breach or compliance I mean, this this stuff runs DOS. This stuff is really really old So it's really interesting to see all this. I'm gonna do some follow-up videos I did this whole video on old tech. So I'm gonna do that and um You know, it just runs on some really old technology. Hey my daughter's home So in case you guys are hearing other noises because I usually don't vlog from home But I didn't feel like driving all the way back to my office. I had to bring my son food My daughter is now home. You know, I got kids and all that fun stuff. So um Yeah, it's what we'll sing so I'm gonna do some follow-up videos on it And I they need more floppy drives and they're not really maybe they're manufacturing I don't know. We'll see we hunt this stuff down off ebay. That's where a lot of this comes from And I'm honest with my clients about it. We we just do all the proofing and testing off ebay Matter of fact, the project we're working on with this same client They're not big on youtube, obviously They're not real tech savvy the fact that they're running old stuff But they also at the same time they manufactured a big manufacturing company I posted maybe a couple pictures on my twitter about them, but it's all about building these really old systems and They in keeping them running because there's not a reason to replace them One of them they're a big screw manufacturer like they make screws and bolts and nuts Well, the machine that makes them is like 30 years old or 40 or 40 years old There's not a reason to replace the machine. It works. It's the screws haven't changed. They still got to screw in their machine screws So buying a new machine that's wi-fi connected is not really in the budget and not necessary Each one of these machines is roughly $70,000 a piece. I think they got like a hundred of them. Maybe more I don't know. There's a lot of them and so they manufacture the parts they manufacture on them And so they run all this old equipment and then we do the legacy support for that So it's kind of interesting manufacturing in Detroit. Um, I seen the questions are why uh, Free NAS as a domain controller Uh, I've never tried it. I seen a checkbox for I don't know any details about free nasa domain controller Whenever we integrate free nas into an active directory environment, generally active directory Is the head end of that environment whether they have an Active directory server on-premise or they're running it in off-premise in tied together or vpn We join free nas to the active directory system Is lover hate after directory it is in the market if you work in it and you work at all with Your windows servers you're going to run an active directory And you're going to run into if you store servers free nas is very proper solution At least among many of the people we talk to because we talk about the product a lot So that's clients that contact us. So with that um It's one of those whole things of yes, you can probably do it is that but generally speaking you're going to run into Uh free nas not being the head end of the network, but delegated from active directory So free nas does use samba it is belt on standard opens our samba But then its head end will be tied to active directory so you can have Uh the whole system integrated because generally they're going to be running a windows computer because You know your operating system isn't dictated by your choices They're dictated by where the enterprise software you're using is so most enterprise platforms love it or hate it It uses windows. That's why we work in windows so much I can't say it's the year that everyone's going to switch to linux s top Well, they have a lot of apps they use that run on windows and until that uh, those companies decided to port that over from windows to um You know a linux platform. It's not going to happen. Um I have no interest. I don't know what the uh charlie brown eu is talking about about censorship I am not on that topic right now. Um, you can have that topic somewhere else What a what do you think about zen server with three vms one samba? uh active directory samba smb files here um Zen server with three vms one samba ad i i don't have thoughts on that I don't understand the question i'm i'm very unclear on that sleep i don't sleep So my daughter's going to join the live stream for a second Yes, oh, she's making faces Just wave hi Get a look down a little If people are all right, that's my daughter Anyways Yeah, so I am a legit at home actually there's my tv in the background I don't know. I don't know did anyone do any of you care about my home tech at all? Does that matter? I don't know some people ask you about it. I'm like I don't think anything because I don't have any home automation I have a light switch because I don't think I need to connect it to some amazon thing or anything like that Hey, by the way for those of you asking about os2 warp I do talk about os2 warp because one of my clients right now is running os2 warp to manufacture all the cabinet faces that they make They make cabinet faces and and they're a wholesaler for larger companies Uh So there is all that out there Uh, do you know about petas saying sef and it seems pretty good? um So i'm not a sef storage expert, but guess what I do have um I uh do have a friend who's really has done some large deployments with sef I he if I can find and Write out some time from him. He maybe will do a video on sef Uh deployments. I mean, I'm generalized familiar with it. We don't have any active clients with it So this goes back to the honesty of my channel If I'm not an expert or at least have a good working knowledge of the product that I'm not really going to review it Because review them would be very Like anyone else just looking I mean I have my opinions because I've been working in tech But I don't generally jump on products that I have no use for just to cover them in general Uh, that's the same thing with like os reviews people asking about because I'm not a distro hopper I'm a linux guy who doesn't hop distros so I don't oh every distro in depth But mary who is on our sunday morning linux review. She's one of the co-host mary does a really good job And so does uh j who's been joining our sunday morning linux review So if you're into linux reviews both of them really have a methodical great process for reviewing distros That and we do it on a sunday morning list you look at our fresh looks episodes. You'll frequently find reviews of distributions So it's two in the uk college tomorrow. So Hey, thanks for watching me at 2 a.m in the uk. Well, one of my hacker friends is in the uk right now hacking stuff Maybe I want to get him on the channel because he's really fun. Um, he's he travels A bit and does a lot of hacking stuff. He's he's really interesting. He's just not big on channel Uh, it's 237 england woke up to pee and saw an email that he was live Will be work is overrated It might not work servers are the most you laugh and last longer. That's really really tough I won't lie. Um, I don't hate on many servers I haven't seen a lot of when it comes to enterprise equipment most of it was very well designed whether you get it from hp Lenovo Dell Um super micro. Yeah, I know they're controversial but All for the most part most of the servers and this is why there's so much server plus server equipment you can find Is because it lasts so damn long You can find retired servers That were in service for five years that still have plenty of life left in them because it's this enterprise equipment It's made to be taken out when it's obsolete Not when it falls apart. Uh, so generally you replace servers out of obsolescence So for the most part, I can't see any particular server. I mean there's there's gonna be a couple runs of servers You'll find some person who had a problem with uh, but for the most part most enterprise equipment actually is like the name implies enterprise and well built So let's see what you got can you report? Uh, can you repost a link? Uh, I lost the link If you just google smlr or look at my twitter account, you can find any of this Sunday morning in the next review I try to tweet all the episodes Uh easy enough to find it's smlr.us What price I'm gonna do some pricing videos soon. I've talked about it a bit, but yeah Have you seen any Ryzen based server racks with ecc? It's not Ryzen that you're gonna see I know that uh level one text has been talking about Ryzen ecc It's the epic series processors that support that so I'm not yeah Um, that's not my niche specifically, but Wendell has some great in-depth videos The guy's wicked smart on that stuff uh talking about Ryzen and how it works at ecc Wendell from level one text if you're not familiar with him go get familiar. He's a smart dude 340 a.m. And another one's awesome. Oh, sorry Let's see like to the show your thoughts and really easy review of the sg 100 um My comment was on that I didn't I think I watched most of his video on it. I didn't get in depth on it I've reviewed the sg 30 100. I like it It's a neat device. I've actually deployed a couple of them lately because the sc sg 30 100 come out that's been my more go-to pf sense box for Clients that looking for a pf sense. I don't think the sg 30 100 is bad But it's certainly and watch my review on the speed test. It has some Issues if you have higher speed internet. It just only can route so fast nature of the beast there I wish you luck. There we go. Is it uh, crow CRO qis before wish me luck for it support management job interview. Yes, absolutely um Best of luck with that get started in a career Uh, yes, Wendell's awesome. I'd love to see a new amd edition hp. Yes Uh 1000 seems underpowered. Yeah, so um Well, let's see. Let me see my previous question on server reliability is because I buy a lot of you server equipment Some brands seem to last longer than others. Um I I've seen some really old hps, but like I said as a rule Like I said, you said you seen some old hps in there. Yeah, but as a rule Most equipment is retired prior to obsolescence So it's I mean prior to failure. It's obsolete before it fails That's my general gist of what I see with server equipment, which is good It's kind of what you want to see. Uh, so you the enterprise market You're going to have a service life cycle of either three or five years with the exception of some of your high-end financial markets They have recycle Equipment changes sometimes annually Due to the high volume nature like we're talking about high volume traders and things like that I've consulted and talked with companies in that market and it's really interesting so um When you configure and deploy unify do you? Deploy with uh, wp enterprise with radius and or so what's radius to the ad that really depends I mean do they have radius or is that the part of the deployment? They need this is going to vary this is going to vary with client to client Um, you know when you do you larger enterprise environments in your school environments where you have a radius server and everything else awesome, but You know if you're doing um more of our work is in this smb market So we see less of those because quantity-wise. Yeah, we're going to deploy to all these small businesses And like the bowling alley Is going to be coming up soon. We're doing it for a whole bowling alley. We're putting it in And I see a bowling alley and you're like bowling. Yeah, really? How many people are going to be there? um about three thousand so It's quite it's going to be a larger deployment in terms of density of wi-fi density of users And we're going to be talking about that Yeah floppy drives for those of you that didn't follow that weren't here the first few minutes. Yes I have an rfq for floppy drives. That's legit the title of the email I received this morning that made me laugh anyways The sepani cloud server. Yeah cloud servers. Yeah, I'm actually I'm reaching out to a couple companies because I want to do some interviews With different companies that provide desktop as a service in the cloud It's a big topic. It's not the solution for everyone, but it is a solution So, uh, yes for being serious about floppies. Uh, I'm gonna do a separate video. Maybe just with that same title You can watch tv or did you want to play games? I can move to somewhere else Do you care? My daughter wants to play video games. I'm sitting at the gaming desk because it's comfortable But I can move because my phone's portable. Should I let my daughter play video games? I'm gonna ask like a hundred people that are online right now They're gonna decide your fate of whether or not you get to play video games. Does my daughter Play video games You keep talking right? Uh, yeah Okay, they're saying my daughter needs to play video games. So good news, Anika. You were in luck Me and my phone Are going this way We're we're moving vlog Thursday Here turn the gaming rig on so we can see how bright it is It's got red lights in it Isn't isn't that exciting it's got a head on it All right, she's gonna play video games, which means I gotta move to the other end of the house Y'all coming with me We're gonna move over to my fire place And hold on and I move this down here. I guess can you turn that for me, Anika? All right. Thank you We gotta turn lights on on the other side of my house You get to walk around my house with me No, I didn't forget my drink. I uh, I'm I'm almost hold on I gotta get more of my drink So for those of you wondering here Oh, I left my mouse All right Vlog Thursday from Tom's house in case you wonder where I live or something Okay, I did lose my cup, but that's okay. I'm just going straight from the bottle now All right, we'll get this set up and now we're at the fire. This is a fireside chat now Uh, there we go Uh, okay, let me catch up because I was carrying things Let's see Let's see. Did did did did okay Uh, make them learn code and see I should make Anika my dog's name is Anika. You gotta go learn how to code That's what they're all telling you now. You should be coding not playing video games I actually think the lighting's better over here by my fireplace That's all this podcast is go That's how this episode is going we're right straight from the bottle because my cup's over there and I'm not getting up again All right, see if she can show her face. What is your experience with sass versus sata drives and like you gotta play Yeah, she has to build her own links gaming rig we get to test my wi-fi my wi-fi so um Let's see what else we got here. There's a lot of messages. Hold on. I would get up for a minute Everyone messages me Do you know any open source scheduling app for tech appointments? No, I don't I use google apps There's a reason I use google apps. It works Uh, satans sass are good. Sada is more for consumers sass for our higher p.m. Drives Yes, though. What that what uh, porters mob said is That uh, uh, bradley standard said is correct. I don't know people are making floppy jays. I don't know Um Thank you. Oh awesome. Uh re-crap. Uh glad you're into zen server awesome No, my daughter did not say f you She just laughed at the thought that you guys told her she should code She's in medical school. So that's her that's her plan. She doesn't following the steps of dad Get pissed with tom. Sure. Why not? Uh, do you neighbors bug you with tech support? No I don't have neighbors Dear, I'm not a ca. Um, so no, I don't run that. I I don't not that. Um We'll we ever get sada for he replaced with ssds. I don't know Uh favorite programming language. I don't have a favorite Uh clothes that I know not much would be okay for jay How about you review a go-tech usb emulator? What is that? I I would have to google what that is You know now i'm bothered by something. Hold on. I'm gonna tilt you guys a bit The the brick line was off That shouldn't matter. I know it shouldn't matter at all You guys are also subject to the battery of my phone Just so you know, I have no idea it doesn't show me the battery display So I have no idea so my phone turns off. That's what that's when this blog ends No favorite because I don't code. Yeah, I don't code a lot by the way in case you guys didn't know I'm not a developer in case that was not cleared by all of the 600 videos I did about not developing. I'm not much of a software developer Platforms to find bid bid boards. I found them useless. I never found any of them. Uh good So one of the things that I hate is everyone's looking for the secret to business and boy So among the other reasons I met my house here at uh, I don't know was it 10 o'clock at night Is has nothing to do with uh, well has done do all the other Excuses I gave for why I'm running late, but it has a lot to do with me being at an event called it and d I've talked about this before it's a networking event and I want to get bob on They run podcast Detroit podcast Detroit.com check them out. They were to send the news There are a couple of my friends and they run some big it organizations And networking events, but one of the things we laugh about is everyone who thinks there's some secret in the industry like Oh, you have all this business tom because you knew about a secret board where you get jobs from Or every startup company that's full of bs that says oh, yeah, this is how it's gonna work The reality is bob's a sales guy and bob will tell you The reasoning he just signed a 15 million dollar deal on it and things like that has nothing to do With oh some magic job board that brought jobs Here's the bottom line for sales and I've talked about this way too many times But I'll still repeat myself because it doesn't sink in People buy from people they like It's really not any more complicated than that It's about relationships and deals when you're dealing with b2b not some cool app or anything like that This is that separate. That's b2c. Generally speaking But for b2b business, it's about going out there. It's about meeting people. It's about getting involved in people and that's Yeah, it's not what you know, it's who you know Sad is that sounds in 2018 My client acquisition process is not because they googled man. I'm in trouble. I need an it guy I know the two clients and I talked about this about 31 minutes to come to very beginning of the video That we're facing breaches They met me because the they're part of a supplier network And they are within this large supplier network that I have of transportation and ancillary support companies Um, what happens is there's this guy he Has us doing all this it work So they go. Hey gary. You seem really happy with your it company. Who does your it? He's like, oh that ton guy does my it So gary referred Dave and dave's company now uses me and then from there Mike's company uses me so on and so forth and that's how we gain clients And reality is I've seen all kinds of magic bs that everyone tries to tell you that you just need to send a linkedin message Correct place where you need to find the right job board posting. Um, the most that what I have found and I've been in business for 15 Years, I'm not like talking out of turn. I'm not telling you this because I just started today And this is how I think about it. This is 15 years of doing Commercial it plus before that I worked in corporate it and I think that's a whole another animal I will tell you client acquisition has a lot a lot to do With who you know and meeting people that's still the important part of it. So uh, it's it is what it is and That is the unfortunate side of the business But there's not any real secrets to it and I'm going to keep doing videos on it because I keep wanting to share people Um, I actually helped uh, what at the it one where I was before this kind of far I got off topic Was I was at the it in the event and we were talking about this and we were talking about sales acquisition Anyway, I really helped a uh, talk about the sales process for a software dev company That I kind of know the guy And he's having struggle. He's struggling with the sales process. So me and bob Just took our time. We had a beer in our hand Matter of fact, and then our his partner dave was bringing us shots and that wasn't good Um, and we ended up just having a great discussion of the sales process You need for a software development company and how you can do that And it's just a tweak on what I do with mine, but it's a hot how create value proposition. So we're going to go um Uh more videos in depth on this topic because I really want to share people like I don't I hate when people do it And it's frequently because they have a sales proposition for you by my magic book for 29 95 And I will tell you the secret of sales. No, you won't by the so Yeah, anyways, I'm quite ranting about that topic. Let me catch up on the messages here Well, let's see what we have tweeted a link for a flop game later. Cool. Thank you. Check my twitter It's in the links. Um, if I'm I try to engage with people on twitter I try to engage with people as human much as humanly possible on facebook Um, and I try to engage via contacts and emails as well just for you guys who are looking for ways besides this to contact me Uh, let's see what else we have Uh, when you're using project five, what network does your primary team? I have no idea. I don't pay attention to what it supports. It really depends on the area It just varies wherever I'm at. Oh, there's a tool. There's an app actually called I think it's called by spy fispy Don't quote me on that. Um, but it will tell you what network you're on. I don't always pay attention to it Um, but right now I'm on a network because my wi-fi wasn't fast enough So I'm broadcasting for my google find network for this video So think about that also offer code look for my google five video Click my offer code gives you a discount gives me a couple bucks. Hey, I'm open about it. Let's uh, let's let's all make money together Uh Let's see Yeah, people want it easy from day one. It's not easy from day one I can I'm gonna do more videos about all my business mistakes. I mean Have I considered micro tick micro tick is interesting? I don't have an interest in it. Um, it doesn't compel me to Uh Use that equipment. So I don't have a compelling reason to use micro tick. So I don't use micro tick Yes business cards still work as bad as that is in 2018 Hey, my wife's home I don't think micro tick's a bad product. So, um, I don't have anything against them I just don't have a compelling reason to use them Uh micro tick routers are okay, but burn ball in the box that used to be true They did fix the vulnerability with their default configuration my uh Attitude about them still is your default configuration was insecure Anyways, that's something I don't forgive companies for easily Uh, is there a way to add large amounts of mac addresses to the wi-fi? Uh in a text file, I don't know. I don't understand that question adding large amounts of mac addresses to a wi-fi You mean like through the dhcp server? Maybe I don't know Uh Edge routers are much better more expensive. I won't say edge routers are that substantially more expensive than uh those so Uh, have you ever or would you ever recommend importing hyper v vms into freenias? No I don't recommend running vms on freenias. I feel as though it's a very beta service Yeah vms in freenias It's not Yeah, anyways, I I I love freenias But not really when it comes to vms. I don't think that's now their jail system is really cool Um, I was just at a meeting about two weeks ago with michael lucas and I've had him on the channel before He's wrote a lot of books on free bsd. He's a huge free bsd guy. He's wrote two books on zfs And he's very uh bullish on open bsd and its functionality Highly recommend them I can come over and visit the live vlog honey. Do you do it here? What did you decide to do it here? I feel like doing this here. I'm doing it for my phone This is my wife for those you have not met her Hello Hey There we go Someone said hi honey She says hi honey back so anyways Greetings from lithomania awesome all the way from lithomania. Actually that was part of the topic of the idd is uh people from foreign places I don't know what it is, but awesome. Oh good. I don't want to need them. Thank you Wife was offering to make me some tea Uh, uh, yes people do still use dot matrix printers these days. We do have clients using dot matrix printers This is horrible. My quirk fell off in my whiskey This is not good An incident has occurred the quirk the top popped off the quirk. This is bad Anyways back to that Okay, um, what else do you guys want to talk about? So, uh, she's like, you know, I have no idea why I'm doing this from home Uh How many texts is it taking me to quirk from a bottle apparently one? This is what's left of the quirk now. I gotta sort out my problem. I guess I have to finish this bottle of whiskey. So it doesn't go stale Hey vince Sorry for dot matrix printers. Yeah, they're still they still exist. They definitely still exist Uh, I've not seen you review many tp link ap's. Uh, what's your Let me read the sx. It disappeared Uh, what's your high level thoughts on product lines? Glad you found his channel. So, um tp link is very Mediocre it's very okay. I don't nothing about it compels me. Um, we actually still have in retail boxes in our store. Uh So tp link routers They function for people that go, hey, I need a cheap home router because we have a retail store. We retail those devices Nothing compels me to make you recommend them to people or want to review them. They're just super basic Uh, the if you go, hey, I just want to connect two or three devices at home Grab a tp link router and you'll be mediocrely happy. There's nothing amazing about them. They function I know tp link makes some higher on some matter of fact. I do really like their switches. I have talked, uh Um about their switches because I bought them because here's the problem when you're talking about non-managed Dumb switches when you look at a non-managed dumb switch It just needs to do switching. No b-lands. No management. No, uh egress. No filtering. No layer Options no functionality Grab a tp. Works awesome. Um for companies that go, hey, I got three computers. They need to talk to each other Pop in the tp link. Have a great day. So it's not that I don't like their products I like their unmanaged products. I did a review of a tp link switch I played with tp link um and I Pointed out some of the pitfalls for example not supporting https for the management in the b-lands It doesn't have security function. So is it good to learn and play with? Oh, yeah for great for 30 I think was like on sale for 37 dollars. You can pick these switches up for and I've seen them on sale for less Great is a great learning tool. It's not something I would ever deploy in an enterprise environment because I don't trust it. Um, it just doesn't have the Features it doesn't have the management. It doesn't have the security that you find with some of the more powerful systems yeah uh, I work at a car dealership and adopt matrix printers are Not going to go anytime soon. You are very correct You're not wrong Uh step by step assessments for takeover. I will be doing a video on that I'm just trying to make sure I'm very concise in how we do it Mostly it's a disaster when we take over clients. There's nothing good about it I have a story coming up about that. I'm going to put together in its own story about just a mess taking over a client Was that was from a msp? The msp wasn't doing anything that they claimed to be doing. Um, so I'm going to do a specific video at that Uh, we have government forms that require dot and printers. Yep. Yeah, we have we still have clients using multi-part forms That's life. That's 2018, but it's still life for them Have you seen a simple dump dump switch that has 24 port in 4 10 gig puy not managed? No not really I haven't seen them. Don't see a big market demand for me there Yeah, I okay. I thought I think this is me forgetting but wanted to be accurate I I feel confident. It was a tp link. I reviewed apparently someone commented. It was a tp link review. Thank you for Uh fact checking me on that. I don't mind. I I really care about accuracy Like I said, one of the things I care about with my channel Uh, I'm going to go now. I have a great ton of stream night too. Love your content. Thank you very much um I see dot matrix at dry cleaners probably um Lots of okey data for twitter for 20 printers out there Yes, there are a bunch of okey data for 20 for 20 printers out there. You are not wrong Ha ha ha ha Uh, there's your fingers locks print are probably the only connectors that have an update in the last 30 years. Yeah Uh, do you buy freely from aliexpress from china or other shops? No I actually don't buy much from aliexpress. Uh, we've thought about it because I can save a few dollars But it's always been kind of a pain because it takes a long to get things Um, I thought about saving some money and sourcing some things on there But the problem with aliexpress is quality is subjective on there So you have to find a bender That is the right level of quality you're looking for because you don't want to crap product So I think among the things we have bought off aliexpress would be Uh, like zip ties like the velcro ones because I bought a big bulk amount of them And it's kind of hard to screw that up. You would think we've still got some zip ties zip ties are bad But honestly, I don't do all the ordering. I delegate that to some of my staff. So I don't I'm not the best assessment of it I delegate some of that to steve steve. Sometimes it's found deals. I know ordered things online like that Um, not really my thing though Oh, let's see Uh, where do you get your ubiquity shirts from can I get one? Look, I tell you what if you do a bunch of reviews on ubiquity stuff And then you talk about them in a positive light and you deploy a lot of the ubiquity, you know, like a thousand ubiquity clients They will randomly mail you a shirt. So I love ubiquity products Their marketing people send me emails. Like I'm gonna send you shirts. I said, thank you It took like a month for them to arrive, but they did Thumbs up. I really like the people at ubiquity. Um, but my dialogue with them is sometimes limited It's sometimes like I they don't always reply immediately to my emails In terms of the marketing stuff like hey, Tom, we're gonna send you a thing. Cool They actually sent me a thing that we've been reviewing. Um, that's not on the channel yet Uh, I can't talk about it, but they've sent me products And I don't know when I I don't have a release date for it. I've asked them So I gotta remember because I seen I think the product is out, but we have a variation of it And I gotta confirm with them that it's okay Uh to talk about the product because we really like it, but I'm very careful I care about my relationship with them as a company and send us uh stuff They've sent us a few um switches that switches, but a few different routers, which I know I got to do a vpn video on it I've been waiting because we switched over to 529. I gotta talk about that in my video coming up Um, because we switched over to it. Willie already beat me to it. I see him on the channel here. Hi, Willie Let's get Willie let's get drunk together. I think Willie is a is a whiskey guy too. Are you are am I right? so um Me and Willie both love unify, but we do know that their pr team is a little bit sometimes slow on communicating um Is what don't it's not a distraction from the company. I'm sure they're busy doing other things so Well, I keep deploying their products and I keep loving them. So hey, let's see who else we got here Um, are you available consultant curious about the takeover process? Yes, I have rates. If you email me, we have rates and consulting rates people pay us for consulting Including business consulting. We're working on more on that. There is more coming on the business consulting side of things um Is there a way to have a dual-wan dynamic ip address of one nick assigned to wan If you have one nick assigned to wan, how do you have a dual-wan? I completely don't understand your question uh Do a video blog with win with willy absolutely me and willy need to do a live show together Uh Tom every time I'm here in the live stream say u b and t tom takes a shot Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Just keep typing u b and t. I need excuses I had a lot of willy. I had a lot of dental work today. I'm sorry. I hate dental work uh Also, I found a boy in a hospital. Do you market what you like to talk about it? I don't know. I guess Uh bullet rye in case when are you bg? Uh, let's do veterans say, okay, willy you know how to get a hold of me offline me and willy have each other's phone numbers So me and willy will talk and we will make this happen For those you don't know me and willy are friends. So we're in different states, but we're we're tech friends Uh I've used the ap ac light works good. Um, no no unhappiness with that Thank you for uh, yes. Good choice. Good choice on the vodka. I I'm sorry, uh, whiskey. Um, yes, thank you Yes Well, let's put yes to that there we go What else is I don't remember what I was going to talk about like I had a plan originally And everything went downhill from there But I'm going to get more guests on my youtube channel. That's definitely been a big topic. Um, Bob I really went on I might have to go to him. He's a busy guy But uh, bob is someone who does corporate at work and me and him have great conversations And I think he'd be fun to have on the channel Uh Because he's bob has worked at the high levels of sisco. Bob only works for A, uh, large global I uh, isp company right now doing sales colo sales Uh provisioning sales mlsp and all the everything in between when it comes to provisioning corporate level Um fiber access and things like that. So I think bob will be a fun guy to have on there Um, if I can catch dave too, it's his partner and dave There's a lot of fun stuff. I want to share with you guys about how all this works Um, he's talking about one nick with two v-lands say catered way inside you can do v-lands on the way inside. That's correct I'm less clear what you're talking about. Oh ubnt versus, uh, cambium networks. So for those you um So for those of you wondering about ubnt versus cadmium networks one not a legal expert two have a legal friend Who I'm hoping will look into this, but there's not a lot to tell about the case There's some type of debate and argument going on Between firmware updates from cambium networks being loaded on unified equipment. I don't know any more details than what you can google publicly on there I have no legal opinion on it because I'm not a legal expert And uh, there is a little war brewing if you want to say it's some legal war That I don't think the technical people care about as much about uh firmware updates and things like that I don't know the details uh google it cambium versus uh, ubiquity You'll know as much as I do after reading through it. I don't have much of an opinion on it On cambium networks makes nice equipment ubnt uh ubiquity networks makes nice equipment There's my uh tom's two cents that he doesn't really have on it Uh, hack the firmware is not exactly the correct way. They did create new firmware for ubnt devices that will work with the cadmium software back end I don't know Cool. I'm clearly legally not cool. Um, that's as much as I have I'm not insightful on that topic Can you replace the firmware in a unified open with uh open source? I don't know what firmware you can replace it with Yes, you can reflash a unify. Yes, it runs a busy box open source kernel with some customizations Uh, if I'm not mistaken and other people who are smarter to me Uh, ubnt a lot of their stuff was based off of a BIOS implementation So yeah at its core it's open source with customizations from ubiquity So undoubtedly you could write your own software matter of fact get writing if you want to write software for it They have the specs for what chips are in them have at it It's arm chips. Uh, a lot of them are so you can customize the software as you want It's it's documented. You just gotta be good at coding Cross talk communication specifically. I think you're probably talking about chris at cross talk solutions. Yes So yes chris at cross talk solutions is the expert comes a lot of it and no, I didn't know what to call it So I tried episode 91 It broke when I tried doing it for my laptop. So I did it for my phone. It worked So I didn't want to retitle it. It is my 91st episode It's 91 part 2. Maybe I'll rename it after I'm done. So 91 the one tom screwed up 91 the tom got right That's 51 minutes long as a as of right now, so So sorry, there's there's two episode 91s, but the first episode 91 isn't long at all Uh, what movie should we watch before we sleep star trek? I'm sorry. I'm a star trek nerd Uh, let's see 91.5. Thank you charlie. That makes sense Uh, I had to upgrade to unify key from the shell. It would not take the update otherwise. Anyways, it was running system d Yes, that happens. Um, if you get really outdated versions, there's a switch And this is kind of a linux problem and um, if you want to google something awful Um, that michael lucas it's awful and good at the same time google savaged by system d That's as far as I'll go with that just laugh at what when you when you read the results Uh Hey, I need to learn linux. I got a dv linux running hyper v where can I find good materials learn how to secure and configure at the Right way, I'm going to tell you my friend j learn linux.tv j la croix me and him did a video on uh Raspberry pi and the open source project that is the emulator project. I did it five or six videos ago J le c r o i x Learn linux.tv highly recommend him He's a friend of mine. He's a personal friend and he's also just wicked smart at linux and knows some of the command line So if he does it for a living and he writes books on linux Great way to get started is check out j la croix at learn linux.tv You can also just search his name and find him or go to learn linux type learn linux tv dot com Let's see Yeah Yeah, Vincent learn linux man. It's the future. It's the future's linux Oh, what irc do I sit in? You know, I've been lazy irc My I just got hassled by one of my friends last week for not being on irc enough I have an irc bouncer um that I turn on and then forget about it and it breaks and I go turn it on again later um I I don't sit Here's the way I sit in the wane state university irc more than anywhere else Um, I hang out with my friend my tech friends at wane state and irc. So if those of you looking for me in irc um, it's gonna be uh, I think it's wane state lug I can't remember the name of it. Hold on. I will actually tell you because why not irc I'm gonna tell you in one second which channel I hang out in Or no, I won't because my irc bouncer is down again derp Well when my irc is sponsored, maybe I'll I'll tweet about that and say come hang out with me on irc I'm lazy about irc Um, I keep wanting to go to discord too, and I don't always log into my discord for like a week at a time I'm live and interactive here. I reply to emails. I'm varying, uh, if I have facebook forums links in the description below I'm very engaging in facebook forums. I replied a lot of comments, but um I've gotten lazy about irc and discord And what else we got here for question? I may it is um 10 30 at night eastern standard time here and I may be getting tired A little bit. Um, I don't know it may be the whiskey talking, but I may I'm gonna go sit with my wife and watch tv Well night tv youtube Is mostly what I watch I'm gonna watch some tech youtube stuff some motorcycle videos And I'm gonna fall asleep and I'm gonna wake up in a few hours and just start this entire Process over again, and we have a fun video for you tomorrow. We're gonna be doing a deployment video Uh and having fun at the office tomorrow Um, it's gonna be a fun time. We have a big wi-fi deployment. So I'm gonna talk again. I've talked about this is um Anyone else mumble over the preferred discord? I don't have a preferred discord. Um, I don't have my own discord I've just been avoiding setting it up because I know I won't reply because I know I won't reply. I won't set it up So I'm very add you're it It's it's getting worse as the evening moves on So yeah, try working for me I I gotta do a video and tomorrow's gonna be a bunch of fun with my staff because a bunch of them are Gonna be at the office and they're probably gonna laugh at the fact that I run a company. So Should I say, you know, I really considered it. I actually have the channel built that I've never posted on link I post I built a lauren system channel that you can't find And I haven't posted it yet because I don't they maybe I need to find someone who wants to admin it Um, I'm just not someone because I get I'm very intense when I'm working. I'm very jumping from project to project And so I don't get with people. Um, so I don't have a discord channel But maybe I should have a discord channel if you guys really think it's a good idea Maybe I'll push for I'll I'll actually all another push for it. I'll make it public There's a better way to describe it and maybe have someone admin it Um I'm all for it. Like I don't have a problem with it. I just feel bad when I don't admin things Uh, because I communicate with so many people on facebook. I do Have a facebook group. I know some people hate facebook, but you know, it is what it is and yeah So there's that I have a facebook group. You can post everything on I don't know if you like Oh, no, I don't do it at all So what's your retirement plan as a small business owner? Oh I don't ever I'm I don't know what my retirement plan is Uh vest in real estate vest in investments. Um, because at some point I need to have money set aside for things Uh, my wife knows more about come on honey come over here No, you got to come here Hold on you come over here So retirement investment planning Yes, that's what I do. I used to work for a retirement company My wife used to work for stuff. So Tom No, I work for a mortgage company. She works for a mortgage company now But I used to work for an investment. She works to work for an investment company and uh So my hope is that she'll do smart things with money So at some point when Tom Someone has to be yeah Oh, let's see SPL own your office instead of renting I am Going to be talking soon about that. I'm actually on a panel for the uh medc Which is the michigan economic development council Yeah, I'm sorry to say anything slow. Uh, I'm going to be talking about that. I've actually taken I'll do maybe how I got my business started video, but I've not I don't have any loans. I don't have any, um Money that was given to me to do what I do. I just ran out and kept doing it to make it happen My wife's drinking tea. She's not a whiskey drinker by the way. I am jack daniel spire. Well, she likes jack daniel spire, so Uh, yeah, real estate is good as long as you buy enough Buy it in the right spots Yes So she's doing all the planning A little bit I'm gonna I'm not gonna lie. I'm not really retirement plans when I ask him about retirement is always Well, I don't plan on retiring. So what do I have to worry about? So I tell him fine. I will send him Pictures from when I'm retired on the beach somewhere Yeah, she's gonna retire my plan for me. No, because I don't plan to retire You can keep working. Oh, I can keep working good because as long as I can keep working until people don't follow me no more Planning something from 60. So here's the thing You say that vincent I get it I have some really really wealthy clients and one things I've learned and I completely believe this is you never If the drive is in you you you reach a level of comfort like hey cool And that's what I'm at in life right now. My bills are paid and everything else and that's cool Um, but you never you realize that you have no interest in retiring because it would suck So here's a quick story. I'll share with you guys No retirement will suck retirement will be awful for me on the beach She's cool to be on the beach. I'm not so It's traveling. I want to travel Tom gets philosophical Right. Yeah, it's time for time to go watch some tv. Yeah time to watch some tv It's bedtime. I don't know about that Yeah, Tom the more Tom drinks the more philosophical he gets. I don't know how this works Yeah, I I could just get hobbies. So, uh, among the weirder interactions I've had with people So if you want to google this you can fact check me all you want. This is fun. Uh, Tommy Bahama was a t-shirt brand. Maybe you're familiar with it. I think it still exists. I don't know That's not really relevant. So time behind was your teacher's brand and the guy that uh came up with the Tommy Bahama brand You know sold the company made a lot of money And that seemed like the end of it, right? That's the other story. That's the american dream You know, we we build a business. We sell it. Uh, we have all kinds of money We play golf all day or something whatever your hobby is He thought playing golf all day was his hobby. So the guy that came up with Tommy Bahama actually took a step further after that And he says, hey, uh, I'm bored. Uh, I played every golf course and uh, now I don't want to play it no more So his next step was actually to Go and he invented it on our company you may have heard of build a bear workshop And there's one of those weird things that I've noticed this and this includes some of the entrepreneurs that we do It support for I love interacting with other business owners because they go Hey, I just don't know how to retire and uh, paul smoke. Look him up paul smoke sm o n k e He's one of my more interesting clients Paul smoke is I think in his 80s The guy is wicked smart very driven very motivated Nowhere near retirement and 80-something years old and he owns a bridge The guy owns a bridge among his that's one of our, uh Assets that we actually maintain is his bridge in terms of id support and uh, the guy shows no end of sight I realized that if you're driven if you're like that if that's your mentality you may never retire And I feel that's how I am. I don't understand any concept of retirement. So Retirement planning. I'm leaving money wise to my wife who is now wandered off of the camera Myself. I don't plan to retire Uh, let's see I could get hobbies. I this is my hobby. I'm doing it right now Solution beach office. Don't interest. I have no interest in sitting on a beach. Sorry um I went to strip all the clothes I Want to put his trip more closely. I schooled up a business at my hair straight from school. Cool. Hey goals are awesome Uh, so this is open a bike shop. Maybe a classic car repair shop. Cool. That's not bad. Vincent uh How are you working with servers and a gear cool? Ham radio pretty cool. I have a lot of ham radio friends. I'm not licensed myself I I have a the crossover between linux people and ham radio. There's a venn diagram for that There's a lot of people in the middle of it. So ham radio and linux go hand in hand I'll have to do live chat. I do this live chat every thursday at very random times There is no consistency to it for any of you that wondered Which is why exactly i'm here at 10 30 at night doing a live show drinking whiskey because sometimes it happens during the day Sometimes it happens at night today. It's happening Well, drinking whiskey happens at night As my wife has pointed out drinking whiskey is a night function. So you actually are only witnessing what happens at night What are your thoughts on multi industry businesses? I mean what Oh, my wife asked me why i'm still doing this because people keep asking me questions Um, I am a I I don't focus on any verticals. So I guess you could say i'm a multi industry business If that's the question, um, if you're looking for who are entrepreneurs that work in multiple verticals I would say re richard branson's books outstanding guy. Um His books are really interesting. Sorry. I gotta take up some I T worked in both a hobby and we're in reverse. Uh, yeah Yeah, whoo-hoo happy here about the whiskey I do business it and home theater with a silent scammers. They're all kind of related sure Why not? We do infrastructure. We do Man of services. We do break. I I guess those are all to some people's separate industries and their own verticals But to me they're all things I do by the way, I have a full-time web developer working for me So I guess one development is part of my, uh Things I do as well. I she's full-time so my My streams are more consistent than linus tech tips Ah You know, I I don't mean against linus. I he's clearly created a clear niche for himself Uh, the other side about linus is that I find interesting. I don't know. Maybe it's me Um, I find him less about content and more becoming about personality Which is fine if that's his market that seems to be his growth market awesome But uh linus is a smart guy and he's got a cool media empire he built so That's neat. I like my business because I do It work and then I talk to you guys about it. So people ask what I ever give her to my t-business I would lose all my source material I mean come on if I didn't have an it company I wouldn't get an rfq for floppy's which is a title for this video Doing computers in auto in one shop. Sure I do motorcycles. I don't talk about the motorcycle stuff as much because I don't know what people's level of interest is in it I don't know. Do I do I do vlog about my motorcycle riding? Do I do here's here's something stupid I have like 7 000 views on my video about my bicycle too I have a custom bicycle and it turns out people are interested in my one weird video I did about my bicycle If you resell gc, where do you all lie in support? Uh, that's a fun question. I don't have an answer for Oh Because generally if someone has a supporting a g-suite problem, we just bill them for it We're not really reselling. We don't actually I did not really we are not reselling g-suite We do it resell office 365. We don't resell g-suite. We push g-suite. We recommend people to it We don't resell it as a service Well, this doesn't know how to manage windows server as they use built-in admin account ever Vincent I'm watching this while wrenching on my ninja 1200. Hey, I like ninjas Team Kawasaki Yeah, I I got hot. I uh, I have an affinity I've gotten a lot of motorcycles and maybe I'll do just an off-topic video on all my motorcycles I've owned Um, current ones I have though are my old Hondas. Those are my favorites. I have a uh Ninja 500 my wife drives a Suzuki s40 and I also have a pair of honda ct 90s Can media wiki vmb updated with parsoids? Yes Um, my you can now run the new version of parsoids with media wiki that all works now I have a new cabling job Please do it neatly. That's my advice. My advice for you is please take the time do it right You'll be slow at first But over time you'll get really fast at doing high-quality cabling jobs and your life will be better for it Your clients will be happy How many employees do I have? I don't know. I'll count checks on Friday. I think there's nine people that work for me Uh LTT is just a meme and how not to do service. Look line is tech tips is cowboy it at its Best which makes for great entertainment Did you see the email? Yes, um, I'm actually part of a private forum I knew about the invoice ninja 2.0 before it was coming out. I'm excited. Let's just say it's a good thing No matter what your opinion is. I don't care. I like it. Um The me and the developer we private chat. We've got a chat room thing we do and uh, there's a lot of people And it's not just me. It's like me and fluency developer, but they're doing a great job invoice ninja 2.0 Is a great thing. Uh, what do you think about snowflakes? I don't know. It snows a lot here in michigan Uh, why only one trainee in your office? Well, I don't know. We only had one trainee at the time and he turned into an employee. So It does snow a lot here in michigan. So snowflakes. I don't know. It's what it happens when it's cold Little bikes I like little bikes fits and sorry. I got a thing for them It's it's weird. I actually hang out with a group of people In the i'm in the down river area is what we refer to because we're south on the river So it's called Down river scooter club and yes, we're a bunch of people who are over 40 riding scooters It's a nerd thing Of scooter nerds Oh How hard is it to do a NAS build using a desktop computer? What processor do you prefer for plex fast enough to decode plex? I don't do a lot of plex to clothing But maybe any processor that scores at least I don't know three or four thousand on pc mark um Social justice first, I don't know about being on any of that. I don't care I focus my uh things on more important subjects than social justice warriors How's marv? I don't know he doesn't work for you no more for those of you don't know marv don't work here no more He he moved on and did a lot of things how he is. I hope he's well Um, me and him decided to go do something else and that's it He did his thing. I do my thing Uh scooters. No, they're actually 90 ccs. Michigan is one of the few states that you can get away with 100 cc scooters and be Categorized as a scooter because we have moped army.com who Legit who lobbied and got legislation changed here in michigan. So 100 cc is uh scooters So my 90 cc scooters are scooters even though they're not 49 cc Motorcycles are addictive. They just kind of accumulate Bit with building pc. Yeah, bit with it's got some cool videos. I'll watch a couple of them I mean, I'm not a big pc builder guy, but bit with definitely answering that stuff How quickly do you get your invoices rmsp helps me with big projects build this $1,300 work done in december 2017 um I think I've done a video on this maybe I need to do some more We delegate billing and we allow billing by all of my staff. That's how I I uh have decentralized billing So Everyone builds everyone builds your own invoices and sends them. They're trained on how to do it. So Um an example is, you know one of my techs completes a job He sends an invoice then as soon as the job is confirmed complete an invoice is sent I don't do the billing. I don't have a billing admin. It does a billing All staff sends the billing as they do the billing as they create the projects the projects are completed The billing is sent that is our Method by doing it actually a law firm. I was at today and they've kind of left you You know your billing process is interesting to us because we get the bill almost immediately every time you're done I'm like, yep. That's how we work. Um Billing is a lifeblood of business if you're not Billing fast You're doing it wrong. I do know companies that are goofed up and do it wrong Wrong in my opinion, maybe right in their opinion. Maybe they want to wait six months to send a bill I don't know if that's where your method and it works for you. Cool. That's not the method that works for me We built right away So if you call and a tech support is issued and the project is completed You're going to get a bill. That's how it works. And it won't be from me It'll be from the technician directly who did the work He's going to document the work as he did it and he's going to send you a bill Pretty simple and on the most of our remote managed stuff When people call us in specifically of youtube, you get the bill Before we do the work. That's how it works I need to get paid first when you're out of state client. You pay me first We do the work and everybody's happy. So my billing is not delayed at all What's my favorite restaurant in detroit? Oh, that's a good question. Hold on. Let me read a couple these other ones Let's see Hey, it's my cousin gone to the stow dogs She's built an epic channel around dogs. I'm glad Hi, cuz glad to see you here. Awesome. She's a night owl and she's in the same time as me. So This works out. So hey cuz Let's see what else we're getting here Sounds like the way to bill So yeah, my billing system I've talked about it a couple times if you look through my youtube and my business talks It's I'm very open about how we do things and people told me I'm an idiot and blah blah blah I don't care I'm making money so you can hate me all you want Yeah, uh vincent I've worked with vincent vincent's like I paid tom five minutes later. He started the work We're really sure forward how we do things. There's no secrets or no bs the way we do things Um, someone said I moved to no buy. What's a good restaurant? There are so many like you can't not have good restaurants So if you want to go a little classic go if you come to detroit go to fish bones They're a staple. They've been around a long time. They're still doing it right downtown detroit From there. I don't know. What's that? Union street my wife just heard me talking about restaurants union street excellent. They have a thing called dragon eggs Love dragon eggs dragon eggs are great Green dot stables and my wife's is calling out right now for those you don't know my wife works in detroit She worked for quick and loans. Maybe you've listened to a podcast Um quick ad if you need a loan, I'll call my wife and message me and I'll give you her number to call her and get a loan What else we got in here or anything else coming mortgage Keep the open source. What is that? Oh, you're in the refinance, right mortgage mortgage. Yeah, not loans My wife is a mortgage banker So, uh, you can call you can bill me for an hour. Are you open tomorrow tomorrow? I have a lot of meetings. Um Maybe Monday my Monday. I won't lie. Monday's probably better for me. I have a block of time already allocated to a client Monday, but friday is kind of Ugly right now friday afternoon maybe so if it's later in the day east end of standard time like after Three o'clock I can probably help you out. Um before then I'm really I'm booked up with a lot of meetings I'm not going to pull up my right nose. I don't feel like it But I know I have at least four meetings booked tomorrow and like some project work that really has to get done that I'm paid for um I don't want to have to leave tell the shirts in eight hours. Yes That's important. So get educated whether you choose college vocational training or your own career path Get educated that is read a lot of books on if you're in a tech like I am like every tech book you can Understand technology deeper and deeper. We have projects. Um Just keep diving into it. It really helps a lot Uh, I've been trying to upgrade finance to live in our cities It's not great Where do I search for new employees? I haven't run out of friends to hire That's how um, that's one answer second answer I was at the it in the d event today for those you've been following along for the last hour in 17 minutes Um, I go there and I meet people and sometimes that's where I will find people that'll hire Get educated watching come. Yeah, I'm trying to throw education out there all day long Uh with my review videos and my getting started if if you search my channel for getting started It is literally step by step how to get started in a certain uh particular like Zen server Free NAS, whichever my getting started video is about I do deep dives into technical topics when I have time Someone says they were a loan processor for six years and my wife has not been processing loans for six years yet Um, but yeah, she's a loan loan person. So that's the thing She processes loans too. I I don't know anything about that topic Oh, yeah, well, she used to shuffle rich people's money and she called them 401k loans As I called it my wife's previous job was shuffling rich people's money She's a loner I will be doing some more deep dives in the pf sense, but I think it's finally late enough that i'm gonna fall asleep I don't want to my enthusiasm levels are finally waning As my whiskey levels rise my enthusiasm levels are tom needs to sleep for a couple hours And then I'll start this all over again tomorrow. I only sleep for about four or five hours So who's you I seen someone ask earlier how long did you sleep not much? Uh, so it's gonna happen awesome Great to see that I helped some people Uh with the unify love it. Um, I like said big fan of their product It works. I love their business model. There's a lot of things I know there's a deeper story and I've now set for someone sent me a weird message. Um That the guy who started unifying. I know he used to work for apple I don't know was any other details or he used to work with apple and he started unifying the rumor And I called this a rumor because somebody sent it to me was that the guy that uh, We're owns unify their current ceo Used to had had pitched the idea to apple to start offering wi-fi products and I didn't like the idea So he left and That sounds interesting. It sounds intriguing. I love to interview the ceo I don't have any connection at the moment But that might be such a fun interview because I don't think he's really granted any interviews at all Um, but hey, why not they have a cool product. I like your product Maybe I can get lucky it off to interview him. So maybe there's someone watching that can connect me You know with more than shirts Uh CB thinks I really give a AP memo for around 60 bucks. Cool Yeah, open mesh is moving to a licensed model So for those of you that aren't following along with an open mesh open mesh got purchased by another company And one company gets one any company says i'm going to give you a free cloud forever Guess what for any of those that know business at all for anybody that is and has a thought of business You'll understand in the tech market that cloud servers aren't free You can't just for free keep throwing money at your cloud providers So at some point, you know, there's going to be a business model. So open mesh got bought maybe that was their business idea When they got bought they're changing to a licensed model rather than a free cloud service Shocker That you have to pay for your compute time How did you not expect that and not see that coming for those of you that kept telling me? Oh, open mesh is awesome. Blah blah blah. Yeah, okay At some point someone's got to pay the piper and the piper is now getting paid They got bought and now they're going to start charging licenses for it. Trust me. That's going to happen I don't think it's a bad product. It's just the way that product's going to go Let's see. Do you like open wrt? Open wrt is a great project I don't really play with it much, but I used to it was great. Now I use unify and I still think open wrt I haven't touched it in a number of years but it's a cool project I Thought the cloud was actually current now the clouds naturally occurring the cloud just ain't free So I'm going to wander off. So thank you for joining my live stream. It's been an hour and 22 minutes Um, it's been a longer episode awesome. Love seeing you all you guys here But it is now time to figure out how to make the phone stop doing its thing I don't know how this works at all. So bye. Thank you for everyone that hung out Thank you for all over 100 of you that were on here Um, awesome, and I'm going to bed now. So final trick whiskey Heads off to all of you. I'll see you next Thursday And in between look for a video we we maybe we'll do a live stream tomorrow We have a lot of fun ideas for tomorrow because there's some stuff going on We have a big pile of unify stuff We have a big deployment going out on monday that I'm going to try to do some filming on but it's I can't even be on site filming because I'm going to be at my office doing stuff But it's a big project. I'm excited about it. It's gonna be a lot of fun So, um, look for all that and I trust me people ask me what happened to part two of the stadium project It ain't done. That's a whole another topic. That's a whole project that got so much bigger than when I efficiently bid it It's gonna be interesting so All right. Good luck. If you call me tomorrow It's got to be like after three or four because I know I'm booked up a meeting before then Thanks. Goodbye. Love all y'all