Is Corsair ram worth buying?

@ewwhite I was looking into CudaTel before as a VoIP for my business to resell... Do you have an experience with it?

@ScottPack I've never had problems with it

@JoelESalas Good enough for me. I haven't actually bought ram myself in years.

Normally I just tell the procurement guy what specs I want and a couple of days later a box appears on my desk.

@ScottPack Yeah it's rarely an issue. I wonder about the applications that require RAM to be in redundancy mode, in case of corruption

@JoelESalas Not really the case here. The ole lady needs an upgrade on her laptop. Amazon has a 16GB kit for $90. Corsair ValueSelect, which threw me.

@ScottPack sounds about right

I just got this from my boss. "Remember, it is a company policy to use ONLY Firefox and Chrome. "

@ScottPack Corsair is fine stuff.

Good. Already ordered. Amazon Prime FTW.

@Jacob I installed IE10 on my Win7 work laptop... works for everything except for a home-grown intranet site that only works in Firefox because it uses some very skillfully crafted Silverlight components... are you seeing the irony here?

@RyanRies Hehe, the devs are doing QA on our new intranet site. The one guy who pinged back Safari was jokingly terminated 5 minutes later.

haha

Google App MAPI sync is teh shiznit

@RyanRies WHAT? WHY WOULD YOU USE SILVERLIGHT? and more importantly, why doesn't it work in IE?

@Kevin no real experience... Just a lot of experience with Barracuda's other products. I still continue to sell them, but reluctantly.

@ewwhite Why reluctantly?

@Kevin shitty hardware, bad support.

@Jacob Well that's kind of the joke -- seems like Silverlight components would work in IE above all other browsers so it's ironic that we wrote one that only works in Firefox. Although, I actually Silverlight is kinda' cool.

@RyanRies My boss who is DevOps( To be fair he does a damn good job) won't even touch windows or Apple.

Although in regards to Silverlight, I don't think it'll ever take off, especially with WebGL for IE11 coming within the year.

I shit you not, everything he owns is either Android or Linux

@ewwhite Really!? I've done a small amount of research, and people seem to love CudaTel. Eg., community.spiceworks.com/topic/88080-cudatel

@Jacob People like that annoy me. If Android or Linux does a better job, I'll use that. If Windows or Apple does a better job, I'll use that. I love most Microsoft stuff, but I still don't think there's a better smartphone out there than the iPhone. My work gave me an Android for a work phone and I think it sucks ass in comparison.

@RyanRies I agree with that. I like my MBP, and my iPad, but I know that apple has it's faults.

@RyanRies Your blog posts are awesome...

@Jacob I try - tell your friends ;)

@RyanRies Need a guest author :)

The CudaTel looks like a nice little office PBX box. But it isn't customizable enough for me. I am doing some rather strange things...

I was never much good at blogs, I might restart mine...

Anyone else use Google App sync for Outlook?

@Jacob I'd do guest authors... never really considered it... I don't think my site has enough viewers that anyone else would really care to co author

@RyanRies Hell, I'd write the *nix side just to balance it out.

@MichaelHampton I'll put it this way. I have a lot of users requesting VoIP solutions from me, and I'm looking for a good solutions for them. Most of my customers have ~10 employees, and the largest has like 25 or so. Would the CudaTel be a good solution?

@Kevin I've done more Trixbox

and things like that..

@Kevin I like Trixbox/Elastix sort of solutions as well.

@ewwhite I was hoping for a hardware appliance, so that I can be sure the hardware is well supported by the software.

I just don't fully trust barracuda... or anything with their name on it...

(I'm RMAing three Barracuda appliances this week)

but I've also done Digium Switchvox.

digium.com/en/products/switchvox/systems

@ewwhite Good?

it was fine

I'll have to look into that then...

Thanks

FYI, Don't buy Digium phones without Switchvox

@Kevin If it's a solid piece of equipment, the CudaTel would be very nice in that scenario. That's explicitly what it was designed for.

the Asterisk module is a bitch and has few benefits

cPanel, why... just why?

I'm trying to move away from Asterisk here...

@MichaelHampton do it, AND don't look back... Never look back.

Hey, isn't that a song

@Jacob Yes, one that your parents listened to when they were your age.

@MichaelHampton :(, Don't hate on my solid music choice

@Jacob Not hatin

@MichaelHampton Good music is good music 25+ years later

@Jacob Enjoy your dadrock

sigh

@JoelESalas Enjoy your female hair.

@JoelESalas Oh, and you used the word wrong...

@Jacob How's that

@JoelESalas Because it implies that I listen to it because that's what's on. I listen to it because it is in fact much better than pop music today.

Guten Abend

@DennisKaarsemaker Isn't it Guten Nacht for you?

Nope 23:00

@DennisKaarsemaker oh ok. Guten Abend then.

@Jacob How does "dadrock" imply anything about "what's on?"

Dadrock is just rock music from a previous generation (or more)

@JoelESalas I'm trying to type to many emails/IMs at once

see, point in case

@MichaelHampton You are a wizard. Thanks for helping that moron out while i took a nap

@mossy Huh? Wizard? Moron? Nap?

Firewall guy

Why can't people understand DNS?

This client is like will ns3 and ns4 be ok if I'm using ns1 and 2 already....

@mossy Who? I must have forgotten about it already. I've been reading documentation all day...

@Jacob DNS is hard, let's go shopping.

evening all

@Jacob Because stupid. :|

@MichaelHampton serverfault.com/questions/494954/…

He asked for you to put it in an answer so he can upboat

Oh, weird, SE didn't let me know about those comments.

@MichaelHampton there are loads of dupes of open port x on CentOS/RHEL because the default is deny

@Iain Yeah I know. I thought I'd written one of them, but I couldn't find it...

Server Fault is not a forum!

I wonder what SE have planned for April 1st this year

moar Unicorns

@MichaelHampton closed NC - to broad

@Iain That's what I said!

@MichaelHampton snap !

@MichaelHampton Y u close?

@ewwhite Shopping question!

Wat's the right answer?

@ewwhite It's way to broad - compare and contrast the following ...

@ewwhite "Hire @ewwhite to design your cloud infrastructure for you."

Psssh, we're ditching Cloudstack.

@ewwhite VMware is pretty expensive for lots of people

@Dan Yes and no...

@ewwhite Well, yes, to be honest

You can get in on the ground level for $500.

For three hosts, that's nothing.

Yeah, but like we discussed the other week, that barely gives you anything over the free edition

@ewwhite OnApp is better at that price

For anything worthwhile you need Essentials Plus at a minimum

$5k gets you the right set of features that most businesses could survive with.

But at the $5k tier, you need a SAN.... and that SAN is going to cost far more than the VMware licensing.

e.g. if you're paying that much, and need three hosts... you should be planning for VMware licensing.

going beyond that to the Enterprise and Enterprise Plus tiers... well, nobody pays retail.

and if you're consolidating that many hosts, you're either under a different pricing plan, or you can afford it.

I'm not saying VMware is a rip off, but it's not the cheap option

$5k is cheap, considering the time aspect.

how much is your time worth?

@ewwhite not much

Don't try and sell it to me, I don't spend my own money! But businesses never price their staff like that - I'm there, no matter what, they class it as a null cost

(Because in the end, VMware does just-work... I don't feel that way about KVM or Xen.)

Somebody pays retail.

Anyone here installed Exchange 2010 SP3?

@MichaelHampton I certainly hope not.

but if they are, they deserve to pay that tax.

@ewwhite I don't disagree in the slightest, though XenServer isn't bad (Not that it's too much cheaper, really)

And Hyper-V 2012 is making it's mark

If I were in an all-windows shop today, I don't know that I'd pay for VMware.

And you buy 2012 Datacenter and you've got a fully licensed Hyper-V host with as many Windows guests as you like for one price tag

for just that reason

@ewwhite That's probably where we come at this from different angles - I'm kind of avoiding Hyper-v cos I love vSphere but in my world a Linux box is an oddity (And nearly always some kind of appliance)

but luckily (for my industry and job-security), Windows-only stacks aren't that prevalent in the environments I work with.

@Dan it all depends on your workload. Most small businesses can survive on three virtualized hosts.

@ewwhite Yeah, I've said this before the Enterprise Plus licensing is really good for education and in most establishments 3 boxes is plenty

So I don't think $500 or $5000 is too expensive for what those tiers offer.

No, it's not a rip off by any stretch

$5k is a physical server... or 1/3 of a low-end SAN, or a RealDoll... er, RealTorso....

(NSFW Much)

@ewwhite or 220 gallons of lube. And hey, amazon has 10 of them in stock again.

@ewwhite True, though you can get 3x (mostly) equivalent XenServer hosts for 3k

Not that I'd ever spend real money on XenServer - we install it because it's included free with their other products

I think it's time to launch my bedroom based OnApp cloud...

@Jacob OnApp requires a few pieces...

dedicated management server, right?

@ewwhite Yeah, it does, but I have plenty of stuff laying around do to it

So you want to run your DHCP server ... on a dynamic address?!

@MichaelHampton It can get a lease from itself

@JoelESalas Well, technically, it isn't a lease in this guy's scenario. But I still think he's silly for trying to do it.