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Everything Else in the Data Center / Re: A Rant Thread About GUI Ch...
Last post by deanwebb - November 27, 2025, 09:42:51 AMThing is, those features can also be added without changing the GUI interface, like adding another line in a drop-down menu. Simple as that. This is why I love OfficeLibre, it keeps the old school drop-down menus that just *work*.
And when usability is sacrificed for the sake of "clean, fresh design", then I truly howl in pain. We have to do stuff via screen shares, so please let us have bigger fonts and better contrast between elements! Faint text and colors that are too much like the other colors will reduce the usability and productivity with the tool.
And when usability is sacrificed for the sake of "clean, fresh design", then I truly howl in pain. We have to do stuff via screen shares, so please let us have bigger fonts and better contrast between elements! Faint text and colors that are too much like the other colors will reduce the usability and productivity with the tool.
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Everything Else in the Data Center / Re: A Rant Thread About GUI Ch...
Last post by icecream-guy - November 27, 2025, 06:54:18 AMQuote from: deanwebb on November 23, 2025, 08:15:24 AMOver the years, I've worked with a number of products. Some of them start out easy to use and stay easy to use. Some of them started out easy and then got harder because they added a bunch of features and didn't take time to clean up the GUI when integrating them or - worse - there's a totally different GUI for the add-on and it's way different from the one I got used to. And then there are the ones that didn't add features, but they did ruin the GUI and chose to double down on the crap instead of rolling back to what I was comfortable with.
A change in GUI is like inviting the competition in if the product doesn't have a "revert" button. I can see wanting to have a new look for marketing and sales purposes, but the daily users of the product likely have lots of memories attached to what they're doing and how they're doing it and changing everything makes them feel useless. Replaceable. Unimportant. Judged by the makers of the product and found wanting. And that makes it easier to burn a bridge and move on.
Move forward or get left behind.... change is GUI is good as features may get added over time, but, oh the bugs, GUI that don't work as expected need a revert button.
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Everything Else in the Data Center / A Rant Thread About GUI Change...
Last post by deanwebb - November 23, 2025, 08:15:24 AMOver the years, I've worked with a number of products. Some of them start out easy to use and stay easy to use. Some of them started out easy and then got harder because they added a bunch of features and didn't take time to clean up the GUI when integrating them or - worse - there's a totally different GUI for the add-on and it's way different from the one I got used to. And then there are the ones that didn't add features, but they did ruin the GUI and chose to double down on the crap instead of rolling back to what I was comfortable with.
A change in GUI is like inviting the competition in if the product doesn't have a "revert" button. I can see wanting to have a new look for marketing and sales purposes, but the daily users of the product likely have lots of memories attached to what they're doing and how they're doing it and changing everything makes them feel useless. Replaceable. Unimportant. Judged by the makers of the product and found wanting. And that makes it easier to burn a bridge and move on.
A change in GUI is like inviting the competition in if the product doesn't have a "revert" button. I can see wanting to have a new look for marketing and sales purposes, but the daily users of the product likely have lots of memories attached to what they're doing and how they're doing it and changing everything makes them feel useless. Replaceable. Unimportant. Judged by the makers of the product and found wanting. And that makes it easier to burn a bridge and move on.
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Certifications and Careers / Re: Current Certification Goal...
Last post by deanwebb - October 08, 2025, 03:46:40 PMIndeed. I just got my foundations of AI cert from ISC2.
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Certifications and Careers / Re: Current Certification Goal...
Last post by Otanx - October 08, 2025, 10:22:17 AMNew AI cert coming from CompTIA. Figured you might want to take a look at it. Free exam attempt if you qualify based on your experience with AI.
https://www.comptia.org/en-us/experts/become-a-subject-matter-expert/workshops/secai-beta-exam/
-Otanx
https://www.comptia.org/en-us/experts/become-a-subject-matter-expert/workshops/secai-beta-exam/
-Otanx
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Everything Else in the Data Center / Re: Interesting article on AI ...
Last post by deanwebb - September 26, 2025, 08:54:09 AMThat part about increasing denials for services stings, as AI has shown tendencies to amplify human biases evident in historical data. And if that's the training the AI model gets, it'll be aggressive in denying treatment not accidentally, but by design. Likeliest to be denied would be major procedures for people with poor health histories. Least likely denials would be minor procedures, prescriptions, things like that.
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Information/Announcements / Re: OUTAGE REPORTS
Last post by deanwebb - September 26, 2025, 08:48:09 AMHeads up from the web host:
"The maintenance process will begin Thursday, October 2nd at 12:00 AM (midnight) PT and will run until 4:00 AM PT. You may experience approximately 30 minutes of intermittent connectivity within the above 4-hour window."
"The maintenance process will begin Thursday, October 2nd at 12:00 AM (midnight) PT and will run until 4:00 AM PT. You may experience approximately 30 minutes of intermittent connectivity within the above 4-hour window."
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Everything Else in the Data Center / Re: Interesting article on AI ...
Last post by icecream-guy - September 26, 2025, 06:12:45 AMhttps://www.newsweek.com/medicare-will-start-using-ai-help-make-coverage-decisions-next-year-2111093
Another interesting AI article
Another interesting AI article
#9
Everything Else in the Data Center / Interesting article on AI conn...
Last post by deanwebb - September 25, 2025, 08:05:34 AMhttps://thebulletin.org/2025/09/the-risks-in-the-protocol-connecting-ai-to-the-digital-world/#post-heading
model context protocol (MCP) is comin' to town, best get ready.
It runs on HTTP according to docs here: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/getting-started/intro
So, I hope it can also run on HTTPS, but then there's the fun times about making sure all the encryption is done right and is made quantum-resistant when those ciphers are ready.
Communicates via JSON over HTTP.
I need to read the rest of the articles now...
model context protocol (MCP) is comin' to town, best get ready.
It runs on HTTP according to docs here: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/getting-started/intro
So, I hope it can also run on HTTPS, but then there's the fun times about making sure all the encryption is done right and is made quantum-resistant when those ciphers are ready.
Communicates via JSON over HTTP.
I need to read the rest of the articles now...
#10
Certifications and Careers / Re: Current Certification Goal...
Last post by deanwebb - September 24, 2025, 07:13:35 PMQuote from: Otanx on September 23, 2025, 05:16:54 PMCongrats. Was it one of the ISC2 certs? Those are pretty well recognized.This was a Qualys one. I'm next planning to do some AI Security courses with ISC2.
-Otanx