@bbigford said in Install Nginx as a Reverse Proxy on Fedora 27: "Install nano because I prefer it over vi" Nano really should just be the standard at this point, IMO. I worded it like that to appease people like @scottalanmiller to prevent some stupid commentary about unneeded packages

Hi all, For an IT, I never really get the grasp of containers, much more its usefulness whereas there's virtual machines. I know its just me and it is useful for others, just saying that I don't know anything about containers/Docker. Just chimed in, perhaps someone can give me a light on this (I know its great, useful for others but any usefulness is beyond me).

@scottalanmiller said in Mapping OneDrive Business to a drive letter: @nerdydad said in Mapping OneDrive Business to a drive letter: @bbigford said in Mapping OneDrive Business to a drive letter: @nerdydad said in Mapping OneDrive Business to a drive letter: @bbigford said in Mapping OneDrive Business to a drive letter: @brrabill said in Mapping OneDrive Business to a drive letter: @bbigford said in Mapping OneDrive Business to a drive letter: @scottalanmiller said in Mapping OneDrive Business to a drive letter: @momurda said in Mapping OneDrive Business to a drive letter: What is the point of OneDrive if you cant mount it as a drive letter easily? Someone please explain. It seems absoultely horrible. Why woudl you want it as a drive letter? The drive letter is an old holdover that isn't very good. You can mount OneDrive as a folder which is better most of the time. Assuming that OneDrive syncing actually works, which generally it is pretty poor. I find OneDrive itself (the consumer one) works great. ODfB, though ... LOOKOUT! Hah, yeah that's the one I was speaking toward. Assumed that is what is being brought up here since it's for a business. I could be wrong though. But yeah, ODfB... wow. I hear it's a little better but I've completely written it off as of late. Besides Scott's problems, what issues are yall talking about? Honestly, we have had very little issues with Exchange Online and SharePoint Online over the course of 2-3 years. Referring to OneDrive for Business syncing. Outside of SharePoint Online, speaking only to the ODfB syncing; it'll often just break for no apparent reason and stop syncing to workstations. Not really concerned with syncing, but wanting to use it similarly to a networked drive on a hosted server instead of an on-prem server. WebDAV. Acts just like any mapped drive. That's what I started thinking, but that isn't focusing on OD/ODfB; that goes beyond a single client and focuses on central delivery. Used it for uploading/downloading unsupported file types in regards to SharePoint; couldn't upload to SharePoint, but WebDAV didn't balk.

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@mlnews said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play: Big weekend SteamVR sale underway. Cool... now if I could just get some VR glasses...

@dave247 said in Disaster Recovery as a service companies that support IBM iSeries / AS400 systems?: @scottalanmiller said in Disaster Recovery as a service companies that support IBM iSeries / AS400 systems?: Dollars to donuts, the guy was using the term "blade" to mean the opposite of a blade, a rack server. Blade, rack and tower are the three physical form factors of servers. But for some reason, even though they are names for competing factors, there was a period of time when everyone wanted to sound cool and thought that blade sounded better than "normal every day server" so they started calling their standard rack servers blades. Much how people later used cloud for everything, even when it was anything but cloud. There is no logical reason any small bank would run blades, even the Wall St. firms don't ahve enough servers to normal justify them. He's almost certainly unsure what is a blade and what is an iSeries and so forth. I could be wrong, but it's very likely given the statement - even if not relayed word for word. Since the only logical alternative he'd be seeing would be AMD64 based rack servers - it would be extremely odd if he was seeing blade servers in any bank, especially as an alternative to i Series. hmm.. yeah I think you might be right about that. When he said "blade", I did secretly wonder if he actually just meant like a regular rack server... that's probably what he meant. It didn't seem like they really knew a lot about IT even though they were the designated federal examiners for IT. I think "even though" is the problem there. It would be mind blowing if a federal examiner had the first clue about IT. Government jobs don't tend towards the technical. And auditor / examiner jobs are the least technical of those. Not that someone in that role couldn't be smart and take an interest in IT, but if they were smart or interested in IT you'd expect them to have a fulfilling, rewarding career in IT rather than doing a boring auditing job. There's nothing unexpected there. As a job role, you'd expect no IT skills or experience in that position. They get a checklist and they check it off without knowing what the checkboxes mean.

I don't see IE going anywhere. We have all the same need for IE in the future that we have n the past. Sure now it is DevOps rather than Snowflake, we are using more tooling, but things are also more complex and bigger.

@wls-itguy said in VMWare vSphere 6.5 loses licensing: @bbigford said in VMWare vSphere 6.5 loses licensing: @wls-itguy said in VMWare vSphere 6.5 loses licensing: @bbigford said in VMWare vSphere 6.5 loses licensing: @wls-itguy said in VMWare vSphere 6.5 loses licensing: Anyone else have this happen recently? I got Veeam backup failure notifications last night and this morning saying that the servers being backed up were disconnected. I connected to vCenter and Sho'Nuff two of my hosts were disconnected. When I tried to reconnect it said I didn't have licensing. It took a bit but I finally got them reconnected and relicensed. Haven't provided enough information, but here's why ours get relicensed often... If you're a VMware partner, you get access to their Enterprise Plus licensing. That's very expensive licensing that they just hand over. But it also means that we have to go through quarterly and reapply licensing; VMware sends it to us, and we replace it. Can you provide some more information about your licensing level, etc? Essentials Plus. Does the license actually disappear, or does it just show that it is not applied to any hosts but the license is still in the console? Not applied to any hosts. But when I finally got into it I couldn’t assign them. It was like they were stuck. Had to reboot the center appliance and then I could assign and then I could reconnect. Sounds like your VCSA is jacked up (you're using VCSA, right? Not vCenter on Windows...) I've had plenty of issues with VCSA 6.0, but none really with VCSA 6.5... In either case, just rebuild the appliance to see if that is the issue. Takes like 15 minutes.

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News: Ars Technica reports that 2nd Gen Ryzen continues to gain on Intel. Almost as good benchmark-wise as Intel's 8th gen CPUs in similar price range!

Okay I love this pic but I'm not swooning to live in one of those houses. The picture as a whole is great, but it's not like a sweet beach or nice castle. But it is a great picture of a neighbourhood in Istanbul.

Youtube Video Going to see these guys Saturday. One of the best sludge/doom/stoner metal bands I've ever seen, and they're local.

@JaredBusch I had no idea those adapters existed. I'll have to keep that in mind if I run in to a run where I can't pull the coax out while pulling a piece of Cat 6 behind it. Thanks for the link. In this project most of the runs aren't too bad and they want to move the NVR anyways. If it's all IP based, that's no problem - the NVR only needs one network drop.

I started this thread because I was interested in going. I was going to combine it with visiting my brother and sister-in-law. Aaaannnddd, I can't go. Enjoy. I hear MIller Park is quite nice.

@scottalanmiller how did you resist the urge to ask why backups are needed.

@coliver Nope, not for over a year. Also havent logged in since last year either though.

@emad-r NVM the same thing still works, but cause the files changed I thought I need to put something else.

@emad-r said in Unable to delete KVM snapshot: @stacksofplates said in Unable to delete KVM snapshot: Uh there’s no difference. If you freeze the system it can’t be used. This is to run on live systems so they remain running the whole time. What no coffee break for servers !!! They definitely get a break if you pour coffee on them.

@kelly said in How long to keep people's AD/Exchange accounts: @momurda said in How long to keep people's AD/Exchange accounts: Just had to lookup what catfacts is. https://sendcatfacts.com/ This could be the best thing ever!

@dashrender said in Windows Admin Center: @bbigford said in Windows Admin Center: It was a messy setup and doesn't work with most browsers. I started laughing when I got the cert prompt. Why, you would expect a self signed unless you replace it. Sorry, not that I wasn't expecting it since it is self-signed. Just after having it not work with anything but Edge, it was just one more thing to get through and I was nearly done at that point. But I couldn't get it working with Edge very quickly to try it out (got more errors) so I eventually just uninstalled it.

It's a good show.

Welcome aboard @Nikos3296 !

@rojoloco said in What Are You Drinking: @penguinwrangler If you leave out the milk, you have more room for coffee! Or... other things.

@hobbit666 next time RTFM. . .

@kelly said in What Are You Watching Now: Code Geass on Crunchroll. Laura loved Death Note so I'm trying to get her to watch it. It's not the same but it's not THAT big of a change

I'm going to start using it on Windows if my Webroot issues keep up! (NOTE: these issues are not Webroot's fault, I don't think.)

Thanks for your suggestions. Taking the results to my client.

@guyinpv community edition is unlimited and we had no use for the extra pro features, but yes, horses for courses.

Toughest Net neutrality bill in the country passes California Senate approval.