I've been using scanstate and loadstate from the Windows Automated Installation Kit to go from 7 to 10 and 10 to 10. I like it better than easy transfer because it's command line and scriptable.

Ya with a preallocated qcow2 I can get pretty close to raw speeds. No one is going to notice 10MB/s or even 20 in normal settings.

Smart switches are cheaper than managed switches, normally by quite a bit. And they are way easier for a small business to manage as they normally just use a web browser or a simple utility instead of making you use expensive and complex central management tools for SNMP.

OBS is pretty much the industry standard. If you want, you could take its code and BE the official support for it. If your company does not want to do that, you could do it yourself. Or hire any third party to do that.

Did anyone mention CrashPlan?

They have a free offering that should work.

First step - determine what it is that you want to be learning.

The real "power" of the Raspberry Pi is in making traditional "embedded" devices with it. Building your own sensors, thermostat, light controls, and things like that.

But of course you could use it to build small servers too, instead of making VMs. You could get five RPs and make five little servers with them.

@jepoytengco said in OSPF uses:

@scottalanmiller

so eventhough it is widely used in Big networks or Enterprise networks. Having said that OSPF is shortest path, in terms of connection convergence is one advantage of OSPF?

Thanks
Jeff

OSPF detects the shortest path, detects status of the path and chooses the shortest working path for traffic. That's the high level summary.

@Brett-at-ioSafe said in What Makes Something An Appliance:

They say.....

It took us nearly two years to select, design, test, and qualify the myriad hardware components that go into TrueNAS, which is a purpose-built appliance — meaning software coupled with custom hardware — designed for its one specific application: critical storage.

"Purpose built"... they don't even build it.

We do Yealink 48G with WF40 module all the time, prior to that we used Snom wifi 5+ years ago, which was maybe the only option then. Works great, no issues above wired networks if you have a decent wifi network deployed (UBNT, Ruckus, etc)

@jrc said in Dell Poweredge 2950 CPU Heatsink Retention bracket:

@Tim_G

That looks perfect to me. Tell me when you undid them, where they screwed into the chassis, or was there a nut on the underside of the board? Trying to ascertain if I have to pull the motherboard to install these or not. I'll have to work it out either way, but I figured if you noticed this when you removed them then maybe I could save some investigative time.

I just unscrewed them and they came right out. Nothing special.

@Ambarishrh said in All-in-one printer: Suggestions please:

We have a global hardware catalog which is decided and agreed with vendors all around the world in all offices. I dont get involved in these decisions but the request for such device came from our India office and i was just helping them.

Got it. I wasn't arguing it. I was curious but that, at least, I get.

@stacksofplates said in A script to pull updates from GH or use History:

@DustinB3403 said in A script to pull updates from GH or use History:

So to clarify here, the goal is to allow admins an easy way to pull the most current update script. Not to run it for them on a set schedule.

(reason being is if we auto-force an update, and that update breaks their system, I don't want to have that on my mind)

I don't understand the hangup here. The cron job I pasted above does not update anything. It doesn't run any scripts. It doesn't force anything. Where this is coming from I have no idea.

This is from sidebar conversations regarding the topic. It has nothing to do with the cron job you posted.

Oops. 🙂

@scottalanmiller said in Matching Drives for RAID:

*Under the Hood: RAID arrays effectively use all of their devices in lock step. Whether you have two drives or eighty in your array, all of them go and look for one block of data together and they all way for the slowest drive in the array to return its block before continuing on. When all drives are identical, they all read and write at the same time and we basically get full performance from every device.

A minor change to be more accurate

*Under the Hood: RAID arrays effectively use all of their devices in lock step. Whether you have two drives or eighty in your array, all of them go and look for one block of data together and they all wait for the slowest drive in the array to return its block before continuing on. When all drives are identical makes and models, the differences are much smaller between them and we get closer to full performance from every device.

@Dashrender

@Dashrender said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:

@Jimmy9008 said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:

@scottalanmiller 99% Windows 😛

you have 100 servers? 😉

Haha, not yet. But close! 68 last time I looked.

@JaredBusch Same here.
We have Draytek to Draytek and they are fine. But EdgeRouter to Draytek is being a pain. lol

Did do some test with EdgeRouter to EdgeRouter and that seemed fine lol.

Don't know that one.

Maybe a new guide for a how to do a clean install and then how to upgrade 🙂 on Ubuntu/CentOS/Debian 🙂

Blue mics are the way to go. Snowball, Yeti, whichever one you can afford, but go w/ Blue. They used to be all hand made in Latvia by artisans who used to work for Neumann (noi-man, say it right). The USB ones are Chinese made, but the designs are the tits. I have a snowball and 2x Yetis, all awesome.

FFS, no Samson, no Plantronics, no Logitech if you are actually seeking a real microphone. If budget rules, then I no longer give a f@ck what you use, and you obviously hate good sound (snowball mic is like $50).

edit: skip the Blue "ice" snowball... get the real one, $69.99 https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Snowball-Microphone-Textured-White/dp/B000EOPQ7E/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1488490633&sr=8-3&keywords=blue+snowball+mic