@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

@travisdh1 My server was up and running in 10 minutes! I was presently surprised. 🙂

@black3dynamite said in XenServer Shrink Disk Size:

Never tried it but since you are using thick instead of thin provision. Maybe you can shrink the disk using lvresize.

Don't know if it'll be worth the effort to try. Might just create a new drive (at the smaller scale) and copy the data over.

I'd run check disk a lot more..

Remember my P2V that took 6 chkdsk to get it working?

@scottalanmiller said in Azure & "CentOS based" Compute node:

@fuznutz04 said in Azure & "CentOS based" Compute node:

@scottalanmiller said in Azure & "CentOS based" Compute node:

But in the past CentOS was there as a direct option. We used it and have customer still using it.

I wonder if MS will offer a base image again in the future with their new "commitment to Linux" claim.

Their commitment was never to CentOS. Ubuntu and Suse.

Ahh, missed that detail.

Well, it's something to use until they vanish again, at least, lol. I'd like to see a self hosted version of something like this.

@openit said in Software restriction policy on Workgroup network ?:

Oops, this many posts till I came back 🙂

We all get busy. 😉

@stacksofplates said in CentOS 7 networking issues:

NetworkManager still creates the ifcfg files under network-scripts. So those configs will still be there, but should have NM_CONTROLLED=yes

Also, for some reason CentOS ships with both network and NetworkManager on at the same time. So that's most likely why you saw the DHCP for NetworkManager and the static file that you created. I always disable and mask network to keep people from turning it back on when they aren't paying attention.

So it looks like they took out the NM_CONTROLLED section. I must have been thinking of RHEL 6. But NM still creates the ifcfg files in the same directory.

@Ghani said in Extend ZFS zpool Volume Size Without Any Data Loss:

@scottalanmiller

yes rsync not a backup solutions

So in a "read back" mode, this tells us that the data stored here isn't important so there isn't really anything to worry about. If you do the expansion and it causes data loss, they can't be upset as they don't see value in the data. This also tells us that the servers shouldn't be there, because if they aren't backed up and they aren't a caching system then you shouldn't have them at all.

So there is clearly something wrong.

@Mike Davis

Can you share the template you've used for Fortigate interfaces.

Thanks
Jeff

@JaredBusch said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:

@scottalanmiller said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:

@JaredBusch said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:

@scottalanmiller said in Vultr adjusts its pricing:

For those wondering like @BRRABill the storage instances are MORE available now than two weeks ago and here are the prices:

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I believe that @BRRABill actually contact them last week and was told that they were phasing the storage instances out. Someone needs to contact again and verify.

I did. I followed up and was told that that was not true and that the channel that he used for support did not exist and they wanted names and links of how he was told that because he was told via chat and officially they have no chat support.

Since then, they've added two more sites for options that were sold out when he had asked.

Good to hear. Now I want backups on those, which is not available.
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@BRRABill and I had long discussions about why those aren't available. If you extrapolate the backup costs from their non-storage devices, the cost of backing up these VMs would easily be greater than the cost of the VMs themselves. I think that they rightfully guessed that no one would pay for that. If you want a backup of them, buy another Vultr storage VM and backup to that. Or backup to S3/B2 or something.

It would be awesome if they integrated a backup service, I agree. But it would have to be a special offering for those and I think that it makes sense that it's not offered - seems like a wise business move.

@Dashrender Exactly see new thread here.

@RojoLoco said in Help With Resume:

@Dashrender said in Help With Resume:

@RojoLoco said in Help With Resume:

Wait, there is a "reality" show about getting hunted by cops? How do they consider it realistic if the contestants don't have the option to kill the cops that are after them? Because if I was on the lam, with nothing else to lose, you better believe I'd be ready and willing to ice a cop or two if it would help me escape.

LOL - I was kinda wondering the same thing.

My best guess is that the thinking is that these criminals are more of the white collar type, not willing to just kill anyone in their way.

Then they certainly aren't desperate enough to make that show remotely believable. Once you take the job/car/house/wife/family from that white collar guy, he might actually show some real survival instincts. But then again, I despise the very idea of "reality" TV, and would only watch this if they truly destroyed a person's life in order to make it "real" to them.

I only see this as a way to desensitize the public to the invasion of privacy that the gov't is doing to our lives now. and trying to claim it's all for the greater good.