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We assume that not only does buying the most expensive, most famous products will be judged well compared to less expensive or less well known ones. We can also assume that but that those in Management see buying products is seen as beneficial to not buying products; even though often the best IT decisions are to not buy things when no need exists.

@JaredBusch said in Franz messaging app:

Someone mentioned this app here a while back and I tried it out.

Did not really like it. I should give it another try.

I think it was @John-Nicholson in telegram. I tried it also and wasnt a big fan.

Yeah. Its ok in this weather as I have a coat with loads of pockets. Might be more of a pain in the summer.

Interesting.

I'm about to use a few different SFP(+)s with HP and UBNT equipment. A reseller I've contacted tells me that they are suppose to be all compatible, but... yeah we know how that often turns out.

My 1 GB fiber SFP (10Gtek) just arrived this morning. I plan to put it in a EdgeSwitch and connect it to an HP with a HP SFP.

Gconf was for Gnome 2, dconf is gnome 3.

@Ambarishrh said in Network-wide, hardware ad blocking using Raspberry Pi:

Yes, it supports most Debian-based distros, so yeah a VM with that and give its IP as DNS would work too

As long as it doesn't have an ARM dependency.

@hubtechagain said in Hardware refresh and Selling the Solution:

@scottalanmiller said in Hardware refresh and Selling the Solution:

@Carnival-Boy said in Hardware refresh and Selling the Solution:

Ooh, whose got the best lawyers? 🙂

All I know is, I don't have any lawyers! I sometimes worry that I'll get arrested for a murder I didn't commit and I'll go "phone my lawyer", only I don't have one and don't even know how you'd go about getting one. I'd probably just phone my mom or something.

That's what most people do. You phone family and the family goes and hires a lawyer and then the lawyer calls you or stops by. Only the super rich have a lawyer ready to call and only so many people who have one have their number handy when being arrested.

This is my favorite post. In the midst of these two ding dongs fighting.... scott brings up a post about someone calling a lawyer. baha

About the only good post in this thread haha.

@nadnerB said in Home lab and gaming machine:

Righto, after a bit more research, the i7 is probably what you're looking for.
http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-E3-1240V5-vs-Intel-Core-i7-6700K#differences

aaaannnndddd I just noticed that you'd placed the order for it. lol. I'm a bit slow on the uptake today

np

@JaredBusch said in EMC ScaleIO Available for Free for Non-Production Use:

@KOOLER said in EMC ScaleIO Available for Free:

@scottalanmiller said in EMC ScaleIO Available for Free:

@jason says that the EULA allows for production usage, just without support.

Not really...

https://www.emc.com/content/terms/eula-scaleio.htm

E. “Internal Business Purposes” means an internal (non-commercial) Use for the purpose(s) of testing and demonstrating the features of the Software, and not for Customer product development, product testing, or other Customer research and development or commercial purposes.

Nothing in that says not for production use. But it does say not for commercial purposes and customer development, etc. To me that reads, if I use it internally to run my business, i can.

If the law states you can't kill people it doesn't mean you can kill them with a fork just because fork isn't mentioned.

Production use = Commercial purpose

If you don't agree - go ahead, put SIO into production and be ready to re-write your house to your lawyer. I don't see what I can do to help here 😉

@stacksofplates said in Explainshell:

@tonyshowoff said in Explainshell:

I'm not sure why I didn't think of this with EXPLAIN in MySQL it seems pretty obvious, because it works better than "use man pages" because when you build up tons of stuff, sprinkle syntactical sugar all over it, it can even be slightly difficult for experts to understand.

Great idea!

Ya. I hate when man pages don't have an example of the syntqx they want. I've seen some bad enough that it just tells you what the utility is used for with no real explanation.

Yeah, that is seriously missing in a lot of cases.

slideshare = linkedin

@StuartJordan said in Profile of an Unethical MSP:

The thread started of well anyway, cant understand why people are still seeing no need to Virtualize....it's 2016, there are free hypervisors to choose from, this shouldn't really be asked anymore.

It really shows the great length of "not wanting to learn" that so many IT people are willing to go to. Virtualization has been standard in the enterprise space for 52 years (1964 it began in production on IBM systems) and in the SMB space it's been common since 2003 and basically ubiquitous since 2005 and unacceptable to not have everywhere (on new deployments) somewhere around 2006 - 2008. By 2005, anyone in even SMB IT not being aware of it meant that they had no place in any kind of technical oversight or decision making role.

How anyone felt that this guy was employable is beyond me. How do we educate customers to look for good vendors?

@Jason said in DHCP the servers:

@scottalanmiller said in DHCP the servers:

@Texkonc said in DHCP the servers:

@JaredBusch said in DHCP the servers:

Personally, I am in the camp of static the hypervisors, DC, routers, and switches.

Yes, I agree on all those.
I am just used to statically assigning everything. This way we can set blocks of IP's aside for an application lets say, that you make block of .100-.150 for that one application and nothing can touch that range. but if you DHCP everything you kinda loose that.

What's the benefit of ranges of that nature? And reservations allow for that as well, you can set aside reservation blocks. But why?

What's the point of putting things besides each other with IPs? We do that for switches on the management vlan but most services are by DNS anyway so it doesn't matter

That's something that I've always said. Any attempt to have an IP address "range" identify things on the network is a mistake, a misunderstanding of the purpose of IP addresses. They are nothing but numbers and humans should not try to make them meaningful, they are inherently not meaningful. The only reasonable exception is the gateway.

For XS export speed: YMMV. I don't have major issues on my side, but some people (let's say 10/15%) had problems.

I suppose it's more related to a hardware problem.

I see improvements yes, but at the margin, I'm often saturating my GB link.

@anthonyh said in CentOS 6.8 - Time Zone Issue:

Yeah. I guess I can just do this for now.

yum update --exclude=tzdata*

And I suppose it's safe to assume it'll be fixed soon.

Yup, they might have it fixed any day for all you know.

@Nic said in reddit sysadmins doing an AMA:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/57ien6/were_reddits_infraops_team_ask_us_anything/

Some clever answers, LOL.

I think I'm in the twilight zone today, found a 750GB USB drive that's showing up as 5.5TB. Maybe I should've just taken a vacation day today.

@BRRABill said in Graylog Discovery:

@scottalanmiller said in Graylog Discovery:

@BRRABill said in Graylog Discovery:

@scottalanmiller said in Graylog Discovery:

@BRRABill said in Graylog Discovery:

@scottalanmiller said in Graylog Discovery:

@Romo said in Graylog Discovery:

@scottalanmiller said in Graylog Discovery:

Or... learn to work in UTC like the rest of us 😉

Or build your own Graylog server and it doesn't have this issue.

Is there any specific reason for using UTC?

Because it never has a daylight saving problem, it's standard and universal, every system uses it identically, and it is the only option that doesn't play favourites with a region.

So......you just add (say 5, for NY) to everything you see?

Or just work in UTC. In modern international business you always have to adjust the time. Nothing is easier than using UTC which is stable, as a base.

How do you get everyone to play along? Server support? Desktop support? Etc..

You make it a company policy. Times are in UTC. It's pretty easy, you can set desktops through GP or similar. Set servers to UTC. Works like magic. Some people might adjust their own stuff, but if they miss things it's purely a failure on their part that they have no excuse for. In fact, the excuse might be worse than missing things (intentionally breaking policy to not know when to show up.)

Wait, wait...so you expect all your users to also adapt to UTC?

Easier than have them not be able to figure out timezones. It's LESS adaptation, rather than more.

Here is the CentOS / RHEL install page, definitely going to check this out.

http://helpcenter.onlyoffice.com/desktop/documents/linux/installation-rhel.aspx