Awesome, glad that that fixed things.

@Lyndsie_xByte said in SpiceWorld 2016 savings with xByte:

@MattSpeller We appreciate you considering us and giving us an opportunity for your business! If we can't match on servers, don't leave us out of parts deals. I know we own some things so well that even Dell would have to take a loss to be competitive. 🙂

my pleasure, thank you for supporting this forum which I value

absolutely, we're a non-profit shop and you best believe we are bargain hunters 🙂

@wirestyle22 said in Stolen laptop advice.:

@scottalanmiller said in Stolen laptop advice.:

@wirestyle22 said in Stolen laptop advice.:

@scottalanmiller I'm honestly not sure how they did it at the hospital. That was years ago. Maybe I'm remembering it wrong.

Americans often don't know their employment rights and lots of companies use extortion to threaten workers with black listing, lawsuits or whatever to violate their rights. It's extremely common in the US to have employment rights violated and employees led to believe that they have no recourse.

That is my fault for not researching it if that did indeed happen. I'm honestly not sure.

Even if in that case they do not, I know directly many places that violate the law in exactly that way. It's common, even if it didn't really happen there.

I tried Rundeck. It was more confusing than just using Ansible without a GUI. IMO, just having the playbook with yaml and jinja files is easier to read and use. GUIs always have at least one thing you need in a place you wouldn't think.

I guess I wouldn't mind having some reports in a GUI but I'll stick with just text files.

Thanks. I get the impression that it's almost like a SalesForce for the solar industry, but I could be wrong. Just wanting to see how it handles data...I don't care about the sales part LOL

That slowed education for IT for NY for a long time as students in the SUNY system were not getting UNIX exposure.

@jrc said in Rack Rails for Cisco BE6000M servers:

Ok, let's see if this works....

The images are here

I'm tempted to say a generic fixed rail set would work. It looks awfully similar to a SuperMicro server. No warranties or anything on this statement of course.

Great, thanks for sharing!

Depending on the model of phone, the DND button is a softkey and you can just change the button to something else.

NJ here too. Crazy how real to life Mad Max Fury Road was

@RamblingBiped said in Containers in IT:

Do you automate configuration management and deployment using Puppet? Chef? Ansible?

This particular item (DevOps vs. Snowflakes) applies to VMs and containers equally.

@Lakshmana said in H61MXP Board Issue:

@thwr The vendor is Foxconn.The storage is detected in the bios.The OS start page is showing but after a minute while the Input not supported error coming.
Whether UEFI needs to be done for the machine ???
There is no speaker present in the board so unable to hear sound when the RAM is taken out from the board.

Whar exactly? And which OS are you using? You need to supply as much information as possible, we can't help otherwise.

I think describing the heads as moving in and out is more appropriate since they're mounted on an armature, like a record player, and not forward or backward. I often use record players as a description for clients when they ask how drives work.

In my writing, I try to avoid use 'but' and things like it (however, etc.). Replace the word 'but' with 'and' as an exercise to see how it changes your readers' perception.

You've got a couple sentences that are like Yoda. Eg, by doing this, and it's unnecessary.

Similary, the logical volume... You missed a comma. The same occurs in drive impressions, the stack.

A good article, and a great way to open discussion on SANs and how volumes, drives and RAID presentations can be partitioned or utilized efficiently.

@scottalanmiller said in 7 years of up time:

@travisdh1 said in 7 years of up time:

@scottalanmiller said in 7 years of up time:

@travisdh1 said in 7 years of up time:

@Dashrender said in 7 years of up time:

@travisdh1 said in 7 years of up time:

@Dashrender said in 7 years of up time:

@DustinB3403 said in 7 years of up time:

@aaron said in 7 years of up time:

To me that's negligence not impressive 🙂

Oh I agree, but the up time for a windows server ain't to bad...

I mean when was the last time you've ever heard of a server with that kind of up time?

is it impressive though? if you need to reboot to install updates/security fixes, then you need to reboot. That whole uptime thing is just a crock! Something Unix admins love to brag about. Can Unix really update the kernel without rebooting the OS? If yes, then why doesn't Windows do that too?

UNIX, not that I know of (been quite a while), Linux, yes, yes it can.

Then the same question applies, why can Linux do it and Windows can't?

Linux only relatively recently gained this ability (2 years since I found out about the capability, and ~1 year that it's be included in the kernel.) It's not a trivial process, and nobody outside of Microsoft has any idea if their kernel is even capable of replacing itself on a live system.

It's been around at least five years but almost no one cared. So it was not pushed.

Ah, I must've just found out about it about the time they started rolling it into the kernel then.

Yes, it was around long before it was rolled into the kernel. But it was mostly edge cases looking into it. Very few people were really that excited about it, which I found surprising even then. But it's true, even today, I don't care that much about it 🙂

At least converting me from the "It's annoying to reboot, the longer I can go between reboots the better" mindset was quicker and easier than RAID 5, even tho most of you never knew the process was taking place.

@travisdh1 said in Linux/Java: Process terminates itself if started in background:

@thwr said in Linux/Java: Process terminates itself if started in background:

@travisdh1 said in Linux/Java: Process terminates itself if started in background:

At least it's not purposely breaking shell inheritance like IDEAS on IRIX used to do. Looked absolutely horrible when another sysadmin looked at those systems. Still, that's just terrible practice today.

Yeah, I can't say what I am thinking about it without making this site PEGI 18...

I'm thinking it right along with you, between bouts of nausea from the memories.

I'm still wrestling with it, but it looks like I'm going to win this one.

Good! Beat that POS into submission!

Oh I did. It tried to cheat on my two more times by blocking the whole shell process despite being forced to background (app &) and using the same TCP port for two different instances but ... finally gave up.

Thanks for your coaching 😉

@Dashrender said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:

Do the convertion using /set-edition by itself then do the DISM command again with the /productkey

I'll give that a try in just a moment.

Thanks for the tip.

@Carnival-Boy said in Voice/Greeting recording for generic holidays and other messages...Where do you get them from?:

Anyone know how much Scarlett Johansson charges?

Depends on how dirty you want her to sound...

Sounds like that would indicate a no scrubbing situation.