@Jason said:

a Stick of C4 explosives would take it down too 🙂

I had other options but posting them may put me on a watch list... I'd like the Rolex thanks 😉
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PUNS!!!!! :bowtie:

I ended up ordering an ASUS: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015ZG9D74/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER.

Monday morning and back at it. Anyway, ifcfg-eth2

cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth2 DEVICE=eth2 TYPE="Ethernet" ONBOOT="yes" USERCTL="no" BOOTPROTO="dhcp" PEERDNS="yes"

I wonder if it could be a missing hardware address, gonna go lookup the MAC and add that in.

This generally happens when you run out of space for the downloaded patch to extract to. Try logging into the host and looks for patch or temporary files that haven't been deleted.

@wrx7m said:

I have supported FM server here for the past 5.5 years (Versions 10-13, so far). It is OK from a small-scale perspective but like you said above, you don't want to look small-scale, especially since you will almost surely trap yourself. As far as I can tell, FM does not scale well. Our FM guy is a co-owner and taught himself how to create and maintain FM databases and he is pretty good at it. However, I am sure there are things he has done that were taking the long way around with a sort of house of cards effect. I would say that over half of our business relies on the 25 or so databases he has created.

I supported FM for a company, NTG's second MSP customer, actually, for over a decade and it does its job well enough for what it is. But there is no doubt that it's extremely limiting in every possible way. They use it for a three person office that was two people in 2001 when the company started and grew to whopping.... two people over a decade later. During the summers they go up to three people for a few months during their busy season. For a company with zero growth and no high reliability demands (it can be down for a month at times without an issue) it worked fine. But, very limiting and they have had to pay a bit for it over the years and I'm not sure that a spreadsheet would not have been cheaper and easier.

Gen1 allows legacy hardware such as a NIC for PXE boot. I believe Gen1 is Bios Emulation and Gen2 is UEFI

@Dashrender said:

I've never see a screen like that in my VLSC console.

It's under Administration.

Manage Updates for different groups of users...

We have clients that have critical times of the year, or have critical staff / software. While updates are important,.. and required. Some updates have been known to break software.

@scottalanmiller I have avoided bad updates by waiting a week or two and googling the updates that show in my WSUS. If I worked with a team of people who only did help desk, I would be more willing to take the leap. That being said, I do have critical updates set to automatically download and install for all clients. Servers I do regularly and manually. Critical updates appear less often and are fewer in numbers compared with other updates that seem to cause the problems.

@MattSpeller said:

@Jason said:

@MattSpeller said:

@Jason Forever? What the heck do you do? Legal stuff?

A class action lawsuit 15 years ago, they lost but the outcome of that was everyone in the industry now has to keep all data forever. (Not to mention what they said the companies where doing as they tried against about 10 companies was not illegal)

That's a hell of a burden on the company. Gross.

That's what starting new companies and killing off old ones is for. Things like that break the cycle.

@JaredBusch said:

and while I sure some many people will have 25 year old systems.... they seriously should not.

FTFY

@MattSpeller Cleared the leases file, first thing I thought of.

@Jason mmmm, cable porn

The setup you are describing falls under the category of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"

@gjacobse said:

I was informed that he is about 20' from the router on Wireless, but that TWC is to be onsite today to setup / move the equipment and then he will be within 5' of it.

Just hope it's not to close and overloads the wireless radio's.

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Be warned, testing IOPS requires overwriting the drives. So any test that tests your IOPS has to blow away your storage. If it doesn't, it's not even remotely a useful test. So think carefully before doing this on anything that isn't a fresh build.

But you can run it inside the OS that's on those drives without concern that that data already there will be damaged.

Sure... but since that doesn't test what is in question, there wouldn't be any point to that.

@Jason Acrobat Pro for $55 from techsoup.org for the win. I thought the only option was the creative cloud suite subscription. I missed the Acrobat Pro option.

@larsen161 said:

@scottalanmiller hmm, something new to learn. reading through this now: http://lwn.net/Articles/476263/

http://mangolassi.it/topic/8029/linux-common-filesystems

We've talked about XFS here in ML quite a bit in the last two months,

@Jason said:

@coliver said:

@RojoLoco said:

Sumatra PDF has none of Adobe's BS. Clean installer and everything.

My preferred reader. Although I wish there was a way to add bookmarks to the pdfs.

Or lots of form fills and many other things that the PDF standard allows but Sumatra doesn't support. The reality is as much as Adobe sucks, if you use anything other than acrobat you will likely have some missing features

No question there. For basics Sumatra is awesome. As soon as you need more then Adobe is the way to go.

@Breffni-Potter That's helpful thanks. I'll check out my BIOS which I think is pretty locked down but we'll see.