Just adding this note as it was asked about breakglass passwords... one of the things that we are doing to make breakglass passwords easier to manage is setting them in a system template so that every system created with that template gets the same secret root password and no need for the person creating the new system to know the password!

@Jason said:

Anyone else contemplating leaving dell? We've seen their quality drop a lot for desktops and laptops in the past 6-12 months.

Who are you using? Reality is there is only 1 other company for us to really consider and that's HP.

We do Dell servers. Dell laptops are crap indeed. recently. But who does not do crap thee days? ;((

With cloud guys like Amazon offering their own WAN gateways (BTW, MSFT did virtual StorSimple recently) I don't see much of the future in WAN gateways and WAN accelerators. Seems to be built-in functionality of a hypervisor, backup, and could. IMHO.

@Dashrender said:

so, you'll have three partitions? one for Ubuntu, one for Windows, and one for shared data that's encrypted?

I know Ubuntu can read NTFS partitions, so maybe you can get away with two?

I'll only have one system that will have three, and the third will be on a second hard disk that will be used for data storage. He will mostly be operating from Windows so I plan to use NTFS for that disk. Other than that, I should just have two partitions on a single SSD.

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Most of what they are doing doesn't require a lot of shared data between the Operating Systems, just different sets of tools. They are interfacing with a lot of prototype hardware using various tools. Most of the stuff is designed in Linux, and frequently runs in Windows. Although, some of the design tools are only natively available in Windows. (Altium as an example)

Also of note, the original command from the first post does still not work.

It's still full VDI. VDI existed long before the modern concept of VDI specific tools. This is all that VDI used to be.

Was it the best option, no of course not, but was it really so horrible either? not really.

What roles does the other server have right now other than file server? Even if it is a DC, that's easily fixed, just DCPROMO it down - problem solved.

Granted, I'm totally for the scrap and start over - the current situation also isn't the end of the world.

Another question - What type of backup solution does this potential client have? how much data is on the server?
What makes anyone think the old server is dieing?

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OK heard from my vendor.

They agree that the HPE website saying that iLo Essentials only supports DL380 e-series is kinda hidden and are going to see about refunding me that license.

As for the Insight Manager iLo license, they claim that it is what I need at the best price. That this license alone will allow me to run Insight Manager, and use iLo Advanced features all inclusive in this license, which seems odd as it's a less expensive license than just iLo Advanced by itself.

I'm currently downloading Insight Manger - I guess we'll see what I see.

Though I only have one server currently that I need/want to manage - running Insight Manger is overkill for one server. And, where am I suppose to run Insight Manager?

more digging.

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@wrx7m said:

Can you log in to your spam filter/log and search for mail coming from that person who claims they are sending email to the correct address?

In my Barracuda SVF 300 I can see all the messages coming in that are to non-existent email addresses. In fact, I have had this problem before and had to show a department manager that they were sending it to a person who got married and since changed their last name and, of course, the email address had to be updated.

It's showing her e-mails coming it at 0 KB but all other e-mails coming from that domain are fine including secure e-mails.

Are they actually being received, or are they being rejected?

It shows the attempt. Apparently they fixed it but they didn't tell me what they did. shrug

PEBKAC error

I'm sure

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@scottalanmiller said:

@SeanExablox thanks for all of the info!

anytime!

@Dashrender Thx

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@MattSpeller said:

@gjacobse I actually have plans to make my own custom cables (USB) with a mag safe break in the middle like that

With a 3d printer and some neodynium magnets, that should be "easy". I quote easy because I was doing 3d design stuff for a while.

Are you a parametric or direct modelling kind of guy?

Direct modelling. Lysdexia makes parametric way to dangerous.

There's an apt phrase that I picked up while in Africa that applies well to this. It's not broken, it's just cheap.

@Nic said:

And if you have to, at the very least wipe the machine and start from scratch with your own image.

Now, that used to work. 🙂 Now it does not.

when are xbyte coming to the UK?

I'll head it up 😄 if they make the HQ/Factory in Newtown Mid Wales - plenty of factory space available to buy/rent 😄

@Lakshmana said:

Running Linux as base OS and using VMware in it will somewhat reduce the space to test two or three OS in it

Don't use VMware as a term for a product, that is confusing everyone. VMware is a company that makes many products. None of which is called VMware. It would be like calling something Microsoft. It could mean a lot of things. What VMware product are you picturing using?

In what way do you picture running Linux reducing space? And if you want to run Linux to run VMs, why are you dual booting?

@Lakshmana said:

There is a file hiberfil.sys is present in C drive which is 2.36 GB space.Whether it is a Virus?I have already done scanning with the C drive.

Very standard part of the OS. If you want to make it go away, you can disable hibernation.