• Weird keyboard issue

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    Same result in multiple browsers?

    Would be a seriously mis-timed April fools day joke if it's the bank website.

    I wish it were still called "Internet Explorer" so I can call it "Internet Exploder". Microsoft you took away all the fun.

  • Meraki Rate-Limits Z1 to 50Mbps

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    @quicky2g said:

    @dafyre said:

    @Jason said:

    ... require more fees for more throughput being used on the same device.

    This is what drives me crazy about companies these days... Let me pay for a box that is sized for the network I want. If it can handle more than my current bandwidth, great! Don't make me buy a paper license just because I have a 300Mbit internet connection and your box is rated for 200 megs, but I am aactually seeing the full 300.

    This is why I prefer to build my own firewall... Shorewall + Snort (or Suricata) + DansGuardian +ClamAV = Win. (Or you can just use pfSense)... Gotta build a beefy box to make it all run nice and smooth and not choke your internet.... But still probably a far cry cheaper than Palo Altos, et al.

    You must have loads of fun troubleshooting all those individual systems when something is blocked that shouldn't be.

    Ha ha ha. Nope. If it's a website, it's DansGuarian. If it's an App, then it is Snort / Suricata blocking it. 🙂 (In my last build, I used Suricata to block the applications we didn't want on the network).

    If it's not Snort / Suricata, then it's the Firewall not allowing outgoing ports.

  • Installing JIRA Service Desk

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    I downloaded the wrong package, and now I feel stupid 😢

    The 64 bit package works fine.....

  • No wonder the backup was taking so long....

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    @DustinB3403 said:

    I added my CentOS NFS system to the backup.... lol 1TB of storage space attempting to backup to it's self might take a while....

    Backup Inception? The Neverending Story?

  • Unitrends Free for XenServer?

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    @Dashrender said:

    What are/were the limitations of free version? I have forgotten.

    1TB of storage. I think that's counting amount of protected storage, but it's been long enough I forget for sure.

    Edit: Works real well for me here, adding servers and services as I set them up. We've been using crashplan for file level storage for a long time, so I don't have much being pulled in by Unitrends currently.

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    It is not uncommon to only have servers approved to access the storage listed. So many shops will go in and add a server one by one to enable access. If your servers almost never change, this works pretty well and is extremely secure. You can do this in the firewall too, for even more security. But if you are using DevOps and creating and destroying VMs regularly you will want to automate this in some fashion.

  • TeslaCrypt meet TeslaCrack

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  • Memory Card Weight Vs HDD Weight

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    What if you have dark matter data? Wouldn't it weigh more?

    How about if you filled the SD card with death metal.... wouldn't that make it "heavy"? .... 😉

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    @scottalanmiller said:

    Or at very list, single editor. Could be many readers.

    I've been using it for a little over a year now and it has worked great for my purposes. For a one person shop I think it is ideal.

  • Microsoft Licensing Primer

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    @scottalanmiller said:

    But there are really convenient options. It's not like those don't exist and aren't used all of the time. It's just that you need to license them. But you CAN do recovery very easily.

    The real issue is using Windows systems without being able to or willing to afford the cost to do so. Windows has a cost, which we all accept, to a point. The issues arise when we (or companies) don't want to spend enough to do it "right." Then it feels like there is a limitation with the product, but really it is just a lack of willingness to pay for what it cost to run it. But Windows is always a choice, as are the features like this kind of recovery.

    I fully understand this now.

    I understand that I can do EXACTLY what I want, which IMO makes for a much safe/better/quicker backup and recovery. As long as I buy another license. Or, in the case of larger companies, am already properly licensed.

    My take has always been that making it more difficult to backup and restore is not in the interest of anyone. Even though Microsoft could theoretically make more money,
    a -- they probably aren't because most people just run the backups anyway without proper licensing (most probably unaware)
    b -- they will push people to other systems when backups fail or they realize the "cost of Windows" as you say

    Datto, StorageCraft, etc ... these companies have great products that take great backups, and easily let you know if they are working. We're not talking about running systems here. We are talking about EASILY checking to see if backups have worked. That's it. Yes, it's possible to do another way, but again, that adds complexity and downtime. Yes, there is a cost to those things, but considering how important backup and recovery is, I think it should be allowed.

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    @DustinB3403 said:

    Did you not have somewhere to jump off of?

    XS/XO/XOA is all great, but seriously the thread count is stupid. The knowledge is lost in all the noise.

  • Vultr Network Issue

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    There we go. Slowly decreasing that list of unanswereds.

  • Xen Orchestra - Backup yourself!

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    So I tested the backup functionality within XOS and the appliance backs it's self up without issue.

    Wow!

    No additional tools required. Great design @olivier !

  • Outlook web has mentions and likes coming soon

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    scottalanmillerS

    @Dashrender said:

    Mentions just seems weird in email. Unless their name makes sense in the message itself, it just seems odd to include it in the body instead of just typing it in the TO field.

    Because they do different things. People are in the "to" field all of the time because of "reply all" or just too many people being on the email. Mentions are so that they know that they are talked about in the email itself that they have already received:

    To use Mentions, simply add the @ symbol in the body of an email. This will bring up your frequent contacts as well as access to your directory. Select the person you want to highlight, and they will automatically be added to the To: line if they were not already included. In addition, their name will be highlighted in the message in blue and they will receive an @ flag in their inbox view next to the message. Furthermore, they can sort by their @ messages to ensure they respond to all messages in which they were mentioned.

  • Alternatives to Microsoft family safety

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    @Breffni-Potter said:

    Children are not the only possible use case for this 😉

    Just what are you trying to imply here..... Just because I have played hours of Steam the other day doesn't mean I'm addicted....

    twitch, twitch

  • Logout directly next to Reboot

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    scottalanmillerS

    @Dashrender said:

    Even when I RDS into a Windows server, I thought the reboot option was typically greyed out? Maybe that was only my TS days?

    used to be. that's why you always had to reboot from the command prompt.

  • Better Computer Case Or...

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    @scottalanmiller No with their own cooling systems in hot areas of the world. Not central AC etc, but actually vented walls.

  • Xen Orchestra vs Xen Orchestra Appliance

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    Xen is purely LF, but also the toolstack which made XenServer what it is. Eg, XAPI is also a LF project 🙂

    So +1 from the Scott's comment.

  • DNS Across VLANs

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    @pchiodo said:

    @scottalanmiller We were attempting "NSLOOKUP 172.16.2.110" and receiving the stated error. As per my previous response, I think we got it fixed by adding the reverse lookup zone, and allowing it time to propagate.

    Interesting.. for some reason I thought you were trying to NSLOOKUP using the client as a DNS server, which of course would fail.

  • New Hyper-V 2012 R2 install

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    Well - continuing down the fan spin up, spin down saga - Today HP had me send them logs from iLo. Those logs showed that I am using a NIC firmware that they have since pulled (but it was in the service pack DVD ISO - so WTF?). They want me to downgrade the NIC firmware.

    Of course, the single install file for NIC firmware is gui based, and even though you can extract the dozen or so files from the installer and run them direct, they don't have instructions for doing so.

    So now I'm stuck downloading and old Service Pack DVD ISO so I can boot from that and downgrade my firmware. oh boy!