Those who oversee the community.
Realizing that I have left my Ubuntu VM off for to long. This means I have forgotten to keep it updated and it cannot be updated.. Ooops.. Guess that is a lesson learned.
Time to back up data and kill it.. not much of a VM anyway.. so - something to learn on.
xByte -
That is the name I just could not come up with.
Thank you
It's been some years since I searched for servers or such. There was one I recall being pretty prominent, maybe out of Florida. Sadly I cannot recall the name.
Does anyone recall the name - or a source for a used server? Just looking for the home 'lab' and ham radio tasks..
@travisdh1
Ah- the good old days of DEC,.. I had once thought about looking to pick up a DEC PDP 11/23 setup..
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse I just made a video today about why we use desktops as servers now!
Well first off I get this message:
Uhm.. okay.
Desktops as servers; in some cases - they are useful. Sadly the issue I am running into is that the twelve year old computer has more cores than anything I have available to me in the office,.. I am running an old Dell with 8-cores, and everything I have only has 4-cores.
Were I running several rPi VMs that might be fine, but I am running full Windows or Linux for testing and Ham Radio. It's working but a little strained and I can't do much more without maxing the system resources out.
Oh well.. will find something some time..
Trying to remember / find a practical source for a actual server to replace the desktop trying to impersonate one... Don't need or want much... but a 4-core CPU just isn't cutting it for where I want to go. But I'm not needing dual 24-core systems with 2TB of ram..
Never finished B5,.. I should go back for it...
I've been trying to finish Airwolf, Streethawk and a few others...
Good luck. I didn't know that USMT was even still a thing used... Maybe some places disable / block it.
One Drive maybe? IDK.. If the vendor has the devices, profiles are difficult to move without the initial sign on. Now, I could be wrong on that... Maybe there is a way to do that without compromising the users password... because IT will never ask for your password. And if they do, it was a test,.. ONLY A TEST!...
@scottalanmiller said in Color Printer: new set up best practices:
Probably depends on printing patterns. We print VERY little, and only a few people, so for us a single printer and the end user is trusted to print what makes sense in the printer setup is what makes sense. If you have a huge office and only some people should print in color and you print a lot, then two printers would make sense.
Looking at it from that aspect - good plan. As much as I would love to rid myself of the printers it is a heavy need. They print all of the pick or pack slips for products to be shipped and they the commercial invoices - which have to use color.
I am only getting these three printers and they ruined five HP Color printers by buying and using sub-standard paper. Paper was such crap, I spent about eighteen hours tearing one printer down to the transfer belt and finding nothing. Of course, canned air on nearly every part of the disassembly could have help.
These three new printers will be on a service contract - so someone local can service them,.. or replace them. and I won't have to keep dropping upwards of two grand a printer every sixteen months.
