What Are You Doing Right Now
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@Minion-Queen said:
But I would love if I NEVER had to work on any of my own stuff and someone else just did it for me. I do not enjoy doing IT, unlike most of you guys. I learned cause I am good at it not cause I like it .
I'm not sure why I like it so much... But I love to tinker with stuff... I don't mind working on my stuff as long as it is something I want to do IE: Switch to Linux... and not because I got hit by a hardware failure, etc.
Tomorrow, I'm going to and help one of my wife's friends with her dryer... I know enough about electronics to be dangerous thanks to my grampa and Pops, lol... I may be going to pick up a desktop computer as well... One that will be come the first XenServer at my house if it has more than 2GB of ram, lol... Or I may cannibalize it for parts... not sure what to do yet.
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Went to make a DO Droplet to do some work for @Minion-Queen and DO is under maintenance right now and we aren't able to make new droplets. Argh.
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@MattSpeller said:
@dafyre Yeah, I sat and drank a liter of my hooch while working on the board layout for the worlds most expensive USB Battery bank
Edit: from looking at it this morning I actually did pretty well
USB Battery Bank... Curious... I looked around for a 12v battery a bit today. Want something light enough to carry with my radio.
It will run on 8 AA batteries, but not the greatest. I do have a decent supply of 18650 batteries. just need to make a decent case.
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@dafyre said:
@MattSpeller Yea... Drinking a bit of hooch will do that to ya... I've never knowingly consumed alcohol... so a liter of anything would have me rolling on the floor and barking like a dog... Or trying to ride the nearest floor buffer.
Hey - Riding a floor buffer is something you just do.. Drunk or not!
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Digital Ocean maintenance is done.
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So they sell pre-made Rum and Cokes here in the grocery store in cans... Cuba Libre. Going to get some soon.
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@gjacobse said:
USB Battery Bank... Curious... I looked around for a 12v battery a bit today. Want something light enough to carry with my radio.
It will run on 8 AA batteries, but not the greatest. I do have a decent supply of 18650 batteries. just need to make a decent case.
My design will support 5v 5a (2x USB at full 2a draw each with spare) and a 12v output @ 5a
All this is from 4 quad parallel packs of 18650's (4x 3.7v packs of 4 batteries)
It's going to be gloriously overbuilt and well protected & filtered. The chinese "built to the lowest dollar one hung low fire hazards" are not to my taste.
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@gjacobse I bought one of these one hung low things and I was horrified at the construction, let alone the insane voltage spikes and drop outs. It's 12v output is filthier than a lady of the night on east hastings in Vancouver
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/171436707495?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
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Working on an Elastix 4 install onto CentOS 7 on Digital Ocean. Fingers crossed that this actually works.
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If this ends up working, this will finally make our CentOS count on DO higher than our Ubuntu count.
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Why does no IaaS cloud platform offer OpenSuse? Argh. Pisses me off.
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@MattSpeller said:
@gjacobse said:
USB Battery Bank... Curious... I looked around for a 12v battery a bit today. Want something light enough to carry with my radio.
It will run on 8 AA batteries, but not the greatest. I do have a decent supply of 18650 batteries. just need to make a decent case.
My design will support 5v 5a (2x USB at full 2a draw each with spare) and a 12v output @ 5a
All this is from 4 quad parallel packs of 18650's (4x 3.7v packs of 4 batteries)
It's going to be gloriously overbuilt and well protected & filtered. The chinese "built to the lowest dollar one hung low fire hazards" are not to my taste.
We should talk... I'd be happy to help test. and I have plenty of usable 18650s
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@gjacobse what kind of amperage / run time are you after?
I hope to have a prototype built this fall
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@MattSpeller said:
@gjacobse what kind of amperage / run time are you after?
I hope to have a prototype built this fall
I haven't done the math lately, but the 817 will run on 8 AA batteries, I want to say that there are some pre-made packs that are only 2500mAh at 9v. Trying for the highest power density practical for weight as I may lug this out on a hike.
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@scottalanmiller I just want to know why you're so anti-zfs and anti-FreeNAS. The GUI is awesome.
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@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller I just want to know why you're so anti-zfs and anti-FreeNAS. The GUI is awesome.
Where did the idea that I am anti-ZFS come from? People repeat that all of the time. I was promoting ZFS a decade ago. I probably am more responsible for introducing it to the SMB market than most anyone. I was pushing it years before people had any idea what it was or how to use it. I have been working with ZFS since Thumper. I actually got access to Thumper before general release. I've seen people say this many times, yet I'm an ardent promoter of ZFS when it makes sense.
As far as FreeNAS, the GUI is irrelevant if it puts you at risk. What is the purpose of an easy to "set up" system that you depend on if it is not easy to maintain and fix if something fails? Easy to use GUIs are evil if they get you into trouble and don't provide the way out.
Did you read The Jurassic Park Effect that explains why NAS OS (not FreeNAS specifically) are categorically a bad idea? Storage isn't a game. It's not something that you can trivially replace should you not know how to fix it when things fail, and things do fail. You don't use "simple to get up and running, hard to fix" in production, you want "hard to get running, easy to keep reliable" instead.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller I just want to know why you're so anti-zfs and anti-FreeNAS. The GUI is awesome.
Where did the idea that I am anti-ZFS come from? People repeat that all of the time. I was promoting ZFS a decade ago. I probably am more responsible for introducing it to the SMB market than most anyone. I was pushing it years before people had any idea what it was or how to use it. I have been working with ZFS since Thumper. I actually got access to Thumper before general release. I've seen people say this many times, yet I'm an ardent promoter of ZFS when it makes sense.
As far as FreeNAS, the GUI is irrelevant if it puts you at risk. What is the purpose of an easy to "set up" system that you depend on if it is not easy to maintain and fix if something fails? Easy to use GUIs are evil if they get you into trouble and don't provide the way out.
Did you read The Jurassic Park Effect that explains why NAS OS (not FreeNAS specifically) are categorically a bad idea? Storage isn't a game. It's not something that you can trivially replace should you not know how to fix it when things fail, and things do fail. You don't use "simple to get up and running, hard to fix" in production, you want "hard to get running, easy to keep reliable" instead.
I was being facetious. It was a reference to the spiceworks thread today about the guy using FreeNAS and a SAN.
Didn't mean for you to have to write that large reply.
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LOL, thanks
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It sucks, every time I try to go down the path of "Let's figure out the right technology for your specific scenario.", someone immediately attacks me for hating whatever product they are trying to push. Not using product X for every scenario without even considering client needs must mean that I hate that product, hate the person in question and hate the entire technology around it. And the moment I try to point out that something is too costly, they will tell me to stop wasting money (um, I just told you you were spending too much!) or if I mention needs they will point out that I, alternately, have no idea what a small business is like and/or have no idea what a large business is like.
It's so frustrating that people will say anything to try to discredit you over there. I think that they just guess what size company you are with and try to say that you know nothing about "the opposite one." I have no idea how other people post there, if I didn't have over a quarter century in the industry and have worked with many companies at both ends of the spectrum (literally two person companies to multiple in the Fortune 10) I would be automatically be discredited everywhere for not being in a company of the right size.
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I used to read a lot there, but lately I've just been participating on here (I still read stuff on there, just don't post as much). If I had a dollar for every time someone recommended Ubuntu because "it's better for desktops" I'd be a millionaire. It's sad because a lot of the time the people generally don't have an idea of what direction to take and they are just guessing, so catering to their guesses makes it worse.
