What Are You Doing Right Now
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@nadnerB happy birthday to your daughter!
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Good Morning ML.
Coffee time here, Finally 8 hours to go and I'm gonna have my weekend. -
Sorting out Dynamics GP on a new Citrix XenApp VM
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Sorting out Dynamics GP on a new Citrix XenApp VM
*gag* *cough* Dynamics... Ugh... I feel for you.
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Now re-installing my Linux Servers as I can't find a way of getting them off ESXi onto XenServer7
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Now re-installing my Linux Servers as I can't find a way of getting them off ESXi onto XenServer7
Nuke it from orbit.
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Now re-installing my Linux Servers as I can't find a way of getting them off ESXi onto XenServer7
You mean no P2V process?
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Trying to get Microsoft to give me some kind of a discount for buying licensing so I can have 6 permanent VM's running. They really don't do anything for individuals who want to learn by creating an entire business infrastructure. You'd think they would want as many people as they can possibly get to start learning and using their product.
wherefore art thou Linux
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to get Microsoft to give me some kind of a discount for buying licensing so I can have 6 permanent VM's running. They really don't do anything for individuals who want to learn by creating an entire business infrastructure. You'd think they would want as many people as they can possibly get to start learning and using their product.
wherefore art thou Linux
You could always just... learn Linux.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to get Microsoft to give me some kind of a discount for buying licensing so I can have 6 permanent VM's running. They really don't do anything for individuals who want to learn by creating an entire business infrastructure.
You are doing it wrong.
For a learning environment, tear everything down and start from scratch, you'll get more practice building things if you have to keep re-doing them versus a permanent environment.
Microsoft give you 4 months of eval time for their server installs, What will you be running that you need it operational for longer than 4 months?
The whole point of the eval centre is for exactly that reason, proof of concepts, learning new tech, etc. - What do you need to build that you can't build in a few hours with a VM host?
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@Breffni-Potter said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to get Microsoft to give me some kind of a discount for buying licensing so I can have 6 permanent VM's running. They really don't do anything for individuals who want to learn by creating an entire business infrastructure.
You are doing it wrong.
For a learning environment, tear everything down and start from scratch, you'll get more practice building things if you have to keep re-doing them versus a permanent environment.
Microsoft give you 4 months of eval time for their server installs, What will you be running that you need it operational for longer than 4 months?
The whole point of the eval centre is for exactly that reason, proof of concepts, learning new tech, etc. - What do you need to build that you can't build in a few hours with a VM host?
I agree but after a good amount of time I'm going to actually want to do things with the server that would be permanent. I guess I'll just do it in Linux when that happens
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I'm refreshing a database on an iPad at the moment.
The killer point to me is that everyone says "delete the app and then reinstall" as if something magical will happen to shorten the refresh time.
Download the database from scratch (full refresh) problem solved. Deleting the app doesn't "retain the database". A full refresh occurs in this case.
So stop being L-user.
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@Breffni-Potter said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to get Microsoft to give me some kind of a discount for buying licensing so I can have 6 permanent VM's running. They really don't do anything for individuals who want to learn by creating an entire business infrastructure.
You are doing it wrong.
For a learning environment, tear everything down and start from scratch, you'll get more practice building things if you have to keep re-doing them versus a permanent environment.
Microsoft give you 4 months of eval time for their server installs, What will you be running that you need it operational for longer than 4 months?
The whole point of the eval centre is for exactly that reason, proof of concepts, learning new tech, etc. - What do you need to build that you can't build in a few hours with a VM host?
This was great for me. In my Windows NT 4 days I was rebuilding the entire environment every 90 days. I learned so much more because I kept doing everything top to bottom over and over again.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Breffni-Potter said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to get Microsoft to give me some kind of a discount for buying licensing so I can have 6 permanent VM's running. They really don't do anything for individuals who want to learn by creating an entire business infrastructure.
You are doing it wrong.
For a learning environment, tear everything down and start from scratch, you'll get more practice building things if you have to keep re-doing them versus a permanent environment.
Microsoft give you 4 months of eval time for their server installs, What will you be running that you need it operational for longer than 4 months?
The whole point of the eval centre is for exactly that reason, proof of concepts, learning new tech, etc. - What do you need to build that you can't build in a few hours with a VM host?
I agree but after a good amount of time I'm going to actually want to do things with the server that would be permanent. I guess I'll just do it in Linux when that happens
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Breffni-Potter said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to get Microsoft to give me some kind of a discount for buying licensing so I can have 6 permanent VM's running. They really don't do anything for individuals who want to learn by creating an entire business infrastructure.
You are doing it wrong.
For a learning environment, tear everything down and start from scratch, you'll get more practice building things if you have to keep re-doing them versus a permanent environment.
Microsoft give you 4 months of eval time for their server installs, What will you be running that you need it operational for longer than 4 months?
The whole point of the eval centre is for exactly that reason, proof of concepts, learning new tech, etc. - What do you need to build that you can't build in a few hours with a VM host?
I agree but after a good amount of time I'm going to actually want to do things with the server that would be permanent. I guess I'll just do it in Linux when that happens
Well obviously. Even if you got Windows learning licenses if you wanted it to be permanent you would end up violating the license because you took it to production. So you'd need Linux for that anyway.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
You mean no P2V process?
Not one I've found that works
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On a consult call right now.
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
You mean no P2V process?
Not one I've found that works
sfdisk + rsync? There a loads of tutorials available. Google for something like "move [my distro] to new harddisk"
There's a good one for ArchLinux as far as I remember. The procedure is basically always the same, you may need to adapt a bit if you are using LVM for example.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/travel-tips-and-articles/school-of-life-why-travel-is-the-best-teacher
My kids definitely learn more traveling than at school, school is a waste of time, by the way they're homeschooled so I lied a bit, they learn more in homeschool as well. I'm just using this as an opportunity to crap on schools.
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Apparently today is Prime Day on Amazon. Some good deals so far.
