What Are You Doing Right Now
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Fixing backups. Woooo!
Also - I'm after putting a VM Host on my machine at home to mess about with - I have 10 pro but it's an upgrade so Hyper-V doesn't work because MS is dumb. Debating whether to do a repair install of Win 10 to see if that fixes the issue, or to use a free hypervisor...opinions?
Depends on your requirements. VirtualBox works just fine in most cases and even better than Hyper-V when it comes to things like USB pass-through. Never measured it, but I think the overall I/O performace and latency of Hyper-V on Win8/8.1/10 is just "smoother" (faster, low lag) compared to the same workload running in VirtualBox. Probably because Hyper-V is a type 1 hypervisor while VirtualBox is a type 2. But again: You probably won't notice that in most cases.
Just to spin up VM's for messing about/testing stuff mainly - partly to teach myself more stuff, partly because I get bored easily...So will be wanting to run Linux VMs as well as Microsoft VMs
VirtualBox should do, really. Big plus is pass-through. With VirtualBox, you are able to just pass through a USB thumb drive and you will have full access to it, including things like partition tables. I'm using this whenever I need to do something complex to partitions on disks, sticks and SD cards: Fire up a Linux-VM, attach the storage device, start parted / gparted / fdisk / sfdisk / whatever, modify partitions and finally just detach the device. Works very well.
Oh, BTW: Hyper-V knows how to pass through a local storage device too, but ... well, does not work in each and every case due to some restrictions.
Yeah, I'm aware of Hyper-V's...quirks...
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@NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Fixing backups. Woooo!
Also - I'm after putting a VM Host on my machine at home to mess about with - I have 10 pro but it's an upgrade so Hyper-V doesn't work because MS is dumb. Debating whether to do a repair install of Win 10 to see if that fixes the issue, or to use a free hypervisor...opinions?
Depends on your requirements. VirtualBox works just fine in most cases and even better than Hyper-V when it comes to things like USB pass-through. Never measured it, but I think the overall I/O performace and latency of Hyper-V on Win8/8.1/10 is just "smoother" (faster, low lag) compared to the same workload running in VirtualBox. Probably because Hyper-V is a type 1 hypervisor while VirtualBox is a type 2. But again: You probably won't notice that in most cases.
Just to spin up VM's for messing about/testing stuff mainly - partly to teach myself more stuff, partly because I get bored easily...So will be wanting to run Linux VMs as well as Microsoft VMs
VirtualBox should do, really. Big plus is pass-through. With VirtualBox, you are able to just pass through a USB thumb drive and you will have full access to it, including things like partition tables. I'm using this whenever I need to do something complex to partitions on disks, sticks and SD cards: Fire up a Linux-VM, attach the storage device, start parted / gparted / fdisk / sfdisk / whatever, modify partitions and finally just detach the device. Works very well.
Cheers dude, will get that setup when I get home later!
Have fun
I'm using this for a few dev VMs where I need access to USB smartcard readers or USB webcams for example. Even works with very specialized devices like biometric smartcard readers (the ones from precisebiometrics.com for example)
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Howdy all y'all! What a rainy weekend we had this weekend!
Weather got rough, but we were fortunate enough to not take any serious damage from anything around here. 30 minutes west, a Walmart had the roof taken off, and down in south Georgia, a number of people were killed by various tornadoes.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Howdy all y'all! What a rainy weekend we had this weekend!
Weather got rough, but we were fortunate enough to not take any serious damage from anything around here. 30 minutes west, a Walmart had the roof taken off, and down in south Georgia, a number of people were killed by various tornadoes.
Glad to hear you made it through ok!
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@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Howdy all y'all! What a rainy weekend we had this weekend!
Weather got rough, but we were fortunate enough to not take any serious damage from anything around here. 30 minutes west, a Walmart had the roof taken off, and down in south Georgia, a number of people were killed by various tornadoes.
Glad to hear you made it through ok!
Thanks! Prayers going out to all those affected, though.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Howdy all y'all! What a rainy weekend we had this weekend!
Weather got rough, but we were fortunate enough to not take any serious damage from anything around here. 30 minutes west, a Walmart had the roof taken off, and down in south Georgia, a number of people were killed by various tornadoes.
Eesh. Glad you're okay.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Howdy all y'all! What a rainy weekend we had this weekend!
Weather got rough, but we were fortunate enough to not take any serious damage from anything around here. 30 minutes west, a Walmart had the roof taken off, and down in south Georgia, a number of people were killed by various tornadoes.
Glad to hear you safe,.. thoughts go to those who lost family/friends.
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NorEaster today from the sounds of it... we're not going to be hit that bad only 8-10".
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
NorEaster today from the sounds of it... we're not going to be hit that bad only 8-10".
not that bad .... well maybe for New York...
Here that would pretty much cripple us. People down here don't know how to cope with it. I wished it would snow,.. rather tired of +50deg weather and RAIN.
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
NorEaster today from the sounds of it... we're not going to be hit that bad only 8-10".
not that bad .... well maybe for New York...
Here that would pretty much cripple us. People down here don't know how to cope with it. I wished it would snow,.. rather tired of +50deg weather and RAIN.
Yeah, even in my neck of the woods, the rain is getting crazy. The ground was already completely soaked, and then it went and rained for half the weekend. I'm kinda surprised we don't have worse flooding, maybe we'll get lucky and not get underwater for once.
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
NorEaster today from the sounds of it... we're not going to be hit that bad only 8-10".
not that bad .... well maybe for New York...
Here that would pretty much cripple us. People down here don't know how to cope with it. I wished it would snow,.. rather tired of +50deg weather and RAIN.
Yesterday was 50s and gorgeous. Although we've seen our fair share of rain the past couple of weeks. It's been a dreary January.
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About to head to lunch
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Made a critical mistake and changed my passwords on Friday. Never change passwords on Friday.
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This was posted by a new-ish restaurant/music venue downtown. All their dishes are supremely creative.
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
This was posted by a new-ish restaurant/music venue downtown. All their dishes are supremely creative.
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@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
This was posted by a new-ish restaurant/music venue downtown. All their dishes are supremely creative.
Not sure if that's positive or negative... But this same restaurant was making duck merguez sausage around Xmas....
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@RojoLoco Just that pic is searing my eyeballs lol - looks delicious but should be served with sunglasses on the side!
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@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco Just that pic is searing my eyeballs lol - looks delicious but should be served with sunglasses on the side!
True, but may I go blind while eating such a beautiful dish! Those guys really know how to plate stuff nicely.
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Well, with a lot of help from @dashrender, I successfully demoted two problem Domain Controllers and fixed my add network printer list not populating. The DC's were two standalone servers and free up two servers for use as VM Hosts.
Next projects:
- Installing 50+ new gigabit switches (we are currently 10/100)
- Configure and install 150 new workstations. All Windows 10. Nice amount of resources too (8 GB of memory minimum as an example).
Oh and Fiber is getting activated at my 3 biggest sites.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Well, with a lot of help from @dashrender, I successfully demoted two problem Domain Controllers and fixed my add network printer list not populating. The DC's were two standalone servers and free up two servers for use as VM Hosts.
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