What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Mid day Windows 2016 reboot on a VM... still 25 minutes in and no sign of progress. Argh.
Know the feeling. Had some CentOS servers that were worse. Can't say Server 2012+ have ever taken more than a minute for me... Typically under 15 seconds. (VMs)
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@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Mid day Windows 2016 reboot on a VM... still 25 minutes in and no sign of progress. Argh.
Know the feeling. Had some CentOS servers that were worse. Can't say Server 2012+ have ever taken more than a minute for me... Typically under 15 seconds. (VMs)
I've never had a linux system take more than a few seconds to at least show progress on the updates. Windows however, I've had sit for hours with "Please wait installing updates" and never changing.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Mid day Windows 2016 reboot on a VM... still 25 minutes in and no sign of progress. Argh.
Know the feeling. Had some CentOS servers that were worse. Can't say Server 2012+ have ever taken more than a minute for me... Typically under 15 seconds. (VMs)
I've never had a linux system take more than a few seconds to at least show progress on the updates. Windows however, I've had sit for hours with "Please wait installing updates" and never changing.
It is at least showing progress now. For 25 minutes, it didn't even do that. At 40 minutes now and it is at least "moving".
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It just came up!
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Mid day Windows 2016 reboot on a VM... still 25 minutes in and no sign of progress. Argh.
Know the feeling. Had some CentOS servers that were worse. Can't say Server 2012+ have ever taken more than a minute for me... Typically under 15 seconds. (VMs)
I've never had a linux system take more than a few seconds to at least show progress on the updates. Windows however, I've had sit for hours with "Please wait installing updates" and never changing.
Yeah updates are a different story lol. Upgrades are even worse!
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I'm thinking about a way to placate a few of my users who are paranoid about loosing working files from their local systems and am considering setting up rsync with ssh keys to grab files from specific locations on the user workstations. . .
But where to sync the data too and lastly I can't possibly account for every scenario that the user will do (save into. . .)
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I feel extremely tired today
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I suppose if I target the desktop/documents folder recursively I could handle the bulk of the issues.
Still doesn't address the need of where do I store all of the sync'd data. . .
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I suppose if I target the desktop/documents folder recursively I could handle the bulk of the issues.
Still doesn't address the need of where do I store all of the sync'd data. . .
Backblaze plus a little user training?
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@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I suppose if I target the desktop/documents folder recursively I could handle the bulk of the issues.
Still doesn't address the need of where do I store all of the sync'd data. . .
Backblaze plus a little user training?
While I agree Backblaze would be a good option, the issue lies in that this is just a way to provide a safety net if someone is out sick.
Not if they screw up so much, and even in the event of "out sick" if the system is here myself or coworker can get onto the system and pull files off easily enough.
User training is a bit of a joke, as my users here think that "if I'm using the terminal I'm doing it wrong". . . so yeah. . .
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Also oddly, at least one of my users has an idea of what VDI is, but doesn't understand that a file server can support more than 7 users at a time all working from it at the same time.
I'm kind of at a loss on what to do.
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Trying to fight the urge to call an onsite tech and scream "That's not how any of this works!"
Legit convo with an on-site at a company that a client acquired
Me: I'm getting a 2 Factor prompt trying to access this account
Tech: Just enter your phone number
Me: Screen cap showing 2 Factor is sending Auth Code to a number ending in 81
Tech: Just enter your cell # and it will text you
Me: Screen cap with highlights. This is the cell # that is receiving the Auth code. You can't just enter any number, that's not how 2 factor works.
Tech: Oooooohhhhh........ Here's the auth code.
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@Kyle said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to fight the urge to call an onsite tech and scream "That's not how any of this works!"
Legit convo with an on-site at a company that a client acquired
Me: I'm getting a 2 Factor prompt trying to access this account
Tech: Just enter your phone number
Me: Screen cap showing 2 Factor is sending Auth Code to a number ending in 81
Tech: Just enter your cell # and it will text you
Me: Screen cap with highlights. This is the cell # that is receiving the Auth code. You can't just enter any number, that's not how 2 factor works.
Tech: Oooooohhhhh........ Here's the auth code.
That was hard to read...
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@Kyle it's cool. The guy was on beer time. Reading is difficult.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'm thinking about a way to placate a few of my users who are paranoid about loosing working files from their local systems and am considering setting up rsync with ssh keys to grab files from specific locations on the user workstations. . .
But where to sync the data too and lastly I can't possibly account for every scenario that the user will do (save into. . .)
Schedule rsync to backup?
Add a context menu that allows them to manually rsync there files?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53952738/how-do-you-add-options-to-the-right-click-context-menu-when-nothing-is-selected -
Lots of cleaning to do. Sister in law and her kids are coming here tomorrow for the weekend. It is my daughter's birthday party weekend.
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
/sigh Surprise! Watching new applications fail to install on old servers that won't be upgraded or patched because of
$reasonswhich are beyond my control.No point in wasting your time on it.
Don't have a choice. Well, I guess I do -- find a new job
Speaking of which, I just got home from an interview that went very well today.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
/sigh Surprise! Watching new applications fail to install on old servers that won't be upgraded or patched because of
$reasonswhich are beyond my control.No point in wasting your time on it.
Don't have a choice. Well, I guess I do -- find a new job
Speaking of which, I just got home from an interview that went very well today.
Congrats and good luck.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
/sigh Surprise! Watching new applications fail to install on old servers that won't be upgraded or patched because of
$reasonswhich are beyond my control.No point in wasting your time on it.
Don't have a choice. Well, I guess I do -- find a new job
Speaking of which, I just got home from an interview that went very well today.
Congrats and good luck.
Thanks. Would be a big step up in money, and I like the IT team there. Here's hoping!
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