What Are You Doing Right Now

nadnerB

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Waiting for the new cooker to be delivered and hoping the gas man will arrive at the same time
Oh and on that note it was a expensive weekend, also bought a petrol mower for the garden

How do you mow petrol?

It is interesting to see someone specifically call out a gas mower instead of just saying - I got a mower.

but perhaps in the UK, the push/manual type are super common?

I think there are some electric ones on the market now too.

There are - I've only ever seen them with a power cord though - I wonder if they have battery powered ones now? I'd be surprised if they didn't.

Everything that's been petroleum powered is getting battery options.
Bosch, eGo, Milwaukee, Ryobi etc are really pushing the battery operated gardening tools.

Not all are available in the US though... I think you've got a bad case of gas...

hobbit666

Yes i'm in the UK, so that counts as a garden here :). We did have an electric mower (with the cord) but found it a pain getting it plugged in as we needed extension cords running through the house.

So bought a petrol/gas mower, also the wife didn't like the height the old one cut the grass. This one goes low.

Yes battery was an option, but we got this on a deal.

Dashrender

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Yes i'm in the UK, so that counts as a garden here :). We did have an electric mower (with the cord) but found it a pain getting it plugged in as we needed extension cords running through the house.

Now power outlet on the back of the house?

How deep is that yard? 10 x 20 meters? From the picture it looks like a 50 ft extension cord would get most if not all of it.

dafyre

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Waiting for the new cooker to be delivered and hoping the gas man will arrive at the same time
Oh and on that note it was a expensive weekend, also bought a petrol mower for the garden

How do you mow petrol?

It is interesting to see someone specifically call out a gas mower instead of just saying - I got a mower.

but perhaps in the UK, the push/manual type are super common?

I think there are some electric ones on the market now too.

There are - I've only ever seen them with a power cord though - I wonder if they have battery powered ones now? I'd be surprised if they didn't.

I have a battery powered one. It's a Ryobi, and I love it! If my yard gets out of hand (it usually does in the spring & summer), I can cut the yard (front and back -- it's like 3/4 of an acre) on 2 batteries. (I have 2). If it's just a regular cutting, I can usually do both on one battery.

Dashrender

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Waiting for the new cooker to be delivered and hoping the gas man will arrive at the same time
Oh and on that note it was a expensive weekend, also bought a petrol mower for the garden

How do you mow petrol?

It is interesting to see someone specifically call out a gas mower instead of just saying - I got a mower.

but perhaps in the UK, the push/manual type are super common?

I think there are some electric ones on the market now too.

There are - I've only ever seen them with a power cord though - I wonder if they have battery powered ones now? I'd be surprised if they didn't.

I have a battery powered one. It's a Ryobi, and I love it! If my yard gets out of hand (it usually does in the spring & summer), I can cut the yard (front and back -- it's like 3/4 of an acre) on 2 batteries. (I have 2). If it's just a regular cutting, I can usually do both on one battery.

how quiet is it?

dafyre

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Waiting for the new cooker to be delivered and hoping the gas man will arrive at the same time
Oh and on that note it was a expensive weekend, also bought a petrol mower for the garden

How do you mow petrol?

It is interesting to see someone specifically call out a gas mower instead of just saying - I got a mower.

but perhaps in the UK, the push/manual type are super common?

I think there are some electric ones on the market now too.

There are - I've only ever seen them with a power cord though - I wonder if they have battery powered ones now? I'd be surprised if they didn't.

I have a battery powered one. It's a Ryobi, and I love it! If my yard gets out of hand (it usually does in the spring & summer), I can cut the yard (front and back -- it's like 3/4 of an acre) on 2 batteries. (I have 2). If it's just a regular cutting, I can usually do both on one battery.

how quiet is it?

You asking a deaf man that question? :crazy_face:

It's nowhere near as loud as a gas powered one, but it ain't exactly whisper quiet either. If you have a lot of thick grass, you'll hear it ramp up a bit to cut. For my small yard, it's awesome. I can cut front and back in ~30 minutes or so if I don't get interrupted and have to stop.

scotth

I had a Ryobi for years, cutting about 1/3 acre. If I waited over 5 days in a typical summer <average rainfall or higher>, it would take a little over an hour. Cutting it more often is the trick. Also, I cut it on mulch and it's self propelled. I have a gas powered one now.... no real reason for one over the other. Both do the trick.

DustinB3403

Had a customer tell me that Virtual Machines don't have disks, and thus don't ever need to have a check disk run because check disk only checks for physical disk issues...

I fell silent and then promptly informed the customer that virtual machines do have disks (called vdisks) and that check disk checks for OS issues and not just disk related issues.

travisdh1

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Had a customer tell me that Virtual Machines don't have disks, and thus don't ever need to have a check disk run because check disk only checks for physical disk issues...

I fell silent and then promptly informed the customer that virtual machines do have disks (called vdisks) and that check disk checks for OS issues and not just disk related issues.

Those always throw me for a loop. Great response.

Dashrender

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Had a customer tell me that Virtual Machines don't have disks, and thus don't ever need to have a check disk run because check disk only checks for physical disk issues...

I fell silent and then promptly informed the customer that virtual machines do have disks (called vdisks) and that check disk checks for OS issues and not just disk related issues.

LOL have him tell me that when I did a D2V and had to run diskcheck 15 times before it would finally boot..

DustinB3403

@Dashrender right?!

I can understand where if this was a tool to check only blocks and sectors to report on health saying this. But check disk does more than "check the disk".

EddieJennings

Learning how to create and attach a virtual disk to a VM using virsh or whatever better tool (maye qemu-img).

hobbit666

trying to get MTR running and reporting on zabbix

travisdh1

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

trying to get MTR running and reporting on zabbix

Why would you need MTR with zabbix? Just have zabbix run traceroute more often.

hobbit666

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Why would you need MTR with zabbix? Just have zabbix run traceroute more often.

because i need to see packetloss and where it's happening through the MPLS.

*edit
Need a change of tactics running from Zabbix isn't giving all the hops. Looking at installing the ubuntu kernel on the endpoints machine so i can run mtr to several points and log them via a script.