It's sometimes interesting where a company will promote itself as a MSP, but when you look much closer you notice they really are a VAR. Both are extremely different of course, but it's sometimes a misconception of identity and what the company thinks they do compared to what they actually do.
We have several of those in the valley that we service primarily.
@gjacobse said in Win10 vs Fedora 28: Boot speed:
@bbigford said in Win10 vs Fedora 28: Boot speed:
@gjacobse said in Win10 vs Fedora 28: Boot speed:
@scottalanmiller said in Win10 vs Fedora 28: Boot speed:
From what I've seen, Windows 10 is the fastest. Microsoft really has high speed booting down to a science. I think they beat everyone at that. Fedora seems quite a bit faster than Ubuntu, but both are very slow compared to Windows 10 on the same hardware.
Sadly, just a place where Windows kicks butt over any Linux that I've seen. Not the biggest deal, but certainly a place where Fedora or Ubuntu could improve.
That is a bit frustrating considering the 'push' for getting away from MS and all of it's applications. I do know that I can improve performance some by putting in a SSD drive over the 7200RPM (SR) that's in it now. and I will at some point. Working on the priority list first.
5 minutes??? God, is your drive failing I wonder...
An SSD will get it down substantially. I want to say my Samsung 850 Pro boots Fedora nearly as fast as Windows 10; they are seconds apart, and that is around 5-15 seconds.
860 Pros came out not too long ago. Here's a 512GB if you can fit it in the budget; 256GB is cheaper of course.
Thanks for the link. That is definitely in a good price range.
Worth noting that I've used many other high end SSDs (Plextor, Intel, etc). Samsung manufacturers their own NAND, controller; everything, top to bottom. Theirs absolutely fly compared to any others I've used. For consumer use of course, not infrastructure.
@JaredBusch said in Anyone looked at Yealink DaaS - Device as a Service:
Yealink announced DaaS a while back. I know 888VoIP offers it, but as I don't do partner agreements and such to stay neutral, I do not have any pricing easily available.
Has anyone looked into this and happen to know any of the costs?
I've reached out to 88VoIP, but it is Saturday.
You can have partnerships and still be (mostly) neutral. When you do establish partnerships, you're really just saying you believe in their product enough to prefer it over a sea of others on a regular basis. We have several partnerships for VoIP and I just got started on a new Verizon Wireless one, so that we can try them out for a few things.
Having a partnerships just gets us access to better pricing (drives the cost down for the customer as well as we do pass some of that along, rather than just giving us good margins). But not every solution is a good fit, so we get good pricing and a variety of solutions to choose from.
@gjacobse said in Win10 vs Fedora 28: Boot speed:
@scottalanmiller said in Win10 vs Fedora 28: Boot speed:
From what I've seen, Windows 10 is the fastest. Microsoft really has high speed booting down to a science. I think they beat everyone at that. Fedora seems quite a bit faster than Ubuntu, but both are very slow compared to Windows 10 on the same hardware.
Sadly, just a place where Windows kicks butt over any Linux that I've seen. Not the biggest deal, but certainly a place where Fedora or Ubuntu could improve.
That is a bit frustrating considering the 'push' for getting away from MS and all of it's applications. I do know that I can improve performance some by putting in a SSD drive over the 7200RPM (SR) that's in it now. and I will at some point. Working on the priority list first.
5 minutes??? God, is your drive failing I wonder...
An SSD will get it down substantially. I want to say my Samsung 850 Pro boots Fedora nearly as fast as Windows 10; they are seconds apart, and that is around 5-15 seconds.
860 Pros came out not too long ago. Here's a 512GB if you can fit it in the budget; 256GB is cheaper of course.
@scottalanmiller said in Namecheap site - cert expired:
@bbigford said in Namecheap site - cert expired:
@scottalanmiller said in Namecheap site - cert expired:
@bbigford said in Namecheap site - cert expired:
@scottalanmiller said in Namecheap site - cert expired:
@dbeato said in Namecheap site - cert expired:
I assume they renewed because now it just shows right....
I'm sure that they heard about it very quickly.
It expired on the 6th, they changed it on the 17th, but the cert didn't show as legit until the 18th. :face_with_tears_of_joy:
Wow, just.... wow.
Oh and you couldn't login when it was expired. So their console was just offline for weeks. Any customers currently on them I've been offloading.
Now that is just crazy.
CloudFlare has a waiting list for people to get into their new registrar service.
Once it's open I'll have to check it out.
@scottalanmiller said in Namecheap site - cert expired:
@bbigford said in Namecheap site - cert expired:
@scottalanmiller said in Namecheap site - cert expired:
@dbeato said in Namecheap site - cert expired:
I assume they renewed because now it just shows right....
I'm sure that they heard about it very quickly.
It expired on the 6th, they changed it on the 17th, but the cert didn't show as legit until the 18th. :face_with_tears_of_joy:
Wow, just.... wow.
Oh and you couldn't login when it was expired. So their console was just offline for weeks. Any customers currently on them I've been offloading.
@scottalanmiller said in Namecheap site - cert expired:
@dbeato said in Namecheap site - cert expired:
I assume they renewed because now it just shows right....
I'm sure that they heard about it very quickly.
It expired on the 6th, they changed it on the 17th, but the cert didn't show as legit until the 18th. :face_with_tears_of_joy:
Figured it out. Some backup software can create sparse files. File Station is reporting the size of data including sparse size, but Storage Manager is reporting only actual data on disk.
Haha apparently Namecheap let their own site's certificate expire today. Found it when signing in.
@dbeato said in Synology-Storage Manager less than File Station:
@bbigford said in Synology-Storage Manager less than File Station:
@dbeato said in Synology-Storage Manager less than File Station:
Are there any backups of SQL Databases on this?
Yes. Some Veeam backups, and some SQL agents using this repository to run their backups (soon to be deprecated agents because of a new Veeam install).
I had the same experience with SQL Backups totally a high amount of space but only small space on the sinology.
What did you find was the reason? Because it's been driving me f*cking crazy.
@scottalanmiller said in Synology-Storage Manager less than File Station:
Could the files be pointing to each other somehow?
Such as soft/hard links? If so, no. I can scroll through a specific directory and see individual SQL .bak files (several hundred GBs) on separate days.
@dbeato said in Synology-Storage Manager less than File Station:
Are there any backups of SQL Databases on this?
Yes. Some Veeam backups, and some SQL agents using this repository to run their backups (soon to be deprecated agents because of a new Veeam install).
@scottalanmiller said in Getting DHCP BAD_ADDRESS on Windows DHCP:
Base problem now.... whatever device this is keeps trying to connect and fills up the DHCP range quickly causing issues.
What is the make and model?
@scottalanmiller said in Getting DHCP BAD_ADDRESS on Windows DHCP:
Appeared to be something in wireless. Unplugged the AP and it stopped.
Hah, called it!
@scottalanmiller said in Getting DHCP BAD_ADDRESS on Windows DHCP:
@bbigford said in Getting DHCP BAD_ADDRESS on Windows DHCP:
Break out Wireshark yet?
yeah, but that doesn't help since the MACs are bad.
I believe in Hyper-V that you can mess with MACs to where they aren't standard. Any chance this is a VM and was mistakenly set?
I bet someone plugged in a wireless router thinking "well we needed an unmanaged switch for these few devices... what's the big deal?"
I wonder what your DHCP leases are set to. I just remembered a case where the lease times were set to a ridiculously high 30 days. They ran out of IPs and got a flood of BAD_ADDRESS notifications; normally the clients would just get 169.254.x.x but lower the lease timer to 8 hours resolved it.
@bbigford said in Getting DHCP BAD_ADDRESS on Windows DHCP:
@scottalanmiller said in Getting DHCP BAD_ADDRESS on Windows DHCP:
Have a DHCP server that is getting something trying to register to it with a BAD_ADDRESS. Obviously, we can't just look up the MAC address and track it down, because the MAC we get is bad.
We've got one new switch that went in about the time that the issue started, but we think that that is off of the network now, and the issue continues. There are loads of new web cams on the network, but they seem to all be working fine.
Any guesses on tracking down the issue?
Any time I've ran into this issue, it was because either someone statically assigned an address which resides in the DHCP scope (rather than doing a reservation, or using a different range). The other thing I've noticed is two devices, unaware of eachother, serving DHCP requests; such as a Windows Server with a DHCP role, and a Cisco router, both doing DHCP in the same range (human error obviously).
I also went through a few forums and the two conflicting devices is what I've found to be the most common. One case I found was nefarious, so they had to configure dhcp-snooping on their networking device(s).