Best posts made by bnrstnr

If you're not going to be paying for support from Citrix, I highly recommend using XCP-ng instead.

https://xcp-ng.org/

I just got done talking to Amazon about a 512GB Samsung 960 PRO SSD I bought that was clearly tampered with. I plugged it in and it already had Windows installed on it... ok, weird... Go to format, see that it's only a 256GB. Unplug it and examine closer, it's pretty obvious the guy took the Samsung stickers off and placed them on a 256GB Hynix SSD, then returned that for a refund.

Anyway, I plug it back in and start snooping, he has loads of homework on there with his name all over it, address in documents, etc... Bonus is that Amazon said I could keep this one and they're sending a new one next day.

Found it..... :man_facepalming_light_skin_tone:

First line in my Nginx conf file
client_max_body_size 40M;

Changed it to my max settings for NC and it's working now.

Broke 230 lbs this morning. Feeling awesome, but I know I have a lot more work to do. I've had a couple bad days in there as you can see lol

Moved all my stuff very rapidly to the new homemade rack in the crawlspace with my wife hassling me the whole time; apparently our kids bedtime is more important than server stuff... who knew? Eventually I'll make it back down and hook up the rest of my ethernet runs and do some much nicer cable management. Everything, sans DL360 and switch, used to be in this tiny little cubby under my fireplace (that has never been used in the 6 years that we've been living here)

Currently running XS7.3 (can't wait for XCP-ng). I wanted to go with KVM on Fedora for the hypervisor but I have a toddler and infant that pretty much consume all of my home time, so I went with what I know for now.

HP DL360 G7 (8x 146GB RAID10, 2x E5649, 24GB RAM)
Synology DS213j (2x4TB)
Dell 2824 Switch, hand me down from work
Ubiquiti ERX
Philips Hue Bridge
Zoom Cable Modem
Eaton 5S550 UPS (shows ~48 Min battery life with everything you see connected)
Not Shown: (1) UAP-AC-LR

https://i.imgur.com/r56hHlW.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/6xvc9n1.png

Upgraded my home computer a little this weekend. Amazing difference. I went from an i5-2500K, to a Ryzen 5 3600. I kept my old GTX 570 for now and the difference in gaming is still VERY noticeable. New mobo, proc, and 16GB ram was like $368.

This would be a great excuse to trick my wife into letting me play games for 24 hours straight on a weekend :shushing_face:

Seriously though, GL HF

XCP-ng 7.4.1 Released

I'm pretty sure the SAS6iR has a max drive size of 2TB, so that should be a consideration depending on what drives you want/have.

I would personally go to www.servermonkey.com and get an R510 or R710 exactly the way you want it. $400-500 seems a LOT for a server that doesn't have exactly what you want/need.

We use LogMeIn to remotely support our equipment installed in our customer's facilities. We've been having problems with intermittent connections on this new machine we installed and we've been going back and forth with their IT guy for a couple months about it. Today he decided he was going to prove us wrong once and for all that his network is perfect and there is definitely no problems on his side... so he called us and said that he watched a youtube video for 10 minutes straight on the computer and didn't have a single problem, so it must be our software.....

XCP-ng 7.5.0 final is here

Ubnt UNMS, Pihole DNS, WordPress, Dokuwiki, Nextcloud... and probably many more systems/apps.

Not sure which update it is, but I've seen this on 2 of my dell laptops so far this week. Seems like other people are having the same issue. Anybody experienced this yet?

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/671179/recent-windows-10-update-breaks-usb-mouse-and-keyboard-on-dell-3040/

Getting rid of my silly double NAT setup fixed my SIP registration with Twilio. Apparently there was a SIP ALG setting in my ISP provided modem/router, too. :man_facepalming: Not sure exactly which of the two was the culprit, but either way, both were bad.

Everything is working great again without the port forwarding.

@zachary715 said in Revisiting ZFS and FreeNAS in 2019:

@wirestyle22 said in Revisiting ZFS and FreeNAS in 2019:

This was painful to read

Did you actually read the entire thing? Anytime Scott goes on those 8 post rants where he's writing a paragraph to every 4 words, I have to just skip those. Kudos to anyone who survived the whole thing.

It's taken some time to get used to, but I feel like it's easier to read because he's addressing each point separately. Wall of text is for sure harder to keep on point when really breaking something down. How he strings 6 replies in a minute is still a mystery to me though.

I love how all of your Mac related posts are pretty much just you talking to yourself

@Dashrender said in Using Skype For Business For Conference Calls:

Sadly, MS started doing this hard core in Windows 10. You uninstall shit in 1507, and when you upgrade to 1607 that shit returns. Like it is impossible for MS to look at the old config before the upgrade and apply that same config post upgrade.

OneDrive comes to mind when I read this :pouting_face:

I can't believe how fast the update is. I was seriously expecting it to take 4 hours like every other feature update, or to stall 2 hours in like 1903 did for my laptop. When my computer restarted and was back at the login screen in 20 seconds I thought it failed.

@scotth said in Small Shop Hyperconverged Options:

I updated by host to 7.2 right after I ran the XO install script. I didn't pay attention to what Citrix was doing.

7.2 is still good. 7.3 is the one Citrix crippled.

@wirestyle22 said in I can't even:

Can you use USB over IP for USB security keys? Can't think of why not

We do with zero problems. He's making excuses. The fact that he's the sole IT person for 13 sites is even more reason for him to be going virtual, his excuses literally make no sense.

The time alone that he has wasted on SW trying to figure out why his physical install isn't working, he could have installed a hypervisor and already had this thing up and running. Especially if he's already got other virtualization infrastructure in place and a preferred hypervisor.