Microsoft are helping a lot adding to the kernel. I'm sure if they really want to help in the future they could help more with wine compatibility. If they could help with running more programs on Linux would be great.

I personally think they should move over to a linux based MS OS with a compatibility layer for windows software. Just imagine how much less work they would have if they started using the Linux kernel. Not that there is anything bad with the NT based kernel. They already reduced their windows based team years ago. Probably the reason why they are doing pieces at the time with Windows 10.

@nadnerb I know but the *.cpl files are control panel items. you can get to these by control.exe as well...what do you think Microsoft are going to do once they have moved everything from control panel to the updated settings pages? they are doing it in stages and it will then be bye bye control panel including the cpl files. I cant stand MS what they are doing to the OS. Windows reached it's peak at windows 7. Then they killed it with windows 8. Then they turned to windows as a service which they have not got right till this day. The joke is whats going to be broken on the next feature update....Hopefully they will carry on making a mess out of it and turn everyone over to a linux based OS. MS are not really bothered about the desktop anymore, why would they? Azure, 365 And Xbox is where their priorities lay and is their bread and butter. They dumped the idea of a new cut down version to take on chrome books and got rid of windows mobile years ago. I will say Their server editions are still ok...well for now lol.

@scottalanmiller They need to focus on the main desktop version of windows 10 and get that bloated bit of crap sorted. not missed it at all since being on Ubuntu. Went to change the adaptor settings on a windows machine the other day...how many clicks now....piece of crap.

@notverypunny said in XenCenter to XCP-NG Upgrade using Bash:

@stuartjordan Assume that you mean Xen Server 6.5 (Xen Center is just the Windows management GUI). I can't speak to any scripts, and XCP-ng might have a quirk or 2 different from Citrix Xen, but you should just be able to boot the install media and for the "traditional" Citrix hypervisor there's the options for both a clean install or to upgrade the existing hypervisor without touching the VMs. Coming from 6.5, and if you can move the VMs or perform a backup/restore I'd advocate a clean install since the default partition layout has changed and you won't be able to move to it with an upgrade. Good luck!

Yep I did mean xenserver 6.5, just changed that typo. I might just backup VM's and start a fresh then if the partition structure is different.

I use XCP-NG but someone is using Xenserver 6.5. I'm not happy them using that old hypervisor. I'm going to export them VM's as precautionary backup anyway, But I wondered if anyone on here a successfully use the upgrade script built into XCP-NG?

@notverypunny Defiantly agree with you there.

@rojoloco Thank you Rojo, small steps forward, I don't want to fall out of love of working with computes and hobbies of using them and life in general... I feel im slowly moving forward. I've had to stop helping one of my freinds/consultant that's been in IT for 40 years, my Knowledge overtook his years ago. But I've even stepped back from helping him. I've still been updating his servers though but that's it, not got involved in any other work with him. I need to get back in small steps, I don't want to rush back in with too much pressure that could be detrimental. I'd be interested if others have been through things in silence. I know public forums are not meant for this type of talk, but I just think mental health effects us all including people in IT like me.

I'm going to share some personal information, wherever I should or not probably not. But I was quite active in the forum when it was started, Scott grabbed me from spiceworks at the time and I quite liked how active this community was getting from the start, I was posting quite a lot a couple years ago, I've been quite quiet the last year and a half. I've suffered depression and anxiety since my early twenties but always loved escaping my thoughts by putting this energy into learning and testing, I've worked for big corporation, I've done sub contracting, I believe my knowledge is very broad. I've always loved computers with my first computer being an 808x IBM with the 5 and a quater floppy disks with dos 3.0 and use to play with gw-basic I believed what it was called at the time. My uncle worked in london at the time when I was 7 years old and that was my first ever pc....I was addicted. I had problems in my child hood and was constantly on the pc to escape outside life in general. Anyways more from the early 90's I managed to secure jobs in computer shops mainly fix and build. then when the industry changed years ago with mobile internet and tablets I put effort into learning basic networking and windows servers. I'm glad I did this steps in the mid 00's as most fix and repair computer shops were closing, anyway the basic point is I've always put my energy and effort into constantly learning new things. but moving on in my 20's I was drinking a lot, diagnosed with depression and anxiety which I battled without medication. but a year and a half ago my partner of 8 years run off with someone else and after that I moved, I was down, had not intrest in using a computer, didn't even have a desk anymore. I now take medication daily as I have been diagnosed with Personality disorder. But now im trying to work on things, last month I brough a desk, setup my monitors and desktops and started slowly getting involed with using the computer more. I't was only last year that I didn't want to be here anymore but I'm glad I've finally got my intrest back into turning my pc on again. I've focused on linux for the last couple of years by reading and using labs. I'm getting the gist of the command line. I still get days where I'm too tired and cant be bothered to sit at my desk, but I believe my intrest is coming back slowly. I 've loved working with computers and it was a shock that I stopped touching one for a year and a half. I feel like I want to explain this to the community as mental health is not discussed enough, especially with men. I feel like a failure sometimes and feel useless but my I know I underestimate my computer knowledge. I just feel it can be a lonely place sometimes sitting on the pc and just reading and testing new things.....I don't want to make anyone feel awkward with this post, but I feel I need to let out how important computers are to me but depression took over the last year and a half and I couldn't bare touching one...
I know everyone has to face their demons. But Im trying to get better and I think setting my desk back up is that little step forward.......Very deep I know, but wanted to post this....

Heavy wind and rain last night in the UK.

Trying a new hosting panel that was based of vesta, it's being maintained better. has quick install for wordpress etc. Seems to be working quite nice in testing. Sites loading fast, using Nginx and apache in the backend.

Talk about over complicate things with routing. everything like you say should just point to pfsense. I wonder why it was setup like that.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/centos-is-gone-but-rhel-is-now-free-for-up-to-16-production-servers/

as of February 1, 2021, Red Hat will make RHEL available at no cost for small-production workloads—with "small" defined as 16 systems or fewer. This access to no-cost production RHEL is by way of the newly expanded Red Hat Developer Subscription program, and it comes with no strings—in Red Hat's words, "this isn't a sales program, and no sales representative will follow up."

Whats Your thoughts? - I'm A Debian/Ubuntu guy, but Im curious on what you Rhel/Centos/Fedora users think of this now Centos is coming to an end.

@jaredbusch Like to see your using miles per hour, thought you guys use kilometers.

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-8-3-rc1-release/

I would like to see how this develops, hopefully will be viable replacement for Centos. I see it's being developed by the original centos developer.

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Watching Now:

Nobody

Was a good film watched it the other day.

@brandon220 I think Proxmox is a great front end for KVM. From what I see in the updates the other day, they are improving their backup server as well. The only type 1 hypervisor I don't like or not a fan of is Hyper-V. I can use it but it needs some tweaks if you don't have it joined to a domain. But there are some good backup products for it. EXI is good but see no point on me paying for it and no point in using the free version as the API's for VM backups are disabled.

@brandon220 To be fair the worlds your oyster, Hypervisor is just a Hypervisor. Use whatever you are comfortable with. I personally use Proxmox, but I also like XCP-NG.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/fcc-lets-spacex-cut-satellite-altitude-to-improve-starlink-speed-and-latency/

I wonder how much they will get the latency down to. I know they are advertising 50-100Mb/s and 20-40ms latency on their Beta program now.

Doing a Dist upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04 on my nextcloud server