@travisdh1 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@hobbit666 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@travisdh1 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Elite Dangerous again. About completed my first 5000 light year journey in the process of unlocking egineers.

Need to give that another go. Will have to restart and pay more attention to the tutorial this time . Luckily only play a total of an hour or so. Will finish XCom first

It's really just a huge sandbox. It's got a few more activities you can do if you want, like the engineers stuff I'm unlocking at the moment. None of it is mandatory tho.

It really does have a bit of a learning cliff. Start out slow by completing the tutorial and slowly customize your control setup as you do new things (don't guess! Do a thing before changing keybindings.)

It does play best with a HOTAS. But everything except for the boutique stuff is sold out right now.

@jmoore said in Non-IT News Thread:

@coliver I am sure we are affecting it a little but I don't think its near as much as some think. Not sure I stated my opinion clearly or not before.

You may want to look at the mountains of research that disagree with your opinion, including the linked article. It's a fairly well known and accepted fact at this point that human activities are causing the current climate crisis.

@jmoore said in Non-IT News Thread:

@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

High-fidelity record of Earth's climate history puts current changes in context

Scientists have compiled a continuous, high-fidelity record of variations in Earth's climate extending 66 million years into the past. The record reveals four distinctive climate states, which the researchers dubbed Hothouse, Warmhouse, Coolhouse, and Icehouse. These major climate states persisted for millions and sometimes tens of millions of years, and within each one the climate shows rhythmic variations corresponding to changes in Earth's orbit around the sun.

That is very interesting. I have long thought that humans aren't affecting the climate as much as we thought. I am sure we are a little. However, we really can't be sure how much until we have more data from the Sun. The Sun has solar cycles that it goes through. Some are shorter like every 9-10 years I think. There are longer ones though that are still being measured, such as hundreds or thousands of years long. These solar cycles have decreased periods of electromagnetism at their beginnings and increased levels at the end of the cycles. So what this means is that at the beginning more radiation (which is light in the various spectrums and ultimately heat) is getting to us from the Sun and warming the planet up and creating the hothouse effect. This eventually reverses and has the opposite effect where it corresponds to the icehouse effect because less radiation is getting through the magnetic field of the Sun.

You should read the article. They go into this just in the brief...

"Now that we have succeeded in capturing the natural climate variability, we can see that the projected anthropogenic warming will be much greater than that."

For the past 3 million years, Earth's climate has been in an Icehouse state characterized by alternating glacial and interglacial periods. Modern humans evolved during this time, but greenhouse gas emissions and other human activities are now driving the planet toward the Warmhouse and Hothouse climate states not seen since the Eocene epoch, which ended about 34 million years ago. During the early Eocene, there were no polar ice caps, and average global temperatures were 9 to 14 degrees Celsius higher than today.

Basically we aren't just affecting it a little. We're the primary reason behind this recent climate shift.

Cambium used to be Xirrus IIRC. Xirrus was really cool but really designed for a high density.

@stacksofplates said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

Can you imagine adding/changing sha256 sums Everytime someone gets a new application or needs to run a script. And doing it by hand every single time. That would be your job day in and day out.

It's probably not possible if change management isn't available. But you can do this with SCCM.

@stacksofplates said in Testing Zulip:

@scottalanmiller said in Testing Zulip:

Better than having them sit idle and not know what's going on in the company because they are so disconnected. At some point, those roles have to have jobs.

Yeah idk what this means. Their job is to drive the direction of the company. Sure in 5 person landscaping companies the "CEO" is doing some of the work. But if the company is as big as you are alluding to, the CEO should be driving the company forward and meeting with potential customers (if you guys don't have a sales team, I have no idea).

I don't know. I've known a Presidents/CEO of multi-10s of million dollar companies with 200 employees go out and load trucks if they needed to, or package goods if they needed to. It is, or was when he was running it, a wildly successful company. 1000% growth year over year in many cases.

I know college is meh, but the graduate business classes that I participated in did case studies on organizational leadership, successful companies often have leaders who are able to lead from the trenches as well as from the war room.

@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver The hosts are HP DL380 G9 (identical specs) and I don't foresee any issues. They have been running for about 5 years now.

We're running G8s and they aren't, I know the G9s are.

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

You shouldn't. It's an emulated interface that is unable to take advantage of all the modern virtualization advances for the past 20-ish years.

So what should one use? On VMware and Proxmox?

VMWare, VMXNet3 is the modern interface that you should be using almost exclusively. The VirtIO interface in ProxMox I think is the most recent one.

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller Yes, I know.... Waiting on permission to upgrade. Most of the VMs are 2012 R2 also with the exception of 2 that are on 2016. Need to export all of them and re-load the hosts with HV 2019 but need approval to do so. I don't own the servers.

You can in place upgrade from HV 2012 R2 to HV 2016. I've done it a few times with no issues.

I wold assume you can also go from 2016 to 2019.

Providing the hardware supports it you can.

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Don't use E1000 if it's vmware.

If it's anything!

What's wrong with E1000? I use them with no issues (well E1000e).

You shouldn't. It's an emulated interface that is unable to take advantage of all the modern virtualization advances for the past 20-ish years.