@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Huawei Matebook 13 review: A cheaper Matebook X Pro with killer performance

This $1,299 laptop is stiff competition for Huawei's own $1,499 Matebook X Pro.

Despite company turmoil, Huawei continues to go after a slice of the US laptop market. Following the release of the Matebook X Pro last year, the Chinese company debuted the Matebook 13 today. The thin-and-light notebook promises to be lighter on customers' wallets than last year's more premium model but still strong in design and specs.

What do you think of these @scottalanmiller ? You willing to use them in your company?

Has there been any solid evidence again Huawei?

@travisdh1 said in Math Check: 45x 4TB drives in a BackBlaze system.......:

@DustinB3403 said in Math Check: 45x 4TB drives in a BackBlaze system.......:

Someone needs to rip that earring out of his head.

Maybe then he'll get a clue.

He wouldn't get as many views then, and that's really the point. People don't like watching someone succeed nearly so much as the utterly stupid. (See his $100,000 pc build for another one.)

Views also get him sponsorship which is where the $100,000 PC came from.

@DustinB3403 said in Gaming Rig Issues:

CPU is damaged from overheating

This is kind of where I'm leaning. CPUs can take quite the beating but once you Overclock them, even using the "safe" settings from a motherboard manufacturer, you risk damage.

@DustinB3403 said in Gaming Rig Issues:

I'd pull the CPU heatsink, remove the thermal paste and apply a fresh dab to the CPU.

If it's crusted on at this point the system was overheating for too long and it needs to be reapplied.

@smartkid808 already tried that.

@smartkid808 said in Gaming Rig Issues:

@Obsolesce I never saw any logs in BIOS. Looking at eventvwr now, only see that improper shutdown/etc. It seems to happen when he is gaming it seems..

My brain is fried thinking about it, and I could be missing things in Event Viewer.

You probably won't find that information in Event Viewer. Most modern UEFI and BIOS systems have the ability to log to a file on storage. It's not bit but it will tell you why the system crashed if it wasn't a software crash.

@JaredBusch said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:

@guyinpv said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:

@scottalanmiller said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:

@guyinpv said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:

This is such a pain! I didn't actually turn in a notice or set a last day, which I'm regretting now. But I'm a non-confrontational person. I just want them to be happy and I want to personally feel like I've done a professional job leaving documentation behind. I'm just trying to figure out a balance.

The more you try to do, the worse it will be. You are going to give them false hope and build up false expectations. The more you do, the more they will be upset.

I feel this already. We had an hour+ meeting the day after I had the first talk. All the crap they want from me, new formats, how they want it, in what order. I already felt the pain of this very thing. Now I know, whatever I document won't be good enough, where it's stored, how it's organized, will never be good enough because there will always be some aspect they don't understand, and if they don't understand it, it must be because I'm not doing good enough.

Turn over passwords and walk the fuck out tomorrow..

This, you have no obligation to them. Not only that but they sound like they won't give you a good reference any way... So you really shouldn't give a shit at this point and just move on. If they want to retain you tell them what you charge customers... Plus an onboarding cost.

On a semi related topic have you considered not over clocking? Modem processors are generally powerful enough to not be the limiting factor with games.

@DustinB3403 said in Math Check: 45x 4TB drives in a BackBlaze system.......:

@coliver said in Math Check: 45x 4TB drives in a BackBlaze system.......:

@scottalanmiller said in Math Check: 45x 4TB drives in a BackBlaze system.......:

Anyone ever hear what happened with this one? That kid was a 1PW and never responded or followed up or posted again. I wonder if anyone ever heard if he got this up and running. If he did, dollars to donuts says that all of his data was eventually lost.

He got hired by Linus Tech Tips. (I have no idea but he seems like the kind of person that would.)

People get paid there?

Youtube Video

Apparently. It's pretty fun watching their IT fails.

@scottalanmiller said in Math Check: 45x 4TB drives in a BackBlaze system.......:

Anyone ever hear what happened with this one? That kid was a 1PW and never responded or followed up or posted again. I wonder if anyone ever heard if he got this up and running. If he did, dollars to donuts says that all of his data was eventually lost.

He got hired by Linus Tech Tips. (I have no idea but he seems like the kind of person that would.)

@dbeato said in Never Give More than Two Weeks Notice:

Also what happens if your employer policies require the notice, it does not have a bearing? I understand that in NJ for example is an "employment-at-will" state so they can terminate an employee at any time without notice.

And you can leave without notice as well.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

And we are back! Thanks for hanging out, everyone. We are now on the latest release of NodeBB that just came out this morning.

Can't be sure yet. But mobile seems to be working much better.

@DustinB3403 said in In home surveillance camera:

@coliver said in In home surveillance camera:

Ignore @DustinB3403 here. The basic Wyze firmware with the card is more then enough for what you want to do. IIRC you can also subscribe to Wyze to get more data storage in their SaaS system. The only big problem I have with it is that you can't see the live feed or recordings from a PC. Although I think they are working on that.

:middle_finger_light_skin_tone: :middle_finger_medium_skin_tone: :middle_finger_medium-dark_skin_tone: :middle_finger_dark_skin_tone:

Not sure what else you want from me here. I didn't start with "Use Wyze Cam and Zone Minder". I started with just "use Wyze Cam".

So go pound sand.

You're right. Sorry. I meant ignore the part about installing a 3rd party firmware and Zoneminder. It doesn't seem like that's a good use case here.

Ignore @DustinB3403 here. The basic Wyze firmware with the card is more then enough for what you want to do. IIRC you can also subscribe to Wyze to get more data storage in their SaaS system. The only big problem I have with it is that you can't see the live feed or recordings from a PC. Although I think they are working on that.

@Jimmy9008 said in Free Veeam for Linux/Restore:

@coliver said in Free Veeam for Linux/Restore:

@scottalanmiller said in Free Veeam for Linux/Restore:

a full power down of the VM

Which isn't out of the question... not really. Does this database need to be up 100% of the time?

Not 100% of the time. No.

But equally, daily downtime just for purposes of a backup is too frequent, even if only a few minutes. Its something we can plan for and will find a way. May be the case of just using the built in backup tool, and having documented rebuild process should the VM fail.

This is probably the way to go. Even building a template/cold spare to spin a clone up when/if something goes wrong may be a good idea. Then you just restore the data to it and you're good to go. No nearly as automated as the Devops approach but feasible for someone without that experience to just load up.

@scottalanmiller said in Free Veeam for Linux/Restore:

a full power down of the VM

Which isn't out of the question... not really. Does this database need to be up 100% of the time?

@DustinB3403 said in Free Veeam for Linux/Restore:

@scottalanmiller said in Free Veeam for Linux/Restore:

@DustinB3403 said in Free Veeam for Linux/Restore:

@scottalanmiller said in Free Veeam for Linux/Restore:

@DustinB3403 said in Free Veeam for Linux/Restore:

@scottalanmiller said in Free Veeam for Linux/Restore:

@DustinB3403 but what problem does that solve that isnt already covered by what he has? The Veeam Linux tools already do that.

He was asking for a free tool to run the script. Windows Task Scheduler is free in that he already has Windows and it's included.

Assuming he has drivers installed on the VM, those drivers talk to the hypervisor. The hypervisor should manage the pausing of all actions when called into action.

What he has is a free tool that runs the script though.

No, there are no hooks to do what youbare thinking. The hypervisor cant do that. Thats not how it works.

okay, I'm not in a good mood to deal with this crap today.

Its not crap. You are doing the "hypervisors are magic" myth. He already has everything... the free tool, the script, the VSS style layer, the drivers.... but they dont work in a situation like this. Making a second set of them wont change anything. Just make it harder.

What second set? He would be using the damn tools he already has to pause the VM, take a snapshot and export it. On a schedule.

Nothing in what I've read (granted I didn't read the entire topic because its tripe) says that this wouldn't work.

That still doesn't quiesce the database. Which is the problem that the OP is having. The database still has files open when a backup occurs and that causes issues when they go to restore.

This is a job for the native backup tools.

WSO2 Identity Server can also do CAS authentication.

https://wso2.com/identity-and-access-management/

I use Bitwarden at the moment and really like it. Open source and if you have concerns about their SaaS app you can self host it. It doesn't Autofill unless you tell it to (and even then the autofill is less then stellar, but I don't use that feature so it doesn't effect me).

@Dashrender said in Extended vacation:

@JaredBusch said in Extended vacation:

@maximus said in Extended vacation:

@coliver No, we dont have MSPs here.

Well here, we don't have 2-3 weeks of vacation at once either. Let alone even the thought of taking off for 2 months.

As a side note, in the US, the word vacation typically implies paid leave time.

You don't - but I've taken two 3 week vacations since I've been here.

Yeah, this is really unheard of.

Do you have any MSPs around you? Many of them offer vacation support. So you wouldn't be expected to be on call during your time off.