Posts made by coliver

@Dashrender said in Microsoft Edge for Linux:

@DustinB3403 said in Microsoft Edge for Linux:

@Dashrender said in Microsoft Edge for Linux:

@DustinB3403 said in Microsoft Edge for Linux:

@Dashrender said in Microsoft Edge for Linux:

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Edge for Linux:

@FATeknollogee what's the benefit of it? We already have Chrome. I don't even want Edge on Windows, let alone on Linux. Just yesterday had upset customers because Edge breaks things for their credit card processing and they wanted it removed completely because it keeps breaking things for them.

Old edge or new edge?

The new version which is based on Chromium.

you know that Scott's client was having these issues with new Edge?

Oh, sorry I thought you were asking about what this installs.

But I still assume the new edge in scott's case.

I wouldn't - I don't think even 2004 comes with new Edge by default... Haven't installed Windows 10 2010 fresh yet to see what it comes with.

Most of my users have not been offered new Edge yet, and my image has new edge only because I install it with Chocolatey.

2010 installs the Chredge by default.

@Dashrender said in Amazon Prime Day - Oct 2020:

@DustinB3403 said in Amazon Prime Day - Oct 2020:

@DustinB3403 said in Amazon Prime Day - Oct 2020:

@wirestyle22 said in Amazon Prime Day - Oct 2020:

@Dashrender @Pete-S I've considered all of this. The reason I want an electrician to move the power outlet/ethernet is because it's an external wall and if I need to replace cables here and there (replacing the roku, tv, or other) I am worried I will rip up my insulation and a true conduit isn't to code in NJ. If I have him move the ethernet and power then there is no problem.

Nah that wouldn't be a real issue, just use a fish to feed the cable down, clean and simple.

@Pete-S said in Amazon Prime Day - Oct 2020:

@wirestyle22 said in Amazon Prime Day - Oct 2020:

@Dashrender @Pete-S I've considered all of this. The reason I want an electrician to move the power outlet/ethernet is because it's an external wall and if I need to replace cables here and there (replacing the roku, tv, or other) I am worried I will rip up my insulation and a true conduit isn't to code in NJ. If I have him move the ethernet and power then there is no problem.

I wouldn't do it. If you want something else on that wall down the line, the outlets will be in the way.

Have some nice cable management installed instead. You can have it painted as well.

That's ugly as all sin, and removing the cable after the fact and doing a drywall patch is stupidly simpl

With the cable molding option as well you'll need longer than the cables that are provided with the TV in almost every case.

Not a huge issue, just a headache. A drywall saw is ~$4 plus the power cable for maybe $15 for 25 feet.

I'm with Wire - it's definitely not a clean... I just installed a new power plug myself behind my TV... though not an outside wall, not that that should be that big of a deal...

Depends on the insulation. But yeah for the most part the power should run on top of the fiberglass. Super simple. Get two rework boxes and you're good to go.

What do you mean by integrate? Like presence status?

@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.

@scottalanmiller are you looking to have pre-made scenarios to throw at players or just to have a system dedicated to mysteries (murder/horror/otherwise) that you make up yourself?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Anyone know of a "role playing game", and I use that lightly, that gives you the feeling of traditional D&D... but instead of D&D-like game play is more of a murder or other type of mystery? Can be fantasy, or not, but where you can buy like mystery stories and run a "campaign" where the players have to solve whatever mystery there is?

Call of Cthulhu if you like horror.

Horror mysteries?

Yep there are some really good mysteries that are out there. They all generally have a "horror" slant to them though. It's a decent, if a bit complicated, game system based on percentile dice.

If you don't want the horror aspect, something like Bubblegumshoe may be good?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Anyone know of a "role playing game", and I use that lightly, that gives you the feeling of traditional D&D... but instead of D&D-like game play is more of a murder or other type of mystery? Can be fantasy, or not, but where you can buy like mystery stories and run a "campaign" where the players have to solve whatever mystery there is?

Call of Cthulhu if you like horror.

@Dashrender said in Outlook failing to open from multiple customers...:

@dbeato said in Outlook failing to open from multiple customers...:

Fix for this is to revert to an earlier version of Microsoft. I have a .bat file here

https://github.com/dbeato/scripts/blob/master/Office 365/Fix-Outlook-Restart.bat

Do you know - does this only affect O365 Office users?

Nope, everyone.

@JaredBusch said in How to download Win 10 Enterprise ISO.:

@Dashrender said in How to download Win 10 Enterprise ISO.:

or you could just download it from VLSC.

But the gets around having to deal with signing in to VLSC which sucks balls most days.

If it even works in a modern browser.

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco Smokes and breakfast pepperoni, lets go

The resident Canadian has appeared. Is your hibernation over?

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo... Ping!
Just checking in to make sure you're ok.

Things seem to be a bit crap over your way.

Hey, how are you going. Things are turning upside down over here.
My wife and I live 4 hours out of Melbourne so we're free and easy, just can't leave the state nor visit the capital.
I'll tell you what the world is going to be like this until a vaccine is found, so this could be going on for a few more years.
The Premier said yesterday that one problem they have is getting enough people to do the tracing work that is required. It spreads so fast that they run out of manpower.
It must be a nightmare in places with a greater population.

Don't say that man - Next year is my 20 year wedding anniversary - and we planned a two week vacation to Aussieland!

It's a big place. Plenty of places to pick.

Nope. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article244059902.html

and? Nothing unusual...

I reckon the USA is scarier, you guys have bears. You can't outrun, out climb, out muscle those things.

Bears stay in the mountains. Spiders are jerks (see: https://www.facebook.com/uniladmag/videos/4375225242500501/). Snakes don't give a fuck, and they bite the Uber.

Nope.

I'm in Upstate NY. Bears are a pretty common sight around here. Unless you get near their food or cubs they don't really care that you're there. If you make a very sudden very loud noise they generally book it. Although I wouldn't want to be between a mother and her cubs...