Posts made by coliver

@pmoncho said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Forced my wife daughter

Phrasing.

@Dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@PhlipElder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@JasGot said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@PhlipElder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

There's something special about walking about barefoot on a warm floor when it's -35C outside.

Our 60 yo old house is half on slab and half on crawl. Over the years, we've (wife and I) have added hot water re-circulation as well as heated floors, garage, sidewalks, and driveway. Not sure if I could live any other way now

Our main client in the region built a house that we helped to set up for automation.

They put in a heated driveway. No shoveling.

After one hard winter I wanted to break up the floor in the then house and set it up for heating and the drive as well. Most of the work would have been done by me so cost would be materials and time plus a certified plumber to plug in the natural gas and stamp everything.

It didn't pass the CFO business case test.

Main reason: Shoveling keeps me arse slim in the winter ... back then.

Now:

Keep in mind that I hand bombed that SoB our first winter in. We ended up not having as much cash on hand as planned so couldn't buy the JD we had our eye on.

A quad/plow was initially out of the question because my wife was leery due to young kids at the time.

45cm snow, third one of the late Spring, neighbour came over and finished plowing the last half I'd reached after about 4 hours of shoveling. He did it in ten minutes. After he was done I went in the house and said, "Eff it, we're getting a quad and a plow." Business case made.

My brother just bought a place with 150+ ft of driveway... he's getting a quad this summer, mowing deck and snow blade too.

Huh... just realized my driveway is ~700ft... I really should get a snowplow for the side-by-side.

@PhlipElder I have coal fired radiant heat in basement and part of the living room. Goal for this summer is the tear down the basement ceiling and put radiant heat in the rest of the second floor. Then eventually do the same for the third floor.

@PhlipElder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

PEX is a biatch to work with though

Haha no. Compared to copper PEX is so easy. I've done soldering I'll stick with compress or crimping anyday.

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@PhlipElder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@PhlipElder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Update on my home build:

2 more months and it will be move-in ready

Building this yourself?

We purchased the plot and found a builder to build on it. I'm not handy at all

Okay got it. I spent many a year making ends meet in both home and commercial construction. Foundation all the way to the roof. Done it all.

Nice. I've learned a lot through the building process but I'm definitely not there yet. We do have some very nice features in the house like a poured concrete foundation, tankless water heater, manabloc, etc.

This is what the manabloc looks like:

Wish I had one of these in my house. That's how I would have plumbed it if I were to do it all over.

@JasGot said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

@Dashrender said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

@JasGot said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

@scottalanmiller said in Reconsidering ProxMox:

What do you mean?
choco install virtio-drivers -y
That's it.

I don't use Chocolaty. I tried it when I first started coming around here, at the accolades of others; but I just found it didn't easily install or automate about half of the things we need. So I passed without judgment.

so instead of using it for the half it does, you simply dumped it? Why not make life easy for as much of it as you can?

Because we have our own scripts and installers that automate all of the tasks we need. No need to move 1/2 of our work to another tool. If it handled everything I think I would have jumped at the prospect. But there were still hurdles we didn't get a chance to explore, so I can;t say for certain we would have made the move, but I sure gave it the 'ol college try!

You can also, really easily, setup a Nuget repository, since you already have those custom scripts it would be fairly easy to migrate them to Chocolately and have a single installation source.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Who the hell mixes hot with alcohol...

It's super common. Hard mulled cider is phenomenal.

@Dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Damn forced retirements...

https://thechive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/weekend-morning-awesomeness-40-photos-34.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600

I went the other direct - Sad that he had to keep working to survive until he was 102.

#aboringdystopia

@krisleslie said in Using XCP-NG latest release, Windows 2019 Server VM file copies are pegged at 10 MB/s:

@black3dynamite Scott has been begging me for a while to switch over to KVM I have enough servers at home to give it a try. What are you using for host management? Last I saw, Kimichi(sp?) was hot.

You can also use Cockpit.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

This was specifically a "show con", anime in this case.

I don't get these at all. They really don't seem like much fun to me.

On the other hand, PAX, GenCon, and Origins are a ton of fun. Can't wait till I have the time to go to one again.

@dave247 said in Looking for some insight/input for setting up a "hot site"/fail-over environment:

@IRJ said in Looking for some insight/input for setting up a "hot site"/fail-over environment:

@dave247 said in Looking for some insight/input for setting up a "hot site"/fail-over environment:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for some insight/input for setting up a "hot site"/fail-over environment:

@dave247 said in Looking for some insight/input for setting up a "hot site"/fail-over environment:

I found the info I needed in the Windows Server 2016 Licensing Guide and if I understand it correctly, we would need Software Assurance coverage with our licensing, which we do not have. We purchased licenses only (with necessary CALs).

SA is the standard way to do it. You can do it without SA by double purchasing all the licenses (but not the CALs, no need to double up there. The humans aren't being duplicated.) Obviously, SA is cheaper than that, and that's why everyone goes with SA.

So, in the case with replicating virtual machines through Veeam Backup & Replication and storing those powered off servers on a spare VMware ESXi server would require me to purchase additional MS licensing?

Yes and you will have both running simultaneously to do fail over testing

Anyone know off-hand if I can purchase Software Assurance after already having purchased my licenses? If not, guess we'll bite the bullet and purchase licensing for the warm site + get SA on all future purchases.

I don't believe so.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/01/linus-torvalds-pulled-wireguard-vpn-into-the-5-6-kernel-source-tree/#p3

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Worked until 4am last night. Several projects going on. One is a new community, not surprisingly just like this one, for the veterinary industry.

how many products are they talking about there?

Hundreds of thousands I would assume, if you include everything from squeaky toys to food to medicines to lab gear.

So just a general Vet discussion board. That's cool.

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

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

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

@dafyre did you just install using Steam? DId you do anything manually?

You need to enable the Steam Play beta features. It will attempt to run most games that are in the Steam library.

Exactly. I let it play the intro video before I had to kill it, lol. That particular laptop has issues with the GPU (the fan quit, lol). I'm about 99% ready to make the dive back to Linux on my daily driver again.

I still can't. Enough games I play can't be played through Steam Play yet.

@Dashrender said in Real Time Coronavirus Website:

@Kyle said in Real Time Coronavirus Website:

I was hospitalized in early December for Coronavirus. I was on a ventilator for 3 days due to the swelling in my airway.

did you have a confirmed case?

IIRC Coronavirus is a family of viruses. The one we are talking about is the Wuhan Coronavirus.

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

@dafyre did you just install using Steam? DId you do anything manually?

You need to enable the Steam Play beta features. It will attempt to run most games that are in the Steam library.

@thwr said in Avast... free Antivirus?? (sells your info for millions):

Windows Defender... everything else is snakeoil. I always try to not laugh when someone says "But XYZ has a built in virus scanner for SSL connections"

But how will VARs make money now?

Open Project
Project Open
Redmine

All seem to have the functionality you're looking for.

Yeah... either way maybe Vultr's high performance stuff would work for you.

@thwr said in Looking for a high performance game server:

@coliver said in Looking for a high performance game server:

@thwr said in Looking for a high performance game server:

@coliver said in Looking for a high performance game server:

@thwr said in Looking for a high performance game server:

@coliver said in Looking for a high performance game server:

Is this Arma? Seems like Arma specs for some reason.

Gotcha

Ah. I've run it on Vultr before... I only had 6 players so I didn't need so much performance.

I know they have high frequency systems that get some pretty killer single core performance.

https://www.vultr.com/products/high-frequency-compute/

But the two big Arma communities that I know collocate their servers.

yeah... it's more like 80 players and a freaking amount of AI.

Yeah. Wish someone would write a plugin to offload the AI to a dedicated client.

That's what the headless client does. It's actually a "micro-server" where one can offload at least a part of the AI stuff. But it doesn't scale very well.

Ah, that's good to know. I probably won't ever get back into Arma but if I do...