Putting my Trello to-do list in the sidebar is also handy.
Other nice stuff... the browser chrome color adjusts based on the average of the color palette in the site's favicon (or that's what I'm guessing based on my observations). Side bar notes are awesome. The overall UX is just really solid. It supports Chrome extensions but I haven't tested any for compatibilty yet.
The web panel sidebar feature is awesome... It means I can keep ML's mobile view open in a little sidebar on all my pages and see new posts in real time without having to tab switch constantly 
@aaronstuder said:
Try this:
https://file.pizza/romano-squid-lobster-broccoli
Maybe it just doesn't like small files?
That gives me a download link, and now my pizza is spinning, but 0bps transfer.
@scottalanmiller said:
LOL, yeah, the scale that people think is big is nuts. I'm used to databases with pure SSDs, and 2TB of RAM and trillions of daily writes alone and that's virtual! And that was years ago. Nearly every post in SW is like "What year is it?" People are actually asking these questions today as if it was 2005 when the question was legit.
Amen. It's been hard for me to get my manager out of this mindset as well, since he did server admin before me, almost all of which was physical (he dabbled with some Hyper-V and VMware Player instances).
Last week I retired 5 old physical servers after some P2V. Just for fun I tried to install a logging server on one of the stronger/newer physical boxes, just to play with. Between boot media issues, controller drivers and various other physical-specific frustrations, I spent hours trying to get the darn thing even working. Experiment over. Opened vSphere, deployed Ubuntu, done in 5 min. I'll never go back!!!
@MattSpeller Thank you sir. PRTG is remarkably easy to work with once you get going. It's a great tool, and has proven its worth countless times. We use the dashboards for keeping an eye on things, and it alerts us via Slack and/or Email depending on the particular notification. We could also tie it into PagerDuty if we were insane crazy people.
I particularly like being able to look at historic metrics and averages for things like uptime and bandwidth. I also have some geo maps set up for things like WAN links (remote sites, water/cell towers, etc). The pre-canned sensors are awesome -- they have lots, and can hook right into common things like VMware SOAP, Cisco, and Dell/HP management engines, for example, in addition to the common stuff like SNMP and WMI. The mobile app is great too. All in all it's just a one-stop shop for network monitoring. And my setup is not really scratching the surface of what it can do.
Probably my biggest disappointment with it is that its syslogging functionality is pretty limited. It can receive syslog traffic and you can do basic searching, but it doesn't export or interface with anything else like ElasticSearch that I'm aware of. Kind of a shame since it's 99% there. But then again, what it does, it does really well, so I'm just as happy not to muddy the waters.
Spent some time re-doing my PRTG network status dashboard. This is on a 70" display in the conference room outside my door. Camera feeds are the server room (aerial pano view, can be flattened), rear server room entrance, basement phone room/demarc (lights off! stay out!), and office entrance. To keep out the riff raff, you know. (We keep it locked and installed a wireless doorbell, try getting IT support now, ha HA!)
The last dashboard I made just had one big sunburst display for all our devices, and it got to the point where the outer spokes were almost illegible. So I broke out the core nodes into individual maps (WAN, LAN, servers, IP cameras)
Just saw this while browsing the Verge and it totally piqued my interest: Vivaldi is a new desktop browser for power users
Teh Sauce: Vivaldi Browser
I continually rotate between browsers because I just can't settle. I was a Chrome fanatic for the longest time, but performance issues sent me to Firefox, which worked well for awhile but started having compatibility issues with certain tools I use. So I went to Opera which has been surprisingly excellent but doesn't play super well with PRTG. Chrome is probably still the all-around champ, but I'm just not quite satisfied.
Gonna give Vivaldi a shot just for kicks. The nerd-fu features are very attractive... tab stacks, yes!
@dafyre said:
@crustachio said:
@dafyre said:
@crustachio said:
@crustachio But yeah. This server is the stuff IT nightmares are made of. We have almost lost it several times. Recently a weird utility power issue "backfed" (or something, don't ask me, I don't do high voltage) our emergency generator and killed it during a power outage. So when our UPS finally failed it took this server and array down, and it was NONE TOO HAPPY when we tried to bring it back online.
Thankfully we keep an exact duplicate on the shelf, so we did emergency transplanting (RAID controller died, along with some disks). Anyway, back up... for now. But yes, Sweaty Palms Achievement Unlocked.
LOL... is this a thing, or did you generate it based on my post?
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@dafyre said:
@crustachio said:
@crustachio But yeah. This server is the stuff IT nightmares are made of. We have almost lost it several times. Recently a weird utility power issue "backfed" (or something, don't ask me, I don't do high voltage) our emergency generator and killed it during a power outage. So when our UPS finally failed it took this server and array down, and it was NONE TOO HAPPY when we tried to bring it back online.
Thankfully we keep an exact duplicate on the shelf, so we did emergency transplanting (RAID controller died, along with some disks). Anyway, back up... for now. But yes, Sweaty Palms Achievement Unlocked.
LOL... is this a thing, or did you generate it based on my post?
@scottalanmiller said:
That's nuts. I always wonder how companies get into a situation like this.
Because it means that sometime, twenty years ago, someone said "let's invest all kinds of effort into putting code onto a totally proprietary machine that we are 100% dependent on the vendor to support... forever." And then everyone else agreed. And then almost immediately that company went out of business. By 2001 this would have been an all out emergency in any business.. a totally unsupported critical system.
And for the next decade and a half everyone just depends on it and semi-ignores the fact that a very tiny decision window in the 1990s has caused almost two decades of crazy cost and risk and what took just a tiny bit of time to cause a problem has become decades of being unable to fix.
Yep, that's pretty much it in a nutshell.
'course, we're government, so this kind of thing is almost expected 
OTOH, I can't say I blame them. 20 years ago it seemed kind of like the wild west. Nobody was clairvoyant, who could have known which wagon to hitch up to. I'm not sure much has changed. How many Novell shops made the wrong call (that was us too :)).
For all we know, Scale Computing could be a non-entity 3 years from now. [I know that's not exactly the same -- even if Scale folded or was bought out, you would still retain VM mobility, but it was still a big investment]
@crustachio But yeah. This server is the stuff IT nightmares are made of. We have almost lost it several times. Recently a weird utility power issue "backfed" (or something, don't ask me, I don't do high voltage) our emergency generator and killed it during a power outage. So when our UPS finally failed it took this server and array down, and it was NONE TOO HAPPY when we tried to bring it back online.
Thankfully we keep an exact duplicate on the shelf, so we did emergency transplanting (RAID controller died, along with some disks). Anyway, back up... for now. But yes, Sweaty Palms Achievement Unlocked.
@scottalanmiller said:
What is it running that it isn't replaced with a Raspberry Pi?
lol...
A host of various proprietary applications. It's not a question of performance, it's just that the code doesn't port easily. P2V is a no-go due to VMware not getting off their lazy asses and coding drivers for 20 year old niche UNIX platforms -- those jerks.
We have begun porting the applications to RHEL one at at a time, but it's not in production yet. There's a lot of kinks to work out for silly stuff like terminal emulation, printers, etc.
@scottalanmiller said:
2001 at the latest, I mean. Thats when DG disappeared.
I'm not 100% sure when this guy was put into service but I believe it was mid 90's.
@scottalanmiller Indeed. It predates my career (high school career, even) -- and will probably outlast it too
@scottalanmiller DG/UX on a Data General AViiON. In theory it should never need to go down, but it is getting cranky in its old age.
