@scottalanmiller said in DBAs, man:

@dafyre said in DBAs, man:

@scottalanmiller said in DBAs, man:

@dafyre said in DBAs, man:

@scottalanmiller said in DBAs, man:

@Grey said in DBAs, man:

@JaredBusch Believe me or not. He wanted smaller SSDs for a SAN because #reasons, and this was his primary concern.

This is why a DBA should never even know what is behind the scenes. He's trying to be the server tech behind the system admin!

Yepp. At my last job, we had our SQL Server virtualized. It ran link a champ for some stuff that we were told wouldn't work well in a VM.

WHO told you wouldn't work well in a VM?

The vendor, of course, lol. We promptly ignored them.

I'll never understand the willingness to pay a vendor to be your vendor who doesn't even have a passing knowledge of their own product!

*shrug* This is one of those things where a product was purchased and IT was told to make it happen. So we did. Somebody had a sign hung on their door that became our unofficial motto... it's a quote I've seen attributed most often to Mother Theresa.

"We've been tasked for so long to do so much with so little that we are now finally qualified to do anything with nothing."

Our few drops of so little let us shift from nearly 30 physical servers at our largest point down to 4 systems from Scale computing when I left. (They have since upgraded and are now running six nodes, IIRC).

We also went from having physically separate switches for our different networks to ~50 various model HP Procurve switches as well.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

This teaching her one of the rules of life: Never trust a fart.

@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller @dafyre That is the reason I was questioning it. The last few updates I ran (18.x.x) I didn't see the Collabora, etc that is supposed to be "baked-in" as they advertise. I agree that they are supposed to be the same product. I just don not see an obvious difference. An example is that I don't see the "new document" option like there is if you integrate Only Office.

AFAIK, That Collabora was only baked in to 19. I'm using OnlyOffice, myself. I may give Collabora a shot now that it's an app.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Still trying to deal with the pinched nerve in my back. Legs don't really work, so falling in the shower this morning was pretty shitty. And the medicine I'm taking makes my legs even more rubbery, but it takes away the "want to die" feeling I had before. Fuck you, 2020.

Sorry to hear, man. Is PT an option for you?

The neurologist referred me to a PT place, but they don't take my insurance. I'm going to look for somewhere that does. I still have to get 1 more MRI, then they're going to do a nerve conduction test, so I'm still not sure what my treatment options will be.

I know Duluth's a bit of a hike for you with traffic, but the last time I had to have PT for my ankle, I used Benchmark Physical Therapy. They likely have an office somewhere near you, and while I don't know their insurance acceptance, I can at least day the therapist I had with them was good.

Thanks for the info. Duluth isn't so far, it's closer than work. Do you happen to know a good acupuncturist? I want to use all the options available while I wait around for other tests and stuff.

Oof. I hope you find something that works for you! I take it a chiropractor can't help? I'm not sure where they draw the line between helping you, and okay go see a doctor.

I started with a chiropractor, he referred me to the neurologist. And he genuinely feels bad that he was unable to help more than he did (he's a great doctor).

Yikes! Hopefully something pans out soon!

@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Debating getting lifetime PlexPass while its on sale

Last year, I only paid $75 for my mine.

I just checked mine, I got it in 2014 for $75. Probably the best $75 I've ever spent. We use Plex SO much.

I got my PlexPass after reporting a bug to the Devs in the android app.

@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

@Dashrender said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

@hobbit666 said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

My god how big is your NAS/Server?

It's in ATX tower case. 90TB is in Google Drive. Locally I have 4x2TB SSD in raidz pool.

OK, that's seemingly less crazy.. but still - what the heck is your monthly bill for that?

$12 flat, G Suite business. Unlimited storage.

How do you get that? They want me to buy a minimum of 5 to get that.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just found out someone submitted my info to unemployment. Great, now I get to add working on fraud to my list of stressors.

Just some random person filed unemployment for you? WTF

Did somebody fire you and forget to tell you?

I'd check and make sure the info is correct at least, so you know nobody is trying t intercept it somewhere!

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

Bedknobs & Broomsticks

Treguna. Mekoides, Trecorum Satis Dee!

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

New coffee maker just arrived, lol.

The Day is Saved!

@nadnerB -- I would not want to be spending the night in that house.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Finally getting discharged from the hospital/rehab. Been here since Sept 3rd, not sure I'm actually ready to go home, but insurance decided that's all they're paying for.

Oh damn.. what happened?

User Allergies?

I wish. Severe neuropathy (nerve pain) caused by a REALLY bad B12 deficiency. The B12 part is fixed now but there's still agonizing pain 24/7. Like a fentanyl patch barely reduces the pain. Hurts like hell to type, I can barely walk, etc.

Ooof! Do the docs have any idea as to whether or not the pain will go away or has that become a thing now?

Seems to be an open ended healing process, I'll be meeting with a pain management doctor on Monday (which kinda points to a long recovery). I'm hoping that good PT and losing a few lbs will speed up the process.

Mental attitude (and fortitude) and positive thoughts and all that jazz goes a long way, too.

@Pete-S said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

anyone looked at 2fa for W10? I'm looking for a way in which I can secure a W10 VM not domain joined and not using any bio security stuff, which would be hard to use on a vm anyway.

I think Duo and companies like OneLogin that offers authentication, SSO etc can do it.

https://duo.com/docs/rdp

We use Duo at my day job and it works well -- even on Non-domain joined systems.

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Office 365 Outage so far

So what are they down to now? Microsoft 361? I lost track.

Ha. This is 2020. Who knows what could happen. With the way they name their Xbox stuff, we'll be at Microsoft 1 before the year is out.

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Our little puppy, Clive, was finally big enough to sleep in the bed last night. He's still tiny, but big enough to not get rolled over on now. He's a much happier dog today now that he had snuggles all night.

How dare you post about a puppy and not put up photos!

I'm sure there's been at least one or ten in the thread in the last 3 or 4 months, lol.

I don't remember what kind of dog Clive is, but I hope he gets big and/or smart enough to be a good protector of the family!

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

I get my RTX 3090 (Founders Edition) on Tuesday

I hope it works well for you.

Edit: Be warned -- https://www.techspot.com/news/86900-capacitor-issues-causing-rtx-30803090-crashes.html

@hobbit666 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

New toy

Now you can start bulding the Q-238 Explosive Space Modulator.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

On a side note, does anyone know if Ubiquiti uses Foxconn for their boards?

Who cares? Foxconn is one of the largest companies in the world. it would be a surprise if they did not have parts inside.

Looking to try and find a rogue AP according to a controller I manage, just looking to confirm what brand it might be.

How would the manufacturer matter? MAC address (a guess) can easily have nothing to do with manufacturer. Depends on the vendor.

No shit, just trying to find any correlation as the mac address isn't lining up with anything I can find on the equipment we manage.

If you have managed switches, just disable the network port it's connected to and wait for the phone calls to come in.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Waiting for dism to finish.

And waiting, and waiting.

If /online was used,
and waiting, and waiting.

and waiting... and now it's sitting there. Is it working... or is it hung? The suspense is killing me, I'm holding my tongue.

@JasGot said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Watching the polls on a variety of news channels.

I'll wait and be surprised, lol.

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 Is it this? https://watchguardvideo.com/

I help the Public Safety office at my day job with that from time to time . I usually don't hear from them unless things have gone completely sideways on something.