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Today I begin the recovery from my rotator cuff surgery I had this morning. Today is mostly my wife sterning telling me to sit down and stop doing stuff... I'm way more restless than normal. ug.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Too many to quote using the phone,.. thanks.

so- now it is a bit bitter sweet as I may very well lose all of my accrued PTO,..94 hours.

Will have to see

Dunno about your state, but every state I have dealt with, accrued means it is earned and is 100% required to be paid out.

For those in Ohio, the employer must have a written policy stating under what conditions accrued PTO will not be paid.

And there’s the ‘rub’ of course.

While I live and work in Kentucky, the company that pays me is in Ohio…. And yes- it’s in the Employee handbook. So it’s very very likely that I’ll get screwed out of it.

Forgot to mention, I don't see why a company believes in not paying out PTO hours for mainly, good, stable employees who put in their 2 week notice?

The now ex-employee will blab to the rest which may foster a issue amongst the current staff as the rumor runs amuck within the company.

If an employee has a good hunch they will not be paid, they might as well go on vacation for two weeks, come back for a day and then walk out a day before starting their new job. --- Seen this happen in the last few years.

Keep in mind, I"m a contractor. and yea,.. it's in the handbook.. it's not paid out. take it or lose it.

The company I work FOR does carry over. and the COO is a little confused why I wasn't hired,.. LAST YEAR,.. but she has little room to do anything...

In the back of my mind,.. the former Director is getting kick backs from all the money spent. the organization has spent over $1.1M on all services and products in the last 18months. And this is a clinic of less than 300 people.

since the contractor isn't going to pay it out - can't the clinic just give it to you in a bank?

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Too many to quote using the phone,.. thanks.

so- now it is a bit bitter sweet as I may very well lose all of my accrued PTO,..94 hours.

Will have to see

Dunno about your state, but every state I have dealt with, accrued means it is earned and is 100% required to be paid out.

When I left public school teaching (Georgia), I didn't receive any payment for 500+ sick leave hours

I know of no place that pays out sick leave - doesn't mean non exist.. I just know of none.

But PTO - that's different.

If Gene was a contractor though ... not sure how PTO would even work. I'm sure Scott does though.

We have a local facility that will shred drives for $5.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Good morning all! About to have coffee, shower, and head to the beach because I'm showing houses today to an investor looking to retire to the beach.

Are you a real estate broker now?

@PhlipElder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@RojoLoco said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
EDIT: BTW, talking to Floridians at the event they thought I was nuts that I thought it was hilarious but they told me it was fairly common and that gators were very resilient. They also told me to never get out of the vehicle again as the gator could have been right p*ssed waiting to swallow me. :0)

Sounds about like hitting a deer here, expect the whole swallowing thing.

@JasGot said in Hard disk encryption without OS access?:

@scottalanmiller said in Hard disk encryption without OS access?:

We use ProxMox. KVM is definitely the leader on the hypervisor side. Which package you use for it is up to you. We've had great luck with ProxMox now, though. We are running a LOT of them

I have been reading about ProxMox, specifically the backup system. It looks like I need to install a client, but I can't install anything on the server managed by others. What other options do I have? Just shut down the VM and make a backup of the Virtual Disk holding the VM?

So you have access to the hypervisor allowing you to turn off the VM, but you can't replace the hypervisor yourself?

This is who I used to use.
https://www.ekahau.com/

They had a free version in the past - not sure what they have any more.

@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:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Coffee now. Lots of work today. The kids just got their Pfizer vaccines in Managua.

Seeing a house that we are 95% sure we are renting today. Then I'm heading to Managua myself to party.

P-A-R-T-Why? Because I gotta!

That's nothing, on December 7th we are closing our hotel and all its associated bars and restaurants, fencing off the beach, erecting two stages, and TEN international DJs are attending a giant concert on the beach. We have to hire an entire shadow hotel staff to cook, serve, bartend, etc. It's going to be crazy. We are going to sell out every hotel room on both beaches and tons of them in the city. The entire crowd is expected to be from the capital hours away, with lots of people flying in from the US.

why shadow staff?

We need the real staff for the full day before the event and opening for breakfast as the event ends!

Shadow IT at least to me is IT that is undermining the companies assigned IT staff.

I assume this additional staff isn't there with the goal of undermining the normal staff?

@Obsolesce said in Hard disk encryption without OS access?:

My main point and concern was in regard to end-user devices where the most relevant cases are lost or stolen devices (laptops/phones/etc.).

Sure, but that was really the point of the OP

@JasGot

@JasGot said in Hard disk encryption without OS access?:

The software product they use for running their business is the only app on the server and the software vendor will not allow access to the server OS.

This is primarily a server encryption discussion.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Coffee now. Lots of work today. The kids just got their Pfizer vaccines in Managua.

Seeing a house that we are 95% sure we are renting today. Then I'm heading to Managua myself to party.

P-A-R-T-Why? Because I gotta!

That's nothing, on December 7th we are closing our hotel and all its associated bars and restaurants, fencing off the beach, erecting two stages, and TEN international DJs are attending a giant concert on the beach. We have to hire an entire shadow hotel staff to cook, serve, bartend, etc. It's going to be crazy. We are going to sell out every hotel room on both beaches and tons of them in the city. The entire crowd is expected to be from the capital hours away, with lots of people flying in from the US.

why shadow staff?

@dafyre said in Turn server into backup storage for remote servers?:

@Pete-S SSH will pretty much only be limited by the bandwidth available for you to suck in the backups.

I actually just finished a script for doing almost exactly what you said just a few days ago. I sanitized it and dropped in in Gitlab if you want to take a look.

https://gitlab.com/dafyre/linux-utils/-/blob/master/autobackup/autobackup.sh

I think I made everything a variable, but since it's sanitized, it's quite possible I missed something.

This one is for pushing backups from the server with data out to the backup server. Once you get it working, just set it up in Cron and go.

Why push instead of pull? Wouldn't pulling be safer - i.e. the webserver has no information about the backup server, so if it's compromised, it can't give anything to the attackers about the backups.

What's going into the space where the kitchen used to be?

looks like some cabinets, anything else?

@Pete-S said in Windows 11 versus 10:

@Dashrender said in Windows 11 versus 10:

@stacksofplates said in Windows 11 versus 10:

@Dashrender said in Windows 11 versus 10:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows 11 versus 10:

@siringo said in Windows 11 versus 10:

I just hate these bloody upgrades or whatever you want to call them.

When I was younger it was exciting/interesting, now it's just a PITA.

I hate them because I know they will move or make you have to do something unimportant, that you have always done, be done differently. Where's notepad? Oh it's called Scribbler now. Where's Windows Explorer? Oh it's called File Finder.

Why do we have to learn new names for the same old crap.

Imagine doing that with cars. Press the accelerator, oh it's called the Make it faster button now!

I don't care about the new tech tricks and improvements, I just want to use my PC and get my work done so my day is as stress free as possible.

Old grumpy bastard complaining, yeah, probably. Don't worry, it'll happen to you.

Really only a Windows thing. They rename to distract from the lack of innovation.

my question is - do they need innovation? Other than performance improvements - is windows 10/11 any better than windows 7? performance is an under the hood thing...
This is a business tool - not some stupid home gadget - Windows doesn't need flashing lights.

Is this what people said when windows 95 came out and replaced 3.11? I don’t get the hate from people for changing the looks. As time goes on, people find better ways to interact with systems esp with touch screens being prevalent and the ever changing landscape of screen sizes.

Sure - things definitely were easier in Win95 compared to Win3.11 - but I would say that things aren't any easier today than they were in Win11 vs Win95.

I've used a Mac literally like 3 times - I have no clue if their interface has become more efficient over the years. and the same from a desktop POV on Linux based systems (though I would love to see some examples how the Linux desktop GUI has made things better workflow wise over the past whatever timeframe you like).

Windows 95's big UI change was the introduction of the start menu and taskbar.

The guy who did the UI work back then said that he was unimpressed with Windows 10 because he thought nothing had changed in more than 20 years.

From a general standpoint - I completely agree with him.
And really - how is Mac's GUI or any of the Linux GUI's really any better.

Scott jump to hardware, while completely outside the specific discussion of OS's, at least does show a value prop on the Mac side if you can make the switch.

@stacksofplates said in Windows 11 versus 10:

@Dashrender said in Windows 11 versus 10:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows 11 versus 10:

@siringo said in Windows 11 versus 10:

I just hate these bloody upgrades or whatever you want to call them.

When I was younger it was exciting/interesting, now it's just a PITA.

I hate them because I know they will move or make you have to do something unimportant, that you have always done, be done differently. Where's notepad? Oh it's called Scribbler now. Where's Windows Explorer? Oh it's called File Finder.

Why do we have to learn new names for the same old crap.

Imagine doing that with cars. Press the accelerator, oh it's called the Make it faster button now!

I don't care about the new tech tricks and improvements, I just want to use my PC and get my work done so my day is as stress free as possible.

Old grumpy bastard complaining, yeah, probably. Don't worry, it'll happen to you.

Really only a Windows thing. They rename to distract from the lack of innovation.

my question is - do they need innovation? Other than performance improvements - is windows 10/11 any better than windows 7? performance is an under the hood thing...
This is a business tool - not some stupid home gadget - Windows doesn't need flashing lights.

Is this what people said when windows 95 came out and replaced 3.11? I don’t get the hate from people for changing the looks. As time goes on, people find better ways to interact with systems esp with touch screens being prevalent and the ever changing landscape of screen sizes.

I'm not hating on the looks ( I just don't care about the differences - because to me they are differences for the sake of visual differences, but the function is nearly the same).

Sure MS has added snap to edge/snip tool/AV/firewall/etc - so yes there are improvements - but the user barely sees those things - hence people asking - what's different? - oh, nothing? yeah figures.

Of course Win8 was a HUGE change and people hated it - and MS backpeddled and went closer to Win7 when they released Win10.

@stacksofplates said in Windows 11 versus 10:

@Dashrender said in Windows 11 versus 10:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows 11 versus 10:

@siringo said in Windows 11 versus 10:

I just hate these bloody upgrades or whatever you want to call them.

When I was younger it was exciting/interesting, now it's just a PITA.

I hate them because I know they will move or make you have to do something unimportant, that you have always done, be done differently. Where's notepad? Oh it's called Scribbler now. Where's Windows Explorer? Oh it's called File Finder.

Why do we have to learn new names for the same old crap.

Imagine doing that with cars. Press the accelerator, oh it's called the Make it faster button now!

I don't care about the new tech tricks and improvements, I just want to use my PC and get my work done so my day is as stress free as possible.

Old grumpy bastard complaining, yeah, probably. Don't worry, it'll happen to you.

Really only a Windows thing. They rename to distract from the lack of innovation.

my question is - do they need innovation? Other than performance improvements - is windows 10/11 any better than windows 7? performance is an under the hood thing...
This is a business tool - not some stupid home gadget - Windows doesn't need flashing lights.

Is this what people said when windows 95 came out and replaced 3.11? I don’t get the hate from people for changing the looks. As time goes on, people find better ways to interact with systems esp with touch screens being prevalent and the ever changing landscape of screen sizes.

Sure - things definitely were easier in Win95 compared to Win3.11 - but I would say that things aren't any easier today than they were in Win11 vs Win95.

I've used a Mac literally like 3 times - I have no clue if their interface has become more efficient over the years. and the same from a desktop POV on Linux based systems (though I would love to see some examples how the Linux desktop GUI has made things better workflow wise over the past whatever timeframe you like).

@scottalanmiller said in Windows 11 versus 10:

@Dashrender said in Windows 11 versus 10:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows 11 versus 10:

@siringo said in Windows 11 versus 10:

I just hate these bloody upgrades or whatever you want to call them.

When I was younger it was exciting/interesting, now it's just a PITA.

I hate them because I know they will move or make you have to do something unimportant, that you have always done, be done differently. Where's notepad? Oh it's called Scribbler now. Where's Windows Explorer? Oh it's called File Finder.

Why do we have to learn new names for the same old crap.

Imagine doing that with cars. Press the accelerator, oh it's called the Make it faster button now!

I don't care about the new tech tricks and improvements, I just want to use my PC and get my work done so my day is as stress free as possible.

Old grumpy bastard complaining, yeah, probably. Don't worry, it'll happen to you.

Really only a Windows thing. They rename to distract from the lack of innovation.

my question is - do they need innovation? Other than performance improvements - is windows 10/11 any better than windows 7? performance is an under the hood thing...
This is a business tool - not some stupid home gadget - Windows doesn't need flashing lights.

Need innovation? No, not for their userbase. But their competition continues in innovate for customers that value ever increasing performance of their workers.

in the windows space? i.e. mac desktop/laptops? or Linux based laptops/desktops?

I mean I guess it's possible they are innovating there - ever increasing performance - can you provide any examples?

@scottalanmiller said in Windows 11 versus 10:

@siringo said in Windows 11 versus 10:

I just hate these bloody upgrades or whatever you want to call them.

When I was younger it was exciting/interesting, now it's just a PITA.

I hate them because I know they will move or make you have to do something unimportant, that you have always done, be done differently. Where's notepad? Oh it's called Scribbler now. Where's Windows Explorer? Oh it's called File Finder.

Why do we have to learn new names for the same old crap.

Imagine doing that with cars. Press the accelerator, oh it's called the Make it faster button now!

I don't care about the new tech tricks and improvements, I just want to use my PC and get my work done so my day is as stress free as possible.

Old grumpy bastard complaining, yeah, probably. Don't worry, it'll happen to you.

Really only a Windows thing. They rename to distract from the lack of innovation.

my question is - do they need innovation? Other than performance improvements - is windows 10/11 any better than windows 7? performance is an under the hood thing...
This is a business tool - not some stupid home gadget - Windows doesn't need flashing lights.

@Pete-S said in Another new server question:

@Dashrender said in Another new server question:

@siringo
Bay1 and 2 show SSD, Bays 3-5 show HDD, are you sure those are Solid State Drives?? I mean I see the QLC (I assume quad level cells), but it's worth confirming!

It's SSD because it says SSD on the same line

It's actually these: https://lenovopress.lenovo.com/lp1223-thinksystem-5210-entry-6gb-sata-qlc-ssds

Micron 5210 SSD drives with Lenovo stickers and maybe firmware adjustment for Lenovo.

uh - I missed that - thanks...

@siringo

Bay1 and 2 show SSD, Bays 3-5 show HDD, are you sure those are Solid State Drives?? I mean I see the QLC (I assume quad level cells), but it's worth confirming!