Best posts made by Donahue

no, I am saying that I could see that someone wanted to separate out their devices so each could have its own separate DHCP scope. I am not saying that this was a good idea, or that I would do it, just that I can see how VLAN's could be used to achieve that effect. Again, I am not saying this would be using VLANs correctly

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Donahue said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Donahue said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I'm enjoying pizza for the first time in 6 months.

I think I may get sick now...

Did you give up on your Keto diet, or switch to a different diet?

My plan was to give it 6 months and see what happened. I lost 60+ lbs. yesterday was the end of the 6 months. I am not sure what the next step is, but it probably involves still cutting back on the carbs while not entirely keto.

Please bear in mind that a lot of our issues were either the direct result of my personal inexperience and decisions about 4 years ago, and my company's overall lack of experience when it comes to how IT should be done. 4 years ago we did not have IT, we had a 2 drive NAS, and that is basically it. To put that into perspective, we literally did not have email access until 2011, which is about a year before I got here. The company I work for is was and to a large degree still is either behind the times, or working from bad assumptions. I will claim my mistakes that were made previously and perhaps more recently and say that a large part of why I am here on ML is to learn where I went wrong, and to try and make a plan for the present and future that is more inline with what would be considered "standard IT practices".

My conference is over, now I’m just bored waiting to leave for my flight back, which is at 6am

the benefit I see of tags over folders is while you can nest folders, there are times when I would want a file to have more than one tag, and folders or nested folders just wont cut it. I have a good example. We have CAD drawings for standardized parts that we use on several machines we manufacture. We are currently storing two separate (but equal) copies in two folders that are next to each other in the hierarchy. One folder contains all of the standard drawings, and the other folder contains everything categorized by type and keyword, much like a tag. But it's very stupid because there is a pretty high chance for someone to update one, but not the other. A shortcut would work, but they dont do that at the moment. But tags would be perfect. On our other drawings, we could have tags for customer, machine type, year, drawn by, etc. I can see how using tags would allow for seeing and searching the data any way you want. But folders are pretty limited in what they can do, and it all hinges on having a well thought out system, and usually ahead of time. Our primary drawings are all stored by year first, and then by drawing number, which is sort of like a project number. But the drawing number is baked into the file name, and we just have folders for years. In order to find the drawing we need, you have to consult some other document that can do all the cross referencing. Its a major pain. It would be heaven to be be able to do a search that said "show me all drawings related to customer A for Product B". I bet we could do that with tags, but not with folders. You could argue that you could just setup the folders to be by customer and then by product type, but then you wouldn't get a good search for "drawn in the year 2015". You can setup folders to make any one particular search type easy, but it becomes very hard to make a good search against something that the folder structure didn't account for.

TLDR, tags ware way more flexible.

@DustinB3403 the whole thing is wrong, from so many angles. the meme is wrong because it is making light of the situation, but I would agree that the topic of the meme is much much worse, and is the worst part of humanity. It's sad that it's also true. My opinion as a someone who is heavily involved in my church is that people are people and the church has just as many bad apples as the rest of society.

@scottalanmiller said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:

@Donahue said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:

is there a system that can display tags in a way that would look like folders to the user? Like a way to change your view to see the files organized by tag 2 instead of tag 1? I use this perspective change all the time in SQL, and I would love something equivalent in a file system using tags.

There is a way to write a system to do that, but no one makes one today.

well get on that @scottalanmiller, the world is apparently waiting

just finished rockstar #2

@scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:

@Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:

@Obsolesce said in DNS Update Issue:

@scottalanmiller said in DNS Update Issue:

In Windows, apparently, it simply abandones that server until it has no choice but to return.

I don't see any issue there. You're getting DNS either way, what's it matter what it's from if they are the same? If clients are getting DNS from the failover DNS server and you don't want it to, turn off the DNS service on that server then, and clients will fail back... if you even care.

The problem happens when your secondary server isn't part of your internal network (assuming your primary is part of your internal network). When using the secondary you won't get resolution for internal network resources.

That's the BIG problem. But not the only one. Take a common manufacturing plant with one AD at one site, and the other one at a different site. If you can't choose primary or secondary, then failover means slow DNS over a WAN link - potentially for weeks or months at a time. Sometimes for no reason at all, or something as simple as having rebooting the local one.

It's not just wanting to use a public source, that clouds the issue. Lots of people don't want to use public ever, so ignore that. It's bad behaviour regardless.

@scottalanmiller is describing my setup because he has seen it.

i'm cleaning out the area where we are going to build a new server room.

Also, the difference in requirements between streaming external vs internal might be wildly different

i'd use dark on ML if the editors followed the theme. Do they yet? They didnt when I first joined.

@WrCombs said in Security Updates Not Listening to Times.:

@Donahue said in Security Updates Not Listening to Times.:

@WrCombs said in Security Updates Not Listening to Times.:

@Donahue said in Security Updates Not Listening to Times.:

@WrCombs said in Security Updates Not Listening to Times.:

5:30-6:00 pm and he manually restarts everything and then everything works fine.
Right now I

So for us following along at home, what was the actual problem and what was the fix? It looks like you were saying that the MSE updates were running at 5:30 or whenever, but was it actually trying to run a scan at that time? Was that the actual cause of the slowdowns?

The problem was that MSE was installing updates daily at 5-5:30 causing the Point of Sale that runs off of that PC to freeze and lock up until they were restarted.
The fix?
I excluded our application directory from MSE updates and havent had a problem in 3 days.
I have checked and the updates are still coming in , but no system lock ups.

I don't see the correlation. How is excluding a directory from updates even a thing? I can see excluding a directory from a scan, but MSE doesn't get updates based on directories.

This is what I know : okay? Stay with me here;

My terminals on the front of house were locking up every time a Security Update came through on my Back office PC. Causing the Site to have to restart the terminals manually every time at the same time, Daily.

After excluding the Directory for my application, I haven't had an issue in 3 days, and counting at multiple of my Windows 7 Sites.

Could it be that the updates were spinning up more RAM to install these updates?

Could it be that The System was False Positive hitting as @Dashrender suggested?

I wonder if it wasn't also running a scan at the same time using the newly installed updates? That is the only thing that makes sense. I wont argue with the results, I was just not satisfied with the explanation, because I couldn't follow the logic.

morning from the left coast

@scottalanmiller said in How do YOU provide a physical VDI demo?:

Try to look at it without the trained eye of an IT pro. To grandma or Ether in accounting or Frank in HR, the Dell desktop and the Wyse thin client look essentially the same. It's just that "Dell computer on my desk."

yes, that was my point too.

@WrCombs you've never heard that? weird.

@tonyshowoff said in SQL security over the LAN:

@Dashrender said in SQL security over the LAN:

@tonyshowoff said in SQL security over the LAN:

@Donahue said in SQL security over the LAN:

I don't know this this is to be expected, but a lot of the traffic is also smb2

Since SQL Server 2008 you can use SQL over SMB2 rather than just TCP/IP or named pipes or shared memory. So I imagine that's how they're doing it, seems like needless overhead but based on everything else that's to be expected.

Curious - why would you want to do it over SMB?

It's sort of pseudo-configureless, you need not worry about ports or IPs and just go by name. The other side of that is you have to deal with SMB locking and other problems and it slows things down sometimes significantly.

plus, it probably ties the customer in tighter into the MS ecosystem.

@mlnews said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

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ouch

Concur, networks have no bearing on licensing.

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Donahue LOL, yes.

Heh, more like behind you and to the left a little bit.

back, and to the left
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