@RojoLoco said:

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller Why not just put beer straight in the coffee? No need to switch then.

Rum goes in your coffee, beer in there would taste terrible.

I think you have that reversed. Coffee goes into the rum.

@pmoncho said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

@scottalanmiller said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

@pmoncho said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

@scottalanmiller
That was a pretty good video till the end. A nice walk through Sallie history.

Yeah, I really liked that one, and good history that really no one is aware of.

I only knew about half of what he mentioned. Nixon, like other past presidential ideas, didn't pay attention to the law of unintended consequences. Maybe they do and just don't care.

Other past? I can't think of any president, current one included that hasn't done something boneheaded.

So for my home lab, I need to build a backup device for my Hypervisor. Something that I can run NAUBackup to, and have my full system backups stored on that is a separate "server" from XenServer.

Using a purely hypothetical setup at the moment as I don't have the hardware.

Consumer grade desktop, with 4 SR-Drives (Spinning Rust Drives) that I want in RAID 10. I have no hardware raid controllers.

I'm considering using CentOS but need clarification on how I should configure the RAID. The board supports FakeRAID, the OS has several options. One being ZFS.

The goal is to not only backup my Hypervisor, but to learn more about Software RAID solutions.

I'm not a big fan of the Unity desktop experience.

It's functional, I just don't like it enough.

Mint or even Zorin (a windows imitation) are so much better.

It must be those RAID controllers from the MangoCon topic that was posted a while back... I've been waiting

@travisdh1 I'm thinking @NerdyDad means Firewalld

So in looking at our existing practice of having to send equipment (iPads) around the world to contract employees it boggles my mind that no one here (where I work) has discussed (at least with me) the idea of just renting the equipment in the country that the equipment is needed for.

Nothing spectacular is configured on the devices, we simply download an app and sync a database. Many time we just download the app and make the contractor deal with it.

Does anyone know of equipment rental companies that work globally? Help us to save the cost of shipping the unit there and back. Plus all of the added risk of the equipment simply walking away in a foreign country where we literally have ~0% foot hold.

Certainly no legal standing, and no ability to chase the item down.

Yeah this is a pretty big win, granted it was MS in the hot-seat, but essentially everyone won with this one.

I thought the mascot was

@scottalanmiller said in Sodium: Device Uptime:

@dustinb3403 said in Sodium: Device Uptime:

@quixoticjeremy said in Sodium: Device Uptime:

@gjacobse said in Sodium: Device Uptime:

Ah yes,.. from within the device. I have to edit my OP,.. it wasn't clear on what I was asking (and I thought I was being detailed... learn me to eat and type at the same time,...)

Might I ask to what purpose would you need it on the front page like that?

People who complain about piss poor system performance, with up time of 45 days on their desktop. . .

Did you reboot it?!

Mabye Sodium shuld have an "auto reboot on complaint" feature.

New ticket from User @org on @device send reboot command.

Lol. . .

@TheDeepStorage said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

@dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

Is the Two-Node setup for Starwind an Active/Active setup or active/passive?

StarWind's two-node setup is an active-active scenario.

With this setup is there any risk of a split brain scenario occurring? If so what protections are built in to ensure that the system normalizes its self?

And without to many "extra" parts remaining behind.

Firefox comes build in with uBlock Origin.

@Minion-Queen said:

Trying to get started early today. @jenuinecase and I are off to do some more MangoCon venue scouting today.

Travel safely, we all know how dangerous Rochester NY can be

@quixoticjeremy said in Sodium: Device Uptime:

@gjacobse said in Sodium: Device Uptime:

@quixoticjeremy said in Sodium: Device Uptime:

@scottalanmiller said in Sodium: Device Uptime:

@dustinb3403 said in Sodium: Device Uptime:

@quixoticjeremy said in Sodium: Device Uptime:

@gjacobse said in Sodium: Device Uptime:

Ah yes,.. from within the device. I have to edit my OP,.. it wasn't clear on what I was asking (and I thought I was being detailed... learn me to eat and type at the same time,...)

Might I ask to what purpose would you need it on the front page like that?

People who complain about piss poor system performance, with up time of 45 days on their desktop. . .

Did you reboot it?!

Mabye Sodium shuld have an "auto reboot on complaint" feature.

Personally I think I should implement a workflow that when a complaint is registered through the external portal via a ticket the first step that happens is the workflow auto restarts the user's machine. lmao

Preemptive fix,. random forced reboot

oooooo I like upon every data collection hit a method that gens a random number between 1 and 100, if number is above 50 restart.

So pretty good odds of rebooting a server that puts in an alert notification. . .

@coliver said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

@scottalanmiller said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

@dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

Will we be able to manage all of the Starwind VSA products from the Windows Powershell? Or Is the PowerShell module only made to work on Windows Starwind setups?

Or even better, what about a non-PowerShell interface for the others?

Is there a non-powershell interface for the Windows version?

Yes, the GUI

Of these two options, which would be better:

1. Purchase a 2 bay external LaCie

2. Build a OBR10 Desktop file server using consumer desktop parts.

The only limitation is the pricing has to be near identical.

Carnegie Mellon team wins AI security battle royale

Pretty interesting competition, it appears these systems had a harder time staying running though, but very quickly patched security vulnerabilities.

No kids here, and no costumes. I'm just going to buy and eat all of these Reese's Peanut butter Cups by my self.

@scottalanmiller is it the inactivity timer that is logging you out?