I'm quitting the SW community as a whole, there is just to much stupid accumulating over there for me to deal without me having an aneurysm.

server1
server2
POS3 (piece of S*** 3)
server4..

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@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/12/17850146/microsoft-windows-10-chrome-firefox-warning

Remember when you used to purchase computer systems and have to uninstall their bloatware. . now you have to uninstall the OS too. . .

I think I go back for the drama....

I really just want to start on a tyrant for the level of stupidity over there. Much like the Jackoff who was so proud of his IPOD a few month ago, and had the topic deleted because the SW mods thought the community was ripping into him, rather than what we were doing which was trying to get him to see how his system design was overly expensive and dangerous, along with ways to correct it.

Instead, topic deleted, Scott opens a topic about how the community is a shit-show and how professionalism is more an Ego-trip there and that people putting advice up (without service tags) is basically frowned upon.

That is a freaking awesome feature. VM Console access via the webportal.

Totally awesome, was not expecting that...

Wow..

A few days old, but XCP-ng now includes Software RAID1 out of the gate for your installation. Obviously this doesn't address the issue of your storage repo for the VM's themselves but it gives you something.

I'm busy reading up on HA-Lizard ISCI, as it appears we are going to be implementing it at the start of this coming month.

So gotta refresh my memory.

A quick ballpark of the price for parts alone, before a case and Windows is just over 1500 so it seems reasonable.

As many as 9.5 Million fake post for the repeal of NN are suspected of being supplied by lobbying firms; NY AG has subpeoned multiple companies to get the truth.

@coliver said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

More curtis at his best.

I thought you were giving up Spiceworks.

It's like super expensive cocaine you go back for more.

I have my "production" server running a XO VM. I just need a USB flash drive to configure my backup host to run Xen (and subsequently a CentOS SMB file Server) as the backup target.

Those should be in tomorrow so it should be a pretty good setup.

And yeah, as soon as @olivier posted the sources, and the delta backup capabilities I was sold. Now to test it

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@Dashrender Direct water cooling looks like more effective, taking into account that you have to burn (generate heat) something to produce an electricity to cool the hardware with the traditional air conditioning. But I do agree that it still could affect the nature.

Especially if you can couple this with offshore wind, solar, wave, or current generation systems.

This might be crazy thinking - But I wonder how much we are affecting our physical world by tapping energy directly out of it - i.e. taking heat energy from the planet, pulling energy from wind, from wave, etc. In writing that - I'm wondering if there might just be less thermal bleedoff? I know the planet gets a ton of energy from the sun, I'm pretty sure it's what powers most of our weather, so maybe it's a non issue?

It's mostly a non-issue. We're affecting it more with CO2 and other gases then we are through wind, solar, and geothermal.

And in opposite directions. Solar or wind energy production reduces energy "in the system", while CO2 emissions increase it.

I could see how wind is reducing energy in the system. As it's literally forcing wind (produced from hot and cold areas) to turn turbines.

But how is solar pulling energy out of the system?

Less of it hitting the surface of the earth and heating up the landmass. Solar panels have an effect of cooling nearby areas.

I suppose that's true as the sun would literally never hit that ground again for quiet some time . .

That's why they do those checkboard patterns for solar, so the sun as it moves throughout the day, hits all the soil, but all of it less. So at least the lack of sunlight is spread out rather than conceptrated in one super cool area.

The concentration of sunlight no longer hitting these areas was the concern I thought. I saw a TV news spot about a goat renter. He would rent out his goats to solar farms to eat the grass and weeds that were able to grow in the area.

While I can see what is being stated, we were discussing the lack of solar radiation that is being captured by the ground in these areas as the cause for concern.

Using a checkerboard design sounds like its just a means of keeping the area looking nice, rather than a dead plot of land.

LOL - have you never seen grass grow under trees? There are many types of grasses that thrive in non direct light.

Uh. . sure I guess. But the conversation is about trying to keep any given biome as natural as it can be. Bringing in a grass that may not be a part of the area could have other side effects that we aren't aware of.

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch @scottalanmiller

Lots of people born on the 25th. I am 27 today.

You're so young....

Congratulations!

@IRJ said:

Good numbers for day one of my new site

Social Media Marketing can do wonders.

Yet you forget to name drop your site in a link....

Comcast rejected by small town - residents vote for municipal fiber instead.

@Minion-Queen yeah I'm trying to get motivated too, I wanna head home. Not feeling like doing any work today.

This just in IRJ found with head in tank, asking fish for permission.

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Lenovo takes on Microsoft’s Surface Studio with its own tilting all-in-one

Lenovo even has its own dial.

Lenovo's Yoga A940 copies the central Surface Studio concept: it's an all-in-one PC with a large touchscreen mounted on a hinge so that it can be laid relatively flat (an angle of 25 degrees). Lenovo's display isn't as eye-catching as Microsoft's: it's a 27-inch display with a conventional 16:9 aspect ratio and either a 2560×1440 or 3840×2160 resolution. It supports stylus input from an active stylus using Wacom's AES technology. Lenovo even has its own riff on Microsoft's Surface Dial peripheral; on the left-hand side of the screen is a rotary control named the "Precision Dial," which can control features of various Adobe applications. At the top of the display is a 1080p webcam with an infrared camera for Windows Hello facial recognition.

Except Lenovo is on the No-Fly, Never Buy, Pound Sand lists. . .

I think the issue that @scottalanmiller has is that he's using it in parts of the world not as well documented as streets in America / UK

@travisdh1 said:

8GB drives never give you 8GB of capacity tho.... this has bit me a time or two myself.

Yeah it's only 7.2 GB usable in reality (I had mentioned it above)

Oh well, back to Staples these go.