Snipe-IT 5.0.0-Beta-1.1 is out with a lot of changes and improvements.

@mlnews said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

It was 6,000 people marching here tonight!

Apparently @mlnews is in Macedonia with @scottalanmiller !

"You walked into a deli and told the clerk you want meat, you completely left out everything that is relavent to the conversation, like what kind of meat, and how much of it."

This is in reference to asking for help on a powershell query to find Computers names in a Windows Domain.

Me, today 1-5-16

Yeah Tom's Hardware people are just endorsing theft of software from Microsoft. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you're allowed too.

We've discussed this same thing here on ML. Like with IT Administrators who want to setup 3 Installations of Windows Server X using their Standard license.

You're allowed 2 installations, and that is all. Either 1 to the bare metal and 1 VM on the same hardware. Or 2 installations as VMs on the same hardware.

This is nothing different besides the fact that they're stating the licensing "doesn't apply because we haven't been stopped for all of this time".

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

SMH: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1592377-cloud

This topic is just annoying.

Well with the guide I followed, it was setup, but was lacking the exports. Which after adding them (and exporting them, key point "exportfs -a" and then restarting nfs did it work.

I'm backing up one of my VMs now to this unit.

I really do kind of miss Clippy and his useless, but continual nagging. . .

It would be great to have clippy attached to an AI. So when you're working in word or whatever program it realizes you screwed up and says "Hey Dumbass. . ."

Zodiac

For anyone still drinking coffee and trying to understand that...

The plan is for the servers to be in a Xenpool for if we need to perform maintenance or whatever the issue is.

Likely we'll use HALizard and get that configured for failover, purposes that is still to be decided / tested. As my manager would say "we can't ever have down time..." well obviously some down time has to be acceptable, there is no such thing as 100% uptime.

So to reduce it as much as possible would be the goal 1 hour of downtime.

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/04/microsoft-edge-may-come-to-linux-eventually-just-not-right-now

And who would use it?

@MattSpeller there is some user on SW who claims to have 65 years of IT experience. A moderator was calling them out for it..

It was pretty funny.

So in an offline conversation the question was asked "how do I monitor disk performance of my xenservers?" I had to reply that I don't, I simply haven't been able to get to looking into a good reliable way of doing this.

Xen Orchestra has the functionality for this, and so does Xen Center. In Xen Center this is under "performance" on your Xen Host, actions, new graph.

Select your Local Storage on <HOST> Write IOPS and Local Storage on <HOST> Write Throughput. Below is a screen shot of the Write IOPS and Throughput.

Hopefully this answers anyone else's question.

@dafyre while I would agree, waiting or choosing another phone entirely is best, as the article states, this is purely "early adopter" territory.

Avoid anything that bends for at least a year or two

Or more accurately when Apple is ready to release then consider the players.

I'd say he's more of a Trumplican than anything.

He's doing it for his own interest, I wonder if we'd impeach him after his first year...

So after running a script to make some changes to a VM running on my Production Hypervisor for about 48 hours. I have this VM configured in Xen Orchestra to be Delta'd every 4 hours for simple testing purposes. (Plus it gives me many points to test with). I also have this Delta Depth set to 8 (delta's to keep)

In this picture note the target VM UUID

In this picture you can see I have two VM's with the same name, the powered off VM is the original which the Delta's were built from

Here you can note the UUID of the original VM (it matches what XO has, also note I'm selecting the Powered Off VM)

Here is the Restored Delta VM, note the uptime and the UUID.

So this means when the 9th delta is performed it will delete the first Delta.

Anyways here are some screenshots of the VM (and the files I scripted for generation on a folder on the desktop)

Here is a screenshot of the restored Delta to the 6th of the month (when I started the Delta Backup)

So comparing the last two pictures you can see that the restore went as expected. I'll try a more current Delta for a restore and see what happens.

@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews oh, the joys of typing play/pause/stop etc into a command line! I'll keep my GUI driven media players and their buttons, thanks.

Hey if you have a music server sitting remotely playing music throughout the space it may be nice to just open a terminal and hit "pause"

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@NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

just cleared out one of our storerooms...apparently it's going to be redone and will be our new office...

Don't feel bad, my office is the shipping dock.

hah at least you get fresh air...the room is about 2-2.5 metres wide, and about 6-7 metres long...3 of us will be in it with 3 main desks, 2 build desks and full shelves along one of the walls...cost to say the least! Hopefully they'll have a ventilation system :')

Yeah it'll be a rectal vent, it's gonna smell great in there...

XenServer - Because of the amazing functions of the open source community, combined with the amazing tools offered for free, such as Xen Orchestra and HALizard (of course not forgetting about Xen its self)

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

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@Danp said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Antergos Linux shuts down

https://betanews.com/2019/05/22/antergos-linux-dead/

When I wanted to try Arch Linux, I always ended up using Manjaro instead of Antergos.

Sodium used both for testing. But yes, Manjaro was the more popular. And honestly, the whole Arch system seems like a big cluster.

Is sodium still a thing?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

We've had kids from around town at the house for like seven hours now. No idea why no one had school or needed to go home today.

Better check for your wallet. Lol