Doing some testing with virt-install.

Looking at how the Fedora project deploys VMs with Ansible.

@dashrender said in GPO's for System Hardening:

Don't have any printers on this network BTW

What weird place do you work? I want to work there!

This. 100% this :P.

@eleceng

You may want to consider controlling the membership of the local administrators group through GPO.

@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Turned down a job offer with a finance company. Better pay and benefits but I just did not feel excited for the position. Couldn't bring my self to sign the employment contract.

There’s more to life than chasing the almighty dollar.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Looking forward to the end of the week tomorrow. Been busy, but as of now all reservations and such for February wedding are set :D.

(whispered voice) don't do it.

Awesome - Congrats to you both.

Ha! Thanks

Looking forward to the end of the week tomorrow. Been busy, but as of now all reservations and such for February wedding are set :D.

Working on a video, then home lab task.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

For the love of God, I’m watching football?

Never been a better time to start watching the Georgia Bulldogs

Here's to a quick work day, so I can get back to tinkering in the home lab.

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Wondering, we're about to by a SSL certificate from... well someome like 123reg. For an internal appliance (Clear pass)
Is it worth using it and installing on internal servers like Esxi/venter, zabbix, Unifi, etc etc even if they don't get accessed from the outside world?

I don't know what Clear pass is, so my initial question would be why is it special and gets a cert from a public CA. To answer your specific question, I'd say if you're paying for the cert (assuming this is a wildcard cert), get some mileage out of it and use it where you can.

@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I just put long pants on for the first time since March (just a guess). After 2 days of rain, the wind came and pushed away the clouds and now it's friggin downright chilly! Well, 63F feels chilly after 90+ degree days for 5 months.

Oh, what a lovely morning! 53F when I walked outside, but you can't fool me, Georgia weather... I brought shorts to deal with the 25+ degree temperature change.

Even though it won't last, I'll take the this morning's breath of crisp air

@krzykat said in Vultr will finally start charging for Snapshot storage:

@eddiejennings I am going to be an odd person on this one, but I like the decision. There are often times I want an additional snapshot and can't because mine are maxed out. Now I can pay for an extra one and grab it. If I use more, than its my issue and I pay the cost. Completely get it.

I'm just trolling a bit. It's a completely reasonable decision.

@jaredbusch said in Vultr will finally start charging for Snapshot storage:

Vultr will begin charging for snapshot storage on October 1

Why is Vultr making this change?
Vultr now has hundreds of thousands of customers, with millions of cloud instances deployed. Because snapshot storage was previously free, users tended to leave old snapshots in their accounts indefinitely (we get it - we would too if it was free!).

Unfortunately, these snapshots take up real disk space, which is expensive to provide. With more new users every day, and 18 locations around the world, it is no longer possible to provide free storage for the rapidly-growing number of old and unused snapshots.

I cannot blame them for this one. I know I go months before I clean up old snapshots.

Boo! But yeah. Reasonable decision.

Working on a Fedora ticket.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Audio editing

Sound check,….

Less glamorous than it sounds. I'm going through the audio of a video and removing strange speaking and breathing sounds that you never notice in live conversation, but are super noticeable when recorded with a microphone.

Audio editing

@phlipelder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@eddiejennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Small victories in life are often the sweetest! As of about 10 AM today, I paid off my car loan. The taste of freedom being being debt-free is so nice.

Both our vehicles were paid off this summer. We've been eyeing the idea of purchasing a 3500 series diesel for a 5th wheel trailer.

But I ain't gonna pay $85K+ for a truck.

The used vehicle market up here is nuts right now. Any truck for sale doesn't get below 70% of retail unless it's a wreck.

And yes, it is a good feeling.

We're putting the extra cash flow into fun things with the fam.

My next goal is building some general savings. I'm putting a good bit away for retirement, but I need to increase my more liquid savings that's easily accessible in case of hardship.

Small victories in life are often the sweetest! As of about 10 AM today, I paid off my car loan. The taste of freedom being being debt-free is so nice.

@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

($anActualBooleanValue -eq "True")

"True" is a string.

A boolean value would be $True or $False.

$anActualBooleanValue -eq $True

Technically, you can do if ($anActualBooleanValue) {}

Yep. Hence my critique, and my surprise that the comparison to a string seemed to work. Needless to say those instances will be fixed.