Is there an ETA on a release of intended training topics / sketch of agenda? I'd like to make a pitch to management to try to offset the costs, and being able to relate specific topics to job function would be helpful.

Flight booked.

Ticket purchased and hotel booked. Next is the flight search

Looking into flights and such. What time on Wednesday does everything begin?

Newb question: The hotel that is offering the block rate is the same hotel where the conference / sessions are located, Correct?

Just finished cabling and identifying "new" patch panel in my office / room (which is the old patch panel but now put into a more user-friendly position).

Killing two hours until my next saxophone student. Forgot to bring my laptop

@NerdyDad said in SELinux with KVM?:

Would you deploy ClamAV on the host of KVM?
Would you deploy SELinux on the host of KVM?

What little I've learned of SELinux, I thought it was something baked into CentOS. At least it seems to be for me.

@dafyre for the person responsible, yes, this is an improvement.

My tolerance for stupid / lazy has now been depleted for the day.

@scottalanmiller Heh. Last 48 hours have made me consider honing some skills and finding a gig in a Linux shop.

So user shipped an "malfunctioning" Altigen IP phone back to me. Box included two power adapters (one connected to the phone), neither of which were the ones I provided with the phone. >(

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I imagine in the Linux world backing up and restoring scheduled tasks would look something like this:

1. Make a copy of the files related to cron (like crontab)
2. [something happenes to your scheduled tasks]
3. Replace damaged files related to cron with your copies.

Am I right? Is it truly that simple?

At least with Windows Server, I've found that copying the contents of c:\windows\system32\tasks then transplanting the contents into the same folder for a test server, doesn't cut it. As I'll need to go through an import setp to get stuff setup in the Task Scheduler.

Yes, it's really that simple.

/sigh I laugh a bit about how I'd have far less head-against-the-wall beatings if we were a Linux shop.

I imagine in the Linux world backing up and restoring scheduled tasks would look something like this:

1. Make a copy of the files related to cron (like crontab)
2. [something happenes to your scheduled tasks]
3. Replace damaged files related to cron with your copies.

Am I right? Is it truly that simple?

At least with Windows Server, I've found that copying the contents of c:\windows\system32\tasks then transplanting the contents into the same folder for a test server, doesn't cut it. As I'll need to go through an import setp to get stuff setup in the Task Scheduler.

Chatting with Barracuda support.

@Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Even though I moved the data to local storage, for giggles, I put a new drive into my Synology just to see if it would rebuild the RAID 5 successfully. After 10 hours, it seems to have completed without a problem. Methinks though, my next RAID 5 rebuild will not be so lucky.

Well, you have no load on it. They are just spinning to spin, the risk kinda went out the window.

True. Curious to know that without a load it took 10 hours. I had no frame of reference for the amount of time it would need. I still think moving to local storage was the right decision. End result is less points of failure and better performance rather than rebuilding the RAID 5 while the Synology was in production and relying on hope.

Even though I moved the data to local storage, for giggles, I put a new drive into my Synology just to see if it would rebuild the RAID 5 successfully. After 10 hours, it seems to have completed without a problem. Methinks though, my next RAID 5 rebuild will not be so lucky.

@Tim_G I like the Nigerian prince comment.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller It's something I've wanted to bring up for a while.

Specifically I have a user with something that Windows Defender apparently cannot remove. Since I don't have any other removal tools to try (and this person is in another state, so nuke and start over isn't an option right now), I'm having to go through process monitor to try to see what's writing to the directory that Windows Defender doesn't like in order to try to figure out what the offending program is -- and try to remove it.

Install the trial version of MBAM and see if it can get rid of it?

That's my last resort. I don't like the idea of (assuming the EULA of the trial prohibits use for production work) using a trial as a free one-off tool, as this problem will occur again and with other users.

Good point. Guess I should read the EULA next time I need it, lol. What bug is it that Windows Defender won't get rid of?

From what I'm seeing it looks like some Chromium-like thing, going through the process monitor now.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller It's something I've wanted to bring up for a while.

Specifically I have a user with something that Windows Defender apparently cannot remove. Since I don't have any other removal tools to try (and this person is in another state, so nuke and start over isn't an option right now), I'm having to go through process monitor to try to see what's writing to the directory that Windows Defender doesn't like in order to try to figure out what the offending program is -- and try to remove it.

Install the trial version of MBAM and see if it can get rid of it?

That's my last resort. I don't like the idea of (assuming the EULA of the trial prohibits use for production work) using a trial as a free one-off tool, as this problem will occur again and with other users.