Well - Sad to say, but I am turning in my resignation tomorrow. As I have done for each employer, I will be giving the customary two week notice.

There are no BAD JOBS.
There are;

• gross jobs;
• difficult jobs;
• unpopular jobs;
• labor intensive jobs;
• boring jobs.

I am not leaving a BAD Job. I am leaving a difficult supervisor.

I started in IT in 1989, having already spent three or so years working with computers, so at this stage I have learned a thing or two... And when you offer experience on a matter you have first hand knowledge about - and they 'laugh at your offerings' it's just not the place for you... or at least me.

In the past when I offered options on how to address an issue or assistance it's been welcomed. But in this case it wasn't just discarded, it was laughed at. I'm sorry - I can get past a few things about a personality conflict - but to have my knowledge laughed at is more than I'm going to tolerate.

So, after starting in August - I now look towards the future. I am already looking a start date as a contractor with a company to support a State Agency - performing desktop and server support. It is a twelve month on-going assignment and will provide with most of what I have now.... there are some cuts,.. but that is just life.

But in addition to this, I may be providing direct support for another company a good friend of my is getting ready to start working for. He and I have already spent a number of hours on the phone and text going over things this new office will likely need. Things that he hasn't had direct exposure to. And he is very open and welcoming to the knowledge I have in areas he hasn't worked with.

Like some of the things I"ve picked up here;

• freePBX;
• NextCloud;
• Server 2019;
• VMs on Linux;
• UBNT Wireless;
• DNS;
• Email (Zoho or O365)

So, for now - I breath a little more quickly as this is an exciting opportunity for me to learn more, and showcase what I have learned.

Shout outs of course go to a of people here on ML;

• @scottalanmiller
• @JaredBusch
• @DustinB3403
• @CCWTech
• @IRJ
• @EddieJennings
• @Dashrender
• and so many many more....

Thank you - I feel that I have continued to learn from input from a number of people...

@scottalanmiller
@JaredBusch
@travisdh1
@DustinB3403

and a number of other people...

So - I express my thanks.

@thwr

What better way to get a loaner computer set up than to come here and update everyone.

It's not been easy,.. any parent will tell you that. But when you have two boys that have been under the knife in two weeks,... it's even more stressful

Finn had follow up foot surgery, so this wasn't as critical as what Ison is enduring. Finn only needed to have some tendon moved to allow more flexibility.

Ison - this is the big deal for us... never with any of my four boys have I been so scared and worried.

The doctors were in about 8am today and set about some goals for the day... Of which we had met two by 9am. Remove the cath, and move.

It isn't easy for him with all the abdomenal pain he has,.. I mean, his appendix was obliterated,.. they could not find it. There was 'little which they could do' with the swelling and most of his lower organs being 'glued' together. Had they gone poking and pushing to much, it was likely that they would have caused additional damage and risk.

For a six year old boy - he has been amazing. I know he is scared, in a lot of pain, and doesn't want to do ANYTHING that will cause him more pain. But he has been amazing. We have run into about everything that is expected thus far with this sort of thing. And we have met it head on. For the most part, he is exactly where he needs to be progress wise.

As any parent will tell you, I only wish I could trade places with him... not saying I would have any better go of it,.. cry or scream any less... I just don't want it to be him, or any child.

I have been so very blessed for the care we have received thus far, and with my co-workers. @Minion-Queen, @art_of_shred, @Mike-Davis, @Mike-Ralston, @jenuinecase, and @scottalanmiller have blessed me with an awesome work environment and support. And while I expect that I will be a little less available, I will be working from Ison's bed side over the coming days to support him as I have the two weeks he was at home with me prior to our trip to the hospital... We have the best guess that this started out as Strep - which was his third bout with it - and stressed his system in such a manner that we are where we are today.

I suppose is time to finish gathering things up to head back to the hospital. I returned home (first since 4pm Thursday) to retrieve the Loaner from @Minion-Queen (Surface for ease) and some other items needed for our stay... Which we hope (pray) that we will be home before Christmas...

Going into the U.S.A. Holiday of Thanksgiving, I am thankful for much... Thankful for NTG and it's staff, Family - both far and near, but most of all, I am thankful for the staff at UK Hospital who are caring for my son.

Well - I suppose it's time to fess up. A few might know this,.. but likely not many...

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It is with sadness and regret that as of 03 August 2018 I will no longer work full time for NTG.

I started 06 April 2015, and in this short time have worked with some great people and learn a good bit. I like to think of myself as previously thinking and working outside the proverbial box, and while I still believe that, I have come to do more outside of that box - things I previously would not have had the chance or the skills to do so.

While curious moving to Linux - I was against it,.. pushed by the 'Corporate World' and the main stream system. But now three of the four systems I run are Linux only, the fourth being dual boot with Windows - mainly to play one or two games. I work easier in SSH and via command line on both OS platforms than previously.

While my official time is coming to a close, I am still making an effort to continue to work with the NTG family; @scottalanmiller, @Dominica, @pchiodo, and the rest of the great staff.

Figured that the MOD needed to be photographed with the most Moderated.

Imagine of happy parent dancing - just NOT ME

Drain tube may get removed tomorrow.
We've walked to the door
We've rolled to the left side (drain tube side) TWICE while sleeping.
We've passed fluid like a race horse
NO FEVER
HEART RATE IS DOWN

And Most Bestest of ALL

Smile and a laugh at a TV show.

My Boy is the TRUE IRON MAN!!

Kentucky lawmaker wants telemarketers to list true caller ID

FRANKFORT, Ky. (WKYT) - One Kentucky lawmaker wants to make certain telemarketing practices, including disguising caller ID numbers, to become illegal.

House Majority Whip Kevin Bratcher, R - Louisville, has pre-filed a bill for the 2019 Legislative Session which would require telemarketers to list their true caller ID number or have it listed as unknown.

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This should be at the Federal level, and the fines higher...

Congrats to @DustinB3403 and the Other Jared ( @jyates )for receiving Raspberry Pi Starter kits from @StarWinds

2016-Sept-20 Edit: Added tag for @jyates.

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse Sounds like hospital food.

Well,.. since that is where I am... yea.. it is. It was decent.

How's your little guy?

@DustinB3403 said in BWAHAAHAHHAHA Im gonna download everything!:

I can hear the sucking sounds now;

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Seeing my check pending for tomorrow and internally crying.

Isn't that every paycheck (it is for me)

eh, for the most part. lol

Looked at my pay stub and my overtime from the last week of the pay period isn't on there..
Yay. no to investigate why that's not there.

Ouch! May you find all of it.

@jaredbusch said in Proxmox: Unable to parse lvm volume name:

@gjacobse said in Proxmox: Unable to parse lvm volume name:

@killmasta93 said in Proxmox: Unable to parse lvm volume name:

@gjacobse

why dont you just import it directly?

qm importdisk 100 DietPi_VMware-x86_64-Buster.vmdk zfs-vmdata

this case im running ZFS just change the zfs-vmdata to your lvm location

I will give that a look, and it follows what I received from Proxmox Staff. Interestingly enough, it was said that qcow2 isnt supported and I should use qm importdisk and references a WIKI page. Funny thing is, that's exactly the page I followed getting to my starting point.

I have no idea wtf you followed, but the article we have posted here, and that you linked...., is not what you did.

@JaredBusch I don't know why you have to be such an ass . I read this and I quote

Move the image to the Proxmox VE Server
Plug a USB Hard Drive into the server

From the Proxmox VE command line:

mkdir /mnt/usb
mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/usb/
ls /mnt/usb
You should see the contents of the USB drive. In my case, the vmdk file was located in /mnt/usb/windows-server/

Converting to qcow2
We want to convert the .vmdk image file to qcow2. To do this, use the following command:

qemu-img convert -f vmdk /mnt/usb/windows-server/windows-server.vmdk -O qcow2 /var/lib/vz/images/100/windows-server.qcow2
This can take a while depending on the size of file and speed of your system.

Final Steps
Once the conversion is complete, we need to edit the configuration file for the VM.

nano /etc/pve/local/qemu-server/100.conf
In the line with ide0: we want to change vm-100-disk-1.raw,size=32G to windows-server.qcow2

You may delete the empty disk created by Proxmox VE when you created the VM.

rm /var/lib/vz/images/100/vm-100-disk-1.raw
Start the VM and open the console. Windows should boot up normally. It’ll take a few minutes to detect the hardware changes. If the Windows system had a static IP address, you'll have to reconfigure the settings.

That is directly from the WIKI - Their Own WIKI - Did I follow the wrong section - maybe. But I will learn nothing from you responding in the manner you do. I have seriously long gotten to the point that I hate coming here to ask a question to learn something because of the CONTIUNUED BELITTLING and BERATING.

Your attitude is absolute shit when it comes to my asking and attempting to learn.

Now - if you want to constructively contribute, you can point a directly in a kind manner. This Forum is suppose to be Supportive. It's not a football game with losers and winners.

@killmasta93 said in Proxmox: Unable to parse lvm volume name:

@gjacobse

why dont you just import it directly?

qm importdisk 100 DietPi_VMware-x86_64-Buster.vmdk zfs-vmdata

this case im running ZFS just change the zfs-vmdata to your lvm location

I will give that a look, and it follows what I received from Proxmox Staff. Interestingly enough, it was said that qcow2 isnt supported and I should use qm importdisk and references a WIKI page. Funny thing is, that's exactly the page I followed getting to my starting point.

Been following the guidance of a previous thread here on how to import a .VMDK file into Proxmox as a .qcow2 file and have run into this error.

Import was successful, folder and file are correct - as near as I can tell.

mkdir /mnt/usb
mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/usb
mkdir 100

qemu-img convert -f vmdk /mnt/usb/DietPi_VMware-x86_64-Buster/DietPi_VMware-x86_64-Buster.vmdk -O qcow2 /var/lib/vz/images/100/DietPi_VMware.qcow2

nano /etc/pve/local/qemu-server/100.conf

boot: order=ide0;ide2;net0
cores: 1
ide0: local-lvm:DietPi_VMware.qcow2
ide2: cdrom,media=cdrom
memory: 1024
name: dPi-ubnt
net0: virtio=1A:E8:3D:C6:20:4D,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1
numa: 0
ostype: l26
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=d64891b9-9df2-4411-907a-69e632d0e2d9
sockets: 1
unused0: local-lvm:vm-100-disk-0
vmgenid: b85b3fb6-47aa-4bbb-8986-8b8d68b5ced8

qm rescan

Unrelated - looks like I can easily remove ide2:

this was less than helpful:
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/unable-to-parse-directory-volume-name.8068/

I have indeed read:
Import a qcow2 by SAM

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Installing and setting up ProxMox... Oh what could go wrong with this.

I just did this on my Dell Workstation/Server.
Just need to work out how to add two SSD and my RAID
But that's a Google job for tomorrow 😁

Sad state for my hardware - I only have my old old laptop with 4GB memory and 120GB SSD.

Of course, I'm only replacing the rPi3+ running pi-Hole and the UBNT controller. Neither of which need a gui.

Installing and setting up ProxMox... Oh what could go wrong with this.

Vacation Day Two:
Not much, tinkering with the rPiZero-W, Little this and that - generally avoiding looking at the work phone.

Uh-
Don’t?

What is the need for having the MacBook?

Oh the things to do... Why now set those aside, download Fedora and spin up an instance for KVM to replace the rPi3 running dietPi and the pi-Hole and UBNT controller.

Of course,.. might bypass dietPi and install direct. (shrugs)

Oh what could go wrong.

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I’m still sitting here at home, the day vacation. Not exactly sure what to do with one of those since I haven’t had one in such a long time.

I still have to respond to some emails, but that’s about it.

I took 8 of them and went to Disney!

Nope
To people-y…
I’ll enjoy the thunderstorm that rolled through.