@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Power outage in our Downtown just now, i was on site replacing a kitchen printer...

Then we had a site literally freak out on us because they lost power and our system wasnt coming back up...
Is it Friday yet?

Kitchen Printer?

I'll take a Rib Eye Steak, Medium Rare, Loaded Baked Potato, no sour cream, steamed broccoli, and a cold beer.

Not been to one, not likely to ever go either...

Managed to survive Field Day 2018 - barely. That's the thing about trying to push through things and stay awake for nearly 35 hours (or so). Tremendous headache and fatigue setup and it's only now clearing.

CW (Morse Code) once again rules the event (so I understand) as does phone (voice) contacts... Digital was a down right depressing disappointment.

Ah well - that is the great thing about doing event / contests like this. you find how well your gear works - or what doesn't. But damn,.. that Smoke Boston Butt BBQ was good - club member smoked about 30#,.. not sure any was left.

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Nothing like getting to the office on Monday morning and finding out that the server room a/c went tits up over the weekend...

Also why don't you have a WatchDog (or even a raspberry pi) to monitor the temp and send your email alerts? The watchdog units work really well and are damn cheap.

That has been on my list of things to get for a while.

http://www.itwatchdogs.com/temperature-humidity-climate-monitor-watchdog-15-p71

$203 list price, I'm sure Amazon or whoever can get it for even less. I think @xByteSean sells it for less.

wow... wonder if something like the rPiZ would work just as good as the ITWatchdog - .. Hmm

I just can't see it. A rpi will just never be as reliable as purpose made equipment. And cost wise, even if you're using someone else's code, the amount of time to configure things will be 10x longer than a Watchguard. I highly recommend setting up a rpi for environmental monitoring as a learning experience, but it's not a thing a company should be paying for.

I suppose I can see and understand that. But it also seems like such a shame.

havea good flight, and safe run.

Figured I do this:

TOP:

• RDP to Fedora system in the other room

BL:

• ML, EMail, Tickets, SC

BR:

• PS, Putty to Fedora in the other room (2x)

Edit to Add:

It's @scottalanmiller Fault

@scottalanmiller said in Gold Coast Marathon 2018:

@joy said in Gold Coast Marathon 2018:

@gjacobse said in Gold Coast Marathon 2018:

havea good flight, and safe run.

Thank you, it was pretty good flight

Where are our pictures!

Likely still in HER camera...

Family is heading out for vacation in the morning. So it's prep work to get them set in going.

• rPi3 running KODI updated and new movies added to the USB drive. AP mode enabled so they can just use the KODI app on their iPAD to control it.
• Plenty around the house to do, and might try to spend some time on the radio - it'll be near 94degF the next several days.
• Mow
• stuffs..
• work on some NTG stuff likely
  ETA
• Looking at what needs to be done to stream the movies on the NAS to the xBox - Seems that it's easy,.. so enabled DLNA and will try that while they are gone. Plenty of movies to watch...

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Anyone seen this?

https://grow.google/programs/it-support/

IT support is a dynamic, fast-growing field which is projected to grow 11% between 2016 and 2026 — faster than the average of all other occupations. And the median salary is $52,000 according to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics.

What a load of political promises...

@joy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I've installed Skype in Fedora but every time I launch it, it would sign out my login. arrgghhh

Curious.. I don't seem to have that issue. Will have to look - tomorrow.. been a good long day - turning in

Happy Independence Day 2018 -

Doing a little HF work by trying to see what I can reach in the 13 Colonies

@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Apparently it's rather warm in the Northern Hemisphere.
There's been reported deaths in Canada because of it. Hope @MattSpeller is ok.

heard briefly from him last night... Seems to be getting along fine - of course I think he's about to take yet another vacation... the slacker.

Oh ,..

Fixing to smoke 10# of cheese to take to Va tomorrow

watched a 'decent' number of movies and shows this week with the family in Florida...

Tau, Red Sparrow, Dark Tower and Kiss Me First are a few...

Now to not watch the smoker as it infuses goodness unto some blocks of cheese

can't sleep... so working and closing Tickets.. sigh...

My vacation is done.. Was out Sunday - Wednesday to visit family and address some property matters. That done,.. it's back to work

Sunday I have a Router upgrade to perform. that will be interesting.

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@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse My best advice for Win10 is to get you some imaging software and make your own image where things are the way you want it. Getting rid of all the apps and stuff you don't want at the start is critical. It will take a while but when you deploy it you will know what to expect. Win10 is a pain but thats the best way around it I know of.

I fully agree with you @jmoore - what really irks me is that the system was working fine (nothing is perfect) last week before I made the decision to work from Fedora the remaining part of the week.

I went back to Win10, and it was borked. It's a Dual boot system on a 120 SSD, on a system that isn't 100% reliable as it will randomly reboot.

There are days I would like to take it out back and put a block of thermite in it, and let it go.. But - it's been otherwise decent.

The issue right now is that the Video drivers are toast - It's an ASUS A88xm-e - be even with downloading the drives again, doesn't work.

sigh.. oh well.

Shitty hardware will cause issues no matter what. . . so complaining about it is rather pointless.

Will this help??

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@wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jaredbusch 94 is still not a good temp to be without AC.

Have home warranty, so the service call only costs me $75. But if it needs Freon, that will cost me. that part is not covered.

yea,.. I'm still looking at about a $800 repair on ours to replace a leaky service value... and we JUST replace the whole system two years ago.

@momurda said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Whoever thinks usb thumb drives for os a good idea, it is not, especially for important things. Had one of these fail today in a storage server. Replaced it with a spare hdd i had. Lost no data but had to recreate iscsi target, and the affected vms i had to reattach the new disks to existing vms from new SR, then go through pain of md resync. All good now though.
Never understood why this is so popular, thumb drives in my experience have never ever lasted five years of expected server life.
If i had been around when this server was purchased id have gone without usb thumb drive.

In some cases they have their place. everything has a failure point... some less than others. That old addage - MTBF - Mean Time Between Failure - It's really never about if it will fail,.. but when.

I'm not a fan of servers running the OS on thumb drives,.. but the use cases I have I don't see issue with. Installers, tools to save the os or files, Multi-booting just to experiment with different things.

But - running full on systems from them - can be a tad concerning. I know people do just that. and I guess they are cheap - so why not.

Some days I'm like

Getting the day started.