@scottalanmiller said in MS SQL Server 2016 on Windows Server 2019?:
Trying to find this info while on a call. Will SQL Server 2016 happily live on Server 2019? Have an app that won't let us update the database, but I'd prefer to keep at least the OS up to date.
Yes. SQL really doesn't give a shit except for a few select versions where it needs specific capabilities of the OS like VSS.
@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Someone who likes cigars please explain something to me. Why would someone spend $1500 on 1 single cigar?
Background: I have a Social Media client that is a high-end cigar shop (I do all their social media stuff for them). I don't get cigars... let alone the cost for some of these.
I need to be able to market these things but can't find good ways to describe them for ads.
Cigars are a wonderful vice for me, though I do not smoke more than 1 a month (usually less). I enjoy them when I can. Think of having a cigar as adding another row of violins to an orchestra when you're sitting in your back yard, working on your motorcycle, or doing anything else you enjoy, complementing the rest of the orchestra that you're already listening to.
Personally, I do not spend anything on cigars any more; I have too many (more than 300 in my humidor). There's enough to last me the rest of my life, most likely. Expensive cigars are in my humidor, just like the cheap ones, and they're all different, just like comparing an expensive whiskey with a cheap one. Sure, I'll probably reach for my favorite Nub Maduro cigar every time, but if I've got friends over or someone who really enjoys cigars, I may get out the rarer Oliva V Torpedoes that have a couple years of age on them. Maybe I'm celebrating a new job and want to go with a cigar that's not supposed to be in my humidor - a Cuban Cohiba or Montecristo. In any case, the choice of what you're smoking and when is all very personal and may be as simple as something you really, really like and can enjoy any time.
Is there a way to get the files in use and/or processes attached for a specific datastore? I need to reformat it but cannot unmount or otherwise delete this datastore due to "file system is busy" errors.
@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I've found that up to a certain point the more expensive the cigar the "smoother" the flavor. Cheap cigars generally have a bit of a bite to them that you don't get with the more expensive variety.
Good to know.... So hard for me to learn to describe something when I am NOT testing it out
Corojos can be like that. It's like licking a pepper jar. The real problem with cheap cigars is that you never know what's inside until you open it up. I saw a youtube where a guy takes apart any cigar sent to him an shows what's inside. The cheapest ones are always horrible, and some of them had laundry lint (like from your dryer) as a filler.
Cigars are only 3 pieces: filler, binder and wrapper. The filler is the main part of the cigar, the interior. It's usually a blend of tobacco and that blend, along with the wrapper, is what really gives a flavor, smoke and feel to the cigar. Long, whole leaves of tobacco will burn best in the filler, and the tighter it's packed, the better, and longer that you'll get to your smoke. The binder is usually very neutral and lends almost nothing to a cigar except for structure. The wrapper is critical and lots of people say it's the most important part, though I think it's about equal with the filler.
The tobacco is important, obviously. Unlike cigarettes, cigars aren't processed with a bunch of chemicals. The best cigars have no chemicals added. This is why it's important to have a good humidor and store your cigars in a safe, sunlight-restricted area. I use a Contico ABS locker (https://www.amazon.com/CONTICO-1320-Storage-Locker-Mobile/dp/B0078S8TD2) which I've sealed up and installed an electric humidifier to keep everything consistent. Tobaccos used for cigars are fermented or aged (it's all very proprietary to the manufacturers) before being rolled, and once they're made to be a cigar, they often have to rest or age further. Some manufacturers will age the cigars for a month before shipping to resellers while others will hold them for a year, so it's very similar to whiskey. I think all of the cigars I have are at least 5 years old just in my humidor, without adding their manufacturer's age.
A quality cigar will have tightly packed, long leaf filler and nothing else. Cheap ones could have anything from the tobacco that fell to the floor during production of the good cigars, a practice that's often done in cigarettes, to rat droppings or worse. Cuban cigars in today's market is really no worse or better than a Dominican or Nicaraguan cigar. In fact, some of the cigars from the DR are better! Often, the Cuban cigars are counterfeit anyway, and it really pays to always buy your cigars from a reputable source so that you don't get the counterfeit ones with rat shit.
@Dashrender said in Issues uninstalling Windows Server 2012 R2 Key:
Try running a chkdsk on the system drive, who knows, there might be some corruption.
You mean sfc /scannow? Or DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth?
@op Check your event logs for more information, and try running the commands above.
@Eltolargo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey I am from DR so I can attest cigars in my country are good!
If I PM you an address, you can send me proof of your claim!
@dafyre said in Powershell countdown on servers?:
@Grey said in Powershell countdown on servers?:
@dafyre said in Powershell countdown on servers?:
Are you doing this so you can have a progress bar or what?
Positive feedback on a script that's iterating actions on a group of servers, so... kind of a progress bar.
if ($newquantity -eq 0) { write-host "We're done, everybody go home!" }
Oh, fun! I hadn't considered the end. I'm more of a Tron guy so ... End of Line.
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Man, I hate it when our staff in Hyderabad feels the need to call me. They can write english quite well, but speaking it tends to give them (and me) some trouble. Not sure why a simple email wouldn't suffice.
I'm sure you can do the needful!
@ilyas said in Reset 120 Day Grace Period for Windows RDS Server with PowerShell:
Hi, Thanks for wonderful script that save my time.
Could You please guide me how we can run this script on multiple servers?I tried foreach PowerShell method but it does not work.
From the ISE, load the script and then enter-pssession for each system. Once connected, run the script from the ise. Sorted.
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
IT Specialist/Generalist
What does this even mean? An IT person who specializes in generals?
Nope. An IT General of Specialists.
Although I've written a script to get-compliance on all my guests, is there a command to push the 'check status' button for me on all my guests, or maybe a better way than going folder by folder? I've noticed that, in v7, there's a disparity between the two; a system can be updated but not confirmed as being in compliance until the 'check' has been run.
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@momurda said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 You should try CitiKitty. No more litter.
Really hard to train an adult cat to do that. A young cat definitely.
According to my mom, my dad did this with his cat in the 60's, though he didn't use anything so fancy as what was linked. I guess it was just positive reinforcement and patience (something never seen from my perspective where he was involved).
@brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:
@Grey I have 2 - R410s and 1 - R510 but they are getting a little dated and I'm wanting something newer and more efficient. They pump out a lot of heat too. Just can't decide on what I want to replace them with.
I jumped from a 2950 to the r710. Big jump. @xByteSean or one of his buddies helped me out.
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Tim_G said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Is Robert5205 being serious?
Wow. Just refreshed the page.
Yeah, advice fail right there
I mean I get his point, but I don't agree. It's "you don't know how to do your job to a minimum level of competence, so let's just gloss over that and give bad advice since it's too hard to treat you like a professional." If I gave that same advice people would be all over me for being condescending and thinking that the OP was too "dumb" to do his job. But other people treat him like a child and it's considered normal.
You should leave spiceworks' community for a week. Don't log in there, do do anything relating to it, and see what happens.
@brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:
@Pete-S I turned off the R410s and 510 last year. I'm currently running a newer "entry-level" server as my VM host. It has a low-end Xeon and maxes out at 32G of RAM. I have been shopping around for a while for a more robust host but can't decide on anything.
I don't believe I will need hardware transcoding for Plex.
You will need some transcoding, no matter what, so plan for it, and if you want to share your libraries, you'll need more cpu/gcpu.
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Do they alias certain commands in linux because its easier than actually changing them?
type lsshows thatlsis actually'ls --color=tty'as an example
You can save a config file (e.g. .tcshrc) to a network location and then import that to your home directory whenever you log in to a new location if you want to have the same aliases everywhere.
@marcinozga said in NAS for Plex use... Again:
@Pete-S said in NAS for Plex use... Again:
@marcinozga said in NAS for Plex use... Again:
@Grey said in NAS for Plex use... Again:
@marcinozga said in NAS for Plex use... Again:
@Pete-S said in NAS for Plex use... Again:
@marcinozga said in NAS for Plex use... Again:
It really depends how much storage and CPU you need. If you need lots of storage, nothing beats unlimited, and I think only G Suite Business is viable option. I know lots of people host Plex with Hertzner, Vultr is probably attractive option too.
I had a look and it looks like you need 5 minimum users on G Suit Business to get unlimited TBs. If it's $12 per month then that becomes $60 per month. Under a five year period that's $3600.
Not saying it's the same thing but for the exact same money you can buy 9 x 16TB enterprise drives with 5 year warranty. That's about 100 TB of actual storage.
Using Drive makes sense in your case but if someone only needs say 10-15 TB, I'm not sure it does. And 10 TB may not sound like a lot but if we are talking about H.264 video it's more than 3000 movies/5000 episodes. Even if you binge watch 5 hours a day, every day, it will take about 3 years to get through it.
Google doesn't enforce that limit, and one of their engineers confirmed that, I just can't find the source. I'm paying $12/mo for 1 user and I'm using close to 100TB. My 5 year cost is $720, good luck finding drives for that price.
Average 1080p movie is about 25GB.
Ehhhh... No. Average 1080p is about 3gb. It really depends on the bitrate used when you encode the ripped data. I have 2 1080p movies and one is 18564 kbps bitrate while the other is 2634 kbps. The second one is 2:40 long and just under 3gb, but the other one is 1:30 and just shy of 16gb. You really have to pay attention to more than just the resolution. Audio can change things a lot, too.
That's on the low end, usually ripped from Netfilx, iTunes or some other web source. And most likely with AC3 audio. If you want good quality rip, 25GB is actually conservative estimate, I have some files over 65GB.
Ah, you're a videophile.
Good to know that they don't enforce the file limit. As long as they don't, you have a good thing going. Google is loosing money on you for sure. But who knows how long that will last?
The only thing I'm wondering is how you watch your movies? If a movie is 25GB and say 90 minutes for simplicity, then that's about 50 Mbps average transfer rate. That's about 10 times more than Netflix at their highest 1080p quality. Do you get that from google drive consistently?
I don't think Google cares too much, there are hundreds, maybe thousands of users like me. And if we all upload the same file, which is quite likely if you get them from torrents or usenet, it gets deduplicated, so Google hardly even notices it. I wouldn't be surprised if my actual usage was 0.
I have symmetric 1Gbit Fios, so I never have any issues with streaming. And some stream 4k videos, I've heard about 90GB 3D 4k files, encrypted, streaming smoothly, without any hiccups. I think both Plexdrive and Rclone have decent buffering logic built in.
Plex will test your network connection and transcode to whatever you have. One of the reasons I had to upgrade from the 2950, aside from all the other reasons, was this transcoding process that uses cpu. The 2950 just couldn't keep up. My first 4k movie (Dark Crystal) was impossible to watch. After my recent storage upgrade, it's smoothly delivered with transcoding, if needed. As the line is tested, it also buffers the video to prevent stutters. I've done server updates with no interruption because the buffered video is longer than the plex delay caused by the software update.
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Tim_G said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Is Robert5205 being serious?
Wow. Just refreshed the page.
Yeah, advice fail right there
You should leave spiceworks' community for a week. Don't log in there, do do anything relating to it, and see what happens.
I dont know how to do that.
Alter your DNS to point community.spiceworks.com to 127.0.0.1.
if @scottalanmiller looped back to himself i don't think he'd make it
Most of the community is already looped to SAM and I realized, after posting, that having the community set to SAM's localhost would be no change.
@brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:
My idea is:
Option 1:
Set up a new raid10 volume on my host with my spare drive bays.
Install a new VM (Fedora 32 server) with 16 Tb of storage and Plex on that same VM.
This way, the data never leaves the host and has maximum efficiency.
OROption 2:
Set up a new raid10 volume on my host with my spare drive bays.
Install a new VM (Fedora 32 server) as a "NAS" with NFS shares for content.
Point existing Plex Vm at the new NAS.
Data would traverse network between 2 hosts unless Plex was migrated to other host.
I have option 2, but CentOS 7 and only one host with all my guests.
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
RAID 5 array is degraded. I'm hoping nothing else happens between now midnight.
Deprecated too
