@scottalanmiller said in How to monitor switch ports via The Dude Monitoring?:

@Grey said in How to monitor switch ports via The Dude Monitoring?:

OP wants to see what ports are going offline. My Ubiquiti system tells me that. It is a Software Defined Network (SDN). Do you see where I'm going with this? Did you look at the mp4 that I linked?

Ah, but it's that it is Ubiquiti, not SDN, that does that. It's that he would want a monitored system like Ubiquiti. ZeroTier is a more traditional SDN and would not in any way do what he wants. SDN is a red herring here. It's Ubiquiti itself that is what matters.

I suppose that's true. There are different levels of a software defined network and a ZeroTier or Silver Peak would be at a level that's too high to see ports, while a smaller Ubiquiti system definitely looks at ports. I think Meraki hardware & software shows the same thing, and I know they really defined the SDN space for site management. By definition, however, they're all SDNs. The days of using a command line to add a switch, define a vlan, or extend your footprint in to a new building are done, except for troubleshooting.

@Dashrender said in How to monitor switch ports via The Dude Monitoring?:

@Grey said in How to monitor switch ports via The Dude Monitoring?:

@AshKetchum said in How to monitor switch ports via The Dude Monitoring?:

How to monitor switch ports via The Dude Monitoring? I want to see which port goes offline like how i monitor the devices via "The Dude Monitoring". Is there other freeware that monitors multiple switch ports in real time?

Set your switch to use syslog and capture to Graylog, and you could also integrate prtg for fun. Ideally, you want a SDN, like Ubiquiti.
https://prd-www-cdn.ubnt.com/media/static/media/bg.e5ecc7ca.mp4
https://www.ui.com/

What does SDN have to do with this?

OP wants to see what ports are going offline. My Ubiquiti system tells me that. It is a Software Defined Network (SDN). Do you see where I'm going with this? Did you look at the mp4 that I linked?

@AshKetchum said in How to monitor switch ports via The Dude Monitoring?:

How to monitor switch ports via The Dude Monitoring? I want to see which port goes offline like how i monitor the devices via "The Dude Monitoring". Is there other freeware that monitors multiple switch ports in real time?

Set your switch to use syslog and capture to Graylog, and you could also integrate prtg for fun. Ideally, you want a SDN, like Ubiquiti.
https://prd-www-cdn.ubnt.com/media/static/media/bg.e5ecc7ca.mp4
https://www.ui.com/

My wife bought a case of black cherry Torani syrup and we've been adding it to our sodas. It's like getting a diner cherry coke.

@jmoore said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Grey Yeah I hear ya and don't disagree. They called me an essential worker too, I prefer to call it expendable.

I'm Grey, and thank you for attending my Ted Talk.

@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.

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

With all this COVID stuff going on, does anyone here know of a veterinarian that is out of work?

Why would this be a thing? pet owners aren't seeing their vets? Or the owner of the vet office has closed them?

Many vet offices closed to respect state orders, and are open now on a new social distance & mask requirement. Smart pet owners are only going to the vet for emergencies or special appointments, and many offices are limiting their lobby to one family at a time.

@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Grey said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Dashrender I hope no one in your family or circle gets sick or dies. Many people out there will not understand the severity of this issue until anyone near them is dead, and when you figure out that this is preventable, that leadership failed for months, that Dear Leader continues to shift blame and not assert any kind of direction, but your friend is still dead, imagine what you'll think then? Will you attend the funeral through Zoom or FaceTime?

We give people shit all the time for not knowing how to right click, read what the error message was before clicking ok, or shutting a PC off when it's doing updates and says not to do that. Right now, our doctors, the CDC, the WHO and everyone out there in a scientific job -- the SysAdmins for biology --, are telling us to stay home, to wear masks, to wash your hands, to not gather indoors, and people are doing it. They're probably the same people that can't right click. Listen to the SysAdmins.

I'm not looking for anyone to die either - at the same time - how long are you willing to lock down? If you're a person who works for a living at a restaurant/movie theater/amusement park and are basically now unemployed - what is your proposal?

I'm more or less OK with wearing masks for a while, I don't know about indefinitely.

As for attending a funeral - I've missed several already - I almost missed my own mothers (like that was ever going to happen in reality). But we did have a zoom funeral for my mother for those who couldn't attend.

You realize that when there was a stay-at-home order, the numbers peaked and then dropped. Now that everyone is tired of it, you want to get out and ignore it, like watching an episode of the apprentice where you're bored after 20 seconds.

Oh, Essential workers? During the stay at home orders, essential workers finally learned they were essential. If they really were all along, they needed things like healthcare, a living wage, and respect from the Karens of the world who just want to talk to managers. So, if they're essential, treat them as such. Put them on Tricare, medicare, or use the ACA to give them free, state-based healthcare. MAGAs will argue, "but that's socialism!" and so is the social security retirement program, which is now seen as an entitlement. It has social in the title, ffs. Further, if people were paid appropriately, then unemployment wouldn't be as impactful. Allowing people to get out of the "living paycheck to paycheck" rut grants them the opportunity to save and -- hold your shit here -- spend more, as well as buy houses, invest in their retirement, and --oh shit-- make the economy stronger. Plus, an unemployment insurance payout would be higher (OMG another social program).

What the fuck has this president done? Cut healthcare, create a trade war (increasing prices for consumers), institute and strengthen immigration concentration camps, ignore a pandemic, failed to lead, and on, and on. The 'me first' attitude, which you are also representing, is why this country is failing.

I'm sorry you've lost people. I really am. I apologize for the assumption that you were insulated. Many people are, and they exhibit the same attitudes.

Lockdown needs to go on, needs to be observed, and it needs enforcement until the infrastructure can support reopening. Right now, Texas is overwhelmed. How long until Florida is? What happens when people are shunted to other locations? Look at how Italy handled the virus and you'll see that it's entirely possible to survive with a stay-at-home order. More will die without it.

As to masks, here's a doctor. Don't listen to me!

https://twitter.com/marklewismd/status/1275953520248668160

Let me fucking close this non-starter of a discussion that I'm tired of reading about by saying: WEAR YOUR FUCKING MASK. It is literally making America an embarrassment to the world.

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Entire Texas Medical Center system, not just the flagship facility, is now beyond capacity.

No car accidents allowed. No births. No construction as there will be a slip/fall.

If you don't think that wearing a mask would've helped, or that science is "questionable," then I kindly invite you to STFU. The celebration of idiocy, the politicization of a virus, and the sheer refutation of facts by anyone who believes that 120,000+ dead people aren't real is more than rude, more than infuriating and just plain dangerous. It borders on holocaust denier, and I fucking hate those people.

There are families who are now just one or two people left. Imagine that your family reunion went from 150 people to 15, and you couldn't attend any of the funerals. You have to mourn alone. Covid doesn't fucking care if you wear a red hat, a blue hat, pray to an invisible being in the sky, or worship a spaghetti monster. It's a fucking virus. It will not only do what it does, which is pretty fucking bad, but it'll find other shit to trigger and help it kill you. Got diabetes? Got leukemia? Asthma? Heart condition? Smoker? Anything that you didn't know about, it will find. It will do it's best to kill you. And the politicians want to downplay it. Don't listen to them. Don't listen to me! Listen to the scientists, the mathematicians and the doctors that are dealing with this. They will tell you why this needs to be taken far more seriously than the US leaders are.

@Dashrender I hope no one in your family or circle gets sick or dies. Many people out there will not understand the severity of this issue until anyone near them is dead, and when you figure out that this is preventable, that leadership failed for months, that Dear Leader continues to shift blame and not assert any kind of direction, but your friend is still dead, imagine what you'll think then? Will you attend the funeral through Zoom or FaceTime?

We give people shit all the time for not knowing how to right click, read what the error message was before clicking ok, or shutting a PC off when it's doing updates and says not to do that. Right now, our doctors, the CDC, the WHO and everyone out there in a scientific job -- the SysAdmins for biology --, are telling us to stay home, to wear masks, to wash your hands, to not gather indoors, and people are doing it. They're probably the same people that can't right click. Listen to the SysAdmins.

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Just bought a big round of stuff in the Steam Summer Sale.

I have some wishlist items on sale but I need to pay for house projects first. Those projects start next week with new drywall on Monday, which fixes some water damage, and then a new roof, and other things, then solar install.

Be sure to check out "Vecter" -- a kind of racing game. It's free and there's multiplayer.

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

It's like Europeans coming to the Americas. They had absolutely no idea that their diseases would spread like crazy and kill most people. But today, we'd not do the same thing again because we know what would happen.

Europeans would absolutely do the same thing if they knew, because there was too much money involved.

It is not much different today. The economic gains that would be implicit in something like a new continent being located would set off a gold rush level of migration and no one would give a fuck about killing the natives with disease.

Well and the real thing is that it only takes ONE person not giving a fuck and then everyone is screwed. They "know" with some certainty exactly which person it was who infected South America and it wasn't a European. It was a slave who got infected, didn't know (nor understand so makes no difference) and fled to the continent with small pox. All the Europeans who came months or weeks later with it landed in a place already devastated.

Had it not been him, would have been some other random person. Point being, society can't eliminate that type of infection path because it requires, for all intents and purposes, a 100% agreement to keep separate.

But big gatherings are different. Every bit that they are reduced, at least helps.

Japan's biggest covid spike was nearly 700 in one day. They issued an order to wear face masks, something they often due as a courtesy to avoid getting others sick if they, themselves, are ill. In the US, you tell people to wear a mask and you get the idiocracy telling you that they're breathing CO2 and 'muh freedumbs!!'

Poor leadership is killing people.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200624082657.htm

@PhlipElder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@Grey said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Bing put this image up today, from Greece, and I am confused as to how the rocks are so squared. Did people do that? Is it natural?

Shale = ~100% carbon.

Yes, it breaks that way due the way the carbon molecules bind to each other in a square grid.

Reeealy? That's kind of awesome. I'm going to have to see it in person some day, just like Giant's Causeway is on my list.

@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews TX broke the 3K in one day barrier one week ago, the 4K barrier four days ago, the 5K barrier yesterday. We expect to have six thousand new cases per day in the next 48 hours.

Texas as a total is now at over 900% that of NY, and the DFW alone is double NY. Houston passed hospital capacity yesterday, Austin expects in the next few days. Dallas has a little spare, for the moment.

OK, that's all fine and good - how are the hospitals?
NYC was (at least claiming) to be over run with covid patients. While they never officially ran out of ventilators, they were sure squaking like they had. Now don't get me wrong, I'm sure the lock down reduced case load, allowing them to not run out, so I'm not saying lock down was a total bad thing...

but really - how many of these "new cases" are because we are testing so many more per day now than we were months ago? Are nearly all of these new cases symptomatic?

If you didn't test for a pregnancy, there'd be far fewer of them!

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

One of my customers called in..
"SO it was doing windows updates..."

• Okay, sucks that it ran this early but windows updates are necessary.

"i shut it off and turned it back on. Now it wont do anything.."

• Wait, was it doing windows updates when you turned it off?

"yes.."

Usually the screen says, "Do not turn off."
At least it's billable.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@Grey In Italy they say all roads lead to Rome, but in Greece all Rhodes lead to the sea.

I see you couldn't take the high Rhode to avoid the obvious dad joke. Now, about the rock. Naturally forming straight lines and right angles aren't common in sandstone. So what's the deal here?

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@Grey that looks natural to me. Do you happen to know which beach it is?

Aerial view over a beach in Rhodes, an island, in Greece. What I found earlier: https://peapix.com/bing/31570

Bing put this image up today, from Greece, and I am confused as to how the rocks are so squared. Did people do that? Is it natural?

@Obsolesce said in Powershell Script Repetitive Process:

@Grey said in Powershell Script Repetitive Process:

@Obsolesce said in Powershell Script Repetitive Process:

Here's an example:

Neat. How would I call call that function from within the script itself; just & do-function?

The same way I did on line 24.

Ok, I have to test this.

@Obsolesce said in Powershell Script Repetitive Process:

Here's an example:

Neat. How would I call call that function from within the script itself; just & do-function?

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews TX broke the 3K in one day barrier one week ago, the 4K barrier four days ago, the 5K barrier yesterday. We expect to have six thousand new cases per day in the next 48 hours.

Texas as a total is now at over 900% that of NY, and the DFW alone is double NY. Houston passed hospital capacity yesterday, Austin expects in the next few days. Dallas has a little spare, for the moment.

My only comfort is morbid: the scump voters that die will not vote, and I retain hope that those who get sick will realize how serious it is and how flippant Dear Leader has been, and change their vote.