@hobbit666 said in Non-IT News Thread:

Not read all of it
https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/470000-people-planning-to-storm-area-51-form-outrageous-plan/?source=facebook

But it seems people are preparing to "storm" Area 51

Not to be funny but they just went public giving the military loads of time to prepare. Morons lol

Follow on

Air Force spokesperson Laura McAndrews released a message to people thinking of actually trespassing in September

[Area 51] is an open training range for the US Air Force," she said in a release seen by the Independent. "We would
discourage anyone from trying to come into the area where we train American armed forces," she continued, casually reminding any reader that there are probably quite a lot of guns on site.
The US Air Force always stands ready to protect America and its assets.

Bungie is investigating why Destiny 2 won't run on Ryzen 3000 PCs

Reports of issues getting Destiny 2 to run on a Ryzen 3000 system are piling up.
Several Destiny 2 players who upgraded to a Ryzen 3000 series CPU are reporting that the game will not load properly. It's not clear what is causing the hiccup, though the good news is that Bungie is aware of the problem and is looking into it.

More rsync host stuff.
(Can Zabbix monitor and report on Fedora MD RAID)

Not read all of it
https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/470000-people-planning-to-storm-area-51-form-outrageous-plan/?source=facebook

But it seems people are preparing to "storm" Area 51

Not to be funny but they just went public giving the military loads of time to prepare. Morons lol

Just finished setting a Linux (Fedora) machine to rsync from our ReadyNAS as a backup.
Also made it log some stuff when running the commands and then E-mail via O365

Amazon Alexa offering NHS health advice

People will be able to get expert health advice using Amazon Alexa devices, under a partnership with the NHS, the government has announced.

From this week, the voice-assisted technology is automatically searching the official NHS website when UK users ask for health-related advice.
The government in England said it could reduce demand on the NHS.
Privacy campaigners have raised data protection concerns but Amazon say all information will be kept confidential.

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Why do you want to track that? My printers are setup on auto order. We have a support contract that includes toner, so I don't worry about it. Do you have to order supplies when the printers run low?

We're moving to that now. Just wanted to monitor the main HP PageWide machines here to make sure the toners are getting reordered in time , plus just to see if I can

@dafyre yeah been using it for a while (12Months+) but only for simple ping on network equipment and agents on some VM's.

Looking at SNMP for switches and see if I can get Consumable levels on printers, hence looking at MIB SNMP.

Looking into Zabbix, MIB, SNMP etc