@scottalanmiller said in Oracle Laid Off Most Of Solaris Team:
@marcinozga said in Oracle Laid Off Most Of Solaris Team:
I hope all these devs form some entity and continue to work on Solaris fork. I'd love to see OpenSolaris come to life again.
Often they can't because they've seen too much closed code
What if they move north of the border? Or south...
@momurda said in What Industry Apps Are Awful and You Are Stuck With?:
@marcinozga Company i work for just bought GlobalShop. I wasnt consulted about the decision at all, then they asked me to install the server and client. Ive got it working on Server 2012 running on top of Xenserver no problems. That client though, wow. Cant be installed automatically. Needs manual input like a dozen times during the install.
Still, so far is better than what theyve been using for the last 20 years(Excel spreadsheets and Parts&Vendors).
Oh it will work on any virtualization platform, it's just Global Shop support is free to tell you to pound sand when you have issues, because you're using non-Vmware hypervisor, that's all. I wouldn't be so sure about being better than excel part though...
One more, UPS Worldship. While you can do your shipments online, interface is just terrible. While this app supports remote clients, you cannot install it on Windows server, at least it's unsupported, I haven't personally tried.
GlobalShop EPR, that thing is written in cobol ffs. You can virtualize it, but only on ESXi - like this matter at all, but that's what they support, it runs on PervasiveSQL. So basically one big wtf.
Autodesk Vault, you're tied up to MSSQL, no cloud equivalent, no plans to support other databases. They also force you to run built-in backup tool, so your existing VM level backup system, like Veeam, has to backup twice as much data. Other Autodesk software is not much better.
Mastercam, they force you to use USB dongle for licensing, and using USB boxes over ethernet is unsupported. It might work but you won't be able to update the licenses on the dongle. So say hello to physical Windows box in your server room.
Other than that almost any ERP system that runs strictly on Windows. They will do anything so you run it on physical box, and if client runs in web browser, it will be Internet Explorer only, god forbid if it's newer than version 8. Ideally you should run Windows XP with IE 6.
I also have some quality control equipment from Pratt & Whitney, software runs on 32bit Windows 7 only. So I have one zombie PC.
I feel any software that touches manufacturing sector will be like that, stuck in the past.
I hope all these devs form some entity and continue to work on Solaris fork. I'd love to see OpenSolaris come to life again.
0/63 so it's a safe bet it's false positive.
@stess said in Recovery recently deleted photo on iPhone?:
@marcinozga said in Recovery recently deleted photo on iPhone?:
@stess Now I realise I missed that part from your original post. Have you tried 3rd party app? PhoneRescue or EaseUS MobiSaver for example? I think those are paid options, but if you really need that photo, it might be worth the investment.
WindowDefender shows trojan in PhoneRescue.
Upload it to VirusTotal and see if others detect it too. It could be just false positive.
@stess Now I realise I missed that part from your original post. Have you tried 3rd party app? PhoneRescue or EaseUS MobiSaver for example? I think those are paid options, but if you really need that photo, it might be worth the investment.
Open Photos app, tap on albums, and go to Recently Deleted album.
@wirestyle22 said in AD best practices:
@jaredbusch said in AD best practices:
@wirestyle22 said in AD best practices:
@marcinozga said in AD best practices:
@wirestyle22 said in AD best practices:
@marcinozga said in AD best practices:
I had a situation once where having 2 DCs on one host saved my ass. For unknown reason DC died, when booting it stopped at black screen without any messages, I couldn't enter safe mode either. Restoring VM from backups yielded the same result, booting to black screen, even going back as far as 2 months. Having 2nd DC allowed me to seize FSMO roles, delete failing DC, and promote another one. So having 2 even on one host, is not unreasonable.
When having a single DC you could just recover via backups. I think the assumption here is that you will have downtime, but that is only if your DNS server is your DC, which it doesn't have to be. Users wouldn't notice anything if they could resolve hostnames. They login with their cached credentials and everything seems normal. The backup takes a few hours (DC's aren't big).
I guess you missed the part when I said restoring DC from backups didn't do any good.
That is not the scenario I'm talking about. You had a second DC. That complicates the backup process.
No it does not.
A live database being replicated doesn't create time disparities that could potentially not resolve correctly?
That's not the scenario I described. Windows didn't even boot to that point to worry about AD database consistency.
@wirestyle22 said in AD best practices:
@marcinozga said in AD best practices:
I had a situation once where having 2 DCs on one host saved my ass. For unknown reason DC died, when booting it stopped at black screen without any messages, I couldn't enter safe mode either. Restoring VM from backups yielded the same result, booting to black screen, even going back as far as 2 months. Having 2nd DC allowed me to seize FSMO roles, delete failing DC, and promote another one. So having 2 even on one host, is not unreasonable.
When having a single DC you could just recover via backups. I think the assumption here is that you will have downtime, but that is only if your DNS server is your DC, which it doesn't have to be. Users wouldn't notice anything if they could resolve hostnames. They login with their cached credentials and everything seems normal. The backup takes a few hours (DC's aren't big).
I guess you missed the part when I said restoring DC from backups didn't do any good.
I had a situation once where having 2 DCs on one host saved my ass. For unknown reason DC died, when booting it stopped at black screen without any messages, I couldn't enter safe mode either. Restoring VM from backups yielded the same result, booting to black screen, even going back as far as 2 months. Having 2nd DC allowed me to seize FSMO roles, delete failing DC, and promote another one. So having 2 even on one host, is not unreasonable.
@jfath said in AD best practices:
I do plan to use a second physical machine with another Win Server VM as the secondary DC. I understand AD well enough to know why it's important to have two if you're going to have one.
The non-profit wants to stay with Win Server and AD because their paid consultants won't support anything else. esxi to KVM doesn't matter as much because it won't change authentication admin. I think I can run a Linux VM for FS because they'll see no difference after initial setup and I really want to use Win Server for as little as possible.
Do not do this - if they use windows search, you need Windows server file server, otherwise indexing won't work and all searches will fallback to snail speed. I've been there, done that, it sucks.
Tech Soup offers Win Server licenses (yes, CALs too) at extremely low prices for non-profits, so that's covered. They've already purchased more than enough.
I am interested in @dbeato 's statement about DHCP on a DC integrating with DNS. Are there things that can't be accomplished with a separate DHCP server and IP reservations for shared resources? I know I need to use Win Server for DNS in an AD environment, but are there compelling reasons to keep DHCP on the server too? Do I end up manually setting up DNS entries if I use a separate server?
If your clients pull IP from Windows DHCP, they can register DNS records in Windows DNS servers automatically. If you move DHCP to another non-windows server or device, you will lose that ability. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Another thing, if you want to bring 2nd DC, make sure it's Windows too. Samba would work, but sysvol replications is not supported, and you'll need rsync to work around it. If you promote another Windows to DC, replication will just work, without any additional work.
Fix all the grammar and typo errors, because there is a lot. Perhaps write it in Lithuanian and have it translated by sworn translator.
The line about Linux LAMP bothers me, it implies you only know how to setup LAMP stack. It's also on the same line as Windows servers, perhaps change it to "Experience with Linux and Windows servers". You list Apache and MySQL skills below, no need to be redundant.
"I set up my own country which traded in stationery and office machinery" - perhaps you meant company here?
I don't know if I would list entire employment history, especially if it's not relevant to the position you're applying for. You have a lot of sales experience, but how does that relate to IT position?
@brandon220 said in Pi Hole:
I was amazed at the stats page and how much was being blocked. Very big difference. There are a ton of sites that balk at using ad-blockers though.
There are ad blockers that block scripts balking at you for blocking ads.
@dashrender said in Cell phones survey:
@marcinozga said in Cell phones survey:
@dashrender said in Cell phones survey:
@marcinozga said in Cell phones survey:
I've heard good things about Cortana, and that was one of the major points why people liked their Windows phones. I just had the chance to use Cortana to set up new PC at work, and it's just dumb. I asked her to change time zone to EST, nope, she tried to open settings panel for me to change it, which froze. I asked her to uninstall McAfee, nope, she tried to search for something. Finally I told her to get lost, she went quiet after that, she got that part right. It's a safe bet to assume she's just as dumb on phone. Even NYPD is replacing their Windows phones with iPhones right now.
Wow - while asking Cortana to do those things (change timezone, uninstall an app) are definitely cool ideas - I don't believe any personal assistant does those things right now.
At least Cortana tried to get you to the setting page, not sure why it froze.
Does Siri do any of these things?
I think your ask is currently unrealistic (primarily on the uninstall an app front). Will we get it some day, sure.
Did you try the other things that Cortana can do? send a SMS message? start a phone call? add a calendar entry? create a reminder?Why unrealistic? Most software can be uninstalled silently through wmic, so why wouldn't Cortana do it? I don't know about Siri as I hardly ever use it, but I use Alexa a lot, she can order pizza for example, which is a lot more complex task than uninstalling software. Changing time zone should be dead simple too, I will test it with both Alexa and Siri when I get home.
As for other things, no, I was setting up a PC, so none of the above tasks are relevant, but both Alexa and Siri can do those too.Unrealistic because they just aren't things that have been made available yet. You couldn't order pizza on the day that Alexa was released, hell, not for years after it was released, but they added that feature and today you can.
So as I already mentioned - in the future I fully expect you to be able to do that. And assuming MS can ever actually get a decent Windows Store - you should be able to install software that way too.
Cortana is a personal assistant, more attune to secretary, at this point. I don't expect more secretaries to be able to install/uninstall software on my computer.
Not years, months. Echo has been publicly available since June 2015, pizza ordering became available in February 2016, perhaps even earlier than that.
Cortana was released even before Echo was available to prime invitees.
@dashrender said in Cell phones survey:
@marcinozga said in Cell phones survey:
I've heard good things about Cortana, and that was one of the major points why people liked their Windows phones. I just had the chance to use Cortana to set up new PC at work, and it's just dumb. I asked her to change time zone to EST, nope, she tried to open settings panel for me to change it, which froze. I asked her to uninstall McAfee, nope, she tried to search for something. Finally I told her to get lost, she went quiet after that, she got that part right. It's a safe bet to assume she's just as dumb on phone. Even NYPD is replacing their Windows phones with iPhones right now.
Wow - while asking Cortana to do those things (change timezone, uninstall an app) are definitely cool ideas - I don't believe any personal assistant does those things right now.
At least Cortana tried to get you to the setting page, not sure why it froze.
Does Siri do any of these things?
I think your ask is currently unrealistic (primarily on the uninstall an app front). Will we get it some day, sure.
Did you try the other things that Cortana can do? send a SMS message? start a phone call? add a calendar entry? create a reminder?
Why unrealistic? Most software can be uninstalled silently through wmic, so why wouldn't Cortana do it? I don't know about Siri as I hardly ever use it, but I use Alexa a lot, she can order pizza for example, which is a lot more complex task than uninstalling software. Changing time zone should be dead simple too, I will test it with both Alexa and Siri when I get home.
As for other things, no, I was setting up a PC, so none of the above tasks are relevant, but both Alexa and Siri can do those too.
I've heard good things about Cortana, and that was one of the major points why people liked their Windows phones. I just had the chance to use Cortana to set up new PC at work, and it's just dumb. I asked her to change time zone to EST, nope, she tried to open settings panel for me to change it, which froze. I asked her to uninstall McAfee, nope, she tried to search for something. Finally I told her to get lost, she went quiet after that, she got that part right. It's a safe bet to assume she's just as dumb on phone. Even NYPD is replacing their Windows phones with iPhones right now.
I can't say much about droid phones, but every single user at work had issues with IMAP email setup, droids would lose settings randomly, or would simply refuse to work claiming password was incorrect - I'm looking at you Samsung. Besides almost every droid phone has so much crapware, just like every brand name PC. Before that phone ends up in your hands, it goes through 3 or 4 different vendors, hardware manufacturer makes the hardware, Google makes the OS, then you get 3rd party crapware, and finally cellular operator loads their own crapware. And then you cannot even get updates for it. How do you assure quality product in the end? There are exceptions of course, like Google Pixel, but that's small fraction of droid phones.
Iphones just work. You deal with Apple only, from hardware to software, even 3rd party apps are controlled by them.
I saw the board and how do they plan to plug in 19 cards in it? Even with riser cards seems hardly doable.
@coliver Software Assurance is not OS, it's not required to run Windows systems, perhaps with the exception of enterprise edition.
I'm saying no thanks to subscription model, they can have it.
