Shit man, sorry to hear that!

Hope you find some new employment fast

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

And right after typing the above and reading a ML post about upgrading a domain , the prudent solution smacks me in the face after saying "duh." Spend $180, turn the RAID 5 into a RAID 10, then look for a real solution for storage.

$0.02

Been pretty happy with our synology units - there's a lot of options depending on your needs.

Yeah. We have two. The one in the local office will now be used for backups, rather than for storage for VHDs that our local VMs use. The one at the data center will be sold to recover a little of the cost from when it was bought before I was hired, as that data was moved to local storage with enterprise-class hard drives. The local office Synology will still be using WD-Reds, but I'm not as concerned since the role of that device is changing.

Not sure I'd host a VM on them but I have to say for file storage and all our backup requirements + the cloud software - they are good value and work pretty darn well

@BRRABill said in Domain/Server Upgrade Options:

I guess at some level I am concerned instead of it being "FFS install and move on" it blows something up.

Ditto

I've heard a lot about it around here so I'm going to test it in a vm and see what the fuss is about

@JaredBusch said in Domain/Server Upgrade Options:

NethServer

Alright you bastards, I'll take it for a spin

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

And right after typing the above and reading a ML post about upgrading a domain , the prudent solution smacks me in the face after saying "duh." Spend $180, turn the RAID 5 into a RAID 10, then look for a real solution for storage.

$0.02

Been pretty happy with our synology units - there's a lot of options depending on your needs.

If your linux experience is anything like mine option 1 is probably the best route. If you've got a few years of experience under your belt I'd go 2 because I hate microsoft and a pox upon their tax.

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I'm raging at Bodum. How do you take a perfectly good 1 liter beaker with a plunger and screw it up? Add useless plastic! WTF!?! GARBAGE!

Is the actual plunger plastic or just the outside?

Just the knob on top, the lid/pour spout filter

@scottalanmiller said in Refurbished hard drives:

@MattSpeller said in Refurbished hard drives:

@scottalanmiller said in Refurbished hard drives:

Why would the manufacturer mill out new metal chassis when they just need to pop in a fresh platter?

There's no way that they actually refurb'd a drive - absolutely no way. This is just a word for used.

I'd be shocked if you have proof that anyone is popping these drives open in a clean room to swap parts.

At best refurb'd here means that they tested it and or did a full drive wipe. At best

That first part is correct. They are actually new drives in most cases. Refurb means it has to be good as actual new. There can be nothing like just testing it, ever. Not possible.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/refurbish

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/everyday-tech/refurbished-electronic.htm

"The one thing the label means with any certainty is that a refurbished item can't be sold as new. Because of that, and possibly because of the ambiguity of the "refurbished" label, consumers often shy away from buying refurbished products, even when they may be perfectly fine."

I'm pretty sure thats about all anyone can say about refurbished IT gear - it's not "new".

@wrx7m said in The power of Chat in IT Support:

@MattSpeller said in The power of Chat in IT Support:

We use skype extensively to chat as an organization and it's very valuable.

Having said that, Skype is a steaming turd after the last changes w/ account creation & management.

Skype for Business or regular Skype?

Regular vanilla skype.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller wait why do you need to put the plunger in at an angle. . . .

There's a tab that sticks out where the handle attaches at the top

Still not understanding why that causes you to have to clean the unit every time. .

Because you should never re-insert a dirty unit.

You're on pun fire today lol you should get that checked out

It does kinda hurt when IP....