Educate me please. Pro's and con's of the DIY approach.

As I'm familiar with them, especially against an all in one solution like a Fortigate.

I just got passed in post count by @mlnews lol

@hobbit666 said in Official HashTag train thread:

#touchwoodserverareplayingballtoday

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Shaved my face down to an epic moustache after quitting smoking. I look funny(er)

Pay someone else to deal with it. Good grief.

@scottalanmiller said:

Down to around 260 PMs now!!

Quick ML! He's getting close to done! Operation SPAMSAM is a go!

@scottalanmiller said in RAID 10, 20 Disks, How Many Hot Spares:

I totally agree with @MattSpeller in that most companies would be better served by more IOPS and more capacity than they hav and that hot spares are relatively useless for them. That part I am totally in agreement with.

@scottalanmiller said:

Finally under 200 PMs!!

SPAMSAM Group - plan A is active - GO GO GO

@gjacobse said in 30ish inch monitor needed:

@MattSpeller

LOL yea,..
Samsung and the ring of fire

One ring to burn them all and in the fire melt them.

DNS / AD all blew up this morning after a reboot. Apparently we forgot to reboot after all the changes made over xmas. Never forget to reboot people, never forget.

@guyinpv said in What's good for a workstation these days?:

@gjacobse
......and replace with...........

anything else

@scottalanmiller @johnhooks Neither of those is scotch but I like where this is going.

FWIW BackupExec used to be freaking awesome... a decade ago....

@dafyre said:

It's amazing what moving a few lines of code around can do, lol. I was working on a PowerShell script that runs against AD, and since our AD is so large now (35k users!), the script was chewing up 2GB of ram every time it ran.

I moved 1 line of code up about 4 lines, and whammo! Script is tracking to run faster than it did before, and it's currently only using 100 megs of ram, lol.

operations important order is of

The nerve of them to be so biased against Scott

@DustinB3403 said:

@MattSpeller said:

Morning ML - feeling refreshed after a long weekend & ready to start in on fixing some broken garbage.

You shouldn't call your users garbage....

You should know by now that we can't fix those either

@Texkonc said in When to replace hard drive in a RAID array:

@RojoLoco said in When to replace hard drive in a RAID array:

@Texkonc said in When to replace hard drive in a RAID array:

@RojoLoco said in When to replace hard drive in a RAID array:

@EddieJennings said in When to replace hard drive in a RAID array:

@Texkonc 3 TB (WD Red)

Ouch... if you try to rebuild that array and it works (don't hold your breath), I'd go out and buy a ticket to every lottery you can, because you'll never have that kind of luck again.

I had StoreVirtual dual node SAN with 24 4TB drives take 7.5 days to repair without issue or popping another drive. Raid 6 thankfully though.

I don't know if I could handle 7.5 days without sleep!

Trust me, I woke up some nights to see if my VPN was still up. (an RRAS VM) then log into storage and check the percent complete.

This is why I keep a bottle of Pepto + sleeping pills in my tech emergency kit.

"turn on mouse acceleration and drastically lower sensitivity. this will hopefully cause him to overshoot a lot."

AHAhahaha That's incredibly evil, I love it

Trust me, I smoke. You can't*

What you smell is an oily tar compound that aerosols and eventually coats all surfaces it touches.

*I can think of a couple of highly impractical ways to do this involving non-conductive liquid baths.

Y'all go hard in the morning, I can't catch up these days. Is this everyone's destination while they drink their morning coffee?