Right, Dashrender, they do it so they dont have to pay for their own USAF IT people, or pay USAF IT people a wage worth working for. But at the same time, they pay so much money to these contractors are they actually saving money? Im not so sure, esp with the intangible costs like this situation right here.

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RE: Computer Crash Wipes Out Years of Air Force Investigation Records
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RE: Xenserver Space Woes
If you goto the Storage in your Xencenter (i assume yorue using xencenter to look at things) Go to the SR with trouble, and look at the Storage tab for that SR. In the disks section you may see those 2 'orphaned' vdi, as well as the real one.
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RE: Computer Crash Wipes Out Years of Air Force Investigation Records
Why is the USAF even outsourcing this job? Do they not have a sysadmin? Oh right, the entire DoD is overpaid 3rd party contractors now, from the likes of Lockheed, Siemens, GA, GD, SRA International and various other nincompoops.
12 years. In the last 12 years Lockheed has been paid hundreds of billions of dollars by you and me and 300 million other people in the US. This is what happens.
Lockheed gets paid no matter whether the solution works or not. The USAF cant cancel contracts with Lockheed, who else is going to do it? Boeing? doubt it, theyre too busy getting paid gobs of money to build refueling tankers and various other machines for killing people.
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RE: Feedback on my resume
Depending on the job youre after, your old jobs may not be useful listed there. Or perhaps a 1 liner for the older jobs that just says what relevant skills you learned. The job you have now(and have had for many years it looksl ike) should show your prospective employer that you are ready to move on/up. You could also try reducing font size and forcing single spacing if you really want to get it to 1 page.
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RE: BRRABill's Field Report With XenServer
The last 2 updates for XS dont require reboots, just a restart of the xapi iirc from a couple weeks ago.
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RE: Blocking Spoofed Inbound Email - Office365
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn789058(v=exchg.150).aspx
If one of those txt records doesnt say
v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com -all
It isnt correct for o365.
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RE: Blocking Spoofed Inbound Email - Office365
Yes whoever is providing your dns to the outside world, youll neeed to make a txt record that has v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com -all
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RE: Blocking Spoofed Inbound Email - Office365
A correct SPF should stop this. What yours look like?
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RE: XenServer Local SR: Need another pair of eyes
Nice. Also Ive only been using XS for a few months, so i could be wrong about the xe sr-list command output
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RE: XenServer Local SR: Need another pair of eyes
I am not clear about this, but i think the results of xe sr-list
the RO/RW parts refer to the parameters themselves, not necessarily the SR.
For instance, you cant change uuid of an sr so it is RO.
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RE: Windows Print Servers - Event Viewer
You /could/ turn on Operational Event logs for PrintService in Windows Server, then make an xml collector that adds up Param 8 from Event ID 307 in that log over a given time. Or get software where someone has already done that. (papercut prob does this).
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RE: Do You See Homer?
Did you just change default to https?
I reloaded due to something weird happening, now am on https where i wasnt 20 min ago.
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RE: XenServer Local SR: Need another pair of eyes
Hmm indeed. can you use the new SRs? Boot a vm on them, add a disk from one to an existing vm?
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RE: XenServer Local SR: Need another pair of eyes
curious what the output of 'xe sr-list' shows for content-type on your new SRs since you didnt specify when creating.
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RE: XenServer Local SR: Need another pair of eyes
Thats weird. pvdisplay/vgdisplay should give you a list of physical devices (pvdisplay) and vgdisplay should show you the logical volumes of your physical disks.
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RE: XenServer Local SR: Need another pair of eyes
what does 'pvdisplay' output?
or 'vgdisplay'xe sr-create host-uuid=uuidofhost shared=false type=lvm content-type=user device-config:device=/dev/sda1 name-label="blah"
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RE: If you thought Skynet was just a story why is google building an AI kill switch
@DustinB3403 Cars are a privilege not a right, for one. You arent forced to not go anywhere, you can go whereever you choose, just not in a car in your hypothetical sitrep.
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RE: Is a Mid Career Sabbatical a Good Idea
I took 18 months off after my last job ended. It was glorious. Only got paid for 6 of them though, had to dip into the investment account. But for a few months there i didnt even have a clock. I unplugged my alarm clock, turned the one on my oven to wrong, and hid the one on my computer.
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RE: E-Mail Disclaimers
Some industries require them due to law; ie financial firms you need to put in some sort of disclaimer at the bottom of every email. Gets quite annoying when reading a long email chain, with ten nested disclaimers.