I look at it the same way standard ports are used. You can usually use whatever you want, but kind of the same reasons you shouldn't.

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Liesl got up early so that she could get straight to playing XCOM today.

Mine were up at 4:30am... Better than yesterday's 3am. Should be easy to get up Monday for work and school.

She was excited to play that disney princess game. Still jet lagged a bit, but it's going so much better than when we went there!

I get this feeling a lot of IT positions will be opening up, and soon...

@dafyre said in Why Linux is Hard for Windows Users but Easy for Newbies:

@Giggiux said in Why Linux is Hard for Windows Users but Easy for Newbies:

@Tim_G said in Why Linux is Hard for Windows Users but Easy for Newbies:

Basically, Linux is hard because it has trouble working with some hardware, and you spend all your time trying to make it work and end up leaving it in a frustrating way, going back to Windows.

OT: Last week I spent 2 days to install Nvidia GTX 980Ti's drivers on ubuntu (uninstalling nouveau)
But that's because I never did it before, now that I now how to do it probably it will take only 1 day and half

This kinda goes back to what @Tim_G was saying about hardware. Folks coming from Windows expect things to just work.

Yeah, it should... but since there's I don't know how many HUNDREDS of versions of Linux flavors... there's not enough people and resources to keep up with hardware support.

Now, if people could just stop creating a new Linux flavor every week and focus on the good main distros that exist, perhaps this wouldn't be an issue any longer.

Well, I finally finally finally found HP drivers for my LTO2 tape drive test on Windows Server 2016.

Some HPE driver repository page...

Hopefully I can save someone else the trouble, here's the link: https://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/repo/spp/2016.04.0/hp/swpackages/

cp023805.exe worked for me.

Now I just need to find an LTO2 tape. In the meantime, I'm working on getting an MD3000 running at another site for vTape testing with DPM 2016... using StarWind virtual tape redirector.

LOL

Scott: "I'll take underwater basket weaving before CS."

I am looking for a place that teaches this. I will get that degree. Then I am going to see if Scott will hire me.

Edit: Here's an actual course (not satire).

@stacksofplates said in Red Hat Ready for Release of Fleet Commander:

This seems like more work than just pushing this stuff out with some type of automation.

You could say that about AD too...

@dbeato said in "You don't just restore a server":

Backups are the only reliable option to do this, if you have snapshots it is even better. You can backup all the bad (encrypted) files and then worry about what Ransomware infection is. Usually I do gather though all the information necessary related to the attack before restoring or wiping

Yes, the cause of infection is important. What if the infector is a client or admin PC somewhere in the company... you restore the server, and it just gets encrypted again. The source must be found first. Then bare-metal backup the infected server (to look at later)... and restore it from a clean backup.

I just finished making a huge batch of home made protein/meal bars. I've been making them for years now (not necessarily consistently), using the same recipe. These are the best tasting bars of any kind you will ever have in your life, plus, they are healthy.

They are all natural great-for-you ingredients, so long as you buy them that way. For example, I don't use milk-based protein powder, I prefer the organic plant-based as it's much better for you.

Here's the recipe:

1. Mix all of the dry ingredients together in a big metal bowl. (I use this one from Ikea
   a. Oats = 200g
   b. Almond flour/meal = 200g
   c. Flax seed meal = 100g
   d. Cacao Powder = 70g
   e. Protein Powder = 500g

Note 1: You can use 500g of Oats instead of using Almond & Flax seed meal. Those increase the cost / bar.

2. Dump the wet ingredients on top of the dry in the big bowl:
   a. Peanut Butter = 500g
   b. Honey = 500g
   c. Water = 1.75 cups

3. Mix everything together, very well. You'll need a very strong potato masher to mix it. I use this one from Ikea. It will seem like you need more water, but you don't. You don't want it to be wet, it should be like play-doh. Maybe a little oily from the peanut butter, but dry otherwise... not too dry that it crumples apart into pieces, though.

4. Lay down a piece of wax paper inside of a glass baking dish (something like this). Flatten it down, even it out. Lay down another piece of wax paper on top.

5. Put it in the refrigerator for a while.

6. Take it out, and dump it out upside down. Then cut it in to even sized bars roughly 100g each. I put them each into their own classic plastic sandwich bag so they don't dry out in the refrigerator, and so I can grab one and go.

Note 2: This is a large recipe. You can cut everything in half exactly and have a more manageable recipe to work with. I went big because I'm not the only one eating them.

Don't eat these in addition to your regular diet. They are more meant as a replacement, so that you are able to get the protein and other nutrients you need. For example, if you work out and can't get the protein you need, eat one of these.

I eat one after my workout, on my way to work in the car, because they are easier than a protein shake, and I don't have time to eat until a few hours later.

Pics: In my glass baking dish, 2.5 cm spacing worked the best. All were roughly 100g each.

@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@nadnerb I thought Macs were immune to viruses #sarcasm

They are, you don't need anti-virus/malware protection or anything! You don't even need a firewall!

5nine Manager is nice, and I like the monitoring it includes in the interface as well.

But you can fully manage your Hyper-V environment in Hyper-V Manager and FCM together.

5nine Manager does have some nice built in bonuses though... (centralized through the 5nine manager, versus setting it up on each Hyper-V server via Event Viewer for example)

• logging
• alerting
• reporting
• file transfers
• a ton of other things (that are useful, that'd you actually use)

Check this out for a quick look:

https://www.5nine.com/5nine-manager-for-hyper-v-product.aspx#compare

@jimmy9008 said in Fitness and Weightloss:

Anybody heard of the FODMAP diet? GF is starting that this week. She has read the books and has to go FODMAP free for two months before introducing certain foods, problem is... they don't say how to go entirely FODMAP free! Any ideas?

I haven't heard of it but any diet that reduces the amount of processed food and promotes good food is great in my book.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

RHEL 7 ARM is now in general availability. Huge news for the ARM server world.

That's huge, this implies that ARM servers for prime time, main stream usage are just around the corner.

Pair that with the new Qualcomm 48-core ARM procs....

I'm trying to troubleshoot an issue that sometimes occurs when a user emails, in this case, a major bank.

The user has digital signing on by default, so when the user sends an email to this bank, they say that the email body is blank.

This doesn't make sense because nothing is encrypted. And if you send a digitally signed email to something that doesn't support it, such as web gmail, it (the signature) just shows up as an attachment.

So I'm wondering if this bank may for example be blocking ALL email content if it contains a digital signature (or attachment if it's not supported)?

I think the issue does not happen if the user de-selects the "sign" button, turning off the digital signature before sending the email. Still waiting to hear back, but getting this out there awhile.

I recently went full Fedora 26 across the board. (except my Asus ROG, that won't run any Linux)

@scottalanmiller said in HP Possible pulling a Lenovo with Stealthy spyware?:

device and individual user information you provide in relation to support services related to the Software Product

In this case "you" (me for example), are not "providing" anything to them. To me, "provide" means willingly and/or knowingly supplying or making available. Key words are willingly and knowingly.

Well anyways, to my original post... I resolved it by installing Fedora instead of Korora.

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

Can I ask some people to jump onto that thread, too? There are complaints that since I pointed out the lack of ethics in the decision making processes of the initial posts that the conversation has died. Basically, I feel this is because the article was good and the only reason to post on it was to try to justify decision making that had not taken it into account. Some more posts to get it going again and not make it a thread of just me pointing out that the initial posts were bad, would be great. Even if they are just "good article, thanks for sharing" kinds of things.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2044899-where-does-cloud-storage-really-reside-and-is-it-secure

I would if I could log in. I use my LinkedIn account for SW, and it's not transitioning for some reason.

I wouldn't consider ESXi -- paying for a hypervisor is dumb. It only makes sense to pay for VMWare in three scenarios:

1. You don't know anything about Virtualization, cannot support it, don't know what you are doing, don't have the time to support it, etc...

2. You have hundreds or thousands of hypervisors that you need expert support for around the clock and can afford to pay for that support.

3. You need a niche feature that only VMWare provides and are willing to pay tons of cash for it.

I spent a decent amount of time on this out of curiosity and finally got something together that I actually tested with various domain PCs, and works:

$computers = Get-Content -Path C:\computers.txt
ForEach ($computer in $computers)
{
    Invoke-Command -ComputerName $computer -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue {Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, InstallDate | Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -like '*Microsoft Office*'} | Export-CSV -NoTypeInformation "C:\test.csv"}
}

I suppose you can figure out how to change it to what will work in your environment if you have issues connecting to computers. This should get you going.