@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://fedoramagazine.org/gnome-3-30-released-coming-fedora-29/
Now I need to wait till 10/23 or 10/30.
Better than Ubuntu which won't likely get it for three years
Well aren't you being optimistic!
@scottalanmiller said in Sage 50 Quantum in Hyper-V VM:
@John-Nicholson but they choose to test on physical. They could have picked one virtual to use instead. Your theory only works if what they did test was an acceptable production scenario.
Exactly. Nobody runs software on physical computers anymore, and haven't for a very long time.
They may as well be supporting Windows Server 2000 and 2003 if they are testing only physical servers.
They aren't supporting their software in production scenarios, because nobody runs software on physical servers in production. So when they are ready to make their software production-ready, it will be the other way around.
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Looking at Sharepoint tutorials to see if I could make use of it with my LLC, since I have a one-license subscription to Office 365 Business Premium.
Honestly is a much bigger hastle than its worth. Unless you're putting in many hundreds of man hours, id find a better solution.
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
consumers don't buy based on innovation
I do. Innovation can and does tend to lead to better products. Unless it's Apple. I don't consider a larger screen, extra button bar, or new color innovative.
All consumers say that they do, but very few actually do. And even if a few do, it has to be the majority - enough to make innovation more profitable than advertising.
Or being able to market new innovative features or tech for an existing or new product...
If the paid Pro version was free for personal use, I'd use it. But I'm not going to pay for it.
I can definitely see it's usefulness, and I'd love to use it. But I don't want to pay for something that only offers a minor convenience, that I do free otherwise, in a slightly less convenient way.
Cool product though, and would be worth paying for corporately.
@CharlesHTN said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Yeah, sure like they'd ever be able to afford it. College, rent, food, car.
Isn't that what Credit Cards are for? :face_with_stuck-out_tongue_winking_eye:
Uh, I'm a Millenial and I wouldn't buy Beats, or a $14k TV, and could buy a ton of each in cash... (but don't want to)
So stop with Millenial bashing.
I WISH there was a built-in way in Windows Server to use RAM as cache. I think it's awesome that StarWind has it.
Almost have a Salt State ready to get my laptop from fresh Fed27 install, to fully loaded with everything I use, including Virtualization ready, and all other settings configured.
Almost every computer with an Intel chips dating back to 2011 are affected by the vulnerabilities. AMD and ARM chips are not said to be vulnerable like earlier side-channel attacks.
A side-channel attack targeting Intel chips, allowing hackers to effectively exploit design flaws rather than injecting malicious code. Intel said ZombieLoad is made up of four bugs, which the researchers reported to the chip maker just a month ago.
@gjacobse said in CloudAtCost:
@Carnival-Boy said in CloudAtCost:
Any good?
You'd be better off just sending me your money.
For four easy payments of $19.99 you get a Raspberry Pi 1, case and broken keyboard.
And then a year after it's paid off, start charging a monthly fee or take it back!
SaltStack may be worth it just for managing any additional repositories you may use lol.
@Pete-S said in 16TB spinning rust is here:
I think you can divide 3.5" drives into three major categories:
- Desktop drives - Consumer 8/24 usage, 2y warranty, SATA - WD Desktop, Seagate Desktop etc
- NAS drives - "Pro/semi-pro" 24/7 usage, 3y warranty, SATA - WD Red, Seagate Iron Wolf etc
- Enterprise drives - Heavy 24/7 usage, 5y warranty, SATA or SAS - WD Ultrastar, Seagate Exos etc
I think large desktop drives has become a niche market since that is not what people buy. And if you look at 10TB or more, the NAS drives and the enterprise drives cost almost the same but enterprise drives always have 5 year warranty so...
Unless trends will change I think you'll see a lot more enterprise drives used by Backblaze. I think in general they will always pick the lowest cost per TB drives they can find in volumes they can buy.
Assuming everything keeps moving to the cloud, there are going to be huge volumes of hyperscale high capacity drives sold and less of everything else. Considering energy cost and density, hyperscale companies are always looking for the highest capacity drives.
WD Blue 3/year warranty
WD Black 5/year warranty
Both are non-Enterprise drives, and labeled as Desktop drives.
The fact that Backblaze used 34,737 Seagate st4000dm000 desktop consumer level drives that had a failure rate of 2.13% is by no means surprising. Most of the drives they use are not enterprise drives.
They must do it like that because they must think it's cheaper to deal with failed hard drives for the bulk of that tier of data.
However, looking at the HGST Enterprise grade drives they used almost 10,000 of (hms5c4040ble640)... those had a significantly lower failure rate.
Perhaps it's cheaper to go with Desktop drives for certain tiers of data, dealing with the failure rate, and for other data tiers, they choose Enterprise drives with much lower failure rates.
Benefits of being part of these communities... always learning new things!
Getting so sick of Windows Server... i just can't get anything done, i'm constantly waiting on or fixing crap so i can do stuff I should even have to do... just so I can access storage.
Honestly, it shouldn't take 2+ hours to connect to an iSCSI drive... It should be a 1 minute thing!
Edit: waiting waiting waiting.....
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Disney's system is definitely broken.
they claim that one account accesses all Disney stuff - but that clearly is not true.
I just tried to log into disney.com and shopdisney.com and my disneyplus.com account didn't work there - in fact it sent me a password reset email because possible compromise.
Get your shit together Disney!
It seems as there is no (so far) evidence of a Disney+ hack.
What I got out of it is lots of account credentials stolen from other previously hacked websites and services that now work to log in to Disney+ due to people using the same username and password across different websites and services.
@scottalanmiller said in Caching Needs and SSDs:
@Tim_G said in Caching Needs and SSDs:
@scottalanmiller said in Caching Needs and SSDs:
@Tim_G whole thing is warrantied through xByte too.
I don't know... I guess if xByte sells everything Dell sells, but for half the price, there's no reason to buy through Dell as far as I can tell, as long as you are getting the same warranties and support that Dell offers. Perhaps Dell should just shut down their online store and redirect to xByte IMHO.
They are both a normal dell reseller and a refurb dell shop. The refurb have warranties and are "new" but like open box that can't legally be called new. But not used.
A server I recently built is now 10k cheaper on xByte. (well 1.5 years ago) I guess a combination of time + xByte being cheaper.
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tim_g Not nearly so bad as it could be, but ouch.
Holding steady at around 110-113 MB/s.
Should be done in about 25 hours.
@manxam said in SolarWinds' Orion monitoring platform may have been tampered with by attackers:
Linux is OSS and has had many exploits...
Only the ones Voip_n00b didn't get to before it was too late...
@scottalanmiller said in South Korean Firm Pays Massive Ransom:
@Mike-Davis said in South Korean Firm Pays Massive Ransom:
I thought it was interesting that so many linux systems were hit. Has anyone heard of phishing attacks (or others) that went after linux boxes before?
I've heard of a few. they are rare, but Linux system are the much bigger payoff targets. The data, on average, on Linux servers are worth a lot more. but a lot harder to hit.
I'm sure that if Linux was as targeted as Windows is, there would be just as many vulnerabilities found... or at least a lot more than you think. However, I'm sure they would be fixed much faster than Microsoft fixes things, due to being open source.
