@bigbear said in TurnkeyInternet VPS / Dedicated Server Deal worth it?:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1345438

Old review but...

I can't comment on that yet. I've only had it for a day. But I have unlimited bandwidth and it's not a reseller account. So far no down time that I noticed.

I've contacted support a few times already, though, with getting my ISO uploaded. Support seemed very helpful and responsive in my experience. This was after I paid.

@tim_g said in PowerShell Regex - How to remove everything after first line?:

Actually, I'm sticking to this:

$compName = Get-WmiObject win32_ComputerSystem | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Name if ($compName -match "WINDOWS") { $dellTag = Get-WmiObject win32_bios | Select-Object -ExpandProperty SerialNumber Rename-Computer -NewName $dellTag -Force -Restart } Exit

Compared to sed, that makes my head hurt. Glad you got it sorted, and an example for when I'll need to do the same thing.

@tim_g said in Is it possible to use groupinstall in a Salt State?:

It looks like it is supported, but I haven't tested it yet:

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/states/all/salt.states.pkg.html#salt.states.pkg.group_installed

That's cool.

Looks like a neat idea. Treat the OS as a database, standard query language across platforms.

So forget my comments. It turned out maybe your instructions are fine. (Maybe, maybe not. I don't know, but will reinstall using your instructions again just to verify.) My problem was that I was opening up the firewall ports in the wrong zone. The default Install I used made only 1 zone on the master called "FedoraServer." Opening ports on this zone solved the issue. See this post from this morning: https://mangolassi.it/topic/15620/salt-stack-communication-issues/2

I managed to fix it. I'm not entirely sure what the fix was because I made too many changes at once.

I think it was an issue where SELinux suddenly didn't like Network Manager touching that file for some reason. No idea why that would suddenly be an issue.

Anyways, the four main changes I did:

First

# Cleared the contents of: /etc/resolv.conf

Second

ausearch -c 'dnsmasq' --raw | audit2allow -M my-dnsmasq semodule -X 300 -i my-dnsmasq.pp

Third

ausearch -c 'NetworkManager' --raw | audit2allow -M my-NetworkManager semodule -X 300 -i my-NetworkManager.pp

Fourth
reboot now

It's moving at least. Is the array in heavy use while this is going on?

I noticed when installing workstation from the server netinstall, that it uses the default partition scheme of the server compare to the workstation installer.

@tim_g said in Don't use Serverfault.com:

@coliver said in Don't use Serverfault.com:

@eddiejennings said in Don't use Serverfault.com:

@irj said in Don't use Serverfault.com:

Maybe they knew you were from mangolassi so they assumed you'd be off topic 🙂

like me right now

That's the typical gripe I see from the threads I've read. People spend more time complaining about the syntax and structure of a question, rather than (often) applying some common sense to understand what's being asked.

Yep... basically this.

Yeah.... the value of a site like Mangolassi.it just keeps growing.

More that the value of others keeps fading away 🙂

@travisdh1 said in SoloLearn Challenge:

Arduino sketches

Well, Arduino Sketch is a C library that C or C++ can call. So no, Sketch doesn't imply C++, nor is it likely, nor is it reasonable in any case where someone doesn't know what they are doing. C would be the default choice.

@tim_g said in Running nested VMs in Fedora 26 KVM / QEMU on Hyper-V:

@reid-cooper said in Running nested VMs in Fedora 26 KVM / QEMU on Hyper-V:

Out of curiosity, why could he not make the throw away VM on top of Hyper-V?

He doesn't have Hyper-V, and we don't give users access to the Hyper-V Servers. No SCVMM, so no granular control over VMs and HyperV.

Oh, I guess that I was confused.

@tim_g said in Human-turned-robot?:

...reminds me of this:

Youtube Video

As I understand it, that particular one makes use of all of the data Google has collected on you. If you are logged into your Google account, just clicking the button is frequently enough. So having a robot click a button proves nothing. 😛 But if it was just suppose to be a robot pushing a button - well, i guess they got it. /sigh (i.e. I didn't find it funny/humorous)

@stacksofplates said in Installable Windows App like Codeanywhere?:

Again, just so there isn’t any misinformation, you don’t need to set anything up. The hosted Gitlab is free for private repos.

Oh, I didn't know that!

@tim_g Sorry, can't help you there. I no longer have the R710 or the MD1000. The server was running 2012 R2 when I had it.

@storageninja Thanks appreciate that information!

@tim_g said in RAID 5 URE Clarity Question:

Yeah I do see.

I experienced 2 of them in almost a single week. Though they were just for testing hardware and didn't contain any real data so no losses... They were very old drives too so it was expected after forcing a rebuild.

One was a 5TB raw RAID 5 (5x 1tb drives), the other was 1tb something raw, a bunch of old 15k 300gb SAS.

Actually the 5TB one got a URE, the other one, a 2nd drive failed, not a URE.

Actually it is unknown if UREs go up over time. Likely they do, but the statistics are only average rate and don't state when or what variables contribute to higher or lower rates.

@tim_g hyperoo works well as an agent solution. Well I've not tested it but if you dig a bit in specs it is not an hypervisor level backup. So you can use veeam agent free.