@dbeato said in Disk imaging tools:

@thwr said in Disk imaging tools:

Want to move a fair amount of desktops from HDDs to SSDs, everything Windows.

Please note: I can't reinstall the hosts at this point because there is no software deployment or base image available and I don't have the time to build something myself at the moment. We use a lot of very specific scientific and engineering tools, which are not covered by any out of the box solution.

What's everyone's favorite disk imaging / cloning tool? A plus would be a tool which is able to image to a smaller sized partition (e.g. 1TB disk that only uses 150GB, imaged to a 250GB SSD.

I have been using Clonezilla for years but when it comes to big to smaller Drives I have been using Veeam Agent to backup fully the machine and restore to a new hard drive.

Veeam is the way to go. Especially if go from bigger drives to smaller.

Steps I do to ensure a successful image to a smaller drive.
1.) Disable virtual memory, the page file is often towards the end of the hard drive and is not movable.
2.) Reboot computer go into disk management in Windows and right click on drive and shrink it as much as possible.
3.) Use Veeam to image the computer.
4.) Insert SSD and boot from Veeam CD/USB and restore

@scottalanmiller said in Fitness and Weightloss:

@tech1 said in Fitness and Weightloss:

I didn't think I would enjoy the gym as much as I do. I also have two corgis now that will herd me and force me to run.

I loved it when I had a gym in my apartment building. That was great.

We have a free gym in my work building, maintained by the building. It is small but it is nice. I used it to take walks when it is hot and humid out or too cold for me to go outside for a walks.

Second week in my diet and I have lost 14 pounds. I am eating healthy but when you cut out sugar and soda it is amazing how much weight you initially loose right away.

@black3dynamite said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:

@scottalanmiller said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:

@black3dynamite said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:

@bbigford said in Do we dislike Ubuntu:

No thanks on Ubuntu. I prefer Fedora for workstations and CentOS/RHEL for servers. I haven't tried Fedora on servers but have needed more stability and less bleeding edge features. Curious to start trying it out as a server instance in a lab though.

The way I've been using CentOS and Fedora. Is that I would use Fedora by default unless there some weird setup that can break easily because of upgrading to a new version of Fedora or requires more effort to get it working correctly.

Yeah, CentOS only as a "fallback".

Would you consider the same for Ubuntu? Latest Ubuntu release, LTS as a fallback?

I only use Ubuntu in a must use case scenario, i.e. a vendor requires it. Then I always use the latest release. I always upgrade to the latest release.

@aaronstuder said in Fog wiki:

Back now.

Thanks! WOOHOOO!

@travisdh1 Sorry to hear that.

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@penguinwrangler said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Moving another inherited Ubuntu Server running Mediawiki over to Fedora

Is the system not working correctly?

I am trying to standardize upon Fedora as much as I can.

@dustinb3403 said in Fog wiki:

Not resolving here either.

Crapola

Moving another inherited Ubuntu Server running Mediawiki over to Fedora

Can anyone else get to the fog wiki? I can't get to it from my work or my home. http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com reports it as up though. wiki.fogproject.org

@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Driving home from St. Louis.

Not to long after your crossed into Illinois (if you crossed over into Illinois at St. Louis) you were only a couple of miles or less from my house.

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Watching the news about a high school shooting in Florida.

What the ever living ******** is wrong with people. I was a prison guard and have been through a lot of shit. I trained on firearms in the event I had to shoot at someone. I always wondered if I could actually shoot a fellow human being, and these were people convicted of not nice crimes, deep down I didn't know if I had it in me. I can't fathom what goes through someone's mind to just kill innocent people.

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@penguinwrangler said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I inherited a FOG server, which I like, but it was setup on Ubuntu. Migrating it over to Fedora right now.

Smart, but I'd just rebuild it and move your images.

PS, FOG works wonders as a VM!

That is actually what I am doing, and of course it is a VM.

I inherited a FOG server, which I like, but it was setup on Ubuntu. Migrating it over to Fedora right now.

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@penguinwrangler said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Trying to come up with a restaurant that won't be super crowded tonight because I'm not in the mood to cook dinner.

It is officially Lent, so maybe a steakhouse, depends on how big the Catholic population is in your area.

Good point. . . might be able to go out to a great steakhouse tonight. . .

Longhorn Steakhouse has a call ahead feature, at least mine does. You can get on the waiting list while you are driving there (at least that is what usually works for me) then usually you wait 10 minutes.

@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Trying to come up with a restaurant that won't be super crowded tonight because I'm not in the mood to cook dinner.

It is officially Lent, so maybe a steakhouse, depends on how big the Catholic population is in your area.

@scottalanmiller said in Amazon is cutting hundreds of corporate jobs,:

But hopefully adding thousands in a new office.

I would think this would happen due to restructuring, in anticipation of the new HQ. Have they announced where it will be?

Grits for breakfast, just a little salt, and butter in them. Turkey Sandwiches for lunch (homemade with horseradish sauce and swiss cheese on them) Spaghetti squash and turkey meatballs for supper. Yes I am on my diet.

There are 540 Billionaires in America. There are 205 million working-age adults (source:https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LFWA64TTUSM647S), Approximately 40% of them have a degree (source: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/percentage-americans-college-degrees-rises-paying-degrees-tops-financial-challenges) so do the math it comes out to 82 Million. 60% of the Billionaires have college degrees so that means 324 people with a college degree are billionaires. So the chance someone with a college degree becomes a billionaire is 0.000003951219512195121951219512195122 I wouldn't say that a college degree is a contributing factor to their success, it can be part of it though. Most often self-made billionaires are a special breed of people, I would say if you look at their traits as a person it would show what really caused them to succeed. This also doesn't make a difference between self-made billionaires and inherited fortunes.

@scottalanmiller correct me if I am wrong, your argument is that a college degree is not needed and often ends up financially hurting the individual and I do believe the numbers back that up. Someone can be successful without a college degree and not be poor and have no opportunity. I believe we do need to push back against the idea that college and/or military is the only option for someone. That was the impression I had. I wish someone would have shown me a different way.

@tim_g said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

@irj said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

@tim_g said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

@mike-davis said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

@tim_g I don't think one or the other is a good predictor of an outcome. It just shows there isn't a strong correlation.

Well it says that more than half (60%) of the world's billionaires did graduate college.

I do realize that statistic by itself is inconclusive, but it still shows that your more likely to be a billionaire if you graduate college.

It is a meme... so it may not even be true. I never verified it.

Or if you are a billionaire, you more than likely have the privilege to go to college as it is already paid for by your family.

Anyone can go to college. The poorer you are the more likely it is to be free... where you even get money for gas and such.

The privilege part is whether or not you have the means to go to college... such as a car, time, ability to put kids in child care so you can go, live in a place that even has college access, etc...

Your social life matters too... if you are surrounded by and are friends with people who only care about gangs and drugs and not about success, you probably won't go to college either. It has a lot to do with up-bringing.

The real question that has to be asked, would the Billionaires who went to college, be a billionaire if they didn't go to college. That then gets to the crux of the issue.