@biggen Right now, the only place we're using NVME in servers is for either cache in a hybrid storage setting (cache/capacity or cache/performance/capacity) or for servers with all NVMe.

Intel's VROC plug-in dongle enables RAID 1 in certain settings. That's driven by the CPU. Not sure Dell supports it.

For most applications, an R740xd with high performance NV-Cache and SATA SSD in RAID 6 will do. Intel SSD DC-S4610 series (D3-4610).

We have plenty of setups like that for virtualized SQL/database workloads as well as 4K/8K video storage.

EDIT: Forgot, in the Intel Server Systems we deploy we install a couple Intel NVMe drives, the VROC dongle for Intel only NVMe, and RAID 1 them for the host OS.

@biggen There should be an option for a PERC RAID controller that does NVMe RAID?

All of our EPYC Rome setups are going into Hyper-Converged so no need for a RAID controller.

@WrCombs

WFetch
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/284285/how-to-use-wfetch-exe-to-troubleshoot-http-connections

@JaredBusch said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@PhlipElder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

That's just creepy.

https://www.bizjournals.com/bizwomen/news/profiles-strategies/2018/03/smart-benches-help-cities-work-better.html?page=all

The bigger play for Soofa, however, is the data collected from the bench and sign. Beyond being able to track how many people use the bench to charge mobile devices, both the bench and the sign have the ability to measure how much cell phone noise is in proximity, which the company uses to indicate the level of activity in the area.

Maybe I'm just old and curmudgeonly, but this has 1984 written all over it.

Data Aggregators. Know what those are? I didn't until one got compromised recently.

I don't subscribe, and never will, to intrusions on our digital privacy.

I believe our digital lives should be treated with the same respect as our physical ones.

The problem is, we've become so inured to the intrusions and outright usage of our digital personages without our knowledge (impolite words to be had on this one), or even with our knowledge but who gives a care?, that it's like being at the bottom of a steep sand hill.
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@JaredBusch said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@PhlipElder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@JaredBusch said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

The city is watching you.

Heh ... number 1 complaint from those that manage, use, and develop for facial recognition as of late: Masks are F*cking things up for us!

Well the Soofa units just monitor your device passing by it. But still. That one is in the park by my house.

That's just creepy.

Time for a Faraday Cage carrier for the device or turning it off.

@JaredBusch said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

The city is watching you.

Heh ... number 1 complaint from those that manage, use, and develop for facial recognition as of late: Masks are F*cking things up for us!

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@PhlipElder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Going to order the movie. Saw a clip of it go by in one of my feeds and it looked really good.

Mel Gibson.

I'll take mine in Stetson please.

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Going to order the movie. Saw a clip of it go by in one of my feeds and it looked really good.

Mel Gibson.

@JaredBusch said in Unable to mount Exchange 2013 Database:

the soft recovery succeeded

But the system still reports dirty shutdown. so on to hard recovery with /p

Ever done a forklift recovery?

Also, to get mail flowing set up a Dial Tone database.

@DustinB3403 said in Unable to mount Exchange 2013 Database:

@JaredBusch take a look here it seems this guy was able too from a while back.

http://blog.mpecsinc.ca/2012/05/exchange-eseutil-d-defragment-temp-file.html?m=1

Heh ... that looks familiar.

@JaredBusch What is the error in the Windows Event Logs?

Any mention of Fragmentation?

@flaxking said in Use PowerShell to Disable UAC on Windows 10:

@PhlipElder said in Use PowerShell to Disable UAC on Windows 10:

@scottalanmiller said in Use PowerShell to Disable UAC on Windows 10:

@Obsolesce said in Use PowerShell to Disable UAC on Windows 10:

What special case needs UAC completely off?

Company purchases an application that requires it.

For those kinds of apps we use ProcessExplorer and ProcessMonitor to find where it needs MOD access and tweak accordingly.

Shimming also works.

The most common culprit is it writing to its Program Files folder

Yup.

There are a number of impolite words for that kind of coding that's so QuickBooks 2009.

@PhlipElder said in Use PowerShell to Disable UAC on Windows 10:

@scottalanmiller said in Use PowerShell to Disable UAC on Windows 10:

@Obsolesce said in Use PowerShell to Disable UAC on Windows 10:

What special case needs UAC completely off?

Company purchases an application that requires it.

For those kinds of apps we use ProcessExplorer and ProcessMonitor to find where it needs MOD access and tweak accordingly.

Shimming also works.

For those that are absolutely poor in their coding another option would be to post it as a RemoteApp in Remote Desktop Services with the appropriate routing in place to only allow the app to select client machines. No Internet access without specific rule sets in place for the vendor's update/activation servers if required.

EDIT: RemoteApp in 2008 RTM or R2.

@scottalanmiller said in Use PowerShell to Disable UAC on Windows 10:

@Obsolesce said in Use PowerShell to Disable UAC on Windows 10:

What special case needs UAC completely off?

Company purchases an application that requires it.

For those kinds of apps we use ProcessExplorer and ProcessMonitor to find where it needs MOD access and tweak accordingly.

Shimming also works.

@Texkonc said in Internet outage:

@JaredBusch said in Internet outage:

@PhlipElder said in Internet outage:

@JaredBusch said in Internet outage:

@PhlipElder said in Internet outage:

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/46z55mdhg0t5

Hmmm ... this from a little over a year ago.

Same "problem".

Routing is not magic. Errors happen.

That may be so, but the expectation is that the same errors would not happen over and over again.

FFS It is not the same. Are you stupid?

Jesus, calm down. No one pissed in your corn flakes...

No kidding. Don't go all Boomtown Rats on me.

@JaredBusch said in Internet outage:

@PhlipElder said in Internet outage:

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/46z55mdhg0t5

Hmmm ... this from a little over a year ago.

Same "problem".

Routing is not magic. Errors happen.

That may be so, but the expectation is that the same errors would not happen over and over again.

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/46z55mdhg0t5

Hmmm ... this from a little over a year ago.

Same "problem".

@Texkonc said in Internet outage:

@PhlipElder said in Internet outage:

@Texkonc said in Internet outage:

@PhlipElder said in Internet outage:

@CCWTech said in Internet outage:

From Cloudflare:

Update - This afternoon we saw an outage across some parts of our network. It was not as a result of an attack. It appears a router on our global backbone announced bad routes and caused some portions of the network to not be available. We believe we have addressed the root cause and are monitoring systems for stability now.
Jul 17, 22:09 UTC

Question is, where did those "bad routes" come from?

Garbage in = Garbage out.

Better yet.....Where was the Change Request?

Based on their follow-up post it was human error. So, my original thought stands.

So does mine. Garbage In usually means no Change Request.

Point taken.

@Texkonc said in Internet outage:

@PhlipElder said in Internet outage:

@CCWTech said in Internet outage:

From Cloudflare:

Update - This afternoon we saw an outage across some parts of our network. It was not as a result of an attack. It appears a router on our global backbone announced bad routes and caused some portions of the network to not be available. We believe we have addressed the root cause and are monitoring systems for stability now.
Jul 17, 22:09 UTC

Question is, where did those "bad routes" come from?

Garbage in = Garbage out.

Better yet.....Where was the Change Request?

Based on their follow-up post it was human error. So, my original thought stands.

@CCWTech said in Internet outage:

From Cloudflare:

Update - This afternoon we saw an outage across some parts of our network. It was not as a result of an attack. It appears a router on our global backbone announced bad routes and caused some portions of the network to not be available. We believe we have addressed the root cause and are monitoring systems for stability now.
Jul 17, 22:09 UTC

Question is, where did those "bad routes" come from?

Garbage in = Garbage out.