@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:

Disney sets record for highest-grossing with $7.67 billion so far
https://www.wfmz.com/news/disney-sets-record-for-highestgrossing-year/1100840768

This makes me so sad.

Because its Disney?

Well, sure. But because Disney has totally given up on quality across the board.... going from making quality stuff to making the worst popular garbage ever (opinion I know, but it's so bad I'll no longer watch movies Disney is involved in, they've become a brand name of crap), they've taken their parks from ground breaking and oriented on customer service to just being overpriced six flags with gobs of stupid promotional stuff. They were a great company, and now the world would be a better place if they didn't exist.

That in doing so has made them more money than by creating good content or being ground breaking or whatever is sad because it shows what a horrific state society is in.

All you can do is....

"Let it go, Let it Go
Turn away and slam the door"

:winking_face:

@obsolesce said in Handling DNS in a Single Active Directory Domain Controller Environment:

@kelly said in Handling DNS in a Single Active Directory Domain Controller Environment:

just challenging the "most commonly correct approach" statement

It seems you are mistaking the "most common approach" with the "most common correct approach". I haven't been around the SMB as much as JB, but I'm assuming the most common approach to SMB DC implementations are incorrect. Meaning, 2+ DCs are being used when 1 should be used. Perhaps two DCs are used because so many other things are done incorrectly, it's thought 1 should't be used due to so many other things not properly in place, but that's besides the point in my reply here.

IMHO, SMB's use 2 DC's (me included) because it is drilled over and over in our heads by outside forces, including the application developers and the OS companies themselves. On top of that, we are completely stupid if we don't have a second DC if the hardware is available. So to follow "Best Practices," SMB's just do it. It doesn't necessarily mean that things are done incorrectly though. It mostly means, we (aka I) have an extra DC there sitting, waiting, getting monthly updates and then gather more dust for years on end all in the name of protection and risk reduction.

That is why coming here and having extensive discussions about general topics has helped me changed my own thoughts about system/network design in SMB's.

@dashrender

Grilling is fast with medium to high temps (10 minutes at 375-700) while BBQ is slow and low temps (many hours at 200-225)

IMHO, you cannot really BBQ a steak (Strip/Ribeye), hotdog or hamburger but you can BBQ or Grill a chicken.

@coliver said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@nerdydad said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@dashrender said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@nerdydad said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@dashrender said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

Here's a question for ya'll.

What do you call cooking steaks or hotdogs or burgers on a grill?

Grilling

OK, and what's the difference between grilling and BBQ?

Grilling is just applying the meat to the grill to cook. BBQ requires a sauce.

BBQ is a specific cooking style that may or may not use a sauce (don't talk about sauce in some states in the south)

I'm in the north but I am a no sauce BBQ/steak person. My motto is, "If it needs sauce you didn't do it right."

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Packed lunches not a right in Italian schools, court rules

Parents have reacted angrily to a decision by Italy's top court which states that the right to eat packed lunches in schools is not "unconditional."
Italy's Supreme Court said schools should have the autonomy to decide if children are allowed to eat packed lunches on school grounds.
A lower court previously ruled in favour of a group of Turin parents who wanted to opt out of school meals.
Parents say school meals are costly.
They also argue that food provided by schools can be unhealthy.
The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that bringing a packed lunch was "a possible violation of the principles of equality and non-discrimination based on economic circumstances".

I'm trying to figure out how far one has to stretch a logical argument to even equate Packed Lunch's = inequality????

That is way the f*%& out there.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

She doesn't have her own because it would be wasted money at this point, but she will as soon as she has the capability to speak.

Mine got their own super young. Otherwise they'd be using battery, storage, access on ours .... and the last thing that we wanted was them dropping our critical devices. By giving them their own we got them more age appropriate devices, that weren't critical to adults functioning, that could be in child-protective cases.

Oh how many non-IT parents don't understand this. I cannot tell you how many parents here at work come to me for help with virus's and such on their own device (with saved banking logins and all the goodies). I ask what they clicked on or what they were doing and 90% of the time the answer begins with "Well, my child..."

@Joel said in HyperV Server - Raid Best Practices:

This got a little heated :face_screaming_in_fear:
-So can we clarify, back to the OP - Consensus out of the options I have, Option 2 is the best way to go?

6x 2TB 12GB/s Drives in OBR10 for everything and then creating two partitions (1 for the HyperVisor OS) and then (1 for data - to store all my Virtual Machines and Data).

My VMs would be in D:\Hyper-V\VM's
My Virtual Hard Disks (daily data) would be in D:\Hyper-V\Data

Don't forget to do the cost comparisons of SAS in OBR10 vs SSD in RAID5. You may be surprised to find out that SSD in RAID 5 is cheaper (Stick with SSD 6Gb/s vs 12Gb/s) depending upon your server manufacturer.

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

@pmoncho said in I can't even:

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

@tim_g said in I can't even:

Actually I give up on that thread. We don't even know what he means by cluster.
We don't know what version of Windows/Hyper-V is being implemented.

The OP has only responded 4 times and never clarified anything.

So much is being assumed. I have a lot of questions to the OP that have never been answered, and it doesn't look like he intends on answering them. So I'm done.

That's a common problem. OPs that won't respond leave everyone wanting to discuss and nothing to work with. So it just spirals into a world of guessing and loads of discussion based on the guessing.

I have given up on many posts where the OP does not respond to questions. I give OP's about 3 hours to respond after the first response with questions. If they cannot bother to check back, why waste the time answer with assumptions.

The platform really encourages that behaviour. It doesn't show updates and encourages you to leave and await an email or something. That pattern is good for tiny, slow sites that no one is looking at. But when people are responding in real time and you aren't sticking around to watch, it doesn't go over well.

Absolutely. Just an huge UGH!

So now I mainly just hang out here.

@dbeato said in What would your recommendation be for a Type 1 Hypervisor - including backup and restoration options:

@DustinB3403 said in What would your recommendation be for a Type 1 Hypervisor - including backup and restoration options:

Most of my clients have an on-site data server
All have an AD server
All have a webserver of some type.
A few have terminal services

The fact that
Most of my clients have an on-site data server
A few have terminal services

Terminal Server is also something really annoying and cumbersome to manage without AD.

Microsoft keeps intertwining RDS and AD. Trying to manage RDS without AD is as bad as Hyper-V without AD.

@WrCombs said in Sonic Wall Rules?:

@WrCombs said in Sonic Wall Rules?:

@JaredBusch said in Sonic Wall Rules?:

@WrCombs said in Sonic Wall Rules?:

I did Find This but Im not exactly sure that's what im looking for.

This points you in more or less the right direction.

You will need to create objects for the devices and then make rules like this allowing communication from network Z to it.

Okay, So I need the Camera IP's and the Door Camera/Controller Ip to create objects, and then follow the guide?

@JaredBusch Cant I make one Object with Multiple IPs ?

Do as @travisdh1 stated. You can then create a Group from the Objects.

@dashrender said in Staying at your shitty employer is your fault:

yeah, the whole social aspect is the question.

I think if the work day cut down to say 5-6 hours instead of 8, where you're jobbed-out focused on work because there are few to no distractions when you're at home (yeah right) compared to the drop into your cube conversations, or water cooler talk, etc... and giving those BS hours back to people might be the difference.

but who the hell knows?

Found this post today from 9/21

https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/4-day-workweek-productivity-wellbeing-results

Your idea is not that far fetched. It looks like it can have some good results also.

@jaredbusch said in ER-X firmware Upgrade:

@pmoncho said in ER-X firmware Upgrade:

@jaredbusch said in ER-X firmware Upgrade:

@pmoncho said in ER-X firmware Upgrade:

The part that bugs me is I had check the storage issue prior to upgrade. Had 58% free so I figured I would be ok.

At some point, Ubiquiti updated the firmware upgrade process of the ER-X to pre-delete the old version. I have no idea what "space" should be available, but I always deleted the backup firmware prior to upgrading until I was on the 2.X line.

This has been a known issue with the ER-X from day 1.

I have now updated my upgrade process. Backup config, confirm download of currently loaded firmware is available, reboot, delete backup firmware, update firmware.

Now that I am on the 2.X line with all devices, I simply click the upgrade button within UNMS (now UISP).

Full Process:

• Log in to UNMS
• Click to reboot router
• Wait for it to come back online
• Click upgrade

Interesting.

What did UI change in 2.X line that makes you trust just upgrading vs the 1.XX line?

@stuartjordan said in ER-X firmware Upgrade:

Glad I didn't get this issue when I upgraded to the latest version.

I'm glad you didn't either. This stinks. As this is for home, didn't think there was a reason to buy two.

Using other individuals previous experiences, in addition to my own, I have no revamped my upgrade process.

@jaredbusch said in ER-X firmware Upgrade:

@pmoncho said in ER-X firmware Upgrade:

The part that bugs me is I had check the storage issue prior to upgrade. Had 58% free so I figured I would be ok.

At some point, Ubiquiti updated the firmware upgrade process of the ER-X to pre-delete the old version. I have no idea what "space" should be available, but I always deleted the backup firmware prior to upgrading until I was on the 2.X line.

This has been a known issue with the ER-X from day 1.

I have now updated my upgrade process. Backup config, confirm download of currently loaded firmware is available, reboot, delete backup firmware, update firmware.

@dashrender said in ER-X firmware Upgrade:

@pmoncho said in ER-X firmware Upgrade:

@dashrender said in ER-X firmware Upgrade:

@pmoncho said in ER-X firmware Upgrade:

@notverypunny said in ER-X firmware Upgrade:

There's mention of a tftp recovery option in the link below:

https://community.ui.com/questions/EdgeRouter-X-bricked-after-factory-reset/12c82f1b-8fd1-47ec-9a92-88ec81ea208b

Don't know if it still applies but might be worth trying.

Also:
https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018189493-EdgeRouter-Manual-TFTP-Recovery#4

and
https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/360019289113

I was looking at similar posts. I think I will look into the USB-TTL device.

Some posts mention 3.3v and other mention +5v - Something tells me it matter but I am dumb in these matters.

wait - what? there's voltage concerns on a USB to terminal connection? Can't say I've ever seen that.

The ER-X doesn't have a console port so you have to open it up, use a USB-TTL to connect to the serial port PINs on the board.

Oh yeah - One of the reasons JB disliked this device!

Yep. Bummer. I found this on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WX2DSVB/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Someone already used it on an ER so hopefully it will work for me too.

@dashrender said in ER-X firmware Upgrade:

@pmoncho said in ER-X firmware Upgrade:

@notverypunny said in ER-X firmware Upgrade:

There's mention of a tftp recovery option in the link below:

https://community.ui.com/questions/EdgeRouter-X-bricked-after-factory-reset/12c82f1b-8fd1-47ec-9a92-88ec81ea208b

Don't know if it still applies but might be worth trying.

Also:
https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018189493-EdgeRouter-Manual-TFTP-Recovery#4

and
https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/360019289113

I was looking at similar posts. I think I will look into the USB-TTL device.

Some posts mention 3.3v and other mention +5v - Something tells me it matter but I am dumb in these matters.

wait - what? there's voltage concerns on a USB to terminal connection? Can't say I've ever seen that.

The ER-X doesn't have a console port so you have to open it up, use a USB-TTL to connect to the serial port PINs on the board.

@notverypunny said in ER-X firmware Upgrade:

There's mention of a tftp recovery option in the link below:

https://community.ui.com/questions/EdgeRouter-X-bricked-after-factory-reset/12c82f1b-8fd1-47ec-9a92-88ec81ea208b

Don't know if it still applies but might be worth trying.

Also:
https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018189493-EdgeRouter-Manual-TFTP-Recovery#4

and
https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/360019289113

I was looking at similar posts. I think I will look into the USB-TTL device.

Some posts mention 3.3v and other mention +5v - Something tells me it matter but I am dumb in these matters.

@dashrender said in ER-X firmware Upgrade:

@pmoncho said in ER-X firmware Upgrade:

@marcinozga said in ER-X firmware Upgrade:

It probably is bricked. The same happened to my ER-X when firmware 2 came out. I got it booted eventually over serial cable, and if I remember correctly it displayed something about internal storage.

I noticed others have had the same issue in the past.

I just saw the serial connection setup. Did you just use the USB-TTL device to connect?

The part that bugs me is I had check the storage issue prior to upgrade. Had 58% free so I figured I would be ok.

yeah, that's not much when the firmware is 70 MB compressed.

I definitely know that now. lol If that is what did it. The other reports I read, before I did anything, user mentioned <40%. I decided to give it a shot. Oh well.

Bought a cheap D-link at Microcenter yesterday to get us going. Glad I did as we are locked down with snow this morning in NE Ohio.

@dashrender said in ER-X firmware Upgrade:

@pmoncho said in ER-X firmware Upgrade:

@marcinozga said in ER-X firmware Upgrade:

It probably is bricked. The same happened to my ER-X when firmware 2 came out. I got it booted eventually over serial cable, and if I remember correctly it displayed something about internal storage.

I noticed others have had the same issue in the past.

I just saw the serial connection setup. Did you just use the USB-TTL device to connect?

The part that bugs me is I had check the storage issue prior to upgrade. Had 58% free so I figured I would be ok.

yeah, that's not much when the firmware is 70 MB compressed.

I definitely know that now. lol If that is what did it. The other reports I read, before I did anything, user mentioned <40%. I decided to give it a shot. Oh well. Bought a cheap D-link at Microcenter yesterday to get us going. Glad I did as we are locked down with snow this morning in NE Ohio.

@marcinozga said in ER-X firmware Upgrade:

It probably is bricked. The same happened to my ER-X when firmware 2 came out. I got it booted eventually over serial cable, and if I remember correctly it displayed something about internal storage.

I noticed others have had the same issue in the past.

I just saw the serial connection setup. Did you just use the USB-TTL device to connect?

The part that bugs me is I had check the storage issue prior to upgrade. Had 58% free so I figured I would be ok.