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@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

Love how the order of your food pics go from Salad to Dessert to Main. That is my kind of thinking. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

@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.

@dyasny said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:

@IRJ said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:

Spending money for the sake of spending money and creating fake jobs because of it, is just smoke and mirrors. No real world problem is solved. It's ok though because we can just print more money. Economic Stimulus is nice and all, but it is really just a temp solution. You cant keep throwing out money to solve issues that dont exists. This is the kind of stuff that builds up over time and creates issues. You need to find a real solution of the long term that provides value.

Nothing fake about creating jobs there. I have friends who worked for those fleet management companies, and the food they put on the table was real enough.

Well, there is a decent book about BS jobs on Amazon.

@Obsolesce said in Buying a New Car:

@wrx7m said in Buying a New Car:

@Obsolesce said in Buying a New Car:

I would never again buy a new car, even with a promo and heavy discount. The absolute newest I'd go is 3-5 years depending on the car, but generally older.

The used ones are practically the same price.

I see a $10-15k difference between 2019 and 2015 and 2014. That's a huge amount. That's more than I paid brand new for my daily driver lol.

I'm with ya on this one. I like to purchase a 1 year off lease from one owner if I can find it. Those are the best deals going. The trick is to find one with 15K miles or less. Do that, you get 30% of list, the balance of the warranty and no need for repairs for two years. Good value at that price

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@pmoncho said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

Just updated to 0.3.1-r

Six days since the last release, I hope everything is okay! This never happens.

I believe he is or was on vacation.

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

Everyone needs a break now and then. We have been killing him lately.

Maybe he needs the break to think about how to get @JaredBusch "Allow" button.

Nothing much, just getting married in my backyard. The one day I'm counting on the weather forecasters to be wrong.

@scottalanmiller said in SQL Server Express 2014 Extremely Slow on Network:

Tiny network, Windows 10 on two machines. SQL Server Express 2014 on one machine. If I connect from SSMS on the "client" machine to the "server" machine, I get a connection, but opening a table is ridiculously slow. To the point that apps seem to be timing out. Not sure where to dig in, something is causing it to be dog slow. Can't be disk, RAM or CPU because it's fine locally. Something about network or authentication seems to be the culprit.

Not an answer but a vaguely described possible point in direction...

On ML, someone here posted (Sometime in the last year I believe) about having to allow a process through the Windows Firewall for SQL and that sped everything up. I believe it was "Transaction Coordinator" or something like that.

@kamidon said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

And I apologize to everyone for venting and veering this overall question/topic off the rails.

No worries here as "off the rails" happens often but tends to bring out great conversation.

There is always this thread too.
https://mangolassi.it/topic/389/random-thread-anything-goes :winking_face:

Did you use the Dell ESXI Image?
Did you update all drivers, along with NIC drivers on the host?

On there is a post about 6.7 U3 running crappy on Dell's. I don't know if there was a resolution on that or not. (Based on no definite answer, I have a new R440, Single 4210 CPU, RAID 1 SSD's and 128GB RAM with 6.7U2 with no issues)

If none of @marcinozga fixes work, you may just want to start from scratch, update all drivers, use Dell OEM Esxi 6.7U2, create a generic W2016 VM with 2 CPU's, 12 GB RAM and 100 GB drive for the OS (we can add drives later).

Use VMXNET NIC adapter instead of E1000e. It will only add the NIC after you install guest tools.

That should fly (depending on the HD's you have installed) when all done.

If that all works fine, then you can try again with 6.7 U3.

(having a petty little moment)
<rant>
In details tab of GPO, MS calls it "Comment."

In the GPO, Properties, Comment tab is called "Comment" and the text box is called "Comment."

Want to get the text from the Comment tab in a PS script? Use the parameter "Description"
Why not the word "Comment???????" :angry_face:
</rant>

@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:

@pmoncho We're ditching the H330. Boss just ordered the H730P.

That, in the long run, is probably the best call. Any way you can get the boss to add on the SD Card module? That will be a benefit also if you stay with ESXi.