@black3dynamite said in What Are You Watching Now:
@pmoncho said in What Are You Watching Now:
Hellbound on Netflix is not so bad so far.
I finish the season yesterday and was actually pretty good.
I am enjoying it more as it goes. It is easy to know you like a show if the episode seems it is over right after it started and one has to watch part of the next episode even though its late and should go to bed.
@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:
Ever have your boss need you to do a little project for him and it involves just typing two words into a file?
Like, how incompetent can you be?
Best part is...
I'm the boss in this story. lol
@valentina is very long suffering.
Sometimes it pays to be the boss! 
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
These are pretty sweet. Thinking about getting one.
I'd like to hear some real world experiences with one before I go and grab one. One of the considerations I have is the
Uni-Taskermindset. It replaces a notebook/pad/sticky note, but what else can it do really? Is this feature set available via an iOS or Android product stream? If you spend for the 'better' accessories - are you not in the realm of an iPad Pro?Of course - the screen visibility and battery life has a number of benefits.
While it acts like just a paper/pen situation, based on how well scanning works, the Phone app seems to play a big part for uploading/organizing the pages.
Maybe @travisdh1 can give us some of the pros and cons of the app.
Will check more on it later tonight. It seems the value depends on its reuse longevity.
Debating whether to go for replacing Predictive Failure (in Online state) for one SAS HDD in RAID 10 on R520.
Dell Pro Support tech stated I don't need to Offline the drive.
Hmmm.. not the long time procedure I remember...
While debating to take their advise, currently making additional backups and migrating off the VM's that I can.
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Oh - you're using their whiteboard to write on... what's that like compared to writing on paper?
It's exactly like writing on paper. I have the RocketBook Core, which is basically 15 whiteboards in a smallish spiral bound notebook.
These are pretty sweet. Thinking about getting one. I go through a crap ton of Sticky notes. This is potentially a money saver.
What I really need is one as a magnetic grocery list to put on the fridge. Big time handy for us at home.
Yeah I use a ton of sticky notes too.. but the cost of this setup would still be years if not decades to over come.
I am like you with tons of notepads lying around everywhere and that drives me nuts. I think the cost will actually pay for itself after about 1.5 years (if it lasts that long). $40 doesn't go that far in the way of sticky notes and legal pads if I use them at work, home, and car.
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Oh - you're using their whiteboard to write on... what's that like compared to writing on paper?
It's exactly like writing on paper. I have the RocketBook Core, which is basically 15 whiteboards in a smallish spiral bound notebook.
These are pretty sweet. Thinking about getting one. I go through a crap ton of Sticky notes. This is potentially a money saver.
What I really need is one as a magnetic grocery list to put on the fridge. Big time handy for us at home.
@hobbit666 said in AMD Epyc Gen 4 will have 128 cores, 5nm tech:
@pete-s said in AMD Epyc Gen 4 will have 128 cores, 5nm tech:
@obsolesce said in AMD Epyc Gen 4 will have 128 cores, 5nm tech:
What's the price going to be for one of these?
The top of the line AMD Gen 3 today is the 64 core EPYC 7763 2.45 GHz base clock and 3.5GHz turbo boost. 256MB L3 cache and 280W TDP.
That one is $8K list so the 96 core will be north of that. So maybe $12K or so.
With these prices I feel the line in that snippet is a bit false advertising. I wouldn't consider a 12k processor a "General Propose" computer. That would be more a specific use case in workstations
That put those nice two words in there "up to.." to cover their ass.
@pete-s said in Slow "internet" customer says...:
I have a customer and they have one location where they hold meetings with about 30 people in attendance and say another 10 people in the office. People in the meetings sometimes complain about slow internet. Problem is that they have 500 Mbit/s fiber and no hosted servers or anything on-prem.
I haven't been on location yet so I have no clue what equipment they have. I'm suspecting consumer grade AP/router/firewall stuff.
How would you go about troubleshooting this problem?
Without knowing anything about equipment on-site and/or limited knowledge about the environment, I start with the basics:
www.speedtest.net -Will give you a better idea of true bandwidth
ping google, microsoft, Cloudflare, <site their connecting to>
tracert google, microsoft, <site their connecting to>
Check device performance in OS supplied performance monitor
Compare wired vs wireless performance if possible
Not much else you can do until you get more equipment info IMHO.
@gjacobse said in What Are You Watching Now:
@pmoncho said in What Are You Watching Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Watching Now:
@pmoncho said in What Are You Watching Now:
Completed 2nd season of "Another Life" on Netflix. I give it about a B+
On the list to queue up... right after finishing Wynona Earp, Yellowstone and a few others.
They don't give a recap of Season 1 (if you already watched S1), so if you watched it, you may want to re-watch the last episode before starting season 2.
We are doing that with Yellowstone... Watching the last three before the 2hr premiere of S4
So Yellowstone is good? I am watching Money Heist but do not have another show after that.
@gjacobse said in What Are You Watching Now:
@pmoncho said in What Are You Watching Now:
Completed 2nd season of "Another Life" on Netflix. I give it about a B+
On the list to queue up... right after finishing Wynona Earp, Yellowstone and a few others.
They don't give a recap of Season 1 (if you already watched S1), so if you watched it, you may want to re-watch the last episode before starting season 2.
@dashrender said in KVM or VMWare:
@stuartjordan said in KVM or VMWare:
@pmoncho said in KVM or VMWare:
@stuartjordan said in KVM or VMWare:
@obsolesce said in KVM or VMWare:
@scottalanmiller said in KVM or VMWare:
Not instead, in addition to.
If Hyper-V Server as a single product is going away, then it can't be "in addition to". He said Hyper-V Server, not Hyper-V.
@scottalanmiller said in KVM or VMWare:
ASHCI is MS doubling down on Hyper-V, not abandoning it.
Right, not what I was referring to. He said, "Hyper-V Server". We all know that Hyper-V is not going away.
I was Indeed Meaning Hyper-V Server, not the Hyper-V role.
I am wondering if MS expects businesses to be all cloud in the next ten years? Those that are not, they don't care about.
Is indeed what they want I believe, especially with Windows 365. They already had a method of creating RDS solutions in Azure. They have just made it easier to do with Windows 365.
Shit, many companies thought this 20 years ago...
I agree. Although most businesses, including us, did not have the ability to get higher Internet speeds as we do today. We were stuck with high priced multiple T1's until 6 years ago.
@stuartjordan said in KVM or VMWare:
@pmoncho said in KVM or VMWare:
@stuartjordan said in KVM or VMWare:
@obsolesce said in KVM or VMWare:
@scottalanmiller said in KVM or VMWare:
Not instead, in addition to.
If Hyper-V Server as a single product is going away, then it can't be "in addition to". He said Hyper-V Server, not Hyper-V.
@scottalanmiller said in KVM or VMWare:
ASHCI is MS doubling down on Hyper-V, not abandoning it.
Right, not what I was referring to. He said, "Hyper-V Server". We all know that Hyper-V is not going away.
I was Indeed Meaning Hyper-V Server, not the Hyper-V role.
I am wondering if MS expects businesses to be all cloud in the next ten years? Those that are not, they don't care about.
Is indeed what they want I believe, especially with Windows 365. They already had a method of creating RDS solutions in Azure. They have just made it easier to do with Windows 365.
I was going through the costs with their old RDS server solution they had about 5 years ago until they ditched it. It would have actually more cost effective for us.
Their new solution raised costs by about 40% so I said HELL no.
@stuartjordan said in KVM or VMWare:
@obsolesce said in KVM or VMWare:
@scottalanmiller said in KVM or VMWare:
Not instead, in addition to.
If Hyper-V Server as a single product is going away, then it can't be "in addition to". He said Hyper-V Server, not Hyper-V.
@scottalanmiller said in KVM or VMWare:
ASHCI is MS doubling down on Hyper-V, not abandoning it.
Right, not what I was referring to. He said, "Hyper-V Server". We all know that Hyper-V is not going away.
I was Indeed Meaning Hyper-V Server, not the Hyper-V role.
I am wondering if MS expects businesses to be all cloud in the next ten years? Those that are not, they don't care about.
Saw Halloween Kills this past weekend. It wasn't that bad either. Seemed a little more gory than past films.
Completed 2nd season of "Another Life" on Netflix. I give it about a B+
@obsolesce said in KVM or VMWare:
@scottalanmiller said in KVM or VMWare:
Not instead, in addition to.
If Hyper-V Server as a single product is going away, then it can't be "in addition to". He said Hyper-V Server, not Hyper-V.
@scottalanmiller said in KVM or VMWare:
ASHCI is MS doubling down on Hyper-V, not abandoning it.
Right, not what I was referring to. He said, "Hyper-V Server". We all know that Hyper-V is not going away.
So basically, correct me if I am wrong, one has to pay to use Hyper-V going forward in the future (After Hyper-V Server 2019 is EOL)?
@dashrender said in Who do you call for IT assistance:
@obsolesce said in Who do you call for IT assistance:
@dashrender said in Who do you call for IT assistance:
I'm not looking for a direct answer to the topic title.
I just had my first review with my new boss.
She asked me a question that seemed odd, but after more information was less odd due to her position.
Question: is there a certifying authority you can get certified in that you can also reach out to to get help with problems you can't solve?
Her example was SUNA - Society of Urologic Nurses and Associates. They certify nurses and have personal you can contact to get help with your questions.
IT is very broad. But to answer your question, if there is an IT issue you can't solve, you go to the product or technology's support method. If a MS issue MS support, Dell issue, then Dell support, etc...
Here's a possible mind bender - at least it is to me at o'dark thirty and 1/4 cup of coffee....
Is an issue with an MS product or a Dell server, etc an IT issue? On the surface it definitely looks right to say it is, but when we look at how this community has brought to light all of the computer based things that aren't IT - i.e. DB Admin Not IT, etc - what specifically makes an issue an IT issue vs not one?
I'll sit back and see how much vitriol I get over this
I guess it all depends on whose definition of IT (Information Technology) we want to use.
If we use Oxford's Dictionary definition then IT = the study or use of systems (especially computers and telecommunications) for storing, retrieving, and sending information. Your example is covered under IT.
Change the "dictionary", get a different definition and then a different result.
@jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:
Wil Wheaton gave a perfect explanation of how to separate problematic artists from their art
In an era of debates over cancel culture and increased accountability for people with horrendous views and behaviors, the question of art vs. artist is a tricky one. When you find out an actor whose work you enjoy is blatantly racist and anti-semitic in real life, does that realization ruin every movie they've been a part of? What about an author who has expressed harmful opinions about a marginalized group? What about a smart, witty comedian who turns out to be a serial sexual assaulter? Where do you draw the line between a creator and their creation
I feel similar to Wil Wheaton. I have a distaste for more than a few individuals in Hollywood but movies such as "Casino," "The Godfather II" and many others will continually be in my re-watch list for the unseeable future.
@jaredbusch said in Indentation Style:
@pmoncho tab indentation needs to die in nuclear fire.
Thankfully, modern IDE systems like Visual Studio Code and others all auto swap a tab for 4 spaces by default.
Personally, I prefer a 2 space indentation, but 4 seems to be the most common.
I didn't think Tab's were that big of a deal as I never had an issue between Vi, Nano, Notepad or Notepad++. I guess it is mostly a habit from using text editors.
Hmm... I always hated having press the space bar more than twice (only after "." mostly). Maybe I will try using two spaces in the next script to see how that pans out.
