@tech1 said in What Are You Watching Now:

The new X-files episode.

That's a thing?

@ccwtech said in Network setup - Hyper-V:

@reid-cooper said in Network setup - Hyper-V:

So the app is fast when using local storage and slow when using network storage? Seems like a not unexpected behaviour.

Except that it is. Of course running it locally with be always faster, but I'm talking about very significant slowdowns. I said above that I have done several of these servers for clients that use the software and have not had this issue.

Have you looked for things like a broken switch, unnecessary route hops, high latency between nodes, packet loss, or things of that nature?

@tim_g said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:

The only real study done, has shown that moderate to heavy drinking is shown to have a positive effect on how long you live, but has NOTHING to do with your health.

What? How is being alive unrelated to health?

So the app is fast when using local storage and slow when using network storage? Seems like a not unexpected behaviour.

Happy New Year everyone! Hope that everyone had some great holidays. I assume we are all back in the office today

@bnrstnr said in Buying used server from another IT guy... Not sure what to look for:

Also, as @Reid-Cooper the power draw on a NAS will be massively less, but it's extremely limited on processing power.

But what will you do with that excess power in a file server anyway?

That server is likely to draw a lot of power. A NAS for $300 is often a super low power ARM or SPARC processor. Maybe MIPS. That server is likely Intel and going to use 10-100x the power of the NAS. Plus the size and the noise.

Sit / Stand desks are great. I think that they do aid productivity, by making you more active and alert.

@dbeato said in How Does Hardware RAID Monitoring Work:

@scottalanmiller said in How Does Hardware RAID Monitoring Work:

emember when. A very long time. DRAC I have no

Yes iLO I can understand but Dell was way behind...

That use to be true a lot. They seem to be catching up a lot more the last several years.

@kelly said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Endless Space 2 free weekend and half off.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/392110/Endless_Space_2/

I don't know what to do now... I have the newest Brandon Sanderson book and this.

Nice find.

@bigbear said in What Are You Watching Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Watching Now:

We just started watching The Sinner on USA Networks. It's a good show so far. The premise is the lady kills a guy right at the beginning of the show... and now they're working backwards to figure out the why.

Sounds like an idea I have for a show... real similar. Except a guy gets marriages in the first episode, then for 15 seasons tries to figure out why...

And then a show about people who watch this show. And then they too, try to figure out why.

I don't see anywhere where you put salt into the /etc/hosts file of the minion, or put it into DNS. Is that maybe the issue?

TGIF everyone. Almost there...

@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Amazon Key flaw makes your home very, very vulnerable.

Like you really wanted this service anyhow.

The whole thing seems like a bad idea.

I think you mean Linux is getting ported to RISC-V? RISC-V is the hardware, Linux is the software.

@eddiejennings said in NIC teaming on Hyper-V Host:

All four NICs are active, and Hyper-V chooses which ever NIC to use for a VM's traffic at a given time (or split the traffic between multiple NICs).

Hyper-V isn't involved. The team is done by the network stack driver. Yes, that's on Hyper-V, but it is just a driver, not the Hyper-V kernel. This is important because the driver has no concept of VMs or anything like that. VMs are just "traffic" to the NICs. Hyper-V just sends the traffic to the network stack, the stack sends it over the NICs. The stack, the NICs, none of them are VM-aware.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

That's just sad. If I got a bill like that, the whole world would know about it.

It's not the kind of thing you'd generally want people to know.

Yeah, I'd kind of want to hide that.

An example of switch-indy teaming would be if you had four NICs teamed in this way, and wanted to do file transfers, liked to mapped drives or something.

If you were doing a single file transfer, you'd expect to get 1 Gb/s max bandwidth, because that is all one NIC can handle (assuming GigE NICs.) You can't get faster by teaming in this manner.

But you could have four file transfers going on at once, each getting 1Gb/s at the same time, for a total of nearly 4Gb/s. But if you had fewer than four at once, you'd only get 1Gb/s per activity.

NSFW is Not Safe for Work. Maybe NSA is Not Safe for America?

Basically, the NSA was incompetent and didn't know basic security. Surprised? I didn't think so.