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@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@phlipelder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@nadnerb said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

The lack of a light on the bottom drive # 8 is interesting.

That looks like a serious hardware failure. BTDT

I sure hope the backups were tested to bare metal/hypervisor so known good.

That looks like a server that went crazy right after I started here. RAID5 had a drive fail. Had one hot spare, so they thought they were good... until 6 more drives failed. It was funny to me.

Until. SIX. more. failed?

About to go TV shopping with @CCWTech

He just rented a new house on the beach and needs a TV. I just rented a new house in downtown Leon and have to furnish the whole thing. So getting televisions today for them.

@jaredbusch said in Small switch for small branch office recs?:

@dashrender said in Small switch for small branch office recs?:

Today, the answer is really any switch you can find that fits the stated requirements.

I would change that to: Any switch fitting the requirements that can be delivered.

So much stuff back-ordered it is insane.

Sadly, this ^^^

@beta said in Small switch for small branch office recs?:

I know Ubiquity seemed to be pretty heavily recommended around here, but I can never remember what line of products I should be looking at for their switches.

If you use Unifi everywhere, then the single pane of glass is awesome. If you don't, it's worthless and the EdgeSwitch line is better.

Setting up my new office in Leon today with EdgeRouter and EdgeSwitch combo. Just my own small office so a tiny personal "branch."

Youtube Video

@dbeato said in any zimbra specialists:

also Ubuntu 16.04 and ZImbra 8.8.12 are old and need to be updated.

General system admin rule of thumb.... always update before troubleshooting. There is a high chance that patching alone will resolve issues.

@pattonb said in any zimbra specialists:

@dbeato argh ubuntu, too many things on the go. my apologies

That's ancient. Even by LTS standards that's ancient. You should be on 20.04 at the absolutely minimum if you run Ubuntu, and you should be being prepared to go to 22.04 in ~90 days. Even running 18.04 LTS at this point is inexcusably old.

@dave247 said in Staying at your shitty employer is your fault:

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

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

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

He's referring to total comp in which you get a base of $150-200k

Lol - Guess I'm in the wrong LinkedIn circle as I don't get anything in that base range... And I'm okay with that (twitch).

It's generally based on skillset and experience. 2-3 years cloud experience is super valuable right now. I posted about this in 2019 here.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/19837/you-need-to-get-cloud-certified

I'm 6 years into IT (network admin, sysadmin, security (generalist)) and have my Security+ and am making $70,000 in Wisconsin right now. Is that low/normal/high?

Very hard to say. We don't know your job role, responsibility, etc. If you did any of those roles specifically, then it is low after four years. But if you are in a generalist role, there's no gauge based on the description. The Sec+ is great to have, but has no direct correlation to salary, not at $70 or higher. Your way past the salary mark where a CompTIA cert is going to really affect salary. Nice to have, feather in the ol' cap. I have it too. But it isn't making me money.

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

I've read that west coast companies are now starting to have a new baseline salary for a position, then up it based on where you actually live. So the base might be $80K, but if you live in SF, you get $40K/y more, but live in Wisconsin - you just get 80K.

That'll never work. There are ways to live in NYC for super cheap. There are ways to "live" one place but be based in another. Everyone will "move" to expensive locations when deals happen to screw the system. Letting the employees dictate their salaries based on a fungible concept is insane. Makes no sense to the employees, makes even less sense to an employer. If my employees make bad life decisions, why should I provide them a bonus for that?

Saw that, so sad. He wasn't all that old. But definitely not in great physical condition.

Dogs got me up super early today for a walk. I've already done several miles.

Youtube Video

Liesl and I watched Alien yesterday. Classic

@dustinb3403 said in Goodbye hardware monitoring on HPE Gen10 and newer equipment running ESXi:

@voip_n00b said in Goodbye hardware monitoring on HPE Gen10 and newer equipment running ESXi:

@dustinb3403 Why?

Because you're required to setup and maintain and additional environment for it.

1 customers won't want to spend more money for something they've previously had included (by hpe) and 2 ESXi needs this functioning to report on the underlying health status.

Explain.... "Well, this happened because you are overpaying for something that you don't need and now it costs even more because they know you will pay because you are already paying just for the sake of paying. Instead of paying more, you could pay less."

And they will instantly say "oh heck no way do we want to SAVE money, spend spend spend"

@voip_n00b said in ProxMox eating SSDs?:

I eat 14 enterprise SSD’s every morning for breakfast. Very tasty and full of protein. The consumer ones are terrible tho and taste like cardboard. Always get the enterprise ones.

SSF

Solid State Flakes

Best website ever.

https://www.iorl.org/

@dustinb3403 said in Goodbye hardware monitoring on HPE Gen10 and newer equipment running ESXi:

@dashrender said in Goodbye hardware monitoring on HPE Gen10 and newer equipment running ESXi:

Good thing no one here runs ESXi..

Sure and none of us support it either.

....

Just like HPE. jajaja

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Reading a DHCP v6 RFC document.

How fast did you fall asleep?

Luckily, it was only one section I needed to read (about DHCP options), so I was able to stay awake

You been learning all about IPV6? So - what can ya tell us about it ?

That no one is using it, hahaha.

@jasgot said in Nextcloud 23:

You'd think they would use the same name for everything and outline the steps somewhere to get is all installed properly. Sheesh!

I noticed the same mess. They have had this all screwed up for some time. It makes no sense and there is no automatic dependency handling or clear guidance.

Just watched Ghostbusters Afterlife with my kids. Really good.