I realize that there's quite the Fedora following here. I'm fine with that. I'm going to load up a distro and tryout KVM. Is Fedora the odds on favorite for a try at this?

@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

BBC News - Woman in China nearly dies after injecting herself with fruit juice
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-47623816

Where's the "That's now how this works" meme when needed?

@jmoore They claim that you can tag an author or series and it will scrape the net and add books to your wish list. It should make it easy to manage a purchase list or borrow list from the library.
@dafyre I've been using the EPUBReader extension in Chrome. Does pretty good although it doesn't auto-bookmark where you're at in the book. You have to bookmark your spot when you close the browser. I just got used to hitting 'D' while I'm reading.

I have an ebook Library in Calibre and have seen posts about Lazy Librarian working in conjuction with Calibre and GoodReads that will follow Authors / Series and form wishlists. Sounds like it might be nice.

Apparently the project has moved to GitLab here https://gitlab.com/LazyLibrarian/LazyLibrarian.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Open source solutions seem like worth pursuing even with the learning curve on my part.

If they exist

The seminar, I think, seems to be trying to sell a non-open product on top of open source. From what I can tell, there is no open source in the "VDI solution" portion. If there is, they totally hide it. Go look at the web site, there is no way to get the source whatsoever and zero mention of a license.

Terminal services is different from VDI and you can do that today for free with open source. And you can do VDI with open source - just install any desktop VM on KVM or Xen and ta da... full stack open source VDI. That's literally all it takes.

If you mean RDP or VNC or SSH or Telnet, then yes, I have that. More, I don't know what I'm doing but I am willing to learn.

Will you send me someplace special?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

If this webinar will help me understand better, then I'll sign up for it. My curiosity has the better of me when it comes to this stuff. I just have to create the time.

Im' interested but the ad said it was all open source, but the vendor in question seems to have no info about their source or licensing anywhere.

Open source is what piqued my interest

Yeah, could be really cool. But they don't make it seem like it is open source when you go to the site at all.

If I remember correctly, our Citrix / Terminial Services solution cost around $25k with hardware, software & setup and we could only handle about 30-35 connections before we tapped out. And that was in the early 2000's.
Open source solutions seem like worth pursuing even with the learning curve on my part.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

If this webinar will help me understand better, then I'll sign up for it. My curiosity has the better of me when it comes to this stuff. I just have to create the time.

Im' interested but the ad said it was all open source, but the vendor in question seems to have no info about their source or licensing anywhere.

Open source is what piqued my interest

@StuartJordan I have experience with some of what you described. At work, we ran a two server Citrix Farm ca. 2006 maybe V6 and have had a TS server along with that since. What I've never tried is VDI and it seems that I probably won't.
That being said, I'm curious what I could do pushing out desktops and or apps with XCP-NG. I see a choice to make a vApp from a VM, just haven't explored it. I'm curious if I can create an advantage, what would happen with available resources, how it scales, those sorts of things.
If this webinar will help me understand better, then I'll sign up for it. My curiosity has the better of me when it comes to this stuff. I just have to create the time.

@StuartJordan said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scotth it's entirely up to you if you would want to do this or not. I have dedicated servers in a Datacenter and have my own lab server at home and look after a couple of rds environments so this subject matter is of interest to me. What equipment are you running in your lab?

Proliant ML150G6 Dual Xeon Quad Core E5540 48GB RAM P410 Array Controller (No Cache battery). I just haven't bought one yet. Old box, I know. I picked it up for $750 with 6 2TB drives
VDI is something that I've heard about for years and have never taken the time to learn about other than how to spell it.
I have a 2GB Asus NVidia based card in it and GPU passthrugh is available in the settings. I've just never had the time to play with it.
Running XCP-NG 7.4. I have XO from sources and XCP-NG Center running. Been trying to update it for weeks. Life interferes. FreeNAS backup target. Linksys 48 Port GB switch. Picked that up for 50 bucks from a phone guy friend that takes care of one of our offices. Plus he recycles electronics -- no charge. If anyone is in NE Ohio, I'll pass along a request.

@StuartJordan said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just signed up for this webinar, looks like an interesting one:
https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2019/03/07/full-vdi-stack-xcp-ng-xen-orchestra-uds-enterprise/

So, if I'm running a home lab, would I want to do something like this other than to learn how or even just for cool factor? Does it mean that I'd have to 'up the voltage' and get a mega video card or something else that would show my ignorance?

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scotth said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Why does it always seem like it's PA?

Just seems that way, it is often FLA.

Maybe I should specify 'stupid crazy'. It's a special breed.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Why does it always seem like it's PA?
At least there are times when the crazy gets spread around to other places

@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Nasty WinRAR bug is being actively exploited to install hard-to-detect malware

19-year-old code-execution flaw exploited within days of being disclosed.

On Thursday, a researcher at McAfee reported that the security firm identified “100 unique exploits and counting” in the first week since the vulnerability was disclosed. So far, most of the initial targets were located in the US.

I wonder if this works for other programs that handle .rar files as well?

My 1st thought. 7zip anyone?

@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Anti-vax parents sue to keep unvaccinated kids in school during outbreak

County fiercely defends restrictions amid measles outbreak that has sickened 145.

As New York’s Rockland County grapples with a large and lengthy outbreak of measles, a group of anti-vaccine parents sued officials for temporarily barring their unvaccinated children from school—and the county is not having it.

So... If most of the kids in school are already vaccinated... Why is there public outrcy over unvaxxed kids coming to school? Just curious...

[Full Disclosure: I am not an anti-vaxxer!]

As always, where's the money?

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

trying to find out how I can get the output from a PS command into an xlsx format? I have 2 columns of data, I want to seperate them so I can have them shown in 2 columns within excel.

On the Ribbon, try data, text to columns

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scotth said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products

The group that brought us the Pixelbook and Pixel Slate is being downsized.

A report from Business Insider claims that Google has axed "dozens" of employees from its laptop and tablet division. BI's sources describe the move as "roadmap cutbacks" and also say that Google will likely "pare down the portfolio" in the future.

It's a Google division. Google is a brand name designated to warn us that all products are temporary and will be going away soon.

Crap. I was thinking of getting a Pixel for my next phone. Dunno now.

All depends if you want a phone from a company that is dedicated to long term manufacturing, or you just care about the one phone. It doesn't change what the phone itself is like.

Don't get me wrong. I think the product is fine. My brother and son-in-law have one and they are fine with them. I'm just thinking that they won't continue to develop the line by the time I'm ready to move.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products

The group that brought us the Pixelbook and Pixel Slate is being downsized.

A report from Business Insider claims that Google has axed "dozens" of employees from its laptop and tablet division. BI's sources describe the move as "roadmap cutbacks" and also say that Google will likely "pare down the portfolio" in the future.

It's a Google division. Google is a brand name designated to warn us that all products are temporary and will be going away soon.

Crap. I was thinking of getting a Pixel for my next phone. Dunno now.

@maximus said in Restaurant Purchasing System:

@travisdh1 said in Restaurant Purchasing System:

@maximus said in Restaurant Purchasing System:

@WrCombs said in Restaurant Purchasing System:

@maximus said in Restaurant Purchasing System:

@WrCombs said in Restaurant Purchasing System:

@maximus said in Restaurant Purchasing System:

Hi,

Anybody here using restaurant purchasing system? what purchasing system are you using?

What are you looking for exactly - Restaurant Purchasing Systems - What does that mean exactly?

the system will document the food items that will be bought. it will also keep track of history requisitions. some system are attached to the inventory system. but we are just looking for a purchasing system for now.

oh you're looking more to track inventory?

not yet inventory, just purchasing system. inventory systems are a nightmare.

FTFY

So the usual inventory is - you buy 100 pcs, the users will dedect 1 pc when they use it. Now on food, you buy 1 box of cooking oil, the box has 12 cans inside, the user will use 200 grams. So you need to swim on a freaking conversion table from box to grams. LOL.

Pricebook, recipes, costing, retail, physical inventory--retail vs cost, .... It gets nasty

@justin867 said in CCTV Standalone NVR:

@scotth said in CCTV Standalone NVR:

@justin867 said in CCTV Standalone NVR:

Hikvision NVR has 16 ports at the back. does the camera need to be directly connected to the ports? we have CCTV vlan and some of camera is passing via fiber and multiple switch hops.

I'm not sure where you're confused. BNC (analog over coax) goes to BNC. IP goes over the wire (ethernet). The appliance has an interface to configure your connected devices.

Sorry for noob question. Just want to make sure that the NVR's 16 network ports works as normal switch ports.

I honestly couldn't tell you as I've never dealt with a device that matches what you're describing.

@justin867 said in CCTV Standalone NVR:

Hikvision NVR has 16 ports at the back. does the camera need to be directly connected to the ports? we have CCTV vlan and some of camera is passing via fiber and multiple switch hops.

I'm not sure where you're confused. BNC (analog over coax) goes to BNC. IP goes over the wire (ethernet). The appliance has an interface to configure your connected devices.