@eddiejennings said in Home office desk:

@stacksofplates said in Home office desk:

I have a Skarsta desk https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/skarsta-desk-sit-stand-white-s89324812/ but I replaced the top with an Ikea 78" Linnmon top. I also have the Ekby drawers on top https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/ekby-alex-shelf-with-drawers-white-20192828/

Trying out the Skrasta desk at the IKEA in Atlanta convinced me that an electric desk was worth the money :).

yeah, I was under the delusion that if it takes effort to wind it up and down, I'd stand more because I'd have to crank it down when I wanted to sit. It had the opposite effect. I sit a lot more and don't crank it up.

I've been doing much better though recently.

@black3dynamite said in Home office desk:

@pete-s said in Home office desk:

@obsolesce said in Home office desk:

It's been a while, and thought I'd look for some ideas.

I'd prefer sit/stand, but I'm not sure how that'd go considering the following:

2 laptops
1 desktop
2 monitors
...things

This is what I was looking at for a sit/stand desk:
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/idasen-desk-sit-stand-black-beige-s09280987/

However, I like the style of this as well, though not sure if it will fit everything well:
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/fredde-desk-white-10451068/

What do you suggest?

I think you need to have a look in person at the desk. With the things you want to have on it I think it will be too small. I'd look for something longer.

I'd also be careful then buying IKEA because corners are cut to get the price down. I have two IKEA electrical sit/stand desks at home that are being replaced with larger, better desks. Both desks have had motor/electrical problems. The quality and quality control is so-so and not as good as commercial desks. But maybe they'll get the job done as a budget option for you.

Yeah, I’ve seen some YouTube videos of people replacing the honeycomb table top with one of those kitchen table tops that are solid wood. And also so they can have a longer table too.

I have a Skarsta desk https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/skarsta-desk-sit-stand-white-s89324812/ but I replaced the top with an Ikea 78" Linnmon top. I also have the Ekby drawers on top https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/ekby-alex-shelf-with-drawers-white-20192828/

@travisdh1 said in Spectrum VS T-mobile home internet:

@stacksofplates said in Spectrum VS T-mobile home internet:

@travisdh1 said in Spectrum VS T-mobile home internet:

@stacksofplates said in Spectrum VS T-mobile home internet:

@scottalanmiller said in Spectrum VS T-mobile home internet:

@jaredbusch said in Spectrum VS T-mobile home internet:

@travisdh1 said in Spectrum VS T-mobile home internet:

@obsolesce said in Spectrum VS T-mobile home internet:

I may have to just go with Spectrum for now. Those latency numbers are a bit high. I assume the 5g would be better, but not sure if that's in the area yet.

5G is not a real thing in the US yet, tho it's likely to be in your area a lot quicker than the rest of the US.

Rural Ohio is not “America” only a small part of it. 5G has been rolling out for more than a year.

No, he is correct. The "5G" rolling out in the US is actually an improved 4G. True 5G doesn't have equipment available in the US yet. We work with an ISP and literally no actual 5G equipment is available on the US market yet. Because of the Huawei ban, the original source of 5G is cut off and to cover up that mistake, the US allowed higher speed 4G to be rebranded as 5G in the US so that the country wasn't up in arms about it, but like how they allowed 3G to be branded as 4G in the past. They changed the "G" from a tech term into a federally regulated branding term.

That's why the speeds everyone is seeing are standard old 4G speeds from the rest of the world and nothing like what 5G can do. There's a fake American 5G rolling out quickly, we have it hear in Dallas. But it's a mediocre 4G speed by global standards and using what every other country calls 4G because it's a 4th Gen technology. 5G in the US is 4th gen, that's why our 5G is slower than eastern Europe's 4G from half a decade ago.

Verizon has 5G mmWave deployed in quite a few cities. There still is low-band being branded as 5G but there is real 5G in many cities.

That's not what I've been hearing, but I'm behind on listening to my tech news. As of the end of last year, mmWave is still in only a few spots in select cities. Those spots being within ~100' of the transceiver, not even enough to call a single block covered.

The rest is all low-band being rebranded as 5G like you said.

It's like 65 or so. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.androidauthority.com/5g-cities-us-1105898/amp/

I count 65 as quite a few. In comparison to all cities it's not much, but it's more than a small amount.

I just glanced at that report, what I didn't see mentioned is WHERE 5G mmWave is available in those cities. IE: New York city only had a couple 100' zones where you could get it last I knew. Technically it's available, realistically you just won't get it. I'm sure the companies are working to change that fast as they can, I could see it being actually useful in New York and San Francisco by the end of this year.

However, those results were achieved by practically standing under the 5G nodes. Across the city, the average download speed was a lot slower (but still fast) at 594Mbps.

I take that to mean it's actually across the city. Even still, the argument was it wasnt available in the US which was incorrect.

@travisdh1 said in Spectrum VS T-mobile home internet:

@stacksofplates said in Spectrum VS T-mobile home internet:

@scottalanmiller said in Spectrum VS T-mobile home internet:

@jaredbusch said in Spectrum VS T-mobile home internet:

@travisdh1 said in Spectrum VS T-mobile home internet:

@obsolesce said in Spectrum VS T-mobile home internet:

I may have to just go with Spectrum for now. Those latency numbers are a bit high. I assume the 5g would be better, but not sure if that's in the area yet.

5G is not a real thing in the US yet, tho it's likely to be in your area a lot quicker than the rest of the US.

Rural Ohio is not “America” only a small part of it. 5G has been rolling out for more than a year.

No, he is correct. The "5G" rolling out in the US is actually an improved 4G. True 5G doesn't have equipment available in the US yet. We work with an ISP and literally no actual 5G equipment is available on the US market yet. Because of the Huawei ban, the original source of 5G is cut off and to cover up that mistake, the US allowed higher speed 4G to be rebranded as 5G in the US so that the country wasn't up in arms about it, but like how they allowed 3G to be branded as 4G in the past. They changed the "G" from a tech term into a federally regulated branding term.

That's why the speeds everyone is seeing are standard old 4G speeds from the rest of the world and nothing like what 5G can do. There's a fake American 5G rolling out quickly, we have it hear in Dallas. But it's a mediocre 4G speed by global standards and using what every other country calls 4G because it's a 4th Gen technology. 5G in the US is 4th gen, that's why our 5G is slower than eastern Europe's 4G from half a decade ago.

Verizon has 5G mmWave deployed in quite a few cities. There still is low-band being branded as 5G but there is real 5G in many cities.

That's not what I've been hearing, but I'm behind on listening to my tech news. As of the end of last year, mmWave is still in only a few spots in select cities. Those spots being within ~100' of the transceiver, not even enough to call a single block covered.

The rest is all low-band being rebranded as 5G like you said.

It's like 65 or so. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.androidauthority.com/5g-cities-us-1105898/amp/

I count 65 as quite a few. In comparison to all cities it's not much, but it's more than a small amount.

@scottalanmiller said in Spectrum VS T-mobile home internet:

@jaredbusch said in Spectrum VS T-mobile home internet:

@travisdh1 said in Spectrum VS T-mobile home internet:

@obsolesce said in Spectrum VS T-mobile home internet:

I may have to just go with Spectrum for now. Those latency numbers are a bit high. I assume the 5g would be better, but not sure if that's in the area yet.

5G is not a real thing in the US yet, tho it's likely to be in your area a lot quicker than the rest of the US.

Rural Ohio is not “America” only a small part of it. 5G has been rolling out for more than a year.

No, he is correct. The "5G" rolling out in the US is actually an improved 4G. True 5G doesn't have equipment available in the US yet. We work with an ISP and literally no actual 5G equipment is available on the US market yet. Because of the Huawei ban, the original source of 5G is cut off and to cover up that mistake, the US allowed higher speed 4G to be rebranded as 5G in the US so that the country wasn't up in arms about it, but like how they allowed 3G to be branded as 4G in the past. They changed the "G" from a tech term into a federally regulated branding term.

That's why the speeds everyone is seeing are standard old 4G speeds from the rest of the world and nothing like what 5G can do. There's a fake American 5G rolling out quickly, we have it hear in Dallas. But it's a mediocre 4G speed by global standards and using what every other country calls 4G because it's a 4th Gen technology. 5G in the US is 4th gen, that's why our 5G is slower than eastern Europe's 4G from half a decade ago.

Verizon has 5G mmWave deployed in quite a few cities. There still is low-band being branded as 5G but there is real 5G in many cities.

@eddiejennings said in What do you use to manage multiple Linux servers?:

@openit said in What do you use to manage multiple Linux servers?:

How about https://spacewalkproject.github.io/ ?

Isn't it for multi-server management? but sounds project is dead?

I believe was the upstream project for RedHat Satellite 5. RedHat Satellite 6 is current. Unfortunately, I have not had an opportunity to touch Satellite 6.

Yeah Satellite 6 is a bunch of projects together. Katello, Formean, Candlepin, and Pulp. I never tried to get them working together manually. I used this project but that was years ago: https://github.com/theforeman/forklift

I use BoltDB in a few of my projects. It's a nice KV database written in Go. It has the concept of buckets where a bucket can contain multiple KV pairs inside of it. The one annoyance I have with it is every time I want to use it with a project I have to write the logic around what I want to do. I could write a library around it, but then using it is limited to Go applications.

I decided to write a REST API around BoltDB so I can just interact with it over the network. There are a couple of other projects that did this but they haven't been touched in multiple years and they also are using the old archived bolt project instead of the new bbolt project.

The project is here. You can either run it as a standalone server or in a container image.

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

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

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

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

@pmoncho
What’s weird here is that they are catching them red handed .... yet I assume they don’t consider that good enough.... if that’s not good enough how does their browser history help?

My only guess is, if its not written proof it didn't happen. The manager could be in a verbally acknowledge, gather hard copy evidence, wait for next employee review and then lay down the hammer mode. (Just a wild ass guess as this managerial behavior confuses me)

A lot of it is legal. Depending on states status for at will employment (and even in at will states depending on the situation) you would need documentation. Going to court is extremely expensive and there are a lot of lawyers that will do either pro bono or contingency based pay for the employees. The company has to pay to fight the battle and it's cheaper to buy software to track someone to cover themselves, than to spend time (or extra time) in court fighting their case.

We have never been sued to my knowledge. And we have fired a handful of people in my tenure.

Ok? You still need it if you do.

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

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

@pmoncho
What’s weird here is that they are catching them red handed .... yet I assume they don’t consider that good enough.... if that’s not good enough how does their browser history help?

My only guess is, if its not written proof it didn't happen. The manager could be in a verbally acknowledge, gather hard copy evidence, wait for next employee review and then lay down the hammer mode. (Just a wild ass guess as this managerial behavior confuses me)

A lot of it is legal. Depending on states status for at will employment (and even in at will states depending on the situation) you would need documentation. Going to court is extremely expensive and there are a lot of lawyers that will do either pro bono or contingency based pay for the employees. The company has to pay to fight the battle and it's cheaper to buy software to track someone to cover themselves, than to spend time (or extra time) in court fighting their case.

@stacksofplates said in CloudatCost Issues:

@scottalanmiller said in CloudatCost Issues:

@gjacobse said in CloudatCost Issues:

It had potential, but was an utter failure.

Ah well. And has it really been that long!? Wow

I don't know that it really had potential. Their financial model wasn't viable. Less "potential" and more "too good to be true". And that's exactly what happened.

To be fair to Gene, you said it had potential back when it first came out.

@scottalanmiller said in CloudatCost Issues:

@gjacobse said in CloudatCost Issues:

It had potential, but was an utter failure.

Ah well. And has it really been that long!? Wow

I don't know that it really had potential. Their financial model wasn't viable. Less "potential" and more "too good to be true". And that's exactly what happened.

To be fair to Gene, you said it had potential back when it first came out.

@Pete-S said in Nextcloud experience:

@Dashrender said in Nextcloud experience:

@Mario-Jakovina said in Nextcloud experience:

We mostly use NC offline (with Linux and Windows clients), not online .

huh - you sync 96 GB of data to 40 users for mainly offline use? And you don't have conflict issues (more than one person editing a file while offline?
Plus - MAN, that's a lot of data to replicate everywhere.
OK OK OK - before JB jumps on me - that's not exactly what you said, but the details are pretty light.

On 4 of our sites, we have fileservers that are registered as NC users, and their NC folders are shared in local LANs.

Is the expectation of these 4 sites to use the files in an online state? Is the setup this way because of need/desire for faster access?

The amount of data and the number of users doesn't really matter. It's the bandwidth that matters. How much data is changed every day, how many people needs access to that data, how fast do they need that access and how big is the pipe?

40 people are not all sharing the same files with each other and are not all working on the same thing.

For instance the average file size in Mario's case is 0.5 MB. Assume 40 user each change 40 files every day and every file is shared by 10 people on average. Using a cloud service that means you have 40x40x0.5=800MB to upload every day and 40x40x10x0.5=8GB to download everyday. 8GB per day to download is 1GB/hour or 300 kB/sec during the day. So you need about 3 Mbits/sec download speed to dedicate for file transfer and 0.3 MBit/sec for uploads.

Most companies could easily support that amount of data traffic from one site. And in this case it's several.

And even with this low bandwidth requirement it would only take a few seconds to upload your average 0.5MB file. And a few seconds before it's downloaded to another computer.

Pretty sure this isn't what happens with cloud services. For instance from what I've seen, dropbox will dedupe files and store metadata locally.

Then if it's already deduped they can just copy the diff.

@Dashrender said in CloudFlare announces Magic WAN:

@Obsolesce said in CloudFlare announces Magic WAN:

So basically just another SDP/SDN product but with a weird name.

I was wondering this - I have no idea how much firewall type controll normal SDN products have.

is SDP software defined protection?

Software defined perimeters

@flaxking said in Yet another way Azure sucks:

@stacksofplates said in Yet another way Azure sucks:

@IRJ said in Yet another way Azure sucks:

@JaredBusch said in Yet another way Azure sucks:

When you want to delete a virtual machine, you have to clean up all the its manually.

There is not even an option to remove everything at once.

This is by design, because all your resources are separate. Companies that leverage Azure/AWS are not using the console to deploy resources for this very reason. Using infrastructure as code is the only way to go. Both Azure and AWS offer their own IaC at no cost, but you can use terraform as an open source before neutral deployment method as well.

Azure VMs and AWS EC2 are not VPS as you know. AWS does offer VPS style servers called lightsail. It's more affordable than EC2 and you would be able to delete with one click like youre used to doing. Of course you don't get all the other features like advanced networking, storage, etc.

We've been looking at Pulumi lately for IaC. I'm kind of over DLCs to write things and then having to wait for that DLC to support control flows. Just let the language your used to using do the work.

Coming from a company that only uses ARM templates, Bicep was the most exciting thing I saw at Ignite.

The scariest thing was using AR and Teams to remotely assist with surgeries. Teams didn't even work properly for that whole presentation.

Yeah I'm even kind of over things like Terraform.

With Pulumi you can do things like this:

import pulumi
import pulumi_aws as aws

def make_ec2(name: str):
    size = 't2.micro'
    ami = aws.get_ami(most_recent="true",
                      owners=["137112412989"],
                      filters=[{"name":name,"values":["amzn-ami-hvm-*"]}])

    group = aws.ec2.SecurityGroup('webserver-secgrp',
        description='Enable HTTP access',
        ingress=[
            { 'protocol': 'tcp', 'from_port': 22, 'to_port': 22, 'cidr_blocks': ['0.0.0.0/0'] }
        ])

    server = aws.ec2.Instance(name,
        instance_type=size,
        vpc_security_group_ids=[group.id], # reference security group from above
        ami=ami.id)

    pulumi.export('publicIp', server.public_ip)
    pulumi.export('publicHostName', server.public_dns)

vms = ["test","myvm","things"]
for x in vms:
  make_ec2(x)

You don't need to wait 6 years for the DSL to support for loops or if statements. And you can build in whatever scaffolding you want around it. Want to test your infrastructure? Include the same stuff in a testing suite. It's just much nicer overall.

@IRJ said in Yet another way Azure sucks:

@JaredBusch said in Yet another way Azure sucks:

When you want to delete a virtual machine, you have to clean up all the its manually.

There is not even an option to remove everything at once.

This is by design, because all your resources are separate. Companies that leverage Azure/AWS are not using the console to deploy resources for this very reason. Using infrastructure as code is the only way to go. Both Azure and AWS offer their own IaC at no cost, but you can use terraform as an open source before neutral deployment method as well.

Azure VMs and AWS EC2 are not VPS as you know. AWS does offer VPS style servers called lightsail. It's more affordable than EC2 and you would be able to delete with one click like youre used to doing. Of course you don't get all the other features like advanced networking, storage, etc.

We've been looking at Pulumi lately for IaC. I'm kind of over DLCs to write things and then having to wait for that DLC to support control flows. Just let the language your used to using do the work.

@ITivan80 said in Yet another way Azure sucks:

I been hearing issues with Azure as of late. Any other platform that can be used other than Azure. Is Proxmox a viable candidate?

AWS and GCP really are the only competitors for Azure.

DigitalOcean is a great option for small deployments and easy testing.

@Dashrender said in Windows Print to PDF recommendations:

@stacksofplates said in Windows Print to PDF recommendations:

@Dashrender said in Windows Print to PDF recommendations:

@VoIP_n00b said in Windows Print to PDF recommendations:

@Dashrender said in Windows Print to PDF recommendations:

management has said hell no to Libre Office for replacing MS Office

I have yet to see a business using Libre Office.

I think a greenfield setup could go that direction pretty easily - as long as they aren't receiving a ton of MS based documents that wind up with formatting issues.

In my case we have 100's or more Word and Excel files, the Word files all would have had to been updated to be formatted correctly - no thanks.
and for us, we're on the verge of moving to O365, so our need for local Office is hopefully short lived except for a few corporate type jobs (accounting). Everyone else should easily be able to use the online versions of Word/Excel.

And isn't that the case for most? How many people today really need a locally installed version of office? 1%? 5%? I know I can do 99.9% of my things in Excel online (I have started using pivot tables a lot - I guess I should check that).

Additionally - I've really taken to the thinking that office documents should RARELY be shared between companies. Most of them should be output to a PDF and sent that way. It frustrates me to no end when vendors send invoices in docx format or xlsx format. - Come on guys... I can edit these files and send them back and you might not even see my changes for that invoice - just WTF?

You can edit most pdfs also unless they flatten them. That aspect doesn't really change much.

Of course this is true, but normals, even normal office workers don't know that.
you can often even "edit" them in Word, by importing them, edit then save as PDF, but it's highly likely you'll break the formatting.

But more to your point - I suppose we need a more indelible solution that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

Normals wouldn't edit the spreadsheet either. The point still stands.

You can make spreadsheets read only and only editable by who you want.

It's kind of moot though. Changing the numbers on an invoice doesn't really do anything. Their billing system has the actual invoice and the email has the original invoice. It would be fairly evident if you tampered with it.

@Dashrender said in Windows Print to PDF recommendations:

@VoIP_n00b said in Windows Print to PDF recommendations:

@Dashrender said in Windows Print to PDF recommendations:

management has said hell no to Libre Office for replacing MS Office

I have yet to see a business using Libre Office.

I think a greenfield setup could go that direction pretty easily - as long as they aren't receiving a ton of MS based documents that wind up with formatting issues.

In my case we have 100's or more Word and Excel files, the Word files all would have had to been updated to be formatted correctly - no thanks.
and for us, we're on the verge of moving to O365, so our need for local Office is hopefully short lived except for a few corporate type jobs (accounting). Everyone else should easily be able to use the online versions of Word/Excel.

And isn't that the case for most? How many people today really need a locally installed version of office? 1%? 5%? I know I can do 99.9% of my things in Excel online (I have started using pivot tables a lot - I guess I should check that).

Additionally - I've really taken to the thinking that office documents should RARELY be shared between companies. Most of them should be output to a PDF and sent that way. It frustrates me to no end when vendors send invoices in docx format or xlsx format. - Come on guys... I can edit these files and send them back and you might not even see my changes for that invoice - just WTF?

You can edit most pdfs also unless they flatten them. That aspect doesn't really change much.

@VoIP_n00b said in Windows Print to PDF recommendations:

@Dashrender said in Windows Print to PDF recommendations:

management has said hell no to Libre Office for replacing MS Office

I have yet to see a business using Libre Office.

We used it at CW because of all the RHEL workstations. They had some pretty huge spreadsheets for thermal analysis in libre office.

@DustinB3403 said in Raspberry Pi-based KVM over IP:

@hobbit666 if the host isn't responding to TCP/IP how is this IP based KVM working with the host?

Over usb and hdmi/vga like any other kvm?