Posts made by stacksofplates

Great post. I always wanted to be an engineer, but somewhere around 9th grade I decided I wanted to teach guitar. I went to college for classical guitar, and have not done anything with it ever. I worked nights in the lab for a paving company until my Jr year and ended up being promoted to project engineer the summer between my Jr and Sr year. I'm not really that much better at guitar and I don't really have anything to show for it other than a piece of paper.

@Nic Nice. That's sad about the auto report your life to Microsoft settings. They did the right thing with 8, I figured it would have stayed that way.

@coliver You're kidding. My wife is from Indiana. We actually live about 10 mins south of Indiana now.

@scottalanmiller We moved to Florida in 2013 and I went through withdrawal. We ended up moving back the beginning of this year because my daughter was born while we were here visiting family for Christmas. I think I ate Sheetz for a week straight.

@scottalanmiller and who knows. From that video, there could have been a desktop under the desk and when the plugged the phone it, someone plugged the monitor into the desktop.

@scottalanmiller There were only certain phones that could do it. But, I assume it was a modified Ubuntu since it would have to run on ARM? It looked like there was a dock also, so I don't know if it was vanilla android, or they were somehow mixed.

@scottalanmiller No it was before they came out with Ubuntu touch. It was a cool idea, but nothing ever seemed to happen with it.

@scottalanmiller When you used your phone it was android, but when you docked it to a monitor it was a full Ubuntu desktop. You could still get text and call notifications through Ubuntu. Youtube Video

@coliver Sorry I meant incremental not recursive.

@coliver Since I've never used Hyper-V or VMware, does Veeam do recursive backups of each vm?

@coliver Can you do LVM snapshots?

@coliver That's good. I was leaning away from Hyper-V because all of our stuff is Linux. I had looked at XenServer but when I set everything up about 1.5 years ago, the only thing I could find for an interface was either XenCenter (Windows) or Xen Orchestra, which was a steep $70 a month for backups and importing/exporting vms with their interface.

However, I've been trying to force myself away from interfaces so that might work out well.

@coliver Thanks! I'm trying to decide whether I want to stay on KVM (I'd just use CentOS, ProxMox doesn't use libvirt), Xen, Hyper-V, or try something like oVirt.

@coliver It was just nice that it was all packaged together, my laziness (and ignorance) got the best of me.

@dafyre That's the rub. Their backup system uses .vma, which won't convert to anything. I'll have to shut everything down, move the raw files to something else and then reinstall. I started with it because you just pop in the ISO and 20 mins later you have the hypervisor with a nice web interface and automated backups. I didn't realize what I was getting into when I used it, or how they approached everyone in other forums.

@Minion-Queen I've never used NodeBB, but it does seem nice. I'm a Drupal man myself.

Trying to figure out how to get out of the ProxMox trap I'm stuck in.

@Minion-Queen Ha I chose the wrong term there too. I meant a cleaner interface, and to me it seems the threads are easier to read through. Dynamic loading is much better than going through 15 pages of comments and replies.

@thecreativeone91 I was struggling for the right word. I was going to type intimate, but that would have been weird.

I really wish Ubuntu would have done the Ubuntu for Android thing. That seemed like such a great idea.