Just want to let you know that I'm still around here, just busy with a few things. Some of you know what has happened to us and well.. Let's say we're ok so far and that there are just some major changes for us in the near future. Priorities changed, if I may say so.
But don't worry (or be afraid, your choice), I'll be back here sooner or later. Not just because of IT, but because I found quite some friends here during the last year. Thanks everyone for your support.
Looks like @Minion-Queen finally starts her invasion of central Europe.
Evidence found in a B2B superstore:
@gjacobse said in Google renames Google Apps to G Suite:
@JaredBusch said in Google renames Google Apps to G Suite:
I just received this email.
Not sure what their point is in rebranding.
I could... but I'm not.
Confusion?
Strange new branding... At least they didn't name it "G Spot".
Playing with Raspberry Pi's, video streaming and software defined radio (SDR)
Let me introduce all of you to my newest... well... erm... Frankenswitch, say hello to ML:
ML, this is Frankenswitch v2. RabbitMQ broker (AMQP server), WLAN AP and switch in a single body 
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
OMG OMG OMG I just had lunch with Ed Tittel... one of the most influential IT writers not just in the industry but for me personally. When I talk about how I learned nearly everything in IT from books that I read, no author was more significant for that for me than Ed. I didn't realize that it was him until after lunch.
When you change just a few words in this post... sounds like some teen who met a boy group singer
@Romo said in Programming Printers:
@fuznutz04 said in Programming Printers:
Actual video of me programming my coffee pot to brew coffee...
Need a written guide, can't really follow along with just the video when "programming" is so complex.
Hope that helps:
void getCoffee(unsigned char intensity)
{
switch(intensity)
{
case 1:
case 2:
case 3:
outputCoffee(intensity);
break;
default:
outputMilk();
break;
}
}
@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@thwr said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@RojoLoco said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
More like he choked them to death with a landline...
... without any cables involved
Chuck Norris, on a landline, strangulation, wirelessly.
You know, Chuck Norris does not need any sayings. The sayings need Chuck Norris.
Kiddies... this is HARDWARE PROGRAMMING in its purest form:
(CC0, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card#/media/File:Blue-punch-card-front-horiz.png)
Which translates to:
Sold merely in customary household quantities!
**Please buy only one pack of toilet paper **
Therefore:
1 pack = regular price
2 packs = regular price + 5 EUR
3+ packs = regular price + 10 EUR per pack
Maybe it will work that way?!
All "supplementary revenues" will be donated to corona aid (organizations)
What's out here is mostly toilet paper, disinfectant sprays and liquids, puréed tomatoes in cans, noodles, flour and formula milk. I've seen people buying 30kg flour - and most of them looked like they didn't even know how to make a bread
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr that's not really surprising, people are in a hoarding phase, they don't want to go out repeatedly so they buy in bulk once for everything they could need.
Sure, but it's stupid in 90% of all cases.
Back from shopping in one of the largest wholesale markets in the area
Was able to fix the first OptiPlex 9020 (Windows RE, bootrec /RebuildBcd), but it didn't work for the other PCs. Exactly the same hardware, installed from the very same image, same UEFI settings, same WinRE.. hell, I even used the same coffee mug.
I think I'm going to nuke them and build some more unattended installers for PDQ Deploy.
Upgrading a few old Dell OptiPlex 9020 with SSDs. For some reason, I can't clone the old OS to the SSD (broken BCD on reboot, already tried to fix it). Will take a closer look tomorrow.
@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Does anybody running KVM have issues with Windows XP guests?
Just upgraded XCP-ng from 7.6 to 8.0 and now our stupid ass ancient punch clock app running on XP won't boot :angry_face:
No chance to upgrade? Running XP is ... almost suicidal. You should at least isolate that machine and all attached things (-> e.g. dedicated VLAN).
Waiting for a storm with gusts up to 150 km/h (~ 93 mph). Nothing compared to storms some of you may be used to, but quite heavy where I live.
Modern laptop batteries are anything but dumb devices. Most of them got an SMBus interface, a bus derived from (and very similar to) I²C.
My guess is that either the firmware on this specific battery is bad, your host driver doesn't like the battery or you just had some dirty contacts and the host just couldn't talk to the battery.
One of my ES-48 went south today 
UNMS reported a connection loss, can't ssh or ping the switch. Will have a look at the serial port tomorrow, bypassed the few connected ports to another switch for today.
That's the second (probably) dead ES-48 out of approx. 25 in ~4 years.
