@tim_g said in Virtualization and HA, Scalability:

@kelsey said in Virtualization and HA, Scalability:

Now with Hyperconvergence, the above example uses local storage inside of physical host #1 and physcal host #2, using some kind of software (like StarWind vSAN or Microsoft's Storage Spaces Direct) that treats the storage in each Host as a single pool of shared storage. (like how in your picture the "storage server" is portrayed, but tha twould go away and would be inside of each physical host)

This way, you have no single point of storage failure.

If host 1 goes down, all data is also on host 2 where everything can continue running after the VMs fail over. Same with if Host2 goes down.

Here's a nice diagram from StarWind, which I've taken without asking. Please forgive me @KOOLER

Had a large bump on my head after visiting U-995

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-995

Someone exposed RDP on the firewall? Are you serious? Put a VPN tunnel in front for remote access.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre You are making a run for #6, in fact!

Can I make 2000 spam posts real quick?

You are asking SAM? He won't tell you about his spam bots

@dustinb3403 said in Tax software requires User to have Admin Rights:

@ccwtech said in Tax software requires User to have Admin Rights:

@penguinwrangler said in Tax software requires User to have Admin Rights:

@gjacobse said in Tax software requires User to have Admin Rights:

@jaredbusch

Installing maybe... But it's need to run the software

I saw that all the time with crappy proprietary video surveillance software. You had to have admin rights to run it. Ridiculous!

Is there any surveillance software that isn't crappy? Ever one of them I have seen is just junk.

As far as this thread, I'm in the same boat... Software written back in the early 90's that is STILL the leading software in the veterinary industry requires local admin to run it.

Usually this is just a matter of needing admin access to a few folders and files. Not the entire system.

That's what I said.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

LOL, I warned them that you could do it and that you could have a Ghost user who had never posted a single time. People told me I was stupid and that the spice points represent community involvement.

Did that in some other community too. Everyone was so eager to reach a high rank, so I wrote a script that just kept posting random Wikipedia-snippets. Got the highest possible rank within a few hours.

Same thing here: Told the owner that cheating is possible, he didn't believe it. Happened during dotcom.

Can't get a Dell Precision T1600 to boot from a USB thumb drive containing Windows 10 setup (created using Media Creation Tool). The stick works fine, installed another machine minutes ago from the same stick.

The machine starts to boot from the stick, but get's stuck at the blue Windows logo. No difference between UEFI and Legacy mode.

Ideas?

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr Apparently only available in Dutchland ?

Dutchland? You mean the Netherlands? Whole different story

PSRemoting is another built in way.

Playing Warframe with @DustinB3403

Just ordered an Actiontec ScreenBeam 960a. Basically a Intel WiDi and Miracast-receiver. Got some pretty good reviews. Will post what I found while testing the device.

Playing Warframe, thanks to @DustinB3403 ... NOT.

Just think of a shooter with some crazy ninja style movement and a Diablo-like "just one more drop" feeling. A bit like a mix from MDK, Quake / UT, maybe Mass Effect and Diablo. And it's actually F2P without P2W: You are even allowed to trade endgame items against "premium" currency.

@bbigford said in .local vs .com:

I'm not sure if this conversation has been completely talked to death. I'm wanting to get others' perspective on the use of .local vs. .com

.local has been used by a default for Windows Server for quite some time, up to 2012R2 Essentials. Many people prefer to use something like ad.domain.com

There have been a few client acquisitions, and what ends up happening is a company name changes a couple times before the servers are replaced within ~5 years. Rather than changing their domain name, I just create a new DNS suffix instead. Over time, I end up rebuilding the domain not only to clean stuff up, but to have the company name completely updated across the board. It takes a little more time, but it looks better in the end so there is no old hold-over.

I've read quite a bit over the years of people using corp.local ... don't have to worry about company name changes or anything else. But then people have run into issues where they need to have an internal CA since 3rd party certs can't be issued to non resolvable FQDN's.

Thoughts on consistency?

About com vs local: Many guides today suggest a real domain. The most important reason seems to be that you will be able to get "real" certificates. No chance for certs with invalid TLDs.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said

I meant the modem side. I use a Motorola Surfboard instead of the BS from comcrap. I didn't realize that fiber was just an ethernet handoff, that negates my question kinda. I have all the firewall/router stuff to connect to the handoff.

But that isn't always true.

Are you just getting Internet? Then it might be true.

Just internet, no TV. I'm a cordcutter... Kodi is my best friend.

Hehe. Still running Kodi on a Pi2 here. My dad got a setup where we deployed 2 kodis on Pi2's as frontends with a shared database on a DIY NAS. Works great. I'm currently looking for a more powerful board with at least 1GBit/s ethernet and maybe USB 3. The Pi is a bit weak here, because ethernet is connected via USB 2.0.

@scottalanmiller said in What does Quad9 do the Pihole does not:

@thwr said in What does Quad9 do the Pihole does not:

@jaredbusch said in What does Quad9 do the Pihole does not:

@thwr said in What does Quad9 do the Pihole does not:

Just from reading I would say he's using Quad9 as upstream DNS for his PiHole (which is used by clients)

I know that. I mean, what is the service Quad9 doing.

It's another "privacy" friendly DNS driven by IBM, Packet Clearing House (PCH) and Global Cyber Alliance (GCA). Placed as an alternative to Google's DNS

"Privacy friendly" is what we are worried about. It's from the US gov't so we really don't trust it.

I'm sure you've noticed the quotes around "privacy".

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said

I meant the modem side. I use a Motorola Surfboard instead of the BS from comcrap. I didn't realize that fiber was just an ethernet handoff, that negates my question kinda. I have all the firewall/router stuff to connect to the handoff.

But that isn't always true.

Are you just getting Internet? Then it might be true.

Just internet, no TV. I'm a cordcutter... Kodi is my best friend.

Hehe. Still running Kodi on a Pi2 here. My dad got a setup where we deployed 2 kodis on Pi2's as frontends with a shared database on a DIY NAS. Works great. I'm currently looking for a more powerful board with at least 1GBit/s ethernet and maybe USB 3. The Pi is a bit weak here, because ethernet is connected via USB 2.0.

I was running it on an Amazon Fire Stick (which worked great btw), but certain add-ons wouldn't work right, so now it runs on a Win 8.1 Alienware box (my main media center PC).

What I like about the little ARM boards is the power consumption: Next to none.

...and matching POE switches, which means even more savings.

Waiting for Origin auth servers to come back online... Steam is so much superior in every single aspect...

@tim_g said in Why is Node.js so popular?:

It seems great in every way when you start comparing it to others like PHP. It's faster and handles multiple concurrent connections better, with faster turnaround times.

I'm learning PHP first because it's so much easier for me to use that as a gateway language. They all seem very similar, but it seems like once I am fluent with one, the others will be easy.

You can't compare them. Node.js is a packaged engine while PHP itself is a language. What makes Node.js great - IMHO - is that you can build fast acting, event-driven networking services without much hassle. You could even do that in COBOL, but that's another story

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Brains said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I got up at 7:30 am in Dallas, drove all day and arrived in Indianapolis at 3:00 am. Doing some catch up before turning in. I'm visiting @scale tomorrow here in town, trying to be there in about six hours, but seven is more likely.

Dang Jesus. You should stop by and visit next time you are in town. At least grab a good German Beer with me!

Better come over to my place to get some real German beer

We have a "German" restaurant here who insist Warsteiner is the best. I wanted to burn the place down in the name of German people everywhere.

Warsteiner isn't bad, but it's like saying Ballantine's is a great whiskey.