@scottalanmiller said in IS BASIC programming still in vogue?:

@eddiejennings said in IS BASIC programming still in vogue?:

@scottalanmiller said in IS BASIC programming still in vogue?:

Even in the ASP era, Jscript was the more serious choice than VBScript. So VB was already waning around 1998.

Once .NET arrived it came with C# and that was the final nail in the coffin of VB being taken seriously. That it is even still supported today is a wonder.

There are apparently VB scripts where I am now.

VBScript is not VB at all. While the names sound similar, they are extremely differently languages. VBScript, while a sad scripting language, is still in use and will be for a very long time, as is VBA, a derivative of VBScript used for MS Office automation.

VB and its derivative, VB.NET are horrible compiled languages that have no purpose and have not for a very, very long time. VBScript might be a terrible language, but it is the primary language remaining for many things that it is used for. VB is dead, and VB.NET has been a second class citizen for nearly two decades in the places where it still exists.

You can't say that VB.NET is derived from VB. It has a somehow similar syntax, but that's it. VB.NET is a fully featured CLR programming language in the .NET ecosystem. VB, on the other hand, is a mess.

I do not use VB.NET, it's a PITA to read and write, but it's a modern language anyway.

@scottalanmiller said in Mail hosting:

@dafyre said in Mail hosting:

If you're going to move your email... why not move it to something like O365?

$4 per user perhaps.

^

Approx. 30 mailboxes on multiple domains

Hyper-V for production workloads
KVM in some research projects
Used ESXi & vSphere EP in the past

@scottalanmiller said in Home Lab Project:

@jaredbusch said in Home Lab Project:

@thwr said in Home Lab Project:

@scottalanmiller said in Home Lab Project:

Logging, like Graylog2?

This. Maybe Sexilog.

Interesting package. can it easily monitor more then VMWare? Or did they only setup listeners for VMWare?

Only VMware last time that I looked at it.

Windows, Veeam, SNMP and more.
http://www.sexilog.fr/features/

@scottalanmiller said in Mail hosting:

Zimbra

I'll take a look, thank you.

@scottalanmiller said in Home Lab Project:

Logging, like Graylog2?

This. Maybe Sexilog. Have a look at Pandora FMS or other monitoring solutions. What about UBNT UNMS? Salt / Ansible?

@scottalanmiller said in Mail hosting:

@thwr said in Mail hosting:

@dbeato said in Mail hosting:

@thwr said in Mail hosting:

Want to move back from hosted website to a VM. The problem is: How to handle mails? I don't want to run a mailserver, did that for a decade and it's a mess. Billions of things to consider, updates that blow up your setup, constantly fighting spam and what not.

There are approx. 3 dozen mailboxes. I want decent antispam and AV, server side filtering, IMAP PUSH, external Domain (MX record pointing to the hoster) and hosting within the EU. Shouldn't be too hard.

So what are your favorite mail hosters?

So what do you have now for Mail Server?

Hosted webspace. But the performance isn't great, that's why I need to move again.

Just run your own email server on Vultr or similar. Ours is in France right now. Works great.

That's what I want to avoid. Are you using something out of the box? Maybe a docker based solution?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

And you need models But I think for model trains it would be especially cool.

For example, I printed these

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:222802

and these

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2631795

My dad was looking for bridge pillars

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

And you need models But I think for model trains it would be especially cool.

Check thingiverse.com

https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=model+train+bridge for example

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just sent my dad a few 3D printed bridge parts for his H0 model train

Nice, I want to get into 3D printing train stuff.

It's not like that you buy a printer and "just print". You need to consider many details, learn about materials, construction and mechanics. But it's a lot of fun too.

@dbeato said in Mail hosting:

@thwr said in Mail hosting:

Want to move back from hosted website to a VM. The problem is: How to handle mails? I don't want to run a mailserver, did that for a decade and it's a mess. Billions of things to consider, updates that blow up your setup, constantly fighting spam and what not.

There are approx. 3 dozen mailboxes. I want decent antispam and AV, server side filtering, IMAP PUSH, external Domain (MX record pointing to the hoster) and hosting within the EU. Shouldn't be too hard.

So what are your favorite mail hosters?

So what do you have now for Mail Server?

Hosted webspace. But the performance isn't great, that's why I need to move again.

Want to move back from hosted website to a VM. The problem is: How to handle mails? I don't want to run a mailserver, did that for a decade and it's a mess. Billions of things to consider, updates that blow up your setup, constantly fighting spam and what not.

There are approx. 3 dozen mailboxes. I want decent antispam and AV, server side filtering, IMAP PUSH, external Domain (MX record pointing to the hoster) and hosting within the EU. Shouldn't be too hard.

So what are your favorite mail hosters?

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just done the weekly shop. Had some dinner now home unpack and sleep maybe lol

In what order?

Just sent my dad a few 3D printed bridge parts for his H0 model train

I'm going to replace a few aging telco (2-post) and server racks, they are 20+ years old. I've used a lot of different brands in the past and would like to see some opinions.

There are 5 racks total at the moment, filled with patchpanels, switches, servers, routers, storage and UPS'es. The whole system will be severely reduced to the required components, reducing complexity as well as power and heat requirements at the same time. Old machines currently running the infrastructure will be reused as scientific computing nodes while a new HCI cluster will do the heavy lifting.

The goal should be to have 2, maybe 3 racks max:

• Rack 1: Servers, Storage, KVM, UPS, 39U filled
• Rack 2: Connectivity, 40U worth of switches, routers, patch panels and a UPS
• Rack 3: Spare + existing NASes

I thought about 47/48U racks, which easily fits into the room.

Now, what I am looking for is:

• A system where I could get another rack later on
• Something solid. Not cheap in the sense of "buy cheap, buy twice"
• Should be able to carry the weight of the first rack, which contains a lot of spindles
• Some integrated cable management. Must be able to run wires between racks. Mostly fiber. Shouldn't hang "out of the front".
• Wheels not required
• Doors not required
• Black. Period.

@nadnerb said in Disk imaging tools:

Macrium Reflect

Ah, thank you. Macrium Reflect was the product I couldn't remember. It worked very well for someone I knew when he was in a similar situation.

Anyway, I will probably use clonezilla again

I guess it was some caching / cookie issue that got fixed with the new login

Odd... Logout / Login solved it

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Working on FF no issue.

Loading forever. I can click on "see all notifications" and they show up

Is something up with the notifications?

Can't click on it in Chrome. Note the symbol is white, not black