@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Installing KOTOR II.
4 Discs!!

Just installed KOTOR 1 on my Android tablet like 20 minutes ago

@DustinB3403 Thanks Dustin.

@thwr said in Install XenServer 7 on USB:

@hobbit666 said in Install XenServer 7 on USB:

Sorry, got your question wrong:

Not sure is XenServer UEFI? or is it legacy boot?

UEFI is a management system on your mainboard that replaces the BIOS completly. There may be something that looks like a BIOS, but this is just for compatibility. So that totally depends on your your board, not the OS.

Just found this: http://xenserver.org/discuss-virtualization/virtualization-blog/entry/xenserver-6-5-can-do-true-uefi-boot.html

Like I said, I'm not into XS, but the headline in this post looks like it tries to boot in BIOS mode by default, but you can make it UEFI aware. Maybe wait for someone who knows XS before you try it

Is your server configured to boot in BIOS or UEFI mode? Switching to BIOS mode seems to be a quick workaround, saving you from compiling parts of XS from source.

@hobbit666 said in Install XenServer 7 on USB:

Flash drive visible in UEFI?

Not sure is XenServer UEFI? or is it legacy boot?

UEFI is a management system on your mainboard that replaces the BIOS completly. There may be something that looks like a BIOS, but this is just for compatibility. So that totally depends on your your board, not the OS.

• Selected as (first) boot device?

Yes

• Valid boot loader / partition?

Not sure yet but when plugged into a windows machine there are several partions

• Correct partition alignment? Boot partition should be at sector 2048 on most systems (RPi for example is an exception, it expects the boot partition to start at 8192.
• Boot partition marked as bootable?

PowerShell (on a Windows machine where your stick is plugged in. Could be you'll need elevated privileges):

Get-WmiObject Win32_DiskPartition | select Name,Index,BlockSize,Bootable,StartingOffset

Sources:

• http://sqlblog.com/blogs/jonathan_kehayias/archive/2010/03/01/getting-partition-offset-information-with-powershell.aspx
• https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/a4f06bed-65ee-426a-9aaa-a21a4b04c963

Way easier on a Linux machine:

fdisk -l

Again not sure as i'm installing from XenSercer Media I would of thought it would install and make it bootable??

• Does it boot on another system?

No

@hobbit666 I'm not into XS, but a few ideas:

• Flash drive visible in UEFI?
• Selected as (first) boot device?
• Valid boot loader / partition?
• Correct partition alignment? Boot partition should begin at sector 2048 on most systems (RPi for example is an exception, it expects the boot partition to start at 8192.
• Boot partition marked as bootable?
• Does it boot on another system?

@hobbit666 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

We have out grown our current hardware (3x ESxi + Dell SAN) and instead of looking at just refreshing and spending ££££ on new hosts and a SAN (I know Scott but out of my hands i'm trying to steer them to Scale or similar tech).

Anyway one of the options we are thinking is moving the whole lot to cloud/co-lo/IaaS?

Just wondering the best way to start thinking or capacity planning for this so we can get a rough idea of costs compared to doing it the same as now on hardware here. Or is it something for the "Pros" to get in and do the planning and then quote us ???

(FYI - Microsoft Dynamics GP 2015 - 300 users - 300-400GB Database size - 300 Devices to access it - Currently using Citrix XenApp shared desktops not vdi.)

Maybe create a new thread for this.

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598858095/system-shock

Now this is going to be cool

Wow! That was an amazing game back in the day! I really liked it

We're getting old... That game is 20 years old

Ugh thanks for rubbing that in lol

Hehe, sry

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598858095/system-shock

Now this is going to be cool

Wow! That was an amazing game back in the day! I really liked it

We're getting old... That game is 20 years old. It is some time ago when I bought my first 3DFX Voodoo card. What a monster. What the heck did I play with it? Some 3D Star Wars shooter? Comanche? Doom 2? Heretic? Can't remember.

@DustinB3403 said in Monitoring AD users:

Powershell to monitor last login I'll share my script tomorrow

Thanks, but as far as I remember, there's a problem with the last logon attribute. It doesn't sync between DC's by default. I need to check that, but I think I wrote a script some time ago that will query all your DCs directly, not only the one the executing user is logged on to.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598858095/system-shock

Now this is going to be cool

@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said

Ok, you've all convinced me. Time for me to experiment with FreePBX.

I am going to start experimenting as well.

Some unnamed people were making fun of me for still having a landline. So maybe it is time to change that...

Who? [giggle]

@MattSpeller
yeah, I guess that's something you need to do by hand. Will just build a small PowerShell script and use a scheduled task for it.

@scottalanmiller said in Need advice on OS X Server & DAS/NAS:

@travisdh1 said in Need advice on OS X Server & DAS/NAS:

They figured out how to do parity RAID with dis-similar drives. Something ZFS has been doing for how many years before Drobo?

It's not parity with dissimilar exactly, that always works. Always has. It's parity with dissimilar drives while getting maximum usable capacity out of the drives using a horrific mix of RAID levels. It's a terrible thing to do.

Goosebumps, everytime I'm seeing this. The idea is good, but how they made it...

@BBigford said in Light Gaming Desktop:

@thwr said in Light Gaming Desktop:

@BBigford said in Light Gaming Desktop:

Definitely agree with @thwr ...

AMD's APU is far superior to Intel's iGPU. You can game a fair amount on their integrated graphics unit. You get about 4 cores of CPU, and 8 cores of GPU. An A10 is about as high as you can go. You'll save yourself from having to buy a graphics card since you aren't doing AAA. The flexibility will come in the future if she decides she does want to play AAA, she won't need a whole new PC, she can just buy a graphics card that can keep up. Something like an AMD R9 390 would suffice. Sapphire makes a real good one for $300.

I prefer AMD graphics for budget gaming, and Intel CPUs. But Intel is spendy and you're talking about ultra low budget at $600. AMD can get that done and she could grow into the card if need be. If not, then there is no loss.

But there's one drawback: The A10's CPU isn't very fast and you can't upgrade to a FX series CPU because it's another socket (FM2+ on A8/10 and AM3+ on FX83xx). On the other hand, the total price for a FX8320 and a new board is way below the price of a Core i5 without a board.

I'm not saying there isn't a bottle neck for AAA titles on an AMD APU... FX requires a discrete GPU though, so that is minimum $150 more for the most bottom of the barrel card that could handle medium settings on a AAA. When you're talking about $600 budget gaming, you've really no other option...

Aye, that's why I suggested an A10, decent GPU, ok CPU, good enough overall. Like you said, there's not much room for 600$.

Brought my car into a garage today (car service station? Damnit, learn some German: Autowerkstatt) to refill the coolant fluid for the aircon. Motor went off 3 times on the few kilometers back home. Back to the garage: damaged generator. Problem is, it got changed just one year ago...

@BBigford said in Light Gaming Desktop:

Definitely agree with @thwr ...

AMD's APU is far superior to Intel's iGPU. You can game a fair amount on their integrated graphics unit. You get about 4 cores of CPU, and 8 cores of GPU. An A10 is about as high as you can go. You'll save yourself from having to buy a graphics card since you aren't doing AAA. The flexibility will come in the future if she decides she does want to play AAA, she won't need a whole new PC, she can just buy a graphics card that can keep up. Something like an AMD R9 390 would suffice. Sapphire makes a real good one for $300.

I prefer AMD graphics for budget gaming, and Intel CPUs. But Intel is spendy and you're talking about ultra low budget at $600. AMD can get that done and she could grow into the card if need be. If not, then there is no loss.

But there's one drawback: The A10's CPU isn't very fast and you can't upgrade to a FX series CPU because it's another socket (FM2+ on A8/10 and AM3+ on FX83xx). On the other hand, the total price for a FX8320 and a new board is way below the price of a Core i5 without a board.

What are you using to monitor account expirations, account locks (badPwdCount, expiration, ...) and unused accounts (lastLogonTime)? I'm looking for something that can also monitor computer accounts (like unused machine accounts). Big plus would be a reporting feature, like a PDF or CSV export.

I could write something myself, like a little PowerShell script or a small windows service, but I would prefer to use something that already exists. Free / open source a plus.

@scottalanmiller You could invest the saved money in a better cooling system (and case), maybe a closed-loop watercooler. You can get them for around 50-80$

@scottalanmiller said in Light Gaming Desktop:

@thwr said in Light Gaming Desktop:

Just found this: http://www.hardware-revolution.com/best-cpu-apu-processor-july-2016/

According to this, AMD A10-7890K should give you "ok" performance for non 2016-AAA titles. Approx. 150 USD, but you can save on the dedicated GPU. Maybe search for a prebuilt system with that CPU?

You could also go for an Intel APU (CPU and GPU on the same chip), but really, Nvidia and AMD both are veterans here, Intel is more or less a newcomer in 3D gaming.

Intel GPU cause non-stop crashes, too. Totally unstable from what I've seen. I'd be more comfortable setting her up with an AMD APU. This looks like a good option to me.

Would be the best option on a budget system. The A10's R7 isn't bad at all. Plus, you can upgrade to a dedicated GPU if required.

Just found this: http://www.hardware-revolution.com/best-cpu-apu-processor-july-2016/

According to this, AMD A10-7890K should give you "ok" performance for non 2016-AAA titles. Approx. 150 USD, but you can save on the dedicated GPU. Maybe search for a prebuilt system with that CPU?

You could also go for an Intel APU (CPU and GPU on the same chip), but really, Nvidia and AMD both are veterans here, Intel is more or less a newcomer in 3D gaming.