@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
OK, thanks guys. Was just looking for a second opinion
Yes, for free. Our DC is going to replace it and they usually give "old" hardware to attached research institutes when there's enough on-site knowledge.
Hey, they're giving it to someone who actually knows the proper use for a SAN. I wonder if they run an inverted pyramid of doom?
No, they don't, as far as I know.
@penguinwrangler said in Buying new business desktops - what do you like?:
@thwr said in Buying new business desktops - what do you like?:
Dell, HP, Fujitsu, whatever you prefer.
Have you ever bought Fujitsu? They always seem good by the specs and price.
Lots of them. Celsius (workstations), Esprimo (desktops), Primergy (servers) and all kinds of notebooks. Good quality, not any better or worse than HP or Dell.
OK, thanks guys. Was just looking for a second opinion 
Yes, for free. Our DC is going to replace it and they usually give "old" hardware to attached research institutes when there's enough on-site knowledge.
Still waiting for another breaking headline: "Breathing causes cancer"...
Dell, HP, Fujitsu, whatever you prefer.
I can get an IBM Stor-something 7000 dual controller FC SAN incl 5yrs HW support for free. 60TB raw, 10k SAS.
Just thinking about using this one as a primary backup target for Veeam. Good idea? Or should I run away?
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Riped out another bazillion of old cables. Hope that my new switches will arrive soon, still waiting for a nearly a dozen UBNT EdgeSwitches, an ER Infinity and more stuff.
Make sure to take before and after pictures.
Hehe, I have lots of pictures and will probably create a thread for this later.
The vendor told me today that they will ship tomorrow via UPS. Shouldn't take long, they are just 300km away.
Riped out another bazillion of old cables. Hope that my new switches will arrive soon, still waiting for nearly a dozen UBNT EdgeSwitches, an ER Infinity and more stuff.
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.
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Why in the world does Nextcloud have a games category for apps?
Solitaire and Reversi both came with Windows 3.0. Oh, and Minesweeper - I guess it was around Windows 3.1, maybe earlier. Remember "3D Pinball" which came with Windows 95? And I had to uninstall Minecraft and Microsoft Solitaire Collection last week from a fresh Windows 10 install.
I don't know what may be the purpose, they are probably just there to keep us admins on track
@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Playing with my RaspberryPi to get them to reboot every night cleanly.
0 0 * * * reboot >/dev/null 2>&1
What about your UNMS problem?
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
On a conference call where everyone is wondering where everyone else is but we are all there.
And... what's so different from every other telco?
@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to get a ES8 connected to my UNMS server, got a ES-24-150W connected but this 8 port doesn't want to play ball
Discovery picks it up, but doesn't connect to it keeps saying timeout
Will have to leave it for now and look later, need to move some stuff around in the server room for a bit.
A friend connected one a few days ago.
Make sure you have at least 1.7.3 running and HTTPS enabled.
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Still trying to get through my predecessors documentation.
Ha.... How bad off are you?
:zipper-mouth_face:
Still trying to get through my predecessors documentation.
@scottalanmiller said in Billing Hour Segments:
For customers paying "by the hour" we normally do 15 minute increments. Anything less and the overhead of tracking costs more than the cost of the work, it gets totally silly. Lots of agreements will be something like "two hour minimum with fifteen minute increments after that."
^ This. Never forget all sorts of side work. Billing and documentation are just two examples.
Mass Effect Andromeda
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Speaking of IKEA, Rochester is supposed to be getting an IKEA store.
Which is fucking exciting.
How the hell do you get one, and Omaha doesn't. How many people there?
You've got a local chain with unlimited clout to make sure competition doesn't enter your market.
you talking about Nebraska furniture mart?
Yeah
I guess I shouldn't surprised. NFM is not really that close to Ikea from what I can tell. but I've never been inside an Ikea.
Well no, IKEA has high quality stuff at great prices with amazing customer service.
oO
They stopped providing us with LACK-racks years ago. Today's LACK tables are built using honeycomb structures in the table's legs. Not so great for screws to fasten switches.
(CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, image source: https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack)
@gjacobse said in LINux: Comm port address changes:
As part of my use of *nix, I use it to access / control / program a few different radios. They use the FTDI chipset for serial communications. Generally I have no trouble, but every once in a while it seriously gripes my mood.
dmesg | grep ttyThis will tell you the devices and the port to use. It's in my list of useful commands as I don't always need it, and I just haven't committed it to memory yet. But I have it -
So this week I have two devices connected, and I went in and found the one I needed to use with the radio I wanted to program.
TTY0 was connected to a radio that was off
TTY1 was connected to the radio I was working with.Had some programming issues, and updated the software to the latest release using a different REPO, when I went back to program the radio - fails - repeatedly.
Reboots, updates, upgrades, re-installs later, I run dmesg | grep tty again and find that the port assignment has changed.
This is one of the frustrating things about *nix I seem to have, in that things don't stay where they where and where I expect them to be the next time I go to use them.
Is this normal for it to change, even though neither of the USB devices were not removed?
Especially plugable devices (e.g. USB) tend to change names - if you plug them into other ports for example. But your example doesn't look like a USB serial adapter, they would most probably have a name like ttyusbN.
But like SAM said above, this is not only happening with plugable devices. Most modern distros will create udev rules whenever they detect new hardware (except for a few cases like USB devices). That's why you will (should) see a reproducable mapping every time the system starts.
Anyway. You could get more stable results using a udev custom rule for your tty problem.
First hit on Google: https://www.silabs.com/community/interface/knowledge-base.entry.html/2016/06/06/fixed_tty_deviceass-XzTf
