@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to find $12.87 for a site from this past weekend - Apparently due to System Glitch (wtf ????????????????????)
looking through reports and waitstaff check out reports.
My heads about to explode.
IT guy doing accounting? wtf indeed
@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Anti-vaccine nonsense spurred NY’s largest outbreak in decades
Health officials went to community doctors and rabbis to thwart disease spread.
Since last fall, New York has tallied 177 confirmed cases of measles, the largest outbreak the state has seen in decades. It began with infected travelers, arriving from parts of Israel and Europe where the highly contagious disease was spreading. In New York, that spread has largely been confined to ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities.
I know this is going to be crass, but why do we even give people the choice?
Have you seen and understood the ingredients lables on the cheap ones? I'm not an anti-vaxer, but if you're going to put mercury in my system every year from things like the cheap flu shots, that's a big old nope. Just pay for the ones that don't have **** added in.
@JaredBusch said in MangoCon 2019 Hotels:
Also, AirBnb is over hyped a lot of the time.
Definitely a good service, but also way over hyped.
Very variable. Some rooms/suites/houses are amazing for the price, but most are just ok.
It's looking like my finances just won't cut it this year, sad days.
@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just got a e-mail from ubiquiti about WiFiMan
https://blog.ubnt.com/2018/12/11/introducing-wifiman/
Downloaded but not tried it yet
Good tool. Mostly a clone of Wifi Analyzer, but newer interface and no adds, so better.
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Contacting @colocationamerica about getting my new home lab into a colo space.
What hardware are you colo-ing?
A Dell R620. Single 550w power supply, 2x Xeon x5-5660 8-core, 96gb RAM, 4x Cruical MX-400 500GB SSD (my new home lab box.)
FFS fodder, but I must ask. Is having the single supply enough power for you to fully utilitize the hardware in that server? I know you can get 1U + an additional power plug for a a fee with Colocation America.
Yeah, it's been running just fine. I doubt it would run at 100% load 100% of the time, but it's my home lab. I'd be amazed if I could load it down enough. 230W cpu, 150W ram =380W leaving 170W for the rest of the system (assuming 100% load, which will never happen.)
@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Contacting @colocationamerica about getting my new home lab into a colo space.
What hardware are you colo-ing?
A Dell R620. Single 550w power supply, 2x Xeon x5-5660 8-core, 96gb RAM, 4x Cruical MX-400 500GB SSD (my new home lab box.)
@manxam said in All computers cannot access 1 specific site:
@travisdh1 : Very good point. Router reboot changes nothing. I'll send someone on site to connect to the modem directly and see if it's an ISP issue or that terrible SonicWall.
Thanks!
The other guys at work like the Sonicwall firewalls, I just think the interface is purposely made to slow me down and confuse things (kinda like cPanel.)
Contacting @colocationamerica about getting my new home lab into a colo space.
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Psychologists defend claim of “destructive aspects” to masculinity
Critics argue new psychology guidance pathologizes being male.
The American Psychological Association is on the defensive over its newly released clinical guidance (PDF) for treating boys and men, which links traditional masculinity ideology to a range of harms, including sexism, violence, mental health issues, suicide, and homophobia. Critics contend that the guidelines attack traditional values and innate characteristics of males.
Were they taking notes from @RojoLoco? (Keep it up, we like you how you are!)
@WLS-ITGuy I have a whole tool chest that I carry around software wise. A bunch of scripts to clean up and clean out Windows things. Clonzilla usb stick and a HDD to image systems before I work on them. A bunch of .iso files on another usb stick along with a Fedora Server netboot installer. Also, a Windows 10 install on a usb stick (yuck, but it's what we service.)
@manxam said in All computers cannot access 1 specific site:
@manxam : Strange, the sonicwall does have a diagnostics feature where one can ping an address.
The host in question does allow ICMP as tested locally in our offices but the sonicwall timeouts when pinging it.
Guess it's time to reboot the firewall and, if that fails, contact the ISP?
Try a computer connected direct to the ISP modem as well. I've seen Sonicwall routers do some odd things with routing and the firewall. It would not surprise me if the Sonicwall as blocking that specific thing as well.
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Not wanting to be at work. Couldn't sleep. Woke up around 3:30AM.
Am not feeling today at all.
Just add caffeine until you can smell the rainbow and feel the weekend....
hah, wish that would work for me.
@dave_c said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Wondering if I hate WordPress or I hate web developers with no idea. Maybe neither, maybe both, I don't know
More the web developers with no idea. Of course that implies both.
@scottalanmiller said in How many VCPU’s can I have?:
NUMA issues is a key reason why we often recommend a single proc with more cores than two procs with fewer cores each. No NUMA.
AMD has been hitting high core counts by using multiple CPU dies on a single package, thus they have NUMA happening "on chip". The high end EPYC CPUs have 4 dies inside each package, with 4 memory controllers.
To stay away from NUMA, you have to stay with Intel, currently.
AMD is also doing the 2 threads per core thing now as well. So current EPYC 32 core CPU = 64 threads.
Wasn't Tower going open source instead of paid as well? If I remember that correctly, that should make Ansible+Tower easy. I've only used salt so far, so really have no idea.
@valentina said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Fighting with Photoshop
That's not a fight you will enjoy, even if you win!
Don't feel to bad, I just now got done transcoding security camera footage from today.
@Reid-Cooper said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Shutdown hits government websites as certificates begin to expire
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/01/14/shutdown-hits-government-websites-as-certificates-begin-to-expire/If only the government knew about LetsEncrypt and basic automation.
That was my first thought as well.
@WrCombs said in Data Base Management:
@dave_c said in Data Base Management:
@Reid-Cooper
it seems like there are 2 versions of Aloha, one uses a SQL database and the other uses only DBF files easily manipulable in Fox Pro. But it seems like the SQL based Aloha stills has DBFs in the server.So the easiest thing would be to download a dBase DBF viewer and try it on a copy of an Aloha DBF.
I'm out but I will check later to see if @WrCombs has success
that is correct - there are 2 version of aloha manager ( which the Aloha software) Old Aloha ( version 5.3-6.7) and the NAM ( New Aloha Manager 12.3 and up)
basically old aloha manager is a "dbf" that is quick and easy.
the NAM is more of an issue.
SO with old aloha, we can just open Folder "A" and we can view the "dbfs" for accuracy ( not that we actually do) but with NAM we have to preform a Refresh - which breaks down the SQL files and puts them into Folder "A". but then it's the same as Old Aloha, because they can be easily opened with dbnavigator or excel.Now the Only reason we open DBFs is to look for discrepancies, with in the files.
For example - Had a site call in about a printer not working properly and showing offline.
Did hardware trouble shooting. tested the cord and Printer on a different terminal, That left software issues within aloha, I was seeing one thing in the aloha manager software.
So I had to pop open a Dbf to see where the printer was supposed to connect to the terminal.And things like that.
What a pain. PoS it really is.
Let's start at the beginning. What is the PoS software in use? From that we should be able to track down what the actual database is.
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
any Data base managers in the house?
I know my way around many of them, but I'm far from a full time expert. Might as well just ask, in a new thread.
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Oh this is going to be a fun day. Went to login to portal.office.com, account isn't recognized. Go to www.office.com/myaccount and right to my account, no password prompt, and no, I don't save passwords in my browser, you crazy people.
Maybe you should so that you don't forget them
I don't even know them, LastPass here. Tho I'd still move if something worked as well.
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Oh this is going to be a fun day. Went to login to portal.office.com, account isn't recognized. Go to www.office.com/myaccount and right to my account, no password prompt, and no, I don't save passwords in my browser, you crazy people.
Maybe you should so that you don't forget them
I'll get right on that, like a snail on salt.
Oh this is going to be a fun day. Went to login to portal.office.com, account isn't recognized. Go to www.office.com/myaccount and right to my account, no password prompt, and no, I don't save passwords in my browser, you crazy people.
@bnrstnr At least they're not trying to cover it up or claim it's still working like some other companies.
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/01/help-pick-a-new-logo-for-fedora
Just noticed this. Why was that posted on the ombubuntu.co.uk site instead of a Fedora site?
Wondering what is wrong with this laptop that user says is crap, but won't move it to where it works with her WiFi (which is ISP c***). Looks fine to me.
Just sat down thinking I'd transfer more things from the old home lab box to the new one. Nope, the transfer on my Nextcloud is still going. Something must have slowed it down overnight.
@black3dynamite said in What Are You Watching Now:
Now I’m watching Solo: A Star Wars Story on Netflix.
Sorry bout that.
@Donahue said in file sharing in the 21st century:
@travisdh1 said in file sharing in the 21st century:
@coliver said in file sharing in the 21st century:
@Donahue said in file sharing in the 21st century:
@Obsolesce said in file sharing in the 21st century:
@Donahue said in file sharing in the 21st century:
CAD files
You don't want to sync this stuff. It's bad for this type.
We have the same thing here, and have tried some things in testing. Large drawings pulling sometimes hundreds or thousands of other drawings to make it. It needs to be on-prem, and should not be synchronized with anything. It's a catastrophe waiting to happen. NC/OneDrive/etc... that type of thing is NOT for this type of files.
the problem we currently have is that these files are all sitting on local machines only, until the project is finished and it is loaded onto the server. Network performance even on 1gbps just can't cut it. Plus, I am not and have no plans to do any backups of individual workstations, the plan is to get it all on the server somehow. My NC is on prem though, at least for one of my locations.
What CAD suite are you using? Time to start looking at their native server system. Dessault and Autodesk both have something to manage this. It isn't inexpensive but would be better then just SMB.
Yes, exactly. CAD programs all have a proper tool to manage this stuff, use the native one.
The "Proper tools" still wont work for us
Then they need to find a different CAD application, or get management to do their jobs and make the people do the job. I'd expect any user doing CAD drawings to know about checking files in and out. No technological solution exists that can help with that.
