@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

We're relaxing and trying to recover after a day spent a Cedar Point. Back in the hotel and looked at my step counter, 18093. A normal day is ~5600.

Did you get hit by any of the storms yesterday?

Around 3:45 PM. We got into the park at 9:00 AM, so we still had a long day riding rides and roller coasters. Very few lines this time of year as it's the first week Cedar Point is actually open during the week.

Wow,

I haven't been there since I was in high school. I would like to get there again.

You definitely should. Halloweekends is a great time to go if it is still warm with no rain.

Halloweekends when we went was so busy as to make it not worth the trip (paying for the expensive fastpass would've helped, but we didn't know ahead of time).

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

We're relaxing and trying to recover after a day spent a Cedar Point. Back in the hotel and looked at my step counter, 18093. A normal day is ~5600.

Did you get hit by any of the storms yesterday?

Around 3:45 PM. We got into the park at 9:00 AM, so we still had a long day riding rides and roller coasters. Very few lines this time of year as it's the first week Cedar Point is actually open during the week.

We're relaxing and trying to recover after a day spent a Cedar Point. Back in the hotel and looked at my step counter, 18093. A normal day is ~5600.

So raw partitions with no LVM? Sad geek.

Is parted available in CentOS7? It's been so long I forget, but parted tends to act better if you are able to use it.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Trying to find a Mac installer for a windows based software - I haven't been able to find one yet.
My next thought is to have them install a hypervisor and create a windows based machine in the hypervisor and install the software there. than they'd have to spin up the VM and run the software.. and these aren't the brightest people..
decisions decisions.

Thankfully I found it in the Apple store on my Support iPad.. Having them check now.

Never mind, they can download it but it doesn't load anything like it is supposed to .

Windows software running without Windows AND without AMD64 hardware would be a challenge of epic proportions. I think if someone had a Windows emulator that didn't even require PC hardware that it would be much bigger news.

There has been an ARM in beta for years. Otherwise some of Microsoft's own hardware wouldn't function!

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Trying to find a Mac installer for a windows based software - I haven't been able to find one yet.
My next thought is to have them install a hypervisor and create a windows based machine in the hypervisor and install the software there. than they'd have to spin up the VM and run the software.. and these aren't the brightest people..
decisions decisions.

With Mac, the hypervisor can be completely transparent to the user. You put a desktop icon for the Windows software on the main desktop, and the user never even knows they're running under a different OS.

Of course, you have to pay for the hypervisor(s) that enable that for Mac. Just a cost of using the platform.

interesting. I did not know that.
which one do you recommend?

I think we used Parallels.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Trying to find a Mac installer for a windows based software - I haven't been able to find one yet.
My next thought is to have them install a hypervisor and create a windows based machine in the hypervisor and install the software there. than they'd have to spin up the VM and run the software.. and these aren't the brightest people..
decisions decisions.

With Mac, the hypervisor can be completely transparent to the user. You put a desktop icon for the Windows software on the main desktop, and the user never even knows they're running under a different OS.

Of course, you have to pay for the hypervisor(s) that enable that for Mac. Just a cost of using the platform.

This only works on legacy Mac, right? Or does Rosetta support this? Although that's like a double VM.

We had it setup on one of the iMac with the new non-Intel CPU the end of last year at a client. So yes, it does work on old and new.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Trying to find a Mac installer for a windows based software - I haven't been able to find one yet.
My next thought is to have them install a hypervisor and create a windows based machine in the hypervisor and install the software there. than they'd have to spin up the VM and run the software.. and these aren't the brightest people..
decisions decisions.

With Mac, the hypervisor can be completely transparent to the user. You put a desktop icon for the Windows software on the main desktop, and the user never even knows they're running under a different OS.

Of course, you have to pay for the hypervisor(s) that enable that for Mac. Just a cost of using the platform.

@hobbit666 said in Ubuntu Ethernet before WiFi:

OK silly question slightly off topic.

If i'm setting up SSH keys between my Windows machine and the ubuntu server does my windows username need to be the same as the ubuntu server?

i.e. windows user is hobbit, but ubuntu only has a user minecraft? Do i need to create a user called hobbit on ubuntu?

No, you just need to pass the correct user to the ubuntu server when connecting with ssh/scp. IE ssh minecraft@ubuntuip

Found a great place for dinner about 35 minutes away. The Twisted Olive

@scottalanmiller said in What does your desk look like?:

Office has a private bathroom too. That AC unit is only for the office. It's super comfy. Not very big, but I have storage, two big "desks", four monitors, and a full bathroom with shower. And two windows. So not too shabby.

Which location is that at?

@scottalanmiller said in ONLYOFFICE has released ONLYOFFICE Docs version 7.1.:

@syko24 said in ONLYOFFICE has released ONLYOFFICE Docs version 7.1.:

OnlyOffice is a pretty nice alternative to MS Office. If they had an email client that would definitely be a huge plus for their product.

An email client? When would that be useful? All business email products have their own clients when needed and use web interfaces for most things (including offline handling.) Generally email clients as standalone things aren't considered a good thing (think the disaster that is Outlook.) I think no one offers one because no one should want it.

What are you looking to do with an email client? What's the use case?

I know lots of people still use Outlook because users are addicted to it. But if you are going to leave Outlook, you'd not move them to another fat client, but to the modern interfaces everyone offers.

Outlook is so much better when using the PWA version, even with it you should be getting rid of the fat client!

That's more than a whisper.

Everything in the home lab is being upgraded tonight.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just tried to upgrade an Oracle Cloud Ubuntu LTS to current. Failed to boot

It's nice that there is a free-forever tier, but if current stuff doesn't run, then I don't know how useful it will be.

Um, you thought something with Oracle in the name would be useful?

No, but it's free, so why not check it out when I have a few minutes.

Just tried to upgrade an Oracle Cloud Ubuntu LTS to current. Failed to boot

It's nice that there is a free-forever tier, but if current stuff doesn't run, then I don't know how useful it will be.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Imagine a flaky filesystem in this day and age.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

macOS Server discontinued after years on life support

Apple is finally killing off the venerable macOS Server, directing users still clinging to Profile Manager toward Mobile Device Management solutions.

The move is arguably long overdue. Much of what made macOS Server a server was deprecated in 2018 as the company announced plans to stop the likes of DHCP and DNS in its product and directed users to handy open-source alternatives.

I thought it was discontinued LONG ago.

It was forgotten about long ago, and existed as only an "application" in the app store.

Just got back from an overnight in a tree-house lodge for our anniversary.

Another round of updates for the home lab.