@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@gjacobse said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@travisdh1
Ah- the good old days of DEC,.. I had once thought about looking to pick up a DEC PDP 11/23 setup..

DEC OpenVMS is the not so fond memories from my first IT job. Had to have something to oppose the good memories of SGI IRIX.

I checked the current status of VMS and according to the company...

"OpenVMS V9.2-3 is available and running on hundreds of servers worldwide"

Hundreds, OMG

That's kind of crazy that any remain today!

@gjacobse said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@travisdh1
Ah- the good old days of DEC,.. I had once thought about looking to pick up a DEC PDP 11/23 setup..

DEC OpenVMS is the not so fond memories from my first IT job. Had to have something to oppose the good memories of SGI IRIX.

xByte.com is my first choice, especially for production compute.

If it's not mission critical or for a home lab, check out these next two.
Stallard Technology, stikc.com
ServerMonkey.com

@scottalanmiller said in What Are Virtualized Applications?:

Article is totally false. That's NOT a virtualized application, that's a standard remote app as we've been using in the industry for over 30 years. When I started in IT ini 1994 this was an established, well known part of how the X Window system worked, in UNIX... ALL applications are like this!

I remember running full fledged engineering apps remotely in the 90s on IRIX and OpenVMS machines.

Have I posted about Kasm Workspaces here yet? Makes it really easy to provide remote apps like a Xen remoteapp environment, just easier, quicker, and open source.

Yep, seen this before. Caused all kinds of headache for me because they aliased actual commands!

@CloudKnight said in User profile migration to new Windows 11 PCs:

Hasn't Windows become a shitshow.

It always has been. Now it's just obvious to everyone.

@Oksana said in How to Remove Ceph from Proxmox: Step-by-Step:

Ceph removal in Proxmox requires more than just GUI clicks – it’s a multi-step process. Our latest practical walkthrough by Paolo Valsecchi, a System Engineer, for StarWind covers everything from VM disk migration to OSD destruction and full configuration purge. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/u5

Does Starwind run on a Proxmox cluster now? I've lost track of new features being released over the past year or so.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller

Never finished B5,.. I should go back for it...

I've been trying to finish Airwolf, Streethawk and a few others...

I have AIrWold on my server, too. LOL

B5 gets SO dramatic by the end. It started strong.

Yeah, B5 had a pre-planned 4 season plot laid out in advance. So when season 5 got tacked on, they had to make it up on the fly.

@scottalanmiller said in User profile migration to new Windows 11 PCs:

This thread makes me so happy we run all Ubuntu and MacOS around here. Not a single official Windows instance. woot woot

I'm supper jelly here.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Testing Matrix home server deployment while watching baby monitor during infant night shift.

Matrix like Synapse? My Matrix server is NicaHabla.com

Well, I just found something to do when I get home tonight. Matrix with the Synapse stable branch, time for another subdomain in the home lab.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Weekend of coding here. How is everyone?

Started a new job a couple weeks ago. So much better than the last one, bosses idea of managing is not yelling at everyone else and ignoring everyone with more experience. Nice to be looking forward to going to work again!

@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@travisdh1 I've been pretty disappointed in Firefox personally, ha.

It's still better than Chrome, but that's not saying much.

@scottalanmiller said in OpenAI ChatGPT 4.1 vs 4.5 Models:

Until you spend a lot of time in technical tasks, you might not be aware of just how significantly different the output from different models can be for coding and other technical tasks where we want discrete results and not wordy soliloquies. After weeks of deep diving into using several models for technical research GPT-4.1 is a clear winner by quite a stretch. Keywords has a great breakdown of the two latest ChatGPT models, 4.1 and 4.5 and how they stack up (and why) for different tasks.

https://www.keywordsai.co/blog/gpt-41-vs-gpt-45-a-comprehensive-comparison

This is a somewhat surprising because all the recent reviews I've read or heard claim o3 and o3-mini are the best models so far at least for programming purposes. Are 4.1 and 4.5 newer than o3?

@scottalanmiller said in HPE Acquires Junipeer:

Just got this press release..

On July 2, 2025, Juniper Networks was acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). As this integration moves forward, we will continue to steward your data with HPE's help. The personal data we hold about you is being transferred to HPE and will be processed by them in accordance with their privacy statement.

If you currently receive marketing emails from us, you will continue to do so, and your preferences will follow your data to HPE. You can manage your preferences using the Juniper preference center.

Yours sincerely,
Juniper Networks, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company

I wish I thought that means that firmware updates will no longer be held behind a paywall.

@gjacobse said in Recommendation for home WiFi router:

@JaredBusch
the UniFi Express 7 looks pretty decent in capacity and features - and likely a contendor replacement for the UniFi Lite Router I have since my NTG days. Has that really been ten years ago now?

I will say I sort of feel that they seriously missed the mark in the design. Seems that USB-C has to be shoved into everything - but seriously - why!!??

They could have easily put the PSU into the unit and only had the AC power cable. True, the unit shouldn't need to be moved once in place. But,.. really? Get real - Just because USB--C can do so much, doesn't mean that you need to use it everywhere - especially when all you are suppling is 5v. Incorporate the whole thing and it'll be a better format.

That said,.. I'm still likely to move to something like it or this in the future.

I had a location with a UniFi Lite router that died around a year ago. Upgrading to the UniFi Express doubled their throughput with QOS enabled. Went from 300MB download to 600MB. Upload is limited because of the cable connection.

These aren't necessarily Mesh Central replacements (one actually uses Mesh Central on the back end) as they're actually RMMs.

The first one that comes to mind, but is the one I haven't used myself yet, is RustDesk. It's completely self hosted, and includes clients for Windows, Linux and MAC. There is a completely free OSS version, and then the licensed versions are very reasonably prices imo. I'm not sure what the differentiators are between the OSS and different paid for versions.

The second one is TacticalRMM. This is the one that uses MeshCentral as the back end remote access, but you never see MeshCentral unless you go looking for it. So depending on what the issues are pushing you away from MeshCentral are, it may be a hard no-go for you. Only provides Windows clients for free, MAC and Linux clients are the only things you pay for.

Both would be way more functionality than what I remember ScreenConnect or Mesh Central making available themselves.

Please do let us know what you end up choosing.