Leo Laporte Apparently forgot to pay a bill. Took his website down (twit.tv).
I mean, banks will automatically mail a check now, the companies don't even need to setup auto-payment methods to have bills just be paid. For something that you rely on for your lively hood, I'd figure something would be setup to take care of that.
Also, I loled when I saw the reason twit.tv is down.
Does this thing mirror the entire repository? That could explain what it was doing when it looked stuck overnight. Or I could just be confusing two different things SAM has been posting about, wouldn't be the first time, and sure won't be the last.
@scottalanmiller said:
@travisdh1 said:
@StrongBad said:
I am pretty sure that CEPH and Xen can coexist, but I don't know about with XenServer. Doing so would likely be very awkward at best.
Possibly. Now I want to go experiment with XenServer and CEPH.
Would make for a fun project.
After I start the next upload I'll have some time. Very experimental as I think I'm going to fire up a XenServer instance in VirtualBox with like 10 10GB HDD, see where I end up and if I finish it before the upload completes.
@StrongBad said:
I am pretty sure that CEPH and Xen can coexist, but I don't know about with XenServer. Doing so would likely be very awkward at best.
Possibly. Now I want to go experiment with XenServer and CEPH.
@NetworkNerd said:
@scottalanmiller said:
One consideration is doing web filtering behind the firewall. I am of the opinion that router and firewall functions go in the outward facing appliance, filtering and proxying go behind that at a different layer for security, performance and flexibility reasons.
I would look at Ubiquiti as a replacement for the Cisco and using something else, maybe continuing to use a Barracuda web filter, for the web filtering. Using a Barracuda in a position where it is secured by something more serious like the Ubiquiti would mean that it was protected from being blatantly opened to the outside world.
How easy are the Ubiquiti firewalls for someone who isn't a CLI guru with Cisco and the like?
Go download the management app and look for yourself, Ubiquity provides all the management software for free. EdgeMAX download page
I don't like the Unified Threat Management devices for the most part. Sure they pack lots of features in a single box. Thing is I can break out all the security stuff out onto different boxes and get a lot better idea of where problems actually are when things go sideways.
@johnhooks said:
@travisdh1 said:
@johnhooks said:
@travisdh1 said:
Started scp on an 800MB file, now I need to find something to do for the next 5 hours.
make sure the shell session doesn't close lol. Unless you're using screen or tmux
Always use screen for these sorts of things! I may act like a newb at times, but give a guy a little credit will ya
Ha I don't have any room to talk. I've connected before thinking I would just do something quick and forgot to create a tmux session and then started a big transfer.
On the plus side, scp is a lot nicer about sharing bandwidth than most other transfer methods I've tried. That or we have a major bottleneck somewhere between us and our hosting provider.... I need to stop thinking, I don't need more problems to fix.
Great, now I'm gonna have to go watch last weeks Windows Weekly, see what he's got to say about it.
@johnhooks said:
@travisdh1 said:
Started scp on an 800MB file, now I need to find something to do for the next 5 hours.
make sure the shell session doesn't close lol. Unless you're using screen or tmux
Always use screen for these sorts of things! I may act like a newb at times, but give a guy a little credit will ya 
Started scp on an 800MB file, now I need to find something to do for the next 5 hours.
That's nice, but you'll have to convince me that this is news. Fiber network taps have been around for almost as long as fiber. With fiber you can monitor the drop in signal. That's always been the real differentiator, the fact that you can tell you've been tapped.
@scottalanmiller said:
@travisdh1 said:
If we go by that standard, I've been in IT 30 years. Wow, I am so underpaid!
I touched my first in 1979.
So, you started in IT the year before I was born!
@dafyre said:
ROFL. I feel bad for those of us that really have been in some "IT" field since we heard the word computer. I was programming them before I could spell computer, lol (started when I was 5...)... I actually started making a few bucks working on people's computers when I was aorund 10... So I've been in IT for 26 years (I'm 36 now).
If we go by that standard, I've been in IT 30 years. Wow, I am so underpaid!
Sounds to me like the drive probably didn't make it through the initialization. Do you have another you can replace it with?
Adding another entry to the block list, out of Brazil this time.
@MattSpeller said:
@travisdh1 SDR is going to be huge and do some fun stuff in the next few years. Makes me want to go back to school!
Just get back up to speed on your trigonometry and you should be good. Things won't get extremely complicated until the new fractal antennas get popular.
@Kelly said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Can you break down the hardware better? I'm unclear if you have an OpenStack computer structure AND a CEPH one or if that is all on the same hardware?
If the former, why not keep CEPH and only move the top layer from OpenStack to XS?
Also, what is driving the move away from OpenStack? Just a desire for simplicity?
I have four hosts that are all OpenStack and Ceph Nodes. Bad design on all counts. I wish they were separated.
Why do you feel the need to separate the storage and compute? What business reason exists to justify the added cost and management headache?
I get that you currently have a management headache, and I do like the idea of moving to something more reliable. XenServer with halizard and XenOrchestra would be a great drop-in replacement, it's what I'm migrating to at least.
@scottalanmiller said:
@MattSpeller said:
@scottalanmiller said:
The problem is that when kids walk home creepers can stalk them without being visible to the kids themselves.
The range of RFID is really short (centimetres). Essentially you'd see the kids long long long long long before you got an RFID blip.
Oh now, it is very long. Even in the 1990s the VNC team at Cambridge could be tracked anywhere in the building with them. I know the ones in our car go like a hundred feet or more. I know that grocery stores have them that go ten feet or more.
You all are working on getting me started on the things you can do with software defined radios, that you can pickup for $25 on ebay. I might not be able to reliably read an RFID card from a long way away, but you better believe I can get a response. Remember the people that got bluetooth working from a mile away? It really isn't that hard to do if you can do a little bit of math.
@Dashrender said:
@travisdh1 said:
@scottalanmiller I'd say that's actually what Google+ is. Linkedin and Facebook may be what every talks about, but more tech happens on G+, at least from the bits and piece I observe.
isn't that dead?
Well, Google(Alphabet?) seems to be ignoring it currently. I'd be upset if they killed it, even if I'm one of the few that would be.
@scottalanmiller I'd say that's actually what Google+ is. Linkedin and Facebook may be what every talks about, but more tech happens on G+, at least from the bits and piece I observe.