Can we sign up yet, or are we waiting for the website?

@scottalanmiller said:

We now have XO running on our Scale cluster

Your using XO to manage the Xen or XenServer installs on the HP servers, right? Wonder how compatible XO would be with Scale, if at all.

@quicky2g said:

@dafyre said:

@quicky2g said:

Some "not so standard" useful IP address stuff:

ip addr show eth0
ip -s link show eth0

Supposedly, those are the new standards, ha ha ha.

Muscle memory has me stuck on

ifconfig

Only the people here will understand how many times I've typed ifconfig instead of ipconfig, or ipconfig instead of ifconfig. So annoying (yes, I annoy myself.)

@JaredBusch said:

@DustinB3403 said:

That is not a favorite, I try to avoid rebooting my systems if they don't absolutely need it.

I reboot pretty much everything, including the bare metal hypervisor, at least every other month.

Even once a month, I'd not consider it a favorite. A necessary evil, yes. Gotta keep the hardware in check. Glances, screen, sudo, wget, and crtl+r(history search) get used almost every time I hit a server. So minimum of 3 times a day.

@Dashrender said:

My only question about that setup is, will it have the IOPs he needs?

Great question. Have the results from that DPACK been posted yet?

In addition to the 3 you listed.
glances - the shell system monitor to use, everything including temp sensors if configured. Replaced htop, iftop, and iotop for me.
screen - because it's just handy to be able to leave programs running and logout at the same time.

@coliver said:

@Minion-Queen said:

Roads seem good here, not on them or going anywhere but traffic is moving well.

Normally they are pretty decent... but it looks like our plow drivers were caught with their pants down. Normally I see two on my way into work this morning I didn't see any and the roads were in bad shape. Although I am leaving 30 minutes earlier then I did last winter so that may have something to do with it.

Roads were fine here this morning. The people driving on them were not... My 35 minute drive turned into over an hour thanks to everyone going 30mph. It's winter, I get it, I left 15 minutes earlier than normal and arrived at the office 10 minutes latter than I should. People are so much fun to work with that I decided inanimate idiot-savants were the easier.

@BRRABill said:

Seems the Interwebs are very annoyed that Microsoft is axing Windows 8 support. Reading through the comments on Facebook.

You mean someone liked it? Guess people liked Vista and ME as well shakes head and walks away

@dafyre said:

@travisdh1 said:

@dafyre First absurdly dumb questioning here (hey, it's what I'm good at.) By your use of fail over cluster, that means you're setting this up at the SQL server and not the OS level, right?

Not this set, no. This set will be done as a File Server. I figured out part of what I am doing wrong, but I am waiting on my boss to give me an available IP address, lol.

Good! I'll buy the first round if we ever meet up.

Also, looks like I need to dig into this DAG thing.

@dafyre First absurdly dumb questioning here (hey, it's what I'm good at.) By your use of fail over cluster, that means you're setting this up at the SQL server and not the OS level, right?

@anonymous said:

Does anyone make a cheap raid card?

Inexpensive raid card no. Inexpensive HBA card, yes.

@anonymous said:

@travisdh1 Can you get it fixed so it runs a service too?

Next time. I didn't put an init script for it together as this one was just the first step. If I continue to use it I'll definitely clean it up, make it smaller, and hopefully get an easy-to-deploy init or systemd startup script running as well.

@scottalanmiller said:

Why is he building Asterisk from sources!!!! What is wrong with people?

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1387043-ubuntu-make-error

@scottalanmiller said:

I. Can't. Even.

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1387039-geek-squad-as-a-managed-service-provider

I keep this on my phone to pull out for just these situations. Picard Facepalm Tho we might want to go straight to Double Facepalm today. Hopefully we won't move on to the triple facepalm!

If I start using it properly I'll re-roll this as a minimal install. Now that I've used it a bit I don't know why I bothered with even a lightweight gui. Next time I'll see how small I can make it.

@anonymous said:

Where is the link? o_0

That might help! xoserv.ova

I've been using calendar.google.com since I accepted that at least one company will know more about me than I do myself. I've got other apps pulling the schedule in as well.

@mlnews Only took them 6 months to get around to it. Did they even send a unit to one of the DD-WRT devs? Doesn't seem like it anyway.

Stallard Technologies (www.stikc.com) has PowerEdge 1950G2 in stock. They aren't something I'd want to keep turned on all the time, but they do include the basic DRAC. 32GB RAM and 2 E5345 CPU runs ~$200. I'd imagine one of those would be enough to start.

@christophergault said:

@scottalanmiller Damn, I still have allot to learn about all this...

You're asking the questions to learn tho. We all had to start somewhere, hopefully you can learn from our mistakes!

@johnhooks said:

I thought SSD's would eliminate the need for RAID. But I'm still on the fence about this.

Wow, missed that the first time through. Where did THAT idea come from?