Posts made by travisdh1

How can you not like an instructive blog post that opens with "it's almost boring."

Just finished a session of Elite Dangerous. I don't have the latest expansion pack yet, going to have to make a decision on weather paying for a lifetime is worth it, or just shell out for Horizons?

@DustinB3403 said:

haha... Safe For Work

I'm not so sure about that.... who thought THAT design was a good idea?

@LAH3385 That's the sort of max transfer speed I'd expect out of a 100 megabit network. Something is probably not set or working right with the crossover connections.

@JaredBusch said:

@travisdh1 said:

@Dashrender said:

why can't you put it in the room where you are using it?

1 AP and 8 rooms, and adding more APs would most likely create to much overlap. I actually have 2 on the way, but only anticipate needing one in that building. The 2nd one will be in a different building, and much simpler to deal with.

If you have lots of walls, then put two on opposite ends of the building and set the power to low.

This is why we test! While I think one will be enough, I ordered 2. The location for the 2nd one can easily be covered by the current cheapo running DD-WRT. I have a Friday of a long network cord on the floor while I walk around starring at WiFiAnalyzer on the company tablet.

@Dashrender said:

why can't you put it in the room where you are using it?

1 AP and 8 rooms, and adding more APs would most likely create to much overlap. I actually have 2 on the way, but only anticipate needing one in that building. The 2nd one will be in a different building, and much simpler to deal with.

@coliver said:

@travisdh1 said:

@Dashrender said:

I think they look fine!

Though I really like the mounting bracket on the Cisco APs better - they clip onto the drop ceiling railing and install much faster.

I get to install one of these, and they just got rid of all the drop ceilings. It's just one AC-Lite AP, but me and drilling holes doesn't generally work so well.

The kit that came with the original Unifi APs came with drywall mollys/anchors. Make sure you use these, otherwise it could get messy. The AP isn't that heavy (the Lite probably less so) but the anchors are for the best.

I was going to mount it inside a centrally located closet, but am going to try to talk them into letting me mount it on the outside wall of the closet. No matter where I put the thing the signal will be going through at least one wall where it's being used, so I don't know how much use we'll be able to make use of the 5GHz range. The place isn't that large, just lots of walls.

Either way I know those drywall anchors are important if it's being put on the drywall somewhere. I have trouble imagining a secure mount on a ceiling tile, at least with me around.

@Dashrender said:

I think they look fine!

Though I really like the mounting bracket on the Cisco APs better - they clip onto the drop ceiling railing and install much faster.

I get to install one of these, and they just got rid of all the drop ceilings. It's just one AC-Lite AP, but me and drilling holes doesn't generally work so well.

8GB drives never give you 8GB of capacity tho.... this has bit me a time or two myself.

Great idea! You'd get me to bite if/when that Solaris RISC system would get put in. Yeah, I couldn't relive my IRIX days, but RISC and UNIX come close enough.

@Nic said:

Ours go to 11!

I'll make you one that goes to 12!

@Dashrender I've got a 32" 2k at home, and it about fills up my field of vision while sitting at a comfortable distance. My old 24" is mounted on a swing arm beside it. It's a great setup that lets me concentrate most of my attention on one screen and still have reference material a glance away. The fact that that the 2nd monitor is on a swing arm means I can still use the computer while sitting on the couch. /me spoiled@home

@anonymous said:

@JaredBusch said:

No one runs CentOS 7 with the GUI.

I don't run it with a GUI, but how do you install it? Text Install?

Would probably be a better option at 256MB of RAM. Makes me wonder how small it's possible to go.

@Dashrender said:

@LAH3385 said:

@Dashrender
The cluster storage space is configured with starWind vSAN. I gave it a good 1TB (1,0001GB)

We all missed what this graphic is actually showing - it shows that your Cluster Volume is only 1 GB, not 1 TB.

Yep. Comma or period is a big difference all right!

Good morning. Standing up a zerotier network between the 2 locations here today, yay!

@LAH3385 said:

@Dashrender
The cluster storage space is configured with starWind vSAN. I gave it a good 1TB (1,0001GB)

Right, but the error is claiming it's on the system drive.

@LAH3385 That error looks like you might have run out of storage at an unexpected place. I know you've probably looked already, but someone has to ask. Do you have 2GB of free space on that C drive?

@Dashrender said:

Unless I'm missing something, running ZT completely inhouse looks to be pretty easy.

Stand up a Linux box, install ZT in controller mode, publish the needed ports to the web, optional - create DNS record for this function, join other ZT clients to the controller.

Ah, see the problem with taking 5 minutes to read this stuff

@scottalanmiller said:

I've not run my own but several people here have, they might have a good idea as to the time and effort involved.

After looking at it for 5 minutes this morning, really no need to. It's just a client so far.

I'd love to see something like this that you could easily keep everything in-house.

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

A container takes no more effort to maintain than a VM, they are identical to a systems admin. Just as a VM takes no more effort to maintain than a physical box, less actually. There is nothing that creates "more" work.

Right that I understand, but putting each and every service, when possible, in it's own VM or container is what I meant by the micro VMs - instead of maintaining one system that has AD/File/Print/small DB, now your maintaining 4 boxes. Granted with tools, managing them is easier today, but not the same as managing one. that's all I was getting at.

It's not the same as managing a single one, but it should be just as easy.