@Dashrender I am. Thanks everyone. You guys really banded together to help me. I really really appreciate it.

@WrCombs Brownie points acquired. I think you might unlock an achievement.

@JaredBusch said in Domain Controller Down (VM):

@John-Nicholson said in Domain Controller Down (VM):

(and has NEVER been supported to use vMotion or iSCSI over 100Mbps) in the past 8 years I've worked with VMware.

Among all the many things wrong, this right here is a killer thing. whoever set this up was nearly criminal.

Agreed. Slowly but surely changes will be made. Thank god for ML though. For real.

Anyone hear of the superbook? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andromium/the-superbook-turn-your-smartphone-into-a-laptop-f

I think there is definitely a use case for constant travellers.

Alright, so I'm going to need to fix some DNS issues which I think @JaredBusch informed me of yesterday. When I perform nslookup on my file server and printer server it kicks back an error stating:

DNS request timed out.
Default Server: Unknown
Address: 192.168.10.16 <-- IP of my domain controller (2003)

@MattSpeller I've always wanted to learn sleight of hand. Never stolen a thing in my life but I think its a very useful skill to have.

@gjacobse said in IT Quotes I Like:

@NerdyDad said in IT Quotes I Like:

"There's no place like 127.0.0.1"

One of those is in my closet,.. and those I mean the shirt - .... no weird people in my closet other than me.

Likely story

Thank god AirBNB is still a thing in Tokyo. My friends found a place for $200 for 10 days.

@JaredBusch said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?:

@gjacobse said in What Chocolatey packages do you install?:

If you replace install with upgrade it will upgrade if it is there, if it is not there, it will install it.

I hate that type of functionality.

Because you want it to do only what you ask it to and not make assumptions?

@Dashrender He said it was great!

@DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

@wirestyle22 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

@DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

Our existing HP has 460,536 prints to date!

I had an HP 4250 that had 2.5 million prints. If you maintain them correctly, they last for a ridiculously long amount of time.

Yeah, IF being the key word.

No one has ever put a feed roller or anything into this printer as far as I know. And our printer guy has refused to touch the printer.

Also they don't make the maintenance kit for this printer any more (from a brief search)

One thing I can say is don't ever try to purchase third party maintenance kits. I bought some rollers from china just to see and never again.

@MattSpeller said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@wirestyle22 said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

Have not eaten today period. Dying.

Be careful - that can be permanent.

I had my consciousness uploaded to my google drive.

Leaders of the field will publish their work. That is what furthers the field. That is the entire purpose of a dissertation is to further your field even by a fraction of a millimeter. Then their peers will critique it in order to either solidify or debunk it.

This is essentially what we do here

Check out acorns. They round up any debit purchases you make and invest it for you into mutual funds. It's great. By the end of the year I can pay for my Christmas gifts with it.

Motto: Never the brand, always the model

Our DR Plan needs serious work. I need to get Veeam and figure out how to handle the VM Host replication automatically should an esxi host fail.

@NerdyDad said in Can't connect CentOS 7 to network:

@travisdh1 said in Can't connect CentOS 7 to network:

@NerdyDad said in Can't connect CentOS 7 to network:

@travisdh1 said in Can't connect CentOS 7 to network:

@NerdyDad said in Can't connect CentOS 7 to network:

@travisdh1 said in Can't connect CentOS 7 to network:

@NerdyDad said in Can't connect CentOS 7 to network:

@travisdh1 said in Can't connect CentOS 7 to network:

@NerdyDad said in Can't connect CentOS 7 to network:

I am also not getting any activity lights on the network card. Is this normal in Linux?

Well, that's even easier, it's a hardware problem. Nothing should ever effect the blinking lights.

Possibly a driver issue then?

While possible, it's unlikely. The only real exceptoin that comes to mind is Debian with certain closed-source Broadcom drivers. What kind of network card is it, and was it working before?

It used to work before as it was my first coming to this company. I later switched to a newer laptop and put this one in the back for storage.

driver: e1000e
version: 3.2.5-k
firmware-version: 0.12-1
bus-info: 0000:00:19.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: yes
supports-eeprom-access: yes
supports-register-dump: yes
supports-priv-flags: no

An Intel e1000e should be fine. Any lights showing on the switch port? No lights on either end = no network.

No lights.

Well, we know where the problem is now, but I doubt you'll be able to change the network card in a laptop

Well crap. I guess I'll use this for a study machine to learn with. I have a few more laptops here that I haven't installed CentOS on yet. I'll test their cards before I install CentOS.

You would see the NIC light up regardless FYI. It only requires about 2 AMPS of power to light up or something.

@Son-of-Jor-El said in Converting Second Domain Controller from Physical to VM:

@scottalanmiller said in Converting Second Domain Controller from Physical to VM:

@wirestyle22 said in Converting Secondary Domain from Physical to VM:

@coliver said in Converting Secondary Domain from Physical to VM:

@wirestyle22 said in Converting Secondary Domain from Physical to VM:

Is there a way for me to verify this secondary domain is functioning as intended?

Try binding to it.

I worded this wrong. Sorry.

This is a secondary DC. I didn't think you could specify the domain controller, it's just round robin. How do I verify that it's working.

Second DC, not secondary. Haven't been secondary DCs ever in Active Directory. That terminology is mistakenly brought over from the PDC/BDC days of Windows NT and the SAM system that pre-dates AD. Once AD replaced SAM, there was no more secondary concepts.

Quoted for truth. Glad you pointed this out. That terminology needs to die so no one gets confused.

He's corrected me at least ten times and I still keep doing it. Trying to get it out of my head completely.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

We did both. Prior to our wedding we were married by a town official, it was easier then doing it all the same day, and much cheaper. We then got "married" by my uncle at this beautiful farm down the road. ~150 people attended and the overall expense was much cheaper then I had originally expected... although we did pull a few favors from some local friends/business owners. We wouldn't do anything differently the perfect party/wedding.

This is what I am considering actually. We have a small wedding of 90. It's hard to plan for that few because every venue has a minimum. @Minion-Queen should require @scottalanmiller to get ordained as a service to ML members

I've totally thought about that before. I mentioned it a few weeks ago. I love weddings so it would be perfect.

I'm putting this out there: You get ordained and I promise I will actually have you do this. I'll even record a live video of it for ML