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    • gjacobse

      Eaton Rack Mount 5P: power on issue
      IT Discussion • eaton eaton rack mount ups failed power on • • gjacobse

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      Pete.S

      @gjacobse said in Eaton Rack Mount 5P: power on issue:

      @NHCSAdmin said in Eaton Rack Mount 5P: power on issue:

      @gjacobse Is the power input set to the correct voltage? We ran into something similar with the 9p line where the power from the street was 208 but of course the generator was at 240. With the UPS set to 208 and the batteries not at 100% it would not turn on while the UPS was running. We found it out the hardway when the power went on and the generator did not kick on and the batteries drained down. Then the generator repair tech got the generator on but it didnt matter since we couldnt turn on the unit since it was set to 208. Confirmed it with Eaton and all.

      That's a good call - but sadly no.

      I pulled it out of the rack - thankful for the use of a lift as pulling it down from twelve-fifteen feet up on a step-ladder would have been no joy.

      Walked it across the warehouse and plugged it back in and noticed that the reported state of charge on the battery was 88%.

      Wait, what now? you lost twelve percent, powered off and no load while I walked across the building? That can't be right.

      Unit's going back RMA as failed..

      Lead acid batteries (VRLA) can't be left uncharged for long periods of time. It cause sulphation on the cells and destroys the battery. Recommended storage time without charging is 6 months at room temperature.

      So having an UPS sitting on a shelf is a bad idea. It should be hooked up at least every 6 month.

      So this has nothing to do with Eaton. It's just how the battery chemistry works.

      If you had the UPS sitting for a long time without installing it, this could be a factor.

    • scottalanmiller

      What Are You Doing Right Now
      Water Closet • time waster • • scottalanmiller

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      gjacobse

      @RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      The only truly good ads ...

      What is this odd phrase? Do those words go together like that? Or is this a translation of some idiom badly translated into english?

      Agreed,.. thin only good ad is the one I never see, hear, or read….

      I love the blank placeholder on the Roku home screen. PiHole FTW.

      Had to shut mine down - interfered with game play on certain iOS games... because - shitting games.

    • travisdh1

      XO-Lite beta
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      @travisdh1 Installation note from Oliver

      olivierlambertolivierlambert VATES 🪐 FOUNDER & CEO 🦸 Jun 30, 2021, 12:27 PM
      @gskger To answer about the availability: in fact, it's already working, but very very very basic for now. I'd like to have something "not ugly" to start, even with not a lot of features, so let's say end of this summer 🙂

      But if you can't hold until then, it's pretty easy to test:

      Create a /opt/xensource/www/xolite.html file
      Put that inside:
      <!DOCTYPE html>
      <html lang="en" class="no-js">
      <head>
      <meta charset="utf-8" />
      <meta
      name="viewport"
      content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no"
      />
      <meta name="theme-color" content="#cc584c" />
      <title>XoLite</title>
      </head>
      <body>
      <noscript>You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.</noscript>
      <div id="root">The application is loading…</div>
      <script src="https://lite.xen-orchestra.com/dist/index.js"></script>
      </body>
      </html>
      Go in your host IP address <host address>/xolite.html
      That's it!

      edit: until the XAPI fix is in 8.2 or 8.3, consoles only work with Chrome.

    • thwr

      What did you have for lunch or dinner today?
      Water Closet • time waster cooking • • thwr

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

      My chef just handed me breakfast nachos...

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      "My Chef" must be nice...

    • B

      Local Storage vs SAN ...
      IT Discussion • san storage replicated local storage • • BraswellJay

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      scottalanmiller

      Examples in known open source worlds...

      If you run ProxMox with DRBD on the Debian (host) layer, it's RLS assuming ProxMox has local disks.

      If you then make that block storage available over the network, it becomes a SAN (a traditional / physical SAN.) A SAN with replication for resiliency.

      If you run ProxMox and make a VM of Ubuntu and in that VM install DRBD it may or may not be RLS depending on where the host is getting its storage from for that VM. To the VM it will appear as if it is RLS, but we really don't know unless we check the stack. It's just the replication piece here.

      If you then make that DRBD block layer in the VM available over the network, it becomes a vSAN.

    • S

      ZeroTier rules to limit freelancer access
      IT Discussion • • SenseiWilliams

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      Pete.S

      @scottalanmiller said in ZeroTier rules to limit freelancer access:

      @Pete-S said in ZeroTier rules to limit freelancer access:

      Or you can just rely on authentication and authorization for every service and have no network segmentation. More risky but less work.

      To me this is what makes more sense. I get the value is DOUBLE protection. But at a minimum this should be there first, ZT only as a completely additional layer of protection.

      I agree. Network access control and segmentation is just to make it freakishly hard to traverse for malicious actors and software.

    • JaredBusch

      NodeBB Plugins
      Platform and Category Issues • nodebb plugins • • JaredBusch

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      just updated my instance to current and they still work.
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    • Oksana

      StarWind Success Story: Build a remotely managed IT infrastructure with StarWind
      Starwind • starwind starwind hci appliance starwind hca hyperconvergence infrastructure virtualization • • Oksana

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    • Oksana

      Access Azure Bastion Without the Portal
      Starwind • starwind microsoft azure azure portal • • Oksana

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    • scottalanmiller

      Twelve99 Routing Issues from Cox in Omaha to Chicago
      IT Discussion • cox telia arelion • • scottalanmiller

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      User migration to azure
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      @Obsolesce said in User migration to azure:

      The alternative to signing into the web browser to sync is so much worse, even in the off chance you chose to use 4 web browsers at the same time, and sign into them all with your work account to sync. Any other method is going to end up costing way more effort in the end anyways.

      No real arguement from me there. But it's still 3 (IE is dead and as far as I know never had sync) accounts, one for each browser.

      I use three browsers - I personally use FF, I have to use Chrome/Edge for our EMR - it refuses FF, and I use Chrome and Edge because I have need for multiple sessions in the EMR as different users... now I could do profiles in Chrome for that - but that's like making multiple accounts in Chrome.. so - meh.

    • scottalanmiller

      Configure ZTE F670L for NAT on LAN Ethernet Ports
      IT Discussion • zte teko modem zte f670l • • scottalanmiller

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      @dagors said in Configure ZTE F670L for NAT on LAN Ethernet Ports:

      This was it. What a dumb way to have that worded!!

      Sorry, google translate.
      But it's good that it was fixed.

      I mean dumb way that ZTE worded it.

    • Oksana

      StarWind Success Story: Replace your aging SAN devices with StarWind vSAN
      Starwind • starwind vsan starwind virtual san hyperv san • • Oksana

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    • Oksana

      VMware Horizon 8 2212: Apps on Demand for Published App Environments
      Starwind • starwind vmware vmware app volumes virtualization virtual desktop • • Oksana

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    • scottalanmiller

      Windows 10 Workstation Cannot Be Accessed via RDP with Other User Error
      IT Discussion • windows windows 10 active directory rdp windows server 2019 • • scottalanmiller

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      We find that if we rename the PC, then allow more than a day to go by before restarting, this can happen.

      Also, if we rename a PC, then the user allows the PC to go into Lock mode (screen saver timeout with login required to return) they will encounter this upon wake up/re-logon.

      In the above two cases a reboot usually resolves it, when it doesn't, we go in as local admin and disjoin then rejoin the domain to resolve it.

      Also, in the above two cases, we did not lose the computer in active directory, so after the disjoin/rejoin you'd want to remove the orphan computer from AD.

      There's an article online somewhere about why you should NOT disjoin and rejoin the domain in this case, but we have always done it this way and have never experienced ill effects.

    • scottalanmiller

      WordPress Site Lost Its Mind - Ten Minutes of Maintenance Over and Over Again
      IT Discussion • wordpress nginx varnish cloudflare apache php • • scottalanmiller

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      @Pete-S said in WordPress Site Lost Its Mind - Ten Minutes of Maintenance Over and Over Again:

      This is how you do that:
      https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/cron/hooking-wp-cron-into-the-system-task-scheduler/

      Nice, good info. Thanks.

    • mlnews

      Miscellaneous Tech News
      News • • mlnews

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      Texkonc

      @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

      https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-365-outage-takes-down-teams-exchange-online-outlook/?mibextid=Zxz2cZ

      They had an issue on Friday that affected people with GEO blocking......After research we found some of the IP's trying to respond were based in India. Unblocking India from GEO fixed it. I imagine companies that are government or companies based in the UK would be able to sue the pants off them.

    • scottalanmiller

      Bind Linux Process to Well Known Web Ports When Not Root
      IT Discussion • linux centos rhel ubuntu fedora arch suse mint • • scottalanmiller

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      @scottalanmiller said in Bind Linux Process to Well Known Web Ports When Not Root:

      If you have ever tried to run a user space program on Linux with a port below 1024 you know that this is a security problem and you are not allowed to do so. There is a simple fix for this, but it is not well known.

      Once you know the binary that you will be using to open the low number (well known) port you can use this command to grant it permission to use these ports without otherwise compromising security.

      setcap cap_net_bind_service+ep /my/binary/file

      Now you can run your application. This is most commonly used for user space web applications that want to use port 80 or 443 without requiring that you run a reverse proxy in front of them.

      Good to know!

      I found this as an example of how to use it and also commands to remove the permission:
      https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HTTPD/NonRootPortBinding

      The setcap utility seems to be available in the libcap2-bin package on debian distros.

      I haven't checked if it's installed by default.

    • A

      Helpdesk - PC replacement routines
      IT Discussion • • annalynnetech

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      scottalanmiller

      @IRJ said in Helpdesk - PC replacement routines:

      @scottalanmiller said in Helpdesk - PC replacement routines:

      @IRJ said in Helpdesk - PC replacement routines:

      The Helpdesk team exists to be a human shield for users. Your main job is keep users away from the rest of IT. Customer service and user support is the job. Since your Helpdesk should be made up of entry level with fair turnover, I'm not sure you're gonna ever be efficient nor is that really the goal.

      I started in Helpdesk as did many others I've met in higher IT positions. The employees that you have that are really good are not meant to stay there too long. If your company doesn't have the foresite to promote top performers, they will just leave and go somewhere else.

      The TLDR is Helpdesk is supposed to be a a human shield for IT. It should be a starting place for aspiring IT professionals, and if they are knowledgeable enough to improve these processes they won't be around long (one way or another).

      That said, some people like the interaction and choose to stay there. But that's not the norm. But even then, it's a customer service role for sure and "performance" will always be difficult. In fact, you might dislike performance if it means less human interactions with end users.

      Yep. I've seen it. There's one guy that I worked with that just loved everything about Helpdesk. Far more capable than the desk. He could be working with servers, cloud, etc. He just decided he loved what he was doing and stayed there for many years. I kept in touch for many years beyond us working together and he was always there. Big fish in little pond so to speak, and I think he likes that.

      We've had staff like that. Pure gold if you find them. Someone actually happy with "what they are doing."

    • Oksana

      Microsoft Tips on Setting Up Ethical Hacking Course
      Starwind • starwind starwind v2v converter v2v converter v2v microsoft azure • • Oksana

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