What's Your Current Project?
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@Hubtech I'm a hardware junkie, anything neat?!
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@MattKing Older stuff. setting up a home lab. 2x HP GL360 G5's
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@Hubtech A bit dated, but they're still capable with the 5400 series Xeons.
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G5's are really quite good. Memory is the real issue.
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Back to learning some Perl and how to operate one of my Company's software offerings (which lacks better documentation or tutorials). Plugging my way through it trying to understand. Realizing that I'm not a CAD Designer.......
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@Bill-Kindle said:
Back to learning some Perl and how to operate one of my Company's software offerings (which lacks better documentation or tutorials). Plugging my way through it trying to understand. Realizing that I'm not a CAD Designer.......
I never enjoy Perl. BASH, Python, Ruby, JavaScript.... all way more fun.
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@scottalanmiller my problem is that existing scripts are not very well documented and easy to understand. They were slapped together by many people over the years and just seem to be confusing to me. I feel bad for constantly asking questions but it's what I have to do in order plug through them. And I'm not a programmer. Never have been. I know just enough to read a little and understand just as much.
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@Bill-Kindle said:
@scottalanmiller my problem is that existing scripts are not very well documented and easy to understand. They were slapped together by many people over the years and just seem to be confusing to me. I feel bad for constantly asking questions but it's what I have to do in order plug through them. And I'm not a programmer. Never have been. I know just enough to read a little and understand just as much.
That's a reason that I avoid Perl. Not very good at being self documenting.
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@scottalanmiller Well some of the "newer" ones that I see have been cleaned up. They set variables at the very begging, use comments and curly braces appropriately. But the original that I'm supposed to work with to 'learn' from, is not. And on top of that, no formal documentation exists to show anyone how this is done, other than go bug someone to pick their brain. And even then it doesn't quite make sense.
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Seeing that we just moved into a new house in February, I have lots of projects. This past weekend is was landscaping the front yard.
Turns out the previous owners had a rock garden. So my next project is to put together the "Gorilla Cart" I bought at Home Depot, make a sifting table, and then go through the piles of rock-laden dirt I now have in my backyard (from the front yard). Will re-use the rocks as borders around the different landscaping elements and spread the extra dirt around the yard.
I know, not really IT projects, but this is where my extra time is going right now.
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bout time
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There you go!
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@Bill-Kindle said:
@scottalanmiller Well some of the "newer" ones that I see have been cleaned up. They set variables at the very begging, use comments and curly braces appropriately. But the original that I'm supposed to work with to 'learn' from, is not. And on top of that, no formal documentation exists to show anyone how this is done, other than go bug someone to pick their brain. And even then it doesn't quite make sense.
I got in to Perl via the EverQuest Emulator project because the quests were all wrote in Perl. Right as I got comfortable with using it, the project implemented Lua for the quest system. I love this language. It is some much better to write in. The server source code is all C++. This is what I do for a hobby to expand my programming skills beyond VB.Net
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Current projects:
Deploy new DL380 G8 with ESXi 5.5 u1
Migrate VMs from old host
Migrate from Server 2003 R2 to 2012 R2and replace 40 workstations running XP with win7 and win 8.1
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@Dashrender had one similar to this last year. was a nice lil project
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@Dashrender said:
Current projects:
Deploy new DL380 G8 with ESXi 5.5 u1
Migrate VMs from old host
Migrate from Server 2003 R2 to 2012 R2and replace 40 workstations running XP with win7 and win 8.1
Sounds like a good project. Finally someone deploying something current.
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I rolled a client in Kansas from XP to 8 last February. Last week I updated them to 8.1. Their server is SBS 2008 on a VMWare 5.0 host, so it will be a couple years before they update the server hardware.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Current projects:
Deploy new DL380 G8 with ESXi 5.5 u1
Migrate VMs from old host
Migrate from Server 2003 R2 to 2012 R2and replace 40 workstations running XP with win7 and win 8.1
Sounds like a good project. Finally someone deploying something current.
The sad thing is, I have two DL380 G5's and the VMWare HCL says they only support to up to ESXi 4.1 i was really hoping I'd have some lab boxes.
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Swapping out CAD systems for new people and migrating mailboxes between two mail servers.
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@Dashrender said:
The sad thing is, I have two DL380 G5's and the VMWare HCL says they only support to up to ESXi 4.1 i was really hoping I'd have some lab boxes.
I have some DL350 G5's and they run ESXi 5.0. Sure not, 5.5, but close. I'm surprised the DL380 only does 4.1
