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@scottalanmiller said in What do you think of my hypothetical HCI:

@tim_g said in What do you think of my hypothetical HCI:

Why not just use two or three Hyper-V Server 2016 nodes and StarWind vSAN?

That seems like a whole lot easier, cheaper, and way more effective.

And you totally missed "massively safer." Better storage, and way fewer moving pieces to fail.

Yeah that too of course! That was bundled into the "way more effective" bit.

"The recent shift to the cloud has proven immensely profitable, with Microsoft stock growing to levels that seemed unfathomable just a few years ago. The shift away from the client and Windows is clearly working as a business strategy — but it’s a seismic shift for the company and its culture."

He seems to figure things out by the end, but just stating what everyone has known for years.

@emad-r If you want diskless, look at setting up a PXE server to boot them from the network.

If you just want minimal drives locally, then go with the small SSD. I've not found a USB stick that has the same sort of write endurance yet, and have had many fail on me when being used for the OS, temp files, and logging.

Gluster would just be a normal network mount point to the compute nodes, and DRBL is another way to network boot.

Converged or hyper-converged really doesn't matter, you want the most cost effective hardware to do the job.

Without knowing more about what you're trying to accomplish, we can't give anything but generic advice, and even that could be completely wrong.

@emad-r said in Linux NiC Bond Question:

Hi,

after you create linux nic bonding, do you disable the original nic adapters, so only the bond network adapter gets IP and has priority.

Cause the only way I saw activity of my nm-bond interface was when I disabled the ens33 and ens34 from getting an IP, so only the bond has it.

Or you keep all interfaces as is with the machine having 3 IPs, how then it will determine to use the bond IP and not others?

I used rr or round robin

I use only use the virtual NICs as well on Debian as well.

@dustinb3403 said in IT rock bottom:

@wls-itguy said in IT rock bottom:

I didn't just burn the bridge I poured gas on it and stood on the other side laughing.

Did you really? I'm surprised the cops weren't called and you weren't arrested for arson. . .

There was no bridge left to burn by the time they got there.

@scottalanmiller said in Can some one explain CPU shares|Weight-sum|weight:

@travisdh1 said in Can some one explain CPU shares|Weight-sum|weight:

@emad-r said in Can some one explain CPU shares|Weight-sum|weight:

@travisdh1

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Everything your showing me is making me like Docker less and less. Wasn't it supposed to simplify the sysadmin side of things so that the developers could do both jobs?

No, Docker isn't for system admins at all. It's just for devs (by design and intent.)

That was kinda my point.

@scottalanmiller

Yh by accident today I was able to understand it better

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Fedora suffers the same fate as centos, and wants to error out but instead when it does not see the boot partitions it will error out quickly then check the next drive, and if it founds it it will update the EFI parition and add another line so it has fail safe method, centos wont do this. so the 1st entry belonged to boot part that was deleted and the 2nd as well, so fedora will keep finding them if you have them and it will auto update the EFI parition while it boots up and adds another line, so then you can boot normally. all this done in the background, you will just see an error fail for boot for 1-2 seconds they you will boot normally cause Fedora already written another entry.

I am starting to like Fedora for servers (minimal install) and if I want centos I can use it as guest vm.

Looks like they have restored their site.

@emad-r said in SBC = RK3399 is the chip to look for:

@penguinwrangler

Compared to Pi3 this chip = RK3399 paves the way for ARM desktop alternatives without any lags.

I never use RPi as a desktop.

@travisdh1 said in Even former Intel president believes future is ARM:

@scottalanmiller said in Even former Intel president believes future is ARM:

Sounds exciting, but loads of companies have said this, and then dropped their plans before releasing 😞

Yeah, waiting on the ARM CPU revolution is seeming more like expecting the year of the alternate desktops 🙁

Yeah, we've been waiting on this since RiscOS was hot.

@emad-r said in vFront (User front-end for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases):

@black3dynamite said in vFront (User front-end for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases):

@scottalanmiller said in vFront (User front-end for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases):

@black3dynamite said in vFront (User front-end for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases):

That's awesome. I've always been using Adminer (https://www.adminer.org/) when I need to manage databases.

This isn't for managing them, this is for creating simple front ends, like Access used to do.

Ok, that makes more sense now.

The VFront Administration for DB Administration uses Adminer. Just have to enable the plugin.
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Correct, this is there for quick edits, but why use those when there are enterprise solutions like MySQL Workbench.

Yep, I use that too.
But I do get a Connection Warning about an incompatible/nonstandard server or connection protocal detected (10.2.10) when connecting to MariaDB.

@emad-r said in Does any one of you has (single-board computer) if so what is the purpose ?:

@dbeato said in Does any one of you has (single-board computer) if so what is the purpose ?:

@emad-r said in Does any one of you has (single-board computer) if so what is the purpose ?:

ou have something like Pi 3 and if so why ? and what OS on it ?
If you want to buy one which one interests you.
Thanks.

Raspberry Pi3 for thermostat and Arduino for door automation.

Why I am getting the vibe here that it is easier to code and automate with Arduino , is there an easy guide/wizard for it that does not involve alot of coding ?

Arduino is microprocessor coded with a specific dialect of c as most of micros todays. It is not able to run an os. Like any micro it accepts an entry point and starts looping the same code again and again until you pull the plug.
Raspberrypi is an arm architecture able to run an os. You can code it even in python or node.js

@aidan_walsh @travisdh1 said in LattePanda + Android Limbo PC Emulator:

@scottalanmiller said in LattePanda + Android Limbo PC Emulator:

@aidan_walsh said in LattePanda + Android Limbo PC Emulator:

LattePanda is a neat looking board. Supports Ubuntu 16.04 as well as Windows.

Last gen Intel, though. I'd prefer current gen AMD.

huh, well, doesn't seem so interesting anymore.

there is AMD boards, but support has been removed, they are called gizmos and abit pricy and needs fan:

http://www.gizmosphere.org/products/gizmo-2/

@emad-r said in Best medical support equipment for IT pros (something tried and used):

@dustinb3403 said in Best medical support equipment for IT pros (something tried and used):

"Medical Support Equipment" = Bottle of Scotch

Looking for something more permanent.

Clue-By-Four then. .

Double the RAM and that could be a great laptop!

@emad-r said in Do you flush ? the Linux RAM cache buffer.:

@tim_g said in Do you flush ? the Linux RAM cache buffer.:

Did I understand correctly that it's a Java application? If so, how are you launching/running it? What CLI command you using?

Oh i know they use a whole file for those arguments, ill see if i can check that and get back to you, what I can recall currently is- xms 512 and -xmx 2028

Is that enough memory to start the java application? That means you are starting it with 512MB of RAM and giving it a max of 2028 MB.

Thanks for reminding me to call Cigna and make sure they properly canceled our healthcare plan

The iOS app seems very limited. I can't even find a way to change screens... Am I missing something?