I just passed my CompTIA Security+ exam.

@MattSpeller said in Disk Errors - Would this concern you?:

@Harry-Lui said in Disk Errors - Would this concern you?:

I'd call Synology and see what they say.

I will thank you

@scottalanmiller said in MangoCon 2017:

@Grey said in MangoCon 2017:

@StrongBad said in MangoCon 2017:

I guess Greyhound has improved a lot over the years. I hear that they have power and WiFi now.

Fancy.

You just like the name.

@mroth911 said in Scale HC3 cluster for sale:

Hc1150 3.38tb raw storage/1.74tbu 64gb ram

Support ended need to renew support contract

@scottalanmiller said in Shots for Scott:

I lived in Romania and had moonshine for breakfast, literally. You don't scare me.

Time to break out the tequila, boys!

I'm thinking I might roll back the minecraft server every day in February until people figure out Groundhog Day.

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Well, with a lot of help from @dashrender, I successfully demoted two problem Domain Controllers and fixed my add network printer list not populating. The DC's were two standalone servers and free up two servers for use as VM Hosts.

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Kind of lost hope and faith in Spiceworks, as a company.

It's really sad that so many people are leaving Spiceworks due to so many fixable problems. Interestingly, it's all the fault of the CEO because that's where all blame eventually lies in a company, despite the 3 envelope joke. Since we know that Jay has a marketing background, it's super obvious to see why things are failing at a company that, at it's core and slogan, was designed for IT. They've shifted to marketing their mistake, the community, and it's clearly hurting them. I predict that, unless Jay realizes that his boat is headed for Davy Jones' Locker, that ship is going to sink before anyone realizes it, if it hasn't already. People are already leaving the app and community in rafts and competitors like ManageEngine are just cheering.

At the very least, we can thank them for bringing people like Scott and most of the people in this community together. I hope that MangoCon picks up steam and is a viable event to replace SpiceWorld when it finishes circling the drain.

Should we start a deadpool on their community?

@travisdh1 ah, yeah. I have a 2.25% rate presently. Not ever changing it.

https://www.the-sun.com/motors/11226704/car-illegally-towed-parking-visitor-dallas-texas-court/
Came up today in my news feed.

@Oksana Note that TPM can be bypassed for the installation.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-offers-tpm-20-bypass-to-install-windows-11-on-unsupported-pcs

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Accepted a job offer this morning, so I'm back to work tomorrow.

Slight raise to base pay, but I'll also get 5% of my billable hours. So if I keep my billable hours up, a big raise.

Only downside is that it's on-site in downtown Cleveland.

Ohio? But, why, though?

My Windows Datacenter license will be delivered today so I get to upgrade my home lab servers from 2012 r2 to 2022. Yay!

A little script I wrote to reboot a bunch of servers at a specific, calculated time. You can adjust the filename or time in the header. Default time is 730 pm. You need winrm enabled on all the target systems, and I don't know what the limit would be on server count. If you run a NOC, warn them before all the servers reboot at exactly the same time. lol!

###########
#Boot systems in a file at 730 pm

$file = "$($ENV:USERPROFILE)\desktop\systems.txt"
$target = Get-Date -Hour 19 -Minute 30 -Second 0

#don't change anything below here
$systems = get-content $file
$utz = Get-Date -Hour 19 -Minute 30 -Second 0 -UFormat "%Z"
$now = $(Get-Date)
$serverTZ = (get-timezone).id
$seconds = ($target - $now).TotalSeconds
$final = [math]::Round($seconds)
$final = $final - 15
Write-Host -ForegroundColor cyan -NoNewline "nSeconds until $target $serverTZ ($utz UTC):"
write-host -ForegroundColor Yellow " $final"
$final |clip
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Cyan "15 second delay to cancel a scheduled reboot for $($($systems).count) systems:`n$systems"
#Write-Progress -SecondsRemaining 15 -Activity "Reboot schedule countdown."
Start-Sleep -Seconds 15
Invoke-Command -ComputerName $Systems -ScriptBlock {shutdown -r -t $using:final}
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Cyan "End of Line"

@travisdh1 Does that imply that each guest needs a minimum number of cores assigned?

I'm looking to upgrade a pair of end-of-life home lab Windows servers and wanted to double check on the current licensing since I haven't relicensed since Technet closed up. From what I can tell, it looks like data center covers up to five windows servers? There also appear to be maybe a minimum number of cores per server? Is that accurate?

Also, on VMWare ESXi, since they're broadcom now, do they still offer a free ESXi? Maybe I should migrate to a new baremetal hypervisor?

Remembering that mangolassi exists. Hi!

Trello. You can see how the Subnautica team used it to show their development. https://trello.com/b/yxoJrFgP/subnautica-development