@dustinb3403 Yeah not even a lick of "spring" and had to fire up the snot thrower this mornign because of teh wet heavy slushy stuff. Time to move

And don't forget, the newest craze: Zoom Bombing.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/20/04/02/1937229/the-internet-is-now-rife-with-places-where-you-can-organize-zoom-bombing-raids

@dustinb3403 My kids asked me to sing Frosty the Snowman

I have found most of our home users have crappy wifi right from the carrier. The (in most cases) Spectrum provided Ubee gateways with wifi are junk; while may of our other users have old crappy routers (surprisingly, one user is still on a WRT-54G and has no issues). I am in the process of trying to procure some old Unifi AP's and power injectors that I can pre-program and send out to the remote uses and have them plug into their routers just to get something better than the crap Spectrum uses.

Morning, anyone got an IV I need to get this coffee in faster!

@krzykat Xpenology is a great tool to learn Synology with, or to play but I would never use it in a "production" environment (yep even home). Get a real Synology with support or as others have said a server with RAID, linux dist of choice, and Samba. Myself, Im taking one of the 'servers" someone left in my junk pile and loading Proxmox and from there setting up a shared server of some sort.

@coliver happy but probably expensive; much like us having to replace our carpet after our then 3 year old found a sharpie marker

Kinda Sorta? I had a 2005 one die maybe 6,7 years ago and was able to attach the MDF to a 2008 server I had running in a lab environment to at least get a backup of the data. basic procedure is here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24399664/convert-attach-sql-server-2005-mdf-to-2008-mdf#:~:text=Best practice is to backup,older versions of SQL Server.

@scottalanmiller and just got the controller up on Vultr. Now if the kids would only go to sleep so I can get this installed

I am running SQL standard 2016 on server 2019 I do not know if its "supported" but it is working and so far no issues; granted very small DB may 400MB but its what the vendor wanted.

Vacation starts at 8Pm ET!! Last weekend was my 3 year old big birthday party so I missed out on Field Day (the amateur radio operators will understand) so this weekend a few of my other radio buddies are doing a ham radio "catch up". Then , going to the beach with the kids!

Sadly latest version of Foxit free (10) got rid of their PDF printer, so Its win10 or Adobe now (haven't checked other PDF utilities)

Back to the office tomorrow after over a week off. I am wondering what junk I will find this time as whenever I'm away my desk seems to become the junkpile.

Get a large screen, i have generic Chromebooks, both 11 in and 14 in and the 14 in makes a huge difference.

@dustinb3403 CONGRATS!!! Hope mom and baby are doing well!

also check with xByte sometimes they have the rackmount workstations.
@xByteSean

@wrx7m Seems to have mitigated finally; we got a data center outage alert from Netsuite and I think they back end to AWS.

@JaredBusch I still use dsk2vhd from Sysinternals if I need to do a p2v, did one about 6 months ago

Nuts only tequila we have is Cuervo which doesn't count

@JasGot What's their backup solution? My thought would be a NAS for backup like a Synology, or budget the money for monthly fees to B2. Definitely worth the investment.