I'm playing with lxd containers and ansible a lot currently. And that would perfectly fit your needs. Creating new container is as simple as running single terminal command:
lxc launch images:centos/7/amd64 centos
And you can easily automate and scale it with ansible, including initial config, extra packages installation, cron setup, updates, etc. And chances are someone has already written a role to do it, so you would only need to include the roles in your playbooks.
@scottalanmiller said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@marcinozga said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@scottalanmiller said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@stacksofplates said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@penguinwrangler said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
I have no problems finding apps for my Linux Desktop. What are the apps that everyone can't find for Linux?
Ya idk. I've never had issues either. But then again I'm not a pretend graphic designer who "needs" every Adobe product ever created.
I'm always amazed by the weird people and situations where people claim that they need an Adobe suite. Both that they think they need any app like that, and that they claim that only Adobe works.
Has Gimp managed to get CMYK support yet? Ask any serious designer that needs to produce something for press printing to do it in Gimp and they'll happily hang you by the nuts.
Yes it has.
http://cue.yellowmagic.info/softwares/separate-plus/index.html
With limitations.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GIMP/CMYK_support
That's still far off from professional use.
@scottalanmiller said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@stacksofplates said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@penguinwrangler said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
I have no problems finding apps for my Linux Desktop. What are the apps that everyone can't find for Linux?
Ya idk. I've never had issues either. But then again I'm not a pretend graphic designer who "needs" every Adobe product ever created.
I'm always amazed by the weird people and situations where people claim that they need an Adobe suite. Both that they think they need any app like that, and that they claim that only Adobe works.
Has Gimp managed to get CMYK support yet? Ask any serious designer that needs to produce something for press printing to do it in Gimp and they'll happily hang you by the nuts.
@coliver said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@john-nicholson said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@coliver said in Why Free Open Source Software Is Cheaper Than You Think:
@john-nicholson I find it funny but Linux on the workstation has been much more stable then any of our OSX laptops.
When your best app option is TuxRacer, this doesn't surprise me. I used Linux on the desktop in college because it limited hugely what I could do and that provided more stability than anything.
My OS X laptop hasn't been rebooted in 2 months so I'm not sure what your doing wrong with your mac's but stop doing it!
@Scott - OpenBSD are the guys who like singing funny songs about CARP. For this reason, I like them for firewalls, and if you want Linux on the desktop hate systemD and don't like Debian it's an option?
Just generic unprivileged users. App crashes and system crashes are fairly common.
In last 9 years I had 2 kernel panic crashes on Macs. Both caused by 3rd party apps (Hands off and Teamviewer). My apps don't crash, at least I don't recall any, and os never crashed, since I started using Macs. Your hardware might be messed up, but that's what Apple Care and local Apple stores are for.
Real ERP, because what's available now is really basic and lacking a lot of advanced functionality. Another are professional CAD/3D and PLM applications, something that can compete with Autodesk, Siemens or Solidworks.
I had sling.tv subscription over a year ago and it was horrible experience. Initially everything worked just fine, but about 2 weeks into, outages started happening every evening. AMC or Epix was impossible to watch. Picture quality also wasn't the best, someone reverse-engineered their streams to find it wasn't even 720p. We switched to PS Vue after 3 months, it currently is $55/mo for one of the higher packages (I think they have 4 available). There's no comparison in quality and reliability, Sony wins here.
@scottalanmiller said in virtualize all the things... ?:
@marcinozga said in virtualize all the things... ?:
Facebook runs all physical, but that's an edge case.
Is that still true? That was news based on them using crappy Atom servers six or seven years ago. FB is arguably virtualizing in a macro way, though, they do cluster level virtualization. Same as we did on Wall St. for massive decision clusters.
I have no idea, but their reasoning was they didn't have underutilized servers so there was no point virtualizing.
Facebook runs all physical, but that's an edge case.
I've used PIA in the past and it was ok. But if you really want to be safe, then invest in seed box and switch to private trackers that offer SSL exclusively. Just remember not to use VPN on private trackers.
Alternatively, if you're at the point of spending money on downloading movies and shows, consider just subscribing to Netflix, Hulu or some other streaming service. Why would you spend money to do something illegal, when you can do it legally for almost the same price.
@ramblingbiped said in I need some ideas how to use spare server:
@marcinozga said in I need some ideas how to use spare server:
I have a Supermicro server with 2x Xeon E5530 and 24GB Ram, with 1TB storage. It currently runs free ESXi with some VMs that are going to be shut down in a few days. I also have aging Nagios/Opsview server that needs modern replacement. I need a few ideas what to put on that server. I plan on running all Linux VMs, and only free, open source apps. I also cannot add any local storage, it has 8x 15k SAS drives, replacing it would be fairly expensive.
This is spare server at work, so things like Plex or Minecraft server are off the table.
Suggestions?
Install KVM and work on using configuration tools like Chef, Saltstack, Puppet, and Ansible for configuration management of Webservers (Apache2, Nginx), Databases(MySQL, MariaDB, Postgres), Load Balancers(HAProxy) ,Container Hosts(Docker Host, CoreOS), and other services(ELK stack, Nagios, BIND, DHCP, etc...).
When you've finished send me your resume; especially if you get good with Chef. We're looking for a couple/few good DevOps Engineers.
Does it have to be Chef? 
It seems a bit dated, it's like implementing monitoring and using Nagios for it.
Currently I'm fighting with LXD, turns out setting up networking on that thing is far from trivial. I might have to document the process.
@stess said in Power supply fan grinding.. replace?:
What's your thought on replacing power supply fan? The computer in question is Dell Vostro... 6+ years old. It's not worth the money to buy a new power supply for this machine at this point. Have anyone replace a fan in a power supply before?
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4A04YJ2875
It depends. Some fan connectors are soldered in, so it's not worth the hassle. If it has regular 3 or 4 pin, or even molex connector, it shouldn't take longer than 10 minutes.
@jmoore said in I need some ideas how to use spare server:
Host your own blog, bulletin board, Irc, mail client, and I'm running out of ideas.
Wrong direction. All that is more of a hobby. Elk stack was a good suggestion, I'm leaning towards Sensu, Vector, Salt, Consul, perhaps Snipe-It, that kind of stuff.
@jmoore said in I need some ideas how to use spare server:
Not sure if this is what you mean but maybe try the Elk stack, maybe a wiki like i do, possibly a proxy server, and maybe some type of monitoring solution. Hope something there sparks an idea.
That's exactly what I meant. Proxy I got, wiki too, so keep the ideas flowing.
@scottalanmiller said in I need some ideas how to use spare server:
Move to LXD containers!
Interesting. Do you run it on bare metal? And what's the recommended backup for containers?
Esxi will be gone for sure, I was looking at Xen and KVM, I haven't really considered containers, but I'm open to it.
I've used Zabbix in the past and wasn't impressed. Web interface was horrible, and there was no comparison to Nagios in terms of what you could monitor.
Icinga is a fork of Nagios so I don't know how I feel about it, Nagios has one of the worst config structure I've seen, defining hosts or checks in Nagios is a pain and require more babysitting than a newborn baby. I don't know if Icinga devs learned the lessons or if they continued with the mess. Nice web dashboard on top doesn't make things any better.
I have a Supermicro server with 2x Xeon E5530 and 24GB Ram, with 1TB storage. It currently runs free ESXi with some VMs that are going to be shut down in a few days. I also have aging Nagios/Opsview server that needs modern replacement. I need a few ideas what to put on that server. I plan on running all Linux VMs, and only free, open source apps. I also cannot add any local storage, it has 8x 15k SAS drives, replacing it would be fairly expensive.
This is spare server at work, so things like Plex or Minecraft server are off the table.
Suggestions?
My wife has one and really likes it. She had an Apple Watch for a day, replaced it once and returned replacement promptly. Battery wouldn't last as advertised and fitness tracker was way inaccurate, showing something like 200kcal burned during entire day. No such issues with Fitbit.
@ivan-palii said in Using Bing for growing organic and paid search traffic:
The other interesting point I hear is growing mobile users. Apple use Bing search by default. So, growing Bing user is organic.
Nope, Google is the default search engine in Apple devices, in Safari on OS X too. Bing is default in Firefox.
I don't use Bing, because results were really poor.
https://forums.atomicorp.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=8539#p44057 - this is step by step guide for Centos 7.
