trying to wake up after a drive to my work place: yeah I drive in sort of mesmerized state.
My long term plans:
My short term plans:
@wirestyle22 said in What does your desk look like?:
@matteo-nunziati said in What does your desk look like?:
@wirestyle22 just tested wifi. It's a bit abysmal..
We used it for a pendant system to notify us of dementia patients that move outside of predefined areas. It was awful.
Wtf dementia?! That's a cool project!
@wirestyle22 just tested wifi. It's a bit abysmal..
@RojoLoco said in What does your desk look like?:
That's not a mess, it's a perfect level of entropy.
It is so perfect it can't last: monday a new girl arrives and I've to free the other desk... filling up mine more and more!
unless anyone wants aruba switches+AP 
(I'm going to keep the Tenda APs for me)
ok, I'm so proud of the level of messiness I've generated on my desk and the one in front of me, I think it's time to share.
@scottalanmiller said in Fitness and Weightloss:
I switched to using a standing desk tonight. So maybe this will help me stay more active all throughout the day in general. The only seat that I have for this desk is broken, so no way to sit down at all right now.
here a question for everyone using a standing desk: I've been an automation guy for almost 10 years and I've coded on a number of different unhealty places/positions. Including stay stand up for 8+ hours coding.
while standing up is better than twist yourself under some strange position (like crouch on your knees for 2+ hours) , how can you deal with your concentration and productivity while standing up all the time: it was really energy consuming to me...
@scottalanmiller said in What router are you using at home?:
Sure it can look cool or you really want an all in one, but unless there is a killer feature
THIS!
to use ubiquiti stuff at home I need:
my living room has enough nasty cabling, knowing that a good all in one is around is great.
while I like the idea to poke with ubiquiti stuff, I'm going to have a fight with my wife if I add additional cabling/complexity inside my IKEA bookshelf (yeah my gear is on an IKEA book shelf straight in the living room, coz here are the phone connections for the ADSL)
@gjacobse on a live (or even in the installer, pressing ctrl+alt+Fx, x=1,2,3... try one) issue the following:
fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 8 GiB, 8589934592 bytes, 16777216 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 8ADBCAE5-504D-4019-9CFD-4E827DF67876
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System
/dev/sda2 1050624 8390655 7340032 3.5G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda3 8390656 16775167 8384512 4G Linux swap
as you can see here:
Disklabel type: gpt
MIND TO PASS JUST A LOWER CASE "L" AS A FLAG! FDISK IS USED TO KILL YOUR DOG, ALSO!
@JaredBusch dumb question: did you check all services are up and running?
systemctl status | grep hv
â â ââ10000 grep --color=auto hv
ââhv-kvp-daemon.service
â ââ563 /usr/lib/linux-tools/4.8.0-49-generic/hv_kvp_daemon -n
ââhv-vss-daemon.service
â ââ577 /usr/lib/linux-tools/4.8.0-49-generic/hv_vss_daemon -n
on my ubuntu machines the fcopy is always down. don't know why... but I do not need it.
May be somthing is not running and hyperv badly detects the event
ok, so according to the presentation a netscaler is:
now first two points can be obtained by haproxy/ngnix
point 3 can be obtained -just googled- for web apps by naxsi + nginx or modsec + nginx/apache.
also point 3 for non web apps can maybe obtained via these softwares (wiki)
I miss point 2 an - with a bit of effort - I have my free open netscaler
@scottalanmiller said in What router are you using at home?:
@matteo-nunziati said in What router are you using at home?:
what about a fritz box? heard really good things. don't know about availability outside europe.
Never seen or heard of it, but I'm pretty out of touch with US stores. What does it do that is special?
every time someone reviews it or I meet a user, they say/show they have the best throughput of that price range.
it is basically faster than high priced netgears/asus and the so...
OS is just ok. Let say that, according to reviews, it is the ubiquiti of the consumer grade HW. Well ubiquiti is so cheap you can even pick it at home but the main target is another.
to be fair: this applies entirely only to their Terastation 5000 series. Just avoid the other stuff: it doesn't worth IMHO.
what about a fritz box? heard really good things. don't know about availability outside europe.
@stacksofplates mmm... and I thought HPE was expensive
ok, not involved with buffalo, just a customer of theirs. but this is my story.
a couple of years ago I wasn't aware of Buffalo as a NAS vendor. I've found their appliances in the current company.
Today , back from my citrix event I've received a mail from the NAS daily check: SMART has detected "6 bad sectors" in one of the 4 3TB disks. <- they sell populated units in Italy.
Now the NAS is still covered by the default 3-year warranty, so I've called the tech support. Yes, I'm in Italy and they provide phone support localized in my language in the 9x5 timeframe. This is great, ok, but what about L1 support... everyone knows it: "hey did you check the power plug? oh, it is plugged...err.. sorry I've to ask L2 for this."
No! As with other enterprise grade companies, Buffalo L1 is really skilled people, I've asked them for other issues and always L1 solved them, being them replica issues, firmware issues etc...
OK, back in topic. I call them...
me: my daily SMART check mailed me about 6 bad sectors in 1 of the 4 disks: disk is still working and raid is not degraded but I would like to have a feedback (I actually wanted them to replace the drive).
buffalo: please give me your S/N... ok you buyed a populated NAS and it is still under warranty period. I suggest to replace the drive ASAP before it will deteriorate. Please, send back the info I will ask you by e-mail and we will send a new HDD in 24 hours. you have 15 days to return the broken one.
Honestly, I'm not aware of a vendor in the SMB/ROBO/SOHO italian market, which:
they HW is not so great and the SW quite old and clumsy, but this kind of support/service is great for vendor standards in my country and always lets me think about buying a new one.
well... at least when you can't afford a SAM-SD of course
@stacksofplates said in Netscaler in smb opinion:
@matteo-nunziati said in Netscaler in smb opinion:
Being invited to a citrix event, they are trying to explain how my smb needs a netscaler... No one talking about prices.. sixth sense says this is BS. Am I wasting my morning?
I think they are something in the ballpark of $25,000
even the VA? great value for a reverse proxy on steroids
@scottalanmiller said in Netscaler in smb opinion:
@matteo-nunziati said in Netscaler in smb opinion:
@Breffni-Potter what am I gaining?: a bit of biased info. But still an info.
That's not always the case. Biased info can be far worse than no info at all. Like learning about a SAN but being told it is a panacea instead of what it really is. Way better to not know that something exists that to learn misleading information about it.
well no, I was specifically thinking about the features of xenapp. their online docs were interesting, but not so detailed. having the possibility to have a talk with a couple or real people was an interesting opportunity. Still info was filtered by commercial s**t but at least more details were to be discovered.
Unfortunately, I was invited as a reseller's lead for xenapp as a way to put all stuff into a virtualized "repo" (automation was my interest) BUT the italian HD of citrix has sent people involved in security.
Netscaler is secure for this, xandesktop is secure for that... I DON'T GIVE A F**K ABOUT SECURITY...
I said it out loud? ops...
err... maybe resellers should coordinate with the distributor/vendor before picking invitations. At least I have had few exchanges with other IT guys at the event. An considering the inclination of my current company to NOT expose me to meetings/conferences with other guys, this has been welcome (why do you want to talk to someone else, just do the work)
@Breffni-Potter what am I gaining?: a bit of biased info. But still an info. What company gains? Nothing now but having a bit of knowledge lets me provide better advice to the idiotic things they shant buy just because it is cool.
@Breffni-Potter quite easy: I was here for xenapp. They are talking netscaler for 30 min. Finally landed now on xenapp