@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:

Disney sets record for highest-grossing with $7.67 billion so far
https://www.wfmz.com/news/disney-sets-record-for-highestgrossing-year/1100840768

This makes me so sad.

Because its Disney?

Well, sure. But because Disney has totally given up on quality across the board.... going from making quality stuff to making the worst popular garbage ever (opinion I know, but it's so bad I'll no longer watch movies Disney is involved in, they've become a brand name of crap), they've taken their parks from ground breaking and oriented on customer service to just being overpriced six flags with gobs of stupid promotional stuff. They were a great company, and now the world would be a better place if they didn't exist.

That in doing so has made them more money than by creating good content or being ground breaking or whatever is sad because it shows what a horrific state society is in.

All you can do is....

"Let it go, Let it Go
Turn away and slam the door"

:winking_face:

@obsolesce said in Handling DNS in a Single Active Directory Domain Controller Environment:

@kelly said in Handling DNS in a Single Active Directory Domain Controller Environment:

just challenging the "most commonly correct approach" statement

It seems you are mistaking the "most common approach" with the "most common correct approach". I haven't been around the SMB as much as JB, but I'm assuming the most common approach to SMB DC implementations are incorrect. Meaning, 2+ DCs are being used when 1 should be used. Perhaps two DCs are used because so many other things are done incorrectly, it's thought 1 should't be used due to so many other things not properly in place, but that's besides the point in my reply here.

IMHO, SMB's use 2 DC's (me included) because it is drilled over and over in our heads by outside forces, including the application developers and the OS companies themselves. On top of that, we are completely stupid if we don't have a second DC if the hardware is available. So to follow "Best Practices," SMB's just do it. It doesn't necessarily mean that things are done incorrectly though. It mostly means, we (aka I) have an extra DC there sitting, waiting, getting monthly updates and then gather more dust for years on end all in the name of protection and risk reduction.

That is why coming here and having extensive discussions about general topics has helped me changed my own thoughts about system/network design in SMB's.

@dashrender

Grilling is fast with medium to high temps (10 minutes at 375-700) while BBQ is slow and low temps (many hours at 200-225)

IMHO, you cannot really BBQ a steak (Strip/Ribeye), hotdog or hamburger but you can BBQ or Grill a chicken.

@coliver said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@nerdydad said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@dashrender said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@nerdydad said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@dashrender said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

Here's a question for ya'll.

What do you call cooking steaks or hotdogs or burgers on a grill?

Grilling

OK, and what's the difference between grilling and BBQ?

Grilling is just applying the meat to the grill to cook. BBQ requires a sauce.

BBQ is a specific cooking style that may or may not use a sauce (don't talk about sauce in some states in the south)

I'm in the north but I am a no sauce BBQ/steak person. My motto is, "If it needs sauce you didn't do it right."

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Packed lunches not a right in Italian schools, court rules

Parents have reacted angrily to a decision by Italy's top court which states that the right to eat packed lunches in schools is not "unconditional."
Italy's Supreme Court said schools should have the autonomy to decide if children are allowed to eat packed lunches on school grounds.
A lower court previously ruled in favour of a group of Turin parents who wanted to opt out of school meals.
Parents say school meals are costly.
They also argue that food provided by schools can be unhealthy.
The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that bringing a packed lunch was "a possible violation of the principles of equality and non-discrimination based on economic circumstances".

I'm trying to figure out how far one has to stretch a logical argument to even equate Packed Lunch's = inequality????

That is way the f*%& out there.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

She doesn't have her own because it would be wasted money at this point, but she will as soon as she has the capability to speak.

Mine got their own super young. Otherwise they'd be using battery, storage, access on ours .... and the last thing that we wanted was them dropping our critical devices. By giving them their own we got them more age appropriate devices, that weren't critical to adults functioning, that could be in child-protective cases.

Oh how many non-IT parents don't understand this. I cannot tell you how many parents here at work come to me for help with virus's and such on their own device (with saved banking logins and all the goodies). I ask what they clicked on or what they were doing and 90% of the time the answer begins with "Well, my child..."

@Joel said in HyperV Server - Raid Best Practices:

This got a little heated :face_screaming_in_fear:
-So can we clarify, back to the OP - Consensus out of the options I have, Option 2 is the best way to go?

6x 2TB 12GB/s Drives in OBR10 for everything and then creating two partitions (1 for the HyperVisor OS) and then (1 for data - to store all my Virtual Machines and Data).

My VMs would be in D:\Hyper-V\VM's
My Virtual Hard Disks (daily data) would be in D:\Hyper-V\Data

Don't forget to do the cost comparisons of SAS in OBR10 vs SSD in RAID5. You may be surprised to find out that SSD in RAID 5 is cheaper (Stick with SSD 6Gb/s vs 12Gb/s) depending upon your server manufacturer.

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

@pmoncho said in I can't even:

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

@tim_g said in I can't even:

Actually I give up on that thread. We don't even know what he means by cluster.
We don't know what version of Windows/Hyper-V is being implemented.

The OP has only responded 4 times and never clarified anything.

So much is being assumed. I have a lot of questions to the OP that have never been answered, and it doesn't look like he intends on answering them. So I'm done.

That's a common problem. OPs that won't respond leave everyone wanting to discuss and nothing to work with. So it just spirals into a world of guessing and loads of discussion based on the guessing.

I have given up on many posts where the OP does not respond to questions. I give OP's about 3 hours to respond after the first response with questions. If they cannot bother to check back, why waste the time answer with assumptions.

The platform really encourages that behaviour. It doesn't show updates and encourages you to leave and await an email or something. That pattern is good for tiny, slow sites that no one is looking at. But when people are responding in real time and you aren't sticking around to watch, it doesn't go over well.

Absolutely. Just an huge UGH!

So now I mainly just hang out here.

@dbeato said in What would your recommendation be for a Type 1 Hypervisor - including backup and restoration options:

@DustinB3403 said in What would your recommendation be for a Type 1 Hypervisor - including backup and restoration options:

Most of my clients have an on-site data server
All have an AD server
All have a webserver of some type.
A few have terminal services

The fact that
Most of my clients have an on-site data server
A few have terminal services

Terminal Server is also something really annoying and cumbersome to manage without AD.

Microsoft keeps intertwining RDS and AD. Trying to manage RDS without AD is as bad as Hyper-V without AD.

@WrCombs said in Sonic Wall Rules?:

@WrCombs said in Sonic Wall Rules?:

@JaredBusch said in Sonic Wall Rules?:

@WrCombs said in Sonic Wall Rules?:

I did Find This but Im not exactly sure that's what im looking for.

This points you in more or less the right direction.

You will need to create objects for the devices and then make rules like this allowing communication from network Z to it.

Okay, So I need the Camera IP's and the Door Camera/Controller Ip to create objects, and then follow the guide?

@JaredBusch Cant I make one Object with Multiple IPs ?

Do as @travisdh1 stated. You can then create a Group from the Objects.

@scottalanmiller said in SIP Extension for Maintenance Staff in Noisy Environment:

@pmoncho said in SIP Extension for Maintenance Staff in Noisy Environment:

@JaredBusch said in SIP Extension for Maintenance Staff in Noisy Environment:

I have one of these.
https://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-SDW-5066-507024-Double-Sided/dp/B07P68C84D

The noise cancellation works really good. I don't know about factory floor good, but real good.

Do you find the (roughly) 500' range to be accurate? I only need 100' but with a few walls in between.

Walls hit Bluetooth pretty hard.

Yeah. The Jabra and Plantronics headsets I have states 200' but the two walls kill it in about 30'. UGH. I have to transfer call to cell when I need to go to the another part of the office.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Went and got tacos this morning.

Morning tacos? Are they breakfast tacos? What do you put in them?

Yeah, breakfast tacos are the standard breakfast here in Texas. Typically eggs, cheese, potatoes and then either beans for people like me or sausage or bacon for others.

What about those Texan staple, Sausage Kolaches? My brother and nephews have those at least 3-4 times a week.

@JaredBusch said in SIP Extension for Maintenance Staff in Noisy Environment:

I have one of these.
https://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-SDW-5066-507024-Double-Sided/dp/B07P68C84D

The noise cancellation works really good. I don't know about factory floor good, but real good.

Do you find the (roughly) 500' range to be accurate? I only need 100' but with a few walls in between.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

I wonder what Musk's plans are to bolder more 'value' in the company before bringing it public again so he can exit making another 50 billion?

Seems unlikely to think he's make it public again. If you can operate a company, a private one is vastly more profitable. Everything he's proposing is to crush its value while getting things he personally wants.

Intrigued... Which parts of his proposal do you believe will crush its value?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

We had an exciting night. 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit in the Pacific just off shore. That's the fifth largest in Nicaragua history. It shook Honduras and Salvadore, too. We are in Leon, which is really close to the epicenter (about as close as western Managua) and wow did we feel it!

How many earthquakes is that now since you moved? 2-3?

We've had at least two days with over ten quakes each. I'm sure we're over 100 since we moved here.

Apparently that scorpion knew the earthquake was coming and possibly wanted you to protect him.

@scottalanmiller

I misread that. Yeah only 140 agents.

Apparently I am far behind.

@scottalanmiller said in MeshCentral - Anyone tried this?:

I just counted. Our is up to 343 users on it now! Just a tad bit of use there.

Awesome.

I am only up to 140 myself. Still running beautifully on a vultr $5 Ubuntu instance.

@jaredbusch said in Will faxes ever die - cheapest way to forward a DID:

Copper is going away this year.

In August 2019, the FCC issued order 19-72A1, mandating that all U.S. POTS lines get replaced with an alternative service by August 2, 2022.

FCC Source: https://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2015/db0925/FCC-15-97A1.pdf

I just skimmed this doc.

If I am understanding the gist correctly, they basically want VOIP everywhere correct?

@dashrender said in Job offer:

@scottalanmiller said in Job offer:

@pmoncho said in Job offer:

@dashrender said in Job offer:

@pmoncho said in Job offer:

@jasgot said in Job offer:

@wrcombs said in Job offer:

+~$6.00 an hour.

12k/year isn't worth the risk included with this offer.

I think we would need to figure out the % of "raise?" A possible 30% raise may/may not be worth the risk.

yeah - figuring it out is the trouble.
He's currently accustomed to getting x amount of OT - and that money is part of his daily life - so that has to be counted in there as well.

I had a job once where I was paid $11/hr - normally would be making $22K/year, but my OT made it much closer to 30K/year. My next job was at $35K/year - huge hourly increase, but take home difference was small - but it was nice to move down to a normal 40 hr work week.

Good point. I must have missed the OT part.

I haven't seen a 40 work week in 25+ years so I understand about melding OT money in one's daily life.

As an employer, we deal with that a lot. Had a meeting about all the people living on neverending overtime here just today.

that really seems like two problems - one, an employee has the need for more income. and two, the company has more work to be accomplished than a single person can do.

As an employee - I would assume (though not always true) that the employee would like to stick to the more normal work hours giving them more personal/home/family time...

In my situation, IT is only about 65% of the job. The other 35% is dealing with our LOB app, client app support, along with a bunch of other stupid little stuff.

I always looked at this way, I am considered a Manager/Supervisor also. Coming from the restaurant industry, the Managers/Supervisors had 45-55 hour weeks no matter what so it has never bothered me. To top it off, my boss and I had a darn good working relationship until she passed.

@dashrender said in Job offer:

@pmoncho said in Job offer:

@dashrender said in Job offer:

@pmoncho said in Job offer:

@jasgot said in Job offer:

@wrcombs said in Job offer:

+~$6.00 an hour.

12k/year isn't worth the risk included with this offer.

I think we would need to figure out the % of "raise?" A possible 30% raise may/may not be worth the risk.

yeah - figuring it out is the trouble.
He's currently accustomed to getting x amount of OT - and that money is part of his daily life - so that has to be counted in there as well.

I had a job once where I was paid $11/hr - normally would be making $22K/year, but my OT made it much closer to 30K/year. My next job was at $35K/year - huge hourly increase, but take home difference was small - but it was nice to move down to a normal 40 hr work week.

Good point. I must have missed the OT part.

I haven't seen a 40 work week in 25+ years so I understand about melding OT money in one's daily life.

wow - 25 years of OT... most companies hate OT... though, it's likely cheaper than highering another person.

Yep. That is how my old boss figured it. I did manage a couple other co-workers over the years but as tech has changed, so has the need for additional IT employees.