@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.

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Watching Now:

@pmoncho said in What Are You Watching Now:

Hellbound on Netflix is not so bad so far.

I finish the season yesterday and was actually pretty good.

I am enjoying it more as it goes. It is easy to know you like a show if the episode seems it is over right after it started and one has to watch part of the next episode even though its late and should go to bed.

Hellbound on Netflix is not so bad so far.

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

Ever have your boss need you to do a little project for him and it involves just typing two words into a file?

Like, how incompetent can you be?

Best part is...

I'm the boss in this story. lol

@valentina is very long suffering.

Sometimes it pays to be the boss!

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

These are pretty sweet. Thinking about getting one.

I'd like to hear some real world experiences with one before I go and grab one. One of the considerations I have is the Uni-Tasker mindset. It replaces a notebook/pad/sticky note, but what else can it do really? Is this feature set available via an iOS or Android product stream? If you spend for the 'better' accessories - are you not in the realm of an iPad Pro?

Of course - the screen visibility and battery life has a number of benefits.

While it acts like just a paper/pen situation, based on how well scanning works, the Phone app seems to play a big part for uploading/organizing the pages.

Maybe @travisdh1 can give us some of the pros and cons of the app.

Will check more on it later tonight. It seems the value depends on its reuse longevity.

Debating whether to go for replacing Predictive Failure (in Online state) for one SAS HDD in RAID 10 on R520.

Dell Pro Support tech stated I don't need to Offline the drive.

Hmmm.. not the long time procedure I remember...

While debating to take their advise, currently making additional backups and migrating off the VM's that I can.

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Oh - you're using their whiteboard to write on... what's that like compared to writing on paper?

It's exactly like writing on paper. I have the RocketBook Core, which is basically 15 whiteboards in a smallish spiral bound notebook.

These are pretty sweet. Thinking about getting one. I go through a crap ton of Sticky notes. This is potentially a money saver.

What I really need is one as a magnetic grocery list to put on the fridge. Big time handy for us at home.

Yeah I use a ton of sticky notes too.. but the cost of this setup would still be years if not decades to over come.

I am like you with tons of notepads lying around everywhere and that drives me nuts. I think the cost will actually pay for itself after about 1.5 years (if it lasts that long). $40 doesn't go that far in the way of sticky notes and legal pads if I use them at work, home, and car.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Oh - you're using their whiteboard to write on... what's that like compared to writing on paper?

It's exactly like writing on paper. I have the RocketBook Core, which is basically 15 whiteboards in a smallish spiral bound notebook.

These are pretty sweet. Thinking about getting one. I go through a crap ton of Sticky notes. This is potentially a money saver.

What I really need is one as a magnetic grocery list to put on the fridge. Big time handy for us at home.

@hobbit666 said in AMD Epyc Gen 4 will have 128 cores, 5nm tech:

@pete-s said in AMD Epyc Gen 4 will have 128 cores, 5nm tech:

@obsolesce said in AMD Epyc Gen 4 will have 128 cores, 5nm tech:

What's the price going to be for one of these?

The top of the line AMD Gen 3 today is the 64 core EPYC 7763 2.45 GHz base clock and 3.5GHz turbo boost. 256MB L3 cache and 280W TDP.

That one is $8K list so the 96 core will be north of that. So maybe $12K or so.

With these prices I feel the line in that snippet is a bit false advertising. I wouldn't consider a 12k processor a "General Propose" computer. That would be more a specific use case in workstations

That put those nice two words in there "up to.." to cover their ass.

@pete-s said in Slow "internet" customer says...:

I have a customer and they have one location where they hold meetings with about 30 people in attendance and say another 10 people in the office. People in the meetings sometimes complain about slow internet. Problem is that they have 500 Mbit/s fiber and no hosted servers or anything on-prem.

I haven't been on location yet so I have no clue what equipment they have. I'm suspecting consumer grade AP/router/firewall stuff.

How would you go about troubleshooting this problem?

Without knowing anything about equipment on-site and/or limited knowledge about the environment, I start with the basics:

www.speedtest.net -Will give you a better idea of true bandwidth
ping google, microsoft, Cloudflare, <site their connecting to>
tracert google, microsoft, <site their connecting to>
Check device performance in OS supplied performance monitor
Compare wired vs wireless performance if possible

Not much else you can do until you get more equipment info IMHO.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Watching Now:

@pmoncho said in What Are You Watching Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Watching Now:

@pmoncho said in What Are You Watching Now:

Completed 2nd season of "Another Life" on Netflix. I give it about a B+

On the list to queue up... right after finishing Wynona Earp, Yellowstone and a few others.

They don't give a recap of Season 1 (if you already watched S1), so if you watched it, you may want to re-watch the last episode before starting season 2.

We are doing that with Yellowstone... Watching the last three before the 2hr premiere of S4

So Yellowstone is good? I am watching Money Heist but do not have another show after that.