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    ObsolesceO

    @scottalanmiller update links?

  • A place to talk about whatever you want in IT
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    P

    In cleaning up, I came across these stickers. They are from the mid 90's, when we were introducing
    linux file servers to our smaller clients. A client ( a printer) made up a whack of these, I must have a hundred or more sheets. If anybody wants some, I would mail them to you. When I saw them again, I chortled. If this post is out of line, my apologiesIMG_20241023_1302107.jpg

  • All the random.....goes here.
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    ObsolesceO

    Cocoon Nebula (IC5146)
    2024.10.24 @ 22:00
    Alt: 73°

    The Cocoon Nebula, also known as IC5146, is a fascinating emission and reflection nebula located about 3,300 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. This nebula is a stellar nursery where new stars are forming, with a bright central star that illuminates the surrounding gas and dust, giving the nebula its soft, cocoon-like appearance. The Cocoon is linked to a dark nebula, a dense, starless region called Barnard 168, which stretches out like a trail behind it, obscuring the background stars.

    The Cocoon Nebula sits in one of the Milky Way’s richest star fields, so it's dark trail and glowing cloud stand out even more against a sea of distant stars.

    Setup:
    C8-XLT + f/6.3 reducer @ 1208mm focal length
    iOptron mount, tracking
    Ares-C Pro camera
    Optolong L-Pro filter
    SharpCap Pro & Siril

    Total exposure time: 8 hours
    Processing: mediocre

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  • News from around the world of IT
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    @DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

    @black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

    https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/08/shocker-french-make-surprise-arrest-of-telegram-founder-at-paris-airport/

    I saw that and just had to laugh, because these people and governments don't understand what encryption means and is meant to do.

    It's made for hiding your criminal activities, YAY!!!!!

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    GreyG

    A little script I wrote to reboot a bunch of servers at a specific, calculated time. You can adjust the filename or time in the header. Default time is 730 pm. You need winrm enabled on all the target systems, and I don't know what the limit would be on server count. If you run a NOC, warn them before all the servers reboot at exactly the same time. lol!

    ###########
    #Boot systems in a file at 730 pm

    $file = "$($ENV:USERPROFILE)\desktop\systems.txt"
    $target = Get-Date -Hour 19 -Minute 30 -Second 0

    #don't change anything below here
    $systems = get-content $file
    $utz = Get-Date -Hour 19 -Minute 30 -Second 0 -UFormat "%Z"
    $now = $(Get-Date)
    $serverTZ = (get-timezone).id
    $seconds = ($target - $now).TotalSeconds
    $final = [math]::Round($seconds)
    $final = $final - 15
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor cyan -NoNewline "nSeconds until $target $serverTZ ($utz UTC):"
    write-host -ForegroundColor Yellow " $final"
    $final |clip
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor Cyan "15 second delay to cancel a scheduled reboot for $($($systems).count) systems:`n$systems"
    #Write-Progress -SecondsRemaining 15 -Activity "Reboot schedule countdown."
    Start-Sleep -Seconds 15
    Invoke-Command -ComputerName $Systems -ScriptBlock {shutdown -r -t $using:final}
    Write-Host -ForegroundColor Cyan "End of Line"

  • Want to talk about the business of IT? MSPs, VARs, Consultants...
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    S

    Our company manages IT for many small businesses, and, understandably, we have a lot of clients that use Microsoft 365. We keep up with ongoing education and online certifications for various Partner levels. That said, what options do most smaller IT shops use when it comes to deciding how to make money from selling and managing Microsoft 365?

    We have no desire to resell Microsoft 365, if that means that we are the middle man between collecting payments from clients and then paying Microsoft. What happens if a client is late making payments in that scenario? We would still be responsible for paying Microsoft when the payments are due.

    What advice do other IT shops have to receive commision/income/incentives from Microsoft? Which Partner Program is best suited for smaller shops with several hundreds of users under management? The Microsoft Partner Portal presents many options, but it does not present a simple matrix of how they compare. Our firm has been a Microsoft Partner for several years, and has certifications necessary to meet most any plan available.

    What do others do to collect income from their ongoing Microsoft 365 customers?

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    DashrenderD

    Interesting - I was just going through a permission setup with Sharepoint today. Man - not easy, and in some ways way less flexible than traditional file shares.

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    DashrenderD

    Loosing good account reps seems to be the norm in the SBM... a sales person often seems to start out on the SMB desk, if they excel, they are promoted to other desks. This has happened to me at least three times across different vendors.

  • Scale Computing Discussion and Support Community

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    stacksofplatesS

    Can you reassign disks between VMs yet?

    The hot add disks was a huge pain before. I couldn't believe I wasn't able to do that.

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    OksanaO

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    Tiered Storage could be the answer to saving on storage expenses without losing out on speed and reliability. Explore in our latest article by Ivan Ischenko, a StarWind Pre-Sales Engineer, how this approach sorts data based on access frequency, helping you save on storage costs and improve data management. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/84

  • Official Home of the SodiumSuite RMM Forums

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    scottalanmillerS

    @DustinB3403 said in What is the Latest With SodiumSuite?:

    Any update on this, just thought about it and wanted to see where this project is at.

    Sadly, nothing for the foreseeable future.

  • The world of enterprise open storage systems.
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    scottalanmillerS

    @Pete-S said in To vSAN or not to vSAN?:

    The problem the way I see it with old stuff like the OP has is while there is nothing wrong with the technology itself, everything is relatively slow with today's standard and much more complex than needed.

    It's very true. And the risk today is that we are so accustomed to that complexity, that we often avoid the simple answers today.

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    I am waiting on Confirmation from @shannon, @Rob and @aboyd They haven't answered my emails this week at all 😞

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    DashrenderD

    @scottalanmiller said in MangoCon 2020 and COVID-19:

    @adamf said in MangoCon 2020 and COVID-19:

    So.... about MangoCon 2022 ?

    About time to start discussing that. We fully own the hotel here now, so we are in a much better position to do planning.

    I have a few leftover days of vacation - depending on timing - I might come out there!

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    scottalanmillerS

    @networknerd I wanna attend but I've got my salsa dance class at that time 😞

  • Place for tracking issues with MangoLassi and NodeBB

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    JaredBuschJ

    just updated my instance to current and they still work.
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    DashrenderD

    @JaredBusch said in Lenovo Bypass BIOS Options:

    @Dashrender said in Lenovo Bypass BIOS Options:

    in the 2010's many laptops came with a boot to BIOS/setup button, a Tiny button typically on side of the laptop meant to help you bypass this rapid boot feature and ensure you get into the BIOS

    Never seen that, ever.

    My old Lenovo had it.

  • Have a product or service to review? Love it? Hate it? Tell us.
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    stacksofplatesS

    I have a couple. Never had any issues with anything just didn't use them enough. They worked as advertised though.

  • Want to blatantly promote yourself? Here is the place. Go crazy!
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    scottalanmillerS

    @GUIn00b said in Practical RAID Decision Making:

    I guess it would have to be a very specific concern to opt for the parity overhead in favor of the "added protection" over a statistically very rare potential failure scenario of 4-drive RAID-10.

    It's a specific failure scenario that even when it happens, there's no way to know if the same scenario would have been protected under RAID 6 because most scenarios where RAID 10 would fail, RAID 6 would also fail during its recovery mode (nearly 100%.) But the chances that it would face that recovery scenario are higher.

    The complexity comes from choosing single unpredictable failure scenarios. After a failure has occurred, if we had the ability to pick how to have protected against it in the past, yes, RAID 6 would be chosen sometimes. There's a known example to explain why you can't use this in real life. It's the seatbelt problem.

    Seatbelts save lives. On average, by far, wearing a seatbelt protects you. But there are special cases where the seatbelt can be what causes you to die. Yet statically, you never skip wearing a seatbelt because it is a one in a million chance that the seatbelt will cause a death rather than preventing one. And at the time that you choose to wear or not to sear wear your seatbelt you have no idea which type of accident you will have.

    So we know that wearing the seatbelt is the safer bet. Seatbelts are like RAID 10. You can't know how things will go wrong, and in this scenario, RAID 10 protects you much more often than RAID 6 does.

  • IT Training Resources and Certifications

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    RoopanKumarR

    Hi All,

    As I'm preparing for CCSA, give me tip and tricks to clear.
    possible pls share me available guides and books to learn how to clear CCSA.

    It is ok to get certified CCSA or can I go for CCSE