@JasGot said in How do some of these engineers get to where they are?:

@Carnival-Boy But if they have 100Mb now and it works fine, how will 100Mb be slow and choppy with a faster ISP?

That can actually happen. If you overdrive the router, packets arrive but dont get processed efficiently. Then it starts dropping things.

@DustinB3403 depending on what you want, you can also:

$app = Get-ChildItem -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall' | Get-ItemProperty | Where-Object -Property DisplayName -EQ "Microsoft Edge" $installDate = $app.InstallDate

@Fredtx said in Who's making the move to vSphere 8:

@dafyre said in Who's making the move to vSphere 8:

We are. Currently, my day job is heavily invested in the VMware ecosystem, and there's no likelihood that will change any time soon... So we are already at the point of testing it, though that probably wont' happen until after the New Year.

I haven’t looked at the vmware hcl, but I heard a lot of hardware is no longer supported. I also read that vmware no longer recommends booting from sd cards.

That's all correct. Part of the point of VMware (and to their credit) is to dramatically limit you to a small pool of high quality, well tested hardware. That's partially how they maintain stability.

KVM has a small pool of hardware smart to use. But "supports" almost anything. It's handy to know it will always work, but sucks because people deploy it on crap all of the time.

@JaredBusch said in 1 large disk or 2 smaller disks for a file server?:

@dafyre said in 1 large disk or 2 smaller disks for a file server?:

We just built a new Samba file server here

Question, what authentication method are you using? I'm debating this at a client now.

I think it's TDBSAM (passdb backend in the samab config file). It's AD Joined though, so it may be something else.

Thanks, seen this a few times recently.

@Dashrender said in Data Erasure Software?:

We have a local facility that will shred drives for $5.

Same here. They are coming next week to remove some old, Dinosaur age storage boxes... which have MANY drives in each. Worth it every time.

@travisdh1 said in iOS and/or Windows WiFi heat mapping:

@gjacobse said in iOS and/or Windows WiFi heat mapping:

@travisdh1 said in iOS and/or Windows WiFi heat mapping:

Also Ubiquiti WiFiman.

Used to use WiFi Analyzer, but dropped it when it went add supported.

What are you using now?

Ubiquiti WiFiman

F-buggers
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@JasGot said in Hard disk encryption without OS access?:

Just shut down the VM and make a backup of the Virtual Disk holding the VM?

Exactly, no matter what here, until you can get access not ONLY to the OS but also to the application, that's your only option.

@Yonah-S said in Turn server into backup storage for remote servers?:

@Pete-S have you thought of selling it? there is a big market right now for getting rid of old/unused hardware. Especially if you have any SSD's in there.

Thanks, but we're keeping it. Just want to extract the maximum value out of it while it's occupying rack space 🙂

@Pete-S said in Inconsistent output from PS script:

@gjacobse said in Inconsistent output from PS script:

@Pete-S said in Inconsistent output from PS script:

@gjacobse said in Inconsistent output from PS script:

@Pete-S said in Inconsistent output from PS script:

@Pete-S said in Inconsistent output from PS script:

@gjacobse said in Inconsistent output from PS script:

Get-Service -ComputerName pc1, pc2 SERVICE | Select name, MachineName, Status

Where did you get the -ComputerName syntax from?

I can't find anything like that from the manual: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.management/get-service?view=powershell-7.2

OK, it's been deprecated. It's available in older versions of powershell, up to 5.1.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.management/get-service?view=powershell-5.1

I read somewhere it doesn't use powershell remoting but dcom instead. And that's why it became obsolete.

Maybe you haven't got the right dcom privileges to run it remotely.

Say what now? I'm reading this:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/samples/managing-services?view=powershell-7.2

I'd put one script on each remote computer and have it send an email whenever the service stops. Or check whatever it is you really want to know with the service.

Sadly, we already monitor the service. I can be 'running' but fail and need to be stop/started. We've also already done the scheduled task route where it checked it ever 15 min and stop/started it. But there are still times it needs to be manually stop/started. And this is 10x better then what they were doing when I started last year....

OK, so the script is part of something you actually use to restart it when you decide to?

Yes - while I would like to solve it with PS,.. my batch script works fine. I just figured with all that I am / have been doing with PS,.. why not convert it to PS and go one.

Now - if there is another way to accomplish this - I'm open to learning. It's what I'm applying with PS - learning.

@Sawyer said in Raspberry Pi Zero W Bought for Testing:

I ordered Raspberry Pi zero W from https://robu.in/product/raspberry-pi-zero-w-with-raspberry-pi-zero-w-accessories-kit/.
What exactly does the NOOBS Software do?

NOOBS sets up your choice of OS for you. It's not needed, but is handy if you don't have another computer to setup an OS.

Also, if you have these sorts of questions in the future, just make a new thread.

There is a utility called stress for that. I've never used it myself. But here is a guide, should be easy.

https://www.linuxshelltips.com/create-cpu-load-linux/

@scottalanmiller said in Alternative to never in stock Ubiquiti EdgeMax line:

@Pete-S said in Alternative to never in stock Ubiquiti EdgeMax line:

I don't know if that is the case with Ubiquiti but some products in their line sure looks like it.
Looking at the number of employees working at Ubiquiti versus their revenue, also suggests that (most?) of their products are not designed in-house. That's just speculation of course.

Well the Edge line, and this is me guessing, is likely third party hardware that they buy (that's pretty easy) and they basically use an open source OS barely modified. They were half public about that when they started, so it kinda made sense with that line. No idea if they continued that with Unifi and others.

Well, they started with RF-based products so they have that expertise in-house.

It would make sense that their wifi products are developed by themselves and manufactured by OEMs while the rest are ODM products.

That's the quickest way to expand the product range. Otherwise you need a ton of employees. From the info online they're only about 1000 employees worldwide.

@Yonah-S said in Another new server question:

If you want to know how to get something built like that without the constraint of the online configurators - hit me up on private message.

When I buy, this is what I do.

But for quick comparison or rough ideas, the online tools are easy

I don't know if ubuntu has a similar cloud kernel.

Update: It looks like there is a linux-kvm kernel amongst others. Haven't tried it though.

BTW, in Debian/Ubuntu and other distros the different kernels are often referred to as kernel flavors. Good to know if you want to search for them.

Tested and it works all the time by hostname instead of IP.

@gjacobse

OK, I checked now and the GX420T and GX430T is the same printer but with different dpi print heads.

If you can tell the application that prints to print differently depending on which printer you are printing to, everything will be fine.

If you can't, you have to replace those two GX430T printers with GX420T models.

Or put another way - if you want to have printers that are drop-in replacements for each other, you need to buy just GX420T printers (or other 203 dpi models).

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GAM that's what it was!
https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM

Looks like they've made some improvements, back in the day it was one giant py file, lol.

@Pete-S said in ssh to new cloud instance?:

@scottalanmiller said in ssh to new cloud instance?:

@Pete-S said in ssh to new cloud instance?:

If you add another admin in the cloud control panel, is an account for that user created on all cloud instances that person can access?

In Vultr, there aren't users in the cloud panel at all. There are keys that you can choose to deploy at deploy time for root. Other than that, if we wanted to deploy keys (as an example), we'd do that through our management system (script, Salt, Ansible, etc.). I would not want the cloud platform to be touching my users.

OK, got it.

Does that also mean that only one person can have access to the actual Vultr account as well? I'm guessing it's multi-user.

Yeah, the cloud level is multi-user. But just as you can have multiple people with access to a data closet, and multiple people with access to a Windows instance housed in that closet, you don't want the physical closet to maintain the Windows logins. Same here, your cloud provider is like a data center or data closet with its own level of access unrelated to applications or other workloads running higher up the stack and 99.999% of the time, no association or commonality between them.