What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Why do companies pay so much for IT staff, but refuse to pay anything to have running systems or backups?
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1983538-walking-into-a-nightmare
Snapshots are not backups. They're "moment in time" captures of the server that allows rollback in case a patch or an upgrade goes wrong. If the vm dies due to disk corruption or a host failure, and your "backups" are nothing more than snapshots, you're out of luck. More, keeping snapshots around longer than necessary burns disk space and will slow performance over time. The longer the snapshot history, the more disk space you'll use and the worse performance will get.
I love statements like this that completely ignore the fact that there is more than one type of snapshot. COW is different from AOW/ROW. Snapshots can be backups if you export them. And this seems to ignore the fact you can do file level restores from snapshots.
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@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Why do companies pay so much for IT staff, but refuse to pay anything to have running systems or backups?
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1983538-walking-into-a-nightmare
Snapshots are not backups. They're "moment in time" captures of the server that allows rollback in case a patch or an upgrade goes wrong. If the vm dies due to disk corruption or a host failure, and your "backups" are nothing more than snapshots, you're out of luck. More, keeping snapshots around longer than necessary burns disk space and will slow performance over time. The longer the snapshot history, the more disk space you'll use and the worse performance will get.
I love statements like this that completely ignore the fact that there is more than one type of snapshot. COW is different from AOW/ROW. Snapshots can be backups if you export them. And this seems to ignore the fact you can do file level restores from snapshots.
If you're exporting snapshots then they become backups. I don't see the issue with the statement. That's generally how VM level backups work they take a snapshot of the VM and export it to a different storage device.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Why do companies pay so much for IT staff, but refuse to pay anything to have running systems or backups?
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1983538-walking-into-a-nightmare
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@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Why do companies pay so much for IT staff, but refuse to pay anything to have running systems or backups?
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1983538-walking-into-a-nightmare
Snapshots are not backups. They're "moment in time" captures of the server that allows rollback in case a patch or an upgrade goes wrong. If the vm dies due to disk corruption or a host failure, and your "backups" are nothing more than snapshots, you're out of luck. More, keeping snapshots around longer than necessary burns disk space and will slow performance over time. The longer the snapshot history, the more disk space you'll use and the worse performance will get.
I love statements like this that completely ignore the fact that there is more than one type of snapshot. COW is different from AOW/ROW. Snapshots can be backups if you export them. And this seems to ignore the fact you can do file level restores from snapshots.
But, it is important to recognize, that it is the action of exporting and decoupling that makes it a backup, that it started life as a snapshot isn't a factor. Snapshots aren't backups is a true statements. Just like copies are not backups. But you can copy something in the process of making a backup.
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Facepalming at Windows 10 Enterprises new default Settings applet for what you want to do with the XBox controller you'll definately be connected to it...
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@aidan_walsh said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Facepalming at Windows 10 Enterprises new default Settings applet for what you want to do with the XBox controller you'll definately be connected to it...
Strong insight into how Microsoft perceives their audience.
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What year is this?
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Wondering how to allow a Raspberry Pi running Ubuntu Mate onto the corporate Wifi that uses a Windows Radius Server.
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@scottalanmiller At least it hasn't reinstalled Candy Crush so far
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Going through all of the guides I've done on ML and checking the man pages for the commands to understand every aspect of the guides completely. Also reading @scottalanmiller's Linux System Administration Guide.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Going through all of the guides I've done on ML and checking the man pages for the commands to understand every aspect of the guides completely. Also reading @scottalanmiller's Linux System Administration Guide.
Hopefully I have time soon to get a few more articles out on that.
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@aidan_walsh said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller At least it hasn't reinstalled Candy Crush so far
So far....
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Going through all of the guides I've done on ML and checking the man pages for the commands to understand every aspect of the guides completely. Also reading @scottalanmiller's Linux System Administration Guide.
Hopefully I have time soon to get a few more articles out on that.
I'm catching up soon but sometimes I re-read it to verify I'm seeing everything accurately.
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Playing around in KDE. KWrite has a vim mode which is pretty awesome. It's a pretty freaking good built in editor.
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@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Playing around in KDE. KWrite has a vim mode which is pretty awesome. It's a pretty freaking good built in editor.
KDE always had a lot of nice utilities.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Playing around in KDE. KWrite has a vim mode which is pretty awesome. It's a pretty freaking good built in editor.
KDE always had a lot of nice utilities.
The main reason I never used it was the Windows key was always only a modifier and it was kind of slow sometimes. Now you can launch the menu with it. I've always liked dolphin over nautilus and Kate was always nicer than gedit. It's pretty snappy with plasma 5. I might try to keep it.
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@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Playing around in KDE. KWrite has a vim mode which is pretty awesome. It's a pretty freaking good built in editor.
KDE always had a lot of nice utilities.
The main reason I never used it was the Windows key was always only a modifier and it was kind of slow sometimes. Now you can launch the menu with it. I've always liked dolphin over nautilus and Kate was always nicer than gedit. It's pretty snappy with plasma 5. I might try to keep it.
I don't know how long it had had it, but you can open a terminal window inside of Dolphin in the directory you are in. If you do a cd, the Dolphin window will follow. It's pretty cool.
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As a side note, selecting text in here on iOS is terrible. I accidentally quoted myself and tried to select it. It won't let me drag the selection.
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@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Playing around in KDE. KWrite has a vim mode which is pretty awesome. It's a pretty freaking good built in editor.
KDE always had a lot of nice utilities.
The main reason I never used it was the Windows key was always only a modifier and it was kind of slow sometimes. Now you can launch the menu with it. I've always liked dolphin over nautilus and Kate was always nicer than gedit. It's pretty snappy with plasma 5. I might try to keep it.
I don't know how long it had had it, but you can open a terminal window inside of Dolphin in the directory you are in. If you do a cd, the Dolphin window will follow. It's pretty cool.
Nice, I need to play with it again.
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Setting up a new Spiceworks server. Management requested it. I advised them not to. The original request was for Lansweeper, but the org is too big for that. I'm going to install the version of Spiceworks that I kept prior to their community integration.
So, if anyone has an idea on free 500 node network scanners, I'd love to hear it.
