What Are You Doing Right Now
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Time to start shopping for a new laptop. Definitely going with something new. Too many options to choose from. My wish list includes at least 16G ram and NVMe storage.
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@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Time to start shopping for a new laptop. Definitely going with something new. Too many options to choose from. My wish list includes at least 16G ram and NVMe storage.
Add USB-C power/dock capable.
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@JaredBusch Yes. Definitely USB-C. I have had such poor luck with USB docks that I didn't really consider one. It has been about 3 years since using one. My wife's MBP has all USB-C and it is convenient to be able to charge from either side.
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@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So the Dept went a bought 1600 new servers, with 3 x 1.2TB in RAID 5.
What do you think about that!HDD, SSD, or NVMe drives?
HDD = bad
SSD or NVMe = fine
I have strong feelings about RAID5 and this question is the only one that's important right now.
So do we all!
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@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Time to start shopping for a new laptop. Definitely going with something new. Too many options to choose from. My wish list includes at least 16G ram and NVMe storage.
I really like the new Dell XPS line.. no more up the nose camera either.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo 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:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just found out someone submitted my info to unemployment. Great, now I get to add working on fraud to my list of stressors.
Just some random person filed unemployment for you? WTF
That's what it seems like currently - only found out because Nebraska Dept of Labor sent a request for past employment.
of course, I call to try to report fraud - and I just get - leave a voicemail, and perhaps we'll call you back in 30 weeks.
can't you just not respond and they'll drop it all because you didn't respond?
I'm sure they wouldn't do anything if you didn't.This didn't come to me - this came to my current employer, verifying employment details, presumably so they can see what kind of benefits I qualify for.
And no, if my employer doesn't respond, I wouldn't expect the state to drop it - what if my employer didn't exist anymore? A person seeking unemployment shouldn't be penalized because their previous employer isn't responding to correspondence.
yep, good points.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So the Dept went a bought 1600 new servers, with 3 x 1.2TB in RAID 5.
What do you think about that!HDD, SSD, or NVMe drives?
HDD = bad
SSD or NVMe = fine
Didn't think of that, but I reckon they'll be spinners.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So the Dept went a bought 1600 new servers, with 3 x 1.2TB in RAID 5.
What do you think about that!HDD, SSD, or NVMe drives?
HDD = bad
SSD or NVMe = fine
I have strong feelings about RAID5 and this question is the only one that's important right now.
So do we all!
outdated tech for such large drives. I was wondering why they didn't go to 4 drives and RAID 10, these are fairly important servers.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So the Dept went a bought 1600 new servers, with 3 x 1.2TB in RAID 5.
What do you think about that!HDD, SSD, or NVMe drives?
HDD = bad
SSD or NVMe = fine
Didn't think of that, but I reckon they'll be spinners.
Oh for pity's sake.
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@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Time to start shopping for a new laptop. Definitely going with something new. Too many options to choose from. My wish list includes at least 16G ram and NVMe storage.
What OS will you use??
If Windows, something different, how about a Mac and throw windows on that. I've been using one that way for a few years and it's the fastest Windows experience I've ever had.I also have to support iOS and OSX stuff so having the Mac able to boot into OSX is quite useful.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If Windows, something different, how about a Mac and throw windows on that. I've been using one that way for a few years and it's the fastest Windows experience I've ever had.
That'll change soon. Upcoming Mac hardware won't run Windows soon.
Have you tried non-Mac hardware at a similar price point? The specs on Apple Macs are super low for their price point. They are only fast because they are so expensive and most people won't buy non-Macs in the same price range. But typically if you do, I think the performance will crush the Apple hardware?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If Windows, something different, how about a Mac and throw windows on that. I've been using one that way for a few years and it's the fastest Windows experience I've ever had.
That'll change soon. Upcoming Mac hardware won't run Windows soon.
Have you tried non-Mac hardware at a similar price point? The specs on Apple Macs are super low for their price point. They are only fast because they are so expensive and most people won't buy non-Macs in the same price range. But typically if you do, I think the performance will crush the Apple hardware?
Yeah, maybe? I did buy a super speedy laptop I spec'd up with plenty of RAM and NVMe disk and it was disappointingly slow.
I had my Mac sitting there doing nothing, so threw W10 on it and it blitzes the laptop. -
Did someone here the other day have a DC that looked alive but when logged onto it just had a white screen?
Was it @JaredBusch ???
I've got one now.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Time to start shopping for a new laptop. Definitely going with something new. Too many options to choose from. My wish list includes at least 16G ram and NVMe storage.
What OS will you use??
If Windows, something different, how about a Mac and throw windows on that. I've been using one that way for a few years and it's the fastest Windows experience I've ever had.I also have to support iOS and OSX stuff so having the Mac able to boot into OSX is quite useful.
Same spec hardware in non-mac will be identical I think. Probably cheaper too.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Did someone here the other day have a DC that looked alive but when logged onto it just had a white screen?
Was it @JaredBusch ???
I've got one now.
It was pingable, but no other services were working.
Could not connect to RDP, ScreenConnect was offline, it was not handing out DHCP or answering DNS.But because I did not catch it for hours, I could also not connect to it with the Hyper-V console.
I hard killed the Hypervisor (Hyper-V 2012 R2) via iDRAC 6 power cycle button.
After reboot, all the virtual machines booted, but still no communications with the DC except ping.
Stopped the DC VM, started the replica of the DC on the backup hypervisor, and I was able to then manage things with Hyper-V Console. Disabled the DC on the primary hypervisor and rebooted everything again, and all VMs came up normal.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Did someone here the other day have a DC that looked alive but when logged onto it just had a white screen?
Was it @JaredBusch ???
I've got one now.
Today I had another Hyper-V 2012 R2 with a Server 2012 R2 DC acting weird, but everything was still reachable. Rebooted everything under a controlled reboot and it all came back up normal. but it took almost double the normal reboot time.
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Video editing.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Did someone here the other day have a DC that looked alive but when logged onto it just had a white screen?
Was it @JaredBusch ???
I've got one now.
It was pingable, but no other services were working.
Could not connect to RDP, ScreenConnect was offline, it was not handing out DHCP or answering DNS.But because I did not catch it for hours, I could also not connect to it with the Hyper-V console.
I hard killed the Hypervisor (Hyper-V 2012 R2) via iDRAC 6 power cycle button.
After reboot, all the virtual machines booted, but still no communications with the DC except ping.
Stopped the DC VM, started the replica of the DC on the backup hypervisor, and I was able to then manage things with Hyper-V Console. Disabled the DC on the primary hypervisor and rebooted everything again, and all VMs came up normal.
that's a bit of a handful. well done.
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@Dashrender The XPS are nice, but I doubt I would ever use the "tablet" function.
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@siringo Still haven't decided. Dual boot on a Mac would be nice but I can get a higher spec'd machine for less from what I've seen. The MacBook Pro we have is nice and fast. I like the keyboard feel as well. Excellent battery life too.
It is crazy that so many manufacturers are making their laptops not able to be upgraded. Soldered RAM/CPU is pretty common. RAM is the first upgrades people do.
