What Are You Doing Right Now
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@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Thought you might like this...
Using four 18650 batteries pulled for 'dead' laptop packs.
The little (uncased) board is a Yeeco 2577 DC DC Boost Converter
Charging a Baofeng HT which needs 10-12volts .
Last week I charged my iPhone off that Tomo four times before using it here,.. Ran for about 30 minutes before the battery voltage dropped to low.
Gah you've started me on a trip down the amazon.ca rabbit hole of cheap dodgy shenzhen stuff lol
You're welcome
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Attempting to secure my ownCloud server using Let's Encrypt but running into PHP errors(?). Interesting.
I run LetsEncrypt on the proxy server in front of ownCloud. Not on ownCloud itself.
+1 - This is the way to do it.
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So I just spent like 40 minutes trying to figure out what was wrong with sss/automounter because home directories wouldn't mount on a test workstation.
Turns out you need to actually export the NFS share before the NFS client can mount it. Who would have thought...........
I need to go home.
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@johnhooks said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So I just spent like 40 minutes trying to figure out what was wrong with sss/automounter because home directories wouldn't mount on a test workstation.
Turns out you need to actually export the NFS share before the NFS client can mount it. Who would have thought...........
I need to go home.
I agree. Let's go home! Has been a back breaking week here. It's only Tuesday and we've already shuffled around two racks of equipment, with another several hundred pounds of stuff to haul off to the junk pile... I mean Auctioning Block.
Is it Friday yet?
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Required reading at work today; interesting topics covered
http://sportsscientists.com/2016/05/hyperandrogenism-women-vs-women-vs-men-sport-qa-joanna-harper/
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Just got into our hostel in Bucharest.
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Just trying to get through the day, had some shit news so yeah...
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Setting up a laptop for new user.
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@NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just trying to get through the day, had some shit news so yeah...
Sorry to hear that.
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@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Required reading at work today; interesting topics covered
http://sportsscientists.com/2016/05/hyperandrogenism-women-vs-women-vs-men-sport-qa-joanna-harper/
why did you have to read about this at work?
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Dare to read a few SW threads and, of course, these are the posts...
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I installed Windows directly to hardware and didn't even consider virtualizing and now there are driver issues caused by this. How could this have happened?
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I used a SAN where it was totally inappropriate, didn't virtualize, treated a LUN as a share for no reason and it corrupted by non-clustered NTFS filesystem. How could this have happened?
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Oh and another great one...
- I am trying to set up a server with 8TB of storage and I want everything on RAID 0....
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Oh and another great one...
- I am trying to set up a server with 8TB of storage and I want everything on RAID 0....
"I get more space with RAID 0!"
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@tonyshowoff said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Oh and another great one...
- I am trying to set up a server with 8TB of storage and I want everything on RAID 0....
"I get more space with RAID 0!"
that's what he said.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tonyshowoff said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Oh and another great one...
- I am trying to set up a server with 8TB of storage and I want everything on RAID 0....
"I get more space with RAID 0!"
that's what he said.
He'll have even more space after it eventually fails and all the data is lost forever
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@tonyshowoff said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tonyshowoff said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Oh and another great one...
- I am trying to set up a server with 8TB of storage and I want everything on RAID 0....
"I get more space with RAID 0!"
that's what he said.
He'll have even more space after it eventually fails and all the data is lost forever
Score!
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Of course, more SWisms... Guy with the bad SAN setup... once he learns that he totally misused SAN and has a device that he should not have his setup what does he do? Instead of asking IT pros for advice or hiring a storage expert or taking a class he immediately calls up the vendor that screwed him and asks the sales people what he should.
Seriously, you can't make this crap up.
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Right now: Building a system to stream the desktop from Raspberry Pi2 #1 to Pi2 #2 for a fair using VNC. Pi #2 will be attached to some large screen while Pi #1 does some presentation on the official Raspberry Pi 7" touchscreen. There will be a little distance (a few meters) between both.
Why no HDMI wireless repeater? You can render to both (DSI and HDMI) just fine, but not on X on a Pi AFAIK. There's just a single framebuffer [1, 2, 3, 4]. That's why I had to fetch a stream from the desktop
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Of course, more SWisms... Guy with the bad SAN setup... once he learns that he totally misused SAN and has a device that he should not have his setup what does he do? Instead of asking IT pros for advice or hiring a storage expert or taking a class he immediately calls up the vendor that screwed him and asks the sales people what he should.
Seriously, you can't make this crap up.
About 18 months ago I had explained to a client (software only, if we ran his network this wouldn't have happened) that his three VM hosts having a single NAS was a bad idea for all the obvious reasons, such as when the NAS fails, it'll be a bad day. He kept telling me that it makes it really easy to move from host to host if he needs to (AFAIK he never did this) and that, and I quote "a NAS doesn't really fail anyway it's not a big deal, I've never had one fail on me before." Plus he "gets more space with a 20TB NAS than on all the VM hosts," which I think the largest server he had was using something like 120GB, and at any rate the NAS itself was only at about 30% full.
Well, a few weeks ago, it failed, and he asked us for help, because having different VMs across hosts for redundancy for AD and Exchange doesn't mean dick when they all fail at the same time.
Anyway after an expensive ass bill, we did actually manage to recover a lot of his information, and reset things up properly, but he then called me up personally to tell me he was upset we didn't use the new NAS he just paid $2,500 or something for. He wanted me to come personally reset it up, I explained that #1 that's why I have employees and #2 I'm about 12,000km away, but if he wants it set up the old way, he'll still have to pay for it to all be redone, it won't be for free, and he'll have to sign a waiver for when it inevitably fails. We didn't have to do that.
I just don't even get this mindset, as if they believe their hardware is made of diamonds or something and nothing could ever go wrong.
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@tonyshowoff It's their overwhelming sense of shame for having bought something so obviously crazy and pointless and trying to make it less obvious to others or to lie to themselves that it wasn't totally irrational and/or that they weren't played for total suckers by a sales guy that they should have seen coming a mile away.
