What Are You Doing Right Now

Sure it is, you're choosing what you know, even if that product doesn't give you the best benefits. It may or it may not.

While there is value in using what you know, it shouldn't be the sole deciding factor in a decision.

Or even a major one. It should just be a normal part of the financial calculation.

QuixoticJeremy

@DustinB3403 No issues here, that's essentially a destination unreachable error code right?

DustinB3403

@QuixoticJeremy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 No issues here, that's essentially a destination unreachable error code right?

Yeah it resolves to Website Down Error 523.

And some temp website.

scottalanmiller

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Sorting my desk out and the cabling around it.
Then moving some VM's onto a RDX tape for backup, before destroying two hosts and resetting them up. Not sure if i'm going to use Hyper-V/ESXi Free/XenServer yet on them

Outside of a lab or insanely special cases ESXi Free should never be used. It's the only one that should be avoided. There are three excellent choices in the free "didn't pay for support" space. ESXi is the only player that is bad here. ESXi only becomes rational once you are paying for support.

scottalanmiller

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Sorting my desk out and the cabling around it.
Then moving some VM's onto a RDX tape for backup, before destroying two hosts and resetting them up. Not sure if i'm going to use Hyper-V/ESXi Free/XenServer yet on them

Why ESXi Free, are you attempting to learn the interface?

No I just like ESXi

You should hate it for crippling you.

scottalanmiller

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I thought technical debt was choosing the easier option over the best option

No, not at all. That's bad, but not technical debt.

NerdyDad

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Sorting my desk out and the cabling around it.
Then moving some VM's onto a RDX tape for backup, before destroying two hosts and resetting them up. Not sure if i'm going to use Hyper-V/ESXi Free/XenServer yet on them

I'm assuming this is for a lab? If so, why not try all of them? Expose yourself to all of them. Setting up the environments, setting up datastores and connecting them with iSCSI or your connection of preference, setting up servers, backing servers up, etc. What errors will the environment throw if a datastore is down? How do you properly restore the datastore to the environment?

EddieJennings

Looking at what ports are listening on our servers to see how I need to configure the built-in Windows firewall.

momurda

Yesterday i went home with my opensuse server at 12.1, all applications working except for search function in mediawiki application. Today i come in and, search is working? Thanks to whoever did that because that problem was pissing me off.

scottalanmiller

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Looking at what ports are listening on our servers to see how I need to configure the built-in Windows firewall.

Block 'em all, open as needed

scottalanmiller

@momurda said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Yesterday i went home with my opensuse server at 12.1, all applications working except for search function in mediawiki application. Today i come in and, search is working? Thanks to whoever did that because that problem was pissing me off.

Magic.

Are there other IT people? Or was it like... a user just got frustrated?

wirestyle22

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@momurda said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Yesterday i went home with my opensuse server at 12.1, all applications working except for search function in mediawiki application. Today i come in and, search is working? Thanks to whoever did that because that problem was pissing me off.

Magic.

Are there other IT people? Or was it like... a user just got frustrated?

My users suffer from magical thinking, which is a sign of multiple developmental disabilities.

momurda

@scottalanmiller Magic. No other IT people. I think what happened was i just was impatient. There was a version of libmysqlclient.so referenced in one of the config files that had its path changed during the upgrade. I changed the path in config, but it still wasnt working when i left. then something happened now it does work.

scottalanmiller

https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/wage/SCADirV5/SCADirectVers5.pdf

Wow is the DOL not involved in IT. No wonder the government can't hire IT at all. Look at the job role descriptions. Nothing we do in IT is realistically covered and there is a whole category of job titles for jobs that haven't existed in decades.