What Are You Doing Right Now
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 Sorry to hear about the fires.. but lucky duck, must be a nice view of the ocean! 
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 @MattSpeller Would a fire extinguisher be of any service? If not, may I suggest travelling south for several hours to obtain cleaner air? 
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 @dafyre lots and lots and lots of fire extinguishers please. 
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 That should get you started. 
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 @dafyre heh... we start with helicopters and then move up to DC-3's, then move up to these babies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_JRM_Mars Water/foam load: Mars waterbomber - 60,000 lb (27,000 kg) 
 Length: 117 ft 3 in (35.74 m)
 Wingspan: 200 ft 0 in (60.96 m)
 Width: 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) Hull beamThe scoops allowed 30 tons of water to be taken on board in 22 seconds. 
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 Can you put out a fire with salt water? You just need some really long hoses and a big pump and you have plenty of water! 
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 @Minion-Queen yup, but I pity the guy who has to mop out the tanks after haha 
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 @Minion-Queen said: Can you put out a fire with salt water? You just need some really long hoses and a big pump and you have plenty of water! I believe is just burns the salt out of the water and then you just have water. Also causes corrosion in tanks etc. though. 
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 Got a meeting here in about 1 hr. 
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 Umm at this point having to clean the tanks might be worth it don't ya think? 
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 Those planes that pickup water and drop it on forest fires... can't they use salt water? sure it will have to be fixed afterwords.. but still. 
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 @Dashrender said: Those planes that pickup water and drop it on forest fires... can't they use salt water? sure it will have to be fixed afterwords.. but still. My point exactly! 
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 Why not drop 10,000 pounds of baking soda per trip? It weighs less than water, and would help put the fire out.... 
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 @Dashrender said: Those planes that pickup water and drop it on forest fires... can't they use salt water? sure it will have to be fixed afterwords.. but still. Actually there might be a very good reason not to do this. It might blight the land making it inhospitable to growing things. 
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 @Dashrender yup, and while it's not a huge deal in the middle of nowhere, it's really the cost to fix the tanks after the corrosion that stops anyone from doing it. Edit: tanks, pumps, hoses, cross contamination (sea life -> fresh water = bad), etc. 
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 Figured out where a lot of our space went. 3.0TB Windows C Drive. Never expanded past 30GB in windows but, increased in Vcenter. Now, how to fix it. I don't think you can decrease the size of thick provisioned disks. 
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 @thecreativeone91 good grief, did it log ALL of the things? 
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 @thecreativeone91 said: Figured out where a lot of our space went. 3.0TB Windows C Drive. Never expanded past 30GB in windows but, increased in Vcenter. Now, how to fix it. I don't think you can decrease the size of thick provisioned disks. Image it to another machine, then delete it and restore the image. 
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 @Dashrender said: @thecreativeone91 said: Figured out where a lot of our space went. 3.0TB Windows C Drive. Never expanded past 30GB in windows but, increased in Vcenter. Now, how to fix it. I don't think you can decrease the size of thick provisioned disks. Image it to another machine, then delete it and restore the image. Not worth the trouble for a Windows 2k8 r2 Server. I'll just plan on replacing it with a 2k12 r2 server soon. 
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 Has been a long Monday. Glad it is almost over! @MattSpeller -- you still stuck in the smoking section? Or are you just outside of it? 





