What Are You Doing Right Now
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I had someone recently tell me that their CIO wanted to use Vmware over KVM because, and you can't make this stuff up, they liked "working with the biggest vendor."
Literally, they didn't care if it made sense for the purpose, they didn't care if it was reliable or cost effective, they didn't care if it was secure. They literally only wanted to know which product was made by the largest company. No IT factor considered.
And then, as incompetent as that is, with only a single thing to research; with no need to check on features, cost, licensing, support, price, or other complicated factors; they got the ONLY thing that they were considering wrong.
KVM is made by IBM at about $63bn USD. VMware is made by Broadcom at about $21bn USD. IBM is roughly three times the size. And IBM is the KIND of company that should make hypervisors, Broadcom really isn't. But that aside, no matter how insane it would be to consider market cap or revenue of a vendor as the determination of product applicability to a company, they got that one, insanely simple task, ass backwards.
When you are THAT dumb, it is pervasive. If you are dumb enough to think company size matters in some significant way, you are also so clueless as not to be able to determine company size.
While they said - the larges company - what they really meant was - the one that advertises the most to people like me - in airports, on TV, etc... If I'm not seeing ads for them - then they aren't worth considering.. /sigh
Exactly, they didn't even know how to describe what they meant. They didn't want largest, best, best known, most used, most deployed, most support engineers... they wanted "pays the most to trick me."
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got very little sleep last night. My daughter is going through growth spurts left and right and woke up quite a bit due to being asleep a majority of the day (as she was not with me.) it's going to be a hard day.
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Read-Only Friday so checking our Exchange (Online) environment for CVE-2023-23397
https://microsoft.github.io/CSS-Exchange/Security/CVE-2023-23397/
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3 power failures this week, and a phone system meltdown.
A little more eventful than I'd like
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Junk cleaning at the office today. I get to purge a bunch of dead laptops, printers, and battery backups. Oh, and also the whole training room!!!
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Got to deal with realizing I'm triple booked next Thursday, and never got a notification on 2 of the installs today.
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One hour until the live draft for a free Yahoo Fantasy Baseball league
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Just hanging out on the veranda having some coffee this morning.
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Started the day with two servers down. One was just a power outage, though.
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Today is my Friday evening 40 minutes left to go, Was able to write a guide for building items in one of the POS we support. Ready for my weekend
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Printers (and their evil offspring FAX) need to die a horrible death
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@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Printers (and their evil offspring FAX) need to die a horrible death
Don’t disagree, but I don’t get that choice… no faxes,.. but plenty of printers. But that’s a shipping environment.
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The junk pile has been taken away for recycling! An estimated 2000lbs! And secure destruction of all the hard drives!
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@gjacobse I'm dealing with a MFP device that prints but wrong font so everything's all messed on formatting; AND then they also want it to fax; through a Grandstream ATA to a SIP service and that keep failing. Trying to convince them to move to an HTTPS fax service instead
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@RojoLoco Was there anything good in there? I have determined I need to build the home lab back up.
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@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco Was there anything good in there? I have determined I need to build the home lab back up.
Nope, all old junk, no servers in this run. But I have a pile of Dell 12G and 13G rack servers that are going to be on the chopping block soon.
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@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse I'm dealing with a MFP device that prints but wrong font so everything's all messed on formatting; AND then they also want it to fax; through a Grandstream ATA to a SIP service and that keep failing. Trying to convince them to move to an HTTPS fax service instead
We have several desk MFPs, as well as office MFPs,.. and Zebra's.. whee.. oh the fun. Yea,.. time to move to a fax service - modernize that analog crap.
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Learning about unattended Ubuntu installs.
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Server was slow all day.. checked things no errors. Checked iDRAC, no errors in RAID array.. /shrug
Arrived on site just after 6pm, ran updates on the hypervisor and rebooted.
server did not come online....
Fuck.. Went into server room, 3 of 6 drives offline.
Thank god for OBR10..... All three disks were part of a different span (mirror).
Rebooted server and continued past the controller warning to get hte server online.
Waiting for the host to get stable with the degraded array and slotted one drive back in. It spun up and auto rebuild kicked in. Waited 10 minutes between drives and did the other 2 also.
Now waiting for the rebuild to finish.
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Funtimes testing RHEL deployments with vRealize.
