@scottalanmiller sad, sad news. Germany has 3 busses of schoolkids on a fieldtrip there right now. So glad my kids are home.

My first home lab was an IBM eServer xSeries 366 8863 with 4 quadcores and 32 gb RAM. I got it on ebay for 6 bucks (50 delivery lol). At the time that was a lucky shot, they were going for way more. No drives in it. Had to pay $250 for 6 75gb SAS's. So, for 300 bucks a datacenter quality home lab. I am not saying everyone should be able to afford this, but it certainly was a good investment for me. I know at the time the money hurt, too. Sitting in the corner collecting dust now because I have the capacity for a lab at work, which is nice, because I do also agree with @RojoLoco that we have lost sight of a healthy work/life balance. Just offered it to my neighbor's kid who is messing around with raspberry PI's and Linux. Guys and gals, remember that first time you turned on an enterprise server and the fans blasted up to 100%...

Think he will have a blast with it!

My that was off topic. I don't know if I would consider it a reason not to hire someone, but if I was hiring it would definitely give a second candidate with a lab an advantage.

Morning Scott! May I? Found this beaut the other day in a closet in our programming department. Whatta tank!

@NashBrydges said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

• Ubiquiti ES48-500W
• Netgear GS724Tv3
• 2 x PowerEdge R210II running HA Sophos UTM 9
• 1 x PowerEdge R210II used for family remote backup
• 1 x PowerEdge R210II for the teenage kid to run Minecraft and some other war game for he and his friends
• PowerEdge R710 & MD1000 Veeam backup target (52TB RAID6)
• Spare MD1000
• PowerEdge R510 Hyper-V host running Plex media server (60TB RAID6)
• PowerEdge R420 Hyper-V host running a bunch of VMs including various desktop OS for testing as well as FreePBX, Sophos iView, Fastvue
• PowerEdge R610 spare server. Will probably get sold off as I haven't used it in some time.
• 2 x Dell 1000VA UPS
• Not pictured is a Synology DS2415+ as offsite backup target (80TB RAID6)

Hope you have your electricity meter tied down with some A490 hex bolts!
Ok I'll say it. Nice rack.
I would love to have that!

Haven't had the time for a proper introduction!

I am Adam, otherwise known as Adaministrator in other forums. @scottalanmiller and I know each other from spiceworks and he introduced me to mangolassi. I have been reading some of the threads here and I am really excited about it! I am from Columbus, Ohio and have lived in Germany since 1999. I worked in building site management until 2013. It gave me a great background for future positions, IT, however, is what I always loved to do. I made the move to IT then in 2013 and have never been happier in a job. I am currently the IT manager at inno-tech Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH. If you are in Germany follow me! Getting closer to a MangoCon.DE!

Buying tickets to Billy Talent in Frankfurt... :metal_tone3: :metal_tone3:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Hooked up my Xubuntu lappy to my TV... It's very weird seeing ML on the TV... kind of cool at the same time.
Beats using an iPad

You should have a big wall mount that shows the recent posts automatically updated. That would be awesome.

A ML nagios plugin on your dashboard...

Man I would love to come to this... Have fun guys!

Hi guys, so my first question post here on ML... I have a PC build with brand new components I want ubuntu server on. Said and done, everything is running perfectly, but every time I shut it down it stops at an error "failed to finalize DM devices". By then it has shut down all Services and devices, but the power stays on. I have googled the hell out of it and there seems to be a bug in 16.04 LTS that no one has found the workaround for yet. Anyone run into this and figure it out? I don't really want to revert back to 14.04.

@scottalanmiller yeah, thanks SAM! looking forward to some interesting topics here!

@brianlittlejohn

@brianlittlejohn said in Who is the Real IT Manager?:

I must be lucky...I'm not micro managed and routinely asked for advice on how we can improve processes etc.

This is my situation. Our management doesn't want to be bothered with the decision making, so they rely on me to. Not S.O.P., but I love it.

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Groundhog day? Doesn't look as bad as yesterday, yet...

Damn... glad I live down here...

Man I would love to come to this... Have fun guys!

@Romo said in CentOS automatically created virbr0 and virbr0-nic and killed my cloud services (?):

You have libvirt installed that's why the virbr0 nics where created and you could delete them with virsh.

It is not part of the default Centos 7 minimally install.

Thanks Romo. It is probably included in the gnome package. I had installed the gnome desktop to get a look at centos. After some further testing I am beginning to think that the problem didn't have anything to do with the vnic's, though.

@scottalanmiller

Guten Morgen guys and gals, been running the CentOS for a good while now and it seemed pretty stable, so I move our production cloud to it.

This morning the cloud was down, it was coming up with a certificate error. On my vSphere client I could only see the 192.168.122.0 IP address on the VM, the IP for the cloud was not being shown. I was still able to connect to it with webmin, so I checked out the NIC's first. 2 new virtual NICs had been created, virbr0 and virbr0-nic with a subnet of 192.168.122.0. I was unable to deactivate the nic's, so I virsh net-destroy'ed them. Everything is back on track, but I have some questions. Were they the probable cause for no connectivity? What created them? I have not installed any virtual server services. Are the services included in the default CentOS install?

@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

Armed drones are now legal for law enforcement in North Dakota. That can't go bad.

That's disgusting. We all know where that's headed.

So a power beacon sent from a (possibly) Kardaschow Type II civilization 95 light years away. Do we really want to meet the cats? I'm gonna go play some guitar.

@scottalanmiller Alright then! Gnight, sleep fast!

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

The drive from my house to my dad's house is almost exactly the same as driving from London to Moscow.

Flight!?!

@scottalanmiller That's what I meant. Not getting up early, but staying up so late! Jeez, I don't miss those drive times over there, man. 14 hours here and I'm on the Coté de Azur...