I do the recordings myself. I have a few drinks and channel my best Nick Offerman.

Calling @MattSpeller ...

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Checking email after lunch, saw this. @JaredBusch debunked that "Only $180/month" deal at MangoCon!

But they only service podunk-ass, backwoods areas.

Gee thanks. Not that I'm not planning on moving sometime next year

Where are you? A quick glance showed me a bunch of small towns in AL, GA, SC, and TN.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/9820/really-i-work-in-the-middle-of-nowhere

I sometimes forget that Ohio has lots of ... um... rural areas.

And PA.

Philly .... 5 hours of rural ... Pittsburgh.

@Dashrender said

Should I beat Scott to saying a Chromebook?

You could buy 4 Chromebooks! One for the office, car, home, and bathroom.

@ChrisL said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Checking email after lunch, saw this. @JaredBusch debunked that "Only $180/month" deal at MangoCon!

But they only service podunk-ass, backwoods areas.

Gee thanks. Not that I'm not planning on moving sometime next year

Where are you? A quick glance showed me a bunch of small towns in AL, GA, SC, and TN.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/9820/really-i-work-in-the-middle-of-nowhere

I sometimes forget that Ohio has lots of ... um... rural areas.

And PA.

Philly .... 5 hours of rural ... Pittsburgh.

Ahhh, Pennsyl-tucky.

Full of guns and religion, as President Obama would say.

I used SSLS.COM recently and was very happy.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Spotted this on an auction site if anyone needs a server rack. Full size Dell rack, looks to be in good shape, except possibly missing the side panels. Currently at $99.

http://www.shopgoodwill.com/auctions/Dell-79-Tall-Server-Rack-33465822.html

If you live in AZ.

I just saw that. Constant disappointment on the "pickup only" items.

Rack $99
Shipping $495

Strangely enough ImageUSB did it properly.

But I'm not sure it's worth the risk of trying what I want to do.

I'll get everything upgraded to XS7 and then start clean installing.

Recovering after a power loss here.

Not sure what happened, but there were two explosions and the main cables between poles exploded off the poles.

And a tree was on fire.

@Dashrender said

Many of the updates are cumulative, do you don't have to install them all from scratch.

That was I was discussing in my thread from a while back, that there is a specific order to do them

The conclusion of that thread was that XO was smart enough to do it and should always be used, but if you don't have XO running, what you found is the best alternative I think.

@scottalanmiller said

They were at MangoCon.

They made nice scotch coasters.

For those Linuex OSes with desktop GUIs (such as Mint) what do you typically use to remotely access them?

I Googled it and got all sorts of answers. Figured if there was a consensus here at ML that would be the place to start.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Lunch with @Texkonc

What no pictures? You always post pictures of food!

@stacksofplates said

You can always just have one extra USB and keep a copy of the image somewhere. Once you need to use your backup USB then just order another one and write the image to it.

I guess my point is going along with the OP of reliability, that two small SATA drives would probably run for years without needing a reboot. My servers are 10+ years old, and have just recently started having drive failures. That 24x7x365x10 (or whatever haha) without needing spares and worrying constantly it was going to fail.

Why introduce that is so finicky into a server situation if we are concerned about reliability.

@olivier said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr Not for non-science people ^^

...With a broken Google.

@dafyre said in Clutter Folder Issues:

@scottalanmiller is special at Microsoft. They put all his accounts in the "let's see what happens if we put him here" servres.

I think they also alternate with the "how far can we push him before he never uses Microsoft again" folders.

@colocationamerica said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

Hi! Tag this account if you want Chris or Samantha from Colocation America to drop in. Or tag them. TAG SOMEONE.

Can we still tag @ChrisL or @SamieWalters ?

That's someone/

This will be helpful when 2016 comes out and I need to migrate all the data off my data server.

Last time I used the Server Migration Wizard.

I'm sad Coly didn't get his own username.

@scottalanmiller said

Yeah, and while I feel that SD is the best option technically, I'm changing my recommendations for most users based on how difficult it has been to get XS to treat the SD card like it should. Hopefully at some point we will be able to produce a super simple guide for that, but for now, we cannot. Partially because I can't get access to even a desktop to work on that stuff physically which is pretty much needed for this kind of testing.

I'm not sure if you can hear it, but the collection of XS here is quietly booing you.

Resurrected an old SmartUPS 1500 from the dead today.

Had to find dusty old serial cables and whatnot.

Seems to be working, though.