@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Who the hell mixes hot with alcohol...

It's super common. Hard mulled cider is phenomenal.

@Dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Damn forced retirements...

I went the other direct - Sad that he had to keep working to survive until he was 102.

#aboringdystopia

@krisleslie said in Using XCP-NG latest release, Windows 2019 Server VM file copies are pegged at 10 MB/s:

@black3dynamite Scott has been begging me for a while to switch over to KVM I have enough servers at home to give it a try. What are you using for host management? Last I saw, Kimichi(sp?) was hot.

You can also use Cockpit.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

This was specifically a "show con", anime in this case.

I don't get these at all. They really don't seem like much fun to me.

On the other hand, PAX, GenCon, and Origins are a ton of fun. Can't wait till I have the time to go to one again.

@dave247 said in Looking for some insight/input for setting up a "hot site"/fail-over environment:

@IRJ said in Looking for some insight/input for setting up a "hot site"/fail-over environment:

@dave247 said in Looking for some insight/input for setting up a "hot site"/fail-over environment:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for some insight/input for setting up a "hot site"/fail-over environment:

@dave247 said in Looking for some insight/input for setting up a "hot site"/fail-over environment:

I found the info I needed in the Windows Server 2016 Licensing Guide and if I understand it correctly, we would need Software Assurance coverage with our licensing, which we do not have. We purchased licenses only (with necessary CALs).

SA is the standard way to do it. You can do it without SA by double purchasing all the licenses (but not the CALs, no need to double up there. The humans aren't being duplicated.) Obviously, SA is cheaper than that, and that's why everyone goes with SA.

So, in the case with replicating virtual machines through Veeam Backup & Replication and storing those powered off servers on a spare VMware ESXi server would require me to purchase additional MS licensing?

Yes and you will have both running simultaneously to do fail over testing

Anyone know off-hand if I can purchase Software Assurance after already having purchased my licenses? If not, guess we'll bite the bullet and purchase licensing for the warm site + get SA on all future purchases.

I don't believe so.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/01/linus-torvalds-pulled-wireguard-vpn-into-the-5-6-kernel-source-tree/#p3

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Worked until 4am last night. Several projects going on. One is a new community, not surprisingly just like this one, for the veterinary industry.

how many products are they talking about there?

Hundreds of thousands I would assume, if you include everything from squeaky toys to food to medicines to lab gear.

So just a general Vet discussion board. That's cool.

@dafyre said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@dafyre did you just install using Steam? DId you do anything manually?

You need to enable the Steam Play beta features. It will attempt to run most games that are in the Steam library.

Exactly. I let it play the intro video before I had to kill it, lol. That particular laptop has issues with the GPU (the fan quit, lol). I'm about 99% ready to make the dive back to Linux on my daily driver again.

I still can't. Enough games I play can't be played through Steam Play yet.

@Dashrender said in Real Time Coronavirus Website:

@Kyle said in Real Time Coronavirus Website:

I was hospitalized in early December for Coronavirus. I was on a ventilator for 3 days due to the swelling in my airway.

did you have a confirmed case?

IIRC Coronavirus is a family of viruses. The one we are talking about is the Wuhan Coronavirus.

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@dafyre did you just install using Steam? DId you do anything manually?

You need to enable the Steam Play beta features. It will attempt to run most games that are in the Steam library.