@travisdh1 said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:

@tonyshowoff said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:

@scottalanmiller said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:

He gets busy and pops in when he gets time.

A person like that lacks the dedication required to really belong to this cult forum.

#cultofscottalanmiller It's a bit long for a good catchphrase.

Why not #cultofSAM ?

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

If anyone has any recommendations for file permissions auditing software (windows) i'd really appreciate it

I think Netwrix has some stuff.

@wirestyle22 said in If Not WordPress, What's the Alternative:

I gave @scottalanmiller access to my admin account for my Grav demo in the hopes that he will do a write-up comparing WP to Grav

And suddenly you start seeing Hostadillo ads on your website.

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dustinb3403 There is a man in the sky

What about the old lady who swallowed the fly?

or the old lady who lived in a shoe?

Or the old man with an empty beer mug. . .

I guess after he got done playing Knick Knack Paddy Whack, somebody had to roll him home.

For me, I'm doing a mysqldump of the database, then using rclone to copy the files, the mysqldump, and the /var/www/html folder over to Wasabi.

@dustinb3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Seems like Monday will be a good day to call in sick... I just found out we're going to have somewhere between 200 and 250 tickets created by HR over the weekend...

Or just to get run over by a car.

I kinda like living, so, I'll take the sick day for $200, Alex.

The author's concern is that it only takes one whoopsie to take over all of LE's certs. I agree with that, but that same thing has already happened to other CAs, so it's not really a point to argue.

However, I disagree with his take that security shouldn't be fire & forget. Security absolutely should be fire & forget -- especially for things that are easily handled by automation. (LE Cert renewal, for instance). The more complex something is, the easier it is to accidentally create a security issue.

@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@penguinwrangler said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

reading a rather depressing article...

Americans Are Retiring Later, Dying Sooner and Sicker In-Between

Thanks a bunch. I just turned 40 this year. Might as well go and pick out my coffin now.

Meh... I'm 43, all I did was buy bigger bottles of Zantac and continue living life to the fullest. What's that quote from that Neil Young song? "It's better to burn out than it is to rust..." <-- words to live by.

Go out with your boots on... Hanging upside down from an airplane that got stuck in a barn while attempting to fly through it.

If the RDS server is a VM, have you disabled Hardware Acceleration in Chrome?

@coliver said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@jaredbusch said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

hahahaha

Is it still the most down voted comment on reddit?

lol. By a significant amount. The one in Second place has something like -25k.

Maybe he thought you got hacked?

Edit: At least you're not advertising Carpet or chimney cleaning.

@mattspeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@mattspeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Hello darkness, my old friend

.. I've come to fight with you again
because of blue screens softly creeping
a virus came while I was sleeping...

And the garbage that was planted in my NAS
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

My data came and went.
I thought nothing was the matter.
I sat back down and heard the sound:
the hard drive's crashing platter.

Hi All,

I saw another post about Powershell and VMware and figured I'd post this script I've been using to manage snapshots. https://gitlab.com/dafyre/powershell-utils/-/blob/master/VMware/snapshotCleanup.ps1

If you're like us, we have timed snapshots on everything, so that every day/weeek/month a snapshot is run on various systems. The daily ones area PITA to clean up -- especially for a lot of machines.

This script will connect to your vCenter (or VMware host) and and cleanup the snapshots you specify. It's easier done if you have your snapshots setup with something like "Daily Snapshot of blahblah" in the name.

If run without parameters, it will prompt you for your vmware server name and credentials, and then list all snapshots that have "Daily Snapshot" in the name and are older than 8 days.
. Run with the -liverun parameter, it will actually remove the snapshots for you.

If there's any questions / comments / ideas for improvement, I'm all ears.

I think it's just that we've all noticed a trend and have gotten to know one another over here more... I'd rather have a few close friends making fun of me than everybody over at Spiceworks.

Hi All,
I just came up with a handy dandy little tool (oh, God, shoot me now) for Collecting host information from your Vmware Hosts. It's been tested against both vSphere 6.7.0u3 and 7.0.1

https://gitlab.com/dafyre/powershell-utils/-/raw/master/VMware/get-hostdetail.ps1

./get-hostdetail.ps1
Make sure you are connected to one of your vSphere hosts or a vCenter server (with connect-viserver). Then, run the script with no parameters to have it spit out some of the server details to the screen.

./get-hostdetail.ps1 -vmhost esx01.mydomain.com
Run the script with the -vmhost parameter to only check one host.

./get-hostdetail.ps1 -Report

WIll generate a text file named after all servers (or you can specify a single server with the -vmhost parameter.

Thoughts / Ideas for Improvements are welcome.

@Pete-S SSH will pretty much only be limited by the bandwidth available for you to suck in the backups.

I actually just finished a script for doing almost exactly what you said just a few days ago. I sanitized it and dropped in in Gitlab if you want to take a look.

https://gitlab.com/dafyre/linux-utils/-/blob/master/autobackup/autobackup.sh

I think I made everything a variable, but since it's sanitized, it's quite possible I missed something.

This one is for pushing backups from the server with data out to the backup server. Once you get it working, just set it up in Cron and go.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

So someone just posted a thread on SW about Microsoft, SAM and ELP and I posted this, because seriously, this is funny I think...

"Okay so I'm sorry that this is so ridiculously off topic, but I saw this title and it just made me giggle.  Everyone calls me SAM around here and, while many of you don't know this, I used to work for ELP, literally the famous band Emerson, Lake, & Palmer, long ago.  And I've worked for Microsoft.  So the question: "Microsoft, SAM, and ELP - is this legitimate?" sounds like someone questioning my work history and just was funny enough to me that I had to point it out.  Although now that I write it out, it's only so funny.  lol"

@scottalanmiller : "Hey guys, look, this is hilarious!"

guys: *crickets chirping*

We just built a new Samba file server here that is 25TB (16 TB used).

We went with one big disk as well.

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Learning about System Center Configuration Manager

It's a super complex piece of software but is very powerful. We're going to be deploying it to production this summer.

Yes, and if you're not careful, it can wipe & reload a large portion of your infrastructure for you!

Old News: https://thenextweb.com/shareables/2014/05/16/emory-university-server-accidentally-sends-reformat-request-windows-pcs-including/