Posts made by dafyre

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

After you get done poking around with pfSense, check out OPNsense -- it's pretty good too.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

We closed on a home improvement loan this morning - time to plan the dream kitchen!!!

Awesome!

@Dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

The morning after? that's to much credit!

More like 5 minutes later....

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I've decided to start using this phrase...

"Do what you want to do, I do not give the fuzzy backside of a large sewer rodent."

I agree. There's a story here somewhere... and it smells like it crawled up a rat's ass.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Back in the office today after a very emotionally taxing day yesterday. Hoping the clock runs a little faster today.

I hope that all is well. Pretty exhausting day here yesterday, too.

Bad things come in three's right? was at a funeral service for an uncle on my dads side, when we got the call that my aunt died (same side) just waiting for the 3rd bad thing to happen (or find out about it)

But Happy Friday !

I feel bad saying Happy Friday after all that... But Happy Friday! -- but just in case, take this hard hat, and flak jacket.

Finally getting back to normal.... Had this huge wave of security crap from Microsoft, VMswear, F5, Cert renewals, and our IDP (identity provider) software upgrade, finding and fixing a vulnerability in that new upgrade, and building 3 new servers (VMs)...

Jeez.... Can I come up for air now?

I'm just biding my time 'til 5pm. Weekend planned and ready for it to start.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Trying to find a Mac installer for a windows based software - I haven't been able to find one yet.
My next thought is to have them install a hypervisor and create a windows based machine in the hypervisor and install the software there. than they'd have to spin up the VM and run the software.. and these aren't the brightest people..
decisions decisions.

With Mac, the hypervisor can be completely transparent to the user. You put a desktop icon for the Windows software on the main desktop, and the user never even knows they're running under a different OS.

Of course, you have to pay for the hypervisor(s) that enable that for Mac. Just a cost of using the platform.

interesting. I did not know that.
which one do you recommend?

I think we used Parallels.

That was going to be my recommendation.

A close second would be VMware Fusion.

@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

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@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

oooh I'm getting reported for this one

This is old because everyone is super happy with Nvidia now.

The reason people didn't like Nvidia in the past was an absolute refusal to allow their drivers into Linux. Last week they reversed this and have embraced the ecosystem. So they've totally done a 180.

All about wine here.

I just hope we get full on NVIDIA support. I know it will be a little while, but I'm glad to see some positive movement there.

I avoid Wine if I can... If I can't, I hope I can get the app to work, lol.

I've rarely had success with WINE as well. I'm sure it works for a lot of things but so much is listed as partially working or not...

Ironically, the only thing I've had much success at with Wine (even before Steam/Proton) was games. Often times they run better under Linux than Windows.

I can't say much for current stuff though. Sadly, I'm not running Linux on hardware at the moment.

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Stop trying to use chair.exe with WINE.... instead:

cd /opt/woodworking
./make chair

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Soooo many staff away/out of action today.
I think about 60% of the team is gone and were are understaffed when we're all here.

Ouch,…
We are down one as they look for a replacement, one on a conference,.. and one just called out sick…

There is only six of us to start with. Five if you discount the fellow 500miles away and is as needed.

We have 5 as well, and there's been an average of 2 people in the office the last 2 weeks!

@JasGot said in Password Managers:

So I have been using BitWarden since this conversation started. I have to say I like it. I think I am ready to remove all the saved passwords from Edge and Chrome. Would this be the next step?
It's a wee bit scary. But BitWarden does claim to have the same number of passwords as my Edge and Chrome, and the BitWarden password tool is working!

Delete them all from the browser! Ja ha ha ha ha! Then, when you run into that one obscure site that you can't remember the password to, you can just use Bitwarden for it after doing the forgot password.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

oooh I'm getting reported for this one

This is old because everyone is super happy with Nvidia now.

The reason people didn't like Nvidia in the past was an absolute refusal to allow their drivers into Linux. Last week they reversed this and have embraced the ecosystem. So they've totally done a 180.

All about wine here.

I just hope we get full on NVIDIA support. I know it will be a little while, but I'm glad to see some positive movement there.

I avoid Wine if I can... If I can't, I hope I can get the app to work, lol.

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

*you hear sounds of record scratching in the background.

Hallo!

Yay, Monday!

@Mr-Jones said in Website down, but only for organization Network:

Scratching my head on this one.

During website edits for our website, when making changes I get ERR_TIMED_OUT (Chrome) when trying to publish edits. I might get a few edits published, but then it inevitably loses connection.

The website goes down, or appears to for about 5 minutes. Hosting Provider assures me there is no PHP issues and everything looks to be in order.

Tricky thing is, if I take my phone off of our organizations WiFi, the site is still operational. In fact, the site never really goes down to the rest of the world.

I ran tracert from my workstation and everything appears to be fine with DNS.

It appears to affect all devices on domain.

My next step is going to be contacting ISP, but I figured anyone who's ever experienced this would remember what the issue was.

Does this ring any bells for anyone?

Does your network have any kind of security stuff on the workstations or firewalls that monitors that kind of traffic? I've seen some rare instances where the Firewall or AV software would start blocking after a minute or two, and then it would crash and restart and then everything would be happy for another few minutes.

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

OMG, this is so true! I can't tell you how many times the slot covers have helped me get them straight enough to properly seat the CPU!

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

tuesday morning. can't get going this morning.

I feel your pain. I've been up since 4am EST (it's now ~7:20 EST)... Still pouring caffeine into me to see if I can get my motivation for the day.