@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre 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:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

just finished a site upgrade to a newer version to fix a kitchen printing issue. Today is going so slow.

The slowness for me was Tuesday. Ugh. Yesterday and today have gone faster.

Today is dragging because I'm looking forward to 1:00pm lol

2 hours to go (until 1pm) for me. Sadly, I came in at 5am and won't get off until 5pm. Urgh.

3 ish hours for me.. gotta love Central Time.

5am? ? had to put some fires out?

Patch day for me..... 5a to 7a ... all week long. We usually don't do anything on the weekends... Today was my turn, so I did vCenter updates this go round.

Nice

Eehhhh..... VMswear updates make me nervous these days. They still haven't fixed a couple of issues before this one, so we'll see.

software updates in general have always been a little bit of a Caution flag.. at least to me

Yeah. Between our IDP, Microsoft, and VMware the last few months, we've been taking it going and coming.

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

@dafyre I'd recommend it. And if you put your $5 down now, it will still be a few months until they get to your order. They got a huge number of orders and basically put everyone in a queue. Once you're at the top of the queue they send you an email to complete the purchase.

That's an interesting way to do it. I might have to do that.... Gotta convince the wife first, lol.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre 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:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

just finished a site upgrade to a newer version to fix a kitchen printing issue. Today is going so slow.

The slowness for me was Tuesday. Ugh. Yesterday and today have gone faster.

Today is dragging because I'm looking forward to 1:00pm lol

2 hours to go (until 1pm) for me. Sadly, I came in at 5am and won't get off until 5pm. Urgh.

3 ish hours for me.. gotta love Central Time.

5am? ? had to put some fires out?

Patch day for me..... 5a to 7a ... all week long. We usually don't do anything on the weekends... Today was my turn, so I did vCenter updates this go round.

Nice

Eehhhh..... VMswear updates make me nervous these days. They still haven't fixed a couple of issues before this one, so we'll see.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre 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:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

just finished a site upgrade to a newer version to fix a kitchen printing issue. Today is going so slow.

The slowness for me was Tuesday. Ugh. Yesterday and today have gone faster.

Today is dragging because I'm looking forward to 1:00pm lol

2 hours to go (until 1pm) for me. Sadly, I came in at 5am and won't get off until 5pm. Urgh.

3 ish hours for me.. gotta love Central Time.

5am? ? had to put some fires out?

Patch day for me..... 5a to 7a ... all week long. We usually don't do anything on the weekends... Today was my turn, so I did vCenter updates this go round.

I did just get to test a few things out.

Steam Link works great remotely if you have decent bandwidth. I'd never had a cause to test it, but work is quiet at the moment (knock on wood).

I played Halo Master Chief for a couple of minutes, just using the touch screen controls, just to see if it worked and... it was buttery smooth. Almost like I was sitting there at it.

I also got to actually use Samsung Dex for about half an hour. Hooked my phone to a usb-c hub with HDMI.... hooked office monitor, keyboard, and mouse to the hub, and then promptly remote desktopped into my office machine (sitting 3 feet away).

It worked perfectly.... I was even able to do a support call on it, lol.

Makes me actually consider whether I'll need to bring a laptop with me anywhere ever again.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

just finished a site upgrade to a newer version to fix a kitchen printing issue. Today is going so slow.

The slowness for me was Tuesday. Ugh. Yesterday and today have gone faster.

Today is dragging because I'm looking forward to 1:00pm lol

2 hours to go (until 1pm) for me. Sadly, I came in at 5am and won't get off until 5pm. Urgh.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

just finished a site upgrade to a newer version to fix a kitchen printing issue. Today is going so slow.

The slowness for me was Tuesday. Ugh. Yesterday and today have gone faster.

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

Anyone else lucky enough to get a Steam Deck? I just got mine recently and am loving it. It's the perfect size and has the usual Valve polish.

I've seriously considered one. Just haven't been able to bring myself to pull the trigger yet.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Still trying to wake up. Caffiene is not helping this morning!

We ran out of coffee here. Not sure what I'm going to do. LOL

Oof. That makes for a looooong morning!

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

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

I have Steam Keys available for Elder Scrolls Morrowind

and Dark Eye: Memoria if anybody wants them.

Both are great games.

Yepp! Seems I already had them and didn't realize it, lol. Oops.

Still trying to wake up. Caffiene is not helping this morning!

I have Steam Keys available for Elder Scrolls Morrowind

and Dark Eye: Memoria if anybody wants them.

@PhlipElder said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:

Guns don't kill people. People kill people and with all manner of devices.

I don't think it could be said any better than that... I mean anything that's not bolted down is potentially a murder weapon.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just relaxing by the lake today.

We like easy!

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Connected into a site this morning, going to do some changes for a couple things - no biggie.
Open file explorer and it says ther's 15gb of 450 available.
So now instead of doing what I originally was going to be doing, Now i'm doing disk clean up and freeing up more space - at least its hump day.

Yeah. Too bad it's ONLY hump day. Just got out of a 2 hour meeting. Oy.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just making sure you understand that knowing every software firewall on the market inside and out won't give you any soft of advantage of someone that just took a nap instead.

He does have a great point here. Knowing concepts is better than being tied to a particular vendor. That being said, I just woke up from my nap and now want more coffee.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.

Why? What's the goal? It's pretty rare that I would want a software router outside of a lab setting.

It was something I was working on a while ago that just spun back up to start over again.

I've not used a software firewall in decades. In a lab, sure, but not in production. You really always want hardware, but sometimes in the cloud you can't. But typically your cloud provider will provide the firewall in those cases. So it basically never comes up.

Don't let Scott scare you off of using something like pfSense or OPNsense. Either would be fine in production use -- on decent hardware.

I've used pfSense for a while at my last job. I've used both as routers for Lab environments as well.

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@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.

Same kind of thing? software router?
opensource?
I could just google it but I'm kind of lazy. lol

Yeah, pretty much same vein as pfSense. The last time I compared the two, OPNsense looked and felt a little more modern.

I wouldn't be afraid to use either of them for stuff.

pfSense was purchased years back and while still available, the open version is a 2nd class citizen

Thanks for the heads up. It's been a while since I dug into pfSense.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@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.

Same kind of thing? software router?
opensource?
I could just google it but I'm kind of lazy. lol

Yeah, pretty much same vein as pfSense. The last time I compared the two, OPNsense looked and felt a little more modern.

I wouldn't be afraid to use either of them for stuff.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

DId they actually expected Martians to exist, find it, and plug in a monitor?

They need to be able to use IGRDP -- Intragalactic Remote Desktop Protocol. It's all the rage these days, right?

Hey, I wonder if that new fandangled Webb Telescope will have Windows XP on it? lol.