Work done and am home. Yes, Sage. The Sage 50 Quantum. <shivers>

Just now starting Sage server maintenance because of a forever-call with a user.

@wirestyle22 Running cable along the floor against the wall. When I cross a doorway, I'll either use a wire mold like thing to cross on the floor, or run the cable along the door frame.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@EddieJennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller No valid technical reason.

I'm installing a patch panel in another room (overkill, but meh), so the cable was truly intended for that, as I'm currently out of extra Cat 5e cable. Each room will have a run of 12 cables.

The original room only had a few cables run, as cabling it was done with whatever cable I had lying around at the time.

Twelve? Damn, that's more than me. We did four to each normal room, six to my bedroom and the dining room (which has a spot that makes this make sense and is right against the cabling plant location) and then like ten or more to my office. But most rooms, like the kids' bedrooms is only four each.

Yeah. This more of an exercise in making and running cable. There's no real technical value for my apartment.

If I'm ever a home owner, then much more thought will go into the cable run.

@Dashrender Both. New room is now getting a patch panel (and cat 6 cables). Old room is going to have the 5 cables it had, replaced with cat 6. Its patch panel remains.

@scottalanmiller No valid technical reason.

I'm installing a patch panel in another room (overkill, but meh), so the cable was truly intended for that, as I'm currently out of extra Cat 5e cable. Each room will have a run of 12 cables.

The original room only had a few cables run, as cabling it was done with whatever cable I had lying around at the time.

Cat6 cables and rj-45 jacks have arrived. Time to replace the cat5e cable in my apartment.

Session 1 of 2 for new user orientation done. Back to call logs.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Gathering monthly call log data from our Altigen VoIP system.

There is some riveting excitement for you.

It's on my list to replace with something, likely FreePBX + SIP provider. Right now its connection to the PSTN is your favorite: T1

Gathering monthly call log data from our Altigen VoIP system.

I just signed up for this. Looking forward to opt-in spam

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Started another Linux Academy course (LPIC-1 System Administrator) before heading to sleep.

What has your experience been like? I'm currently reading a lot and self-teaching but I don't know where I'm going to end up. We'll see

I don't necessarily have a set path. I'm using it as an introduction to concepts. The Linux Essentials course was ok. There's a thread in Mangolassi about regular expressions, which shows some weakness in the presentation.

I bought a year's worth of access last November, so I intend to use as much of it as I can. I'm unsure if I'll renew though.

Started another Linux Academy course (LPIC-1 System Administrator) before heading to sleep.

@scottalanmiller Ha! I'm happy I got to move the maintenance back three hours.

RAID 5 array is degraded. I'm hoping nothing else happens between now midnight.

One of my favorites.
Youtube Video

Now back to trying to be productive on a Friday.

@RojoLoco ! I just now viewed his profile.

Today it seems the neural pathways used for determining the correct direction of a slash for a directory path between my Linux and Windows instances are clogged. My default is starting to become forward slashes.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller I shouldn't gloat though. All of our servers have Server 2012 R2 installed on the bare metal.

I'm so impressed, I don't even know how to install to baremetal /S

It's easy. Place server box on metal shelf. Done!

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

What drives me crazy isn't how little people know about IT basics (doesn't know that he needs to specify his OS, doesn't know that he needs to specify a version, doesn't know that teaming is not a single thing, doesn't know how to team on his OS, thinks that virtualization is silly and not needed, thinks teaming is done on the hardware and on and on...) but then goes to a community that he's clearly never read and asks for basic "I dont' know what I'm doing at all" level advice and then totally disregards advice when given. I think we call this an ask-hole.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1989042-nic-teaming-on-hp-proliant-dl360e-gen8

Bah! You beat me to commenting about the inbound and outbound NICS :P. Reading something like that is what's needed on a day when you think you know nothing.

LOL, yeah. I mean everyone has their gaps, but how you react to advice and stuff matters. But seriously, it drives me crazy when people pop in to ask a question and are clearly way in over their heads, but still act all self righteous and don't listed to advice. And it isn't like this is just my advice, he's clearly never read a single thread on the subject. How lazy does he have to be to be doing this as a job and have researched so little and then react that way to people trying to help?

His post does strike me as "please do my homework k thx." I'd be happier to see "I've read X, Y, and Z, and I still don't get it. Please help deliver me from cluelessness."