@stacksofplates said in Android emulator:

Is there an advantage to using BlueStacks over just downloading the x86_64 ISO?

That doesn't work correctly on KVM / QEMU unless thats changed

This was the thread @stacksofplates

https://mangolassi.it/topic/17468/issues-with-android-on-kvm

Are we still using OBS as the go-to screen recording app on Linux?

It's time to upgrade if you haven't already.

https://wordpress.org/news/2020/04/wordpress-5-4-1/

You really can't dig any further than you have already. It is HR's choice to give discipline how they see fit, but this cannot be considered proof in anyway. If there was communications, both parties have means to end/block those communications going forward.

I think alot of the stuff you are saying is true, but that will always be the case with more senior roles. The contractors building and designing houses dont do the majority of the work. They are responsible, however, for knowing about each task is necessary to build a house. It's also very unlikely that these contractors havent done these jobs themselves before.

It's the same way in IT. Most people will not start in engineering roles or design roles. We never see these positions as entry level with zero experience.

Admin roles are also dying with immutable infrastructure and HA. Designing a system that is immutable and highly available isn't expensive or time consuming on the cloud anymore.

The cloud done right is always cheaper than on premise. The key being "done right" hence the shift towards engineers vs admins.

Admins are generally the ones fighting the cloud, because they could be out of the job.

Troubleshooting severs is completely different these days and done after the fact if you even care. Spin up a new VM and move the snapshot of the old one so you can figure out what happened if you care (most of the time you don't).

@Dashrender said in Recovering SQL Server 2005 Databases:

@IRJ said in Recovering SQL Server 2005 Databases:

I am getting the shakes reading this. I know it's a customer, but fuck I guess their data isn't remotely important to them. I'm surprised it lasted to 2020. Maybe they will learn a valuable lesson from this and not fuck up again this bad.

Good luck this is going to be an annoying task. I would have told the customer good luck as they obviously don't value their data at all! That's not a customer I'd actively choose. This is going to cost them thousands of dollars in support hours. Too bad they didn't migrate 10 years ago when they were supposed to do that.

I guess this brings up another point. At what point do you tell a customer to pound sand? I'm not sure many MSPs or consultants would even take this job.

Not likely. Unless their costs is 10's of thousands of dollars, they'll likely consider it a full on win. They didn't pay for how many new version? they didn't buy how many new versions of Windows? They didn't pay for the manpower do to those upgrades, and now they pay for just over the cost of one, perhaps two of them at once, way later - time value of money and all, they very likely will consider it a win - unless the DB being down is costing them 10's of thousands of dollars.

1. I dont know how many MSPs would even take this work. They were sure lucky to find one.

2. A data breach can cost them the entire business. This isnt just a web server, it is a database server. You work in healthcare and if your company did this and got breached you would be fired and the company would likely shutdown or be severely fined in the millions.

3. Not verifying backups on a database server. Extremely poor execution of system adminsitration. Perhaps it was designed by an engineer 15 years ago and never tested again.

4. I bet you money this isn't VLANed in any way. I bet if one of their workstations get breached, they are fucked city. Who knows maybe they are running Windows XP or Windows 98 on their workstations. We have to assume that is a possibility at this point. Maybe its even internet facing :face_screaming_in_fear:

@JaredBusch said in Looking to Buy a SAN:

The reason cloud is so expensive for most is because they simply try to move existing workloads to it without redevelopment of the workloads to a server less design.

This is what it really the simple one sentence answer. People think its so expensive because they aren't taking the time to learn the capabilities of cloud environments. It's also not something you can pick up in a single afternoon of reading. You need to do your own IaC deployments and utilize PaaS and SaaS services in addition to IaaS.

The less IaaS you use the better, but if you do need to leverage IaaS you should design it so its scalable and data isnt stored on instances. Spot instances are way cheaper than your typical on demand instances. Up to 90% in certain cases.

That's the reason cloud centered roles are paying $$$ because the value is in the engineering not the operations on the cloud. Operations is automated and OS administration is very, very limited.

After all the pain of the initial design, you get a much more reliable infrastructure that requires MUCH less maintenance.

@Dashrender said in Windows Domain join issue:

@IRJ said in Windows Domain join issue:

Is that DNS name already joined?

I would slightly change the DNS name, reboot, and try to join again.

never had that be a problem before - it just steals the slot, but then again, I'm using a domain admin account to do the join, if he's not, that could be the issue.

It's an AD issue that dates back to 2000 and maybe NT4. I figure it may have been resolved by now, but I remember having to slightly change PC names to get them to join in the old days, especially on the the tech side without access to remove duplicate entries.

@JaredBusch said in Vultr Mobile App:

I don't manage instances from my cell phone enough.

The web interface works well enough.

I would not trust a 3rd party app.

And to add to this... Don't use your mobile to manage your servers. Didn't you just make a mistake yesterday by doing this

@gjacobse said in Vultr Mobile App:

Thanks @scottalanmiller; I could see the need for me to use it more as I don’t have access to a network in which I can access it for much of the day. Working for home, I can’t say I would ever need it. But as I can’t access it from the State network, I’m limited to my mobile device. And while it’s accessible via a web browser, on a mobile device (phone or tablet) an app could be ‘easier’ maybe.

Or just use Ssh from your phone. Why do you need to access the management interface ever?

@scottalanmiller said in Linux History: Not clearing between -:

@gjacobse said in Linux History: Not clearing between -:

This has been helpful - I've managed to edit the file, and after making a backup, and editing it down to clear out the garbage.

It's a history, clearing stuff out doesn't really make sense.

And could possibly be seen as malicious intent.

@DustinB3403 said in Linux History: Not clearing between -:

@scottalanmiller said in Linux History: Not clearing between -:

@gjacobse said in Linux History: Not clearing between -:

This has been helpful - I've managed to edit the file, and after making a backup, and editing it down to clear out the garbage.

It's a history, clearing stuff out doesn't really make sense.

It does if he wants to document a process to getting something to work and only having valid commands visible.

If he had a typo or whatever else, leaving that in the history could cause issues later.

Still doesnt make sense, because if you know which line is incorrect, just dont copy that line. You still have to know which line is incorrect to delete

@scottalanmiller said in Linux History: Not clearing between -:

@DustinB3403 said in Linux History: Not clearing between -:

It does if he wants to document a process to getting something to work and only having valid commands visible.

History isn't documentation

I fixed it for you

Got it working. Apparently I missed this step

apt-get install libxslt-dev libxml2-dev libvirt-dev zlib1g-dev ruby-dev

Only serve them through group policy

@scottalanmiller said in When Does It Stop Even Being IT: Buyers vs Doers:

@stacksofplates said in When Does It Stop Even Being IT: Buyers vs Doers:

I honestly don't know how you can say that with a straight face. I love open source stuff and use it when I can, but there is no chance that the random office worker is going to have vastly less issues with Ubuntu and LibreOffice.

In the real world, working with small businesses, it's dramatic how many fewer issues we see. That's why flat rate support for Linux systems is lower, it takes so much less IT time to buy, license, install, and support. And I don't mean a "little" less, it's so much less.

Random office workers are a great example. They rarely do anything complicated and all they tend to need are their business LOB apps (they can't tell if they are on Windows or Ubuntu), web browser, and/or office tools. Often, people are switching on their own these days and don't even realize because they've already adapted to all web work. That's why we are finding Chromebooks in customer sites all the time, because they work and the customers don't even reach out to IT before deploying and people just adapt transparently.

Since end users don't interact with the OS in any meaningful way, most aren't completely clear that the OS has even changed. They use a start menu, desktop icons, or whatever to launch their apps and it's all transparent.

Linux is great, LibreOffice is garbage.

@scottalanmiller said in When Does It Stop Even Being IT: Buyers vs Doers:

@IRJ said in When Does It Stop Even Being IT: Buyers vs Doers:

The problem is that you cannot force people outside your org to use LibreOffice, and even forcing people inside your org to use something far inferior is extremely difficult.

But the assumption is that people outside of your org can force you to use MS Office.

Yeah its true. It's part of doing business. Do you want to do common office tasks with ease, or do you want to try to fit a square peg into a round hole? Businesses are constantly forced to do things by their customers, this is no different.

Not making business decisions of course, but when it comes to human resources side. Nobody is immune