@momurda said in HP LaserJet Pro Firmware updating:

There is a whole thread about it. Now you cant use 3rd party toner because hp thinks it violates their IP. Or maybe you can now if that is the 'fixed' firmware.

That is not an auto update of network printers. And I believe that was InkJet anyway..

@JaredBusch said in Historic shopping mall converts to micro apartments:

I'm not into micro living, but I do think that more mall spaces like this can be reused

Yep too often they tear them down to redevelop even with there basicly new. I know around here there's like three malls and stores keep swaping between them. One becomes the "popular new one" they all move, for 2-3 years. A new developer comes in to the failing mall tears it down re-brands and creates a new mall and eviroment, then it becomes the new thing. stores move for 2-3 years.. and the cycle never ends. Makes no sense to me.

@scottalanmiller said in How do I mount this as a SR in XenServer 6.5:

@Jason said in How do I mount this as a SR in XenServer 6.5:

With the time you spend fiddling with Xen rather than doing actual work you would save money by using vSphere or Hyper-v

Same could be said of the time spent fiddling with vSphere or Hyper-V.

We don't fiddle with either. We barely touch it. It just works.

@Minion-Queen said in NTG lab - blazing server:

You can join in on the lab and play for $10/month if you would like. Lots of fun to be had by all!

Can we pay that to get access to try to hack I to others labs there? That's lab usage to me

@stacksofplates said in Someone doesn't like local storage for large amounts of data:

@scottalanmiller said in Someone doesn't like local storage for large amounts of data:

@stacksofplates said in Someone doesn't like local storage for large amounts of data:

@Dashrender

Dustin would still need/want to CR that host to another host allowing him to spin up that data very quickly in the case of a failure.

Use tools built for that. GFS2, Gluster, Ceph, Swift, Cinder, etc. The VM would remount after booting in the new host and the storage still fails over.

Agreed. The problem that is being run into here is one of replication capacity and affects a NAS the same that affects a VM. So you solve both in the same way.

In a VM, you turn to Gluster, et al. In physical you turn to Exablox or similar.

We have two Isilons coming. One is here and ready to be installed. Much easier than managing all of that myself.

Our guys can generate about 20TB a week between them all.

There pretty nice. We'd gotten Demo units. We use the VMAX though.

@scottalanmiller said in Datacenters & Weather:

I know that I've toured Houston DCs that were designed for at least ten feet of water on the production floor.

Ours are raised for water but, that does you no good if the Backbone providers are going to go down... and if natural gas lines break we only have a short window on UPS without Generators.

@Dashrender said in Fiber GBICs:

I have an HP switch with an LC SX fiber GBIC.

Do you know, or think - please indicate - if that will work when connected to a ES‑48‑500W with a 10GTeck SFP SX GBIC?

Are you asking if the SFPs will work in the switch or if the SFPs will talk to each other? if you asking if they will talk to each other yes, It's still ethernet. As long as you are using the same type of fiber SFPs (or ones that will take SMF and MMF) and the correct speed and micron then they will work, that is unless you try something stupid like using a SMF run a few feet apart you will burn out the SFP.

But it is standards based and it is still just ethernet, the one side doesn't care what brand is on the other. It's the same as plunging a CAT5 Ethernet cable into dissimilar brands of switches.

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@Dashrender said in So this happened....:

@Jason said in So this happened....:

@Dashrender said in So this happened....:

did you use them for outbound email as well as inbound?

Yes. Spam can be outbound as well as inbound..

Sure, but if your firewall prevents outbound 25 from all but your server, and you're server's locked down pretty good, outbound shouldn't be that big of deal.

Adding outbound filtering would double the cost of my spam filtering, currently don't consider it worthwhile.

This isn't even covering port 25 like that.. that is the firewall. This is to prevent people from accidentally forwarding spam or a malware using the email client to send spam which will get you on blacklists, as well as scanning of attachments and urls in emails going out.

This was only one of their IPs that ended up on a blacklist temporarily. for all of 3 spam emails. 1 on Sept 2 One Oct 5, and one Today got it blacklisted.

If they are sending a file out for print the file should be flattened before doing so.. Maybe even exported

@wrx7m said in So this happened....:

Curious as to which spam filter service this is...

https://www.mimecast.com/

isn't this what people use Crackle for?

@scottalanmiller said in DHCP the servers:

@Texkonc said in DHCP the servers:

@JaredBusch said in DHCP the servers:

Personally, I am in the camp of static the hypervisors, DC, routers, and switches.

Yes, I agree on all those.
I am just used to statically assigning everything. This way we can set blocks of IP's aside for an application lets say, that you make block of .100-.150 for that one application and nothing can touch that range. but if you DHCP everything you kinda loose that.

What's the benefit of ranges of that nature? And reservations allow for that as well, you can set aside reservation blocks. But why?

What's the point of putting things besides each other with IPs? We do that for switches on the management vlan but most services are by DNS anyway so it doesn't matter

Raspberry Pi Would not make a good proxy server even for home. Proxy servers need a heck of a lot of horsepower, raspberry Pi.

The Raspberry Pi and arduino are best used in automation, scripting, motor/system controls and IoT/Home automation. They were never designed to be servers like that.

@scottalanmiller said in Hardware refresh and Selling the Solution:

@Carnival-Boy said in Hardware refresh and Selling the Solution:

@scottalanmiller said in Hardware refresh and Selling the Solution:

@ardeyn said in Hardware refresh and Selling the Solution:

@Jason The thing is (I might be wrong though)
Pretty much any rep of any company works with a disclaimer, that sounds along the lines of "Any opinions expressed in this communication are not necessarily those of the company". This way you are still violating the EULA. This may not be immediately noticeable while you work with the aforementioned reps, however if you were to reach out to support and they will see what kind of license you are using, there may be trouble.
That being said, I am not sure it's the case, it just sounds like a possible course of action.

THis post, and these do work. It's not the same as the disclaimers saying that if this is for the wrong recipient or forcing you to do something when you receive an email. It's saying that the email communications is not official and is meaningless. It also makes ALL sales from them worthless as well, of course.

I have never, ever seen or heard of this kind of disclaimer. Is it a US thing? I wouldn't be very impressed if I did see one - if you're not representing opinion of the company what exactly are you for?

NO idea, but they are ridiculously common here. They are the email equivalent to those Facebook posts telling people that the poster is denying permission for companies to use their Facebook material for use. It's some joke that someone played a decade ago and now tons of companies fall for it and many demand that their employees use it. It's the most common reason that you see on Spiceworks for why people need to "force" an email signature. They are so common that I bet I see it in one out of ten companies, still, no matter how dumb it makes them look.

Just like the if you aren't the intended recipient delete the email etc. I always laugh at those..

Does anyone actually buy Cisco's SFPs? We always buy OEM complaint 1,10 and 40GB SFPs. I'm guessing Cisco doesn't make theirs anyway just has an authorizing chip and they are all made the same. You do have to enable non-cisco ones as they are turned off buy defualt. But has anyone actually found a reason to buy cisco's own? ex 40GB QSFP+ from Cisco is $1,500 from a OEM it's about $150

Ask your finance department, if you have an in house Controller/CPA

@Dashrender said in Odd Shaped Power Bricks and UPS:

This is funny.

The few datacenters I've been in that had UPSs in the rack, had Power Strips running up the sides of the rack where the servers plugged into.

So are those doing it wrong also?

The powerstrips in data centers have overcurrent protection.

@BRRABill said in Odd Shaped Power Bricks and UPS:

I also got dinged for not having ceiling tiles in our wiring room.

That is normal if you have a drop ceiling. It's for a fire(smoke)/air barrier.

@Dashrender said in Odd Shaped Power Bricks and UPS:

@Jason said in Odd Shaped Power Bricks and UPS:

@Dashrender said in Odd Shaped Power Bricks and UPS:

I'm assuming @gjacobse is talking about the black cord only.

I don't know OSHA law/rules, but there should be no need to check for over current in the black part, it's a 1 to 1 connection. Assuming you plug the 1 to 1 and it's plugged directly into a UPS port, not a power strip like this picture.

1:1 does not necessarily imply no over current protection is needed.

At this point the assumption would be that the UPS you're plugging into would handle that.

No it is not protecting the cable you plug into it, it may not be the same gauage for the amprage rating of the UPS protection. You also can't assume that. A lot of lower end UPSes do not have circuit breakers.