@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

ZTE smartphone goes to extremes to kill the notch, adds rear secondary display

ZTE is back from the grave and maybe a bit crazy.

seriously - is a forehead and chin really that bad on a phone?

Is screen size in ration to the overall size of the phone really that big of a concern? I used to be a fan of the Samsung Notes (except for the 7, that went out with a BANG) because of their size, but realized that size of the screen isn't everything and went to a smaller phone, and am quite enjoying it. I have a secondary screen that shows me the notifications right above the main screen. I'm good.

@travisdh1 said in Fedora 29 stuck in boot process:

@NerdyDad said in Fedora 29 stuck in boot process:

Removed VLC and reboot borked the entire process.

That sucks. Were you using the default repo?

Nope, RPM Fusion because that's what their instructions said to do.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-fedora.html

Worked fine in 28. @JaredBusch said he got it to work. Do you recall how you did it Jared?

Removed VLC and reboot borked the entire process.

I installed VLC, performed update (nothing there) and rebooted, it happened again. Did the CTRL + ALT + F2, and I am able to login. What do I do now?

@Donahue That is used if you have a backup appliance, such as ExaGrid, that you are sending your backups to.

@DustinB3403 said in Live Streaming Church Services:

So while you can work around the adding sources to the stream situation, the biggest issue (especially for this) is the bandwidth available on premise.

I've had people ask me how to do this same sort of thing for family sporting events etc, and it's always a damn bandwidth issue. Especially when you have 100+ extra devices all connected using that DSL for $19.99/month. . .

Just like you would do with any other organization. You VLAN off the guest wifi to just the Internet and throttle it down to just barely speeds.

@DustinB3403 Unless you put a lapel mic on the subject, its not that easy. Some subjects like to move around the stage.

@Pete-S Don't forget that they are wanting to stream it too

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1297728-REG/roland_compact_multicam_production_and.html

@travisdh1 Didn't know about that. Will have to keep that in the back pocket. I restored and overwrote the VM from yesterday's backups.

@Donahue said in question on veeam backup:

@Dashrender said in question on veeam backup:

@Donahue said in question on veeam backup:

@Dashrender said in question on veeam backup:

@Donahue said in question on veeam backup:

I am pretty sure that what I am trying to do requires a windows license. Its a dubious grey area at best as to if veeam requires a license or not. From what I have found so far, the consensus seems to be that veeam does not require a license if veeam is backing up VM's from that host. It is less clear when veeam is backing up VM's from a completely different host.

And you can only install Veeam into a full windows environment, I assume. In otherwords, I don't think you can install Veeam into Hyper-V Core.

So installing Windows Server 2016 on the hardware, then enabling Hyper-V service, still requires a license, even with zero VMs running.

that's my point.

I'm sorry - what was your point? or question?

My point was the a windows license is required either way. My question is, because a license is required either way, which is the prefered way, VM or physical?

VM for ease of migration. You want to get away from physical boxes as much as possible, except for your hosts.

Veeam licensing is based on the host processors for the guests that you are wanting to backup.

The local storage. Is that based on other factors or just based on Veeam?

@Donahue If you run Hyper-V core (which is what I recommend), then you can't run Veeam on it. It would have to be run on a VM. Also, if you install MS Server 2016 w/ Hyper-V as a role (which is not what I would suggest), then I would not suggest installing Veeam on the host directly. You are taking resources away from your hypervisor and what if your host 3 goes down? There goes all of your backups too.

Umm, yeah. There is a lot better answer here. Install Hyper-V Server 2016 from ISO instead of wasting the license.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-hyper-v-server-2016

Once Hyper-V is installed on all 3 hosts, either run Veeam B&R by itself on a server or run it in conjunction with another server that isn't being fully utilized.

Also, why aren't you clustering your hosts together and load balancing your VMs across all 3 hosts? Can they not see the same storage or something?

I've been hearing about Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) for such things as this. Kind of has that "Producer in the back room calling the shots" feel. Able to be deployed on Windows, Mac, or Linux and is ready to interface with YouTube, Twitch, and such.

https://obsproject.com/

I restored from backups and got the machine back to running.

I have a Fedora 29 VM on my laptop via Hyper-V. Yesterday, booted just fine and shut it down before I left. Today, attempt to boot VM and its stuck here in the boot process.

Anybody got any ideas?

@Dashrender For things like keyboards or mice, I will install the drivers to see if I can unlock more helpful features. Otherwise, just the Windows defaults, unless there is a specific reason to use a specific driver.

@dyasny said in Fedora 29 not ready for my laptop:

I upgrade my Fedora after 2-3 months from the official release. By then everything is smooth and if I go the extra purist mile and reinstall only keeping $HOME, I can use an already updated Fedy for the more common initial setup stuff

But by then, you are already half way through the development cycle of the next iteration. I could see maybe 1 to 2 months, but to me 3 is an eternity.

How often to you upgrade versus fresh install? Fresh install every other release? Any kind of best practice on this?

@JaredBusch Well that was quick.