After over 6 straight years of actual larger-Enterprise (heavy Windows/Linux infrastructure) experience and 3 intense years of practice and self-study, I finally made MCSE: Server Infrastructure (2012 R2).
http://www.mycertprofile.com/Profile/1943383021
My real (relevant) experience hadn't started in a business environment until closer to 2004, but it has been a goal of mine since then.
It just feels good to have finally reached that goal in a good way.
Happy holidays all!
Jupiter
Christmas night, 2022-12-25.
Alt: 38°
Less than ideal seeing conditions and lots of light pollution, but was still able to bring out some detail!
Jupiter was 456,134,146 miles from earth when I took the photo. It took almost 41 minutes for light to travel from Jupiter to my camera. Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun, has 80 moons, and is large enough to fit about 1,300 Earths inside.
Setup:
5" SCT + 2x Barlow, ASI224MC @ ~2500mm f/20
iOptron mount, tracking: mount-only
FireCapture, shutter 13ms / gain 221 / histogram ~64%
20% best of 4k light frames
AS!3 + RegiStax6
My wife is becoming a U.S. citizen today. As well as everyone else on the bottom floor. People still coming in.
Some entertainment on the stage while everyone waits for the Oath Ceremony to begin.
Mars
Christmas night, 2022-12-25.
Alt: 71°
A better image capture of Mars than last time. It was higher up in the sky, so a little less atmospheric disturbance. I also tried some processing to bring out any detail.
Mars was 56,563,608 miles from Earth when I took the photo. That's about 5 minutes for light to travel from Mars to my camera.
Setup:
5" SCT + 2x Barlow, ASI224MC @ ~2500mm f/20
iOptron mount, tracking: mount-only
FireCapture, shutter 5ms / gain 183 / histogram ~37% (I have more to captures from that night to process that may be better than this, I'm still experimenting)
20% best of 10k light frames
AS!3 + RegiStax6
I posted a guide on my blog about setting up a Fedora 26 KVM / QEMU hypervisor that uses the Kimchi-project for remote virtualization management, which includes a working web-based VM console.
Here's the link: https://www.timothygruber.com/linux/fedora-26-kvm-html5-remote-access-with-web-console-via-kimchi-part-1/
I hope it helps anyone who needs it as much as it would have helped me had I came across it a long time ago.
It's easy to create on my blog because I can copy/paste images into the editor... it's like working inside of MS Word.
I was thinking of recreating it on here for ML, but not sure if it's worth it or not, as well as the chance of hurting SEO.
Should I take the time to do it and just change the wording a bit?
@dustinb3403 said in Recommendations for Cameras:
He wants something "more serious looking" what does that even mean?
I have had great experience with these:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I know y'all are concerned... Snapchat just went down.
Nope, the whole Snapchat company could disband and I'd never even know it (until you post about it).
I got tired of seeing links here and there saying to do this and that, firewall rules open/closed here and there, add account there, etc., etc... all to no avail and only making things worse and opening security holes.
So I decided to post the working procedure that I use (nicely cleaned up, you're welcome), with the info coming straight from the MS Docs site (linked in references)... From there, I converted everything to be done via PowerShell to make everyone's life better.
You'll notice there really isn't that much you have to do to the host, and the stuff you need to do to the management PC is minimal, but a lot of what you see around the net isn't in there. Why? Because it doesn't need to be.
@xavierdelaraunt said in User profile migration to new Windows 11 PCs:
Also, even the latest Windows 11 USMT from the ADK does not include favorites etc from any of the latest browsers. Not even Edge.
They aren't using the web browsers sync for all that? All web browser stuff should be synced. I wouldn't be able to function without it, using so many different OSs across many different devices. Favorites / bookmarks / etc shouldn't even need to be considered in migrations these days.
They don't even need to manually sign in to the browser for the sync to work depending on your config.
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Weekend of coding here. How is everyone?
My 3rd child was born a couple of weeks ago!
Been busy all around.
@Obsolesce said in What Are You Watching Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:
I agree with 99.999% of this... What I don't believe is the big bang theory... or at least not in the same way that has become popularized.
I believe that our universe is the result (the inside of) of a black hole forming in the universe that the black hole formed in.
The creation of the black hole, the formation and beginning of our universe, is what the "big bang" is.
Finally much smarter people than I are figuring it out:
@travisdh1 o3 is for the best advanced reasoning.
I've had a regular tp-link wifi6 router for the past 4 years and has worked well for the family. 25+ devices online and never noticed any slowness.
Recently bought a Firewalla Gold Plus to put between the internet gateway and the wifi router. Wish I had gotten that years ago. One of the best purchases I made in a long time tbh. I have the wifi router in AP mode now so the firewalla does the routing and everything else instead, wifi seems faster now that it's not doing as much anymore.
@DustinB3403 Oh is it the boot/os drive of a VM?
@DustinB3403 does it have a TPM2 chip?
Anki and pre-made anki decks are a great method of learning. Making your own anki decks is a great way to learn.
@MrWright4hire said in The Most Effective Meetings:
Isn't it funny how we may disagree about being there for someone until we're the someone that needs the help
Is calling a meeting to take the time of several people or more really the most effective use of resources if one needs help with something? I can't agree to that.
