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I have done a 60 camera system at a huge hog farm with Ubiquiti. It is always the IOPS. I just broke mine up between 3 servers. Not the prettiest thing to do but that is what I had to do. Ran each with four 2TB drives in a RAID 10

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@penguinwrangler said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

DAMNIT - have a damned head cold.

Might try these homeopathic remedies.
http://www.uofmhealth.org/health-library/hn-2213002

Is one of them a bit of irish in your coffee?

I don't think you can go wrong with that.

At a huge hog farm that I service. I used the Ubiquiti ToughSwitches. They stand up to the heat and the cold with no issues. I have them in hermetically sealed boxes. No air or water can get in, just the nature of the business, with all the ammonia from the poo and urine if left out the switches would corrode, and then they bring in water pressure jets to clean out the pig areas on a regular basis. I haven't had any fail in the three years they have been in.

@quixoticjeremy said in I can't even:

Lived with my parents until I went off to college at 17, didn't live with them again after that.

I hope that is how it goes for you too. I had to move back in with my parents after my divorce, made $27,000 a year as a Sergeant for the Missouri Department of Corrections. Paid almost $10,000 a year in Child Support. $27,000 was gross too not net. That is what prompted me to get my 2-year degree and get into IT. Which I could not have done without my parents' help.

What would you all recommend for a basic intranet? I am not a coder, haven't done it in, well let's just say I can say decades. Not against learning anything. All I really need is a way to organize information, the intranet now is a basic html page with some simple php. It basically just presents information and links to various sites that we need access to. We need a little more functionality. We need some places were our users can upload files, like the HR people being able to upload new HR documents for the office etc. We then also need a page for some of our users to list contacts. I work in the public sector so this isn't like sales, we just need to list contacts at hospitals/agencies/ etc that we steer people to. I would like for that to be searchable. I am looking at Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal, possible Sharepoint. Any suggestions would be helpful. I really need something that once setup will pretty much be hands off for me.

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@penguinwrangler said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Spent most of the nights this week trying to get rusted or galled bolts out of the truck front end. Trying to replace the hubs and struts as the ones that are there are shot. Resorting to heat as nothing else seems to work.

I usually just pay someone to do that. Could I do it? Yes. Do I want to....HELL NO.

Mechanics aren't cheap up here. We'd be looking at 90-120$ per hour depending on where we go. Plus, as a benefit, my father restores old Volkswagens, so he has all the tools we need to get this thing in running order.

I have helped enough mechanics out with their computers/surveillance for their shops that they don't charge me much, as I give them a cut rate as well.

@scottalanmiller said in Limiting Bandwidth (Help me name this thread):

@rojoloco said in Limiting Bandwidth (Help me name this thread):

@wirestyle22 said in Limiting Bandwidth (Help me name this thread):

@dashrender said in Limiting Bandwidth (Help me name this thread):

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@rojoloco said in Limiting Bandwidth (Help me name this thread):

I don't understand why "HEY USERS, STOP WATCHING YOUTUBE ALL DAY!!!!" isn't the obvious solution here. Your coworker wants to use tech to solve a people issue. No video streaming = no more bandwidth issues.

I'm using youtube as an example, I have no idea what they are watching or on what platform. I just know it's not hosted by them and they access it over the WAN

His point was - when people complain (or logging servers send alerts about issues) you look at who and what is happening and tell those people to knock it off.

I have been told it's for business purposes. It's a foster care non-profit so i have no idea how or why, but let's assume they are right for now

Ouch. But since they are a non-profit, tell them to have fun calling up their ISP to ask for more bandwidth pro bono.

They are paying you to work there, right? Don't fall for their "can I get that for free" BS.

What would be better is getting a second line just for the voice.

Voice takes so little that it doesn't cost that much usually. I would go this route.

Waiting for the joust to begin at the St. Louis RenFair

A friend of mine has an Asustor device running at his house. He has been happy with it. That is all I know about them.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Traffic is really heavy today. Posting is normal-ish. But site traffic is super high. Like 30% over a normal busy day. And solid, been going since yesterday. I wonder why.

I would like to say it is because I am wrapping up at this job and starting my new job next week, so my motivation to work hard is waning and I am posting more on ML, and reading more, but I don't think I could account for that much of traffic increase....

@dbeato said in Disk imaging tools:

@thwr said in Disk imaging tools:

Want to move a fair amount of desktops from HDDs to SSDs, everything Windows.

Please note: I can't reinstall the hosts at this point because there is no software deployment or base image available and I don't have the time to build something myself at the moment. We use a lot of very specific scientific and engineering tools, which are not covered by any out of the box solution.

What's everyone's favorite disk imaging / cloning tool? A plus would be a tool which is able to image to a smaller sized partition (e.g. 1TB disk that only uses 150GB, imaged to a 250GB SSD.

I have been using Clonezilla for years but when it comes to big to smaller Drives I have been using Veeam Agent to backup fully the machine and restore to a new hard drive.

Veeam is the way to go. Especially if go from bigger drives to smaller.

Steps I do to ensure a successful image to a smaller drive.
1.) Disable virtual memory, the page file is often towards the end of the hard drive and is not movable.
2.) Reboot computer go into disk management in Windows and right click on drive and shrink it as much as possible.
3.) Use Veeam to image the computer.
4.) Insert SSD and boot from Veeam CD/USB and restore

@irj said in Stress Relievers:

I love fishing. In fact, when I fish I use as little technology as possible. No fish finder, gps, or even a motor. I just like to get out and relax. Oh and alcohol and kayaking go hand in hand.

I have always thought Kayaking would be fun/cool to do. Any suggestions for someone that has never done it before?

@jaredbusch said in Disk imaging tools:

I use clonezilla for this.

I have no problems going to a smaller disk. Just have to use the right options.

That is true. If you know what options to use with Clonzilla it can shrink it as well.

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Closing on the house today, then taking time off to fix anything before moving.

If you own a home you are always fixing something.

Starting to work with Salt. I see plenty of guides on how to use it with Linux, and that is really what I am looking for primarily for my servers, but I also see you can use it with Windows machines. Any good guides out there showing how to do things on Windows in Salt. I have found a few through google but didn't know if anyone had any that I haven't found yet.

I installed a 60 camera Ubiquiti system at the largest hog farm of it's kind (whatever that means) in North America. I like the Ubiquiti cameras, are there better systems out there, yes. Those systems cost a LOT more than Ubiquiti. So you have to way the costs vs what you need the cameras to do. I don't think you will get around the wiring. Ubiquiti had Micro cameras that were wireless but you will still need power for them. Talk to the landlord, express your concerns and try to get them to have someone install a system.

Thanks guys!! I am loving salt. It looks amazing. Already have a salt master up in the cloud.

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Steam sale is still two days away, but the GOG.com Winter Sale is on and you get free games just for checking it out!

Okay now I really hate you. They have a new Star Control Game coming out. Star Control II is my all time favorite game.

I suggest Ubiquiti and metal conduit to put the cables in. Put all devices except the APs in a sealed box.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

I am assuming you guys are talking about hiding the fact that a company billed somebody for coming to an interview?

No, they didn't. They billed someone for lying about their experience and attending a meeting in bad faith.

I really need to go back to grade school and learn reading comprehension again. I dunno how I missed that, lol.

It's implied. They state that he didn't have the experience that he had claimed. They billed him for wasting their time by not being the candidate that he claimed to be. They don't state bad faith, they explain it. The legal term there is bad faith and overrides all other contractual stipluations. It implies you entered into a deal with the intent to cheat.

Bad faith applies anywhere. Any kind of contract. It's the overriding legal construct that makes contracts work.

St. Louis is suing the NFL over bad faith in the negotiations to keep the Rams in St. Louis. St. Louis spent a lot of money trying to keep the Rams when there is evidence that the decision was made to move them to LA before the negotiations started.