While at Ignite Dell had their new R7415 AMD EPYC single socket based 2U there. There's also a 1U version in the R6415.
Because of the extra PCIe lanes available in the EPYC CPU setup along with the extra memory channels one can get close to dual-processor performance out of a single CPU setup. So, go 16 Core EPYC single socket, load up the needed memory and storage, and off you go.
I suggest having a boo at this setup. We are ...
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There's something special about walking about barefoot on a warm floor when it's -35C outside.
Our 60 yo old house is half on slab and half on crawl. Over the years, we've (wife and I) have added hot water re-circulation as well as heated floors, garage, sidewalks, and driveway. Not sure if I could live any other way now
Our main client in the region built a house that we helped to set up for automation.
They put in a heated driveway. No shoveling.
After one hard winter I wanted to break up the floor in the then house and set it up for heating and the drive as well. Most of the work would have been done by me so cost would be materials and time plus a certified plumber to plug in the natural gas and stamp everything.
It didn't pass the CFO business case test.
Main reason: Shoveling keeps me arse slim in the winter ... back then.
Now:
Keep in mind that I hand bombed that SoB our first winter in. We ended up not having as much cash on hand as planned so couldn't buy the JD we had our eye on.A quad/plow was initially out of the question because my wife was leery due to young kids at the time.
45cm snow, third one of the late Spring, neighbour came over and finished plowing the last half I'd reached after about 4 hours of shoveling. He did it in ten minutes. After he was done I went in the house and said, "Eff it, we're getting a quad and a plow." Business case made.
My brother just bought a place with 150+ ft of driveway... he's getting a quad this summer, mowing deck and snow blade too.
I picked up a Honda Rincon in Athabasca for $5K. It is a low miles/hours US model. The plow is a Moose 60" with steel cutter.
I blew the winch in the first year so replaced that with a new Warn. I had to replace the solenoid last week so about 4 years of work plus intense country riding through a lot of ponds. 
The 680cc broke what I think was the exhaust advanced timing ring on the cam so I head to tear it top down to the block to swap out the bad cam and put it all back together again. It's been flawless since.
A real back saver.
I'm impressed with their forthright business practices and openness with their platform right down to the DWGs.
I'm glad they've been publishing their stats. IIRC, they got a bit of grief from drive manufacturers when they started to publish their experiences?
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Is there any good reason to have a reverse mortgage? The only situation I can think of where it sort of makes sense is from a survival standpoint. I'm sure some older people have lost their spouse and may not be able to make payments and still afford to live. It looks really predatory on paper. I'm curious if I am missing something here
A reverse mortgage allows you to access the equity of your home, without having to move. It's usually marketed to older people who aren't working, but need money (and some place to live). Because selling your house for the cash and not having anywhere to live doesn't really work.
This is why retirement communities exist though. You sell your house and move into a much less expensive house.
It's very traumatizing for folks to move after being in the same home for so long. They raised their kids there, they broke bread together there, they had their highs and lows there, and so on.
Change is hard. It's even harder at that age.
@jmoore said in Handling DNS in a Single Active Directory Domain Controller Environment:
@scottalanmiller My printers all have static IP's as well. I manage that and keep track of all printers/IP's. We have around 200 users
We use DHCP Reservations for all printers being managed. If a printer gets moved from one site to another we don't have to muck about with it prior to the move or afterwards. All printers get deployed using a dedicated GPO linked to the Site/OU the printer will reside in.
@JaredBusch said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Winnipeg, Manitoba is well known for -30C for weeks at a time. When folks are cooped up for weeks at a time we would see a baby boom nine months later. Guaranteed.
@hobbit666 MLAG the switches don't stack them. If stacked and coordinator goes offline the stack is done.
EDIT: Ubiquiti okay for SOHO/ROBO but not core and HA. BTDT not happy.
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Super close now. Only a few more inspections and we're done
Wow, it looks really good!
@scottalanmiller said in HA With switches:
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@scottalanmiller said in HA With switches:
The maker of Linksys (traditionally?) Cisco
Dude, Cisco sold off Linksys in 2013. Pay attention.
Cisco bought them in 2003.As a brand, but they kept a lot of the products in their routing, switching, and VoIP lines. They sold the name, but they kept the products. So old Linksys is now Cisco proper.
The Cisco Small Business Pro series edge (NSA 510/520 series with and without WiFi) and their SG300/SG500 series switches were the result of the Linksys purchase engineering combination.
We've deployed a lot of the SG500x series stackable switches with a few weird behaviours depending on how they are set up. Many of them fronted the disaggregate clusters mentioned above.
@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Some of the most fascinating fire brigade ice sculptures happen at -30C and colder.
The snow reminded me of the many I've seen over the years growing up in Winterpeg, ManItsColdOut (Winnipeg, Manitoba) where we'd get -35C to -45C every winter sometimes for weeks on end.
Are these Active Directory based domain controllers with AD integrated DNS set up?
Then DNS0 on all DCs should point to itself only. By default no other DNS server IP entry should be set on the NIC other than 127.0.0.1. Ever.
AD integrated DNS takes care of replicating changes and IDs among the DCs in a given forest/domain.
Never, ever, put a public DNS server anywhere but in the Forwarders location on an AD integrated DNS server.
DHCP should be handing out DNS entries for the AD DC DNS servers local to them or a tertiary if need-be for redundancy.
It sounds like whomever set things up had no idea how DNS works. 
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Bing put this image up today, from Greece, and I am confused as to how the rocks are so squared. Did people do that? Is it natural?
Shale = ~100% carbon.
Yes, it breaks that way due the way the carbon molecules bind to each other in a square grid.
@Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:
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@wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:
@Dashrender said in DNS Update Issue:
@wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:
Simple case of me never doing this wrong I guess. What a weird thing to screw up. Didn't really have time to sift through it all.
What do you normally use for your top level domain on an AD build?
ad.domain.com theoretically. Everything I've ever touched is already in place. Although i'd love to rebuild my families infrastructure from the ground up.
If it looks like this, then it owns domain.com
Oh man, what a mess.
Meh, not bad actually. Perfect? No. But small enough to not be a problem really.
Definitely not what I would do now if I set it up new.
This is just a throw back to the new days of AD. MS suggested just this - then after a while they suggested domain.local for the internal domain, and now they recommend ad.domain.com for the internal domain.
Being a part of the SBS crew from the BackOffice 4.0 and 4.5 (NT) days, the .Local phenomena started around the discussion of Internet domain registration and keeping the internal and internet domains separate. That was prior to SBS 2003 that was the first product to deploy out of the box with .Local.
Some had to do with the confusion around registering the internet domain that was to be used internally. We used to encounter companies with Domain.Com that did not own the internet domain. It was painful to say the least.
AD was still relatively new so no one really new what to do about internal and external DNS though SBS 2003 did split the DNS for Remote.Domain.Com.
Besides wizards, which were primarily in the SBS realm, splitting the DNS became the norm and eventually the recommendation came about for Corp.Domain.Com with the caveat that the internet domain should be owned.
So, here we are. Most companies own their internet domains so it's a no-brainer to split the DNS for their setups.
@JaredBusch said in DNS Update Issue:
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@wirestyle22 said in DNS Update Issue:
So thought experiment:
If DC1 and DC2 have 127.0.0.1 as their only DNS entry and their forwarders are only set to each other, how does that resolve? Can the DC's tell the difference between a forwarding request and a normal DNS request? Otherwise wouldn't this time out?
The problem here, is if you are on DC1 and DC1's DNS fails, then the loopback lookup will have nowhere to go. And everything will fail, even though you have redundant services on your network.
If you had DC2 as the secondary DNS entry, things would have kept working.
Right but I'm just asking to understand whether or not the DNS servers understand the difference between a normal dns query and a forwarding dns query. Would this ever end due to a rule that wasn't a timeout?
I can't imagine it would see a difference. I think the delayed response would be the only timeout happening. Though, in an implementation that doesn't think about a cyclical query, I could see the resources being used until the server crashed... they would keep going forward, even though the past queries themselves would time out. Though, since you had this setup, and you didn't have crashing servers (did you?) that seems like an unlikely problem.
You are correct, because the DNS forwarding functions is simply a DNS lookup to the IP of the DNS forwarder instead of the local DNS. It does not use the NIC DNS settings at all. Also, this can only occur is the DNS server itself is working as the DNS server itself is what makes the damned forwarder lookup. So in the case of DNS server not working, this would never apply.
I do not understand why this is so damned hard for everyone to understand.
DNS Forwarding is:
The alternate at step 4 would be to go through the process of finding SOA (Start of Authority) via the Root Hints server. But, that process takes a lot "longer".
The above is as close as I can remember to the process.
@WrCombs said in Huge Mistake:
So let me start this off by saying if I hadn't listened to my boss first thing this morning, this mistake wouldn't have happened. but god forbid he say he was wrong.
Edit I took ownership of the fact that I had Moved to fast and didn't verify what I was doing, before formatting the drive- The plan changed and I made the mistake, trying to resolve the issue.
Okay: so, Went and picked up a PC from a customer: the plan as it was said to me was
- Pick up PC
*Bring back to office, put 2 new HDD's in and pull over the information after we image it.
*take it back and install it at the site again.
So, what actually happened?
Brought the PC back, boss told me to stop, he has an idea.
Reformat one of the Hard drives we have here, on that PC and then have the FakeRAID we use rebuild the information, then test the PC to run a terminal and verify it works properly.So I added the other drive to the PC. Little did I know (nor did I check) the Optical drive was set to boot first (which is where I added this Drive to the PC ). It came up as
C:and the PC I wanted to load asC:loaded asD:so when I opened cmd and typed in
format d:and pressed enter, I wiped all of the customer data from the Drives..it wasnt until I noticed a program we don't use on aloha PC's was when I realized what I had done.
My Tuesday Fuck up in a nutshell. -- Let's all take a moment to give me shit for this colossal screw up.
we already downloaded a Software to Recover lost partitions and I have that running right now .
GetDATABack by www.runtime.org has saved me from many a pickle both self-induced and otherwise.
@DustinB3403 said in Azure OS is ... Windows Server Core 2016 running Hyper-V:
@manxam said in Azure OS is ... Windows Server Core 2016 running Hyper-V:
@DustinB3403 : I assume you work for Microsoft support?
I guess I should go forth and apply. . .
LoL
Their, they're, and there!
On-premises not on-premise
Affect and effect
Bare or bear
Being dyslexic has its privileges. ;0)
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I find that the ad hominem attacks speak more to the proponents of wearing a mask than those that refuse to wear one.
EDIT: Using shame to elicit a particular response is what? Effective
#FAIL
Having spent 3-4 years studying psychology before getting into IT this is just dumb.
Gram used to say: You get further with honey than vinegar.
Put-downs have never been a way to get anything.
