Better than mozz sticks, for sure.

@kelly said in The Basics of VoIP SAMIT Video:

Just so you know, my new curse when dealing with computers is going to be samit!

The "I can't even" thread should be the "SAMIT" thread.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

What are the new toys?

The biggest one is Windows 10 / 2016 support. Also new guest agent features. But latest Windows support is the biggest deal and what I've been pushing for. Windows 10 requires CPU features that were not available before and needed a lot of testing.

Nice, that's a really big deal. I can't believe that they didn't have that already.

@scottalanmiller said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:

@storageninja said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:

@scottalanmiller said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:

Hey look, as soon as we say AD is easy, someone posts on SW that they screwed up their little AD install, again. We get these like once a week, maybe every two weeks. For SMBs, even what should be a trivially easy single server AD install is regularly a major problem. Just picking a domain name is beyond the common skill level. People don't get tripped up by advanced AD techniques, they are regularly stumped by just the most basic install process.

If you can't figure out that you should use a domain you own, you shouldn't be setting up a cloud SSO deployment either...

Agreed. Wouldn't suggest that either.

KISS. If you don't need complexity, don't introduce it.

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Migrating files from one old file server to a new 2016 file server. Working on permissions while I'm at it.

Better than working without permission!

"Better to ask for forgiveness than permission"

I find the opposite to be true. If you don't get permissions, you don't have to do it at all.

@dave247 said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:

@reid-cooper said in What are some good true-hardware RAID cards for home server setup?:

If for home, I assume that the goal is learning ESXi itself? Otherwise, just use a different hypervisor. KVM seems to be the hypervisor of prominence today.

Well, I use ESXi/vSphere at work. I wanted to try out the free version of ESXi at home for S&G, but I may also experiment with other Hypervisors, depending on what will work with my system. I would like to check out KVM.

I would skip ESXi Free, it has so little value even for education. If you use ESXi at work, you already have the exposure to the real thing. The crippled free version is worthless.

Good morning peoples of the Internet. Hopped in early as I heard some storage guys were around to talk to us. Bring me a donut and let's do this!

@black3dynamite said in NBA GO on Fedora 26 and Ubuntu 17.10:

@dustinb3403 said in NBA GO on Fedora 26 and Ubuntu 17.10:

So this only shows the stats of the players and games, right?

Is that really enjoyable? I'm not a big sports fan so meh

Information like this is very popular for those into fantasy sports.

Fantasy sports... all the boring of real sports with the benefits of it being real.

Watching the AMA with great interest. Lots of good information.

At least it is moving a little.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just hit start on the Starwind Linux VSA I imported into XenServer

Good timing.

@bigbear said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:

@scottalanmiller said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:

Good point, is there a reason that you don't just grow the storage?

Not possible with Vultr instance, right? Have to expand while virtual machine?

With Vultr, you can add block storage on a per GB bases as needed. So yes, you can do it with Vultr without expanding the VM itself.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I haven't managed to get my KVM image downloaded yet.

Fail

In Soviet Russia, KDE MATEs with YOU!

Or something like that.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Alexa: Order me an Uber to the nearest bar.

My nearest bar has a shooting every two weeks.

Alexa: Order me a new bullet proof vest.

It's important to prioritize properly.

@stuartjordan said in Exchange Shell command not working:

@scottalanmiller - it-is-the-insanely-long-commands-that-get-me
Even though they do have tab completion.

And the weird format. Why did they have to make it all so weird?

Whoa. Welcome weekend newbies.

That server is likely to draw a lot of power. A NAS for $300 is often a super low power ARM or SPARC processor. Maybe MIPS. That server is likely Intel and going to use 10-100x the power of the NAS. Plus the size and the noise.

Very cool stuff. So much exciting spaceflight going on now, it has been so long without it.

@lakshmana said in Centos 7.3 Installed:

@reid-cooper how can i find the battery package name?

I don't know, perhaps knowing what hardware you are using would give us a lead?