@momurda said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just got done driving my boss's 911 Turbo back to his house as he left it in the parking lot before he flew to Florida.
Still smiling.

Nice

Checking in again.

@DustinB3403 said in Australian CensusFail After IBM Forgets to Test a Reboot:

@StrongBad said in Australian CensusFail After IBM Forgets to Test a Reboot:

According to the news, they are going to be in what looks like pretty big trouble for failing to meet the terms of the contract.

I don't really see how IBM is at fault for it, unless they were managing the entire process. In which case, why didn't they just power cycle the stupid thing. .

They didn't spell it out in the article but the combination of things was: IBM contracted to build and deliver system, IBM questioned as to failure and admitted not having tested router, IBM looking to have to repay some of the money for failing to meet objectives.

Seems pretty likely that IBM was responsible for the full system and failed to adequately test it.

I'm not an expert on PostgreSQL but I need to do some trouble shooting with an instance of it and am stuck as to how to proceed. What I am trying to do is to take one existing database instance and create a clone of it that is empty that I can then do testing with. I want to avoid altering the original database for obvious reasons.

Here is what I have currently:

postgres=# \l
        List of databases
    Name    |  Owner   | Encoding 
------------+----------+----------
 portal_old | phppg    | LATIN9
 portaltest | phppg    | LATIN9
 postgres   | postgres | LATIN9
 template0  | postgres | LATIN9
 template1  | postgres | LATIN9
(5 rows)

The database that needs to be copied is portaltest. Unfortunately there is not enough space on the server to make a full copy of the database itself (legacy problems) which adds additional complications.

So I cannot take a full pg_dump of the database. If I try to use the -n flag of pg_dump to only get the schema it tells me that no schema can be found.

I am unclear how to pull out the framework of the database to make a copy given the scenario.

@Jason said in No Longer Salaried.:

@dafyre said in No Longer Salaried.:

Apparently, nothing is changing for us here. I think we all got a little salary bump to simply not have to deal with it. I'm like $3 over the limit, lol.

They say even under the old requirements only software developers are suppose to be salaried not Network administrators based on this PDF: https://www.dol.gov/whd/overtime/fs17e_computer.pdf

We exceed the pay requirements by a long shot the new one is only $47k. legal just says Technically Network and systems administrators don't fall under that description. Software developers do and possibly desktop technicians.

That would be an odd decision since it doesn't regulate salaried versus hourly, only exempt versus non-exempt. So going hourly will cost them money unless the people are under the limit for exemption. The only advantage to the company happens if you are making more than the one upper exemption limit but below the other.

Whoo hoo, congrats!

Had to refresh to see it. Looks very nice.

Happy belated birthday to your daughter. And to @Joy

Compilers are nice with the feedback, but they cause you to spend so much time learning the compiler and dealing with overhead. I think for a first timer just learning that scripting is often easier and faster.

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

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

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

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

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

@StrongBad Haven't played Dungeon Siege yet.

Oh, it's a classic. But it's pretty basic - hack and slash with an RPG theme. All top down action.

Ah, I gotcha This one has a good story and is definitely an RPG. It can be first person, but I don't like not being able to see behind me, lol. My camera stays at mostly top down / 45 degree angle or something like that.

I think The Bard's Tale (the new one, not the original from the 1980s) is in a similar vein.

Normally, mobile games flat out suck. Bard's Tale is one of the very few exceptions (despite it's not a mobile-only game, but the remake was first released for Android AFAIK).

The remake predated Android significantly. It is from like 2003, I think. It was just re-released on Android after people remembered that it had been on PC.

Has anyone thought about or attempted this before? I know that Spiceworks cannot run on Linux, which would be pretty nice, but I want to be able to run multiple instances of it, but I know that it tends to conflict with itself. Is there maybe some way to put Spiceworks into a container, or something like a container, on Windows so that more than one can run on the same system?

Oh, 2004 on PS2, 2005 on PC, 2009 on Steam, 2011 on Android.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bard's_Tale_(2004_video_game)

Lots of VMs creates a licensing nightmare. Sure with a Datacenter license that would be no big deal, but I don't have that.

@Minion-Queen pretty nice!

xByte would be a great option, I bet that they would have a solution for you with this.

This is the new fireplace video.

http://vmturbo.com/vhm-earth-why-pay-for-monitoring

Stumbled on this today, it was shown in an ad on some article I was reading. Looks like it is free, they don't mention any way to buy anything. Probably a loss leader for another service or something. But looks interesting. Has anyone played with it?

Of course you had that at the ready.

SSDs will help, but even SSDs won't do 1TB in 90 minutes without some thoughtful design and planning.