Special purpose tech. Nice to know, but IMHO no in-depth knowledge required until you want to become a [gluster/whatever] expert because it will be your next job.
Gluster and other clustered file systems become important once you start playing with Kubernetes / Rancher etc and non-volatile containers. Complex topic.
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Started an rsync. Seems to be running well so far, only 132G of data for the initial sync. If everything goes right I'll daemonize it tomorrow.
rsync is very robust. When something fails, it's most probably a PEBCAK error
I'm good at creating those!
Power problems are what concern me the most as one of the systems does not have a UPS.
But that's exactly one of rsync's core features. Just start the job again and will sync the missing bits.
@WrCombs said in Finding product Key:
He said he's trying to update from 16(?) to 1903 - using Media Creation Tool.. I have a USB with Windows 10 on it.. but he cant get past this step..
If Windows was activated before, such an update would read the key (or some kind of a hash / token) from UEFI.
... tried another RPC library today. Saw all kinds of weird errors and exceptions at the client side, checked my code and their docs over and over again.
Took me 2 hours to figure out that the library can't handle short (int16 / 2 bytes) when it deserializes the data on the client. Worked immediately when I switched from short to int (int32 / 4 bytes).
@WrCombs said in Finding product Key:
@thwr said in Finding product Key:
@WrCombs said in Finding product Key:
@thwr said in Finding product Key:
@WrCombs said in Finding product Key:
He said he's trying to update from 16(?) to 1903 - using Media Creation Tool.. I have a USB with Windows 10 on it.. but he cant get past this step..
If Windows was activated before, such an update would read the key (or some kind of a hash / token) from UEFI.
that's what I thought, but it's licensed.. There's a product key in the System settings.
he just can't use that one., AFAIK.
What does this mean?
As far as I know
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
... tried another RPC library today. Saw all kinds of weird errors and exceptions at the client side, checked my code and their docs over and over again.
Took me 2 hours to figure out that the library can't handle short (int16 / 2 bytes) when it deserializes the data on the client. Worked immediately when I switched from short to int (int32 / 4 bytes).
Knowing what you spend your days programming, that has to be a painful waste of memory!
Doesn't really matter in this case, but I really don't like to waste memory. Probably due to my embedded background.
or just run mmc.exe and add (CTRL+M) the disk management snap-in
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
...and I just had a great conversation with the boss about virtualization and why we should be using it. I think I will have some hefty hardware to virtualize our whole infrastructure (development testing environments included) by the end of the year. Today is a truly great Friday... the weather is awesome today, I'm going home in a half hour, and I finally got a partial green light for making VMs.
Archived diary from 2005? 
Modern laptop batteries are anything but dumb devices. Most of them got an SMBus interface, a bus derived from (and very similar to) IĀ²C.
My guess is that either the firmware on this specific battery is bad, your host driver doesn't like the battery or you just had some dirty contacts and the host just couldn't talk to the battery.
@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
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@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
SG-1 + Coffee = Win
http://i.imgur.com/D1W2t13.mp4awesome. Was that the time looping episode?
Not sure. It does look like it.
Admittedly, it's been far about 6 years since Mrs nadnerB and I binged SG-1, Atlantis and the movies.
Wife + eBay =
Not that we watched them all at least 2-3 times...
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Binge watched a lot of Luke Cage over the weekend. I like it a lot. The villains are much more believable and less inherently evil then Fisk or Kilgrave, there are some exceptions but you expect that from Marvel. The acting is about what you'd expect from a Marvel TV show... on par with Daredevil and Jessica Jones and much better then Agents of Shield. I'm enjoying the nods to the other series and movies, as well as reference to the original source material without staying true to it.
Dito. Episode 8 right now.
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Yep, I last watched Episode 8. I like this better then I did Jessica Jones it is much less dark and gritty, which are two aspects I loved about Jessica Jones, it also isn't afraid of having a sense of humor like DareDevil or Jessica Jones seemed to.
Exactly. And not so much rendering as in other Marvel-themed stuff. Have you ever tried to follow the action scenes in Iron Man 3? ...
Fought with ASP.Net ASHX, JSON, jQuery AJAX and the jQuery DataTables plugin all day long. It's working now, but hell, how much I hate all this frontend and client side stuff.
@Kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
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@Kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I just realized that I've had the theme song for Strawberry Shortcake rattling around in my head for the last few hours... The unmentioned benefits of having young children...
Not to mention your Avatar is a Sesame Street character.
Not to be too pedantic, but the Muppets != Sesame Street
Was just typing the same 
@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@thwr said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
The one and only bootstrap template:
http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/My eyes! My eyes! I need some help from those magic iPhones after seeing that
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Really excited to be on vacation in a few hours! Bought myself a half ton pickup and I'm going to put my boat on the roof and head up to my parents. Enjoy some thanksgiving dinner with them, then out to the middle of nowhere to camp and fish and hike.
Pssh silly Canadians with their October thanksgiving.
Yeah, silly new world with their thanksgiving...
@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@thwr said in Non-IT News Thread:
Crazy world...
I wonder who forgot their duffel bag and had it blown up?
Uhm? That was about some stupid dumbass who had a "few hundred gramms" of high explosive material in his apartment. And he didn't plan to build fireworks from it.
@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@thwr said in Non-IT News Thread:
Crazy world...
I wonder who forgot their duffel bag and had it blown up?
Sorry, missed that with the bag at the train station.
@art_of_shred said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
My neighbors smoke detector seems to have a malfunction, keeps beeping every few minutes... Would really like to get some sleep, just past midnight here.
We have sound pollution laws in much of the US to protect against that. If you can't sleep from that, we get to call the police.
It is not the house alarm he is referring to, it is the smoke detector random beeps of low batteries.
Probably
Apt walls must be thin.
Germany: Bricks/concrete and insulation, generally 24cm to 30cm+ thick here
If it is an apartment, call maintenance and have them go replace the batteries for your neighboor.
It's on the other side of the street, not the same house.
Open windows??
Logic? At 0:42 AM on a Sunday?