http://superuser.com/questions/213005/how-to-mount-an-ntfs-partition-read-only-in-windows

@Jason said in Can't cancel auto renew on godaddy domain:

It tells me the domain is protected. There's no option in the panel to unprotect it. Domain is already unlocked.

In case you want to transfer it, auto-renewal shouldn't matter. In case of upcoming deletion, why unlocked?

Was looking for a way to open the case of a DLink 615 WLAN AP (just had one spare). Luckily I found this guy who had the required special tool.

Youtube Video

• https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Full/Installation/en
• https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/FAQ#How_do_I_install_Gentoo_using_a_stage1_or_stage2_tarball.3F
• http://mangolassi.it/tags/sam linux administration

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Not to mention that Java was a VM implementation and was on x86 and significantly predated VMware. People were very used to VMs on x86 by the time that VMware started up because of that alone.

True, but most of them just didn't know.

I'm a bit too young to have real experience with the old systems, but I had at least my hands on a IBM VMS and a HP3000/947. Always fun to see ppl thinking x86 was the beginning of everything.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Simplivity seems a bit confused about where VMs come from and what hyperconvergence is...

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1642249-what-if-vmware-and-vms-never-existed

It seems that they think that somehow VMware invented virtualization or something!

Don't tell any mainframe guy

@MattSpeller hehe. Had that one spare, the previous owner of the building just left them behind. Good enough for student lectures.

Let me introduce all of you to my newest... well... erm... Frankenswitch, say hello to ML:

ML, this is Frankenswitch v2. RabbitMQ broker (AMQP server), WLAN AP and switch in a single body

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Hopefully we just saved this guy's clients many thousands of dollars. The original plan was to sell them so much unnecessary gear, it was crazy.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1640331-need-help-with-server-build-for-client

Always the same. HV and XS both are not considered an option at all. At least in SMB / non-profit.

Nothing new, but it's scary to see vendors are not learning. First thing for every machine under my control is to deploy a clean OS image / fresh install.

Probably they just don't want to learn, it's an additional source of income (and maybe an even better one than the hardware itself). Same with Java JRE for example, bloatware included in the installer and you have to explicitly disable it.

@JaredBusch said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@thwr said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

I should have said "to master" and not "to learn" earlier. Learning the basics of a language seems to be quite easy in most cases. Mastering on the other hand is a whole different story.

Few things compare to English, then. The rules are complex and deep and the vocabulary is enormous.

Every ESL speaker I know tells me that English is stupid damned hard as a second language

It is. I do speak German, English, French, a little Spanish and a very little Dutch and Danish. People tend to say English is easy, but it isn't. Weird sentence structure, weird time forms (-> didn't take vs. didn't took for example).

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@thwr said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

I should have said "to master" and not "to learn" earlier. Learning the basics of a language seems to be quite easy in most cases. Mastering on the other hand is a whole different story.

Few things compare to English, then. The rules are complex and deep and the vocabulary is enormous.

And that was my point about the German language. It's easy enough to learn the (very) basics, but we got language constructs the English language doesn't have, like the accusative case.

@aaronstuder said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Going home to label every breaker in my new apartment. I hear that's what the cool kids do

Probably the "cool" kids are just cool because they don't burn down their homes?

I should have said "to master" and not "to learn" earlier. Learning the basics of a language seems to be quite easy in most cases. Mastering on the other hand is a whole different story.

@wirestyle22 said in SAN Lun Sizes:

@scottalanmiller said in SAN Lun Sizes:

LUNs share disks, but each have their own queue.

Similar to pooling? zpools etc

Uhh, wait, zpools are a completely different beast. zvol's are iSCSI targets. zpool is your array of spindles and flash drivers.

@scottalanmiller Agree

@scottalanmiller Uhm, in this case, I will tell all our foreign students that it is quite easy from now on It's easier to learn for an Englisch speaking person, true. That's because both languages are so-called Germanic languages. But for others, this is quite hard and way harder than to learn English. Just for example my trainee is from Macedonia. He's trying hard, really, but...

@Jason said in SOB, my TV died, and the new one isn't here yet.:

@MattSpeller said in SOB, my TV died, and the new one isn't here yet.:

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Matt smashes TV into little bitty pieces and scatters them across the planet

I guess I don't watch much tv.. at all haha.

I have a TV but if I use it it's usually for YouTube or PBS (yes, they have come decent programing).

TV? That thing where my Chromecast and Kodi-Pi are attached to?

@MattSpeller BTW, that's called "Zusammengesetzte Hauptwörter". Example: Office chair (Office=Büro, Chair=Stuhl) -> Bürostuhl. But as with everything, there are exceptions. Blackhole is "schwarzes Loch" here.