@Pete-S What super special requirement is making the web browser live on the same machine as the server stack?

You should have no issue running a web browser from a machine without a "real" graphics adapter. I have a Fedora desktop running as a VM on my server that only has a 20 year old graphics card.

I've run graphics programs from computers that had no graphics adapter, where the main interface was a serial terminal. Ford's IDEAS and Pro-E 3d design software too, so I'm not talking the low end or easy stuff. Doesn't mean I recommend doing that tho!

@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 I did that a few months ago too... Luckily I ran a backup job minutes before. Was able to restore. I was so mad at myself. Lesson learned.

I always put in the full path when using rm -r, lesson learned the hard way.

@brianwinkelmann said in Suggestions to build a High-End Gaming PC:

I would like to ask you dear community to give me some suggestions for a High - End Gaming PC, you know, the best stuff of processor, motherboard, ram and the most important feature... the video card, I know that I can also google it, but I want to consider your valuable experience as IT community, also maybe different suggestions about building a PC, thank you so much.

How much are you wanting to spend?

Also, is putting the components together, installing the OS, drivers and games something you enjoy doing, and don't mind spending a lot of time doing?

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 I did that a few months ago too... Luckily I ran a backup job minutes before. Was able to restore. I was so mad at myself. Lesson learned.

I always put in the full path when using rm -r, lesson learned the hard way.

--interactive=once is my favorite options.

rm --recursive --interactive=once /HelloWorld/

I'm lazy rm -ri does the same thing.

@DustinB3403 said in Suggestions to build a High-End Gaming PC:

@travisdh1 said in Suggestions to build a High-End Gaming PC:

and don't mind spending a lot of time doing?

A lot of time?

The real cost of building yourself.

Also, need more caffeine, can't even English properly.

@flaxking said in Difficult co-worker:

@flaxking said in Difficult co-worker:

@Kelly said in Difficult co-worker:

Without more experience or information it is difficult to draw an exact conclusion, but have you considered that he is on the autism spectrum? Some of the things that you're listing could be indicators of that. There are significant differences to how you will work with someone on the spectrum vs someone who just has control issues.

This sounds a lot like my co-worker, who I am pretty sure is on the spectrum. He is amazing technically, reading comprehension of technical documentation that is out of this world. But he can't think in terms of business needs and what is practical. He will also assume he knows what you're saying without listen so you really have to watch for cues that the didn't actually understand what you said. Also can be a lot of work to convince him he is wrong, you need to have definitive proof ready.

Or he will have no memory of where he got information from, so he will explain something to you that was actually something you told him

Now you have me wondering how many times I've done that to people. More than I want to know most likely.

@scottalanmiller said in Choosing KVM over Hyper-V....:

@brandon220 said in Choosing KVM over Hyper-V....:

I need to get a dedicated linux laptop. I could run Fedora as a VM but dedicated would be preferred.

That's just better in general

But virt-manager on Windows is still better than Hyper-V's tools.

Can't upvote this enough.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Day three dealing with Intuit who can't make QB work at all.

We just started using QuickBooks here for a class. The software looks kind of dated to me.

Literally abandoned in the 1990s according to insider sources. Its' ancient client/server design with some shared file DB that's just insane.

Yep, almost guaranteed to loose data at some point through no fault of anything but the program.

@Curtis said in MailCow in Production Datacenter:

@scottalanmiller said in MailCow in Production Datacenter:

(especially with Docker which seems to make the distro matter so much more than normal.)

Isn't one of the major selling point of Docker platform Independence? You can run it on any distro, even Windows?

That's what everyone says about it, but that's not been anyone's experience with it. Docker uses a shared kernel, so if you are using a different distribution or even just a different version of the same distribution as the developers, things randomly break.

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Why do I read this in Pepe Le Pew's voice?

Because you had an awesome childhood.

@xrobau said in Changes at Sangoma:

@travisdh1 maybe they mean RAID LEVELS? Not levers? Which is correct. ZRAIDx means there are X ADDITIONAL copies of the data. ZRAID2 has 3 copies of each chunk, spread across physical devices. The "X" number is how many HDDs the zraid can tolerate failing.

The difference to RAID6 (for example) is that RAID6 has one copy of the data, but it's possible to figure out what the data was by looking at what remains and using the parity data to figure out what was on the missing disk(s)

ZFS RAID levers aren't standard (they are very standard)

What is so difficult to understand about this statement?

@wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Still doing Windows 10 upgrades.

Same here. Don't think I will make it by next week

Ha, no way we will either.

@xrobau said in Changes at Sangoma:

@travisdh1 I don't know what a RAID Lever is? Something to do with tuning?

Geesh, you're so bad as Scott.

@Agonnazar said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just finished a phone interview that seemed to go very well. Not the really nice role I applied for, but even closer to home and the ability to work remotely.

Unless it's working for the company @WrCombs is working for

Yeah, no. It's no POS place (both meanings work)

@donaldlandru Should've used stronger password and 2fa. Time to break out the backups.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings is building out a new, huge KVM server for us. Yes, Fedora 31.

What is huge about it? More details man! I need something to entertain me while lying around after getting my appendix removed.

@DustinB3403 said in Revisiting ZFS and FreeNAS in 2019:

@JaredBusch said in Revisiting ZFS and FreeNAS in 2019:

@DustinB3403 said in Revisiting ZFS and FreeNAS in 2019:

@tonyshowoff let's step back here, what site did you run?

You didn’t know this?

Obviously not, why would I have asked otherwise?

Yeah, we've got contacts for everything around here.

Steam sale on Square Enix titles this weekend. If anyone is a Final Fantasy fan, now is a good time to grab titles you don't have!

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/squareenix-publisher-weekend/?snr=1_4_4__118

@scottalanmiller Dagnabit, I didn't need to see this thread so late in the day. I'm guessing spinning up a new CentOS VM will take longer than installing it, no template ready to go for CentOS

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Yes