Just think, we have to deal with these incompetent people every year. Maybe @scottalanmiller got out at the right time?

@JaredBusch said in Ultimate Garbage Plate?:

@scottalanmiller said in Ultimate Garbage Plate?:

I was literally talking to Dominica yesterday about frying garbage plates!

This is 'Merica, if it fits, it has been deep fried.

If it doesn't fit, make a bigger fryer.

@ntoxicator 1.5TB of data is..... really tiny today. Storage space isn't really a problem, it's performance (IOPS). If we assume HDD, then we need more of them purely for performance than amount of storage. They're selling 10TB drives!

@scottalanmiller said:

What's amazing from living abroad is how you see corruption. In the US we point to places like Italy and their crazy levels of corruption - and it is bad enough that it really causes problems. But it is really, really obvious and in your face. Need a permit, you slip someone $50. Everyone knows exactly who is corrupt, how and how it works.

In the US people often say that there is so little corruption that you never even see it happen. The problem is, the corruption is so intense and so big that we don't see it any longer. We are conditioned to a level of corruption that makes "corrupt" countries look downright forthright. But it isn't your local mailman expecting an extra dollar for delivering the mail, it's in big government and huge businesses paying people off and stuff like that. It's massive money on a massive scale and it is so mixed into the whole thing that we stop seeing it.

Imagine a sound so loud that you stop hearing it because you go deaf. That's how the difference feels.

I realized that without having to leave the country to do it.... not that it's not blindingly obvious to anyone with a little sense.

Ran the update this morning, and the setup finally completed correctly. Yay, bugfixes.

@RojoLoco said in MangoCon 2017:

@travisdh1 said in MangoCon 2017:

@RojoLoco said in MangoCon 2017:

Has anyone made the drive from Toronto to Rochester? I'm probably flying to Toronto for a couple of days before MC17, and will probably rent a car and drive around the lake (~3 hours).

Ah yes, Toronto, and the almost completely unused highway. It's the only place I know of that put in a toll route, but the tolls only apply to local people. The drive isn't bad, the worst part is the stop at customs/immigration.

I figured the border would be the only sticky wicket, and it looks like a nice, scenic drive.

If you've got the time, stop and see Niagra Falls from the Canadian side, much better view.

@dafyre said:

Assembly programs give me nightmares, lol.

I had an assembly language class in college. While I don't really enjoy it, I very much appreciate someone who does. Just... not.... this. It's a itty bitty little package of evil.

@dafyre said:

@hobbit666 said:

Moving VM's around ready to attempt to replace a ESXi host tomorrow

puts on full body armor and a helmet

hands wirestyle22 a claymore

Backblaze came out with their latest stats blog post this morning. I haven't read the current one yet, but it is the largest number of drives that we get public failure numbers for. Just remember that they use all consumer class, well, everything.

Thanks @NDC. @DustinB3403 already offered his spare bedroom, so I probably get DD duties (I don't drink much.)

@Jason said in Windows 10 home screen:

Microsoft is now putting weblinks to different content on the home screen. Wonder how soon there will be ads and sponsored content?

What is yesterday?

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Employee of the year? I'd expect at least a 60-65" 4K for that...

I would much more appreciate a raise.

What's a raise? I've never heard of that. Do you have documentation on it?

That's why all the good advice I've seen is to change jobs. The promotions rarely happen internally, no matter what management says.

Nothing more true has ever been said

I'll give you 1 guess what project I've assigned myself for this weekend.... well, after that party anyway.

Put as many applications out as fast as possible?

Close. Work on the resume and precis package. I doubt I'll get it finished to my satisfaction, but every change requires a first step.

@JaredBusch said in THANKS TO YOU: Nextcloud 9 is here - and all open source, now and in the future!:

@coliver said in THANKS TO YOU: Nextcloud 9 is here - and all open source, now and in the future!:

@alex.olynyk It's pretty easy. Just extract the tar into your webroot and it does the rest. SELinux can be a pain though.

Yes, anyone looking for full repo based installs will need to wait a while yet.

Stuff like that takes time.

Being completely OSS now, we can go ahead and actually do said things for them

Clonezilla is just dd for those to lazy to figure out the exact command(s) needed to run. Also, I use it all the time.

@Dashrender I don't expect access to the CEO of a company, but I do expect to have a way to contact their office.

@Dashrender said in Computer Crash Wipes Out Years of Air Force Investigation Records:

@momurda said in Computer Crash Wipes Out Years of Air Force Investigation Records:

Right, Dashrender, they do it so they dont have to pay for their own USAF IT people, or pay USAF IT people a wage worth working for. But at the same time, they pay so much money to these contractors are they actually saving money? Im not so sure, esp with the intangible costs like this situation right here.

No they are not, they can't be!

My brother made 20K in the military, got out became a private contractor doing the same job fro $120K.. WTF? Why aren't they just keeping military people and paying them say $60K or $80K.. whatever.

@Dashrender That's how the US government "cuts" budgets.

That's telling you that it doesn't know what domain to create the cert for. This just won't work generally. You'll need to add

ServerName mydomainname

to a configuration file in /etc/httpd/conf.d/mydomainname.conf virtualhost section. The .conf file for my server is:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName www.travisdh1.net
  ServerAlias travisdh1.net
  DocumentRoot /var/www/html
  ServerAdmin [email protected]
  Header always set Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload"
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =www.travisdh1.net [OR]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_NAME} =travisdh1.net
RewriteRule ^ https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [END,QSA,R=permanent]
</VirtualHost>

Once you get that setup correctly the certbot-auto script should work. You might have to make a few changes to /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf in order to get the server using the correct certs.

@BBigford said in How I Picture Managers Taking Away Facebook for "Productivity":

Lol social media isn't the problem for poor behavior... there's a deeper issue with the parenting skills obviously.

What parenting skills?

Science Daily reports on a NYU Tandon School of Engineering student who was able to bypass the "security" on car computers by connecting a smart phone, and using software that wasn't enabled by default, but present in the system.

Car manufacturer fail. One of the biggest precepts in securing electronics is if you're not using a service/software, don't have it available on the system!

@olivier said in Xen Orchestra new design:

Guys, it's not even beta ready

Apparently that doesn't stop us from trying out the new shiny widgets.