What Are You Doing Right Now

working out a new visitation schedule for my public service support contract. i've never felt more overlooked, under appreciated, ignored and taken for granted than I have in any other IT contract i've had in 30 years.
what did barney say ... "don't feel sorry for me, i'm already dead" ...
but hey it's winter day 1 and the sun is out.
what did monty python say ... "always look on the bright side of life".
i think alcohol might come into play tonight.

scottalanmiller

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

working out a new visitation schedule for my public service support contract. i've never felt more overlooked, under appreciated, ignored and taken for granted than I have in any other IT contract i've had in 30 years.

By management, or a vendor?

jmoore

Going to Jinya ramen place for dinner. Thanks for suggesting it @RojoLoco

siringo

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

working out a new visitation schedule for my public service support contract. i've never felt more overlooked, under appreciated, ignored and taken for granted than I have in any other IT contract i've had in 30 years.

By management, or a vendor?

management, although there is so little management that is done, I call them arrangers.

Joy

counting 26 days to go before my vacation.

hey @scottalanmiller.

scottalanmiller

@joy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

counting 26 days to go before my vacation.

hey @scottalanmiller.

Good morning @joy!

Obsolesce

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@obsolesce what would you use it for?

Personally? All kinds of like around the house info boxes. Bathroom info board, anyone?

In the real world? Industrial desktops on factory floors.

Perfect for Linux and web browser based use at the office. Beats paying Win10 enterprise subscriptions for no real reason.

Obsolesce

And a 5 year warranty? All for a couple hundred total?

Definitely worth a consideration.

siringo

stoked to find zerotier has a pop down here in sydney

scottalanmiller

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

stoked to find zerotier has a pop down here in sydney

Nice, although the data doesn't flow through them, so having a local pop only does so much, it's just a controller node.

siringo

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

stoked to find zerotier has a pop down here in sydney

Nice, although the data doesn't flow through them, so having a local pop only does so much, it's just a controller node.

Oh, OK. Hey it's good though because at least we're 'part' of the system, you never know what will come next.
so much to learn here.

hobbit666

Thinking about the plan for today while on the train.

My list so far

Sort new snipe VM
Move a few VM around
Create new XenApp VM
Work on proposals for hardware review
Got 4 to go through
2x 3-2-1 designs one with Nimble SAN and one with NetAPP
1x Hosted SaaS (but way to expensive)
1x Scale Cluster
Work on network config to go with hardware refresh upgrading to 10g links between switches and server/storage

scottalanmiller

Bannhammering spammers.

DustinB3403

System updates for Snipe-IT and a few other systems.

hobbit666

Decided to go Hyper-V and give it another go for a production server to run Linux VM's (zabbix/snipe/unifi etc)

But how to "migrate" the servers off Xenserver 7.2 onto Hyper-V (for FREE )