@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
An observation: I don't know how folks effectively tested stuff before there were VMs. It's so nice to make a change, and if something breaks, apply a snapshot.
We use to setup a small recovery partition in case we needed to do a restore.
We also used software like deep freeze too.
Having a second computer help with testing as well.
@hobbit666 said in Trying to set up Hyper-V Server 2016, ripping my hair out:
@dave247 said in Trying to set up Hyper-V Server 2016, ripping my hair out:
At this point, I'm considering trying out XenServer..
Look at KVM instead. There was something on here the other day about XenServer lol
The discussion was about Amazon moving from Xen (not XenServer) to KVM because of there G5 instances.
@scottalanmiller said in What exactly imaging software, any open source or free options ?:
@dashrender said in What exactly imaging software, any open source or free options ?:
@jaredbusch said in What exactly imaging software, any open source or free options ?:
@dbeato said in What exactly imaging software, any open source or free options ?:
@openit said in What exactly imaging software, any open source or free options ?:
@jaredbusch said in What exactly imaging software, any open source or free options ?:
Corning and imaging are two totally different things as the others have said. You need to define what you actually want to do here more clearly.
Okay. I believe I want to know more about Imaging. Actually the curiosity to know about Imaging arise from my previous post, where @scottalanmiller mentioned "Imaging should take around thirty minutes and, in reality, we are often getting that number lower and lower." It was regarding restoring the system when it is not working properly.
Yes which is fine, imaging is about restoring or setting up a system to an initial state where all the applications are installed and activated and ready to be used. It doesn't restore however the user's information.
And that is the big difference in a nutshell. User and fix their computer, you apply fresh image and connect user documents
Right, the thing to remember here - the desktop PC should have zero data on it. All data should be saved/synced to some place else so it can be accessed from a newly deployed image.
Zero data that matters, at least. With something like DropBox or NextCloud, we can have data on the machine, but it is always syncing to the server so that we can work with local files, but they are always stored on the server.
I always like that approach compare to how Windows folder redirection with offline works.
@eddiejennings said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Fedora moving to libera.chat
Ubuntu as well.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/05/ubuntu-irc-moves-to-libera-chat
I'm removing Windows clients from the domain controller on the student network. A domain controller is not needed anymore. I will be managing Windows clients via SaltStack.
@dashrender said in What exactly imaging software, any open source or free options ?:
@black3dynamite said in What exactly imaging software, any open source or free options ?:
@scottalanmiller said in What exactly imaging software, any open source or free options ?:
@dashrender said in What exactly imaging software, any open source or free options ?:
@jaredbusch said in What exactly imaging software, any open source or free options ?:
@dbeato said in What exactly imaging software, any open source or free options ?:
@openit said in What exactly imaging software, any open source or free options ?:
@jaredbusch said in What exactly imaging software, any open source or free options ?:
Corning and imaging are two totally different things as the others have said. You need to define what you actually want to do here more clearly.
Okay. I believe I want to know more about Imaging. Actually the curiosity to know about Imaging arise from my previous post, where @scottalanmiller mentioned "Imaging should take around thirty minutes and, in reality, we are often getting that number lower and lower." It was regarding restoring the system when it is not working properly.
Yes which is fine, imaging is about restoring or setting up a system to an initial state where all the applications are installed and activated and ready to be used. It doesn't restore however the user's information.
And that is the big difference in a nutshell. User and fix their computer, you apply fresh image and connect user documents
Right, the thing to remember here - the desktop PC should have zero data on it. All data should be saved/synced to some place else so it can be accessed from a newly deployed image.
Zero data that matters, at least. With something like DropBox or NextCloud, we can have data on the machine, but it is always syncing to the server so that we can work with local files, but they are always stored on the server.
I always like that approach compare to how Windows folder redirection with offline works.
What do you mean? Granted Windows offline often fails, but how is it in theory different?
Windows caches data in C:\Windows\CSC instead of keeping the data on C:\Users\users1.
With Nextcloud, your data is always in C:\Users\users1\Nextcloud but then data is sync back to the server.
@kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:
Went to see Avengers: Infinity War. It was good, but it is a part 1 of 2, so if you don't like waiting for a year for the conclusion of the story you might want to wait.
I'm planning on waiting until next year. I really hate movies that are split into multiple movies but act like its a solo (no pun intended) film.
Your boss should provide you a work cell phone.
After living in an apartment for so long and now living in a house for just over a year. I really dislike lawn and hedge bushes.
@scottalanmiller said in XCP-ng project:
I bet that there are some quick advancements to make this leapfrog over XenServer, too. Like moving to XFS or BtrFs or even ZFS.
Anything to get away from ext3.
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Putting Fedora 28 on my Laptop....No Win10... Not dual..
This will be interesting.... Using the Cinnamon Spin..
Like most of us, we still have a Windows 10 VM ready for use.
@lakshmana said in Powershell Default User:
@dbeato said in Powershell Default User:
[string]$file = 'C:$env:UserName\fILENAME'
)Get-Item : Cannot find path 'C:$env:Username\Tickets' because it does not exist.
It should be 'C:\Users\$env:USERNAME\filename'
@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
On a conference call...
Sometimes when I’m on a conference call I feel like a fly on the wall. I put the phone on speaker and then muted.
Do you know if its a OEM Windows install? Windows should automatically get activated.
@wrcombs said in Windows Firewall:
@black3dynamite If we dont turn it off, It wont communicate with the Back office PC and problems with Credit Card processing and general communication between front house and back office.
You can temporarily turn on Log dropped packets to see what's being blocked.
@scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud scenario:
@black3dynamite said in Nextcloud scenario:
https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/12/admin_manual/maintenance/backup.html
Exactly. Nice and easy without imaging anything.
And with the help of salt or ansible to deploy Nextcloud, it’s even better.
@dustinb3403 said in Windows Firewall:
@obsolesce there isn't any reason to have the firewall off at all, which I get is your point and to tiptoe around the fact that whoever set this up like this needs to get slapped in the back of the head. . .
Edit: Which of course might be your boss needing the slap in the back of his head @WrCombs . . .
http://lifeofageekadmin.com/update-dell-firmware-fedora-20/
sudo dnf search firmware-addon-dell
firmware-addon-dell.x86_64 : A firmware-tools plugin to handle BIOS/Firmware for: Dell systems
