@MattSpeller said in Skip Eating Meals for Better Productivity:

@aaronstuder said in Skip Eating Meals for Better Productivity:

@coliver said in Skip Eating Meals for Better Productivity:

My wife hates this. I don't generally eat lunch during the work day. 80% of the time I just forget about it and work through it.

Same, and my wife hates it too.

I skipped the wife and it's turned out ok so far.

I am jealous of the dual income though.

I have a wife, and I'm still jealous of the dual income folks, lol.

@scottalanmiller said in Day Three Casualties:

I got two hours of sleep.

You are a robot. You don't count, lol.

@Breffni-Potter said in When Cloud is Not What You Signed Up For:

Yes but surely what happened was just as stupid as me buying a single HCI hardware device, putting in a rack, then complaining about how Scale is an unreliable product because I went against their recommendations and decades of conventional IT wisdom.

Or buying the full Scale HCI and then powering off all three nodes with a typo, lol.

Thank you for providing the transcript!

I am marvelling in how good my new boss is...

When your team comes to work on Monday and find these at their desks, you have a great boss!

When he tells you all to wear them on Friday, you have an awesome boss!

@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@CharlesHTN said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Yeah, sure like they'd ever be able to afford it. College, rent, food, car.

Isn't that what Credit Cards are for? :face_with_stuck-out_tongue_winking_eye:

Uh, I'm a Millenial and I wouldn't buy Beats, or a $14k TV, and could buy a ton of each in cash... (but don't want to)

So stop with Millenial bashing.

Why? You don't have a tank!

@gjacobse said in MangoCon 2016:

Totals:

• 1,675 miles driven
• 84.6 gallons of fuel
• half dozen tolls

blinks, reads again

Jeez... I need more....something. I read that, and I swear it said half a dozen trolls...

After having worked with other vendors to get pricing on several projects, straight forward, ballpark pricing is one of the things that makes Scale Computing worth taking the time to get to know!

Gratz man! Glad you are able to move... again. For that, I present you with this:

Some phones have a special recovery mode... that recovery mode (that allows you to reflash your phone if it is bricked, like an iPhone) will check signatures on the updates that you are trying to install. If the signatures don't match, then it won't install.

In the Android world, the first thing you do is generally root the phone, then the next step is to install a custom boot loader that doesn't enforce the signature checking.

@Reid-Cooper said:

The guy with the money shooting out of his Fluke is pretty goofy.

It all depends on your perspective... I would say he is feeding money to his fluke.

For a lot of us (me, especially), I live, breathe, and sleep techy stuff... I work in IT, I've got a "lab" at home, and a few extra bits in the cloud... and I tinker some in my free time... I tinker because I have nothing better to do, lol.

Public Service Announcement: Soon to come: New and improved hearing for those of us who simply can't!

My insurance finally approved a cochlear implant for me. Surgery is going to be some time in September... I shall be among the hearing folks again... <insert maniacal laugh here>

I purchased the Plus X8 VPS package from Server4You. I chose to have the 400GB on spinning rust since I want to use this for storage space and such, as well as some tinkering.

The setup cost plus first month of hosting ran me $28 ($12 one time setup fee, and $16 monthly). Their HQ is in Germany, and their American Office and Data Center is located in St. Louis. So I paid the fee, and a few minutes later, I got the "Thanks for paying" email saying further instructions would be sent, but I never received any.

I decided to go ahead and log in to the web portal after waiting about 15 minutes and bam! I'm in. Upon login, it tells me that my server, <some random name> has not been installed yet, and provides me a link to start a restore...

I have my choice of Linux OS between CentOS 7 builds (LAMP, and minimal), a Debian 7 (LAMP, and minimal), a Debian 8 (minimal), and several Ubuntu builds in the 12.04 and 14.04 flavors. Of note, one of the Ubuntu 14.04 images has Plesk v12 pre-installed. I'm still tinkering around with CentOS, so away I go with a CentOS 7 image.

You can set your own server password, which is nice. They give you a minimum password requirements and also a recommendation to use a few symbols (such as +,-,!,?), but you cannot use $, &, <, >, /, , or %.

UPDATE: The password configured is for the root account of the server. Make sure it is a strong one, and then create a user account and disable allowing of root SSH. Check to make sure that your user account is allowed to perform SUDO before disabling root SSH, lol.

I have confirmed with them that they do not provide console access to the VMs.

I've set my password, and am currently waiting for the image to restore... after about 15 minutes (maybe less), my image was restored, and I now have root access to my server. If I were going to do my own Domain name, I'd purchase through Google Domains or GoDaddy, or whoever... However, I am simply going to make this server run as a subdomain of one I already control.

So that was my experience in a nutshell. As I have Time, I'll go back and do up a few screenshots of the control panel, etc.

UPDATE 2: Scott raised a good question about backups. The backups page looks like:

Which suggests that we can only get backups every 14 days. The 1st backup is a full, and the next 3 would be incremental.

They do give you the ability to keep up to 3 snapshots that you perform manually.

Update 3: The Server4You guys do not support docker in their VMs. I just had that confirmed by one of their support reps.

Update 4: The Server4You systems are not flat out terrible. Their memory and storage offerings are actually quite nice. However, I've had a number of problems with the performance on my system (PHP scripts taking a long time to execute, SSH taking minutes to connect, random disconnects while I am using SSH)...

The biggest problem I have is that the containerization they use doesn't allow for me to customize the system the way I want it to be done. I can't add anything that requires Kernel modules (so no FUSE environments, no Docker, etc...) that they don't have built into the Host OS kernel.

Every time I asked about a way do do something, their support team's answer was "buy a dedicated host)... Which had half the RAM and about the same storage, but was double the monthly price.

Sadly, this means I am shutting down my service with them and migrating the stuff I had running back to my house or back over to my other VPS.

@wwalker817 said in Why Do Recruiters Never Get Involved in Forums Like This:

@scottalanmiller Thanks for having me!

Welcome to the madhouse club! Feel free to actually take part and all so we know you're not a robot.

Finally feeling back to 100% again after that surgery. I'm suprised, because it took a lot out of me and was only a 2 hour surgery.

Back "at work" working from home this week since Docs still don't really want me in a car.

I've spoken with the Scale guys and one of my clients has a Scale Cluster in production. We continue to expect great things form them!

Glad to see you on here, @craig-theriac !

Since you got Scott full time, I now volunteer to make the sacrifice to become the next part-time minion!

@adam.ierymenko said:

@FATeknollogee Two ways:

1. Run ZeroTier on the device(s) themselves. Right now this varies in terms of do-ability, but we're planning more in the future here.

2. Bridge them with an auxiliary device.

Bridging is a subject that needs more documentation, but it's not terribly hard to do.

Let's say you have a ZeroTier network with the IPv4 subnet 10.10.10.0/24 and you have ten devices you want to bridge in.

The simplest thing would be to:

1. Edit the network's IP auto-assignment configuration and reduce the assignment range to reserve, say, everything above 200 for non-ZT devices.

2. Set up ZT on a Linux machine such as a Raspberry Pi or a Linux VM on your network. (If it's a VM, be sure the hypervisor allows bridging. Some like VMWare have a setting for this.) Designate this device as an "active bridge" at the network controller level, which means it's allowed to bridge other things in. (The active bridge setting also alters its behavior in terms of multicast a bit. Bridges use slightly more bandwidth since they see more multicast traffic.)

3. Create a Linux bridge device (instructions differ by Linux distro) br0 and add zt0 and eth0 (or wlan0, etc.) to it.

4. Assign your phones and other devices IPs like 10.10.10.201, 10.10.10.202 manually and attach them to the network that is bridged to ZeroTier via the ZT bridge you configured above.

ZeroTier emulates L2 Ethernet, so what you've done is created a single Ethernet network consisting of a physical wired or WiFi network bridged to a virtual ZeroTier network by a bridge device. The bridge device "glues" them together, passing packets back and forth and such. Linux's bridging driver is very good and handles a lot of edge cases like MTU mismatch, etc., and we've found that it works pretty good in practice.

Now a ZT device with IP 10.10.10.100 should be able to ping 10.10.10.201, etc.

Raspberry Pi's work great for this kind of thing. They're great for cheap DIY low-power network devices like bridges, routers, NAS boxes (connect a USB drive), etc.

Thank you This is the kind of instructions I had been looking for. runs off to try it

@ataylor14 Sunshine in Windows? What version?