@Minion-Queen said in Follow me on the NTG LAB Epic Minion ROAD TRIP:

Oh we are all insured let me tell you. MUCH cheaper than hiring a courier, and paying for insurance through them

Plus it's several days out of the office.... so win win?

XCP-ng has released the first iteration just this morning!

So a user was having some issues with their system not being able to boot the other day.

Boss took it, and asked that she use OWA for email for now, other items can be run though O365 for word, powerpoint etc.

So here I am copying her files from this disk ( i refused to even attempt to boot the drive) and it's clicking.

That lovely "headcrash, headcrash, headcrash clicking noise."

So peaceful in the AM.

I'm wondering why so many people are flipping morons who don't understand Windows Server Standard licensing.

Listen people, you have the option to install Hyper-V to your hardware, but you always get 2 VM instances with Windows Server Standard licensing. The hypervisor you're using doesn't effect this in the least!

/rant-off

In other news, Windows blows and essentially cripples great hardware.

This is one type I've installed before

I like the sharks that eat the idiots that go swimming in the ocean, and then wonder why they lost a leg, arm or other appendage.

Those sharks are my bros.

Because if you don't want to be a part of the food chain, don't get into the food chain.

California passes Net Neutrality in the face of the FCC.

OK so the powershell method does work remotely, when you kill the quicktime process.

Updated PS1.

Stop-Process -name QuickTimePlayer
$quicktime = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product | Where-object { $_.name -match 'Quicktime 7'}
$quicktime.Uninstall()

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Google f**king gets it.

"Critics have derided this as a "link tax," and they've pointed out that similar efforts were not very successful in Germany and Spain. Google responded by simply de-listing German and Spanish news sites from the Google index, an action that hurt the publishers a lot more than it hurt Google."

I'm curious if anyone is aware of any services that you'd need on your Server environment for "Downloaded Maps Manager"

I can't think of a single thing off hand where I need my server going and searching maps for me.

Now it likely has some usefulness, but what I just can't fathom. Anyone able to enlighten me with what this service is good for?

@MattSpeller Seems odd to have a needle in the middle of a lake.. is that where the body is?

In other news the development team at vates.fr is emailing about my script(s).

Worthy of it's own reply is this feature here.

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

On the bright side. Not my circus and not my monkeys.
That may change in the near future but for this monumental balls-up, it's not something that I have to fix

This years mantra.....
"On the bright side. Not my circus and not my monkeys."
"On the bright side. Not my circus and not my monkeys."
"On the bright side. Not my circus and not my monkeys."
"On the bright side. Not my circus and not my monkeys."

Next years mantra
"On the bright side. Not my circus and not my monkeys."
"On the bright side. Not my circus and not my monkeys."
"On the bright side. Not my circus and not my monkeys."
"On the bright side. Not my circus and not my monkeys."

@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:

First let me start off with RTFM. I didn't at first and was proved a fool. That out of the way, once You read it, it's very simple. Albeit I was reading it, and simply misunderstood a few of the steps.

Namely: Do not enable HA from within XenCenter, it disables HALizard so there are no conflicts.

Platform Two Dell R730's configured with 8x4TB Drives in RAID 10, 96GB of RAM and dual E5-2640v3 2.6Ghz CPUs.

Total Price $16.614 (Price may vary)

To configure the servers, I've installed XenServer 6.5 (not 7 I know) to both systems direct to USB, leaving the entire array available for HALizard and VM Storage.

Once the servers were updated, you can wget the HALizard NoSan installer script.

Connect two ports on each server directly together, this will be the BOND'd interface for HALizard to fail-over should something occur to either server.

Again RTFM when configuring this setup. I did, but skipped ahead at parts and was confused on some results. @halizard helped to sort me out, so I have to give them props for that.

Once you run the script on the first server you'll be asked which server this is, etc, on the first server, you'll configure it as the first in the pool. I used the stock BOND configuration of 10.10.10.1, 10.10.10.2 and 10.10.10.3 making my life super simple. I don't have to make any changes to the configs. Also being a private LAN between the servers there is no reason to not use them since I'm not in this address space anyways.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch : And nobody asked you the important question: Do you have a spare?

These can be picked up at best buy for $100, no real need to hold a spare....

You guys weren't in love with this?

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Also has anyone ever seen when the person gets out of that maze? Poor soul might still be trapped in there or the Minotaur is still chasing them.