@scottalanmiller said in $200 firewall:

Their wireless access points are excellent, too.

They are, I have two running here at home, we have a client that has a total of about 12 AP plus the UBNT NVR and AirCAM. The APs are across two sites in two states. They adopted perfectly across the UBNT VPN setup between the two.

Can't really go wrong with the UBNT product line.

WHOOT! Dancing a jig (well not really). Am happy and excited to report that my friend who needed a kidney got a call at about 3am this morning.

He is now OUT of surgery in ICU resting. As of now, he is doing well. My thoughts to the family of the donor.

I run into this from time to time.. The computer decides after it has been out of the office that instead of using the set port of the Static IP address, it drops back to WSD?, where then it fails to print.

Why does Windows think it knows better by using teh WSD port rather than the USER SET IP port?

#WindowsisFrustrating

Interesting..
Watching a few people spin around in chairs while in their boss's office about 800 miles away...

Should I load a audio file to one of the local computers and play it? Make them jump,... <evil laugh>

I just happened to think of this for some really odd reason.

You have to be careful about having UPS units at the desk with a User... Some offices have the 'chill' so said User will use a little heater to get warm.

You don't want a heater plugged into a UPS... It's not good for either, and could cause a electrical fire..

@MattSpeller said:

Hunting for a sale on electric trolling motors, bought a boat on the weekend

I hear ACME has one for sale:

@JaredBusch said in RAID10 - Two Drive Failure:

Predictive failure is not failure. Replace one at a time. to give the RAID card the most power to work on the individual resilver.

in my experience - you never replace more than one drive at a time...

Ask me how I know.

Due to the talk about bacon,.. Tonight's dinner looks to be bacon wrapped meatloaf.....

@jaredbusch said in Ubiquiti released EdgeOS 1.9.7:

This means it is time for me to get off my ass and setup UNMS

and the subsequent ML: How to

@mlnews said:

Quick - Someone grab a few bags of buns,..I'll get the ketchup and mustard... our dinner is on the run.

I didn't realize that I had three topics on the matter,.. but alas - there they are:

Speculative Theory: SSD causes System power cycle
Windows Update: Rogue Reboot
CPU Temp

But I think I have maybe finally come down with the probable cause... I think.

This box runs a AMD A10-6800k Chip - and had a stock cooler on it. I found a thread via I believe it was Tom's Hardware that mentioned that the stock cooler wasn't enough.

The system was pushing high temp - 150-180F and if I was really pushing the system - would be more like 200-220F. I wonder now if it wasn't hitting thermal limits and power cycling to prevent 'heavy' damage.

Well - Enter the GeminII S524 ver.2 Cooler.. Holy cow,.. it is about 4x the surface area as the original and have five heat pipes...

Maybe - just maybe... the issue is now really solved.... likely I should look at replacing the chip since it's had such a thermal cycling...

Comparison 1

Comparison 2

Stock Cooler

GeninI

After a week,.. how are you liking it?

Just went through this with a system my brother was working on. Non bootable. This product will pull it from the Registry Hive. just have to pull up the drive as an external.

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html

I have to agree with @thanksajdotcom - NTG has been by far the best work environment I have experienced.

Everyone is great.. Save that guy @art_of_shred - He's always on my case about something... I mean sheesh... He plays the guitar while on Skype giving me grief about my drinking coffee now.

Wondered if there was a way to check the status of the laptop battery via the CLI. .. quick search - yup... it's upower

 upower -i `upower -e | grep 'BAT'`
  native-path:          BAT0
  vendor:               ASUS
  model:                1000HE
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              Fri 25 May 2018 09:16:02 AM EDT (47 seconds ago)
  has history:          yes
  has statistics:       yes
  battery
    present:             yes
    rechargeable:        yes
    state:               discharging
    warning-level:       none
    energy:              29.1384 Wh
    energy-empty:        0 Wh
    energy-full:         54.3528 Wh
    energy-full-design:  62.64 Wh
    energy-rate:         9.1728 W
    voltage:             7.306 V
    time to empty:       3.2 hours
    percentage:          53%
    capacity:            86.7701%
    technology:          lithium-ion
    icon-name:          'battery-good-symbolic'
  History (charge):
    1527254162  53.000  discharging
  History (rate):
    1527254162  9.173   discharging

upower -i $(upower -e | grep BAT) | grep --color=never -E "state|to\ full|to\ empty|percentage"
    state:               discharging
    time to empty:       2.9 hours
    percentage:          54%

Source

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Seriously. How does this happen?

uhm,.. exposure to UV and a lot of use.

While there is plenty of SPAM that needs to be hammered,.. there are a few dozen MS Surfaces I would like to beat to dust...

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Trying to figure out why the f*ck my wife's Android based ebook reader (rebranded Boyue T62+) can't see wifi networks anymore.

Hardware looks good so far, my first thought was a disconnected antenna:

Stopped working just a few hours ago, without any firmware update or changes to my wifi.

Interesting log (via Android Debug Bridge):

Guess I will need to dig a bit deeper

Here let me help you with that.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I've always gotten out of it by moving to rapidly. The court system never contacts me until I live in a different county or state or country. So they contact me and I say "Oh sure, I can be there, is it okay that I'm not a resident?"

The real reason why @scottalanmiller keeps his family on the go.

That and the murders...

Anyone seen any sign of the architect who designed that parking garage?

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I'm reinstalling XS 7 to a USB (cause of mind changes). . .

4 time today.

Extra Practice.

Except I'm about to kill someone, tired of looking at the same things. . .