@scale Only took 1 year and 3 months? Geesh.

@Dashrender I haven't weighed it, but I'd guess ~15 to 20 lb. You can tell that things are in the vest, but you'd never guess how much or what.

Edit: Yes, requires sturdy shoulders.

Ran the update this morning, and the setup finally completed correctly. Yay, bugfixes.

@scottalanmiller said:

@travisdh1 said:

@MattSpeller Here I was going to offer some sort of encouragement to you, but honestly, this conversation just motivated me to finally ask that librarian I know out. Hope you have a good time, however things work out!

Did you manage to book a date?

Not yet, but I definitely checked it out!

@Breffni-Potter said in The VSA is the Ugly Result of Legacy Vendor Lock-Out:

Is this really the case? I'm sceptical that a VMWare or HyperV or even a XenServer based system would have that huge a difference in performance requirements compared with a Scale system.

"24 vCores and up to 300GB RAM (depending on the vendor) just to power the VSA’s and boot themselves vs HES using a fraction of a core per node and 6GB RAM total. Efficiency matters."

Is this genuine or is it a flippant example? If it's genuine...shut up and take my money.

From Starwind's LSFS FAQ
"How much RAM do I need for LSFS device to function properly?
4.6 MB of RAM per 1 GB of LSFS device with disabled deduplication,
7.6 MB of RAM per 1 GB of LSFS device with enabled deduplication."

So, yeah, could easily eat up that much ram. ~7.6GB RAM per TB of storage.

I didn't spot the CPU recommendation, but I know it's beefy.

@DustinB3403 said:

@travisdh1 said:

@DustinB3403 Should be, mdadm still works the same way.

Thanks, just being extra cautious to ensure this works smoothly.

To remove the disk from the array I should have to simply type

mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --fail /dev/sdc

and then

mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --remove /dev/sdc

At this point I should be able to shutdown the server, remove the disk and add it's replacement with

 shutdown -h now

Yep. After putting a replacement drive in, just add it back.

mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --add /dev/sd?

I like to keep an eye on the rebuild process with:

watch /cat/proc/mdstat

The array should be back to normal.

Backblaze came out with their latest stats blog post this morning. I haven't read the current one yet, but it is the largest number of drives that we get public failure numbers for. Just remember that they use all consumer class, well, everything.

Running the update scripts for everything. Now that I've got ZeroTier I don't need to make the 3 mile drive

I'd say that for the most part the older languages don't have the tools that make programming quicker and easier today. Quick, horrible, example. In Flash you can write the code to play a movie or sound file in less than 200 characters while Delphi/Pascal you'd have to go direct to the hardware.

Also, friends don't let a friend use Flash!

@scottalanmiller said in File Server Upgrade Options:

@travisdh1 said in File Server Upgrade Options:

@scottalanmiller said in File Server Upgrade Options:

http://www.smbitjournal.com/2016/10/smbs-must-stop-looking-to-backblaze-for-guidance/

How is that not in my list of reference links yet? Is now.

One of those "it was repeated so many times on SW that it needed at article" articles.

You have seen my collection of those, right?

https://pastebin.com/RiZccgAE

Yes, I keep them all around for quick and easy referencing.

@Dashrender said:

@johnhooks said:

@Dashrender said:

OK I was given another reason why they didn't want Facebook, at least on our office computers.

you know.. the reasoning seems so off the wall, I just can't even write it.
lol

You can't do that and not tell us haha.

OH OK..

So someone created a location inside FB about our business. We've know about it for a few years, it was created in 2012 (back when everyone used to check in everywhere). Currently the location is owned/run by Facebook, not us. But we are able to take over that location since it is our business (we haven't done it yet).

So sometime last week, a patient had a complaint, found this location and posted on the wall of that location. We had an employee who had also liked that location and became aware of the complaint while they were off the clock, but apparently in the building. This employee then told others (who were already on the clock) about it. A rukus ensued.

So now, in the hopes of keeping animosity down we want to keep people off FB on company resources to try to cut down on the drama (well, at least talk about it).

You were correct, this is as silly as Monty Python's Camelot.

@JaredBusch said in THANKS TO YOU: Nextcloud 9 is here - and all open source, now and in the future!:

@coliver said in THANKS TO YOU: Nextcloud 9 is here - and all open source, now and in the future!:

@alex.olynyk It's pretty easy. Just extract the tar into your webroot and it does the rest. SELinux can be a pain though.

Yes, anyone looking for full repo based installs will need to wait a while yet.

Stuff like that takes time.

Being completely OSS now, we can go ahead and actually do said things for them

@MattSpeller said:

That little bit of edgy-ness keeps me sharp.

Honestly, that's why I stuck around and spend much more time here than elsewhere now. IE The Spiceworks Community forums isn't getting me a good slap upside the head when I do something stupid.

@Jason said:

@Dashrender said:

This is a door badge system. So what happens when the badge system fails? Does that mean you have to pass out keys so people can get into the building? or can't people get in?

I don't know about his but ours and most I've seen don't actively run on the computer, they have a controller that connects into the computer or network, and a program that allows you to view the access attempts. Grant/deny certain access and add users/RFID passes. the controller does all the main work.

I have a loathing of cheap software shops that think they have the best software ever, and so they make you use a usb key in addition to whatever other restrictions are on the software. In this case they may be calling it a security device, but it's the same thing. Frankly, given a couple minutes with one of the things I could probably clone it. So it really doesn't do the job they think it does..... "I do not think that means what you think that means."

@Dashrender said in Computer Crash Wipes Out Years of Air Force Investigation Records:

@momurda said in Computer Crash Wipes Out Years of Air Force Investigation Records:

Right, Dashrender, they do it so they dont have to pay for their own USAF IT people, or pay USAF IT people a wage worth working for. But at the same time, they pay so much money to these contractors are they actually saving money? Im not so sure, esp with the intangible costs like this situation right here.

No they are not, they can't be!

My brother made 20K in the military, got out became a private contractor doing the same job fro $120K.. WTF? Why aren't they just keeping military people and paying them say $60K or $80K.. whatever.

@Dashrender That's how the US government "cuts" budgets.

@MattSpeller said:

@nadnerB said:

Plunge and kebabs look both delicious and hilarious - would definitely do

Hrm, so, do katanas and broadswords count as cheat codes? I have no fencing sabers, but lots of other large, sharp, heavy objects. The katana/wakizashi combo is my personal favorite. (Yes, it is VERY dangerous to enter my house uninvited. Large swords in small spaces are the things nightmares are mde from.)

@RojoLoco said:

@travisdh1 mine too. Now I want noodles, redundant or otherwise.

Great, now I want redundant tacos.

Science Daily reports on a NYU Tandon School of Engineering student who was able to bypass the "security" on car computers by connecting a smart phone, and using software that wasn't enabled by default, but present in the system.

Car manufacturer fail. One of the biggest precepts in securing electronics is if you're not using a service/software, don't have it available on the system!

@scottalanmiller said:

Sales tax was 8.25% when I was paying 52% taxes on income.

I knew we were hitting over 50% in places, don't like hearing it confirmed.

Just think, depending on the outcome of the next election, we may get to pay the government for the privilege of working

@ntoxicator 1.5TB of data is..... really tiny today. Storage space isn't really a problem, it's performance (IOPS). If we assume HDD, then we need more of them purely for performance than amount of storage. They're selling 10TB drives!