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Chz
Stark Raving Sane
As a sysadmin, I should start planning my retirement. Ah who am I kidding? They need someone to blame when it goes wrong, and it's still worth paying someone just for that.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Intrestingly my cousin is making a career change and studying coding so asked his thoughts. He thinks it amazing. It's certainly going to change things, but ultimately its another tool.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
It'll be writing the project specification, too, though
And so skynet was born
Edit. Maybe more this
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
I used to do a bit of translation but a lot of that has gone too. I still do some technology-type writing but 90% of that will start being done by ai with editors just tidying the english and perhaps getting the structure until ai does that too. Once again I've lived at just the right time - free education, full employment, reasonable state pension, cheap rents when I were young, ....
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I'm actually finding the MS AI chatbot ok for certain queries, normally microsoft related. It's handy that's in built into edge as a sidebar, as I use Edge as my work browser as it does profiles so well. So it's intresting that they are having yet another go an assistant in Windows. Maybe that might make a useful one this time?
That said major frustration with them yesterday. I've been doing a domain transfer for a client, which was really scary as I'd not done it before, but it went ok. Adding the domain to Microsoft personal account on the other hand. Frustrating as hell.
That said major frustration with them yesterday. I've been doing a domain transfer for a client, which was really scary as I'd not done it before, but it went ok. Adding the domain to Microsoft personal account on the other hand. Frustrating as hell.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
So we've all said for years about how our phones have more processing power then it took to put a man on the moon. But my toothbrush?
Quite enjoyed his books fwiw. I wonder how they've aged?
Quite enjoyed his books fwiw. I wonder how they've aged?
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I ordered an old HP Z640 which arrived Friday. 18 core Xeon, but "only" speced it with 64GB as I can add another 64GB more cheaply via eBay in the future. Lots of swearing on my part when I couldn't even get it to display a picture. Turns out the GPU I had in storage must be dead. Currently installing vCenter 8 as I went with ESXi 8 for the workstation, but of course, that's not compatible with 7. Forgot how long it takes to install.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
Labelling test points on circuit boards is pretty standard.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Bloody hell. I've faffed with computers for years but never had quite the level of hardware frustration as the old HP workstation I've just bought. On paper a great purchase. 18 core Xeon with 64GB RAM but almost as silent as my gaming PC. There's a few places that sell them and you get to spec them up with second hand components. I went pretty minimal as I've got a fair few bits, so didn't ask for a GPU. I will run headless, but obviously need something to set up. And it turns out even to POST.
It arrived and I stuck an old Quadro in. No joy, so I assumed the card must have died in storage. Pulled the one out the PC my partner uses and it boots. Happy days. It works. Put it back in partners PC as it needs a low profile 4k card (the old Quadro won't do that). Get another card and that doesn't work either. So it turns out it's super fussy. I've got another card hopefully arriving tomorrow from another company that sells them and is the most basic card they stock (the cheapest one the place I got it from do is £70).
Hopefully this weekend I'll actually get the dam thing running properly and be able to do some stuff with it!
It arrived and I stuck an old Quadro in. No joy, so I assumed the card must have died in storage. Pulled the one out the PC my partner uses and it boots. Happy days. It works. Put it back in partners PC as it needs a low profile 4k card (the old Quadro won't do that). Get another card and that doesn't work either. So it turns out it's super fussy. I've got another card hopefully arriving tomorrow from another company that sells them and is the most basic card they stock (the cheapest one the place I got it from do is £70).
Hopefully this weekend I'll actually get the dam thing running properly and be able to do some stuff with it!
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existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I found a Xiomi Zigbee temperature sensor that I've never been able to get to work in the last 3 years. After some faffing around, it's now paired happily with my Home Assistant setup.
(The mad earlier temp readings are from it being sat on the computer while I was trying to pair it)
(The mad earlier temp readings are from it being sat on the computer while I was trying to pair it)
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I fucked up. Last year I was asked by a client to set up file auditing so they could see who moved/deleted folders. Did my googling, set it up and tested it. But didn't make the logs anywhere near big enough. So I didn't have the data. I'm now restoring the entire File Server from Veeam to check bloody event viewer. It's also the first time I've restored a VM and it's terrifying 
On a slightly related note has anyone come across the problem when trying to use File History to restore a folder that the source file names are to long? They clearly weren't to long before they were deleted.
On a slightly related note has anyone come across the problem when trying to use File History to restore a folder that the source file names are to long? They clearly weren't to long before they were deleted.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
All our really stupidly long network filename stuff is on an Isilon, so when Windows throws its toys out of the pram I go into the Linux CLI and fix it. Sorry, I know that's not helpful beyond saying that yeah Windows can be shit.
I should add that manually recovering from a filesystem snapshot like that is a right PITA, but I never figured out how to get Windows to play the game properly. So if you do find out, please do share.
I should add that manually recovering from a filesystem snapshot like that is a right PITA, but I never figured out how to get Windows to play the game properly. So if you do find out, please do share.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
I fucked up. Last year I was asked by a client to set up file auditing so they could see who moved/deleted folders. Did my googling, set it up and tested it. But didn't make the logs anywhere near big enough. So I didn't have the data. I'm now restoring the entire File Server from Veeam to check bloody event viewer. It's also the first time I've restored a VM and it's terrifying
On a slightly related note has anyone come across the problem when trying to use File History to restore a folder that the source file names are to long? They clearly weren't to long before they were deleted.
Server 2012 R2?
This is a problem with that OS. You need to mount the folder as a share to shorten the names to work on them/
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I used the guest file restore in the Veeam Management console. Which is weird as it appears the files have been restored. Ive not way of knowing if it's got everything though. There was a lot of small files in multiple folders, but it appears so.
My restoring the whole VM to look at event viewer hasn't helped me though. Backups taken that night and the logs only go back to 16.50. This is a client with 5 users so generate that much traffic. Those are some crazy small defaults.
2016
Not quite following though. Before I used Veeam, I was trying to use File History. File History opens in an explorer window. I would I mount that?
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Not seen it on 2016
I’d mount the folder with the dodgy name in as a share, G or whatever, then go in and do file history restore via that
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Thanks Artaxerxes. Obviously got sorted, but I'll try that when I've got time. Obviously it's a mapped network drive, but not on the server itself.
Anyway after trying multiple GPUs I finally found one that the old HP workstation I bought would boot with. The relief to insert in and not heard the 6 beeps I'd learnt to dread was quite something.
It's nothing like work, but it should do me for a while. Most of my storage is running bare metal for media etc, but it's enough to play with. I think another 64GB of DDR4 EEC is quite cheap on eBay if I need and I've a few RAM slots spare still.
Anyway after trying multiple GPUs I finally found one that the old HP workstation I bought would boot with. The relief to insert in and not heard the 6 beeps I'd learnt to dread was quite something.
It's nothing like work, but it should do me for a while. Most of my storage is running bare metal for media etc, but it's enough to play with. I think another 64GB of DDR4 EEC is quite cheap on eBay if I need and I've a few RAM slots spare still.
ruffneck23
front left
After 9 months in the wilderness, I've just landed a cloud infrastructure 3 month rolling contract.
For more money than I've ever dreamed of earning.
For more money than I've ever dreamed of earning.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
ruffneck23
front left
Cheers man, I was nearly panicking. And they know about my licence and dbs and dont care...Congratulations dude.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
It's taken me an embarrassing amount of time to install Office 2019 on a new laptop. They're the only client not to be on 365. It was on their FS and I just ran very simple script in the past to install and didn't think to much of it. Until it didn't work.
So I now know more about the Office Configuration Tool. Except (and fuck you very much Microsoft) it appears if you create a configuration file with British English you get random errors about it not being connected to the internet. I actually thought I was going crazy until I found a forum post from 2 years describing the problem. Two years this has been known about and it's still not fixed.
So I now know more about the Office Configuration Tool. Except (and fuck you very much Microsoft) it appears if you create a configuration file with British English you get random errors about it not being connected to the internet. I actually thought I was going crazy until I found a forum post from 2 years describing the problem. Two years this has been known about and it's still not fixed.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
I'm pleased to see that an £18 cpu cooler is still quite a lot better than the stock one it comes with. I do recommend a Thermalright Assassin as a cheap way to either reduce heat or - if you've a more recent CPU - boost sustained clock speeds. The 7600 easily boosts to 7600X speeds without any serious tweaking and stays under 90 degrees at a constant 5.25GHz on all cores. It also boosts minimum frame rates in Far Cry 6 by something like 30 FPS. Though that's an outlier, most other gains are more modest.
I can see why Zen4 hasn't made it into laptops yet. The CPU cores can idle down to less than a watt, but the un-core (memory controller, etc.) is still drawing 18W at that point. I've had none of the Ryzen 7000 problems that circulate online. Power use is frugal, boot time is perhaps a bit longer than it was but still about 20s unless you do a reconfigure. I love how "overclocking" is now manually lowering the amount of voltage into the cores so they can boost longer at lower temps.
I can see why Zen4 hasn't made it into laptops yet. The CPU cores can idle down to less than a watt, but the un-core (memory controller, etc.) is still drawing 18W at that point. I've had none of the Ryzen 7000 problems that circulate online. Power use is frugal, boot time is perhaps a bit longer than it was but still about 20s unless you do a reconfigure. I love how "overclocking" is now manually lowering the amount of voltage into the cores so they can boost longer at lower temps.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
This is a nice thing I found on reddit this afternoon as I'm not to busy. You know you get a load of click to run files for Office 365 on fresh installs? Use the Office Deployment Tool and run this as an XML. Nukes all versions of Office already on the machine.
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
ruffneck23
front left
Started today. 
Ive had one 15 minute meeting as the VPN access wont be sorted today, nice.
Ive had one 15 minute meeting as the VPN access wont be sorted today, nice.
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
twiceI clicked on it today, too, before I remembered
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