The lonely tech post thread.

[Artaxerxes]

I’ve been off for 3 weeks garden leave and next week is my official contract end and I’ve got my pay check.

Which mean I’ve wiped the work laptop and I’m going through installing VS and Git so I can use it for studying and writing

 

[UnderOpenSky]

I got to keep my laptop from my last job which was nice. The poor thing got intune wiped so many times when I was studying for MD 102.

I start my new role next week. I'm already receiving all the emails/being invited to meetings. The whole thing seems to have taken forever. Can't remember if I mentioned, but there was a bit of a switch in role, got to interview and was asked about cybersecurity stuff. Up to that point, I thought they wanted someone to get skilled in azure, but it seems priorities changed. So apparently I'm going to be a security and infrastructure technical specialist, which is hilarious really.

I'm also very aware I'm about to give up the easy life. When I started this job, I knew it wasn't going to tax me technically, but there's all the organisation specific stuff that takes a while to learn. Now I'm getting on top of that, frankly, I don't have to work hard at all. Which will change come Monday. I've seen the jobs list now for the technical team, as well as all of my own learning I'm going to have to be doing.

 

[Artaxerxes]

I kept the laptop from my previous place to, the wife is using it and I know she’ll want an upgrade cos I used it till it fell to bits, 4 or 5 years

Sounds like a good role to have. I’m really finding the market challenging this year. I’m also not use if I’m a) shit b) pissed off all the recruiters c) the economy is absolutely ranked or d) things have changed since covid cos I’m getting no harassment from agencies and I was getting so much of that a few years ago.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

I kept the laptop from my previous place to, the wife is using it and I know she’ll want an upgrade cos I used it till it fell to bits, 4 or 5 years

Sounds like a good role to have. I’m really finding the market challenging this year. I’m also not use if I’m a) shit b) pissed off all the recruiters c) the economy is absolutely ranked or d) things have changed since covid cos I’m getting no harassment from agencies and I was getting so much of that a few years ago.

The NHS for some bizarre reason, seems to prefer to recruit and train from inside. It's wonderfully old-fashioned. Even when they try and do it externally, they do a terrible job of putting the jobs where people who might not be looking for one in the NHS might find it.

Are you leaving this role without one lined up? Hope you find something soon.

 

[Artaxerxes]

The NHS for some bizarre reason, seems to prefer to recruit and train from inside. It's wonderfully old-fashioned. Even when they try and do it externally, they do a terrible job of putting the jobs where people who might not be looking for one in the NHS might find it.

Are you leaving this role without one lined up? Hope you find something soon.

Yeah they made me redundant so fuck em. We’re ok for now and next few months but getting a bit nervous as you’d imagine

The wife’s working for the NHS and it’s labs and her recruitment process sounds like a nightmare

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Yeah they made me redundant so fuck em. We’re ok for now and next few months but getting a bit nervous as you’d imagine

The wife’s working for the NHS and it’s labs and her recruitment process sounds like a nightmare

Jesus. Well good luck searching.

Yes, having been through it twice in a short space of time, it certainly different and very long winded. Why have a CV when we can make you do a long application form where you have to hit the person spec? ChatGPT was quite handy.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Spotted on reddit...

 

[UnderOpenSky]

So I'm thinking of moving my home lab from vSphere to Nutanix as that's the direction the new job will be going. If I'm reading it right, though, it's beastly. Each hypervisor needs 20GB, which seems quite full on compared to ESXi.

 

[Chz]

So I'm thinking of moving my home lab from vSphere to Nutanix as that's the direction the new job will be going. If I'm reading it right, though, it's beastly. Each hypervisor needs 20GB, which seems quite full on compared to ESXi.

Nutanix is probably more relevant for a big site, but Proxmox is great for playing about with on lesser systems.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Nutanix is probably more relevant for a big site, but Proxmox is great for playing about with on lesser systems.

It certainly seems very popular for homelabs. I've even seen post with people running it on an N100 very low power CPU.

Are you moving away from vmware at work?

 

[Chz]

It certainly seems very popular for homelabs. I've even seen post with people running it on an N100 very low power CPU.

Are you moving away from vmware at work?

We will be, but we'd just lined up a replacement VxRail system (only now installing) when the Broadcom news came through. We have 5 years to nail down the replacement, other than it won't be VMWare.

 

[newbie]

I'm seeking web design advice as I seem unable to persuade google or SE to produce the right results.

Let's suppose I have an HTML page with two tabs. In reality there's more tabs and more divs but this gets the nub I hope. It's intended for use on a phone, so needs to respond properly to pinch actions.
One tab contains a full-screen Leaflet map, overlaid by a buttons div made in HTML (ie not part of the Leaflet code).
The other tab has a header div and a filler div which can contain any of img, text or iframe.

I want to be able to pinch to zoom whatever is in the filler div, while everything else remains as default size.

When the meta viewport is set to "user-scalable=no" the map zooms properly, the overlay buttons remain at default size as does the header div, all of which is what I want.
However the contents of filler div is not zoomable.
If I set to "user-scalable=yes" I observe:
on the map tab, pinching the buttons div expands both the buttons and the map, leading to pixelation of the map;
pinching outside the buttons div zooms the map properly and has no effect on the buttons;
on the other tab pinching anywhere expands both header and filler container as well as filler contents.
If the filler contents is an iframe, the viewport "user-scalable" setting of the iframe contents has no effect (which baffles me!)

So ideally I'd like keep "user-scalable=no" and override it for just the contents of the filler div.

 

[Orang Utan]

I recently changed ISPs for faster fibre-optic dl/ul speeds, but my PS4 keeps losing the connection, causing me to restart the router. It works when I do this, but i have to reconnect with other devices using the password, which is a pain in the arse. Anyone know if there’s anything I can do to stop it losing network connection. My Chromebook does it occasionally too.

 

[souljacker]

I recently changed ISPs for faster fibre-optic dl/ul speeds, but my PS4 keeps losing the connection, causing me to restart the router. It works when I do this, but i have to reconnect with other devices using the password, which is a pain in the arse. Anyone know if there’s anything I can do to stop it losing network connection. My Chromebook does it occasionally too.

Sounds like a shitty router. If you got a 3rd party one, that would help

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Yes, I'd replace the router. The ones supplied are often terrible. You could even seperate the router from WiFi and get cheap wired router and WiFi access point and place the app in a more central location.

 

[two sheds]

Have to say that the Fritz router that comes with Zen is very good. They're offering an 'internet in every room' type thing but it's good enough for me now - I have to place the antennas to avoid the 2.5-foot thick stone walls but I'm not sure anything would get through them.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

A drill. A drill would get through them.

 

[two sheds]

it would as well. They're rab construction (stone/clay/stone, like Cornish hedges but with mortar between the stone) and I've heard that if you try to drill through what starts as a 5-cm hole on one side ends up as a 50-cm wide hole on the other side.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

it would as well. They're rab construction (stone/clay/stone, like Cornish hedges but with mortar between the stone) and I've heard that if you try to drill through what starts as a 5-cm hole on one side ends up as a 50-cm wide hole on the other side.

Probably not the best for running cat 6 then.

 

[Orang Utan]

Yes, I'd replace the router. The ones supplied are often terrible. You could even seperate the router from WiFi and get cheap wired router and WiFi access point and place the app in a more central location.

I don’t understand any of that.

 

[Orang Utan]

Sounds like a shitty router. If you got a 3rd party one, that would help

We have a vodaphone one. What’s a good 3rd party router?

 

[existentialist]

We have a vodaphone one. What’s a good 3rd party router?

Draytek Vigor

 

[Sasaferrato]

Can someone please tell me what the difference is between a hub and a router, or are they the same thing?

Also, what is a switch?

 

[existentialist]

Can someone please tell me what the difference is between a hub and a router, or are they the same thing?

Also, what is a switch?

A router, essentially, connects two different networks together (eg a local area network and a broadband one)

A hub is a way of providing multiple connections into an Ethernet network.

A switch works like a hub, only it creates multiple separate networks and (optionally) routes traffic between them rather than having traffic on every network go to every other network.

An up to date networking professional will be along shortly to drive a bus through various sweeping assumptions I have made here

 

[UnderOpenSky]

It gets confusing because when we talk about routers in the home, they are in fact combination devices. They're a router, switch and wireless access point all in one device.

Hubs haven't been used for many, many years as switches do the same thing, but better (not technically true, but close enough)

 

[Chz]

Hubs are quite a rarity these days. Just about every simple network device is a switch now. For the main reason that because of its "broadcast everything everywhere" nature, a hub gets bandwidth limited much faster than a switch does. A gigabit switch is probably good to stream a Gb to each port seamlessly. On a hub, one port transmitting a Gb means all ports are receiving a Gb and there's nothing left for their own traffic. Ultimately, you're not likely to run into a hub in 2024.

And in the middle ground between switches and routers are the managed switches. Which have a limited routing capability based on VLANs, but no complex routing rules.

 

[two sheds]

I was actually going to ask whether a hub would be as good but I searched and saw that they're now switches. Ta for explanation though I had no idea how they were different

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Hubs are quite a rarity these days. Just about every simple network device is a switch now. For the main reason that because of its "broadcast everything everywhere" nature, a hub gets bandwidth limited much faster than a switch does. A gigabit switch is probably good to stream a Gb to each port seamlessly. On a hub, one port transmitting a Gb means all ports are receiving a Gb and there's nothing left for their own traffic. Ultimately, you're not likely to run into a hub in 2024.

And in the middle ground between switches and routers are the managed switches. Which have a limited routing capability based on VLANs, but no complex routing rules.

One good thing about doing the those CompTIA certs quite soon after I started doing this is it introduced the theory behind things like broadcast domains and collision domains and other really basic network stuff. I'm often surprised how colleagues who know more than me in almost everything have some odd gaps around stuff like this.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Thank you all.

So the thing that the wire coming into the house is connected to is a router?

The only thing physically connected to it is the phone base station.

Wirelessly the PC is getting:

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Thank you all.

So the thing that the wire coming into the house is connected to is a router?

The only thing physically connected to it is the phone base station.

Wirelessly the PC is getting:

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It will be one of the combination devices that I mentioned. But they are generally called routers, even if they do far more, such as broadcast your wifi.