I personally have refused to comply with GDPR. There's a weird irony in that so many non-EU companies (specifically American) felt the need to comply just because, as I saw on SW oh no, the EU gonna come after you somehow! yet when the EU implements a pain in the butt copyright law, suddenly "well, those laws don't apply to us." So I moved my company location from Czech Republic to Russia, and I'll sell to EU citizens anyway. I say, bring it on:

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Turns out that it needed the -Credential flag, which Microsoft doesn't document as a requirement. This worked find...

Add-Computer -DomainName "mydomain" -Credential mydomain\myusername

@nerdydad said in What do you utilize your COLO for? What defined a use for your environment?:

@scottalanmiller Each rack is locked up and only the tenant and the owner can enter the rack.

Still, you can get at them. It's silly and risky. What's the upside to doing your own bench work, off site. Over having bench professionals who are on site and ready to handle things immediately?

And you are asking third party people to deal with the security of other third party people. It's just a lot of risk, but what is the benefit?

@dustinb3403 said in Small colo infrastructure for SaaS:

@pete-s said in Small colo infrastructure for SaaS:

This is how @dustinb3403 suggested replicating VMs between hosts:

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While this is accurate, it also misses on the fact that he would still have his NLS server sitting, collecting backups on whatever schedule.

Other than that it is accurate. In Scott's proposal you are making the shift from migrating the entire workload (which is essentially instant) to migrating the database only.

In his case, the load balancer is the weak link in the chain. Granted these don't fail often but it isn't something you have control over either unless you provide your own for the COLO.

2 haproxy VMs (one per host) and keepalived for failover

@jaredbusch said in Postfix having trouble sending to IPv6:

@fuznutz04 said in Postfix having trouble sending to IPv6:

@dustinb3403 said in Postfix having trouble sending to IPv6:

@fuznutz04 said in Postfix having trouble sending to IPv6:

@dustinb3403 said in Postfix having trouble sending to IPv6:

That would indicate that IPv6 isn't supported.

Not supported on PostFix itself, or in the actual server network config?

Just taking a guess, I would say via the networking.

So I will try this with both IPv4 AND IPv6 listed and see what happens. Specifying IPv4 only works, but I will try both.

Thanks guys.

The point here is does your server have routable IPv6 available to it?

✔ The postfix instance seems to have IPv6 enable.

✔ Your DNS seems to return IPv6 information.

:question_mark: Does your router have IPv6 enabled?

:question_mark: Does your ISP support IPv6?

This server is a Vultr box. Not using the Vultr Firewall. I just noticed in the Vultr manage page, that IPv6 is available, but no subnet has been assigned. That will do it!

@dustinb3403 said in Colo centers around Cleveland, OH:

Hey I didn't say the reasoning was correct, I was just pointing out the reasoning that @travisdh1 said he wanted to use specific vendors.

That was my point, though, that that vendor selection criteria is what is bad. Selecting vendors only by not being good choices? That doesn't make sense.

@JaredBusch - The Endpoint Manager has it Enabled. I set it as disabled to match your settings to see if that fixes it. I will report back later with the results. As always thank you for your assistance.

I use Veracrypt.

It's compatible with TrueCrypt but It uses his own encryption mode by default.

@momurda Docker I think. There's some github scripts that use that port. Pretty specific for a guess like that though.

@travisdh1 said in Frustration with Office 2016 and MS Project Pro 2016:

@dbeato said in Frustration with Office 2016 and MS Project Pro 2016:

@travisdh1 said in Frustration with Office 2016 and MS Project Pro 2016:

@dbeato said in Frustration with Office 2016 and MS Project Pro 2016:

I also used the ODT as below

Download
setup.exe /download configuration.xml

Install
setup.exe /configure configuration.xml

Just to confirm, that did work. Have a cookie on me.

I just had a kitkat so yeah!!

Welcome to the Dark Side.

White Chocolate KitKats are where it's at

@emad-r said in CockroachDB ?:

@scottalanmiller said in CockroachDB ?:

that is definitely a great UI, very nice.

I just added 3 nodes cluster in 2 mins, very easy too.

Bumping up my capacity

Definitely worth more research.

The only real pitfall currently is no admin tool GUI to manage it and create DB with it, all third party and all with errors when connecting.

You can only use there native cli which works for developers, that wish to create new apps with it, but not existing users.

@flaxking said in Check my 2 min audio theory on Containers:

@scottalanmiller said in Check my 2 min audio theory on Containers:

@flaxking said in Check my 2 min audio theory on Containers:

What you're talking about is one aspect of part of implementing DevOps that is often misinterpreted to mean the whole of it. And yes, it is stupid to call that DevOps. That's just Ops using different tools.

I see it as the opposite. Patrick's core DevOps...

"Thanks to the devopsdays conference, the idea of devops seems to live on. While talking with other people about it, I realize that it is difficult to frame it within the current IT landscape. At lot of the ideas are coming from different kinds of emerging technologies (T) and process management (P) approaches.

For me the two most important observations are:

there is a increase in feedback loops between business, all parts of the delivery process and operations thanks to this feedback loops we increase the quality and speed up the flow"

This is the core of DevOps, not well described, but pretty clearly about IT, not development. This is the core. Very, very loosely defined to the point of useless, sure.

Then things like DevOps talking dev itself is the extra, the tack on later. It's not "part of" devops, any more than it is of any operations. And just how operations doesn't cease to exist without developers, neither does DevOps.

I believe everything on that page is all meant to be within the context of companies doing development. But I agree, the core of DevOps is about Ops and Business practices. However, I firmly believe the name DevOps comes from Ops and Development working together, and thus the reason why discussions of DevOps implementation specifics centre around companies doing software development. Though just based on that page, I could see why someone could still take a different view. However, I consider The DevOps Handbook to be the definitive source, rather than notes on the initial discussions.

I think doing that makes DevOps a pointless, useless concept. Hopefully that's not what he intended. As an ops practice, it has tremendous value. As a merger of dev and ops, it's just bluster.

For me it would depend on the redundancy level of the RAID along with the age of the drives. I'd also make sure they're all the same speed (and ideally size). If you're using older drives then I would at least dedicate one hot spare and have at least another spare offline, ready as a replacement.

If you're not under time pressure then why not just order it and see if the hard drives work with it? If there is a firmware issue then you'll find out right there.

I've seen enterprise level hard drives last in excess of 10 years (although I can't vouch for their performance at that point, it may be affected), so I think it's worth a shot.

What account the sql account or the azure login?!

@jaredbusch said in Fedora 29 Workstation...thinkin' ahead:

@scottalanmiller said in Fedora 29 Workstation...thinkin' ahead:

@stuartjordan said in Fedora 29 Workstation...thinkin' ahead:

@scottalanmiller how would you update and install packages without dnf, I use Ubuntu and would be weird if they removed apt...

Ubuntu is headed in the same directly. You'd use SNAP instead of APT. But how it handles things like the kernel, I've no idea.

This process is only for applications. I would assume that you still use apt or dnf for system updates.

There is no apt or dnf... to get updates for the OS, you can run: rpm-ostree upgrade

The specific package adobereader is a horrible example though.

Because until this month, you installed adobereader-update which also installed adobereader first as part of the package.

But now, suddenly, adobereader is all that is needed.

adobereader history.
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adobereader-update history.
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So coming back to this (because I was setting some more stuff up), it seems that Windows DHCP Server does understand the RFC, that is why it actually sees and uses the entire machine ID sent by default.

It is other devices like my EdgeRouters that I have to use the MAC address.

The only problem with the machine ID scheme is that I have no idea what it is before the machine is created.

Granted this is mostly my problem because I always use DHCP reservations instead of static IP addresses (evil fucking things, those).

I continue to force the new systems to use the hardware ID, because I want to only track the MAC address hex info.

@irj said in What's in your bag?:

@scottalanmiller said in What's in your bag?:

@stacksofplates said in What's in your bag?:

@scottalanmiller said in What's in your bag?:

@irj said in What's in your bag?:

@scottalanmiller said in What's in your bag?:

@irj said in What's in your bag?:

@scottalanmiller said in What's in your bag?:

@irj said in What's in your bag?:

@pete-s said in What's in your bag?:

@irj said in What's in your bag?:

@pete-s said in What's in your bag?:

@irj said in What's in your bag?:

One of the best ways to identify a veteran fisherman vs an inexperienced one is by the size of his tackle box. Less is more. The better fisherman I become the less lures I carry. It's the opposite of what most people think..

What do you need other than a laptop to make connector whatever you need to access?

That's pretty funny. Except that a real fisherman has a frickin' boat and nets. Tackle box is for amateurs. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Using a net is much easier than fishing lures. With a net, you only need to find fish. Find bait fisherman needs to find and hook the fish. The sport fisherman needs to find, lure and hook in the fish.

While fishing with a net yeilds the most numbers, obviously it doesn't translate to more pay. The highest paid fishermen are sport fishermen. Obviously the sponsored tournament guys are millionaires, but many local guys do quite well. Sport fishing charters often charge $700-1000 a day. We have about 100 of them just in our county. We are a big tourist area, but most areas have 10-20 of those guys in each area around The US. I know of many fishing guides and charters around the world as well.

I understand what you're saying - I have a friend that's really into fly fishing. But sports fishing is still small potatoes to the commercial fishing industry. They make billions.

Sport fishing has 110 billion dollar industry in just US.

That's like $300 per citizen (including babies, prisoners, etc.), per year. I have no idea what the fishing population is like, but the cost of sport fishing must be enormous. My own experience is that @irj is the only fisher I know, anywhere. Seems like the cost for fishing is huge.

Even assuming as many as one out of ten people are avid fishers, and that seems extremely high, that's $3,000 to fish every year for life.

$3k a year spent on fishing is not uncommon at all.

It couldn't be given the size of the market. But 1:10 people as avid fishers seems extreme.

Really $10k isn't uncommon at all. Some may spend $30-50k on offshore stuff a year easily.

That's crazy.

Boat maintenance, storage, and fuel is really expensive.

Very true. It adds up.

In NY, fishing tends to be waders in a creek. Not ships out at sea.

It's still more expensive than you think for a casual fisherman. Trout fishing requires alot of flies and fly fishering itself is very expensive. Rods go from $200-800.

Alot of guys in NY can even get to $3k in a year. It just depends on how many different types of fishing you do and how often you do it. It's not a cheap hobby

And I like fish (to eat), a lot. And that seems like a lot 🙂

@matteo-nunziati said in Outlook 2016 Export to PST Missing a Lot of Data:

@scottalanmiller said in Outlook 2016 Export to PST Missing a Lot of Data:

@obsolesce said in Outlook 2016 Export to PST Missing a Lot of Data:

You can right-click on the mailbox, or a folder, and in properties, you can see how much data is there versus on the Exchange server.

Most is there, for sure. But definitely not "all".

Confirm. I got always this end result. This is just best effort. Not complete at all.

That's just crappy, especially as Microsoft themselves recommend it.

Everything has been restarted, cant seen any initial problems. I will be investigating later on today though.