What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse I just made a video today about why we use desktops as servers now!
Well first off I get this message:
Uhm.. okay.
Desktops as servers; in some cases - they are useful. Sadly the issue I am running into is that the twelve year old computer has more cores than anything I have available to me in the office,.. I am running an old Dell with 8-cores, and everything I have only has 4-cores.
Were I running several rPi VMs that might be fine, but I am running full Windows or Linux for testing and Ham Radio. It's working but a little strained and I can't do much more without maxing the system resources out.
Oh well.. will find something some time..
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Realizing that I have left my Ubuntu VM off for to long. This means I have forgotten to keep it updated and it cannot be updated.. Ooops.. Guess that is a lesson learned.
Time to back up data and kill it.. not much of a VM anyway.. so - something to learn on.
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse I just made a video today about why we use desktops as servers now!
Well first off I get this message:
Uhm.. okay.
Desktops as servers; in some cases - they are useful. Sadly the issue I am running into is that the twelve year old computer has more cores than anything I have available to me in the office,.. I am running an old Dell with 8-cores, and everything I have only has 4-cores.
Were I running several rPi VMs that might be fine, but I am running full Windows or Linux for testing and Ham Radio. It's working but a little strained and I can't do much more without maxing the system resources out.
Oh well.. will find something some time..
What Ham radio tasks is using so many resources?
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Having a video game evening with my daughter.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse I just made a video today about why we use desktops as servers now!
Well first off I get this message:
Uhm.. okay.
Desktops as servers; in some cases - they are useful. Sadly the issue I am running into is that the twelve year old computer has more cores than anything I have available to me in the office,.. I am running an old Dell with 8-cores, and everything I have only has 4-cores.
Were I running several rPi VMs that might be fine, but I am running full Windows or Linux for testing and Ham Radio. It's working but a little strained and I can't do much more without maxing the system resources out.
Oh well.. will find something some time..
What Ham radio tasks is using so many resources?
The basic of it is that it isn't so much the Ham Radio applications - but the Host: Windows. While there is a Linux equivalent to the one application function and appearance is vastly different.
Most of the applications written for Ham Radio are written by Ham Radio Operators themselves, so they use what they feel they can learn or already know as a programming language. Some of these don't port well to Linux from Windows, or iOS from Android.
Ham Radio is a hobby,..so there generally isn't much profit in it unless you are a 'commercial radio manufacturer'
Windows needs a certain level of resources to run. Windows 10 you could trim it down, but most are being forced to move to Windows 11 due to support.
Now, if you are aware of things you can do with Windows 10,.. you can get by with continuing to use Win10, but of course you accept some risk doing so.
You can move to Linux, but for many in the hobby, Linux is more then they will understand having been in the Windows eco-system for so long, and limited support or applications.
I have been able to shift between Windows and Linux as it is something I've done for years. But there are some aspects that still escape and frustrate me...
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@gjacobse How can using the easiest OS be too much for anyone, let alone HAM radio people? Seems like the perfect fit. That's the exact crowd that I'd expect to have been on Xenix in the mid 1990s and moved to Linux or BSD in the late 1990s. What software is on Windows and not on Linux? I'm looking on wikipedia for HAM software and it seems like it's all Linux these days.
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I had a fun night last night adding storage to a server. When I went to move VM storage location, found a checkpoint (Hyper-V, ugh) from 2018.... Took a long while to coalesce.
This morning everything had finally coalesced and moved to the new storage array. Only took ~10 hours.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I had a fun night last night adding storage to a server. When I went to move VM storage location, found a checkpoint (Hyper-V, ugh) from 2018.... Took a long while to coalesce.
This morning everything had finally coalesced and moved to the new storage array. Only took ~10 hours.
You're using Hyper-V? How's that been going and what management tools are you using?
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I had a fun night last night adding storage to a server. When I went to move VM storage location, found a checkpoint (Hyper-V, ugh) from 2018.... Took a long while to coalesce.
This morning everything had finally coalesced and moved to the new storage array. Only took ~10 hours.
You're using Hyper-V? How's that been going and what management tools are you using?
Not by choice. Existing customers and just the built-in management tools.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I had a fun night last night adding storage to a server. When I went to move VM storage location, found a checkpoint (Hyper-V, ugh) from 2018.... Took a long while to coalesce.
This morning everything had finally coalesced and moved to the new storage array. Only took ~10 hours.
You're using Hyper-V? How's that been going and what management tools are you using?
I had some lunatic INSTALL it in the last two months! W.T.F.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I had a fun night last night adding storage to a server. When I went to move VM storage location, found a checkpoint (Hyper-V, ugh) from 2018.... Took a long while to coalesce.
This morning everything had finally coalesced and moved to the new storage array. Only took ~10 hours.
You're using Hyper-V? How's that been going and what management tools are you using?
I had some lunatic INSTALL it in the last two months! W.T.F.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I had a fun night last night adding storage to a server. When I went to move VM storage location, found a checkpoint (Hyper-V, ugh) from 2018.... Took a long while to coalesce.
This morning everything had finally coalesced and moved to the new storage array. Only took ~10 hours.
You're using Hyper-V? How's that been going and what management tools are you using?
I had some lunatic INSTALL it in the last two months! W.T.F.
Was it installed properly, IE with the Hyper-V iso and not via a Windows Server Role installation?
