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Watching the inauguration.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Had plenty of excitement on my lunch break... Free adventure with every meal. I got home and my wife had just about finished making lunch. She was warming mine up in the oven, and set it aside. She wanted to warm hers a little more, so she decided to cook it a bit longer.

Well, lo, and behold her mexican pizza, for lack of a better word, began to swell, and it made contact with the top flames (gas oven) and caught fire, lol. She opened the oven and I was like: Is that a fire?"

It was just too funny.

Funny but assuming everybody is okay as well.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just got in from a day out in the city. We took a bus around the city and saw a bunch of stuff. Was pretty cool.

Videos on YouTube? I'm vicariously on vaca.

Not really seeing how this is a monopoly as you can still go out and buy an android phone or and windows phone and not be bothered by Apple's App Store.

Say you wanted to buy a car, but there was only one manufacturer (GM), then, yes, that would be a monopoly as you wouldn't be able to purchase Ford or Toyota. But since Ford and Toyota and Kia and Tesla and everybody else is able to sell their products, then its not a monopoly.

Same case here. We all choose to go with either Apple or Android or Windows or Whatever. We're not monopolized into buying Apple and therefore buying their Apps.

I don't see a lot of credibility here.

Meraki MDM here as well. We already used Meraki cloud for AP control and it looked like MDM came with it. So I turned it on and started to play with it. Showed it to the boss and now it is standard installation.

Cleaning my server room, jamming to some oldies.

@Grey said in Free Puppies:

Those are huge puppies!

@Minion-Queen said in Free Puppies:

@NerdyDad said in Free Puppies:

That might be a puppy now but will be half a horse later. Holy crow he could eat my little puppy.

And they're just 2 months old.

Update: 3 have found themselves a good home. 1 of the boys is currently on reserve. 1 boy and 1 girl are left, if anybody is interested.

@Texkonc Totally understand. I appreciate it.

I know this is not of the norm but I can't keep the puppies.

Got 6 puppies (3 boys and 3 girls) here that were discovered under Dad-in-laws shed. All of the same litter, about 2 months old. The puppies are a mix, but I'm not for sure what. They are clean, warm, and have been fed.

I can meet somebody in Dallas, if they want at least 1.

Thanks for your help,

@scottalanmiller said in DuoLingo Challenge:

@NerdyDad said in DuoLingo Challenge:

@scottalanmiller said in DuoLingo Challenge:

These clubs don't mention the language, I've noticed. What language is yours?

By the looks of the flag, I am going to guess Portuguese.

The flags are things that you pick.

Oh that sucks. I thought they were based on the languages from their respective countries of origin. Or can you pick a different flag for the club as in comparison to the flag for the language?

So, I normally don't do this, but have to kind of rave about Veeam a little bit.

The other day, I had a server fail one night because of the disk not consolidating. This server is a domain/DHCP server, so its fairly critical for my location. I remoted in and was about to do an instant recovery of the server and get it back up and running again. But it was still running off of the backup machine instead of on the host. It was running and would be fine for a couple of hours. Enough time for me to get some sleep and to actually fix it during the next working day.

The next day, I tried a quick migration through Veeam and it didn't work. I attempted vMotion and we're not licensed for that. I got fed up and called Veeam Support. They were able to see what was going on and decided that a failover was the best strategy to recover. So we failover'ed the server and get it squared away just fine. Thank you support. Now I know what to do next time, if it ever happens again.

Fast forward to yesterday. I attempted to upgrade my Veeam environment from 9.0 to 9.5. Its free for us to upgrade, we get a couple of extra features, so why not? I start at the top of my environment and begin to upgrade. Can't do it because my cloud-storage service hasn't upgraded their connector yet. Okay, so I have to hold off. The upgrade attempted to roll back the changes. It failed and my backups last night didn't run. I call Veeam Support again and they were able to determine that the roll back from the update missed a couple of things. So a few components were out of phase in versions. They were able to rollback those components that were missed last night and get it back up and running again.

The point of the story here is that, I have always liked their software. As long as you have enough space on a NAS or something, you can just about set it and forget it. Because Veeam will keep working, day in and day out. Extremely versatile in scheduling, either internally or by calling it with a PS script. Support is great, knowledgeable, prompt, and polite.

Piece of advice. If you can afford the software, then get the support too. You will not regret it.

@scottalanmiller said in DuoLingo Challenge:

These clubs don't mention the language, I've noticed. What language is yours?

By the looks of the flag, I am going to guess Portuguese.

Might want to put a ring on that finger because she seems to be a keeper.

@scottalanmiller said in New Years Resolutions?:

@Danp said in New Years Resolutions?:

@scottalanmiller said in New Years Resolutions?:

One thing that I hate is that stupid things like tax forms, records, receipts and such that you need to keep around are easily as much as my total life possessions at this point. Where are you supposed to keep all of that stuff.

In the cloud?

It's paper.

You carry an iPhone. You can get something like ScanBot and scan it as a PDF. Or use the NextCloud app and send documents as a picture to your hosted solution. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nextcloud/id1125420102?mt=8

@scottalanmiller said in New Years Resolutions?:

One thing that I hate is that stupid things like tax forms, records, receipts and such that you need to keep around are easily as much as my total life possessions at this point. Where are you supposed to keep all of that stuff.

Nextcloud on a vultr or DO server. Just saying.

@s.hackleman said in New Years Resolutions?:

@Dashrender said in New Years Resolutions?:

@s.hackleman said in New Years Resolutions?:

• Desire less. I have cut my possessions down by about 30-40% percent, and I want to keep going, less overhead, less stress, focus more on experiences and time spent with my daughter and less about buying and maintaining things.

I love this one. While I don't think I really want to cull my desire, I've just exercised more self control and purchased less.

I really do need to start the process of getting rid of my possessions, and then not buying more.

Check out the Minimalist I have slowly moved towards the idea of my version of minimalism and I am much happier.

A little extreme for me too. I like to be prepared but purposefully. I don't need everything and the kitchen sink. I just need what I have to at least get me homebase so that I can get more supplies, be secure, and live somewhat comfortably.

I haven't so much spent less but more have directed my wants to learning more and securing myself. Whether it is over the Internet, financially, or in case of natural disasters.

@Minion-Queen said in New Years Resolutions?:

@NerdyDad said in New Years Resolutions?:

@Minion-Queen said in New Years Resolutions?:

1. Be Purposeful (I need to organize every detail of my day, instead of being haphazard about half the stuff in my life and organized with other parts).
2. Be More Active (I sit for like 18 hours a day not trying to do cross fit just not sit for 18 hours a day) So a standing desk is in the works.
3. KEEP MY EMAIL BOX CLEAN

I can help with some of those:

1. Get Time Management for System Administrators by Thomas A. Limoncelli. He describes real easily how to cut down on distractions, properly prioritize, and to organize your day purposefully.

Already read it! That is a GREAT book. Where I am organized is because of some of his ideas. Just need to do it for everything.

Totally Understand. I run first line support for my location along with my SysAdmin duties at work. At home, I have young kids. Enough said there.

@Minion-Queen said in New Years Resolutions?:

1. Be Purposeful (I need to organize every detail of my day, instead of being haphazard about half the stuff in my life and organized with other parts).
2. Be More Active (I sit for like 18 hours a day not trying to do cross fit just not sit for 18 hours a day) So a standing desk is in the works.
3. KEEP MY EMAIL BOX CLEAN

I can help with some of those:

1. Get Time Management for System Administrators by Thomas A. Limoncelli. He describes real easily how to cut down on distractions, properly prioritize, and to organize your day purposefully. Here it is on Amazon.
2. Totally agree.
3. Good luck with that.