@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
working tickets. fixing printers (i hate printers)
coffee pot is full!
Well, there was your problem -- the coffee pot is full! The coffee pot status should be: refill in progress!
Edit: My coffee status for today is: Installing Java.
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Ended up in the ER until 3 in the morning, got there at 7:30 ish. after waiting in excruciating pain in a wheel chair (cause I could barely walk) for almost 3.5hours I got back to a room, another 2 and i finally got meds, Doctors are thinking it's a slipped disc, but I refused to do an MRI for couple reasons, 1. there were 12 people in front of me, (roughly 9-hour wait) and 2. I'm not paying out of pocket for an MRI that's just too much money. the doctor even said it's expensive. Home with new "how to care for this issue" paperwork and waiting to hear back on follow-up appointment happy friday eve
Yeesh. take it easy there cowboy! Seriously though, get to feeling better and if the doc contacts your insurance and pre-approves it, will they pay? (I ask because some will and some won't).
I'm in-between health insurance at the moment
Oof. Owch. Take three of these and call me in the morning. 
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Anyone been to Rackspace's website recently? I forgot that they even existed. I went to their website and realized why...
This looks like an AI generated page of gibberish if you said "make a generic MSP page that says nothing."
I'm seeing rumblings that business continuity for anyone on their Hosted Exchange is a total loss. So, if they are not Outlook enabled and thus able to export their mailbox to a .PST file, or other such client that can do so, they are totally and completely hooped.
Sacrosanct Edict #1: One shall never lose the data. One shall save the data. One shall always back up the data. One shall always test restore the data. One shall lose job if lose the data.
^^^
In this case, one has to wonder how long RS is going to be around as the rest of their businesses get hit with the lack of trust.Now, the G00g lost a freaking huge amount of mailboxes something like a decade ago. We had a customer impacted by that. No redress. None. Back then there wasn't a disaster recovery structure in place where they could back up their data short of making regular .PST files. So, gone. It was all in the G.
For personal backups, I'm using MailStore Home (https://www.mailstore.com/en/products/mailstore-home/). They have some business offerings that might be worth looking at regardless of your provider.
Thanks for this.
I have a client that doesn’t want to do M365 backups because they think a cloud provider won’t lose data.
Remind them that Microsoft lost MY data!!
Backstory?
Prepare for incoming book. lol.
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Anyone been to Rackspace's website recently? I forgot that they even existed. I went to their website and realized why...
This looks like an AI generated page of gibberish if you said "make a generic MSP page that says nothing."
I'm seeing rumblings that business continuity for anyone on their Hosted Exchange is a total loss. So, if they are not Outlook enabled and thus able to export their mailbox to a .PST file, or other such client that can do so, they are totally and completely hooped.
Sacrosanct Edict #1: One shall never lose the data. One shall save the data. One shall always back up the data. One shall always test restore the data. One shall lose job if lose the data.
^^^
In this case, one has to wonder how long RS is going to be around as the rest of their businesses get hit with the lack of trust.Now, the G00g lost a freaking huge amount of mailboxes something like a decade ago. We had a customer impacted by that. No redress. None. Back then there wasn't a disaster recovery structure in place where they could back up their data short of making regular .PST files. So, gone. It was all in the G.
For personal backups, I'm using MailStore Home (https://www.mailstore.com/en/products/mailstore-home/). They have some business offerings that might be worth looking at regardless of your provider.
Thanks for this.
I have a client that doesn’t want to do M365 backups because they think a cloud provider won’t lose data.
Remind them that Microsoft lost MY data!!
Backstory?
Prepare for incoming book. lol.
Heh ... we had a client lose their business continuity about a decade ago when the G00g had a major outage. No phone numbers to get anywhere with them. It was a ticket. Eventually, the silence from the G00g was a GFY.
They had enough documentation outside of their mail system to marginally pull things together but it was a huge hit against them.
Yeah, Cloud. It's da'bomb. ;0)
Unfortunately we're getting pressure from the state level down that is wanting us to go to the cloud. We just disabled our 2 AD Controllers that wer ein Azure because of problems they were causing.
The psychology behind the marketing push and mental formation is nothing short of amazing.
I've had peeps stare at me like I was from Mars because we focus on on-premises workloads including Exchange.
"Why?"
Then all the sputum like "Modern", "Agile", and other such Gummy Bears get dropped as convincers meanwhile not one, "this is why cloud is better than on-premises and its payback" ever gets mentioned.
He who has the data owns the data. He who owns the data can do with the data what he pleases. He who has the data can also lose it and tell peeps to GFY when they are panicking because their entire business just went down the toilet. #SMH
EDIT: Case and Point: Musk going on about playing vid games in a TESLA. Really? I don't give a flying f*ck about that. I want a car that will get me from A to B with the occasional 5 second or better run to 110KM/H or even a 13 second or better quarter mile.
The rest is all FLUFF. FEATURES ARE FLUFF. They mean SFA to a business's bottom line (I have new clue in my dyslexic brain where that apostrophe goes). That just goes over most peep's head.
Anything we can do a in a $500 a month Azure VM, I can do in a $10 a month Vultr VM..
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
hypervisor rebuilt & vm's moved back over.
success=yes
Nice. 
It's always great when things behave themselves after we whack them with a hammer a few times.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
hypervisor rebuilt & vm's moved back over.
success=yesNice.
Yes,.. yes,.. whack it again!
Gladly:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
We're the same almost, except our temps are degrees celcius (38=100).
This will be the first Christmas in probably 5 years where I haven't been able to wear shorts and a tee shirt, lol.
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying out new tenor saxophone mouthpieces today
Sweet! I play(ed) Tenor & Alto Sax. I still have the sax.... sadly it's mostly unused these days.
Never too late to start playing again!
I need to pick it up. My son may be interested in playing the Guitar, so if he wants to learn, i'll pick that up with him.
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Writing an article on why QuickBooks
can'tshouldn't be usedon synced storage when you have multiple usersanywhere..
Fixed that for you.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Oy... now that the holidays are over things have kicked back into high gear around here. I came in at 5am to patch, and had meetings from 8:30 to 11:30.
Tomorrow is already stacking up to be another day of great fun.
Same here. No more weekends free for a while.
That's entirely too much fun. Gotta make some music some time, you know.
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So last week I rolled out DUO 2-factor authentication. Happy to say that I only had 1 user with any issues, and that only required a simple delete / recreate account. I feel safer already.
Duo. My place has been on it for 2-3 years now.
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Having my mind blown that the CCNA certification doesn't bring up anything about SNMP community strings....
At least according to an employee...
From my latest round of Cisco CCNA Training (circa 2001), it wasn't mentioned then either, lol.
But like... the history of SNMP and networking... and the damn fact that everything and their cousins includes "public" and "private" community strings by default.....
Ssshhhhhh! Don't give all my secrets away.
There's been some odd earthquakes on the lake where I live here lately. Something like 3 in the last 2 months... This is central Georgia in the US. Really weird.
I think somebody woke up all the giant catfish sleeping in the lake.
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Just got home from the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Definitely recommend!
got any photos? I'd love to see it. What state is in ??
Got a lot of 'em, but it's late and time to get to bed. Here's one awhile of the nice desert scenery and mountains in the background we found on the way home:
Am I the only one that suddenly turns into a 5 year old when I see this picture?
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
At the data center getting the final stuff set up for our disaster recovery system / 3rd backup.
Sweet! I wish you luck and good testing! ... You are going to test it, right? 
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
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Experimenting with mdadm while recovering from Covid.
OH.... At a glance, I thought you had misspelled MDMA...
Ha!
The last couple of days have seen me sitting in my chair resting and being useless. I'm returning to work tomorrow and thankfully have no commute :).
We like no commute. My last few weeks have been just bouncing from one project to the next.
Yay, Tuesday. That is all.
Things have been crazy around here with Vendors being stupid, and higher ups knee-jerking about "major security vulnerabilities" in apps that we don't have available off-site.
Finally got all the fires of the last week and a Monday put out.
@scottalanmiller
Analogy: I crash car into a tree, blame mechanic.
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Finally figuring out how to get my Amcrest video doorbells actually working with Shinobi.
Nice!
How does Shinobi compare with ZM? I haven't had a chance to test out Shinobi yet. ZM works good enough for my home stuff.
I've never really used either before.
My attempt at figuring out the Amcrest doorbell use with Shinobi hasn't panned out so well. Frustrating when I can view the feed in VLC easily.
It took me a minute to get my ancient camera hooked up to ZM, but once I figured it out, it's worked great.
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Finally figuring out how to get my Amcrest video doorbells actually working with Shinobi.
Nice!
How does Shinobi compare with ZM? I haven't had a chance to test out Shinobi yet. ZM works good enough for my home stuff.
I've never really used either before.
My attempt at figuring out the Amcrest doorbell use with Shinobi hasn't panned out so well. Frustrating when I can view the feed in VLC easily.
It took me a minute to get my ancient camera hooked up to ZM, but once I figured it out, it's worked great.
So after working with both Shinobi and ZoneMinder for a couple of days, Shinobi was the clear winner for me.
I never got the previews working in ZoneMinder for some reason. Probably not going to pursue ZM any further since Shinobi is now working how I want it to.
Cool. That's the big part I'll have to pick up Shinobi for one of my next projects.
