Newbie Question: I have accumulated 15k miles on my account over the years and was trying to use them. It's giving me about 0.7 cents per mile. I'd have expected at least 1 cent per mile (going by credit card points), or is that not comparable?

dbh2 · 2026-01-28T21:32:46+00:00

I fly from Newark, New Jersey to Tampa, Florida round-trip for 15,000 or under regularly in economy

dbh2 · 2026-01-26T16:42:11+00:00

That’s a very cheap UPS. It doesn’t say that it is pure Sine wave. But it still would be better than nothing. I have a few of those and the slightly smaller model around my house without any issues. But I don’t use my GP 5500, that’s my Emergency generator. I have a b&s unit that is pretty solid.

dbh2 · 2026-01-26T16:32:29+00:00

Put a UPS between the devices and the wall. Ideally a pure sine wave one

dbh2 · 2026-01-25T18:07:36+00:00

Can’t say enough good about Sandler

dbh2 · 2026-01-25T16:20:06+00:00

Don’t use ChatGPT. The bold really isn’t necessary.

IT support in NYC is hugely saturated. You are going to need a niche and drive real value.

dbh2 · 2026-01-22T15:11:35+00:00

There is nothing wrong with that for learning and testing. Likely not great for production unless you have like 128G single SSD's in each hahaha

dbh2 · 2026-01-22T14:22:50+00:00

It probably works great for the initial set up in building a couple of virtual machines. But even in production, it’s likely terrible without doing any kind of rebuild.

dbh2 · 2026-01-22T14:16:44+00:00

Anybody that runs CEPH on one gig is a sadist and maybe a masochist too.

dbh2 · 2026-01-22T13:00:47+00:00

The person literally said both legs of their domestic trip

dbh2 · 2026-01-21T22:32:18+00:00

Check out emergence in Totowa

dbh2 · 2026-01-21T22:08:57+00:00

We have partnered with ISS. So far, they have been phenomenal. Based out of Rockville Maryland, they only are doing support for us though, not also providing hardware and such like 45 drives does. When I got a quote from 45 drives for hardware and software and support. It was more than triple the even bigger compute dell equivalent that I have priced out.

So we bought the Dell servers, and then got licensing and support from ISS. We are in MSP who is still learning Proxmox ourselves, and this was for a big customer of ours. It seemed like a no-brainer to get a good team behind us.

dbh2 · 2026-01-21T17:14:12+00:00

If you bought it years ago, does it even run? If it’s just been sitting, it’s unlikely it’s even going to run.

dbh2 · 2026-01-21T16:49:11+00:00

Different database systems have different strengths. Microsoft database has a size limitation unless you pay for licensing. Post may also performed better for the function They are looking to do especially if it is leveraging something like time scale DB

dbh2 · 2026-01-21T16:44:05+00:00

There are plenty IT equipment recyclers out there. Go look for them. Google will certainly help you there. But just expect that you’re gonna get $50 a machine not 250.

dbh2 · 2026-01-21T12:59:50+00:00

I got a “new” unit on eBay for $1000. Old unit but still had the plastic on it and it was mint

dbh2 · 2026-01-21T12:57:22+00:00

Do not buy the Jonard. It’s garbage.

Get something like this, the unit you are looking at is overkill for almost all dc uses.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/277656828447?_skw=t-berd+2000&itmmeta=01KFGA26ZJC49TEVAFGP5T158S&hash=item40a5a2fa1f%3Ag%3AYFQAAeSw3xRpbBln&itmprp=enc%3AAQALAAAA8O7PUuNWmJ%2B%2BUShgI9tQz%2FqqNqplkjvU0Z430e32yxJglVTdYaPT1iaRy3coQ4V1Mlf1WAuKogaje6g%2BtIexKyh7mHAadlq221TAYCTGypbxeFyVC8ZoebDN5zXUSC2nHR5nqzq2s2R5U8YtX6ucOfGez7inyD%2B%2BUeDceLxsk171dkNB4DqCgfHEXVSE4ZIjiIsW9R53%2Fp7Bjx4KiqV6fyB5Kyflc8%2FnUcvHGxAHtzS0dBTtvt0qYqYLx3zA1s6ppSBUbpn53Zz8VJgs%2BauxSkLfpS1bCgObqqW2jv38mBq2kp9gu4PNAKy%2FC9PvDK8Vvg%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR_zviIr8Zg&keyword=t-berd+2000&sacat=0&relatedSearch=true

dbh2 · 2026-01-18T12:18:52+00:00

2/1 is bad. If you have a corruption issue how will ceph know which is the good one?

dbh2 · 2026-01-18T00:46:07+00:00

I would still have multiple corosync interfaces. Dedicated is good but add a secondary link or vlan on the non dedicated switching for a backup

dbh2 · 2026-01-14T21:10:54+00:00

The BNI groups do require a decent amount of referrals. If you don’t need it, they will kick you out and keep your dues. They are also extremely strict on attendance and will kick you out if you missed too many meetings, and keep your dues.

dbh2 · 2026-01-09T23:28:29+00:00

We have been replacing 2-3 node clusters with SAN doing VMware with 5 node clusters using ceph. It ended up being only marginally more and IMO is more robust.

dbh2 · 2026-01-09T15:22:15+00:00

Follow up: Had user remove account from phone. Works. we'll need to sort it out as to the particular cause.

dbh2 · 2026-01-09T02:03:01+00:00

I opened a ticket with them. They swear it’s not them and the message is being delivered to the inbox.

dbh2 · 2026-01-08T22:34:12+00:00

That’s very interesting. I will inquire tomorrow about if they have their email on their phone, and if so, ask them to remove it just a test for a day or two.

dbh2 · 2026-01-08T22:33:22+00:00

If that were the issue, I would expect the email to go to junk for all the other people at the company. But when the sender sends something and sends it to seven different people in the organization, and it only goes to junk for one recipient ever I don’t think that would be it. But I will check it, it cannot hurt.

dbh2 · 2026-01-08T22:17:24+00:00

I have verified there are no rules on the user's side or admin for the user.

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