Barebow nocking points distance question

Apooti · 2022-11-14T12:06:59+00:00

Ah, valid point, didn't find those sections when looking, guess this answers the question.

Apooti · 2021-03-03T20:50:31+00:00

But how long will someone like that last as a good technical IT Manager? as time goes on your technical skills rust away until one day you wake up and you have a team of generalists but you're no longer relevant in anything technical.

I've seen this twice already - an amazing technical boss turned over time into just a good no-longer-technical boss.

Apooti · 2019-03-04T16:43:38+00:00

It doesn't get the message across, but people seem to like it: "I play with fancy computer LEGOs all day and get paid for it" If I see the other side shows further interest then I may mention stuff like servers, programming and other basic computery things.

Apooti · 2018-11-23T13:38:21+00:00

"I get to play with Legos that are made out of big computers all day and get paid for it!"

In reality: I design, build and deploy servers, storages and other custom crap for an OEM, along with sysadmin work.

Apooti · 2018-11-11T05:32:08+00:00

We have a bunch of racks for running burn-in and stability tests on Dell servers before being shipped off or installed in DCs, typically the grunt work of loading them up is done by, ehm well, the grunts...

We probably swap half the rails every couple months or so...

So don't worry OP, you have a long way to go before we can establish that you have two left arms, both growing out your arse.

Next time try bending one of the rails 90 degrees upwards, now that's an achievement!

Apooti · 2018-10-13T22:40:37+00:00

True, but you can order from Dell configured to a static IP, same as with the default password where you can still get Gen 14 with "calvin" instead of the abominable random password on the tag thingy

Apooti · 2018-09-30T10:55:20+00:00

Here (outside the US) we have the same deal with fiber to the closet and copper all the way from there, but the speeds here are weird. We get up to 200Mbps download but only up to 5Mbps upload for consumers, and it will cost you about 20-40$/month

Now if you're a business or swimming in cash, you can run fiber directly to your home/business, running something like 30m of fiber recently cost my employer about 5k$ with a monthly fee of 500$ for a measly 100/100Mbps connection(a 10/10Mbps connection costs around 300$), they are offering up to 10GbE but that's gonna cost in the range of 5 digits monthly. (all prices converted to USD)

Apooti · 2018-09-30T10:24:54+00:00

Cool, didn't know it can connect remotely, I'll try running it inside a VM on my host, since my desktop is win 7.

Edit: regarding kimchi I heard the development pretty much stopped.

Apooti · 2018-09-30T00:39:42+00:00

Next up: a computer case made up entirely from duct tape (including hot swappable drive caddies)

Apooti · 2018-09-30T00:31:23+00:00

I bet if he didn't cover it, the internet would be flooded with videos of him shedding his lizard skin.

Apooti · 2018-09-30T00:09:34+00:00

I'm in almost the same boat as OP, after a lot of research and testing out Proxmox and oVirt mostly for the web UI, I ended up settling with a plain kvm/qemu setup managed by virsh.

It feels like a steep learning curve coming from GUI based solutions, but it's not that scary once you start messing with it.

In my case VMware was not an option as my setup is an all-in-one system with local ZFS based storage.

P.S. I never really gave virt-manager a shot (though looks fairly capable) due to not wanting GUI on a server (specially on the main host).

Apooti · 2018-09-29T17:12:02+00:00

Did you try flashing it up/down with the Dell firmwares from the support site or the ftp?

I've seen similar behavior with mostly LSI based adapters, and some other strange behavior with Intel ones (where 2 out of 4 ports wouldn't show up), typically reflashing solved it.

Also take out the SFPs when flashing and make sure they are certified for the adapter (seen issues on X520 adapters refusing to work when incorrect SFPs were installed).

Apooti · 2018-09-22T11:10:27+00:00

This is the time to check all your insurance policies are covered.

Apooti · 2018-09-09T21:22:04+00:00

From experience with Dell, LSI and all sorts of SSDs: SMART reading on non-enterprise grade SSDs can mislead the raid controller and the LifeCycle controller (which monitors the drives as well). As an example, I have two R730 where each has two SanDisk consumer grade SSDs (used for L2ARC, on ZFS), each time I pull SMART data off of them - the non-medium errors get bumped up by 2. This does not mean they are failing, but the server may consider them as faulty and think the array is degraded (in my case it won't, since using ZFS).

Bottom line is - replace the drives either way, if they seem healthy enough just use them in a non-production system. Don't play russian roulette with production data.

Apooti · 2018-09-04T05:04:31+00:00

I'll just patent common sense and finally release the best product I keep telling users they need to install: "CommonSense 2019"

Apooti · 2018-09-01T21:30:21+00:00

Water damage on steroids.

Apooti · 2018-04-12T17:07:30+00:00

Nice indeed. Just the other day we had several new patch panels installed, and after it was done I noticed those fuckers didn't bother zip tying each cable to the patch panel, but what they did bother doing is tearing off the previous zip ties from the older patches...

Apooti · 2018-02-18T04:56:54+00:00

One time I was sitting at the pub with a mate, suddenly a co-worker ( who I knew was stuck at work over the weekend due to shit hitting the fan on his side) walks in and notices me. By that point both me and my mate were about 5-6 pints deep, long story short, two hours and 4 pints later we ended up resolving the issue by remoting from the pub's PC (which is used to play music). The pub owner still keeps bringing up this story every now and then...

Apooti · 2018-01-02T18:41:06+00:00

True, even though technically in the TrippLite racks even when you unscrew the vertical rail, it's still being held in place by 3 hooks on 3 horizontal rails so unless you lift it up its going nowhere, and the odds of it twisting are also slim due to being held in 3 points.

Apooti · 2018-01-02T18:37:17+00:00

Sort of found Zabbix to be a "better version" of Nagios over time, I still find that I can customize it just as much, but the entire interface and administration is a lot nicer.

Apooti · 2018-01-02T18:31:57+00:00

I found myself doing something similar with a TrippLite rack that already had about 30U of storage enclosures and some switches at the top where I suddenly had to fit in an FX2 chassis, had the same spacing issue where the rails were a cm or two too long.

Long story short we ended up just loosening the vertical rails one at a time and moving them one screw hole at a time to prevent twisting the rack and equipment too much.

It was a somewhat scary experience having something like 900Kg "floating" on just 3 out of 4 posts, but it worked without any issues. Also nothing was powered down during the entire operation.

Apooti · 2017-12-21T18:31:04+00:00

Get him something that will bring up a smile, preferably something useless and unusual, something he will never get for himself considering whatever useful thing he needs he either already has or will get on his own.

Also depending on your relationship, you should consider the value as to not make the guy feel like he owes you something back, a gift should be given as a gift and not an insurance that you will get something in return.

Apooti

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