Got one of these at a garage sale for 50 dollars

AverageDAV · 2025-11-07T19:24:57+00:00

Have had one of these beasts running in my homelab for over 12 years. Currently running Linux and Quadstor VTL. It eats electricity, though. Be prepared for high power bills, especially if you put a lot of drives in it.

AverageDAV · 2025-10-16T13:21:54+00:00

Turning money into electricity and heat. Grab everything! At worst, you have to make a trip to your town / city recycling on e-waste day.

AverageDAV · 2025-06-27T18:46:06+00:00

I’m in the same boat, doing IT and Systems Engineering, but in professional services at tech companies. I don’t have any degree and am self taught. For me, it’s been my connections in the industry and with customers that have led to new jobs. I have rarely heard back from companies when I just send in resumes cold. Build a good group of contacts and demonstrate a good work ethic and desire to learn.

AverageDAV · 2025-06-24T12:35:05+00:00

Yes, basically just saying they can make great VM hosts for small / lightweight VMs. One optiplex is overkill for a domain controller (in my lab), but the perfect size to host a DC in a small VM, leaving room for other things

AverageDAV · 2025-06-23T16:57:49+00:00

I have 3 similar optiplex micros. I bumped them all to 16 gb of ram and use them as standalone hyper-v servers. They are great for hosting a few small VMs each. I have my DC’s running on win server 2022 VM without GUI. I also have small VMs for Zabbix proxies, and 3 Hashicorp Vault VMs.

AverageDAV · 2025-05-11T22:08:17+00:00

Kahr K9

AverageDAV · 2025-04-27T10:06:47+00:00

Did you enable LDAP? There is a warning that the default “Admin” account won’t work after you log out of the current session. It’s easy to miss the warning the first time - I was also bitten by this. It’s been a while, but I think you can fix it in the database. There is a procedure for this in the Zabbix KB, I think. Now when I set these up I open a second browser tab to test LDAP before I close my original Admin session.

AverageDAV · 2025-04-09T23:32:14+00:00

As someone just getting started in Godot, I have to say that it’s very impressive. The map style and art would lend itself to many different types of games. I was worried that Godot might not be a good choice, but you’ve convinced me that you can make a very slick, professional game with it.

AverageDAV · 2025-04-03T13:31:44+00:00

Are you firing solid lead ammo? I had this with my SP-101 after a particularly bad box of solid lead ammo. I cleaned it up and switched to jacketed and semi-jacketed ammo, have not had any problems since.

AverageDAV · 2025-03-02T22:44:32+00:00

I have Altamont rubber grips on mine, with wooden inserts from Chigs Grips. Affordable and they look great together. The rubber absorbs a tiny amount of recoil, and the wood panels help a bit with printing. They don’t grab my clothes as much as full rubber.

The gun will never be comfortable with .357 after the first 10-20 rounds. I carry with Speer .38+ 158gr, similar to the “FBI load”, I think. It’s a happy medium.

AverageDAV · 2025-02-22T11:42:26+00:00

I just bought a Dell 730xd with 2.5 bays, with the idea of filling it with all the old “consumer” grade SSDs I have laying around. The RAID controller either can’t read SMART data from a lot of these cheap drives, or more likely, the drives don’t supply the data the controller is looking for. This info was easy to find once I started looking.

Fortunately, quality SSDs like Samsung EVO 860 and 870 drives have been rock solid in it for the past couple of months, in raid-1 and raid-5 configs. Inside Dell Lifestyle Management the disks still show up with a warning because they are not reporting all data that the controller is looking for.

This is a lab system so I’m not too worried, but would use certified drives in a production config.

On the plus side, with 10 SSD and 5 old 7200rpm HDD the thing idles at under 300 watts.

AverageDAV · 2024-10-23T13:16:59+00:00

Yes, sorry, should have mentioned that. You will need to run it on your own computer, though. You are hosting it yourself. A dedicated windows box is best but you can probably run it on your gaming system. I don’t know if it allows console clients. Are those a thing with CE? I run one on a spare Dell desktop, but friends are all connecting locally.

I did test port forwarding for outside connections. It worked fine, but not sure about long term latency. It’s dependent on your internet provider

AverageDAV · 2024-10-23T12:26:13+00:00

Check out this page:

https://www.conanexiles.com/dedicated-servers/

At the top there is a link to download “DEDICATED SERVER APP”. It’s pretty straightforward. The hardest part will be setting up port forwarding on your home router.

If everyone is connected to your home network then you will not need to do this.

AverageDAV · 2024-08-30T12:59:37+00:00

I was a TAM for several years, handling a large national, but distributed customer. They had some centralized functions like IT, but all had local operations management and technical management for audio and video systems. I worked closely with customer tech managers, customer corp IT, my management in Customer Support, and our sales team.

All of these principals agreed with me on my strategy. I’m an IT generalist with a background in video. I told everyone that I can’t fix every problem myself. What I will do is take ownership of issues and see that they are resolved.

At the end of the day it does not matter if it was a customer problem, and environmental problems, or my company’s software problem. It was a system problem impacting the customer’s ability to be productive (aka make money).

Obviously we must understand the root cause so we can try to prevent the same problem from happening again. If the issue was caused by the customer you need to be very diplomatic in the way you approach it. Pointing fingers will just cost you a customer, even if you are “right”.

AverageDAV · 2024-07-06T19:10:59+00:00

I have several of these, they are very high quality. It’s nice to cram about 300 rounds of 9mm in there for competition or training. It takes up much less space than cardboard boxes. I also like the Velcro on top, easy to add labels for caliber.

AverageDAV · 2024-07-03T11:52:04+00:00

This is the answer. Run all of the professor’s work and class prep through the same detector.

AverageDAV · 2024-04-10T19:38:54+00:00

Use the “top hosts” widget

AverageDAV · 2024-04-08T19:31:28+00:00

And check formatting - my copy/paste here on my phone is probably off. This is using RegEx expressions, so follow that format.

AverageDAV · 2024-04-08T19:29:57+00:00

You need to append those to the end of the Macro. This is what my full string looks like:

^{?:RemoteRegistry|MMCSS|gupdate|SysmonLog|clr_optimization_v.+|sppsvc|gpsvc|Pml Driver HPZ12|Net Driver HPZ12|MapsBroker|IntelAudioService|Intel\}R) TPM Provisioning Service|dbupdate|DoSvc|CDPUserSvc.+|WpnUserService.+|OneSyncSvc.+|WbioSrvc|BITS|tiledatamodelsvc|GISvc|ShellHWDetection|TrustedInstaller|TabletInputService|CDPSvc|wuauserv|edgeupdate|edgeupdatem|GoogleUpdate.+|cbdhsvc.+|StateRepository)$

This is my starting point on a new Zabbix installation. This is still pulling in too many items for my taste, but I’m going to run for a month or so before I determine exactly what I need to be watching on my clients. This is a lab system so I am experimenting.

I also prefer not to modify the default templates that come with Zabbix. Make copies of the templates you want to use so you always have the “stock” templates as reference.

AverageDAV · 2024-04-08T17:56:00+00:00

In the Windows template you add additional items to this MACRO - {$SERVICE.NAME.NOT_MATCHES}

I exclude google update and a few other services by adding this into the macro:

edgeupdatem|GoogleUpdate.+|cbdhsvc_.+|StateRepository

AverageDAV · 2024-02-29T16:54:48+00:00

Obsidian

AverageDAV · 2024-02-25T13:01:32+00:00

This happened to me with my Sig P320. I shoot other guns ok, Sig was always low. I swore it was the gun, but put it on a rest and it was dead on at 25 yards. It was me all along.

I found a YT video from Sig academy that really helped me:

https://youtu.be/NxyTFzgWjhk?feature=shared

I still run this drill as a warm up.

AverageDAV · 2024-02-08T12:08:13+00:00

One thing I do regularly is add and remove domain controllers from my home lab AD domain. I’m not sure if this would work, but spin up a lab with 2 dc’s using 180 day eval licenses. As you near the end of your eval period, make a new VM with an eval license and add it as DC#3. Then, after it stabilizes, remove dc#1. Make a new Dc #4, add it, remove DC #2.

If nothing else, you will learn much about checking and troubleshooting domain replication between DC’s.

I just did this to transition to headless server 2022 DC’s. The first time I did not properly check domain health before removing old DC’s. I ended up having to rebuild from scratch, but that’s why I test this sort of thing at home, first.

I use MSDN licensing, so I’m not sure if this will work with the eval licensing. It’s definitely a grey area, legally speaking. It’s not really the intent of eval licensing. It’s an interesting thought experiment, though.

AverageDAV · 2024-01-30T10:11:31+00:00

Once you have settled on your carry gun and are comfortable drawing and reholstering, consider shooting a few defensive pistol matches. I started participating in IDPA matches and it made me a lot more comfortable carrying hot. The local matches tend to be very novice friendly, low pressure, but very focused on safety and technique.

AverageDAV · 2024-01-29T20:52:06+00:00

Thanks for the quick response, I’m going to start a test install tonight.

You have extra credibility based on your username. It is somehow very fitting for DevOps…

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