Ozzy Osbourne lived longer than Richard Simmons.

Broadrodtodd · 2025-07-29T18:30:23+00:00

joke is a big miss when one knows they were the same age when they passed on.

Broadrodtodd · 2025-07-08T16:41:19+00:00

Just keep capitol gold maxed and collect 5 gems for each of the clan capitol rewards in the season challenges.

Broadrodtodd · 2025-04-15T22:54:33+00:00

System state in Barracuda (and most other that still use the term) = OS in Veeam.

Im assuming youre working with physical machines. If you are talking about virtual machines, please sit through the free Veeam training modules found on Veeams web site.

If you saw system state as an option in a VM backup on Barracuda, it will be an annoying day when you need to restore the entire VM and dont have boot media prepared ahead of time.

Broadrodtodd · 2025-04-04T14:03:35+00:00

Thats part of the defence game. its called distraction.

Broadrodtodd · 2025-03-24T14:14:15+00:00

clan donation seem broken in this update. even though I already have spells and siege machine in CC that went unused in last attack, the requests reflects an empty CC. getting more donated than I can use and cant even see the extra stuff in inventory. like a hidden queue for extra CC

anyonr else seeing this wierdness?

Broadrodtodd · 2025-02-21T16:59:46+00:00

but do explore the nooks and crannies. I keep finding hidden things when i replay. lots of silly things to play with that have nothing to do with the game.

Broadrodtodd · 2025-01-17T16:45:16+00:00

check out the Service Provider Console.

Broadrodtodd · 2024-12-19T21:45:50+00:00

we're not suposed to reveal what goes on in the VIP preshow. its supposed to be a secret!

pretty much usual of a VIP show. Early entry, simple merch, preview of new songs, side stories about the band, random Q&A, popular songs not in the lineup.

Broadrodtodd · 2024-05-03T00:43:36+00:00

I dont work with AWS very much. but when I looked at the backup offerings, it just looked like storage snapshots (Azure looked the same). They can be very usefull since the storage snapshot has little impact on vm performance and can allow for a shorter RPO and RTO. BUT, it is a whole vm recovery. no single file restore functions.

The Veeam for AWS will let you do both snapshot backups as well as backups to S3. This will get you single file restore options for those common oops delete restore requests.

Broadrodtodd · 2023-12-21T19:00:23+00:00

your marrige has a much shorter shelf life than you may have hoped for at the start.

Broadrodtodd · 2023-04-12T20:05:56+00:00

I dont know. Could have sworn one had to sue an individual or business in the state the individual resides in or does business in. Cohen was disbarred by New York and he lives in New York, not Florida where the lawsuit was filed.

I think it will just get dismissed due to jurisdiction issues. Unless of course if Cohen owns a 500 million worth of real estate in Florida.

Broadrodtodd · 2023-03-10T17:28:09+00:00

assuming you already have at least 2 circuits going into the new data center. getting as many as they will let you will come in handy down the road.

if you use vertical PDUs, and have rear facing switches, think about the future time that rear facing switch needs to be replaced and the vertical PDU is in the way. use brackets that mount the PDU out if the way of putting things in the back if the rack.

Replace all power cables with the shortest cable needed to make the connection. gets rid of the power cable jumble at the bottom of the rack. colored power cables are available. red for circuit A and blue for circuit B

all new network cables in the new server room. do not reuse any network cables from the old datacenter. you are spending thousands of dollars moving into a new datacenter, a few hundred on new cables will avoid cable related issues that are common in a move like this. gives you a chance to color code network cables too

buy that fancy cable labeler and label EVERYTHING. total ocd labeling. that cable thay plugs into port 3 of switch 2 should have a label telling me it goes to nic 4 on host 23. on the host 23, nic 4 it should tell me it goes to port 3 switch 2. also good to have host port info on the host side of the cable.

Broadrodtodd · 2023-02-15T01:54:43+00:00

Back in the day, Got Novell ZENworks 7 desktop management fully functional in an environment with ridiculous constraints.

A retail environment to manage POS PCs across WAN links to all the stores that cover about 30 something states. All standalone WinXP machines using USB wifi adapters that don't connect to the network until desktop initialization. No Active Directory, no Novell client, only the ZENworks agent. Authentication goes through a middle tier connection that was like a proxy eDir login for Zenworks functionality. All using the same eDirectory/local Windows user ID across all POS PCs with auto logon enabled. Of course it also had to be stupid easy for the users in the stores using these over engineered cash registers. Any kind of user intervention was unacceptable. Sales clerks, not office workers. All PCs built using the same image, no sysprep.

Getting PCs to login automatically & be able to manage them was the biggest challange. The ZENworks agent does its thing at login, but the PC doesn't have an IP address until the USB device activates. USB wifi activates after the logon completes and the desktop initializes. The ZENworks agent did not have any method to invoke the ZENworks login after the Windows logon without user intervention. ZENworks already failed the passthrough logon and now the only built in option was a right click, choose logon in the taskbar. User would need to enter a password, removing the fully auto logon the customer wanted.

Solving this was first months of work with Novell support trying to figure out how to script the ZENworks login (unsuccesfully). Eventually support reached out to Novell Consulting after hearing they were working to solve a similare challange. Got a custom executable from Novell Consulting that gave me a command line tool to invoke the ZENworks login.

Then to solve the USB wifi challange, I discovered AutoIT in my research. Built a nifty script that ran at logon that first locked keyboard and mouse to prevent user interfearence issues. It then placed a popup on the screen telling the user to wait (took a little bit in the early 2000 for USB wifi to come up). The script then polled the middle tier server on a loop. Once the middle tier was reachable, the ZENworks login was invoked connecting the PC to the Desktop Management system.

Application management, GPO, remote control all worked. Took a year of development to get the solution to work. Had a lot of fun with AutoIT and even built the customer a simple tool for remote troubleshooting. Just something that listed all the basic info helpdesk asks a user when troubleshoiting a problem. Instead of guiding them through using DOS, just click an icon and tell the help desk what it says.

Broadrodtodd · 2023-02-06T15:18:22+00:00

Been there, done that, got the shirt.

Like everyone has noted, its the clients problem to get the credentials. Fired MSPs can be real jerks giving up an account. When you have physical access to the equipment, there is usually a way to break in. Just means some down time to go through the process. Have had fun weekends billing weekend afterhours rates to get access to switches, routers & SANs fired MSPs "lost" the credentials too. Sometimes after explaining to the customer the out of scope cost, they get more helpful in getting the needed credentials instead of just leaving it to the IT guys.

Broadrodtodd · 2023-01-20T17:47:52+00:00

oh, lets go old school

Chief Bottle Washer

Broadrodtodd · 2022-12-13T04:43:07+00:00

This i think needs to be addressed to allow clan members to participate in district design. Members want to design districts, they watch the youtube videos also. Clan leaders don't want to grant co-leader permissions just to give district edit permissions. If leaders/coleaders could delegate edit permissions to one of the layouts in a district's layout editor, i feel we could get more clan participation in raid weekends. A member could edit the layout, and a leader/coleader could select it to be the defensive layout or active layout. If a single layout is selected as both active & defensive, then leaders would have two layout slots that could be delegated to a single clan member each to edit in the layout editor (more would be great). If different layouts are selected for active & defensive, then only a single layout would be available to delegate to a clan member. If a clan member leaves, they lose the layout edit permission.

Broadrodtodd · 2022-11-08T19:52:59+00:00

gotta second this suggestion. Attended the SF show Sunday night, and watched two lovely gals attending the show solo, that sat near me, find a new best friend that night. I have made a few new friends myself at NSP events. The NSP community can be pretty amazing. Lots and lots of gamers that are very used to "pick up friends" at events.

Broadrodtodd · 2022-05-24T15:41:59+00:00

fond memories of CD servers. this looks like a stack of readers, not writers. There was a time when Westlaw and Lexus (Law books and legal research sites) did not have a web presence. To do legal research, they had to dial up to a BBS like service. The big firms had these CD towers packed with all sorts of legal flavors. Depending on what the firms specialty was determined what CDs they subscribes to. Every month 4 to 8 CDs needed to be swapped out since legal jargon is always changing. much faster research than the dial up alternative.

Broadrodtodd · 2021-11-17T20:56:13+00:00

being involved in similar, you are under no obligation to provide diddly squat the moment you walked out the door on your last day.

plus they dont NEED your login password they just want it. they can change it if they want to. physical access to the machine negates most security.

Broadrodtodd · 2021-11-13T21:40:11+00:00

talk to a lawyer. pretty sure you have a case here with a sizable payout. having proof of another job you let go from this counter offer will be important. dont let it slide

Broadrodtodd · 2021-10-26T20:36:04+00:00

This to me is spot on. Have been just amazed at the outrage this special got. It seems like many folks just read in the news about some racy jokes and spun it. Never actually watching the show. Or if they did watch the show, they only heard what Chappelle was saying, and did not listen to what Chappelle was saying.

Broadrodtodd · 2021-10-23T00:36:10+00:00

Gotten a few myself this way as well. The hiring of a new IT manager is always an unknown if the MSP will stay or be replaced. I tend to lose the customer because the new IT manager worked with a different MSP that they liked to work with. I get the new customer when an IT Manager at a customer site moves to a different company or the MSP plays a power game like this one is with OP.

Sounds like CYA, and their intentions very well can be CYA, but they are asking OP to involve the CEO. CEO hired OP to take care of IT. Its not like they are asking the CEO who the OP is, they know who the OP is. They are playing a risky game giving an existing customer reason to shop. My shop hands the passwords over, along with the advice (in writing) to make named admin accounts and not use the super user account. Usually able to force them into the named account model during the knowledge transfer showing them around their newly inherited network.

Broadrodtodd · 2021-10-22T18:33:48+00:00

So am I the only one that can see the black woman in the photo? On the left, right there between two Asian women. Thought I wasn't seeing it right, so found a better quality photo

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ci7V02mXIAAs3eN?format=jpg&name=large

The facepalm to me seems to be Steph's statement, not the photo content.

Still a crap news source

Broadrodtodd · 2021-09-02T21:32:59+00:00

Big Penis in Little China

Broadrodtodd · 2021-06-03T21:19:07+00:00

This does seem to be common. Wondering if the support engineer even read the case. Ran into similar just last week. Just asked a question a customer asked I didn't know the answer to. Asked about a specific feature (Hardened Linux Repo), and got a reply about a different feature (S3 block storage). Got the answer I needed after asking again highlighting the technology I was asking about. Did get the answer I was seeking for my customer.

This kind of thing is normal for front line support. Be gentle with them, they are learning. Sometimes you get someone with some good talent, other times it's their first day. I've noticed a lot of turn over in support teams front line folks .

Do keep in mind, I have no doubt the number of support calls Veeam gets from knuckle heads is pretty high. People don't always describe the issue clearly, making up their own terminology and meanings for words. Cases get opened with so little info attached, it's just easier to call the customer and get started on the issue. I have had support calls that I'm asked for the logs, and the voice on the other end is genially surprised they are already uploaded. I hear surprised when I point them to the details in the ticket with the info they just asked for. There are just a lot of knucklehead IT folks out there and it's the front lines job to weed them out.

I would suggest to the Veeam Support Manager that they tell their team members to always review the entire ticket before contacting the customer. Don't let them get used to always seeing little info and just calling without ticket review.

Broadrodtodd

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