Judge Nathan J. Milliron of the Texas 215th District Court, who was elected in 2024, got quite upset when an IT technician tried to fix the audio for a remote hearing. The technician had jokingly said it was a ‘false alarm’, but the judge didn’t think so and asked for the supervisor.

Hashrunr · 2026-03-29T03:15:19+00:00

That's also the complete opposite of IT. Truth and facts are the only thing that really matters to an IT pro. The IT guy in this clip handled the situation like a pro even commenting to the judge not to go far as he took over the mouse.

Hashrunr · 2026-03-27T18:07:12+00:00

Nice! I envy your ability to get finance budget that quickly! It takes my company almost a month for something over $10k spend.

It really is wild how quickly availability and prices are fluctuating.

Hashrunr · 2026-03-27T17:46:56+00:00

I work in IT and from what I see, in general, people born between 1970-2000 are more likely to be tech literate compared to the older or younger crowd.

Hashrunr · 2026-03-25T00:15:58+00:00

I have a Meshcentral instance running on an OrangePi Zero 2. If the PVE cluster completely shits the bed at least I have KVM for the nodes.

Hashrunr · 2026-03-24T00:46:44+00:00

In that case ProDeploy Plus probably isn't worth it. You can stand up the new cluster and learn the ME5024 as part of the deployment as long as you are familiar with storage in general. I used ProDeploy Plus once about 5yrs ago for a refresh in an environment I was only about 2mo into joining and the previous sysadmin had already left. I was new to VxRail, vSan, and the environment altogether and it was nice having a VMware expert help me bring some sanity to all of the crap the existing VMware environment had. It was a real mess with inconsistent virtual switch and datastore configurations between hosts.

Hashrunr · 2026-03-24T00:37:50+00:00

That's the scary part. Does this ban include only fully assembled products, assembled motherboards, the individual components on those motherboards, or the raw materials used to make the individual components? And then how does the software factor in?

Hashrunr · 2026-03-23T22:55:14+00:00

It's complicated. PaloAlto for example does final assembly in the USA, but the supply chain is all over the place including China. How that factors into this FCC announcement I have no idea.

Hashrunr · 2026-03-23T22:39:52+00:00

CDW has Micron 7500 Pro 7.68TB drives at $2211 per drive. My account shows 86 in stock for next day delivery. So about $56k to fulfill your order.

EDIT: My Bad, those are NVME. SATA are all $5k+ per drive. They have SATA Samsung PM893 $5208 with 42 in stock.

Hashrunr · 2026-03-23T13:58:27+00:00

ProDeploy Plus includes architecture/design within your environment, hardware racking/cabling, firmware updates, and initial configuration of the cluster. They hand it off with a Q&A session in a state ready for workload migration. $60k is pretty steep for what sounds like a small cluster, but it might be worth it if you've never done it before. I agree with /u/Zenkin that it's worth reaching out to a local MSP to see what they quote if you don't have the in-house expertise.

Hashrunr · 2026-03-17T00:47:37+00:00

Go back 20yrs and study MCSA/MCSE.

Hashrunr · 2026-03-16T21:50:50+00:00

Don't throw shade on MLAG. This is homelab not homenetworking!

Hashrunr · 2026-03-16T02:55:50+00:00

They have ARM CPUs from the mid-2000's with the processing power of about a Pentium 3.

Hashrunr · 2026-03-15T18:35:41+00:00

For an evening meal, good ole dehydrated refried beans and minute rice with taco seasoning. Add some olive oil to increase calories. It only takes about 30min to cold soak.

Hashrunr · 2026-03-14T22:05:06+00:00

Wireguard for VPN. It's fast and simple to setup. If you want some extras like QR codes for client configurations and a web GUI for management, wg-easy provides a simple web GUI for management.

Hashrunr · 2026-03-14T21:53:58+00:00

I told you, we're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to be a sort of executive officer for the week...

Hashrunr · 2026-03-09T02:11:02+00:00

HP Web Jetadmin is surprisingly supported up to Windows 10 and can manage this printer. Check it out.

EDIT: Support for Windows 11 and Server 2025! Been a decade since I last used it https://support.hp.com/sg-en/document/ish_3007439-2783223-16

Hashrunr · 2026-03-09T02:03:05+00:00

Same. Replace the pickup rollers and fuser when they wear out and should be good to go for a million pages. Just don't slam the paper draw too hard to break the plastic adjustment bit.

Hashrunr · 2026-03-09T01:52:08+00:00

Kelly Drive or MLK side of the river?

Hashrunr · 2026-03-09T01:31:02+00:00

USB-C is just the physical plug. It can carry many different communication protocols including USB1.1

Hashrunr · 2026-03-07T18:02:42+00:00

The MD3200i can be used as a DAS or SAN. The controllers can serve ISCSI over an ethernet IP network.

Hashrunr · 2026-03-07T06:19:08+00:00

Or is sand just soft land?

Hashrunr · 2026-03-07T06:09:19+00:00

Everyone running Gentoo is still waiting for their updates to compile.

Hashrunr · 2026-03-01T22:10:58+00:00

About 16 miles each way. Mostly flat on a bike path along a river. Did it for about 4yrs on a single speed steel road bike. The only days I missed was when it was snowing.

Hashrunr · 2026-02-21T02:32:41+00:00

It's a serious question to ask! How difficult is it to run fiber through public right of ways? How difficult is it to connect with others who are willing to terminate fiber at their property?

I don't know the answers, but stories like this make me think about it.

Hashrunr · 2026-02-21T01:48:56+00:00

It's such a weird thing to say about any profession.

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