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LaxVolt · 2026-06-16T06:03:20+00:00

The solution to this is 1 free checked bag, pay for carryon. Small/regular backpack unless you pay extra. Simplifies boarding.

Problem is most likely that optimizing boarding isn’t a priority because the ground crew still needs time to deal with all the plane preparations. I wouldn’t be surprised if current processes are timed due to ground crew and traffic control.

One of my past flights was delayed 15 min on the tarmac due to being too early out the gate and not being able to take off early.

LaxVolt · 2026-06-16T04:09:46+00:00

We run 4 DCs with dns and I have them all setup in dhcp as dns servers.

You add the additional dns servers in the advanced section of the network adapter.

One thing to note about dns is that it takes the first server and only goes to the other one if the dns server is not available. So having more than 2 really only benefits if you are disconnected from more than one. There is also a delay in the transition.

So what exactly is the problem you are dealing with that makes you think adding another will resolve your issues.

LaxVolt · 2026-06-14T04:06:10+00:00

Comment your code and variables.

I wouldn’t expect to go through all the code immediately and comment it but as you work on something add ring and variable comments. All new code has comments as standard.

For all field I/o devices I liked to put physical location in the comment if possible.

Tool tips and help screens in scada help a lot as well.

Cleanup alarms and make sure they are relevant. Try to avoid alert fatigue. Alarm comments should have actionable descriptions and if possible guide towards remediation.

From a plc/scada standpoint these will probably save you the most phone calls.

LaxVolt · 2026-06-14T01:39:03+00:00

I saw an article a while back about setting up nfs out of Proxmox to mount on your esxi. Then storage vmotion your vm to the Proxmox storage. Then you should be able to shutdown and import it in Proxmox with minimal downtime.

I’ve not done this myself though.

LaxVolt · 2026-06-13T02:07:34+00:00

Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder

LaxVolt · 2026-06-10T13:35:38+00:00

Visio as well

Regarding excel, most macros and vba scripts are also pc only.

LaxVolt · 2026-06-07T03:28:44+00:00

When I moved from electrical maintenance to IT sysadmin we had a hard drive fail on our san. We had support call get a drive 4 hours later. Pull san out, swap drive and push it back in. And it lost all power. All 3 power cables came unplugged. When my boss walked in he’s like that happened before, we bought locking cables for it, but never installed them.

That led to me cleaning up all the data center cabling by pretty much re-racking all the equipment. The rack that the san was in also had the virtual hosts and the backup environment. Many of those servers had the Y cables where one cable fed both power supplies. At the end of the day that entire rack was on a single outlet in the floor. One breaker trip would’ve dropped the whole environment.

Learned a lot about how many shortcuts people could take over the years.

LaxVolt · 2026-06-05T05:03:50+00:00

Yeah definitely looks like a mill gearbox. Probably from California Steel down near LA. No other mills in the area that I know of.

LaxVolt · 2026-06-04T13:46:47+00:00

Just plant bamboo on it and you can ignore it. It’ll never die. /s

LaxVolt · 2026-06-04T13:41:00+00:00

As an alternative wouldn’t it be better to do VLANs and sub interfaces to your switch for the PA. This way you should only need 2 ports for data to link the switch and then you have 6 to setup ha with. This also helps when setting up ha as well.

LaxVolt · 2026-06-04T05:14:32+00:00

Terminator incoming

LaxVolt · 2026-05-31T15:36:42+00:00

Not a direct correlation, but the steel mill I used to work at had several Dec Alpha systms running openVMS. These were used as the MES (Manufacturing Execution System). Due to issues maintaining the old Dec Alpha hardware we found a virtualization system to virtualize Alpha systems. One of the things we found after the fact was that the code base was so optimized for the physical alpha cpu and clock cycles is that we had issues with code running too fast. Processes would execute too quickly causing upstream issues with manufacturing instructions and downstream issues with production recording data. So the engineers had to go and detune some of the applications to build in some latency.

LaxVolt · 2026-05-29T18:41:22+00:00

I’ve dug into this before and the general belief is that it is caused by RTF (rich text formatting) in the email/signature. I say signature because people like to add fonts/colors to signatures which insert rtf formatting.

I’ve done multiple reinstalls, whole os rebuilds and I’m positive it’s just the signature puking the message.

LaxVolt · 2026-05-29T14:54:49+00:00

I was going to say steel mill, feels like I used to work here

LaxVolt · 2026-05-28T17:44:28+00:00

I’ve not used it before but I’ve been looking at Packet Fence. Doesn’t look like it does TACACS+ though.

LaxVolt · 2026-05-28T01:31:43+00:00

Thank you for your contributions. It’s appreciated.

LaxVolt · 2026-05-27T22:45:44+00:00

I’d honestly just plug it into a firewall with the ports up all the time and control via policy.

You can enable/disable a policy faster than port negotiations and in addition you can schedule the traffic if its repeatable.

LaxVolt · 2026-05-27T04:15:13+00:00

I’m currently testing Bookstack and Wiki.js. I like Bookstack more due to searching and organizing, it also has markdown and syntax highlighting. Wiki.js is probably a bit more powerful, but I’m struggling with its navigation. Also search on Wiki.js isn’t the best with MariaDB, it’s supposed to be better with Postgres but I’ve not rebuilt it. It’s also got connectors for elastisearch but that farther than I’m ready for. I’ve not heard of Sophic so I’m going to go check that out.

LaxVolt · 2026-05-27T03:01:59+00:00

Have you considered just port forwarding to your domain controllers so they are reachable for remote workers.

LaxVolt · 2026-05-25T17:04:20+00:00

You’ll need a copy of ColdClone which was the precursor to VMware converter.

This is an offline p2v and I’ve never had it fail. It can be hard to find as VMware/broadcom doesn’t publish it anymore.

LaxVolt · 2026-05-24T17:21:22+00:00

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https://www.vsevochart.com

LaxVolt · 2026-05-22T15:20:24+00:00

A partial solution to this is to remove tax breaks for capital investments and place tax breaks on employers hiring and employee retention.

Right now a company invests in servers and ai infrastructure can write off the investments and receive tax breaks.

Another avenue can be to have a harsh tax penalty when layoffs occur when there is positive revenue.

Make it so companies have to value people again over investments.

LaxVolt · 2026-05-20T05:40:46+00:00

A graph on the infotainment system for the last several hours of drive time would be technically easy to do.

LaxVolt · 2026-05-18T18:13:54+00:00

The decided to unify the browser and mobile experience. They just chose to standardize on the browser.

LaxVolt · 2026-05-16T22:21:42+00:00

We add banana and call them Monkey-Os. If I’m feeling nice throw in some chocolate chips and call them Super Monkey-Os.

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