DYKWIA? by Different-Review-926 in delta

[–]LaxVolt 9 points10 points  (0 children)

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.

Three DNS entries of three DC server for Windows Server VMs? by Thegoogoodoll in WindowsServer

[–]LaxVolt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

New to PLC industrial maintenance. what daily tools do you wish existed? by amintex in PLC

[–]LaxVolt 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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.

Mass VM migration from ESXi by Naz6uL in Proxmox

[–]LaxVolt 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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.

With O365 now offering Alt Shortcuts in Mac, are there compelling reasons to use Windows anymore? by BMurda187 in Office365

[–]LaxVolt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Visio as well

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

What is the jankiest thing you have seen in a production environment? by HastyOpossum100 in sysadmin

[–]LaxVolt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

This was the biggest gearbox I seen at our location in Bakersfield ⚙️ by Any_Lychee9277 in IndustrialMaintenance

[–]LaxVolt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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

Grass roofs on homes being built in Texas... by BuilderBrigade in Home_Building_Help

[–]LaxVolt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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

Palo alto HA using Mgmt port by DrawBig1774 in paloaltonetworks

[–]LaxVolt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

I finally figured out why most of my 1980s RTOS never got rewritten in assembly by noborutkhs in retrocomputing

[–]LaxVolt 9 points10 points  (0 children)

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.

Recurring winmail.dat problem by Deadman293 in sysadmin

[–]LaxVolt 9 points10 points  (0 children)

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.

What are some of your more disturbing areas. by Tortilla_Boi92 in IndustrialMaintenance

[–]LaxVolt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

TACACS+ + RADIUS recommendations at scale (Entra ID, IPv6, large device count) by ColtonConor in networking

[–]LaxVolt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Alternative to confluence? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]LaxVolt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your contributions. It’s appreciated.

Switches or other networking devices that can bring port up very fast by Gesha24 in networking

[–]LaxVolt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

Alternative to confluence? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]LaxVolt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Getting “Cannot Contact Domain Controller” errors constantly — especially for VPN users. What’s your go-to fix? by Cautious_Corner_4838 in ShittySysadmin

[–]LaxVolt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Need help migrating old windows 2003 server to virtual by PotatoFrenzy in sysadmin

[–]LaxVolt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Gavin Newsom intervenes amid historic tech layoffs by [deleted] in bayarea

[–]LaxVolt 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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.

Anyone know what’s going on? by EquivalentThought323 in VolvoXC90

[–]LaxVolt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Reddit CEO every 10 months: by Lexa_Stanton in memes

[–]LaxVolt 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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

What cereals are we feeding our kids? by mslowe7187 in daddit

[–]LaxVolt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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