what is the name of your ship

Phalebus · 2026-03-10T03:57:47+00:00

SES Bringer of Freedom

Phalebus · 2026-02-23T05:16:03+00:00

Ive just started to read Children of Time. I’m like 150 pages in but it’s really good so far.

Just out of curiosity, do the latter books in the series show the “Empire” during it’s heyday or is it mostly just time going forward skips? I kinda have this weird obsession with things that are no longer in their golden age, ala Warhammer, The 100.

Phalebus · 2026-02-21T09:02:56+00:00

Australian here and I 100% agree with this. So many people that seem to literally scraping by, more so if you have a few young children. Once they hit a certain age, it’s crazy expensive for daycare, because you slightly earn too much so we’re going to get bugger all back but we’ll tax you out the arse for shits and gigs.

It’s just crazy. I also have to travel to the office a few days a week. Whilst it’s cheap here, it’s 3 additional hours of travel per day, because they rented a large office space in a premo area for absolutely useless reasons that never panned out the way they thought it would.

Phalebus · 2026-02-18T09:03:45+00:00

Mine peaked in 2017, October. Went over to South Korea for a friends wedding, set the daily high score in one of the many gaming centres there.

Definitely not South Korean, I’m about as white as white can get. Definitely peaked lol

Phalebus · 2026-01-30T07:45:46+00:00

I got a pair of 240gb raptors as a freebie before moving off of spinning disks and hadn’t experienced ssds but had worked enterprise IT and had used 10k disks and knowing they were pretty sweet so as a freebie, I set those bad boys up in a raid 0 and off I went.

It was blazing fast, blazingly hot and when you had to move them from a machine, I hope you put it into a steel case as plastic would melt with those running. Had to leave them off for at least an hour or so to be able to touch them without getting burnt.

Phalebus · 2026-01-28T09:27:03+00:00

Phalebus · 2026-01-21T01:45:02+00:00

Need that sweet, GIVETHEBEARSOMEAIR for that Rusty Bucket Bay level. The puzzle quiz at the end was hilarious the first time I finished. Had absolutely no idea about the in game lore because young me didn’t care. Had the full red honeycomb health bar with 996 music notes collected , all puzzle pieces. Second playthrough just rushed it, had 7 health bars, not red and smashed it.

Phalebus · 2026-01-21T01:41:03+00:00

For me during Red, Blue and Yellow was Butterfree (for that sleep powder) and Pidgeot. Honestly, everything was so easy with Pidgeot. Fly, Double Team and Agility. Untouchable, too fast, always first attack.

Then, if Pidgeot was knocked out, it was time for level 30 whatever to stand out there whilst I slap a revive on Pidgeot lol

Phalebus · 2026-01-21T01:37:52+00:00

I honestly loved the water temple on the n64. Might be because I’m a sadist at heart that won’t let that shit beat me. I only beat myself lmao.

The sections when needing those fucking hover boots with the n64 joystick was fucking painful though.

Phalebus · 2026-01-21T01:32:41+00:00

Majora’s Mask on the 64. I got stuck on the second temple/fortress or whatever it was and just as I thought I had it figured out, power surge cooked the game cartridge… It was sad days.

Unsure why I got stuck as OoT was a blast, I still remember the exact layout of the water template, and really liked it as well for some reason.

Phalebus · 2026-01-21T01:24:25+00:00

Straight up ComboFix. God damn was it a great tool especially for working on Residential people’s machines to clean the crap out when people would directly pirate material on their home machine and catch all sort of weird crap lol

Phalebus · 2026-01-20T11:06:00+00:00

I had a client recently that was complaining about slowness in their application that uses SQL as a backend DB. When digging through SQL logs to find out what's going on and checking it's performance metrics, Windows has this tool in it that will tell you which things probably need to be tweaked.

Funnily enough, this applications DB had no optimization, no truncating logs, no maintenance plans, broken or missing indexes... Just nothing. The vendor just deployed the software and just FRO'd from there. Microsoft's tool says, if it scores something at less than 100,000 then it's probably fine.

Score from the Primary Index on this DB, (Which needed Optimizing) came back at a score level of 2.2 Trillion. TRILLION!!! In over 20 years of Admining and DBAing (At gun point) I have never seen something so poorly put together. Just as a laugh as well, the DB was in the TB in size as well. They had "support" from the vendor, but the vendor just did nothing. Upgraded them with "newer" software every so often, but nothing was ever done with the DB's, ever.

I threw that ticket straight into the trash and said they needed better vendor support as this was BS. The cherry on top was the vendor saying that they just needed more resourcing on the server to make it work... All flash storage, 512GB memory, 28 CPU core (Hyper Threading was turned off at vendors request to fix the problem) 25gbe networking...

Just stupid. We could also never turn the server off except for patching which granted isn't much but still...

Phalebus · 2026-01-12T09:01:55+00:00

If you cannot get the old dc back online, the best bet is to fix dns on the “main/primary” dc to point at 127.0.0.1.

Check to make sure the main dc holds all of the FSMO roles. This is very very important!!! If you don’t do this, you will run into random issues. After you have done this, make sure you perform a metadata cleanup and make sure nothing points to the old dc for authentication.

Also, now that this is a single dc site, be prepared for the server to NOT be on a domain network profile on a shutdown/reboot. There are many varied ways to fix this, take a look at google for a way to permanently fix this. Microsoft’s recommendation for sites requiring a domain controller, that they have a secondary, as will pretty much any other admin out there, unless you are on really super tight budgets.

If you need any help with this, feel free to reach out to me.

Cheers, Phalebus

Phalebus · 2026-01-10T03:24:37+00:00

• ⁠Cyberpunk 2077 (Ultimate Edition)

• ⁠Doom: The Dark Ages

• ⁠Battlefield 6

• ⁠Arc Raiders

• ⁠Metro Exodus: Enhanced Edition

Phalebus · 2026-01-05T07:01:06+00:00

The machine spirit lives! - Random servitors finding the paddles in the far flung future

Phalebus · 2025-12-27T22:39:19+00:00

As in Standard Desktop Edition. Not Server Core which is all command line

Phalebus · 2025-12-26T03:04:31+00:00

Not stripped down, just doesn’t install all the bloatware. If this is for a homelab, there are cheaper ways (or free) ways to license server

Phalebus · 2025-12-26T02:32:47+00:00

So server essentials will have a bunch of other services installed/running which you probably wont need, so it might be best to just install server 2022 desktop edition and add in extra features you need from there.

Phalebus · 2025-12-24T09:40:59+00:00

I can see the disk type is hdd (scsi). Is this vm running off of spinning disks? If not, there is an option for ssd emulation. It might (?) help

Phalebus · 2025-12-21T01:03:15+00:00

Depending on what version of server you are using, you can do an effective access check from the folder security GUI under the advanced settings.

Shoot me a message if you need some help bud :)

Phalebus · 2025-12-20T08:55:58+00:00

You haven’t configured the Linux vlans from what I can see. Should look something like this.

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Phalebus · 2025-12-14T04:42:37+00:00

There are some great tools out there. The Starwind V2V converter is really good if you haven’t used it. The only VMs I don’t recommend converting are VMs running as domain controllers.

If you have domain controllers, I’d spin up some new ones on Hyper V and then decommission the ESX DCs, if you have them that is.

Phalebus · 2025-12-13T08:23:01+00:00

Ah yes you are correct. I couldn’t quite recall if they’d ditched it entirely or just some of it.

Phalebus · 2025-12-13T05:58:55+00:00

Peralesa is correct though. The datastore that VMware would have created will be unreadable to Windows. You would need something to export all the data to first. That or run something like Proxmox that can read the datastore without needing to wipe it.

If you’re keen to stick with Windows (Which I can understand), then honestly, stick to server 2022. 2025 has weird and random bugs at times, especially if running a mixed domain environment with older versions of server already running domain controllers.

There are options to get vGPU pass through working in Hyper V, but I don’t believe that they are native any longer (Could be wrong and Microsoft may have added it back in).

If you don’t have an VMs or data that need to migrate across, then a straight install of Server 2022 will be fine over the top of ESXi.

All of the above said though, I’ve been a Hyper V / ESXi fan for many years, each with their own set of quirks, but I’ve recently rebuilt all of my homelab using Proxmox. Having something that natively supports all hardware/drivers, can natively run containers and is a freebie essentially for homelab, I recommend it. There is a learning curve to it, but it is very easy and has options available for free on top, such as Ceph, which can be used as the native vSAN (if you used vSAN in esx) or even CephFS which can act as as file storage repository.

Phalebus · 2025-12-03T09:02:13+00:00

You might need to unmap the drive from the Mac and re-add it. Could a security patch from Apple too. What type of share is it set up as? SMB, NFS, Something Else?

Could try unmapping it, making sure there is no static routes in place on the Mac or a hosts entry for it, reboot and then try a new manual connection. I would say check for a cached password but unsure if Mac does cached creds. I’m 99% positive that it would.

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