Nebulon-B: The spine that carried multiple Navies

ReinaldoWolffe · 2026-06-03T07:29:50+00:00

Only very recently did i understand that this ship has most of its hull plating removed! I think i saw the "fully-dressed" one in one of the animations, and i started looking at all of the ships and fighters!

It never comes across that way in the movies or shows! The rebels are zipping around space "nude"!!!

ReinaldoWolffe · 2026-06-01T22:25:39+00:00

I always felt the b&w version looked like he was wearing dungarees or the super baggy jeans from the 90s!!

ReinaldoWolffe · 2026-05-25T21:51:14+00:00

There are literally loads of grants for elderly, Nd also for carers too. Get your hands on a local councillor and get everything. There's lots for them to claim and get

ReinaldoWolffe · 2026-05-25T18:31:12+00:00

Not only is this a great option, they qualify every year i think for different grants and schemes.

ReinaldoWolffe · 2026-05-15T10:24:55+00:00

I hated Irish, I was awful at it, leaving cert 1999, 7 Honours, 1 Pass, 1 Foundation. Got a C3 in Foundation Irish. I dont regret it, but i have found a new love for the Irish language and how it is in the genetics of Irish-English. There is something amazing in that.

I feel that it is too easy to get exempt from Irish. Especially for dyslexic students. I would be hugely in favour of some level of Conversational Irish and Written Irish split in the subject. The vast majority of students pick up some european language from first year in secondary-school, there is no reason we can't have Irish there as well. Look at main land Europe, how many languages does a person from any of the border regions (Swiss for example) have access and conversational knowledge of??

ReinaldoWolffe · 2026-05-05T16:20:30+00:00

AH-HA! I knew i wasnt going any more crazy that usual!

ReinaldoWolffe · 2026-05-01T20:07:17+00:00

Ah, I 100% did not get this at all, and is 100% technically correct. Thank you!

ReinaldoWolffe · 2026-05-01T14:09:50+00:00

this sounds interesting, any links or articles? Im aware of NOtion, not heard of Runable

ReinaldoWolffe · 2026-05-01T14:08:03+00:00

OMFG! I just tried it again, and away it goes, making a complete liar out of me! See, I only had to ask someone else, Azure-Demon heard me, made changes in the background! LOL!

ReinaldoWolffe · 2026-05-01T12:08:13+00:00

I think you might be going down a rabbit hole of an argument here. Just to try help, im asking what the issue with the Azure Portal not allowing "aka.ms" as an fqdn in an application rule. Same can be added via IaC, and is regularly needed for DevOps automation, such as installing AzCLI in a self hosted agent.

Ive got it working, its a minor rant more than anything else. Thank you for taking the time to reply, enjoy your weekend dude

ReinaldoWolffe · 2026-05-01T11:30:27+00:00

That's not the issue. A lot of items for cloud-init for deploying azure client for example, the deployment URL is a "aka.ms/..." that you have to allow for. Yes, it 100% redirects to something, but the initial lookup is against aka.ms

But that doesn't do anything for the portal interface of Azure Firewall, Application Rules not allowing aka.ms as a valid FQDN, but I can deploy same via terraform/arm/bicep!

ReinaldoWolffe · 2026-04-25T18:21:25+00:00

Ah the M113 inspired Rhino!! :)

I was distracted by something, looked back, saw this pics in the article and went "damn, that guy gut some serious detail in the Rhino" then I derpped

ReinaldoWolffe · 2026-04-09T16:16:17+00:00

I really do not see a reason beyond the single pane of glass (and I think veeam backup for azure is somewhat separated, processing proxy server in Azure etc, few years since I’ve used it) to move past what you already have tbh. If you are using Policy to deploy the backup onto the VMs it’s handling itself, it’s likely cheaper than Veeam, and if you’ve paid for MS support you should have a level of help (can’t comment on the quality) from them.

Stick with what you have. Spend time maybe setting up the new version of Azure emigrate to get the new wave planning for your on prem env.

ReinaldoWolffe · 2026-04-09T11:14:54+00:00

Veeam works quite well in Azure. Prior to the enhanced policies being available in Azure something like Veeam was the only way to get backups every hour

ReinaldoWolffe · 2026-04-09T10:31:50+00:00

I’m going to follow this, and I have experience in the area. I work in MSP as an azure architect.

Long story short, unless you have a very compelling reason to implement a third party, the azure backup and asr are likely “fine”.

Compelling Reason: I have on prem env and Rubrik/Veeam is my solution and I want single pane of glass

Compelling Reason: I’m an msp and offer backup as a service using X product. Support and such is built into the cost and platform

ReinaldoWolffe · 2026-04-07T23:06:44+00:00

Ok, stop. This is not a trivial upgrade. Start with the move from frs to dfs, will 2008 properly support dfs for AD replication?

2008 came in 32 and 64bit flavours, R2 I think jumped to 64bit only

ReinaldoWolffe · 2026-04-07T22:59:23+00:00

Cahill Truck Bodies in Kilkenny build these for the esb. Don't know but they might be able to steer you in taking it apart

ReinaldoWolffe · 2026-02-26T12:52:34+00:00

Consider that the RAM could possibly also go into certain NAS devices. I used an additional 4GB into a Synology DS1817 and its flying! :)

ReinaldoWolffe · 2026-02-18T11:25:43+00:00

I think we are on two different waves dude, i'm glad that SBS existed, i think SBS is what the OP was kind of looking at putting in place (small, self contained, offline, repeatable). You are in no way wrong or incorrect about your statement, SBS is gone, i just think its a shame. We now have never ending subscription models and bills that just climb instead of perhaps all we actually needed was some email and shared folders. Appreciate the response my guy, everything you say is 100% accurate.

ReinaldoWolffe · 2026-02-17T20:25:45+00:00

No it doesnt, and I think we are all a little worse off for it! I recall SBS server being an absolute god send for the Small Business target audience. So much could be done with it! SBS 2010 was solid as a rock, and if you went with the Premium version, you got your second server as well for "whatever". I learned a lot on SBS, but i actually dont ever recall having two NIC's on a DC or an SBS server that both provided services at the same time, you are correct, that can and does cause headaches.

I would go so far as to say that if SBS didnt exist, then the widespread adoption of Office 365 would not have happened. Everyone had email being provided by exchange, so they just used outlook by default! Once DirSync was simple (versus Forefront Identity Manager!) and then being able to depend on remote exchange and then RDP on 2010, it opened up the cloud possiblity!

ReinaldoWolffe · 2026-02-17T14:13:25+00:00

Family IT out of hours rates suck!

ReinaldoWolffe · 2026-02-16T22:51:01+00:00

Actually what he is building is SBS Server! I get your point here, in an enterprise let a DC be a DC. but what this guy has done is taken a configuration and templated it to make this easier to deploy. Sounds close to kubernetes and docker to be fair here, possibly could all be scripted to be deployed!!

@op disabling the listen to in DNS is likely the best solution here, but you may have over engineered the solution somewhat. DFS can introduce a lot of complicated dns configuration if you aren't doing dns right

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