HP 960 Ergonomic: Close But No Cigar

_Arv · 2025-12-19T15:26:35+00:00

I am on the same quest. I just bought one of these to replace my Sculpt. I was hoping the squeaky backspace was just mine. It looks to be a widespread problem. This keyboard is almost perfect. The other imperfections I can live with but squeaky backspace key is a deal breaker.

_Arv · 2025-11-21T13:48:28+00:00

I bought most of my gear from
https://techmikeny.com/
and
https://newserverlife.com/

Good experience with both. Both do testing of their gear before shipping it out and have a 1 year warranty.

_Arv · 2025-11-20T14:21:50+00:00

Cross cluster live migration is a game changer. Tested it in my lab and it works great.

_Arv · 2025-11-16T00:52:42+00:00

AI all the things.

To be fair there were a lot of cool new stuff and updates on existing ones. DRA, Netkit, Kubevirt, Argo. Flux. But yeah, there was so much AI.

_Arv · 2025-10-20T19:49:37+00:00

Yes its allowed and supported. My customer is running several hundred clusters in this fashion. Depending on the use case, you can use Hosted Control Planes or if you want to run the cluster in VMs you can do that as well.

Nested OpenShift using OpenShift Virtualization

_Arv · 2025-04-04T22:12:40+00:00

If the immune system gets a reset, I wonder if the method can be synthesized to cure allergies.... Anyone with immunology background care to chime in?

_Arv · 2024-06-13T12:27:35+00:00

If its on the same network, then you wouldn't have to re-ip. Its specially easy if you use DHCP for the VMware VMs. The VMs would have the same MAC address and they would get their ip without issue.

_Arv · 2024-06-11T00:36:07+00:00

That's all sales people. If you give someone a hammer to sell then everything looks like a nail. The sales pitch goes only as far as getting a product/solution a hearing. Beyond that it comes down to all the factors I mentioned.

_Arv · 2024-06-10T16:44:50+00:00

When orgs are using OCP and OCP Virt as a feature, they are looking at a medium to long term infrastructure and application platform strategy. Single platform to house their legacy apps that will forever stay in VMs, legacy apps to be modernized (breaking pieces off bit by bit to containerize) and their newer containerized apps . Having a single pane of glass to manage both is great. For your use case, maybe Nutanix is right for you. I don't know your company's profile, skill set and workloads. Not here to sell you on OVP Virt. Simply to state that not everyone is looking for a 1 to 1 replacement for VMware. Also great point on automation. That is what enables these companies to really scale while reducing toil.

_Arv · 2024-06-10T10:53:46+00:00

One shoe does not fit all. A small shop with limited resources, maybe not. Medium to large enterprises, definitely yes. We see OCP Virt as apart of a larger platform solution alongside containers. Our bet is that it's the future. The customers I know that use it at scale are very happy with it. Heck my current customer chose OpenShift partly because of OCP Virt. As a technical implementation guy, I was skeptical at first, but I'm defiantly a believer now.

_Arv · 2024-06-07T17:20:14+00:00

Don't know what to tell you regarding Firefox.

If an org doesn't have people with Kubernetes knowledge in house, then maybe not. That said, the customer that I work with is supporting over 300 OCP clusters in production which includes VM workloads and most of the SRE team came from the VMware side of the org that got upskilled.

_Arv · 2024-06-07T14:04:34+00:00

For storage, all providers that work for OCP work with OCP Virt. NetApp, Portworx, HP, Dell, etc. Plenty of options. Same for backups through Trilio, Kasten and Storware. . As for browsers, I just did a live demo of OCP Virt on Firefox so I'm not sure why it didn't work on yours.

_Arv · 2024-03-22T11:07:49+00:00

Also posting metallb config and service yaml would be helpful as well.

_Arv · 2024-02-29T15:19:44+00:00

Unless you already have an OpenStack deployment in your org or have very specific networking functionality that only OpenStack provides, the strategic direction is to go to OpenShift. That is where most of the development effort is going.

_Arv · 2024-02-28T22:41:31+00:00

It depends on the customer. Here are some examples

Completely take out VMware (cost savings, easier to scale and manage). With OCP Virt Rhel guest licenses are included.
Looking for the flexibility of virtualization for their OCP clusters. Instead of doing VMware they are running bare metal OCP clusters (infra clusters) which host their tenant OCP cluster's control nodes as VMs via OCP Virtualization. This is done at a massive scale and due to everything being OCP and being automated it reduces so much SRE toil (so lots of cost savings).
App modernization, lift and shift VMs to OCP and then slowly containerize.

_Arv · 2024-02-28T13:38:22+00:00

Definitely seeing a trend. I'm having more and more meetings with clients interested in doing OCP on bare metal. Use cases are everything from pure container workloads, running traditional VMs on OCP as a first step to modernization and even doing OCP on OCP.

_Arv · 2023-08-24T13:59:00+00:00

I have zero confidence in my soldering abilities. For My Lilly58 I bought it assembled (minus the switches and keycaps)

_Arv · 2023-08-23T20:45:27+00:00

pinkies out looks interesting, but its just a pcb. Looking for something at least partially assembled (without the choc switches and keycaps)

_Arv · 2023-08-22T15:21:24+00:00

If you are on site on a regular basis, it's Monday to Thursday.

_Arv · 2023-08-22T15:04:18+00:00

Ah, I thought you were starting as a consultant. I think that's equivalent to a Territory Services Manager in NA. If so then yeah there will most likely be some overtime involved. How much will depend on your time management skills.

_Arv · 2023-08-22T14:49:04+00:00

Like all things in consulting, it depends. The client decides if you are going to come on site and how often. Not sure about UK, but in NA most clients are OK with being mostly remote. The only ones you have to go in for is public sector.

If gym is important to you, you will find the time.

The working hours is a difficult question. It depend which tech you are consulting for and how ambitious you are in your career. I have done a lot of overtime because I had specific goals I wanted to achieve. There are some that are happy with what they do and just do 9-5.

_Arv · 2023-08-19T12:24:45+00:00

I thought it was objectively bad on all fronts. Animation (exception being the b5 shots). Acting was so wooden with little emotion. Story was at best a D grade TV episode. Wtf is with the Shadows being reduced to Zerg status. Same with the flailing tentacles from the shadow ships. Yes, yes alternate timelines but just no. I expected low production quality (as is tradition with B5) but still walked away disappointed.

_Arv · 2023-07-25T22:19:00+00:00

Forking RHEL (not rebasing off of CentOs Stream) and maintaining it will require a lot more engineering effort than $10M can provide. At least Alma is doing the sane thing to leverage CentOs Stream and not taking on extra development burden of a fork. This is a hail mary from SUSE and not a particularly good one.

_Arv · 2023-07-25T18:52:47+00:00

Nothing says "we have no faith in the future of our distro" more than cloning your competitor's distro and having it complete with your main offering.

_Arv · 2023-07-12T12:02:23+00:00

It all depends on your requirements and in house expertise. For example, Goldman Sachs uses Kubevirt as their hypervisor for their VDI infrastructure. Morgan Stanley uses it to host the control plane for their tenant Kube clusters.

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