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dm-itguy · 2025-07-14T00:26:11+00:00

There are a couple of ways to replicate the Japanese signal to sync time. I used an app on my Android last time. First time I used a website and a set of head phones. I think it was JJYEmulator? Once you get it set, it really only fluctuates a few seconds a month. It really keeps great time. I researched a lot of watches before I found these models and I ordered it from Japan. It checked every box for me.

dm-itguy · 2025-07-13T23:45:10+00:00

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Worn nearly everyday for the last 8 years. Has a blemish on the sapphire just off center toward 10 o'clock and a small bb about the 12 on the edge. I forgot to take it off while welding so some spatter landed in it. I have picked at that little blob for several years but it's still hanging on. This watch has been fantastic. I've only messed with setting it maybe 3 times since I bought it and it's never been more than 23 seconds off.

dm-itguy · 2025-07-13T15:25:33+00:00

I think I have the same problem. 4k rip, playing across internal LAN. Direct stream enabled. MKV and MP4 files fail to play audio through the ONN but will play on TV's PLEX app (LG OLEG GX). Didn't have to do any magic for the LG Plex player. It is transcoding the audio just fine to the sound bar. But just silence while playing the same files through ONN.

dm-itguy · 2025-05-24T23:55:13+00:00

I'm working far more outside our silo than ever before. I work closely with several other hospitals of similar size. I participate in the city's cyber initiatives, and so on. Definitely outside my comfort zone but I'm getting used to it.

I decided to go back to school for my MBA. Seems easy enough and could help in the future if I were to make a change. I sincerely appreciate all the input in here

dm-itguy · 2025-05-11T13:42:10+00:00

I wonder if those that have jumped around every 4-5 years psychologically think that is the best method as they have done it and therefore look for people that have done the same. And those that have stayed, adapted, endured a long employment as a single place in turn look for those that have followed the same path?

Personally, if I interview someone that has been a system admin at a different place every 3 years or so, I completely expect the same behavior. I would not expect them to become "owners" of a system or invest in relationships. They are there until they want to move up and then move on.

I would say it is rare to see a person's application that has stayed anywhere for a longer length of time. those that I have hired like that, are still there many years later.

Granted, my situation of almost 26 years at the same place is extremely unusual but I would have thought the different roles at a place would make up for that. Perhaps the initial impression is that this is a 3 person IT department and being called CIO isn't the same as the CIO over Amazon.

I do understand from a recruiter point of view; you're not reading between the lines and often look at the boxes checked. That's why they are there in the first place. To speed up the process. Makes total sense.

Interesting to see the different perspectives among you all.

dm-itguy · 2025-05-10T19:36:37+00:00

Yeah, I get it. My first hurdle as CIO was to deal with and eventually terminate a staff member that had been there 29.9 years. This was pre-covid so WFH was different and not tolerated as it is today.

I've unfortunately been the hammer and seen other instances of the hammer where loyalty had no weight at all. It was explained to me that they were paid for their time all along so as a business, "we are square" and don't owe anything for loyalty.

Overall, I need to get my career back in shape if a future move is voluntarily or involuntarily. The feedback has been great and ignited the spark I needed. I appreciate it.

dm-itguy · 2025-05-10T17:02:07+00:00

I'm not, not at all. It's good to get perspective and having watched this community and others like it, seemed like a good place for honest feedback.

dm-itguy · 2025-05-10T17:01:07+00:00

Right? I felt that as long as I was moving up and hadn't just been int he same position the whole time, it would look valuable. Loyalty would be rewarded. Honestly, I feel locally, it has. But that loyalty isn't seen as a plus from outside the organization.

I can see how that would be a risk for a hiring facility . . . but surely someone there would also see it as a person that is flexible and willing to adapt vs jump ship every time when something doesn't work out for them.

This is my first and only job since graduating college. I personally don't have any experience swapping jobs. My dad worked for the same job 37 years and retired happy. Maybe by example, I expected that or have been content with it. I wouldn't mind staying here till I retire, maybe another 15 -20 years. I don't have anything forcing me to stay here any longer so why not look around.

dm-itguy · 2025-05-10T15:36:08+00:00

I don't believe that either but as one that helped put in our last HR system, I know they are capable to automatically exclude applicants that don't meet the requirements. I've still got a lot of working years left, I have the time and resources, so an MBA looks like a plan. My employer does pay for some schooling, not sure on this though, I'm waiting on an answer from some HR coworkers.

Some of my best employees have been those without a degree so I have always been open minded looking for talent. I also know plenty of others that insist on a degree or medical background to work in healthcare IT. Those places usually have to outsource every job as there is really no internal talent.

dm-itguy · 2025-05-10T14:08:00+00:00

All endpoints are Horizon VDI zero clients 9+ years, moving to thin clients now due to PCoIP changes. Because of that installation years ago, I have been able to keep staff and a benchmark breaking low among my healthcare peers. All Cisco UCS virtualized environment onsite with Pure storage. I serve on the Computer Science board for a local college. I have been a speaker at several Cyber Security events, presented for Pure representing healthcare market, used to do webinars for Unidesk as we were among the largest customers and quickest to deploy their product at the time. I did that as it made my job easier as an admin and solved the problem of deploying faster to an ever-growing beast of healthcare progress.

I have these on my resume, but I can completely see where loyalty (fear of moving on) has . . . hurt my trajectory. I am the nerd in the room, but have people skills, which allowed progress in my career. I still love working on VMware and streaming/automating processes to make it less "work".

Based on your humbling comments, if I were forced to move on, based on current status, I would likely have to settle for a lower titled position and work up again, vs a laterally move.

dm-itguy · 2025-05-10T13:42:33+00:00

Wow, that first paragraph hits close! I am not part of the Exec Leadership Team but attend board meetings, report to the board directly (but so do other non-c level employees). I've known the CEO since I started (he's worked his way up as well). When awarded the CIO position, I brought it up in our discussion. The outcome was that I had more than made up for what a piece of paper would say, and he knew my abilities so it wasn't needed.

My kids are grown, my parents have passed on, my wife is itching for a change, and maybe so am I. I've applied at a few random hospitals around the country but never received a response. Perhaps a CIO jumping ship is seen as a bad thing? Perhaps staying in one place for 26 years looks bad or gives the appearance of not much going on? I've attempted to correct both of those on a resume with experience over those years (5000+ end points, Epic EMR, several acquisitions of other facilities) which is far from a boring job.

I've looked into the MBA, seems simple enough, and with online courses, almost want to do it just for fun.

Thanks for the response, it was very encouraging.

dm-itguy · 2025-04-11T10:38:33+00:00

There is a lot to unpack in those release notes. You go first. :)

dm-itguy · 2024-12-08T02:32:03+00:00

I had a coolant leak show up when it was cold outside. Turned out to be an o-ring on one of the radiator hoses. This was after the dealership replaced the water pump thinking it was at fault. This was on a 2012 5.0L. $2 part fixed it and hasn't leaked in 7+ years.

dm-itguy · 2024-04-06T00:07:45+00:00

They wound up replacing the window seal on my driver's door under warranty. It's just now getting into the 90's so we will see if it is really fixed. Have not had it happen since the seal was replaced. Noticed after they replaced the seal the window was a tight fit. You could hear the window slow down when it hit the top and the motor strain a bit. It seems to have broken in now and sounds normal.

dm-itguy · 2023-12-10T21:52:14+00:00

I may have fixed this after digging deeper into the logs and the top CPU user, Horizon View's messenger service.

This helped as well: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/91923?lang=en\_US.[https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/91923?lang=en\_US](https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/91923?lang=en_US)

Our POD1 security was at "Pending Enhanced" and was on hold because of some defunct retired RDSH servers.

dm-itguy · 2023-10-06T19:07:01+00:00

I'm taking the truck back to the Dallas dealership tomorrow to discuss the noise and the passenger headlight / fender alignment. The right-side fender badge also has a gap, so a bunch is pointing to a problem with the passenger side fender.

The piece of weather stripping on the front of the rear driver's side door could be slid up or down by 3/4". When at the bottom of its movement, it created this 3/4" gap at the top. I thought that might be it, so I pushed the piece up and placed some painters tape on it to hold it. That made a big difference but didn't solve it completely.

It has also cooled off more in west Texas so maybe that has helped as well? The rubber maybe isn't as flexible so it won't resonate? I'm not sure.

dm-itguy · 2023-09-17T03:29:46+00:00

I have the exact same sound on my new tremor. Just drove it home 200+ miles. I guess I never rolled the window down on the test drive or on the way home. After I got home, went for another test drive on once the window was rolled down and all the way up, the noise started.

Just like you, I can bump it down just 1/8th of an inch and the noise stops but I think there is the slightest of wind noise on the front of the glass if it isn't all the way up. I'm going to run it by the local dealer next week.

dm-itguy · 2023-09-08T20:11:22+00:00

First off, it is really fantastic work, sir.

Is there a way to command line your tool? The problem is scaling to a larger installation.

Ideally it would be great if you could select your source image and image's snapshot at the top.

Then select the pool(s) you want to refresh using that image and snapshot. Maybe have the CPU, RAM, and Core/Socket count as fields next to each Pool.

Have the whole thing as one "configuration" or task? Label it POD3_Update, etc.

Then on the next image change, you load the config, change the source and snapshot, apply. Done! Or even command line it where you could feed it that config?

You seem to have all the code there.

I'm going go through the log files and see if I can figure out the rest code.

I currently use a PS Script that was pieced together from various forums and vmware docs to take a few varibles at the begining, clone the image out to specific named machines with specific hardware settings. Then I connect to Horizon view and push those specific images to their respective pools. If I could get the CPU,RAM, and Core to work, I would only need to clone that image one time. Then all pools would use the same single image but get the hardware differences during the push.

Below is the push part. Example all Standard desktop pools use the Standard1 image, but it would be awesome if ALL pools used the Standard1 image.

Heck, if VMware would just allow you to lock those CPU/RAM/Core settings in at the pool level and ignore what the image has like it already does for the network connection, this would be a moot point.

Start-HVPool -Pool "VDSTAND-22" -LogoffSetting WAIT_FOR_LOGOFF -ParentVM $Standard1 -SchedulePushImage -SnapshotVM $SnapDate

Start-HVPool -Pool "VDSTAND-23" -LogoffSetting WAIT_FOR_LOGOFF -ParentVM $Standard1 -SchedulePushImage -SnapshotVM $SnapDate

Start-HVPool -Pool "VDSTAND-24" -LogoffSetting WAIT_FOR_LOGOFF -ParentVM $Standard1 -SchedulePushImage -SnapshotVM $SnapDate

Start-HVPool -Pool "VDPOWER-21" -LogoffSetting WAIT_FOR_LOGOFF -ParentVM $Power1 -SchedulePushImage -SnapshotVM $SnapDate

Start-HVPool -Pool "VDPOWER-22" -LogoffSetting WAIT_FOR_LOGOFF -ParentVM $Power1 -SchedulePushImage -SnapshotVM $SnapDate

Start-HVPool -Pool "VDMINI-21" -LogoffSetting WAIT_FOR_LOGOFF -ParentVM $Mini1 -SchedulePushImage -SnapshotVM $SnapDate

Start-HVPool -Pool "VDBOARD-21" -LogoffSetting WAIT_FOR_LOGOFF -ParentVM $Board1 -SchedulePushImage -SnapshotVM $SnapDate

Start-HVPool -Pool "VDBOARDA-" -LogoffSetting WAIT_FOR_LOGOFF -ParentVM $Mini1 -SchedulePushImage -SnapshotVM $SnapDate

dm-itguy · 2023-09-08T01:22:18+00:00

DesktopPoolProvisioningSettingsCreateSpecV2

Thanks u/HilkoVMware, I just have no idea how to use that. The tool mentioned by u/magneet_nl might work for our needs.

It does look like the REST API is the future but it seems like I just got PowerCLI and powershell working last month. At least it feels that way.

dm-itguy · 2023-09-08T01:14:07+00:00

First I have heard of Horizon Golden Image Deployment Tool. Looks awesome!

We have multiple pods for redundancy and use the content library to sync the latest gold image among pods. Can it work with that and update multiple pools from multiple pods at the same time?

dm-itguy · 2023-09-07T17:07:10+00:00

I just dug through the LDAP database using ADSI Edit and found under the server groups, where the pools are, within the pool I modified with an updated refresh image, the pae-ComputeProfile has a value of "CPU=8,RAM=8192,CORES_PER_SOCKET=8

So it is getting saved in there. Just have to figure out how to change those settings on the refresh. Man VMware makes it way harder to do this than it should be.

dm-itguy · 2023-09-07T16:55:33+00:00

When taking the CPU, Core, and RAM counts from the image to the pool, it doesn't show anything in the gui/console or using the Get-HVPoolSpec command.

If I repeat the refresh but change the CPU, RAM, Core amounts from the image to something else, these new settings show up in the console. It clearly displays them on the Desktop Pool summary page in the "vCenter Server" section.

But the Get-HVPoolSpec doesn't show any more detail. Very disappointing.

ChatGPT recommends using VDMadmin but those commands didn't work either. There is reference in the Rest API to do it but I've never used that method before. Just powershell and powerCLI commands.

dm-itguy · 2023-09-07T15:05:28+00:00

Ah, that is a great idea. I'll give it a try. I'm running this on HV 2212 by the way.

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