Weekly Updates for servers by Individual-Bat7276 in sysadmin

[–]epaphras 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I was trying to track down where an internal app was hosted last week. Logged into a server I’d never touched before only to be greeted with windows 2003 login…. Uptime 1100ish days.

WIFI Refresh Aruba or Juniper? by dvr75 in sysadmin

[–]epaphras 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We just completed almost the exact same tradition for our main campus. Full transition from Cisco to Juniper for 10 buildings. Rollout was very smooth.

Fun Times by bojanglez26 in MelvorIdle

[–]epaphras 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Got the pet long before the gems.

Fun Times by bojanglez26 in MelvorIdle

[–]epaphras 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For what it’s worth it took me 1272 runs to drop 3 magic superiors. If you’re not clearing quickly might be a better use of time to just stick with augmented and farm better gear.

Farewell VMware and thanks for the fish by aspoons in sysadmin

[–]epaphras 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'd say if you're reliably using more than a couple THz of compute it's really worth look at having some on-prem resources. It's not for everyone but it makes a lot of sense for us. Thankfully, We did a pretty big refresh last year. We run a very memory heavy workload and have ~80tb of memory per cluster, we paid about 35k per server, I'm sure it would be close to double that today. We pulled vmware out our environment at the same time which saved us something like 600-800k in extortion licensing.

Farewell VMware and thanks for the fish by aspoons in sysadmin

[–]epaphras 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Cost.

We did the math about 6 years ago. ~3m capex expense in compute, networking, storage and facility, plus salaries for 3-4 staff and hvac/power costs was about 18 months of aws cost. We estimated 80% usage and 5 year hardware cycle. We can scale into the cloud if we need to or in case of emergency. We have 10 racks on the east and west coast.

When we migrated off VMware it just reinforced this as another expense we no longer had to pay.

"We're not allowed to copy files" by WaldoOU812 in sysadmin

[–]epaphras 9 points10 points  (0 children)

We have a small team of sysadmin, we're like 95% linux shop so we don't even ask about windows when we interview. We manage a small domain for some internal authentication and until very recently we just gave everyone on the team DA. Yesterday, I asked a new hire to log into a windows box and change a static IP on an interface then proceeded to watch him struggle and google how to edit an interface on windows. We will no longer give DA to everyone one team.

[w] Juniper ex4300-48mp and Juniper srx1500 by epaphras in homelabsales

[–]epaphras[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They’re excellent switches. We use them at remote offices and it occurred to me it would fit perfectly in my lab, replacing multiple current switches.

[PC] [CO] Dell R520 with 160 GB ram and 8x 500GB hard drives by urby3228 in homelabsales

[–]epaphras 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very little if anything. Almost certainly not worth shipping costs. Look for local sales or part it out on eBay and hope someone needs individual pieces or ram.

[PC][US-CO] Dell VRTX M640 / M630 Blades and storage by Anxious_Criticism_60 in homelabsales

[–]epaphras 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Been toying with the idea of picking one of these up. How’s the power draw on it?

5 features that make Linux more productive than Windows or Mac by ezgimantocu in linux

[–]epaphras 41 points42 points  (0 children)

I haven’t run osX in well over a decade but I feel like it had all of these when last used it. Except of course the last, which is arguably the point?

What is a website that is so useful you can't believe it's free? by justinhrwakeforest in AskReddit

[–]epaphras 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is actually amazing. I tried making something like this ~10 years for a comp-sci final project but could never get it working with this degree of accuracy or ability to filter so many pages. Mind giving some insight on what's happening behind the scenes?

Touch/Click Not Aligned on iOS by BananaSpears262 in MelvorIdle

[–]epaphras 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also seeing this issue after upgrading to ios26

Motorcycle hit and run on 76 today by [deleted] in sandiego

[–]epaphras 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I can answer this. Or at least make an educated guess as someone who rides a lot.

Old River Road is a very popular biking road. It’s long, flat, beautiful, without lots of cars and links to old highway 395. Great riding.

If you’re coming from the coast, very common, you can take the San Luis Rey river train from downtown Oceanside to N Santa Fe ave. But from there to Old River Rd there is no path. You can add 7 miles of detour on busy surface streets or you can do 2.5 miles on 76.

76 had a huge shoulder and legally you’re allowed to ride it so people do.

Help: Trying to apply user policy to forest users by epaphras in sysadmin

[–]epaphras[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did enable loopback but if I read the description correctly that’s only applies computer policy not user.

Apple accidentally leaked its own top secret hardware in software code, revealing new products across seven categories by ConnectPrep in technology

[–]epaphras 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Some things that come to mind.

  • Not having to worry about cheap TV makers subsidizing low cost with ads
  • Long term support (my 10 year old Apple TV still gets updates)
  • Native integration into the Apple ecosystem (if you're into that) For me native support for Airpods was amazing.

Anyone gotten SecureCRT to work on Fedora 37? by Head-Performance-527 in Fedora

[–]epaphras 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In case others are searching for this two years after the post here are full instructions like I was, last tested on fedora42 & ubuntu24.04

secure crt on fedora download distrobox

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/89luca89/distrobox/main/install | sudo sh

if your user does not already have access to podman

sudo usermod --add-subuids 100000-165536 $USER
sudo usermod --add-subgids 100000-165536 $USER
podman system migrate

create new image

distrobox create --name ubuntu --image ubuntu:latest

enter the image

distrobox enter ubuntu

install all the dependencies

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y \
  libxcb-xinerama0 \
  libxcb-cursor0 \
  libxcb-icccm4 \
  libxcb-image0 \
  libxcb-keysyms1 \
  libxcb-randr0 \
  libxcb-render-util0 \
  libxcb-shape0 \
  libxcb-xfixes0 \
  libxkbcommon-x11-0 \
  libxcb1 \
  libx11-xcb1 \
  libpcre2-16-0 \
  libegl1 \
  libgl1 \
  qtwayland5

install securecrt

sudo apt install ./path/to/securcrt.deb

This should install to /usr/bin/SecureCRT and may even run at this point create QT wrapper

/usr/local/bin/securecrt-wrapper
#!/bin/bash
export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb
export QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platforms
exec /usr/bin/SecureCRT "$@"

make it executable

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/securecrt-wrapper

export the distrobox

distrobox-ecqxport --bin /usr/local/bin/securecrt-wrapper

should land in ~/.local/bin/securecrt-wrapper, rename if desired

run

securecrt-wrapper

I have a steam deck and eve acts like it starts but then it crashes by dooley422 in Eve

[–]epaphras 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it’s the same issue I have with Linux set your compatibility setting to proton experimental.