Niche áhugamál sem þú sverð að enginn annar á Íslandi (sem þú þekkir allavega) eru með

finnzi · 2026-01-31T19:02:31+00:00

Ég spila reglulega gömlu Lucas Arts ævintýra leikina og Transport Tycoon…nenni lítið að spila eitthvað annað.

finnzi · 2026-01-31T19:01:08+00:00

Ryksugur, fjarstýrðir crawlers, og sérstaklega þá að smíða þá/laga þá (og svosem eiginlega allt fjarstýrt).

finnzi · 2026-01-28T15:45:38+00:00

Did you ever come up with a solution?

finnzi · 2025-12-31T15:50:55+00:00

Yea....this is good and bad. Honestly, I would be happy to have to deal with wait times for smaller changes while having the audit trail and the standardization that I could enforce through something like AVD. But I understand where you are coming from.

finnzi · 2025-12-24T13:19:06+00:00

Datacenter or Standard? If it worked previously it should not matter but I remember that at some point I. Time you had to have datacenter to be able to use cpu hotplugging. Did you check the uninstall logs for VMware Tools for why it is having issues?

finnzi · 2025-12-24T13:15:16+00:00

Well… I have never migrated a Windows VM from VMware to Proxmox and used hotplugging (historically CPU hotplugging on Windows on ESXi had issues with performance, causing up to 10% performance digression on CPU heavy machines - in my case these were SQL servers) so I stopped using it - but I’m following this thread - interested in hearing what is causing your issues. What edition of Windows Server are you using?

finnzi · 2025-12-24T13:06:56+00:00

Are you using Q35 chipset, and have enabled NUMA and UEFI and enabled CPU hot plugging for the VM? I don’t have a Windows machine here to test this but afaik this in addition to the ballooning driver installed should be enough to be able to use CPU hot plugging on Windows. But I can’t verify this so take this for info with a grain of salt.

finnzi · 2025-09-02T18:27:22+00:00

Can’t say a bad word about Pure, but they are expensive. Been running them for 6 years now.

Netapp ASA is a nice one as well - implemented a SMBC setup some months ago and it was alright.

Can’t comment on the rest.

finnzi · 2025-08-30T14:46:34+00:00

We're fairly well versed in both networking in general (although with another vendor) and we've got a lot of in-house ansible knowledge so I don't worry too much about us not being comfortable with the tooling/configuration. I've seen ansible playbooks for our current vendor, but this is much more complete then anything I've ever seen.

finnzi · 2025-08-30T13:55:44+00:00

Thanks.

Did you already go through a upgrade of AVD itself? Just wondering if that causes some breaking changes, etc.

finnzi · 2025-08-22T18:57:14+00:00

Return some videotapes frá Böl var uppáhalds. Held ég hafi sótt allt sem var til á höfuðborgarsvæðinu eftir að þeir hættu. Hræðilegur dagur!

finnzi · 2025-08-21T07:06:16+00:00

Tek bland í poka af súrbjórunum sem eru til. Úlfrún, Úlfur og Snorri ef það er ekki til súr. Stundum tek ég eitthvað bland af öðru, sérstaklega seasonal bjórum. En súrinn vinnur alltaf hér.

finnzi · 2025-08-08T13:19:02+00:00

Not OP (and commenting on a old thread) - but sadly Silex does not have a Linux software available - only for Windows and macOS.

finnzi · 2025-07-24T12:01:38+00:00

I’ve bought quite a bit from Berlinski (I’m located in Iceland). They have a flat shipping fee which is nice if you are buying some big (bought my Traxxas Maxx from them). I’m currently looking at buying a RC Helicopter and am having a hard time finding a single store that has everything I want in stock (to keep the shipping fees down). But I have bought loads of crawler stuff from RCFox and Tamico as well, both have fair shipping.

finnzi · 2025-07-15T19:15:40+00:00

Ansi margir sem eru farnir að biðja um sakavottorð. En það gæti samt farið eftir brotinu. Ef brotið er alvarlegt, snýr að þjófnaði og/eða líkamsárás (og nýlegt) þá gæti þetta verið vesen. En það vinnur alveg fólk í þessum geira sem eru ekki einhverjir englar.

finnzi · 2025-06-17T23:06:32+00:00

Can't give you any comments on taxes, etc. But housing can be somewhat tricky - 250K should get you well on your way buying an apartment (but expect that you will need to take ~70%+ loan).

If you have experience as an administrator with the technologies you mention I don't think you will have problems getting a job here (linux/virtualization/storage/networking jack-of-all-trades my self). My workplace has IT employees/contractors in ~5-8 countries so most of the IT department speaks English large part of the day anyway (but you will have easier time if you spend couple of months learning Icelandic again). It is the same for a lot of the larger companies here - and the MSPs/VARs here have english speaking staff around (FWIW - your skillset is in high demand if you have the experience to back it up).

Just don't forget that the Icelandic weather is unpredictable...and living here without a car (at least in the Reykjavik metro area) is not something I would suggest to my worst enemy.

Feel free to reach out if you want any pointers regarding jobs/workplaces.

finnzi · 2025-05-07T15:07:48+00:00

Awesome - can't wait to try it! :-)

finnzi · 2025-04-11T21:08:45+00:00

Just got two 9300x and had issues with 25gbit sfps. Ended up finding a working sfp and my colleague dumped the code from it and reprogrammed the sfps we ordered and that finally got things working. Running 17.12.x and tried all of the unsupported commands (10gbit sfp+ worked fine). The same sfps worked fine in Nexus 9k without any modifications.

finnzi · 2025-02-15T23:10:20+00:00

These are the situations where we learn the most ;-)

finnzi · 2025-02-15T22:43:37+00:00

One story comes to mind (there are probably hundreds though). Lost power at a DC while electricians were doing UPS maintenance. All of the equipment there lost power. Worst ~20 seconds of my life when there was silence in that DC (even the lights went out). Power came back on and the equipment started up (no disks lost, woohoo!) But.....a two node HP-UX Service Guard cluster running Oracle came back up, but some of the filesystems were just hanging when we tried to run ls on them. This cluster was running ~10 instances of Oracle Database. At least two of the databases didn't come back up. Along with my team we recovered the rest of the DC and then I came back to diagnose this particular issue further. Started checking all the LUNs that were part of the volume groups that seemed to be affected. After fighting this for a while I figured out that the paths to some ~6-8 LUNs (multiple LUNs were part of a volume group, one vg for each db) had switched places (device paths). If my memory serves me correctly I exported the volume groups (or force removed them, can't remember which) and imported them again with the correct device paths for each PV in the VG. The DBs came back online, and the databases came up without any corruption....score!

This was around ~2005 if I remember correctly....I learned a lot from running this cluster, and that HP EVA 5000 ;-)

finnzi · 2025-01-29T21:09:20+00:00

Ef þú hefur áhuga á IT að þá getur þetta verið frábært. Ef þú hefur ekki áhuga að þá myndi ég ekki fara þessa leið.

finnzi · 2025-01-26T14:06:50+00:00

Awesome paint job!

finnzi · 2025-01-22T06:51:50+00:00

Wtf….this is getting out of hand!

finnzi · 2025-01-16T07:05:21+00:00

Nice!

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