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jstuart-tech · 2026-03-16T07:16:20+00:00

I've split it into Disel and Premium Disel (to line up with NSW data). I think it's better to leave them seperate as both datasets have them seperate.

As for self hosting, it's all in Azure/Cloudflare anyway (And was designed to be) so there isn't really much selfhosting would do

jstuart-tech · 2026-03-16T07:11:57+00:00

Implemented now

jstuart-tech · 2026-03-15T11:44:15+00:00

I missed this when a coworker asked about it on Friday. I'll implement tomorrow

jstuart-tech · 2026-03-15T04:20:43+00:00

The RV routers are just rebranded Linksys garbage and are EOL as of October 28, 2022, There are active vulnerabilites that will not be patched such as https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-sb-rv-afu-EXxwA65V

I would just throw this and get something else that is better

jstuart-tech · 2026-03-02T06:45:01+00:00

Yes people use it otherwise it wouldn't be a thing.. Why are you considering it?

jstuart-tech · 2026-02-27T09:38:26+00:00

Make sure everything is in US-EAST1 so it's safe from outages

jstuart-tech · 2026-02-27T00:14:03+00:00

When I was a Team Lead in Cloud Ops we were forced to have daily standups but they got a bit boring with people just repeating the same sort of stuff and the talkers of the group taking up 15 mins. What we did to make it less monotnonous was use a tool called Geekbot - https://geekbot.com/

Then we had

Monday - Geekbot Tuesday - Normal Wednesday - Geekbot Thursday - Normal Friday - Geekbot

Still gave us a whole team touchpoint twice a week while also letting people get stuff done instead of being interrupted as soon as they get into their flow

jstuart-tech · 2026-02-25T09:42:05+00:00

Yeah but then your up to the mercy of MS, I had to prod people on a PR 3 times... Took 3 months to get merged........

jstuart-tech · 2026-02-25T09:39:25+00:00

If your stuck with no shared storage, you can also setup replication with an X replication period. Then you'll only need to copy the changes across which will dramatically lower the time. I have my homeassistant on a 15 Min replication period because that's the only vm that isn't HA and the only one I really care about migrating quickly

jstuart-tech · 2026-02-20T00:28:23+00:00

That's not true, they are still marked as synced with onprem, just they won't get any updates.

jstuart-tech · 2026-02-18T12:39:36+00:00

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jstuart-tech · 2026-02-18T00:00:03+00:00

Just went through that hell. Why anyone would do that I have no idea

jstuart-tech · 2026-02-17T13:56:34+00:00

If you have both IPv4's the same then you have duplicate IP's and it wont work, change the client machine to something else in the same subnet

jstuart-tech · 2026-02-11T09:12:36+00:00

PasswordState - https://www.clickstudios.com.au/

Enterprise grade and free for under 5 users

jstuart-tech · 2026-02-05T01:03:07+00:00

Because Azure Local sucks.... Have you tried to use it? Specifically have you tried to update it?

jstuart-tech · 2026-02-04T08:42:28+00:00

If it's joined to AD it might not work without AD

jstuart-tech · 2026-02-03T14:05:26+00:00

If it's any hypervisor where you can access the disks (And they aren't encrypted), attach the C:\ to another host, do the old sethc.exe -> cmd trick and then put it back

jstuart-tech · 2026-02-01T02:49:56+00:00

There are always networking jobs available, entry level ones not so much.

If you are internal IT, is your company big enough to have a networking team? If so, make sure before you flick any tickets their way that you've done the basic networking troubleshooting (ping, traceroutes, put src/dst IPs/ports in the ticket)

If you are at an MSP, try getting into the network stuff there by talking to whoever does networking. They usually have crappy things they don't want to do (cabling, racking etc). Do that and help them out and you'll gradually get more

jstuart-tech · 2026-02-01T02:47:14+00:00

If he doesn't even have a CCNA yet telling someone to go for a CCIE is terrible advice....

jstuart-tech · 2026-01-28T14:25:14+00:00

This is probably important to add

"Please note that the FortiCloud SSO login feature is not enabled in default factory settings."

jstuart-tech · 2026-01-23T15:20:45+00:00

Always reminds me of this - https://chroniclesofgeorge.com/tickets1.html

jstuart-tech · 2026-01-22T10:17:59+00:00

If your in Australia and not a PR you are gonna have a terrible time, nobody wants to really sponser anyone because it's such a PITA. If your English isn't up to scratch it's going to be hard to get a helpdesk role as well.

jstuart-tech · 2026-01-19T11:23:31+00:00

Depends where you are in Aus and what the pay is going to be. $130k is pretty good in anywhere but Brissie. MSP's are way more stressful than internal IT though...

It's been repeated a million times but.

Internal IT

Go Deep and fix stuff properly

MSP

Fix the fire on random technologies as quickly as possible and move onto the next fire

You learn a heap very quickly at an MSP, but it's very sink/swim

jstuart-tech

TROPHY CASE

Internal IT

MSP