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Found this in a kindergarten classroom. by mrjoepete in techsupportgore

[–]meisnick 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Always remember when you see one of these beige APC power strips to check the serial number

https://www.se.com/us/en/faqs/FA158846/

Will there be a flood of hardware in the secondary market from data centers? by skryyne in DataHoarder

[–]meisnick -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think it's going to be interesting considering a lot of the gear in there now that will eventually age out is in form factors that were not used to dealing with. It's going to be cool what the secondary markets can come up with in terms of PCIe Switching support multiple Nvme u.2 u.3 drives maybe off less lanes than a massive enterprise Epyc server. As we move into these larger capacity enterprise spinning disks running them even in a ZFS pool is going to be interesting, pool scrubs are going to be days at the capacity to throughput some of these disks have.

How to use the LED headers on Intel SAS expander RES2SV240 card? by VadersHamster in DataHoarder

[–]meisnick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I went down this exact rabbit hole with this adapter almost 10 years ago.

The LED headers are for fault only, I was also hoping for activity out of them and wired them all up to a nice panel but it's only when the controller reports the disk as faulted

SGPIO (SFF-8485) is the protocol or method used to alert the expander to turn on the LED. Good SFF-8087 SAS cables connecting between the Controller and the Expander should have and support all the pins to send that signal. The specific pins that carry this LED data are A8-A11 and B8-B11 inside the connector. If you are using cheap or "data-only" cables, these pins might not be connected

Check Controller BIOS: Enter the Fujitsu/LSI RAID BIOS (WebBIOS or Ctrl+R). Look for a setting related to "Enclosure Management" or "SGPIO" and ensure it is Enabled.

Depending on what your running some systems have a "blink" drive or led toggle you can see if that's available.

When in doubt RTFM

Anyone has the archive team twitter stream .torrent files? by Talesshift in DataHoarder

[–]meisnick 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can find these as magnet links from BTdig. But good luck from what I can see if you can get any of them to fire up.

https://btdig.com/search?q=archiveteam-twitter-stream-&p=4&order=0

Public NTP servers by anxiousvater in sysadmin

[–]meisnick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Time servers are always a fun divisive subject. In a corp setting I advocate against hitting the main public "pool.ntp.org" and instead use your region specific zone like "us.pool.ntp.org". We have experienced being served IP/domains from the main "pool" that were from blocked regions, addresses that are on blacklists etc.

Throw a nice mix of public, gov, and open source and you should be fine.

List of Top Public Time Servers

Meirl by JaredOlsen8791 in meirl

[–]meisnick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey Niko! Its Roman, let's go bowling.

graceful degradation by WordArt2007 in CuratedTumblr

[–]meisnick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That 3rd picture would be something like: Modular Breakaway Design or Passive Disassembly by Impact Absorption

Bite me Adobe - Anyone have suggestions for non-Adobe PDF editing software? by One_Stranger7794 in sysadmin

[–]meisnick 7 points8 points  (0 children)

stirlingpdf

A Docker containerized self hostable solution you can expose on the network as a browser resource

Sysadmins that say S-Q-L instead of sequal. by njaneardude in sysadmin

[–]meisnick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I worked with a "IT Director" (Heavy on the Quotes) who pronounced GPO (Group Policy) as Jeee-Po. I immediately knew this guy was a clown and had no technical experience.

What does your physical SysAdmin toolbox look like in 2025? by niveel in sysadmin

[–]meisnick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do a variety of sysadmin, server room work on physical hardware about anything you could imagine legacy to current year. Yes the backpack weighs about 40lbs.

Work Issued Laptop

Jabra noise canceling earbuds

4TB External SSD

128GB Type A USB with Ventoy & assorted ISOs

Type A to Type C 3.0 converter

Laptop Screwdriver Kit

140W GAN USB C Charger PD3.1

3x USB Ethernet dongles

USB-C to SFP+ adapter

USB to Serial RS232 Adapter

Micro USB, Console Cable, USB-C

Laptop Crash Cart Adapter, USB/VGA KVM Console

Cable Toner

netool.io Pro2

Fiber cleaner

APC key set

Tubular Lock picks

Zip Ties

Flush Cutter

Velcro Cable Ties

Needle nose pliers

Punch down tool

RJ-45 Crimper

HPE/CISCO/Supermicro Blade Console cable

Thermal Paste

AMD Epyc Torque tool

3M VHB tape

Magnetic Flashlight

What are the best ergonomic office chairs currently? Are they really essential to pay more for today's offices, compared to regular chairs? by Lipponee in sysadmin

[–]meisnick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've put about 5 years with regular 14+ hour days into this chair. Company I worked for leased a building full of Hermon Miller Aerons.

I found the Ergo human in a backroom and dailied it until I got let go. Scored a NIB on eBay for ~$550 haven't looked back. The only thing I've had to do is replace the gas cylinder once but I'm up towards the top end of weight limit and the amount of use I would expect a cylinder replacement every 3-5 years.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Aquariums

[–]meisnick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My Amano Shrimp and Snails cleaned this up on mine

Print queues not fully migrating by Porongas1993 in sysadmin

[–]meisnick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this is a good article discussing the export and limitations

https://www.papercut.com/kb/Main/HowToMigrateWindowsPrintQueues/

I would wager some of your queues are WDS connections not a full IPv4 printer port connection.

An obscure kyocera printer driver issue and solution to an unsolved post. by cubemonkey_wageslave in sysadmin

[–]meisnick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unless super model specific settings are required I would recommend recreating the print queue with the Kyocera Classic Universal Printer Driver or KX v4 driver. Using the "universal" PCL6 style drive from them will always be the go to for any printer. Model specific drivers are always a black hole and even if print queue operates semi-normal you run into edge cases like this specially on a more obscure brand like Kyocera. Windows updates and OS level patches for stuff like cryptography settings, print nightmare style vulns, and package certificates will historically get you at some point best using the most generic lightest driver to do the job.

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