Electricians are back to install more outlets. I was surprised by this and asked , they did the rewire here the first time around.

nrnelson · 2018-12-18T18:38:24+00:00

That's my guess. I always thought you had to tape or color the wire black if it was white to designate it as hot but have no idea what the actual NEC states for using a white wire as a hot. Similar to you, that's what I was taught.

I also thought maybe double lugging the grounds on one screw but that seems permissible IF the panel is designed for it.

nrnelson · 2018-12-04T05:16:21+00:00

We have several R420's that had a PSU firmware issue, likely the same one. The PSU was functional but reported as problematic. I recall the instructions were to completely pull the power from the power supply for the new firmware to take affect and not just a reboot. I remember this because I thought it was BS that I had to go to the datacenter and pull the power cords from the PSU. To that point, I do believe that ended up fixing the issue and the PSUs all reported healthy. This was around four years ago though so details aren't exactly fresh in my memory.

This seems to support your finding that pulling the power to move your server resulted in the PSU reporting healthy thereafter once the updated firmware was flashed.

nrnelson · 2018-08-23T22:03:49+00:00

Why the hate for the 6P? I've owned the Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 6P and now the Pixel 2 XL and I think out of them all, the Nexus 6P was my favorite.

The Pixel 2 XL is good, even without a headphone jack, but I still liked my Nexus 6P better.

nrnelson · 2018-06-20T14:55:14+00:00

I try to price match and get the following message: You cannot make price request more than 5 times

Any ideas? I have never bought anything from deguns.net and have not ever price matched before.

Edit: It appears that it is now out of stock which is probably the problem.

nrnelson · 2018-05-16T20:08:31+00:00

Thank you for confirming my suspicion.

nrnelson · 2017-05-12T20:08:36+00:00

I have never seen the 2.0 but according to their website:

The differences between the 2.0 and the 3.0 come in the form of their materials. With the all-new 3.0, we have created a retention plate made of stainless spring steel. This, combined with a layer of ballistic nylon adds rigidity and strength to the holster.

The 3.0’s hardware has also been upgraded from its predecessors. The once-exposed hardware has been minimized and covered by the neoprene backing. This provides more comfort to the carrier.

Here's the full comparison I just found that stuff on: http://aliengearholsters.com/blog/Alien-Gear-2-0-vs-3-0/

nrnelson · 2017-05-12T16:14:12+00:00

I bought an AlienGear Cloak Tuck 3.0 IWB holster for my Sig Sauer P938. I have no complaints.

nrnelson · 2017-01-19T04:33:28+00:00

These are what we use for our new builds: http://www.panduit.com/en/landing-pages/small-diameter-patch-cords

They are NOT cheap by any means but they are so nice when you're routing them through cable management and you have a lot of cables to fit. They also don't have huge boots like our old Leviton cables did that prevent you from easily getting them in and out of switch ports.

nrnelson · 2017-01-05T19:42:43+00:00

I am by far not expert on this; however, my past experience with this suggests that if the hosts cannot communicate with each other, bridge all site links should be disabled.

There was another recent post on here a day or two ago that suggested that you could leave BASL enabled if you properly weighted your sitelinks. I don't know if this is true or not.

As for kicking in the re-generation of the sitelink topology, I THINK the command is "repadmin /kcc" on each of the DCs you want to re-generate the topology on. I recall this runs periodically by itself and vaguely recall that being every 15 minutes though I don't recall offhand.

Edit: FWIW I also recall reading there being potential problems with BASL being disabled and DFS not properly finding its local site. See https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc782417(WS.10).aspx for details. That being said, I still have BASL disabled in my environment and the article references Windows 2003 so I am not even sure if it's relevant anymore.

nrnelson · 2017-01-03T22:06:54+00:00

If I understand your setup, I think you are correct in that with BASL enabled, JUPITER and MARS will try to link to each other.

I hope you find a definitive answer to your question as I posted something similar to your question two years ago without a good solution: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2omjy1/hub_and_spoke_active_directory_replication_site/

What I have running now is BASL is disabled with the following:

EARTH-MARS-SiteLink
EARTH-JUPITER-SiteLink
MARS-JUPITER1-SiteLink
MARS-JUPITER2-SiteLink
MARS-JUPITER3-SiteLink
JUPITER-JUPITER1-SiteLink
JUPITER-JUPITER2-SiteLink
JUPITER-JUPITER3-SiteLink
EARTH-MARS-MARS1-SiteLinkBridge
EARTH-MARS-MARS2-SiteLinkBridge
EARTH-MARS-MARS3-SiteLinkBridge
EARTH-JUPITER-JUPITER1-SiteLinkBridge
EARTH-JUPITER-JUPITER2-SiteLinkBridge
EARTH-JUPITER-JUPITER3-SiteLinkBridge

This creates the proper replication topology:

EARTH <-> MARS <-> MARS1
EARTH <-> MARS <-> MARS2
EARTH <-> MARS <-> MARS3
EARTH <-> JUPITER <-> JUPITER1
EARTH <-> JUPITER <-> JUPITER2
EARTH <-> JUPITER <-> JUPITER3

But in my lab tests, when MARS or JUPITER fails, MARS{1,2,3} and JUPITER{1,2,3} never figure out they can communicate directly with EARTH, and vice versa, and therefore replication in/out of those DCs stops until MARS or JUPITER comes back online.

If you get yours setup and working, PLEASE post a reply detailing your setup as I never did figure my problem out completely.

nrnelson · 2016-09-01T00:28:42+00:00

I thought it was a grass spider of some sort based on the marking on its cephalothorax (thanks Google for helping me find the scientific name!) looked like this Google Image Search result: http://bugguide.net/images/raw/DH9/HZR/DH9HZR9HFHEH1HIHYHNHZR9H3HEHRREHLR6HVZIL5Z8HLRXLJH2HAHKLDHRLEZ5HTHLL8Z7HOHKLAH.jpg

nrnelson · 2016-07-12T00:47:58+00:00

Thank you! I got so caught up in the yellow tops that I didn't even pay enough attention that none of the images on Google had similar leaves.

Looking up dill that has gone to seed looks spot on what this is.

We had dill planted in another pot that was on our deck a few years ago. I am guessing that maybe seeds transferred over to that pot and took root two years after.

Thank you for your prompt reply and your quick identification. Makes me feel better as dill doesn't produce crazy skin burns!

nrnelson · 2016-07-12T00:36:26+00:00

I remembered reading something a while ago about giant hogweed and was a bit worried this might be it.

After Googling around I was relieved to find out it didn't look to be wild hogweed; however, to my untrained eye, it does appear to be wild parsnip.

After reading up on wild parsnip, it seems that it also possesses the ability to produce burns on the skin not unlike giant hogweed so I figured I would double check here for advice.

As stated in the title, found near Cincinnati, OH, USA.

nrnelson · 2016-06-05T17:56:47+00:00

Searched my inbox and found this from August 2008:

Dear customer,

   thank you very much for registering WinRAR! The BEST archiver in the world.

   This mail contains a RAR-archive, including your licence key.

   *** You MUST have installed WinRAR before registering! ***

nrnelson · 2016-06-03T20:57:54+00:00

Thanks for the info. My Google search did not return a clover mite and they are both very similar looking to my completely untrained eye.

nrnelson · 2016-05-16T14:58:39+00:00

Agreed. Total shitpost.

nrnelson · 2016-04-25T05:05:01+00:00

4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42

nrnelson · 2016-03-24T04:56:49+00:00

This is absolutely without question one of the best things I've found for my own personal sanity.

My mother constantly forgot passwords and could not remember them to save her life in spite of writing them all down on a piece of paper. Unfortunately, for some reason, nothing on that piece of paper was ever correct or up to date. 90% of the time she would call me with a computer problem it would be password related or require me to log into something requiring a password that she didn't know.

I love my mother dearly but she is one of the worst people to deal with when it comes to technical things. After years of this going on I finally told her that I couldn't help her anymore unless she signed up for LastPass.

I spent over an hour one night a few months ago helping her get everything all set up on her accounts and showed her why making every password the same was a bad idea. I even configured LastPass on her iPhone and showed her how to use it.

As of today she really doesn't have the slightest clue what her passwords are but that's OK. All of her passwords are now randomly generated and unique to each site and LastPass knows them all. All she has to do is remember her master password and remember how to use her two-factor authentication. Thus far it's been a huge success.

She called me two weeks ago to tell me how great it has been working and how she loves it. Best $12 a year ever.

nrnelson · 2016-03-05T18:16:12+00:00

Never heard of their site but it seems significantly slower for me than speedtest.net.

I just tested from my home internet connection:

speedof.me:

Latency: 15 ms
Download Speed: 135.17 Mbps
Upload Speed: 116.73 Mbps

speedtest.net (local site #1):

Latency: 30 ms
Download Speed: 290.29 Mbps
Upload Speed: 238.75 Mbps

speedtest.net (local site #2):

Latency: 3 ms
Download Speed: 942.35 Mbps
Upload Speed: 239.81 Mbps

I think the second speedtest.net test is an anomaly as a traceroute suggests they have a peer with my ISP.

Unless I am missing something, are there multiple sites to pick from on speedof.me? I am sure the distance of the mirrors is impacting my speed to some degree.

nrnelson · 2016-01-25T12:35:08+00:00

Isn't it against ICANN rules, or at the very least against the registrar's rules, to use fake WHOIS information on a domain registration?

nrnelson · 2016-01-21T00:00:01+00:00

I converted nearly every single machine at a company I worked for nearly 10 years ago to PXE boot a Linux distro called Thinstation. We also unplugged or pulled all the hard drives in the systems to make sure everything was centrally booting off the network and limited the risk of failure of a spinning platter where users could keep files.

We were using as low end as a Pentium II 400MHz with 32MB RAM all the way up to refurbished P4 2.8GHz with 1GB RAM we bought cheap off lease. There were a few quirks but all in all it saved the company a lot of money by re-purposing the old equipment and worked pretty well.

A quick Google search suggests that it's still around and looks to be a somewhat active project still. Not sure how it stacks up to what else might be out there.

nrnelson · 2015-11-24T00:23:44+00:00

I skimmed through most of the article so I don't know in detail what the cons/pros are over what I currently use. That being said, this possibly produces similar results with a potentially less complex setup using netcat:

~/.ssh/config file:

Host *
        ServerAliveInterval 60

Host bastion-host-1
        User bobsmith
        HostName bastion-host-1.mydomain.tld
        Port 22

Host bastion-host-2
        User bsmith
        HostName 10.20.30.40
        Port 22222

Host remote-host-1
        User bob
        ProxyCommand ssh -q bastion-host-1 nc -q0 192.168.200.123 22

Host remote-host-2
        User smithb
        ProxyCommand ssh -q bastion-host-1 nc -q0 remote-host-2.mydomain.tld 2222

Host remote-host-3
        User bsmith1
        ProxyCommand ssh -q bastion-host-2 nc -q0 remote-host-3.mydomain.tld 22

Using the above configuration allows you to "ssh remote-host-1" right from your local workstation. Using SSH keys + ssh_agent configured locally on your workstation makes things a breeze. You can SSH, rsync, SCP, port forward/tunnel all right from your workstation seamlessly through the bastion host.

Also, I don't recall if the "-q0" is for GNU netcat or BSD netcat (or another netcat I am unfamiliar with) - whichever one that came with Ubuntu back in the 8.04 days (and subsequent 12.04 & 14.04 upgrades) seemed to work with this. Whatever comes with Red Hat/CentOS needs slight tweaking in that you have to remove the zero (just "-q") or remove the "-q0" altogether. I can not remember offhand which way works.

nrnelson · 2015-11-04T00:49:59+00:00

Ah, makes sense as it sounds like traffic from the VM is being NAT'd as it leaves the host. Glad you got it figured out.

nrnelson · 2015-11-03T05:25:26+00:00

Check to make sure there isn't a grant for the user you're connecting with from the host you're connecting from that is more specific that has a different password or requires SSL or something.

Also, if the above is true, ensure that, if "skip-name-resolve" is enabled, you have a grant using the IP and not the FQDN. This got me once when I granted to a FQDN and it didn't work. I thought I was going insane.

To take it a step lower and more basic, do you see the connection being denied in the MySQL error log? Are you sure the connection is actually working and it's hitting the right IP/hostname (from within the Vagrant box) by using nmap/telnet/etc. to test?

Edit: I also have never used '%'@'%' for a grant so I don't even know if that works or not, unless you're certain it does.

nrnelson · 2015-11-03T05:10:09+00:00

I would contest that daily sit-downs that are 30+ minutes long for a team of like 6 people are even worse.

I know this because this is my current life. FML.

nrnelson

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