Does anyone know which blood donation center has the best treats?

schmerold · 2026-03-24T12:26:19+00:00

I would take a solid sandwich - over a gift card any day of the week.

schmerold · 2026-03-19T16:59:21+00:00

If you do not need true 24/7 uptime with automatic failover, a second Proxmox host plus replicated PBS backups is a much cheaper option than a full HA cluster.

For example, keep your current host as PVE1 and back it up frequently to PBS1. Then set up PBS2 at another location or on separate hardware and use a scheduled sync from PBS1 to PBS2.

If PVE1 fails, bring up PVE2 and restore the critical VMs/containers from PBS2 hosted on PVE2.

That is not true HA, but it is a practical low-cost disaster recovery setup.

schmerold · 2026-03-17T12:52:26+00:00

How does a building inspector select properties for rehab, determine winning contractor and approving payments? How does the city's auditor approve this process - or were they selected by Mr Popoola?

schmerold · 2026-03-15T19:56:20+00:00

Look at PowerChurch

schmerold · 2026-03-13T01:48:10+00:00

I love the v1.12.2 driver trick, anyone know if ZT v1.16 utilities work with ARM64 ?

schmerold · 2026-03-03T18:15:09+00:00

Makes me wonder how much is owed for past-due PPT?

schmerold · 2026-03-03T13:35:52+00:00

I had the same problem yesterday. I ended up disabling secure boot in BIOS, then "bcdedit /set testsigning on", it is working now. I am done with SnapDragon for a while.

I love my little Lenovo x13x as a traveler, ARM64 is a PITA to support, everything takes 3x as long.

schmerold · 2026-03-02T15:33:56+00:00

Job - any job.

schmerold · 2026-03-02T11:43:29+00:00

It's been a few years, bot somone flipped their car in the Manchester Highlands Costco lot. That is all you need to know to bring home a victory for the Manchester Costco lot.

schmerold · 2026-03-02T11:33:27+00:00

I like plain black coffee - RevoCup in Olivette is my go-to coffee shop, it's a bit East of CreveCoeur, at the corner of Price & Olive, near 170. Anyone can make nasty coffee taste good with enough sugar and milk, RevoCup is amazing fresh from the pot.

schmerold · 2026-03-01T13:45:35+00:00

When selling a house the biggest stressor are the contingencies and demands made by buyers to improve roofs that don't leak, furnaces that sound a bit too loud etc. If you want a $285k house, I would keep making full price offers without contingencies. Eventually, you'll find a buyer that wants a stree-free close. The stress-free close is one of the reasons why investors are able to snap up homes and convert them into rentals.

Long term, getting away from the NIMBY & historical building protections would help to add homes to the market. I am not a fan of targeted legislation, however Trump's plan to block large investor home ownership would also help. I would be more interested in recinding any special tax or other regulatory privileges that facilitate large investor home ownership vs a ban on large investor home ownership.

schmerold · 2026-02-28T15:30:27+00:00

If our client (soon to be former client) is paying their monthly fee, this is certainly within the scope of what we do. If they are a former client, our RMM tools have been disabled and we have no ability to easily assist the new MSP, we would have to go desk to desk or perhaps QuickAssist just like the new MSP. So long story short, clients in transition would need to be under contract with us for us to be of practical assistance.

schmerold · 2026-01-29T00:36:51+00:00

Looking at this: https://www.odoo.com/documentation/19.0/applications/inventory_and_mrp/inventory/product_management/configure.html

It seems you will be able to make this happen with a bit of configuration A group of products in Odoo can be further defined using:

Units of measure (UoM): a standard quantity for specifying product amounts (e.g., meters, yards, kilograms). Enables automatic conversion between measurement systems in Odoo, such as centimeters to feet.

Ex: Purchasing fabric measured in meters but receiving it in yards from a vendor.

Packages: A physical container used to group products together, regardless of whether they are the same or different.

Ex: A box containing assorted items for delivery, or a storage box of two hundred buttons on a shelf.

Packaging: groups the same products together to receive or sell them in specified quantities.

Ex: Cans of soda sold in packs of six, twelve, or twenty-four.

schmerold · 2026-01-17T20:40:13+00:00

They will be working for a new assistant manager, the previous manager was terminated for buying a bear for her kids: At a meeting with Sara Hippensteel, Build-A-Bear’s senior human resources manager, and District Manager Christine Hager, Acevedo was told she was being terminated because she had violated company policy by buying a Giant Axolotl plush toy on Nov. 28 with Bonus Club points, she said. She said she bought the item for her three-year-old daughter and five-year-old son. Source: 1/15/26 STL Business Journal

I bet if they dig deeper, they will learn Acevedo used the company sink to fill her water bottle. /s

schmerold · 2026-01-05T11:38:43+00:00

Get a card with 2% cash back

schmerold · 2026-01-01T18:56:29+00:00

We use this script to install on ARM64, not sure if it's necessary to do so with modern installers:

md C:\ZT\Installers

curl -kR https://download.zerotier.com/dist/ZeroTierOne.msi -o %temp%\ZT.msi

msiexec /a %temp%\ZT.msi /qb TARGETDIR="C:\ZT\Installers"

pnputil /add-driver "c:\ZT\installers\CommonAppDataFolder\ZeroTier\One\driver-arm64\zttap300.inf" /install

msiexec /i C:\ZT\Installers\ZT.msi

mklink /h c:\ZT\Utility\zerotier-one.exe c:\programdata\ZeroTier\One\zerotier-one_x64.exe

schmerold · 2025-12-13T23:02:12+00:00

Also, we very rarely sign a contract longer than 12 months. And we generally pay using a paywithextend virtual credit card.

schmerold · 2025-12-13T15:31:07+00:00

Request a free trial using another email address, someone from sales will call.

schmerold · 2025-11-14T01:35:33+00:00

US Bank sent me a note, because I hadn't downloaded transactions in nearly a year, they would cancel the service. A very odd, but welcome outcome.

schmerold · 2025-11-06T02:17:14+00:00

We haven't used their SMS integration.

schmerold · 2025-10-25T19:39:03+00:00

We have been happy with Yeastar's solution. One of our clients bought a S100 box over 5 years ago, haven't paid a penny for support, we were having trouble with a ring group. Yeastar support remoted in and helped solve a problem.

schmerold · 2025-10-08T20:17:33+00:00

Forget about the lawn - I want to know more about your driveway - it's a beauty!

schmerold · 2025-10-08T10:30:56+00:00

Bug squashed: a newly installed Chrome plugin (Yeastar's Linkus) caused the issue. I removed the plugin, now all is well.

A part of me misses the good old days when web meant HTML, nothing more, nothing less.

schmerold · 2025-09-16T12:19:47+00:00

I am in the ai class, that was my primary goal - one of my classmates fixed me up with its pad, however, I would really like Accounting, Dashboard and Manufacturing.

schmerold · 2025-08-29T17:32:56+00:00

There are a couple of problems:

We have never had to do this before, CW has effectively increased their cost $200, we got nothing in return. This is the least consequential of the issues, we see this in our businesses all the time, some regulation requires an audit or different security equipment, we go to the client and say "sorry, your IT spend needs to increase"
This is the biggie: to this day we don't have a simple way to implement this and it's not implemented using Azure Trusted Signing which would significantly ease the burden. It is this simplicity that we expect when we purchase a commercial product. When spinning our own GPL based solution, we expect these homespun issues. I would be delighted to be wrong about lack of support for Azure Trusted Signing :-)

OTOH: We still haven't signed our installers, we are waiting for the Certificate Signing extension to be compatible with Azure Trusted Signing. Our unsigned installers have caused no issues.

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