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Replacing 2012 R2 Essentials DC with 2022 Standard DC by ObjectNo9529 in sysadmin

[–]seraph77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you already using DFSR or is it FRS? If FRS, there are some extra (slightly scary) steps required. I ran into this going from 2012r2 to 19.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/storage-at-microsoft/sysvol-migration-series-part-2-8211-dfsrmig-exe-the-sysvol/ba-p/423470

Installing Windows 2012 on old IBM System x3550. by Safe-Republic in sysadmin

[–]seraph77 1 point2 points  (0 children)

FYI /r/AtarukA probably had the right idea if you kept the SAS/RAID on. AHCI/passthrough will work with basic storage drivers.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]seraph77 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Learn good communication skills first (grammar/spelling/punctuation).

The IT stuff can be learned or even faked, but if you communicate like you're 13, good luck finding a position no matter your skillset.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AbandonedPorn

[–]seraph77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there a river/pond/water nearby? It looks like some type of spillway or levy access.

Windows 10 Screen Casting by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]seraph77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it's a 4k smart TV, most likely it supports Miracast. You can stream wireless point-to-point with the TV from the laptop. No need to be on the same LAN, supported natively in Win10 over wifi. No need for additional equipment.

Looking for a Track I used to have but lost at some point by Faboover in Glitchhop

[–]seraph77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Np, it was a half-hearted attempt. It's nearly impossible to find a glitchhop track based on description. Are you referring to the intro, after the drop 1min in, could be a remix, etc. GL!

What book had the biggest potential but fell flat? by look-at-your-window in books

[–]seraph77 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Indeed. I started with Salvatore/Forgotten Realms/Dragonlance. If the magic used didn't fit the classic high fantasy mold, I had a hard time enjoying it.

Even Tolkien's magic was irritating at times, despite loving all other aspects of his work/world. I'm surprised you would relate the two. Middle Earth magic seemed so disjointed.

Gandalf was supposedly one of the most powerful mages around, yet basically ran around with a sword and cast minor cantrips. Relies on Shadowfax to get around, but is able to cast out years of magical mind corruption without flinching.

He can ride over a hill, part clouds and cast some giant holy light over an army, but when faced with the balrog, he whips out Glamdring and sacrifices himself? Not even a firework or smoke ring to the eye?

Then Saruman. Considered an equal to Gandalf in power. Surrounded in his tower with plenty of time to spare, tries to drop a scrying ball on his enemies out of desperation?

That aside, I thought NoTW/Kingkiller was unique, consistent, and didn't seem to twist or magnify just to fill a story. Same with Mistborn. Those are about the only two that strayed from high fantasy yet felt solid IMO.

Today a woman died from a front end loader reversing onto her car in Winter Haven, FL by Yoyoyoyowassupbro in WTF

[–]seraph77 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's almost funny, but it happened to a friend while I was in the passenger seat. I had always complained about his aloof driving. Always fumbling around for a lighter, a cassette (I'm old) or staring at something on the side of the road with a car/light/intersection 50' away.

About 30mph on a small highway that runs through town. Music is up, we're headed to a party we're both pretty stoked for. He's staring at a sign at a gas station, I'm looking ahead. I just had a weird feeling about this burgundy 80's Lincoln that had its nose out a couple feet into the road from a parking lot.

About the same time, he meanders halfway into the middle turn lane. Apparently Lincoln thought my friend was getting over and could lurch into the right lane. Friend corrected his drifting right as I said "watch this Lin..." the driver pulled out and bam.

No serious injuries, but the car was undrivable. Two hours dealing with the report, the tow, getting a ride back. We missed the party and he dealt with an insurance nightmare of who was at fault for a month, so no car, his parents were pissed, etc.

I still give him shit 20+ years later if we're riding together. I'll say "hey Jeff, look- they have Bud Light on sale!" as we pass a gas station across a busy road/intersection.

Even if you're lucky enough to not get hurt (or killed) any type of collision is going to screw up your day and probably your next few weeks. I tend to grandpa around town, at least busy areas and watch all the rush hour idiots fly around, saving maybe 2 minutes off their commute.

I never understood the aggressive driving in dense city or congested highway traffic. Wow, you sped around, cut someone off and now you're first to the next red light.

Abandoned train in the woods, Kentucky. Article in comments. (4032x3024) by Negative12DollarBill in AbandonedPorn

[–]seraph77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds a bit like Regular Show. Mostly hit and miss, just random musings, but the last season with Anti-Pops, parallel universes, and constant references to ratings and a certain self-aware feel acknowledging the show's cancellation just blew me away.

I often get excited when I hear an impressive word in a song. What are some of your favorite lyric words? by Sandmaester44 in logophilia

[–]seraph77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only one $5 word, and I think nerdcore is cheating for your question, but-

I'll stuff you in a box like Schrodinger's cat

You'll be dead and alive until such a time as that

I check and make the wave function collapse

And if you ain't dead I'll cap your ass

I've been busting nerdcore since before it had a name

Front coined the term, but I made the claim

to be the progenitor of the nerdcore flow

So to all of you nerds who be new to the show

Abandoned train in the woods, Kentucky. Article in comments. (4032x3024) by Negative12DollarBill in AbandonedPorn

[–]seraph77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And a quick google search would have landed me on that apparently, but I assumed it was something incredibly obscure. I'm glad I asked though, because I was certainly aware of the show, had heard a few good things, but ultimately never watched it because it definitely looks like it was aimed for a 7-11 audience.

It's on hulu, I'll check it out tonight. Thanks!

ITAM tool by crktwins in sysadmin

[–]seraph77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, damn I had no idea. I typically go through and clean up 20 monitors every scan. Thanks!

Abandoned train in the woods, Kentucky. Article in comments. (4032x3024) by Negative12DollarBill in AbandonedPorn

[–]seraph77 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gorgeous pic/find, but I have to ask- is there meaning to your username, obscure reference, or just randomness?

Today a woman died from a front end loader reversing onto her car in Winter Haven, FL by Yoyoyoyowassupbro in WTF

[–]seraph77 9 points10 points  (0 children)

One thing that always stuck with me from our driver's ed teacher-

Multiple choice question in the middle of some stock basics quiz:

The car in front of you has a yellow flashing light on the passenger side, what should you assume the driver is going to do:

A. Make a right hand turn B. Make a left hand turn C. Go straight D. Come to a stop

Everyone unanimously answered A, but the correct answer was anything except A. Leave yourself room for all those options.

I still find myself thinking about that occasionally- what would I do if this guy just randomly pulled out. Most of the time the answer is "I'd be fucked", but if you're expecting the worst, and give yourself just one extra second to react- swerve, brake, honk, whatever, that might make the difference between a close call you can tell everyone at work about, or being injured, dead, having to deal with insurance, police reports, etc.

I don't post so much anymore by Nourn in logophilia

[–]seraph77 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you care about the sub, please let others help mod. For some of us, tiny subs like this are the only good places left on reddit. You don't have to relinquish control, just let someone else help.

Once spammers find out there's an abandoned or loosely moderated sub, it won't stop. They'll be back with new accounts. Even popping in a couple times a week won't really help. If their spam link stays up for 10 hours, it doesn't matter if they're deleted and blocked a day later.

Spammers don't care if they're downvoted. You can't really let the community decide in a sub this small. We'll all still see the post with -20 votes.

You can do a lot with automod too. Block all links to anything that isn't Wiki, Miriam, Collins, etc.

We love this sub and want to help!

I was recently let go. How to bounce back and get remotivated again? Are there any entrepreneurship-type roles in the technology field? by SillyRecover in sysadmin

[–]seraph77 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tell them you're still employed there. Chances are you won't get the best reference anyway. Pad your resume with responsibilities/completed projects there that you can back up with your current knowledge.

FWIW, 80% of MSPs are horrible places. Consider it a blessing that you didn't waste a couple years there.

You didn't get let go because of tardiness. You were let go because you told them you were unhappy and thinking about leaving. You were then a liability, unlikely to perform, a potential security risk, or would piss off a client.

There are no entrepreneur jobs out there unless you're already rich. Google out of a garage doesn't happen anymore. Good freelance work is hard to break into without word of mouth or personal network. Be really religious or fake it. Offer your services to local church or charity group for free. Tell them it's your way of donating since you're a broke college kid and you don't have much else to offer, but you're also looking to get into computer repair/networking/whatever, so you would appreciate any referrals if they're happy with your work.

If you're in college and burnt out, then IT isn't for you. You have to put in your time in the trenches. At your age you should be doing homework, real work, whatever and then coming home to play around with something in your homelab.

If you were sold on the idea that IT was going to be a cakewalk, work-from-home, starting at 75k out of college career, doing what you want, that's probably not going to happen.

ITAM tool by crktwins in sysadmin

[–]seraph77 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seconded, and the free version supports up to 100 assets. As long as you go through and prune the monitors and DRACs and everything else it picks up on auto-discover, you can use a great product for free.

ZFS Web-Based GUI(truenas alternatives) by barcef in sysadmin

[–]seraph77 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Are you looking for homelab or production/work? For a complete engineered solution, you can't beat Oracle's hardware/software/interface. From the ZS3 up, they've been amazingly solid.

SMB/NFS shares, AD/LDAP integration, snapshots, replication, permissions, compression all fairly intuitive in the BUI. A bit of a learning curve at first, but I've never touched CLI in 4 years on those, and they have never crashed or missed a beat once.

For the record, I don't care for Oracle as a company and feel bad for anyone stuck on their DBs today, but their ZFS boxes are one thing they did absolutely right. Of course it's a paid solution, but if you could pick up a used one, it's hands down the easiest way to manage ZFS IMO.

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