After the install, take a checkpoint. :)

@jim9500 said in New IT update 60TB / 60 mil files / 20 people - HP Equipment:

Hey guys, thought I'd get your input. Our org has grown and I'm needing to double our internal production server capacity. We are currently running an HP DL360 G8 / Windows Server 2012 Standard / P822 / 3 D2600 + 36 HP 3TB SAS drives (MB3000FBUCN) configured in raid 10ADM (3 drives per set).

I'm getting horrible benchmarks on the random read MB/s access with CrystalDiskMark RND4K Q1T1 (3.73 vs 2780 sequential). This server stores about 30 million files ranging from 50kb - 10MB and the full storage capacity rotates probably 2 - 3 times a year as we process these jobs then move them to cold storage.

Forget 2.5" HDDs. SSDs has killed that market with huge performance improvements for the same or lower price. And much higher reliability.

Where magnetic media reigns supreme is large storage arrays using 10+TB 3.5" HDDs. Best price per TB for this technology.

SSDs have moved on to the NVMe interface for performance reasons but there are still legacy applications for SAS and SATA SSDs.

Don't know how much storage you need at what speed, but you'd get the best out of both worlds with a mix of 3.5" HDDs and SSDs (preferable NVMe).

If you're using an external SAS enclosure, put the SSDs in the server and the HDDs in the enclosure. That way you'll minimize the performance drop. SSDs will otherwise saturate the SAS links.

If you want to go all SSDs, you might want to go for SATA if you want lots of them and want to put them on a raid card. Current pricing is about $170 per TB for Samsung's value enterprise SATA and also their NVMe drives. There are few SAS SSDs available and they cost more. If you buy from HP (or Dell) expect to pay 2 to 3 times as much.

As a comparison 3.5" enterprise HDDs are below $30 per TB.

As for drive sizes, SSDs will usually get cheaper per TB as you go bigger up to about 8TB or so. Fewer drives are better than more drives so go as big as you need.

For 3.5" drives the point of diminishing return is 16TB. There are larger drives but they are not as cost effective and can be hard to find.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/greg-kroah-hartman-bans-university-of-minnesota-from-linux-development-for-deliberately-buggy-patches/

University of Minnesota banned from Linux contributions for being a malware source.

Damn right, I wouldn't expect anything less, especially after repeat attempts, and a lack of remourse.

@laksh1999 your best bet would be to print out the Sec+ exam objectives and study each item on it.

I used that and some practice tests for good measure.

Had the user install the outlook app.

“Oh this is much better”

Problem solved.

@scottalanmiller
That makes sense.

Seems to still be having issues here.

@eddiejennings said in Once off or short term remote access solution:

@jaredbusch said in Once off or short term remote access solution:

Client purchased software through a VAR specifically so the VAR can configure and set things up.

VAR does not have their own "remote support" tool.

I need to install something to let the VAR in to a specific computer to configure the new software.

Any recommendations?

I'm surprised the VAR doesn't use something like Zoho Assist. There's a free version that works well for one-off sessions. I used it this evening.

It's because they've never heard of Zoho. It's the best kept secret in IT.

Four of the world's five top executioners in 2020 were Middle East states, Amnesty International says.
Iran, Egypt, Iraq and Saudi Arabia accounted for 88% of the 483 reported executions worldwide, according to a report by the human rights group. It accuses them of displaying "a ruthless and chilling persistence" in putting people to death despite the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. The global total was the lowest in a decade, but it did not include China. China is believed to execute thousands of people each year, but the true extent of its use of the death penalty is unknown as the data is a state secret.

@wrcombs said in cursur change in chrome:

@wrcombs said in cursur change in chrome:

@dashrender said in cursur change in chrome:

@wrcombs said in cursur change in chrome:

@dashrender said in cursur change in chrome:

One of my users was using Chrome when suddenly the cursor changed from the normal arrow to this.
arrow change.png

Any thoughts on what they might have pressed? or what happened to cause this?

I've seen Clicking the center wheel of the mouse will cause this to happen.

OK, good call - I wonder why it didn't go away. perhaps clicking the center button again would have?

That's always worked for me..

Or left or right click typically changes it back to normal Cursor.

I remote controlled the mouse and it made no difference with me clicking around... no idea if it would have had I visited the station.

IMO: Sangoma can still achieve a nice recovery if they get their hands real dirty and don't rest until they clean up or rewrite huge chunks of FreePBX.
I don't know the current development team, but Matt Fredrickson, Lorne Gaetz, Mike White and others involved in the project who I know, are truly amazing people and want to make FreePBX better. If they leave Sangoma, we can officially say RIP FreePBX.

@flaxking said in FOSS Android parental control:

I know this is more of an HR problem than an IT problem, but my boss is insisting.

Yeah the ball and chain issue.... I've not found anything decent for iOS either. I tend to just keep the battery on the device low or pretend the battery has died and needs charging.

Fixed double quote

Edit

This is for an older iPAD, I know the newer ones have this built in... but you know $

The issue resolved by having .ics file from one of the invitee and it got restored in the outlook application in the Windows

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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Watching Now:

Z nation (again 😁)

I need to catch up,.. I believe I finished Season2, but Season3+ wasn't out yet.

@jaredbusch That looks good!