[-] dbtng@eviltoast.org 1 points 3 days ago

Mmm. Ya ya. No argument. But its iDRAC. I've had to sit through enough propaganda. I'm pretty sure about this.

[-] dbtng@eviltoast.org 1 points 4 days ago

I hate it when my boss says that. Or he will call it "D-RAC". Annoys the hell out of me.
It's iDRAC.
Yes, there are components that are called RAC, but the Dell out of band management system is called iDRAC.
... but that's not as dumb as when he calls the SuperMicro system "iLO". That's IPMI. We don't even own any HPE. I've no idea why he's stuck on iLO.

[-] dbtng@eviltoast.org 5 points 4 days ago

I keep a Windows 2008 w Java 6 VM on ice for administering old Java console shit like that.
The VM is unsafe as hell. Completely virgin unpatched. The only protection is that I don't give it a gateway or dns, and I shut it down when its not in use.
And it works. Old Java shit can still be used.

[-] dbtng@eviltoast.org 2 points 4 days ago

VMware does this with its virtual networking. If a change takes it offline, it automatically rolls it back. It can be frustrating at times, but mostly its saved my ass.

[-] dbtng@eviltoast.org 14 points 4 days ago

This is the NetAdmin's problem. And he's got 3 ways to get into the datacenter, so he goddamn well better have an answer that doesn't involve airfare. Worst case, he's gotta use remote hands, but that would be embarrassing, and I'd not let him forget it. Nobody forgives me when I screw up a server cluster, so he gets no latitude when he takes a datacenter offline.

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The bright red rubbery utensil meant for scraping cake mix and gravy out of bowls. What is that? This really is my kitchenware. I'll put it whatever side you say.

[-] dbtng@eviltoast.org 19 points 1 month ago

Never buying Ubi again. Doesn't matter what the game is. Fukem.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by dbtng@eviltoast.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

This bot's whole purpose is to import crap from Reddit to ... here? Why would anyone want that? Somebody did a bunch of work, made an instance and a bot, and they've currently got it spamming Lemmy ... just to enshitifiy lemmy.

Lemmit.Online bot@lemmit.online

I blocked the bot and the instance, but I have to login in order for that to be effective. If I don't login, this stuff is all over the main feed.

Am I the only one that thinks this is spam?

...
Edit ... Thanks, people. Learned some things.

[-] dbtng@eviltoast.org 18 points 1 month ago

The octopi that take over after us will love to hear from our tasty new neighbors.

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Lemming? Ya, I know. Prbly not. But he's kinda cute. I wiped off most of the bird shit.

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This one's gonna drown. I call it the Submariner.

[-] dbtng@eviltoast.org 26 points 2 months ago

What's so complicated? The answer is "Yes." And again, "Yes."

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by dbtng@eviltoast.org to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

Today I learned that one can easily look up a user's voting history.

Go to https://lemvotes.org/
Select User, drop their handle there, and run the report.

After I looked up my stalker, ... (I love you and your attention, plz keep it up!) ... I looked up myself.
I'm very happy to find that I've almost entirely upvoted. And yes, I went on a couple sprees and downvoted some crap. That's kinda ugly to look at now.

It made me think about how I behave here. You know, in that its so damn easy to see.

And back to the question at hand. What's your upvote/downvote percentage?

Are you a Lemmy Shitbird?

...
EDIT ... The author of lemvotes posted about it here.
https://blog.gregtech.eu/posts/lemvotes/

[-] dbtng@eviltoast.org 21 points 2 months ago

Well that's just it. You might know Joe. You just don't know.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by dbtng@eviltoast.org to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

Steam had the entire Witcher series on sale for a few dollars. I bought everything for the first 3 games.

There was some discussion of it at the time, and folks seem to agree that the first one in the series sucks hard.
As that seemed to be the worst plan, I went with it.

Yes. "It's rough." I guess the engine and content have gotten some backports and extensions. I'm not sure if you could ~~play other characters besides Geralt before, but now you can~~. (EDIT ... Sorry, this seems to be BS. My bad.) They updated the graphics a lot. Its not great, but I think they fixed most of the really bad problems.

I don't know about the story. Seems pretty awful. Awkward acting. Its been fun just trying to play the damn thing.

Um ... I sort of like it. Gonna play some more now ...

[-] dbtng@eviltoast.org 16 points 3 months ago

I guess this does matter to me, because every time i see new reddit, I take the requisite 10 seconds to retype the URL and change to old reddit. I never log in anymore, but I do make sure its old reddit.

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submitted 3 months ago by dbtng@eviltoast.org to c/science@lemmy.world

Art was science. Look at the gorgeous color. The fabric is like a thin canvas. Metal rails top and bottom. Its going on my wall. ... After I figure out how to safely mount it.

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That is all ...

[-] dbtng@eviltoast.org 20 points 4 months ago

This was the good kind. The gear moved the head cleaner back and forth like a brush.

[-] dbtng@eviltoast.org 20 points 4 months ago

Ok, this is a shitpost community. I should not expect a real answer here. But I'm gonna float this question and see what people say.

This person has (of course) spammed me multiple times from apparently (just?) 2 different accounts now. nicole9@l.henlo.fi bogymanstout@quokk.au

Ok. So its spam. I block it. But what on earth is going on? This doesn't seem to make sense. I assume somebody has actually tried to talk to this Nicole person. How did that go?

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submitted 4 months ago by dbtng@eviltoast.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

This is a hack to add an extra bay to a Dell Server. Tried with both PowerEdge R230 and R430.

Replace DVD w/SATA Bay. They make replacements for laptop DVD bays that allow you to put a second sata drive there instead.
This replacement part can also drop right in place of the slim DVD bay on a Dell PowerEdge. I've seen multiple references to this setup working. This guy's blog has screenshots of it. https://tachytelic.net/2019/10/install-ssd-optical-13th-generation-poweredge/

I don't see the disk. At all. The OS doesn't. PERCCLI doesn't see it. iDRAC doesn't.
When I got into Lifecycle Controller to manage the disks, It used to see the SATA DVD drive at the end of the list, but now there's no entry. (On the R230 when I removed the drop-in and put the original DVD back, it went back to normal. The bay is in the R430 right now.)

I've got the right bay, it fits. More important, the electrical stuff all matches up. The drive light activates. Got a brand new drive in there. It hasn't been tested otherwise, but I'd like to think its ok. In the post I've linked, it looks like he has his SATA set to ATA, not AHCI, so I tried that, but no change. Poked at it quite a bit. Can't think of anything else to examine.

Alright ... so there's all the setup. And here's why I think it doesn't work. My main disks are all SAS on both machines.
R230 PERC H330 - 4 x SAS 7.5k 3.5" spinners R430 PERC H730 mini - 6 x SAS 10.5k 2.5" spinners

I've read that you can't mix SAS and SATA drives. As the DVD seemed to be a normal SATA, I figured I could use that port with a SATA SSD. But maybe not. It's not worked on either server, and all the gear involved appears to be operational. It's worked for other people. But every reference I've seen to this working seems to be all SATA setups.

Does anybody know for sure?

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