 Two ninety-seven is live Welcome all of you. Let me get my coffee. I want a coffee today because I had too much sugar We were eating Oreos at the office because they had pumpkin spice Oreos It is pumpkin spice season for all of you that are into that So I went to the office day and brought everybody pumpkin spice. So that's Well for those in the office, I see who some of my office people are joining. I got them all on here The The fun that is all the things pumpkin spice they make everything in pumpkin spice I don't know if that's good or bad, but hey, it is a thing for sure Where and when that's the first thing I like to start out with here I'm trying to get in habits and organization and that organization includes letting people know when I'll be somewhere Because I had so much fun meeting so many people in person So I'll be at Gurkon October 13th and 14th of 2022 and I'll be at it nation November 9th through 11th 2022 Hotel is booked and I have not booked, but I'll probably be going to Ohio Linux Fest I'm waiting on details to come out for that the Gurkon G R R C O N for those of you wondering I did see someone get confused and You know, maybe I'm not the most articulate person asking if it was girl con It is not to this G R R for Grand Rapids, Michigan where it's a fun security conference that I'll be attending But I figured today save us always so many things to do I will talk right away though about some of the things I am doing and that's gonna be true Nass and Yes The true Nass stuff I've been running through there is a ticket that got updated today So let's start by looking at the ticket and I figured what we'll talk about and we'll just walk through We Open the ticket and then share the ticket with all of you I I need to reply to a ticket and I want to remind people you can reply to tickets as well and create them I people like to complain a lot about things and people like to post comments on YouTube Occasionally, but that's not necessarily how things get fixed. Maybe it is but not necessarily so oh Yes, definitely talking about true Nascale We're gonna be walking through the ticket And then we will walk through me Finalizing what's going on in the tickets, but yes absolutely talking about That people demand more Nash Nass t-shirts. Yes I gotta get that sorted out because someone sent me a takedown notice and I never really fought it I'm ready to fight it now so I'm gonna we were actually just before here. I was late because we're talking about shirt ideas Um, I don't know. I have a few ideas for shirts. I don't know if they're good But I'm really not the one who determines if they're good I think lots of things are good ideas that probably are not so I will throw it out to the ether here um, so we want more nas shirts networking shirts and I was just internally talking to my staff and you know chewing on ideas so You know, I'm if and by the way if you're a designer, I will pay you for your time if you can design shirts that Would be appealing. I don't have any problem Hiring for this. I just don't know who to hire that is the challenge so to speak I don't mind because it is a for-profit business that I run To do that. So yes um Would you make a multi-wan load balancing video since it was replaced with hga proxy? It's not replaced with hga proxy. So I don't understand that question That um You know, this is something we're talking about. Do you run compute VMs and containers on your nas? You prefer to keep these things separate on machines. It depends. There's not a Really simple way to answer that question. Um, but we'll start with sharing my screen and talk about what I do run on my system Because I think that's a good place to start talking about the true nas things So close that one Yeah, this dashboard you have too many true nas is open. So I can't make sure I share the right screen Now for me I have a few extra things on here, which I'm going to blow away real quick Because I want to make sure I only really need to blow away the next cloud one Because that's what we're going to be doing a test with today We have a ticket where I said there's a permissions issue. So in order for me to recreate it I'm going to run through the install for next cloud And let me delete it And I think next cloud for The people that use next cloud I'm not necessarily a big next cloud user, but the next cloud users. I think it's good to run that on your nas I think it's not a terrible place to run it. Now. This is in home user answer not a enterprise user answer I don't know that there's I know I know the number is greater than zero, but I don't know that many enterprises using Um next cloud there's there's a few though There's a few businesses using it, but I probably if you were a commercial user of next cloud You would probably go with either a hosted solution or be an independent virtual machine With all the extra features you can get with next cloud But coming back to this things I like to run on there is definitely syncing syncing great running on here Because it synchronizes so many different things in my network to make sure That all of the data is backed up for all my different virtual machines The the reason I like syncing and there was someone last time who conflated syncing with Gluster, which I've no idea they're like, oh, you don't need syncing tom because there's cluster. I'm like No, you completely missed the use case syncing runs on all the virtual machines For example, even our database backups. There's a regular cron job that does database backups those database backups Then go into syncing to be synchronized both on-site with a syncing server and off-site to other syncing servers with revisioning So if you were to Hijack if you will let's play worst case scenario where someone Uh deletes or purges the bad data now the bad data is going to get replicated across syncing things That's not a big deal because there's versioning control on the end points of syncing where you can roll back I'm gonna do some updated videos on it But by doing that I have real-time data protection without having to back up the entire virtual machine You don't really want to have to back up whole virtual machines Also, if you want like a backup job or a cron job to synchronize a database dump every oh I don't know 20 minutes or 30 minutes or half hour or whatever those Things are you don't want to back up an entire thing. It's kind of have like having a continuous replication plan Uh with there. So that's one of the reasons I like syncing and for all my documents I mean anytime I save a document I pretty much would love it backed up right then because if I have some information at document I think is important. Why not back it up in real time like the moment I save it Therefore it's replicated across all the places it needs to be and if my computer dies Um two seconds after I save it that's usually enough to synchronize that data So syncing I think runs great on these particular devices Uh to do do do Uh truenas core you can install a siger plugin but not on scales or any recommendation I'll turn it over to your backup to install truenas scale I don't know because I'm not used to sigera. So I don't have an answer on that most of the time um I would say the Time to do it. I mean the backups are going to just target Um the different share types. So targeting the share type is usually the way to do it Like whatever you're going to do a lot of backups will target smb share just use an smb share I don't know what good software because I don't run any backup software outside of syncing on any of my truenas systems Whether they're core or scale so But I don't know what permission issues you would have as I don't have any on there As a matter of fact syncing seems to work perfectly fine without issues at all So nonetheless, uh Do a video on zfs over iSCSI for proxmox Um, I don't know what zfs over iSCSI is iSCSI is a protocol that presents a block device the format by which you format that block device is arbitrary to what you're attaching it to Uh, it the truenas doesn't care. It's it's just presented presenting a block device over iSCSI So I don't know what zfs over iSCSI means I mean just proxmox format it in zfs format, but that wouldn't make a ton of sense Maybe it does, uh, but it's essentially I mean even though it's emulated It's only going to see it as a single device So there's not going to have any error checking on it So I don't think that really makes a lot of sense because zfs to get the true error checking needs something to check Against so if you're checking against storage you're checking against the different replications So let's say you have three drives You can come to a consensus of these three drives Well, they're not there's integrity of the data because we can see if that data is existing on those other drives But let's get back to what I was going to do here. So now that we've done that let's go ahead and delete next cloud So we're going to go ahead and Disploy this data set because I don't think there's anything on it Confirm All right Now we're going to go ahead and add one This is what we're going to do for the the bug is is there a permissions problem when you set up Next cloud I think so so next Cloud Make it bigger so people can see it next cloud test save we've shared type generic nothing changed here Uh next cloud test now we need two data sets underneath and we're one is going to be for the data That's the next cloud data And we need another one because the postgres database that they're using so Postgres Okay, so I've touched nothing on permissions. I just created and let it rip now in theory here. We should be able to go to apps install next cloud and uh Let's see from their application name That you're syncing question I don't know because I never share syncing out as an smb So you'll probably have to do some type of special permissions if you're doing it as an smb. That's different I don't use syncing As an smb shared because i'm using syncing on each device because that's the more ideal way to do it without having to run into share problems with it um next cloud Oh, you gotta make it lowercase cloud bug test Next We use the default certificate admin change means the default password That's perfectly fine because we don't really care We want to set the host path for it. So we're going to map the storage to our next cloud data path for this So there's our data and then here's our postgres, which is going to be the same path Next cloud postgres Next enable cron jobs. Yes Yes, next next Save let it deploy and see if the bug occurs It gets past this. This isn't where the bug it would go into a crash mode though When it tried to deploy and let's see if we have that bug With the wait for it to do the magic I think we can watch the logs. So we're seeing something happen while it does this Let's see if there's an error that gets dumped in there Uh, did an excellent update routine improve? Yes, they've definitely gotten that better I even on core when I tested it the the updates worked a lot better. Um, so I I'm assuming they work pretty good Connection matched. We still got some data in here Ready except password authentication failed for root fatal root does not exist All right, so We'll start saving logs here. Actually, it's got a download logs option Download logs All right, so I'll include these in my bug report Go to the app. Did the app finish? It says it finished. Let's see if it works Okay, it does so even though it has that error message We get a login page So there's that Admin should we change me? Cool. All right They are correct. It does not bug out. So that's good. So there you watch you watch me install it It does install fine and work now install is not the same as backing up That's one problem that is still a big issue. Uh, but at least it does look like the install does work, so you know, I I want to rally against telling people to keep I mean if you want road access open a port That's a terrible idea use of epn. That's my answer and people go But I want it to be accessible to everyone Um, that always leads to disaster because home users don't update it I almost feel I'm to the point where I almost feel like I'm doing a disservice to the community if I do things like what people do this Um, because I could say open a port, but I already know how this works You'll end up in showdan. You'll end up in some list and there'll be a flaw and people don't have any plans on patching it because it works now and uh, yeah, then it'll break And then Well, a little break you'll get hacked or whatever and people like oh my gosh look you got hacked Yeah, because no one has a plan to update it. So let's go ahead and share the screen again Yeah, just don't open just put it behind the vpn is the answer. I mean people say make it shareable I mean just put it behind the vpn. There's your best answer um Screenception So I had to set the permissions last time. I is how I remember getting it to work. So let's go to Next cloud test Now they they're setting the permissions here. So if you see they set it to Uh, 999 so 999 root I'm also they must have fixed this one already because this was a bug I found right away that it wouldn't set these to ww it was fail and uh, so now it's not failing I don't know if the update changed this. Um I'll at least close the bug report on it that it works because I could not get it to install without updating this to That it's doing it for me now, which it's supposed to Uh set the permissions We go to These are all set to uh docker 999 999 docker and they work I was having to set these manually when I first tried this and I don't know what I did to cause that but clearly it's uh working now So good But that's this is the bug report and let's bring it back over here This is the bug report and I'll update this and uh, let them know it's working now I can't problem can't be repeated But it's the important part is that we go through these processes and hey if I'm wrong about it. I'm wrong about it That's just a different uh one there. So Can you explain the difference between setting up data as generic or smb? I understand you can still share generic data sets Yes, but the problem is um ACLs are going to be better if you're using smb generic is your standard linux datasets. So, you know, you're uh 6 6 6 7 7 7 type permissions your standard posix style Uh permissions acls are much more advanced and have just a lot more options and a lot more granular control So for smb, you really should be using acls off the top of my head though I'd have to look at what acls you'd have to do to share syncing, but that's always the problem It's when you try to use a product Not the way it was intended to use because I've seen people do this with other other things like oh, I want to share next cloud Uh, you know folder and I want all the permissions not to have a bunch of problems Well, they're going to run into a bunch of conflicts just like syncing the better way to do it is syncing runs on every platform Linux windows as far as I know mac I think to Run syncing on your nas and run syncing on your local device and then it works um That seems logical to me. So I It's when you start mixing it. You're just going to have a harder time with it It's not probably I'm not seeing this impossible to do. I just don't know if taught me had what permissions Need to be set on there The other thing I'm going to be talking about was the other thing I had on my list here first Let me knock that out. So it's the next Next topic on the list, uh I put it in the title I don't have the title up anymore Tail scale definitely easy New servers, I'll talk about those next week. We're building some new servers and um, let's go ahead and Pull up a photo Because this is This is the real information people want is uh This here it's faster if I share this way Is this the adequate amount of uh thermal paste on here? That's what I really need to know I need people to uh decide do we have enough thermal paste on this? That's the there's the real question Uh, we've leave some comments and thoughts on that Is this the proper way to put it on? I just know this is one of those things that people seem to be really really concerned about is the On the thermal paste you use we're building some new rise in servers Uh, we're almost done to last well, not the last one, but for the stuff we're doing We're still building one more, but I'll be doing a video probably next week. I think Um, and we'll be Covering what we're doing, but we're building rise in servers For it. That's the too long didn't watch uh answer. It's just it's going to be rise in servers Uh, let me the one we're running right now and it works really well is um Though this in here It's weird doing it this way with switching screens You know what hold on. Let me pull stream yard somewhere else There we go. Now I can see the comments and you can see the screen. I don't really need there we go anyways This is a rise in what rising is this? 5900x so of course someone said but tom the 5950 is only like $200 more and i'm like This seemed fine at 5950x Uh, but it works pretty well. I've not had any problems. I'm actually really impressed with how fast it is Uh The storage it has a local mvme and we just set up a pair Uh, I will cover though in the video specifically around xcp and g one of the things that is um Missing natively from xcp and g but the way around it is my logging server is if there's a dry failure and you're using the raid It may not notify you unless you're monitoring your syslog so i'll be covering like how I throw it in gray log to Uh, have that in there and yeah, this all i'm doing is having gray log watch for syslog errors related to the raid So I can throw them up in there. So I agree those four cores are not worth the 200 more. Um, that's how I feel too. So Oh, there's travis could be the only intel fan in the office. That's true I just like how the um The speed blows me away like it's uh, it's substantially in every way faster than this server here And uh, let me look up some speed comparisons real quick. We're just like that cpu mark so if we look for cpu benchmark for this so 15 and is this for the Dual cores see there's two of these So there's a way to look up the dual cpu. There we go There's the dual cpu version. There's the pass mark for it And let's look up the pass mark for this one here I like I don't even spell cpu mark right and it figures it out I I've given up on spelling things. I mean, yeah, this is faster at 39 000. So it's definitely a faster Which cost so this is what and then we'll just to compare compare Added where's the edit? I'm using this site wrong. Someone's probably yelling click the other button tom Where's the it's here. You just look it up. I I click the compare. Where's the where's the spot where you drop the other processor in? I don't know I've missed it. That's all right but it's definitely uh It's definitely faster, but it's it's not like that margin is showing you just how much faster it is the benchmark we're doing on it are uh Especially the i o benchmarks in terms of the core performance. That's what's really blowing my mind. So Oh now it's happy now. There's comparison Page refreshed later. So yeah In you're seeing a 37 difference, but I feel the testing is even More than that now. The other thing that's good is the wattage is a lot less So it's also very power efficient by comparison. That's where you know, I'm granted these are Generations apart from each other. So that's a different. Uh, that's also, you know, something to take into consideration there When's the release date of these? They have the release dates They it's faster and costs less to run per year. So And uh, if you were to try to buy a modern intel at the same speed You still beat it out that with the amd amd just does really well with a lot of this rise and stuff So they they work so well And I didn't go epic because it's a lab system and it just doesn't need to go that much higher Uh, it's one of those diminishing returns. Like do I think epics are awesome? Yeah, I think build them if you're if you need an enterprise epic go for it Uh, we didn't so for our use case, um It's fine. And this is one of the reasons I did this was to say are there rise and compatibility issues? No, I haven't had any at all. I was actually shocked how well this works. There's no special workarounds There's no special kernel settings or loading. I did Uh, everything worked out of the box. No special config. I just loaded it So that's part of the reason I did this was to Build it out and make sure people could you know, see if there was any problem and the motherboard is I think that's right motherboard. This is the Find it real quick And this is the motherboard we use the x5 70d for you. So I'll put a parts list together So it is a rise in motherboard. It has ipmi on it. So it's it's solid and like I said worked right out. Yeah Then this is what a lot of uh People want to know though is of course Did it just work out of the box and because it does that's why I'll do the video on it because I like wonders know Here's all these extra steps. You're gonna have to go through I mean obviously make sure the bios is up to date and stuff like that because um, that's a thing The other nice thing is yes, we do have full ipmi in this So you have remote lights out management on there and things like that So you have those nice, you know server support things you're looking for Matter of fact, let's pull up the ipmi on it Pull it up log in Takes a second to go in There we go it is not Incredibly fast when it does it but um, we actually built these Um, not just the other day I've been testing them for a while because I like to test things before we actually put it out there But yeah, here we go 53 days of running without any issues. So It's just I like this interface and everything on it. It looks good. It's Pretty I'll go there. We have an html 5 launcher here So we can Get to the web interface and or not web interface with the local interface on here Get to the council It just works. That's the um I'm happy with it overall It lacks sockets. Well, that depends on what you need We think it has enough cores for our use case It's like everything it comes down to use case We're not even utilizing very much. As a matter of fact, if we flip back over to The zen instance itself And you look at the stats on it um It's pretty much Barely touching 14 percent with everything running on it. So for barely using it now What would more cores do for me? That's the You know, if I had a workload that required more, but let's look at it for the last week And When you consolidate it like this, I mean there's times I'm running stuff that brings me all the way up to 12 percent averages. So it's uh, you know, you can say not enough cores, but it comes down to what's your use case We even have, you know, we're using 80 gigs of ram on it and uh It's fine. So it really comes down to what you're running on it. Do I have I won't have much time because it's not for last year, but If you yeah, so we'll stretch it out for a week. It gives you a good idea. So if you look at the load averages on it, they're not very high All right You're let me move this so I can read this better uh Dragon screen drum My isaac cipher. Yeah esxi server is running in it and intel S 1200 rp motherboard the xeon. I don't remember how long I built it. Maybe seven eight years. So going strong I mean, oh, yeah, they last most of the time the server equipment has gotten um so good that it Usually is pulled out of service for old age in lack of usefulness or high electricity high wattage consumption You're not pulling them out because they're failing as often. Uh, you know, my server is pretty old now. It's been running for years. Uh, but yeah It all comes down to, um You know, what's your need what you need in terms of use case and uh, everything else that's Ultimately what determines all that so that's the new servers. We're running. Uh, we're almost done with it I'll do a video. We're also rebuilding and moving everything to different parts and the office has been in chaos for 53 how are the uptime of that is is when we started taking things apart So the office has been in chaos for the last two months, but it's getting there. We're slowly Putting it together in a more concise manner with new racks and everything else. So Uh In europe with current energy costs, you have zero interest in used enterprise gear You know, that's something to think about. Uh, if you are in a market that you know has to pay a lot higher for electricity That's that's the thing man. That's uh yes Yeah, you um, and this comes up a lot too I'm gonna do a video. I actually have some stats on this I'm going to do a video about over sharing cores and what happens and it's actually Pretty even how it works out if you over provision the cores to a series of virtual machines It turns out it handles it very well and cuts the performance pretty consistently between the cores Um, I mean you always lose a little bit in the switching overhead of it Uh, but nonetheless if you have workloads, um, you can over provision all the cores across the machines And when those machines are mostly idle, you're fine because they're not utilizing it So it actually is fine to do that because then you have those resources available for that particular virtual machine at that particular time And in the event that both of those virtual machines that have Over provision number of cores, let's say, you know, how many cores we have available on this, uh, we have 24 cores available So if I have, um, I don't know 24 cores assigned to three different virtual machines simultaneously Obviously, they can't all do it at once But if they do the system doesn't crash. It just shares it between there now you lose effective, uh, cash timings and things like that I'm pretty sure Because the cores are swapping between so many virtual machines So there's some inefficiency that could occur if all machines at once But depending on the type of workloads you're running unless the virtual machines have a relationship to each other Where that workload will go between them. It's probably not an issue at all So if you're building something, these are the architectural things you have to think about like, hey These virtual machines so I build a series of virtual machines. They have interdependencies like ones a web proxy load balancer connector One runs some type of compute module and one runs a database module And the relationship is they are all working in concert to provide a web service Well, you want to balance out your cpus But when you have independent vms and for example, I have gray log running in here so if you go to gray log and gray log whoops Me too many windows open gray log only pulls when There's something going on this little green peak was uh me looking at stuff So if I look in the last day you see occasional peaks in gray log where things may have changed Because i'm using it so gray log has all 24 cores assigned to it But that's perfectly fine because if I need it I have it doing a ton of queries and gray logs actually i o intensive more than its cpu intensive But gray log will do all this i o and cpu intensive stuff, but it's not related to the other vms It's usually when i'm investigating a Some piece of detail that I need Actually, I was just not here we go I was not sharing the screen there. Here we go showing the gray log stats So yeah gray log goes in cycles of cpu where it uses a lot, but I have 24 cores assigned to it and it's on um Oh, I've actually got it started on this server right now I was wondering why it was slower. I was querying it today Uh You can set because the drive lives here. So if we wanted to move gray logs somewhere else Normally now right now. This is not an ideal situation because this is an intel server And with this one being intel and the other one being ryzen I can't live migrate the servers between each other because they'll crash Uh, so you do have to actually stop servers and start them somewhere else, but Nonetheless not a big deal there. Uh, what else are we going to talk about? Is there any questions people had on that? uh, let's see Happy to see you maybe take a close look at a time slot between 839 30 then all clients Come to her Maybe take a closer 830 to 930 at night I what time zone I guess would be the question so I need a little does that are you talking about my time zone? And I so throw some more context for me out that particular question Uh, what else was I had in a list? Yeah new servers errata q&a. Let's do some q&a and then i'm gonna get some, uh Get going a few more things. I'm gonna go do tom quick question Is it easy to migrate from one host to another? Uh, without any kimono nicks, uh, but can add belands, um Easy to migrate from one host to another. Well, it depends in order to build a pool and this is something you need to uh Make sure you have right if you're building a pool. Let's go over here to my pools We'll look at the lab pool All these networks have to line up. So here's all the networks for the lab pool And if we go to this pool Pool of zen here's all the networks here now the networks eith zero Needs to be plugged in on every member of the pool to the same Spot so that is the important part with zen server as long as that's true You can join them all into a resource pool and then the networking doesn't matter because you build the networking and the pool Not on the host and even if it's a single host It's a pool you can have a host of one because if you look at my lab pool Go pools lab pool. There's only a single host in here one so Even with one you're still building it that way So if you move things around in the pool, it doesn't matter the network inside the pool is the same when you move it between pools It'll do its best to match names So as long as you have the networks named the same they should work perfectly fine Like you can just import a vm over here. I can actually go to restore um I can grab whatever vm I have in here as long as the refresh the backup list um Give one two If I want to restore this lab template To somewhere else like grab the version I want this august 10th copy And I want to restore it to the lab. It'll Try to match the networking um that it had in it when it was backed up or if I did a move between there So yeah, it doesn't as as long as they're matched closely If not, it'll assign them weirdly and you can change them before you start the vm So it doesn't really care I mean if you just import something randomly and it has no idea how to match networking It'll just give it its old name and it won't be attached properly. So you'll have to fix that uh before you start the vm All right next question is Is it better to uh to run your nets on proxmox? Uh, I think it's a bad idea because it's a headache but do as you want um I mean The problem you have when you virtualize this you add more elements of problems. I've had people lose entire pools of data By trying to virtualize it. So as long as you have a strong strategy for it There's an equal number of people that feel like to say but it works fine for me and another group of people go mine Had error message and it lost all the data got corrupted. I don't know why You're adding a layer of complexity. Uh, if it's worth it to you go ahead if you don't think so. Yeah Awesome My client time zones my clients are all around the world so That's a plural statement. My clients are I have clients in australia. I have clients here in detroit So I need uh, I'm not sure what the question was about which time I should do that True dance question if you have a storage pool with four identical drives and you want to make it six drives Uh identical drives. How do you do this? You don't uh, there's not a way currently I think that's a future plan for zfs. You can't just add Um two more drives to four drives You can though if you have four drives add four more drives Because you can do another vdev picture them as you know a pool and underneath pools vdev Four drives and one vdev vdevs have to be added symmetrically so you can keep adding groups of four Um to keep building out the drive sets, but you can't add and and not symmetrical vdev Uh, I think I don't know if I have a video on that I thought about doing one just so I can just give a visual explainer for adding drives to zfs Like I should just give it that title. Uh, because it's such a common question But no, there's not any way to do it not easily Well, I see because I see not easily because yes, you could do it by Reloading and rebuilding your pool. Technically you're doing it. So Any advice in a fire war fire or rather wall that can one give p o p e That can handle one gig of it ppo e well I have No idea. I never use and it's just not used on any of my clients It's not used a lot here in the united states, but it appears to be very popular outside the united states For ppo e so I have no idea what the requirements are to make ppo e go faster. I just don't have an answer It's um, that's always a challenge I have two pools at the moment, uh, so just matching names game. Yep Do they run bsd as well? I wasn't sure maybe I lack context for that Uh other questions in here Other questions for me lots of same Uh, oddly You can do unbalanced v devs So you can actually have a group of four drives that are one size and another group of four that are another size Um, and it will balance them. So unbalanced v dev is an interesting Um The way it does the math So let's say my my first four drives create, you know 10 terabytes of storage But my next four drives create 20 terabytes of storage It'll actually do a two to one. It'll split the data between them as it writes Um, it does it in the background or something you have to do as the user you can just expand Um v devs I actually ran for a long time my old server with three separate v devs with Each v dev being a group of four drives that was sequentially bigger as I bought them over the years And it worked perfectly fine. I never had a problem with it You can do unbalanced Not symmetrical v devs I repurposed a dado to run churnas, but I don't have the bios ip mi pass for anyone to fix that That depends on the board. You're just gonna have to hack away at it and see if there's an ip mi bypass on there No guarantees meaning of life the meaning of life is to Have wonderful and beautiful conversations of people build some fun things play some video games I don't know what else whatever other things make you happy Leave the world a better place than you came into it. There's uh, there's the meaning of life 42 is the other answer Unveiling videos are fine storage crates are not great for performance balancing as you pull. Oh, yeah I mean, I didn't say they're the best idea. They're they're a storage idea. Uh, they're not the ideal way of doing Uh, you know performance storage It's usually homelab people trying to just get more storage going. Hey, I need more movies Uh to go here and there's not enough room here. So let's buy more drives to make here bigger. So in that case, yes Uh, I do this one all the time Uh I don't you know, here's the thing don't have an opinion on things That's one of my uh keys to happiness people like hey, do you have an opinion on that? No So-and-so is doing such and such probably It's does it affect me does it affect people I care about Does it affect the world in a really negative way where I need to take action against it? Uh, then uh, man Uh, I will surrender that I have no control over it. So Don't have opinions. So, I mean, I it's good to have opinions But some things don't need not everything needs an opinion. It's good to have opinions I think sony Sucks pursuing quad nine. That is my opinion on that and someone said I'm diving into politics I'm like, no, sony has tried to break the internet. The dns system doesn't need lawyers That's a really simple statement And uh when I believe in so I made a video because it is something that can I do anything directly about? No, I'm not an attorney But I am some dude on youtube who also has people who probably think in a similar way to be that Well, dns doesn't lead lawyers and I want to help quad nine Resolve the issue is sony and uh, the way easy way to do that was to donate money to them So is it something I can change and have an opinion on? Yes I have an opinion on it and I can enact change on it. So I took the time to make a video Ranting about dns and sony and screw sony. So yes That's so it's one of those things like it's like don't have opinions Is the fur is I I fully reject nihilism that not really my thing There's too many good things going on and there are things you do have some control over in some way so There's many things I don't and I just don't uh, yeah Screw sony drop the mic. Yes Dns doesn't need lawyers You know, I'm gonna talk to I'll reach out to the People because I don't want to do the shirt and have to give them the money But maybe they will do a shirt and take a shirt People like to donate money with shirts because that's why I I don't just donate to the EFF because I like them I like the shirts too. That's like the cool bonus Uh, but yeah, maybe I'll talk to quad nine about that That might be fun. I actually know that some of the people over there quad nine. So Yeah You have another life lesson for someone Some dude on youtube has a technical opinion that you care about. Yeah I'll see if quad nines. I don't want to be the intermediary for it. Um It's always dns. It's always dns even when it's lawyers Uh, yes It's always dns Oh, yeah dns stands for do not sue. There we go. That's a good one. These are some good ideas I'm we're making note and I'm gonna send that to quad nine. I don't think they have any swag They should at least have stickers dns stands for do not sue Uh, what's the point of flat ethernet cables? Are there non-opinion reasons for using them? Um, the problem with eat flat ethernet cables in my experience is they suck for longevity They're great for hiding in the edges of carpet Uh that go around a house like where the base board meets the carpet You can slip them in there and hide cables without drilling holes in apartments There's a good reason to use them a bad reason is if you happen to put them in your laptop bag And you take them in and out a few times They don't always work after a few times. I don't find them to be Uh ones that hold up those thin ones hold up really well, but those did not so Uh Did you see cloudflare blog about yubi key? They offer a discount code for yubi keys there first did error Hope it's not a dupe. Um, I didn't notice it. I don't only I Cool that they're doing it I just did a video about phyto and Somewhere here it is It wasn't far. This is a trust key Which is like a yubi key Uh, it but it's 25 dollars. So I did a video talking and i'm sorry 18 dollars. Uh, these are 18 dollars on amazon and uh Worth it. Um So let me pull one up real quick. So this is the I love when it does that This is the trust key I talked about the other day. So it's all of 18 dollars If you need a phyto key for authentication, these are great and I bet the discount on a yubi key It still isn't as cheap as this is Uh, and these are uh trust keys part of the phyto alliance. So it's a it's a solid key Um, I would use it. So I'll drop a link to it for anyone interested Uh, if you want to buy one So they're good All right, there we go Oh So that's another thought on those. I mean You're watching this video or flat etuna cable is able to hide it under the trimmer on the base on my wall Dude, that's what they're great for. I mean there are you I Think that's a great use case For them. Uh, what's not a great use case is putting in your laptop bag because they break after you use them too many times so That's for the bigger issue is All right Any last questions for tom for I uh go do whatever it is i'm gonna do next I think I want to get out of the house and behind I do a little afk winner is coming as the meme likes to say um The when winner gets here, I hide in the house more, but it's Falls nice and uh, I go play in my motorcycle. That's uh, that's my current plan is to do that is to go Do a little bit of goofing off on the motorcycle So a few more questions. I gave it five more minutes as I wind it down to see if anyone has anything Uh What do I do outside for fun? We'll share a screen somewhere so hold on Stop share share screen There this is what tom goes and does for funny. He goofs off on motorcycles when the page loads. There you go That's what tom does for fun. That's one. I have a few motorcycles. Um, that's my hobby Playing around out in the woods. Um Sometimes that motorcycles sometimes I have I have a bigger one too. I like the little one. There we go And I was upset the other day because the leaves are changing, which means I don't have much more time. So How does msp administer unified controllers for clients remotely? Uh, you set up all the clients you set up a use hostify is easy answer if you don't know how to set up a linux server and publicly set it up with dns you can use hostify because they know how to set it up so It's spring in australia Uh, what's architecture? Um, I mean you can let you just open up the ports and have dns. I'm gonna do Soon a video on it so people understand it better. I've got old videos on the topic The the architecture hasn't changed just my old videos of how to set up a remote You know access for unify those videos haven't changed only the software looks different. So yeah, oh, let's see Oh, do I still have the ninja? No, I don't have the ninja anymore. I did sell that one Do we see my other bikes? Yeah, the um, I don't have the ninja. So I have this one um Find another somewhere there's another picture of it. So here we go Yeah, this is my uh yamaha So this is I'll probably go ride this one today. This is uh My 600 pound dirt bike. I just put I just put new tires on the back the front ones aren't bad yet The back one was bald. So um, I'll go play in the dirt. That's that's today's goal What would I drive if I didn't own a tesla You know, we actually um, one of the company cars is a kia Uh, I like it a lot. So maybe a kia I yeah, I I've used to have lots of different cars over time. I don't care as much anymore. I used to do hot rods and everything else so Did a lot of them Oh, you need to sell the cbr 600. Yeah, I don't need to buy one though I don't need to buy one right it You know, honestly right now to travis is not the time to sell Uh, but I maybe it is uh, but summer is where you're gonna get the most money for it Do I have a favorite video I made not really? I I don't have any particular favorite on there Oh, no, I like the um We have a kia soul. Uh, I like it I took it up north So, um Yeah I don't know I don't I like to test it because it's novel. Let me see if tom can find some of the Like I've owned a few hot rods and things like that. Let me see if it finds the Old truck. No, I don't know if I have any of my hot rod pictures I've I've owned so many different cars over the years So that's my I own a truck too. I got a big dodge truck, but I don't know I'm not the I'm not as in the cars as I used to be like I've owned a lot of them, but yeah You credit knows dived. I just don't care anymore I like the hamster mobile The dancing hamsters are life-sized Yeah, I mean like I said, I was really in the cars for a while and then I just kind of got away from me and to where I said Whatever You know, and I got the test is fun. I think the test was a great car. Uh, but In terms of um You know Do I think about it right now? Not as much like I don't think as much about all the different vehicles. Oh, there's my old hot rod There we go This was my old truck that I built So I had this one um This was uh, I Somewhere I got some engine pictures and things like that when we were building that truck that truck was fast So that was one of the last hot rods I built But yeah, none the less All right, I'm off topic. Uh, I see one more questionnaires people asking about bgp last week I know it's not your bailiwick, but uh, when are you gonna start doing series on building an isp? I'm I haven't I don't really have an interest in doing a series on building isp um I it's a niche. It's such a niche business that I don't know where there's enough value and I don't run an isp Um, we consult all time for network engineering projects But like when it comes to running an isp unless I plan to start one I don't here's the thing I share videos based on my real world experience doing things Unless I have real world experience doing it even if it's kind of Related real world like let's say I do a tutorial on something I only use once in a while at least I've used it I've never run an isp. So I don't think me doing content. I'm running isp makes a lot of sense I probably will get a lot of things wrong versus I do run an it services consulting firm So I can definitely talk about my experiences and you know, what works and what doesn't because My experience with running and installing large-scale projects is different than someone who's just Tested the devices, you know, you run into things differently. So uh, because of that Um, you know, it's just one of those things like I don't really want to dive into videos on things I'm not doing it seems kind of disingenuine at that point. So Uh, does ube key have a blink in led like the uh, one of your link does I yeah ube keys blink too Ooh old chevy in the uk. Yeah, that'd be cool Lawrence motors where you do hot rod rebuilding. I haven't done Any hot rod rebuilding in a long time. So It's not likely This see yeah, 84 s10 blazer. No, that's not see that That had a uh, that had a custom motor in it that had a um, a crepe motor in it. So it was a 350 in that so That truck is too nice to be that old. Yeah It was all it was all very custom done I mean network burg does it you're right and because he does it. Why should I do it? I don't have any value to add to it and I'm under the impression Uh, that the network burg works in the business as well. So he's talking about things he does Yes, I will I need to do that. Oh, you've never owned any of the v engines, ah Yeah somewhere in here I have a great picture of Where did it go? I'll find the picture of me and that'll be the last thing and then I'm gonna wander off It's actually I so I don't have a favorite video, but I certainly have an older favorite picture Of when I was younger There did it go. I'm close to it. So it's on the year There's so many old photos They're almost well indexed almost Maybe I'll find it. Maybe you won't and there it is There we go Me when I was young putting together another truck I built with my daughter She she helped dad so That's that's uh, that is me 20 Uh, it would have been 19 years ago now. I think she's two there. So about 19 years ago Coyote engine. Yeah Any advantage for any multiple pf sense for different vlands? You if you hate yourself or you just want a project that doesn't make a lot of It's hard to administer you could do it that way I mean if you want her in multiple pf senses, it's just a matter of that would not be an easy way to administer it So I don't know what advantage it would give you though. Um, it'd be a fun project uh Was this before no, I my tech career started in 1995. So no, uh I've been into tech forever So that's um Where is that? Oh so Other favorite picture. This was taken just before she stuck some things Now, we don't have the manifold you see the bolts are missing. It's just sitting there She started taking these little bolts and dropping them in the uh carburetor so there's that So, yeah, that's an uh having kids having kids always fun. Now. I've been into tech uh for Ever I probably have a picture of me in an old server room somewhere From the 90s I started working on this stuff in the 90s. So you'll find Somewhere The old server room I used to administer My first commercial job Uh before I mean I worked for a couple small businesses doing tech But I didn't work at any enterprise places doing it. So I ended a picture of me The oldest picture I can find in me is going to be that one Scroll through scroll through All right, I'll do this another time. This is Yeah, I got too many pictures of myself. So How old is this? That's the hard part here Started networking in uh 1995 yeah me too. It's just been I've been doing this stuff for a long time Someone was talking about that matter of fact There's a Did I find it? No Thought I did Bannies or some old the good news is the further you go back in years the fewer pictures I have of me Uh because you know digital cameras and I had one of those sony floppy cameras That's what a lot of these were taken on But I didn't take a ton a ton of pictures at work. So I don't have a ton of work photos of me Because who wants to be remembered being at work? I don't know and also there wasn't any social media or any place to share So I actually find it kind of interesting. You don't think about um Yeah, I found one of them. I think I posted this one before There's an old picture of me when uh Working on old computers. This is you know 20 over 20 years ago True nas question I have an old Dell server that has a perk card Should I use it on the true nas or get another card? I don't know how compatible and I'm going to probably say not the perk cards are Uh with true nas probably not so Fantastic a novell. Yes Definitely do but uh you want to use a card that talks directly like an hb acl car Um perk cards probably not going to be the best idea Ooh building out the 3g mobile networks. That's a long time ago Now this is something we have a lot of is we build things on virtual pf sensors all the time. So Yeah Uh, so this is my favorite way to do is build things out virtually. Oh, this is not the yeah This is not the one for um The server room that was just an old that was actually uh when I had an electronic store So, yeah You know, where does it view all albums? I have an album somewhere of those photos. I thought maybe I'm wrong Oh, let's see Do I have them somewhere? Maybe Maybe not I don't know where it is. I give up I'm I'm done looking You know, I eat one of my first jobs in the 90s I was uh taking out old twin acts networks the ones that the if you've seen the weird twin acts connectors and putting in some of the crimp on ones because within the 90s the uh Like the token the the ones with the bnc connectors. I forgot some of that has fallen out of my head Oh, yeah setting up the tcpip restart changing nix. Yeah Yeah, it's just one of those things man. It's been great dealing with this stuff over forever in terms of all the years and things like that. So I did find this I I I parked my motorcycle wherever I want. That's the cool thing about having a big dirt bike Yeah, the token ring stuff and rg 58 59 and That's a weird seeing Tom. Well, Tom's always had I've had long hair for a long time. So Um, I my hair's always been this way. It's been longer at times, but I always just I'm used to leaving it I never have it down Maybe one day I'll start a vlog with my hair down Love the content. Keep it up. You know, that's that's like if you know, Tom's been drinking It's usually because his his hair's down. It's because he's There's there's comes a point when the alcohol will cause this my hair to come down That is true Yeah, there's um, oh Hey, there it is This and it's not this is my first job working towards the enterprise side of things. So this one was in uh, Probably 1999 Let's see what we can dig out of this photo Oh, not much that that's all the resolution. Oh, by the way You can see my helmet. I did ride my motorcycle to work even then This was a call recording system back here. This was an e-machines case that I replaced the thing in there. There's my 2600 hat that I'm wearing on there. So that's old school hacker Tom I was uh, definitely more hacker-ish back then But that's how I got good at what I got good at was doing all that so network jesus shirts long hairs Have I ever colored my hair? No, never cared It was funny. I've hung out with people at you all the time, but yeah e-machines It's uh, it's fun seeing these old photos like that. Wow Yeah, that's that is a old one there Which is also funny because I still have um All the 2600 magazines and things like that I still have all my old 2600 swag These these aren't the it's funny that they still sell these shirts. I've had these shirts forever So I've had them so long or faded so Oh man All right Now I'm gonna wander off because I'm gonna go play on my motorcycle I went more than the five minutes because I always go more than five minutes. I love engaging with everybody I love answering everybody's questions and being helpful on this Always fun Always like if you want to get a hold of me the forums It twitter's another one too twitter's not, you know, careful who you follow Um, because there's a lot of garbage on there, but nonetheless, uh, you can reach me on twitter You can reach me in the forums. Feel free to reach out for those places places not to find me email I don't even respond all the time to emails. I'm supposed to respond to So for those of you that keep trying to guess email addresses and or just randomly sending things to sales Hoping tom gets it tom doesn't get it. Um, so Yeah, uh discord I don't like discord that much like I use it But I don't I don't know if I want to keep my channel discord Because it's kind of dead and I just don't really want to put the effort into it I also don't like platforms that I don't control. That's why I like my forums. I control the forums I can control like who gets to be on there and who doesn't so I can control and moderate the spam easier I don't take and sell people's email addresses. So Like if you register with there, you don't have to worry about it going somewhere else. Um Yeah, we do have a discord. I'm just never there using it. Um In maybe someone wants to admit it or maybe someone knows how to build community I'm not good at building community on discord. So that's part of the reason it is what it is I also just like I said not thrilled with the platform itself because I have no control over it So I don't know. Um, that's an eric question not a tom question if you're using that Uh, I don't know because I don't I didn't set up our MSP 360 I contacted sales once structure came and saw my new home. They said, uh, we don't do residential sales. Yeah Yeah, we don't really have time to do the residential stuff. So um and residentials are residential way harder to the business and um Yeah, is what it is Yeah, there's a person you can find. Um Uh, I can't remember their name that but there's a they have a youtube channel about how to reflash the perk cards So I know that's from an earlier question. But for if that person's still here Oh, there we go. See eric is my backup expert in case you didn't know eric works at lauren systems and uh, yes So they just added a new feature of backlays. Maybe we'll talk about it in a future coming video We'll play it by ear on that one But yeah, I've talked about it before on the channel. It's a good product All right. Well, thanks everyone for joining awesome seeing all of you here. Hit me up in the forums um Yeah, and this is the problem your discord admin for you know, a 200 peoples It's just the so jeff from craft computing and the final topic of discord jeff from craft computing one of the things um That he's right about is because he started charging for his from the get go It self administers because people who paid to be there are less likely to spam the the answer is never zero spammers and zero people misbehaving but if you're doing um If you're doing it where people pay to join that's fine The problem is do I switch it to pay to join because I can build community that way and it self administers And it works really well, but uh, that's the problem is i'm not good at building community and I really Art of servers was trying to think before I really build it I'm not good at building community I really don't have time because it would take away from me making videos and me running a business and me making All the other things I want to do for the community to just go into discord It's also hard to track questions now I do manage my forums and my forums are so well indexed they get like 7 000 visitors a day right now I think um and it's well indexed in the search engines So when you search for a problem on google or whatever search engine of your choice You will frequently find my forums have responses to the questions people ask, which is one of the reasons I like forums so nonetheless, uh Have you considered forming a podcast network with folks? There's not really value in adding a podcast network, but we're all friends. We have our monthly meetings um That we do matter of fact, I think we got number tomorrow, which is a bunch of us youtube folks um I gotta look at one the next one is But we do these Oh cool. It's uh next month It's a group of us from youtube that are all friends, which includes jeff geerling techno tim and Jay from learning links tv and vronic explains. We kind of get together and talk youtube together And that's why there's a relationship between all of us in our channels So we're all friends personally that talk about that stuff. So yes, we kind of have a network, but We all remain independently published that way. We're not interfering with each other's publishing or any of the things you want to do. So Who are in i'll talk, you know, I'll actually maybe bring that up. Well, well, we want to form We don't have a formal name. We're just a group of friends That all are on youtube together. So um, I don't know if it really is a thing Uh, are you doing any collaboration with Xavier Xavier says too busy to collab. So There's that um, I mean, do I want to sure but Xavier's I don't know what he's doing. I mean, I mean, I do. I know he's doing much security stuff But he doesn't seem to have any time to do uh videos. So we don't it's kind of like that. So Yeah, I gotta get I get I you gotta get back to work and I gotta go When you're gonna go ride your bike love chat go ahead fun Yeah, I'm gonna go do that now So time for motorcycles. Thank you all for joining. See you all online and a great chat with everyone. Take care