Setting up new vCenter instances in the lab for testing our deployment of vCenter 7 to upgrade our current systems from 6.7. We need to do this 3 different ways:
We assume that everything will work out, but better not to do our testing in production.
Very good idea, as certain 7.x.x versions tend to purplescreen.
I’ve developed a new form of stress thanks to working from home for almost two years now. My lower neck and upper shoulders get sore and make me feel exhausted. I prefer the other forms I used to have, like lower back pain and chest tightness. At least those didn’t make me want to stay in bed for an entire day. Luckily, it’s remedied a bit with a good dose of caffeine, but it still sucks very much.
Sounds like you need to rework your whole workspace so it’s properly set up to be healthy
That’s very possible. A little tough to do that currently as my wife loves the table I’m using (it used to be her work area until she went permanently WFH and needed a different setup). There’s definitely some improvement to do.
A third ailment has struck my car, and now she looks like she’s been lashed by a particularly vicious whip… front right bumper is cracked vertically where I hit a boar in the forest; the hood has a dent from winter lumber-fall; and the windscreen now has a crack halfway through it.
If I could afford the repairs I’d be miffed at the price but since it’s moot I’ll just have to get used to having duct tape everywhere 
We had a snow storm. The driveway was blown out to where the car was on the first pass. I moved the car up, cleaned it off, and moved the snow that hadn’t been cleared up so that I could move the car back and the rest could be blown out on the second pass.
When backing the car up, I couldn’t stop in time because it was slippery and I crashed through the garage door.
The car is fine aside from a few paint scratches on the bumper that I’m going to get redone soon.
The garage door had to be replaced. Goodbye $1500. However, it isn’t insulated like the last one was, so I can actually open it one-handed (it isn’t motorized) and the Dragonlady will be able to open it herself so she can use her bike again.
So, bad news, bad news, bad news, bad news, good news.
8th day of the Ottawa occupation by the FluTruxKlan. Air horns blaring day and night. The downtown core is completely useless. ‘Protesters’ saying that they won’t move until they get their way. Demanding that their democratically elected system of government be dismantled because they don’t agree with it isn’t a democracy.
Sorry, but that stance isn’t a protest. It’s a threat. You’ve taken a city hostage and are subjecting them to inhumane treatment to ‘make a point’. Believe me, that point has been made.
And the Ottawa police and mayor seem to be useless, from what I’ve seen. The Omicronvoy knows there are little or no consequences for their actions.
Just as an aside; I thought this was about the mandate, not the jab itself? The chaps the BBC interviewed were all vaccinated, most of them just were of the opinion that a government deciding to make a medical procedure a legal requirement was a step too far.
And they’re right really. You can advise people to do something, but the moment that becomes force then you’ve gone from liberal to authoritarian in a heartbeat.
I guess I’m saying I disapprove of their means but not their message?
Maybe for some it started out that way, but it seems to be more of an anti-government rally. If it is really about mandates, attacking the Federal government isn’t going to do anything. The mandates are the Provincial governments’ responsibility. And the convoy’s own MOU states that they and the Senate and Governor General (neither of whom have any legislative or, tbh, real power in Canada) will form a committee to force the legally-elected Federal and Provincial governments to enact their demands. That sounds like a coup d’etat to me.
Add to that the fact that several of the organizers have proven ties to QAnon, white supremacist, or separatist groups, making it even less likely this is solely (or even primarily) about mandates. There have been confirmed reports of convoy participants stealing food from homeless shelters, desecrating the National War Memorial and Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and setting a fire in an apartment building lobby and taping the doors shut so residents couldn’t escape - fortunately someone saw the fire and was able to break the seal on the doors and put it out before it did too much damage. Residents of downtown Ottawa have been harassed, assaulted, and subjected to constant high-decibel noise levels and fireworks almost continuously for 10 days now. Some are afraid to leave their homes. Where’s their freedom?
The more right-leaning parties - the Conservatives and PPC - have had a great time making hay out of this while getting their photo ops with the occupiers but I think they’re starting to realise it may backfire on them. The majority of Canadians are actually in favour of mandates and, as the occupiers are getting rowdier and more het up and the police are seen to be doing less and less, public opinion of those seen supporting the occupiers is sinking. And you can bet that during the next election those tweets, photos, and statements will be trotted out by their opposition.
The fact that a lot of right-wing US politicians are weighing in on this - and on the GoFundMe debacle - isn’t helping their cause either. There were already a lot of questions about who was funding the convoy and the fervour that politicians like Ted Cruz and Ron DeSantis are displaying around this is just reinforcing the likely true belief that there’s a lot of dark money being funneled into Canada by the US through this.
Bah. Sewer backup into the basement again. Contact request in to the good local drain rooting company to contact me in the morning to arrange to come unfuck it. Really wish I had a way to fix that for good that wouldn’t be “dig up and destroy/rebuild part of the foundation for the house”.
(Inherent problem is that the waste outflow hole in the foundation is actually smaller than the pipe on either side of it, so toilet paper and the like tends to bunch up around the hole, dry into spackle, and keep building on itself until it blocks it up completely.)
That’s actually very, very weird, because nobody’s news outside of Canada is painting them with the same brush. Like, at all. All the following is gleaned from BBC and Reuters…
Regarding the lobby fire, the people who did it were facially recognised on CCTV. Not members of the truckers, nor right wing. They were local kids making a stupid fuss to get the truck horns to stop. As for desecrating the statue; I’ve seen the video. They put a hat and a flag on it. That’s nothing compared to the Statue Protests where even poor Lord Beaumont was decapitated.
Indeed the only injuries reported by the BBC were three men struck by a SUV driven by a known self-proclaimed Communist.
The media of course have massive vested interests in their own narratives, I know Canada will be bigging up the protests to make them more scary, while the Beeb is reducing them so we aren’t tempted to strike too; but I refuse to believe that the truckers are all white supremacists when the videos repeatedly show black, white, hispanic, asian, and eastern members of the convoy all getting on and helping each other in the snow.
The biggest idiots in this are the police; who don’t seem to have remembered that asset seizure without specific warrant is literally theft, so they’re all gonna have their badge numbers read out at a hearing now 
That was the Terry Fox statue. They urinated on the National War Memorial, danced on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - which is not a misnomer, it does actually contain the remains of an unknown soldier who died in WWI - and drove their vehicles up the steps of the Memorial.
Can you provide a source for this statement? I can find nothing that corroborates this.
I’ll agree with the first part of your statement. I believe the fuel was seized from one area that’s being used as a staging ground, so it could fall under either exigent circumstances or in plain view, but I’m not a lawyer, so I’m not sure about the legality of the seizure.
I never said they were all white supremicists. But there are a significant number, especially in the convoy organization team that are and are likely using the rest as a shield or beard for their own agenda.
But remember, looking into who was funding BLM or calling them violent was racist.
I am sure there are plenty of people that would trade the mostly peaceful protests of yesteryear that burned down their business for the potentially violent protesters of today.
Been reading for a few years now, and really for decades before that, that a real protest is supposed to be annoying and difficult, otherwise its ignored. In order to make change you have to rock the boat, right?
The who’s who of who supports what is sort of pointless at this point, as much as I like to play that game too. Just because X, Y, and Z support Phi, doesn’t mean much. Richard Spenser supported Joe Biden. Checks cash and stuff needs bought.
Singular truck drivers don’t Wang to be forced to be vaccinated, OK. It’s not like the vaccinated aren’t a vector for spreading it, and they will pay for their choice. Though, I am against mandates too and I got the shots, and I would bet many are like that.
Arrest anyone breaking the law, throw the book at them. But I have a feeling just grabbing all that gas isn’t going to go well in the long run.
While not to detract from the vulgarity, this happens every Saturday in Newcastle. The obelisk is on a smaller street near to lots of bars and come midnight you need wellies to walk past it. It’s not even so much as “haha I’m peeing on a memorial” as “oh Christ I shouldn’t have had that seventh pint”.
My hubby will look it up on the desktop when we get home, pretty sure it was via the Beeb. Finding anything in iPhone Safari history is an actual bloody safari these days!
But so long as they’re welcoming and lending their support from and to drivers of all ethnicities, then it doesn’t really matter does it? Their beliefs, no matter how wonky, are not relevant to their actions, nor their desired outcome of this situation. I can give you a good example of this happening before: the majority of the Conservative Cabinet here are vehemently homophobic, and yet it was their own government that passed gay marriage when the preceding left-wing one failed thrice.
Heheheheh best autocucumber I’ve seen in a while 
You would not believe the number of people in Britain who will smugly tell me that they can’t possibly catch the Rona and spread it on because they’ve had their jabs and I can’t. The level of quasi-religious NHS worship is utterly bizarre, and they’re all spouting the same completely inaccurate tosh. At this point I’ve just started calling the vaccine “injectable Beechams” because it’s really just a long-release palliative: it stops you being as badly ill but nothing else — which is great, especially for those with other medical complaints.
I also deplore the use of senseless violence in protests.
Protest if you want to, but when it comes to burning/looting/vandalizing property/shops/cars, then that is just not on.
Still unvaccinated. I’m not going to force my views on others, as it is my decision. If anybody want to be vaccinated, their decision, and they’re grown up and can make decisions for themselves. But let’s not go there, that’s a can of worms best left unopened, and I don’t want to start a fight on this topic.
HOWEVER I do commend the use of reasonable violence when it comes to self-protection, though.
Using violence to make people see your way is the wrong way of doing it, as it will just escalate, and a couple of years down the line everybody will be shooting all over the place at everybody.
Mass hysteria spread like wildfire, and it have been proven in last year’s July unrests in Natal.
Shopowners who saw their regular and friendly customer turn zombie, loot and vandalize, asked them later on why they did that, and their customers can’t say why.
This is why it is a good idea to avoid any large gathering of people, as things can go either way.
But that’s just me and my ramblings.
Do carry on, back to the topic of suckage.
Inflation sucks, our grabbamint sucks, and the state’s turning into a failed state, as they are unable to fulfill their mandate of looking after their citizens.
Yes. Yes this so much.
Britain is really weird in that, say for example, someone comes into your house and tries to attack you; you strike back once, that’s self defence. Two strikes is still self defence. Hit them a third time? Well now you’ve just committed aggravated assault and you both get charged and it’s up to the jury whether or not the aggravated assault was still self defence or not. This was to stop incidents where a burglar would break in and the homeowner would bludgeon them to death and claim they attacked first… it’s not perfect because you then technically have a criminal record for standing your ground.
I’m confused, I thought you were in South Africa not Britain 
But do they Wang Chung tonight?
I was going to say that I found it interesting that the word was capitalized.