While reloading some 9mm I reached in the bag for another bullet to seat and I pulled out this….
The unformed copper jacket!
They are precision delta bullets and never found another. It’s sort of cool to see what makes the jacket before its formed over the lead.
Recently I upgraded my non-critical hosts to vCenter/ESXi 5.1. I learned quickly Veeam 6.1 was not supported.
I’ve inherited Veeam as our virtualization backup solution. After all, its automated, has deduplication, compression, reporting and can make archives(Veeamzip). What more could I ask for?
After upgrading Veeam kept throwing errors – Backup console is not compatible with proxy ‘<servername>’. Backup server version: ‘6.1.0.181’. Job has failed. See logs for details.
From what I read on the Veeam forums, the fix will be released in Veeam 6.5. Which isn’t available yet. But I found a workaround, not the best solution, but seems to work okay.
Again, probably not the best solution as Veeam is no longer vMotion ‘aware’ but it appears to run/complete backups again.
I love virtualization and all the perks of it. I would hate to have to manage as many physical boxes as I do virtual machines. After all, how easy it is to manage/balance/upgrade/deploy solutions to meet the needs of my environment.
But is P2V (physical to virtual) really a curse more than a blessing? For example, I have many virtual boxes here that used to be physical that should have been decommissioned and replaced with new solutions. Because they are virtual we have just learned to accept that they are doing the job and are good enough. This for me has lead to many overlaps in systems and is just starting to get overgrown.
I’m not saying its my predecessors fault, because I would have and have done the same thing. After all its easy, and its really cool. I’m saying in the long run it may be more of a band-aid, leads to unnecessary virtual servers and just buy you time to procrastinate.
The next revelation for me is to combine services. I don’t need a server just to run WDS or WSUS, it’s just a waste of software licenses.
Today at the range I was shooting and experienced an odd malfunction on my commander size (4″) Springfield 1911.
The last round in the standard springfield 7 round mag locked the slide back, but the empty brass got stuck in the magazine. I was able to remove the mag and flip the brass out but I can’t figure out how it happend. The only thing different today was that particular magazine had small pistol primer 45 ACP that I loaded this morning. I usually load large pistol primer, but I had a bunch of small primer brass.
