@Nic said in Time for me to move on from Webroot:

@BRRABill said in Time for me to move on from Webroot:

@Nic said in Time for me to move on from Webroot:

@BRRABill said in Time for me to move on from Webroot:

@Nic

Will you still be giving out 1 year trials?

While I still have them

There was subtle Internet humor in my joke.

I wasn't talking about Webroot codes.

Ah, I missed that. I'll have gifts for visitors, but I won't be able to send them outside of Colorado

You'll have to get @pchiodo's tips for, uhhh...transporting.

FWIW, I think XO backs up the metadata when backup up the VM. I know this metadata issue has been discussed previously on ML. There's also an ER for XO to allow for the backup and restoration of the metadata.

@BRRABill said in Blackberry is Done, No More BlackBerry Phones:

Certain members of the government will be crushed. Wink wink.

Not if she crushes them first! #WithAHammer

@dafyre said in O365 External Contact Issue:

@Kelly said in O365 External Contact Issue:

@dafyre said in O365 External Contact Issue:

@JaredBusch said in O365 External Contact Issue:

@Kelly said in O365 External Contact Issue:

Why aren't you just using one or the other system for students since they're both free?

Because he likes to overcomplicate things apparently.

Only some times.

No, this is a decision made before I ever got here... and as others have mentioned, I have no idea why it is like this, but I know of several schools who do so... It's mind boggling.

I pushed the school I worked at off of GApps pretty fast so I would only have to support one platform.

I wish I had that kind of clout here. At my last job, our students would have gone into open rebellion had we disabled Google. I actually wanted to push everybody to Google, but there was some political crap going on that I wasn't privy to.

Even pushing the students to GApps and staff on O365 is better than the bastardization you're fighting with.

Ouch... I've used http://italc.sourceforge.net/ previously and that has worked.

Cute. Very well done.

@fuznutz04 said in Looking for a Nextcloud install guide:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a Nextcloud install guide:

@RojoLoco said in Looking for a Nextcloud install guide:

@travisdh1 said in Looking for a Nextcloud install guide:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a Nextcloud install guide:

@fuznutz04 said in Looking for a Nextcloud install guide:

Haha, I was in the middle of posting NO to GIMP as you were posting. That's too complex for our needs. This needs to be wife friendly as well.

I don't find GIMP to be that bad.

It's quite powerful, which is where the problem for most people comes in. I imagine @fuznutz04 would like it after getting acquainted with the interface.

I'm not up to speed on GIMP, but my very non-technical neighbor can rock it.

It's a design tool so us tech types don't tend to grok it, but graphics people do. It's a very good tool.

And the price point is always in my budget.

Exactly.

Miles Davis - Agartha (can't find Pangea as a whole album on youtube, but the 2 should be listened to together):

@art_of_shred hahaha. I was cooking at my grandma's and she uses them all year round

@Romo said in What is the best way to deploy Linux desktops?:

@stacksofplates said in What is the best way to deploy Linux desktops?:

@Romo said in What is the best way to deploy Linux desktops?:

@stacksofplates said in What is the best way to deploy Linux desktops?:

@Romo said in What is the best way to deploy Linux desktops?:

@stacksofplates said in What is the best way to deploy Linux desktops?:

@Romo said in What is the best way to deploy Linux desktops?:

@coliver said in What is the best way to deploy Linux desktops?:

Ansible or kickstart files could go a long way to automating the process. So if you ever have to deploy more its just dropping it into the environment without touching it again.

Can I use Kickstart with Debian base distros?

Debian has preseed and I've never used it. Kickstarts are great because you can do a lot with your post install. It's essentially a big shell script. So you can update, configure users, make config backups, etc.

Is it worth to learn about preseeding in this case or using something like Clonezilla would be better in your opinion @stacksofplates

That's a tough one. I really know nothing about preseeds. However, if I had to make a guess, I would think it would be much easier to use those than to Clonezilla everything. Preseeds would allow you to have different configs for different systems. I can't imagine using Clonezilla for 30 machines. I can do 30 machines at once with kickstart configs (using pxe). Using a disk, I can start the kickstart on one machine, and then take the same disk and go to the next machine, etc.

I'll try to research more about preseeds then, by the way using Clonezilla SE you can PXE the image to several computers at the same time.

True, but how do you set hostnames, IP addresses, etc?

Ip addresses won't be trouble since my machines are using dhcp but hostnames indeed would be trouble. I have been reading that I am going to need to use a simple kickstart file plus the preseed file in order to deploy debian based distros.

How are different hostnames set when using kickstart?

They are assigned in the kickstart config for each machine. What we did was write a bash script that takes the hostnames, IPs, disk sizes, etc from a table, adds the package list and post install script and generates the kickstart config from that. Then when you boot the machine from the disc, you give it the http address of the kickstart config and it pulls everything in and starts imaging. It takes about 15 mins to kickstart a workstation. Less for the server since they're minimal.

As soon as I deleted the GPO my login time went from 5 minutes to a few seconds, so I knew that was the issue.

@Dominica just said that they have started a new ink subscription model that is likely why they decided to vandalize peoples' printers in the hopes of extorting more money from them through the new subscription model.

@NashBrydges said in Ubuntu Server 2 Network Interfaces whith 1 that is public + 1 that VPNs back home:

To be clear about my intended use, I want to have HTTPS traffic from the internet continue to route to the server via its public IP address. The site-to-site VPN is to allow all other traffic. If I setup a simple site-to-site VPN, then ALL traffic will route through the VPN.

No, that is not what happens. You are mixing the concepts of routing, traffic origination and such. If you set up a VPN, your web server will still be listening to the public IP address. You are imagining a problem to solve that does not exist.

Also, no relationship to DNS.

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2016 Pricing:

@Jason said in Windows Server 2016 Pricing:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2016 Pricing:

@Dashrender said in Windows Server 2016 Pricing:

It really bends you mind when you think of an 8 processor chassis.
In this case you would need 4 licenses to just be allowed to run two VMs, you would need 8 licenses to run four VMs, etc.

Like an HPE Integrity.

[email protected] was running 8 CPU servers with VMware and windows I believe. All legally licensed I'm sure.

They had no Windows. You couldn't even get Windows from them. You had to supply your own and had to license the entire cloud for a single VM that you might want to run.

They had it.. just not licensed haha.

@fuznutz04 said in When Does AWS Make Sense for a Business:

I was just going to spin up a few items in AWS in a lab scenario to test out the functionality. The timing of this post is perfect. Main takeaway for me is "AWS is for elastic workloads." I'll still spin up some workloads in AWS in a lab capacity to get more familiar with is, but this is good insight, thanks.

Yup, AWS is ideal for learning about AWS itself or for learning about DevOps and elastic workload growth.

DO and Vultr are ideal for normal OS learning.

@jospoortvliet said in Nextcloud Box is out - feedback welcome!:

@scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud Box is out - feedback welcome!:

You could just sell it in the same box and let people assemble themselves.

I'm not sure about the rules here, but my WDLabs friends assure me that shipping a Pi with it is going to require certification, even if unassembled. You can do a bundle in the store, perhaps, that is different and Amazon does that of course all the time. Not sure if they (can) resell Pi's.

They do resell Pis. That's why I think you can do it. It's just a bundle. You are just selling the pieces at the same time. You ARE the store at that point.

@IRJ said in How can I extend this partition?:

@scottalanmiller said in How can I extend this partition?:

@IRJ said in How can I extend this partition?:

Is there anything I can do at this point?

Other than the list of things that I said you could do?

I don't fully understand your post.

You can either grow the partition at the partition level OR you can use LVM and make the second partition a PV, add it to the existing VG and then grow your LV(s) on top of that. Two decent means of doing this non-destructively.

@Dashrender said

LOL he said made in America.

Yes he did

@Dashrender said in Small office:

@Jason said in Small office:

BTW this type of fiber is sometimes called Dark Fiber.

Who owns that fiber?

I used to refer to the fiber between our two buildings that we own completely as dark fiber, and I was filleted on SpiceWorks for it.

You would be, if you are using it it isn't dark. Dark refers to it not being lit, no traffic. The moment it is used for any purpose it literally stops being dark.

On SW there are a ton of people calling all kinds of random things "dark fiber" which is really weird. It's one of the least technical terms in all of IT, no idea how people got the weird usages of it. It's like saying a "dark room" because... the lights aren't on.

@garak0410 said in Sophos or WebRoot Cloud Endpoint Advanced - Any Thoughts???:

Update on yesterday's reboot. Here is what "WebRoot" said:

The particular issue being reported is related to a wireless keyboard being in place. There are a few Microsoft wireless keyboards that the drivers can conflict with ours, at this time the workaround sent would resolve this issue however a more permanent fix is being developed.

So my wireless keyboard was at fault. We changed a setting and now it is working. I'm very impressed with their support and expanding my testing of WebRoot. .

Webroot support has been fantastic the few times I've needed them.

@JaredBusch said in Anyone own an iPad a projector and dongle:

@scottalanmiller said in Anyone own an iPad a projector and dongle:

@DustinB3403 said in Anyone own an iPad a projector and dongle:

@Minion-Queen said in Anyone own an iPad a projector and dongle:

Oh I haven't used VGA for anything in a long time

HDMI might work as well, just figured most people dont own HDMI projectors

That would be weird in this day and age. HDMI is the only really common connection technology. All of my projectors are HDMI.

Almost everyone I know has a projector that is VGA. A few have HDMI.

HDMI was not standard on the majority of projectors on the market even 5 years ago. Sure plenty of them existed and have for years. But the majority of the ones on the market were VGA. That has thankfully changed.

*Based on my research for a few projectors for a client in 2011.

I think that was right on the cusp. We had our VGA projector for home in 2003. Everyone I know that bought a project, other than us, did so 2010 or later and were not doing it before then because they were waiting for HDMI. By 2010, everyone I know started buying projectors for the first time because they were HDMI and truly useful to them after that point. Mine from 2012 is HDMI and wasn't novel or anything at the time. That's when we replaced our VGA because it was old to the point of being problematic.

@Jason said in Developer Job??:

Don't do work for them before you are hired. This sounds like is a scam to get work done without pay.

FTFY

Very cool, great to see Electron getting more traction.

@Ambarishrh said in Piwik:

I would like to set this up for my blog, is it good to keep both pwik and the blog on the same instance? I have a cloudways instance.

I have a separate server, but I am monitoring 6 websites at the moment and more are coming soon.

I am sure you could put it on the same instance because piwik doesn't use much resources. My server has 768MB of RAM and I haven't had any issues whatsoever.

@art_of_shred said in Open Source Farming Machine:

@travisdh1 said in Open Source Farming Machine:

@art_of_shred said in Open Source Farming Machine:

@travisdh1 said in Open Source Farming Machine:

@art_of_shred said in Open Source Farming Machine:

@travisdh1 said in Open Source Farming Machine:

@art_of_shred said in Open Source Farming Machine:

@travisdh1 said in Open Source Farming Machine:

@IRJ said in Open Source Farming Machine:

@scottalanmiller said in Open Source Farming Machine:

@art_of_shred said in Open Source Farming Machine:

Especially on a small scale, that's pretty cool.

Yes, for a "farm" it is totally useless. But for a home garden this is so perfect. It's the right size for a home garden and it handles mixed plants as easily as doing all the same one so perfect for the variety that single families need. An amazing opportunity around growing your own food. It would work really well for people who want fresh veggies for their own consumption. It's an automated system that matches how they farm in Romania, everyone with a tiny plot of their own.

$3k is such a steep hurdle to care for such a small garden. You would almost never recoup your food cost. I'd like to see something like this for about a third of the price. I understand that probably isn't feasible right now in terms of cost and technology, but it would be hard to see any monetary gain at $3k.

Yeah. Like I said before, we'll see this sort of system put on a truck or tractor arrangement of some sort. Add on the auto driving things they have on the newest tractors, and you've got an automated system that can tend to hundreds/thousands of acres without the current need for keeping entire fields being the same crop. Don't even need a driver, just a manager/mechanic.

You would need a separate mechanism for harvesting large quantities, though.

Not all that difficult to do. Most types of crops have some sort of automated harvesting mechanism available (weather it's currently in use over super cheap human labor or not.)

We're talking about mixed stuff, not a field of one plant type.

I realize that A harvesting bot isn't that difficult to do compared to a planting/watering bot.

True, but I highly doubt it could be nearly efficient enough for large-scale farming. A bot that can adapt to harvesting multiple crops and still keep up with a combine taking down a single crop? I don't see that as feasible.

For the insane scale farms generally operating today, sure. For the small (400-800 acres of crops) farms it'd be ideal.

I still don't think the numbers would come even close, but it's all hypothetical anyway. We'll have to find out the long way.

I agree. It would take a long time to recoup the initial investment. Labor and machines like tractors are much more affordable for small farms.

@henriette said in Camera for travel:

You are planning to travel every year to new destinations and you have not any Camera except Mobile camera, this is very shocking for me. You have to buy any Point and shoot camera.

For deciding which point and shoot camera is good for you, I would like to share one article with you. Here is article link http://www.gadgetreview.com/best-point-and-shoot-digital-camera Using this review article you can easily decide which point and shoot camera is the best for your use.

According to me you should not buy drone because of Drone is very expensive and most of the countries are not allowing you to to use drone as you already said.

One option is there, when you need drone, you can hire it on rent. This is the best option for you.

Thanks for sharing the link. I am about to start travelling to different destinations from this year, so till that time the phone camera was sufficient, and i already got the camera, Canon SX60.

Thanks mates!
I am going to try Webvirtmgr!

@RojoLoco said in Weekend Plans:

@thwr said in Weekend Plans:

@DenisKelley said in Weekend Plans:

As one who lived in Munich for about 8 years, Octoberfest is awesome.

I'm not saying it's bad, but it's pretty much about commerce. And I won't stop you if you like to pay such prices in a place that's so crowded with people that you can barely take a breath:

"Mass Bier" - 10,40 to 10,70 EUR
Coke - 9,27 EUR

Sources: http://www.oktoberfest2016.de/bierpreise.htm, http://www.oktoberfest.de/de/article/Aktuell/Meldungen/Die+offiziellen+Bierpreise+2016/4606/

The place I'm going won't be super crowded and has $3 pints (or a nice price on all you can drink). I'll be damned if I'll ever pay 9 Euro for a soda.

Yeah, hehe, said something similar before: I'll be damned if I ever pay 2,50 DM for 1L of lead free gas. 1,25 EUR right now, pretty close to 2,50 DM...