@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News: What Is AppImage in Linux? On a Linux distro, you should always install new software with the aid of your package manager when possible. It keeps things clean, and all files are tracked by the manager and can be easily removed later. MuseScore uses this. It's pretty slick.

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Mahi Mahi sandwiches, seafood bique, and a house salad in Corning, NY with @mary after a long day in the office, yesterday.

Welcome @kevinn

I use Facebook as a way to keep in touch with family and friends who don’t live close to me. I use FB Messenger to talk to my wife throughout the work day. If I wasn’t in IT I doubt I’d have a phone with internet. I’d prefer to be disconnected from the world. I’d rather be on my boat fishing all day.

What alerts are you looking to get that isn't natively available?

@wrx7m said in Bad one: SonicWALL Remote Management Vulnerability: WTF? People NAT their iDracs? Some people...

I have a cradlepoint AER2200 setup with an AT&T connection at a location across town at a warehouse that gets occasional use. We were going to be using handheld wireless bar code scanners that needed connection to our ERP server. I created an IPSec tunnel to our main office and used an ACL to only limit the correct ports to the server here. Anyway, the connection has been reliable even though it doesn't get much use. They were going to move out of that location and I was happy because I was going to use the cradlepoint in the main office as a backup, but more for out-of-band management, than for the whole company. Now we have at least another 6 months at that location, so I might end up getting a new one for here anyway. We'll see.

@scottalanmiller said in AzureAD and shares: @stacksofplates said in AzureAD and shares: @scottalanmiller said in AzureAD and shares: @stacksofplates said in AzureAD and shares: @scottalanmiller said in AzureAD and shares: @stacksofplates said in AzureAD and shares: @scottalanmiller said in AzureAD and shares: @stacksofplates said in AzureAD and shares: @brandon220 said in AzureAD and shares: Here is an example from the FFIEC Cybersecurity Assesment Tool: The more OSS you have, the lower your score will be. I'm not defending or even sure this is what they are talking about, but they may be looking at the risk of the licensing. It can be tough to keep track of all of the licensing of open source tools and making sure you comply with them. But, honestly, not nearly as hard as the risks of anything else. And "can be" should never be a legitimate factor. ONce we go down that path, we could list unrealistic risks for forever. Right, like I said I'm not defending them. Just trying to look at it from all angles. What people never consider is that closed source licensing COULD still require in the EULA that you comply with GPL of your own code simply by using the closed source product Cloud source EULAs can pretty much carry any risk imaginable. They don't, but they could. Yeah definitely true. I don't like closed source at all. I mean if I need the tool I'll buy it but I'd rather use a open source tool. I've seen a lot of people thought that think they can just do whatever since it's open source and it doesn't matter. AGPL is pretty strict and there's a lot of popular tools written with that license. In most cases, it's people thinking that they can just use the code without following the license. Technically, a far bigger risk with closed source under the same conditions. In general yeah, but the GPL police are fierce. I work with a guy who's old company was going to be sued for not including the simple configs they wrote along with the distribution. Yeah, although now we are talking product firms, not operations. The affect on operations is generally minimal. Yeah true, but that's similar with proprietary also, most people don't get caught. You still have to comply though. It can be a lot of work to ensure you're in compliance. Like when software decides to change licenses between versions.

@travisdh1 said in What the world? No user backup script: @gjacobse said in What the world? No user backup script: @travisdh1 said in What the world? No user backup script: @DustinB3403 said in What the world? No user backup script: Why not use something like UrBackup rather than recreating the wheel with custom scripts? Especially when it's in the Chocolaty repo. Just script the install and configuration! Many aspects of Chocolatey are blocked. I tried to install Greenshot and it failed. It’s the state- which has a high number of limiting GPOs and such. Scripts are also restricted... to a degree. Ugh, hope you find a job somewhere reasonable quick! I took this as a stop gap. But it's what I have now, and what I have to work with. Just trying to improve and make the best of it while here.

@stacksofplates said in Ansible Agent Option?: Yeah it's obviously bad to treat it like a LAN but if you stop using tools just because it can be treated that way you are sometimes stopping yourself from doing some really interesting and helpful things. Yes, LAN-like tools are only LAN-like if you treat them in that fashion. The behaviour is rarely intrinsic.

@JaredBusch Nice going. How much water do you drink a day? Aim for like 2800 ml if you arent already.

Tomorrow AM going to the local hamfest see if I can pawn off any of my stuff. Then friends annual BBQ picnic but it is supposed to be over 90 F with the humidity. Sunday have to upgrade the church's computers and new wifi install.

@Jimmy9008 said in IBM Storewize V3700 - Supported Drives: @scottalanmiller said in IBM Storewize V3700 - Supported Drives: D) drives: So, any SAS SSD under 1.6 TB should work with this? Perfect. That ALWAYS refers to Lenovo's own drives. It never implies third party drives. This is true for all server vendors.

I've been using Duplicati where I need a standalone backup of a thing. Web based management interface makes it super simple to manage.

@scottalanmiller said in P2V Windows 2000 on KVM: So this is ridiculous, but we just found out that it is actually 2003 R2, not 2000. So I assume that this will be way better. I had a ton of issues getting mine to work - I had to run chkdsk like 15 times before it finally booted... I don't recall what migration tool I used.

@bnrstnr said in Non-IT News Thread: @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread: @bnrstnr said in Non-IT News Thread: The tooling is likely already owned by Lockheed, if so they'll just relocate it. Never worked for Lockheed, I see lol after I typed it, I'm thinking "yeah, right.. defense contractors" I worked there a little, never again. Total corruption and incompetence. Very evil company raping the American economy.

@mary said in Cloud Services and Delivery Models - CompTIA Network+ N10-007 Prof. Messer: At what point is it worth having your own data center? I would think the cost of it wouldn't be worth it for most. Your own, meaning you own the facility rather than colo? That one is pretty easy.... You would go to your own datacenter when the cost to get the features you need from colo exceeds the cost to build and maintain your own (this would likely happen at around 15-60% of filling a single colo location.) And your staffing needs will play into this, if the colo has 24x7 support, and you only need 16x6, you might lower your own cost that way. This is assuming you don't need the flexibility of putting equipment in and out from time to time or using multiple sites for it, like colo easily allows.

@mary said in Wireless Network Technologies - CompTIA Network+ N10-007 Prof. Messer: Do the frequencies used self modulate within the router? What I'm wondering is if when setting up a dsl connection if it automatically defaults to a specific frequency or is it constantly switching. DSL is the wired bit. Wifi is from the access point. And this will depend on the protocol chosen. 802.11 b for example requires thebfrequency be set.

@DustinB3403 said in Account getting locked out: @WLS-ITGuy said in Account getting locked out: @DustinB3403 said in Account getting locked out: Any services or scheduled tasks that might be setup under this account? Possibly, however the password hasn't changed in the last 30 days that it would cause this. Then something was turned on recently that is using a password older than 30 days. Nope. Turns out I had a couple servers that I was giving RDP remote access to another vendor for them to migrate to a new server and I forgot to turn off RDP.

@JaredBusch said in Can someone explain yaml spacing to me because Im going insane: @DustinB3403 said in Can someone explain yaml spacing to me because Im going insane: I'm aware there are tabs, this is due to Notepad++ There is a setting for that in Notepad++ I'll be searching for that tomorrow.

Maybe they have a couple keys...

@WLS-ITGuy said in GPO issue: @Dashrender said in GPO issue: I would change this up by applying your GPOs to the OU above these WLS OUs, then set filters to only apply to the users you want. So in the case of the Library, you've already created a security group, so you'll grant permissions to that group. Then you'll need to create a WLS-Faculty security group and do the same with it's GPO. So the GPOs would be at 'domain level' not in the OU level...Like this? Then I apply the security groups from there? That makes sense. yeah - you could do it at the domain level - I personally wouldn't. I'd make a new OU, and put your WLS-faculity and WLS-Library in that new OU.. then apply your GPOs to that new one you created. But that's just me.

Like for example adding rd.break at boot.

Looks like I needed to put export DISPLAY=":0" originally when I was trying it I didn't have the " Now to test the whole script

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