@Pete-S said in Typical services and software in SMBs?:

Besides the obvious Microsoft/Google/xxx for mail and office apps - what type of services or workloads are SMBs interested in? What are they spending their IT-"budget" on?

Forgot about this one.

"Budgets" don't exists. Money is first come, first served and most is on everything but IT. Mind you, this is very small SMB's. The few people in the SME space I have spoken with do have some type of budget and most of that is wrapped up in PC's, SaaS and internal IT staff (most of the time one or two people).

@Pete-S said in Blue Stacks:

@WrCombs said in Blue Stacks:

Anyone use Blue Stacks for gaming?

https://www.bluestacks.com/

I use it for work but was looking to get into some more gaming in my free time.

I've used LDplayer which is specifically aimed at gamers. No issues with any games (or other apps) but I'm not a big gamer.

https://www.ldplayer.net/

You should try them both. I think game performance is also depending on your PC.

Thanks

@scottalanmiller said in ps2 to usb adapters:

analogue.

analogue, eh?

@DustinB3403 said in Microsoft Finally Deprecated WINS:

@scottalanmiller Finally. . . I have a customer who insists that WINS is as good as it'll ever get. . .

Now maybe I can put their nose into it. .

How many clients even know what it is? Wow.

@Pete-S said in SSH jump server access control?:

So someone could potentially move laterally efter they have logged in to the target server. But other servers will probably only accept connections from jump servers so it would be hard. Which is on purpose of course.

If that's the limitation you/they are looking for, outside edge IP detection to network access as a whole, then it's a totally different game and I think it makes total sense. THAT you can control with SSH itself no problem.

@Pete-S said in New server q's:

@siringo said in New server q's:

Those last 2 posts are spot on Scott.

If I were to deploy a solution that was different to what everyone else was deploying, even if it was cheaper, better, faster, more resilient etc, I'd be lambasted by others simply because it was different and more likely, not understood.

That can lead to unhappy management, which can then lead to all sorts of grief for me.

This is obviously, not what I want.

Thanks for all the info & advice, it is greatly appreciated.

So you should buy the same old server model from 2016 to stay consistent with what they currently know 🙂

Unfortunately yes.

It comes under the job preservation title. I live in area where IT work is extremely hard to secure due to there not being much of it, so rocking the boat is not a good move.

Youtube Video

this goes back to 2016, but sounds just like what you're experiencing:

*Symptoms

After you apply this update on a Remote Desktop Session (RDS) host, some new users cannot connect to an RDP session. Instead, those users see a black screen, and they are eventually disconnected. This issue occurs at unspecified intervals.*

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3179574

Chrome is managed by GPO,… but computer not moved. We had another computer pop up with the issue Friday so issue is growing.

@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Jaja, yay I got sort of referenced

The "weird systems users": hobbyists who offer virtualization to non-profit and charity users, using old, out-of-maintenance hardware that had been inherited or passed on to them. Enthusiast users, with no funds to buy licenses?

That too.

Make sure to update firmware.

@JaredBusch said in KVM networking with libvirt (virsh) questions:

I assume that Debian 11 uses NetworkManager? I don't have a clean Debian system running KVM to check.

If so nmcli and its related commands are your friend.

Thanks Jared.

Reading about nmcli and seeing your screenshots led me to understand that macvtap devices are only active when the VM is actually running.

Using ip link I can now see the macvtap device on the host. One for each VM connected.

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