@scottalanmiller Funny thing is that it has an almost 5-star review in the apps section in NC..... I'd like to see how many people actually get it to work.

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@dave_c said in Another VPS Kid on the block upcloud.com: Interesting benchmarks: https://community.centminmod.com/threads/13-way-vps-server-benchmark-comparison-tests-upcloud-vs-digitalocean-vs-linode-vs-vultr-vs-hetzner.17742/ (edit) Warning: It is a long analysis. You can go to the summary at the end if you like. Great for Vultr if you don't mind having your data in the U.S.

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@Obsolesce said in 16TB spinning rust is here: @scottalanmiller said in 16TB spinning rust is here: @Obsolesce said in 16TB spinning rust is here: 2% of 100k HDDs has got to be over $200k. The time that goes into replacing them, performance loss, etc can't be overlooked either, which is added costs on top of the drive costs. In theory, from old BB studies, consumer and enterprise drives fail at roughly the same rates. Speeds are the bigger differences, and sometimes capacities. Often hard to directly compare as different drive types tend to be made for the different audiences. I haven't seen those. In practice, it seems like a different story according to their charts. Older blog, but BB stated that consumer drives outperformed enterprise drives on failure rates... https://www.backblaze.com/blog/enterprise-drive-reliability/

@JaredBusch said in Purchase An Already Registered Domain - Best Practices?: @scottalanmiller said in Purchase An Already Registered Domain - Best Practices?: @Obsolesce said in Purchase An Already Registered Domain - Best Practices?: Maybe they can do something about it? https://www.whoishostingthis.com/blog/2013/11/06/domain-squatting/ Only works in the case of bad faith. In his case, if the domain was pre-registered and in use (not just squatted) and the marketing people are trying to use that existing trademark, their attempts might be the ones in bad faith because they have a responsibility to see if that trademark is in use already, and trademarks like copyrights are automatic (but hard to prove.) Actually bad faith does not preclude squatting. If the squatter purchased before you ever had a any registered branding, there is no case against them. Bad faith kicks in against squatting only if you can prove it affecting your previously registered brand. I was saying bad faith in the other direction, attempting to start a business under the same name as a domain name that was already in use.

@Pete-S said in Performance of Intel Xeon Scalable 6146 versus E5-2667 v4 in the real world...: @flomer I would say this is a post-sales matter so I would go that route. You bought something and it is not performing to your expectations. Is it a hardware problem, software configuration or did you buy the wrong thing? It doesn't matter - you paid big money for it so get the vendor to sort it out. That's not at all how it works. Try buying a Chevy car and going to the dealer "I paid a lot of money and it doesn't haul eight people, you have to fix it." Clearly it was your job to evaluate your workload and determine your needs. And "a lot of money" is subjective. There is no one involved in this equation responsible for knowing the workload and performance characteristics except for the end user. Unless the procs aren't working correctly, the percentage of responsibility on the vendor would be zero.

@mary said in Access Control Lists - CompTIA Network+ N10-007 Prof Messer: Is there a way to deny all incoming traffic to your firewall? Sure. But if you think about it, you'd absolutely never want this. This would be the same as disconnecting the network. If you wanted to do this, you would simply unplug the network instead (as that is more reliable.) The only reason to truly "deny all" is to go offline. And if you want to be offline you logically want it to be really reliable and since you'd want no traffic to make it no matter what in that situation, pulling the plug is the better choice 99.99% of the time.

@mary said in Software-Defined Networking - CompTIA Network+ N10-007 Prof Messer: Is there specific software that is used for creating a virtual environment? SDN refers to a great number of potential solutions. In most cases, it is software built into the hardware. So Cisco, Juniper, Brocade and other networking makers offer software solutions, often that have no particular name. They are just the SDN options of that gear. Pure software does exist and a common example of it is ZeroTier which is designed as a complete virtual networking layer on top of your physical network and has no interaction with the underlying hardware so it completely agnostic.

@mary said in Circuit Switching and Packet Switching - CompTIA Network+ N10-007 Prof Messer: Is there anything not considered packet switching? Yes, the most common example is the voice network (the PSTN / Public Switched Telephone Network). It establishes a "circuit" for every call, and it is permanent until that call ends. It switches on a "call by call" basis. Every packet associated with that call takes the same path. It is almost always considered archaic to use circuit switching, it is rarely useful or efficient. It was popular in the "pre-data" era of networking when it was audio and video, generally analogue, going over the path rather than individual packets. Now that we have packetized data and the power to evaluate the route every packet, there is little to no purpose for circuit switching.

@Obsolesce said in Microsoft Office - Licensing Questions For 3 Scenarios: @scottalanmiller It's good to not only include the MS Tool for perhaps features that nothing else supports (among many other reasons) , but also the FOSS stuff too. Not just the MS stuff, that is very idiotic. That's also true. I know loads of companies that get screwed with this stuff and have zero intention to use it with MS products, that's just how people talk about it. They want a CSV, for example, not Excel. But the majority of people call CSVs an "Excel file" adding to the confusion.

@dafyre said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play: ToonStruck is free on GOG for the next day or so. Click this stupid long link to get it. Nice, I already bought that one, though.

@StuartJordan said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect: @scottalanmiller I get this, sometimes you may not be able to change the current A/V solution they are using though. This is still an issue. Oh its an issue, just critical to understand where the issue is. Broken AV needs to be recognized as broken AV.

@matteo-nunziati those are the best places. Not so many tourists, more people actually living.

Nice find. I was actually lamenting the search-ability of social media the other day. If I wanted to find something from a fb page it’s almost impossible to find it.

@Skyetel said in I guess Skyetel doesn't want business: @Dashrender said in I guess Skyetel doesn't want business: That's all fine and dandy.. but I can't sign my company up (I'm the IT Admin here) because I'm not giving you my personal cellphone for a company sign up. Other systems have done setups that get through IVRs to internal extensions - that's what would be needed in my office. Requiring SMS for business is seemingly absurd. We don't require it as a means for contacting you - we never use it - its just for the signup process to verify you are a human and to prevent duplicate accounts. On the next step under "Organization Info" it will ask you for the contact information to use. Why not a credit card like all the real businesses?

@Obsolesce said in Need video recording software for Fedora: @JaredBusch said in Need video recording software for Fedora: @Obsolesce said in Need video recording software for Fedora: This is the one I was thinking of https://obsproject.com/ That is what we have been discussing. Ah, totally missed that. My bad. Like a blind man trying to find his shoes. . .

@JaredBusch said in Block Spam callers: @WLS-ITGuy said in Block Spam callers: @JaredBusch said in Block Spam callers: @WLS-ITGuy said in Block Spam callers: @JaredBusch said in Block Spam callers: @WLS-ITGuy said in Block Spam callers: This time I did a search first We are getting hammered with cold calls and I am wondering if those of you who have FreePBX have some system/way to block cold/robo calls? Use the blacklist, there is a feature code for it. But realistically, the numbers change all the time. So not much you can do but play whack-a-mole. Implement an IVR and don’t let calls go straight to reception. The IVR can be super simple. “Thanks for calling Bob’s Widget Co. We are getting hit hard by robo calls. Please press 1 to reach the operator.” Add option 1 for the operator. And then set the timeout destination and invalid destination to terminate the call. Can I do this for a direct extension call also? Blacklist? It is checked always on inbound calls. There is no way to not check it without writing custom dialplan. Making an IVR? Sure. You just make the "Press 1" destination be their extension. There are lots of creative custom things you can do, but those are the easy built in options. Sorry, Meant the IVR. Create a recording that states "Getting spam calls. Press 1 for Bob." Create Bob spam IVR using the above recording as its announcement. Set the option 1 to go to Bob's extension. Set the timeout and invalid destinations to terminate call. Go to the inbound route that sends the call to Bob's extension now and change it to go to the Bob spam IVR. @JaredBusch said in Block Spam callers: You would need a unique IVR for every DID you want this used for. It would make it easier on the receptionist and everyone else as well.

@Dashrender said in How can I turn off auto centering in LibreOffice Calc?: @bnrstnr said in How can I turn off auto centering in LibreOffice Calc?: @DustinB3403 said in How can I turn off auto centering in LibreOffice Calc?: Do you have Column A locked so when you scroll everything else moves and A is hidden? Or is that filter on A only to find numbers etc? It's just the behavior of a normal workbook. Nothing hidden or locked (from my experience anyway). If the column you want to edit extends off the right edge of the screen it moves the window to try to make the whole column visible. Not that it's relevant really, but I don't see a way to turn it off in Excel either. Yeah, I've seen this behavior in Excel before - definitely annoying... I get what they are doing - showing all the data for that column... but still. I understand it, too. It would be nice if it was something you could toggle though

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@Dashrender said in Intentionally Bad Hold Music: @JaredBusch said in Intentionally Bad Hold Music: @Dashrender said in Intentionally Bad Hold Music: @JaredBusch said in Intentionally Bad Hold Music: @Skyetel People like to defend the weirdest things. The only purpose of any business is to make profit. It is not like this is a secret. Now this I most definitely disagree with. I will agree that most businesses want to make a profit - while at the same time, not trying to squeeze out every last time of legit legal profit - instead making enough profit to the CEO's/owner's happiness... You are injecting your own bias in here. The purpose of the business is to make a profit. The purpose of the CEO is to be happy. Those are not mutually exclusive things. Except that the CEO actually sets the purpose of the business - unless it's a publicly held company then it is more about profits, though the CEO can still make it not about ultimate profits. No, you are not correct. A business is about profit. The people running the business in a way that is not that, are not running a business. They are running a hobby, or a charity simply to provide employment for no reason, etc. But they are not running a business.

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@scottalanmiller said in Automation For Lights?: @Dashrender said in Automation For Lights?: @scottalanmiller said in Automation For Lights?: I sleep with a smart watch on my wrist and a phone under my pillow. I am bound to wake up. Phone under pillow would never work for me.. two things 1) I move so much the phone would be under the bed for sure, 2) it would be to muffled and I'd sleep through any vibration. The watch though... that might help. I move a lot and it stays put. I don''t have a case, so the phone is very smooth. It doesn't shift around from the pillow moving. I can wake up from vibrations from a phone a floor away so.... lucky/unlucky you... I could sleep through a tornado taking the roof off.

Debian GNU/Linux 10 "Buster" Operating System to Be Released on July 6th, 2019 The Debian Project announced the proposed release date of their long-anticipated Debian GNU/Linux 10 "Buster" . Work on the Debian GNU/Linux 10 "Buster" operating system series started two years ago, since early July 2017

@scottalanmiller I like to live on the edge

MS licensing on Sharepoint is as easy as licensing gets. It can't be more straightforward. https://products.office.com/en-us/sharepoint/sharepoint-licensing-overview "For On-Premises, intranet sites are licensed using a Server/CAL (Client Access License) model. SharePoint Server 2019 is required for each running instance of the software, and CALs are required for each person or device accessing a SharePoint Server." It's that simple. CALs are requires for each person or device accessing SP. That's it. Nothing more or less. It's not just easy, but exactly what you'd logically expect the licensing to do if they were being rational.