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  Why are Windows Management GUI Elements So Tiny?
  windows gui • • scottalanmiller  

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  @Dashrender said in Why are Windows Management GUI Elements So Tiny?: @scottalanmiller said in [Why are Windows Management GUI Elements So Tiny?] I'm sure it rarely if ever actually starts there. As already said - it was legacy, and never updated. They are finally getting around to updating most of the control panel applets - but we're still frequently stuck dealing with the old style for things like the java security admin, etc. No one claimed it started there. That it might have started with incompetence is fine, that it isn't seen as a priority to fix something so simple, but so universally important, is where they get some actual financial benefit in making GUI users pay a higher price to encourage people to see the CLI agenda as more important than it would be if the GUI was done better.
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  SQL security over the LAN
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  @tonyshowoff said in SQL security over the LAN: @flaxking That may work and is worth a try, but it's likely not to work because the client is passing along to SQL Server and it's not known whether or not they implemented, or allow, encrypted traffic within their SQL Server connection library. Even if implemented in the library, it doesn't mean the client allows it, and even may be intentionally disabled for God only knows what reason. It isn't an SQL client, it's an application which just connects to SQL Server or passes raw SQL along to an application server to avoid client connection licensing limits. How would that avoid licencing? The MS SQL licencing doesn't care how a user connects, you have to get CALs for the actual users using it no matter the method used. (Unless using SQL Express)
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  Install Jitsi-Meet on Debian 9 minimal
  jitsi debian 9 jitsi meet • • JaredBusch  

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  @JaredBusch said in Install Jitsi-Meet on Debian 9 minimal: @DustinB3403 I want to use it for my D&D campaign. Cool.
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  Troubleshooting an Issue
  xen orchestra xo platform xoce yarn yarnpkg • • DustinB3403  

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  I was able to download.
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  Is the Physical Thin Client Era Dead?
  thin client chomebook • • scottalanmiller  

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  @scottalanmiller said in Is the Physical Thin Client Era Dead?: @Dashrender said in Is the Physical Thin Client Era Dead?: @scottalanmiller said in Is the Physical Thin Client Era Dead?: @StorageNinja said in Is the Physical Thin Client Era Dead?: @Dashrender said in Is the Physical Thin Client Era Dead?: Why are you locked to GPO? Why can't another management solution be used? Because plenty of people have other applications and platforms that for AAA use AD and don't support other LDAP/Kerberos systems so given how cheap per user a CAL is they say "screw it" and use AD to distribute GPO (note GPO isn't tied to AD it's just commonly viewed that way). Wouldn't that affect the other side of the VDI, though, not the client side? Couldn't it do both? Maybe, I mean you CAN control thin clients with GPO, but not normal thin clients. Correct. The thin client itself I see managed by either thin client management tools (Terradichi) or by MDM API's.
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  Unsolved Anyone using Jitsi behind Nginx
  nginx jitsi • • JaredBusch  

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  Tried using keepalive or maybe proxy_connect_timeout?
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  Older Axis IP cams & SMB1 issues...
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  So I think I "may" have fixed it. I upped the logging level in Samba and noticed that it was a NTLM auth problem. So I added ntlm auth = yes which allows NTLMv1 clients to connect in the smb.conf file. SAMBA 4.5 changed the default method of NTLM to NTLMv2 clients only. Older clients that don't use NTLMv2 can't connect without changing this setting. What a PITA that was to diagnose. (https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/smb.conf.5.html)
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  VOIP voicemail hacked aka DISA toll fraud
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  For me, I do auto funding but only in the range of $50-80 per hit. This way I get alerts on my iPhone from my c/c every time a VOIP replenish charge goes through. I also have International calls disabled.
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  How do YOU provide a physical VDI demo?
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  @scottalanmiller no, since we talked about it the last time, I don't feel like this a limitation any more, or at least not nearly to the degree that I used to. I am at the point where If I think we need a solution that I think of as "cloud", or if I think someone else would think of it as "cloud", then I am going to pursue it anyways. I've earned a lot of leverage and my opinion holds a lot of respect within my company now because I have demonstrated that I try and approach everything from a business perspective. A lot of it is just the trust they have in me. So for me personally, I no longer feel burdened by this, but it has been the company's historical position.
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  AirConsole
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  @jt1001001 said in AirConsole: Do you really want to use something WindScream is using? Though it does look interesting. Generally I would agree... But in this case.. It's something I could make,.. so - it can't be but SO bad.... right?
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  NGINX Config Utility
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  @black3dynamite said in NGINX Config Utility: Not exactly hard configuring nginx conf file. No, but still a handy idea.
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  Fedora Love
  fedora • • Emad R  

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  I usually install Fedy which covers most of the 3rd party stuff, fonts, etc. Then I also install openvpn and openconnect xfreerdp and terminator.
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  Deprecation of the TLS-SNI challenge
  lets encrypt certbot • • wirestyle22  

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  @wirestyle22 so much to work on....
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  Ebook Convertor Help
  • Lakshmana  

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  This link solved my issue https://www.epubor.com/how-to-merge-multiple-epub-ebooks.html
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  Virtual Cisco Lab
  • siringo  

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  Loving Packet Tracer, so easy. Learning heaps. Cisco confidence going through the roof now. What would you guys consider essential things to know how to do with regards to configuring switches? Thanks guys.
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  Solved Security Updates Not Listening to Times.
  windows 7 windows updates • • WrCombs  

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  @Donahue said in Security Updates Not Listening to Times.: @WrCombs said in Security Updates Not Listening to Times.: @Donahue said in Security Updates Not Listening to Times.: @WrCombs said in Security Updates Not Listening to Times.: @Donahue said in Security Updates Not Listening to Times.: @WrCombs said in Security Updates Not Listening to Times.: 5:30-6:00 pm and he manually restarts everything and then everything works fine. Right now I So for us following along at home, what was the actual problem and what was the fix? It looks like you were saying that the MSE updates were running at 5:30 or whenever, but was it actually trying to run a scan at that time? Was that the actual cause of the slowdowns? The problem was that MSE was installing updates daily at 5-5:30 causing the Point of Sale that runs off of that PC to freeze and lock up until they were restarted. The fix? I excluded our application directory from MSE updates and havent had a problem in 3 days. I have checked and the updates are still coming in , but no system lock ups. I don't see the correlation. How is excluding a directory from updates even a thing? I can see excluding a directory from a scan, but MSE doesn't get updates based on directories. This is what I know : okay? Stay with me here; My terminals on the front of house were locking up every time a Security Update came through on my Back office PC. Causing the Site to have to restart the terminals manually every time at the same time, Daily. After excluding the Directory for my application, I haven't had an issue in 3 days, and counting at multiple of my Windows 7 Sites. Could it be that the updates were spinning up more RAM to install these updates? Could it be that The System was False Positive hitting as @Dashrender suggested? I wonder if it wasn't also running a scan at the same time using the newly installed updates? That is the only thing that makes sense. I wont argue with the results, I was just not satisfied with the explanation, because I couldn't follow the logic. I tend to agree that a scan must be happening - otherwise updates alone shouldn't affect the operation of the PC.
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  PowerShell - Create New AD User Using Prompts and Variables
  windows powershell ad • • wrx7m  

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  @wrx7m said in PowerShell - Create New AD User Using Prompts and Variables: If I get rid of the attempt to combine the 2 existing variables into a 3rd, I get this error. New-ADUser : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument '+'. At \\FP02\it\Scripts\AD\AD-InitialUserCreationVariables.ps1:5 char:1 + New-ADUser -Name "$GivenName $Surname" ` + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [New-ADUser], ParameterBindingException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PositionalParameterNotFound,Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.NewADUser Like this I think: New-ADUser -Name "$($GivenName) $($Surname)"` From: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/stefan_stranger/2013/09/25/powershell-sub-expressions/
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  Error No2: Kubernetes (Kubespray) Issue.
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  K18s doesn't find the pem certificate under the given Path. Log into the machine and check it!
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  Is Spectrum's modem really bridged?
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  @Dashrender said in Is Spectrum's modem really bridged?: @scottalanmiller said in Is Spectrum's modem really bridged?: @Dashrender said in Is Spectrum's modem really bridged?: @scottalanmiller said in Is Spectrum's modem really bridged?: Even the Windows RDP client does allow saving creds, it's a commonly used setup. https://www.nextofwindows.com/how-to-save-password-in-a-remote-desktop-connection-in-windows-8 lol I looked for that, but forgot to click advanced. Still doesn't solve the problem using using a horrible password (length along is horrible to some) each time you want to log into your box. Sure, but neither does a VPN. You can control the passwords in either case, or you can let the end user use horrible passwords in either case. The VPN doesn't change the basic issue. Sure. and now we're just running in circles. I did start by saying you are correct. At the end, VPNs just don't solve those problems. A VPN's benefit is only in having a second mechanism, if it is kept completely decoupled from the original. But it's a poor approach when it is used to cover up a lack of security applied to the core protocol.
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  Distributing documents
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  @Donahue said in Distributing documents: ok, I really need to get a NC demo going.
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  Kubernetes (Kubespray) Issue.
  docker containerization containers kubernetes kubespray • • devops1  

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  @devops1 said in Kubernetes (Kubespray) Issue.: @stacksofplates Thank you very much It works. No problem!
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  Why Are VoIP Phones So Expensive in Mexico and Panama
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  @scottalanmiller I got to say this: I din't find a public price below 150 USD + TAX, you are right.
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  SPAM Filtering with Zimbra
  email zimbra smtp spam • • scottalanmiller  

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  @StuartJordan said in SPAM Filtering with Zimbra: @scottalanmiller I've been getting a calls of these recently as well as Comodo. It doesn't seem to be just one call either. I find their sales team quite pushy. We had no legal issues with Comodo, but we used to work with their products and stopped because their sales process was so intrusive that it made their products "too costly" to consider using. The products were okay, but not worth it for us.
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  Yealink NTP Time Sync Failures
  yealink ntp time • • DustinB3403  

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  I would prefer the phones to go out to 0.us.pool.ntp.org and 1.us.pool.ntp.org for all of their time sync issues but they appear to be having some issue. Of which I am unable to determine what that could be with the error provided.
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  Solved Has anyone used the B2 API
  backblaze b2 authentication api b2 • • JaredBusch  

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  Got it. I was using the account id with an application key. A more careful reading of the above linked page shows that: So that was the disconnect. Application Key requires Application ID. Account ID requires Master Application Key. When the examples clearly stated ACCOUNT_ID and APPLICATION_KEY
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  How do YOU demo VDI?
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  Mcpe 0.11.1 phar
  mcpe server • • jkjokeryt  

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  @jkjokeryt Nope.
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  Setup Z-Push for Zimbra 8
  nginx zimbra zimbra 8.8 apache 2 z-push • • dbeato  

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  @StuartJordan said in Setup Z-Push for Zimbra 8: Big Thumbs up on that Dbeato, first guide on here for Zpush I believe. First one that I've seen, for sure.
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  I have this problem with the Dlink DVX-8000 IPPBX
  voip freepbx pbx asterisk telephony d-link d-link dvx-8000 • • wersiy  

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  I agree that moving to a new system right away seems like the best course of action given that the phones are not actually down, but just cannot continue to be configured.