@Veet said in Starting a Shared Web Hosting Company:

oooh ... you're entering a market that's already saturated with an entire smorgasbord of vendor types.. penetrating this market would be a challenge...

What is the key differentiator, that you have ?

It would've been nice to see what HTBase had to say, lol.

@momurda said in Printer Using WSD vs IP:

You can try disabling WSD on the printer itself, if it isn't a service for Windows to see perhaps it wont try to use it.

This is the same thing we do to avoid this nasty printer plague 😄

Correct, Stable 64bit.

The Optiplex 7040 only has a 285 watt PSU so I don't know if I am going to be able to go that route. I think I might be going back to workstation territory.

So how did your research of them go, @scottalanmiller ? I'm watching a webinar about their solution today just to do some R&D.

I bought the book My iPad for Seniors for my in-laws last year. They are in their 70's and he knows more about iOS than I do now 😉

@Dashrender said in How to recover system image from Windows 7 using the backup & restore app:

@StrongBad said in How to recover system image from Windows 7 using the backup & restore app:

@DustinB3403 said in How to recover system image from Windows 7 using the backup & restore app:

@scottalanmiller said in How to recover system image from Windows 7 using the backup & restore app:

@DustinB3403 said in How to recover system image from Windows 7 using the backup & restore app:

@art_of_shred said in How to recover system image from Windows 7 using the backup & restore app:

@Dashrender said in How to recover system image from Windows 7 using the backup & restore app:

I've never considered they wouldn't replace, say a bad motherboard, if you installed 3rd party RAM in it. Though considering this discussion now, I suppose they could try.

If they can find a way to blame it on the RAM, you bet.

Well don't go purchasing the $200 1TB ram kit, and you should be fine...

Get something reputable and with warranty of its own and generally you're OKAY.

HOw does cheap RAM burn out other components?

I was just using it as an example of crap hardware being purchased for the purposes of saving a few bucks.

Would using a cheap power supply have been a better example?

Are cheap power supplies commonly an issue with other components? I guess they might be. I don't hear about that happening.

They certainly can be. If a cheap power supply provides non clean power to say the mobo, it can kill it, and everything else.

One of my predecessors here was cheap, as in horribly, by the cheapest thing I can find on the internet cheap. The power supplies that came with the computers he ordered claimed to be 400W units. I think they were one of the brands that caught fire when tomshardware.com tested cheap power supplies.

While those guys all had a point,

@scottalanmiller said in Great site to track OpenFire releases!:

It's about tracking known bugs. No software is bug free, but there are known show stoppers or critical bugs that are being worked on and there is the lull when people haven't found things broken "yet".

This was the purpose of your post.

Honestly I instantly said the same as the others above, there's no such thing as perfect code, but your OP about the tracker definitely nice to be aware of.

@NetworkNerd said in Office365 Considerations:

@scottalanmiller said in Office365 Considerations:

@JaredBusch said in Office365 Considerations:

@scottalanmiller said in Office365 Considerations:

Confirmed, Office 365 has specific ITAR plans.

I assume in the government plans?

Yes, the ITAR offerings are government only from what I have seen.

I assume that means the cost skyrockets but don't know. My guess is there are minimum user accounts you have to meet as well.

ITAR will always raise the cost because you are demanding that things done to lower costs can't be done; and you force them to do special stuff just for you. No matter what, it makes the cost of service delivery much higher.

Im a fan of pydio for this. pydio isnt on Windows i dont think, but setting it up is easy.
Using it to share files is even easier. Just upload the file to the share, right click and click Share. It generates an https link which you then just email to the people you want to share it with(outside the office obvs, as smb shares are easier in the office). When you dont want to share it anymore, just right click and unshare it. Now nobody can get it.

Our techsupport people use this to email links for firmware update, user guides, product documentation for our customers. Our inventory people use it to give BOMs to people since those end up being too big for an attachment usually.

I am just trying out nextcloud and it also does this, but is slightly different.

@stacksofplates said in Suddenly hit from lots of different places today.:

@travisdh1 said in Suddenly hit from lots of different places today.:

@stacksofplates said in Suddenly hit from lots of different places today.:

@travisdh1 said in Suddenly hit from lots of different places today.:

@dafyre said in Suddenly hit from lots of different places today.:

@travisdh1 I'm totally shocked... not a single hit for root as the login name!

I know right 😕

When I first started here, the website was hosted on a Windows Server VPS, so the administrator at least makes a little sense.

Also, remote root login (the only one available because it's a VPS) is key based. So go ahead and try logging in as root with a password.

Ha we can't log in with root at all over SSH.

While it's very tempting to do just that, the only user the system started with was root. If I have to burn it all down, I need some way to access the thing.

Ah ic. Do you not have console access?

I do, but the only user on the system was created after the OS/cPanel was installed. So if I have to nuke it from orbit, I kinda need that access.

I don't think there is anything you can do using file permissions.

Instead you should replace the access db with some type of SQL then ODBC into it.

I suppose you might be able to do the

@alex.olynyk said in Planning a Chromebook Purchase:

@scottalanmiller The one I chose has a 16GB SSD. I hope thats enough space.

I have elementary installed on mine with a 16 GB SSD. It's taking up about 10 GB. I got you a nice sized USB 3 flash drive for the home directory.

@Minion-Queen said in Another Outage issue:

And our internet is down again. But this time is might be legitimate. Looked out the windows 2 TimeWarner trucks working on the line 😛 Why didn't they knock on the door and let us know?

TWC doesn't know what their own contractors are doing more often than not. I have a feeling the system is so broken it'd be easy to shark for an outsider, let alone a contractor.

@Dashrender said in Deploying Veeam Endpoint Backup on Windows with PDQ Deploy:

I'm not sure where else to mention this, but Chocolately would be another deployment method to consider.

Yes, no native package, though. So we need to make one for it. That would be my personally preferred method, of course.

lol firewall problems.

@FloridaMan said in SpiceWorld Craziness 2016:

@Texkonc said in SpiceWorld Craziness 2016:

@scottalanmiller said in SpiceWorld Craziness 2016:

@Texkonc said in SpiceWorld Craziness 2016:

@Dashrender said in SpiceWorld Craziness 2016:

@Texkonc said in SpiceWorld Craziness 2016:

@scottalanmiller said in SpiceWorld Craziness 2016:

@PSX_Defector said in SpiceWorld Craziness 2016:

That @Scale doing the boat again?

Should have run down to Austin for a quickie and/or crash the party.

Yup, another year on the @scale boat.

Probably the last.

why is that?

They .....

is not Scale here.

Good point, edited it.
Was refering to SW, as the last SW probably, which in turn ends the Scale boat likely.
My post was referencing SW, not Scale. 🙂

I have a ticket for next years Spiceworld, so I hope this years ain't the last. Also hoping Scale do the boat cruise again next year too.

SW 2017 is already booked, I can't imagine that there will be any issues with it happening now. And the boat cruise isn't scheduled but is so popular and such a success that I can't imagine it not happening.

@coliver said in Best Way to Deploy EXE Packages via Group Policy:

@coliver said in Best Way to Deploy EXE Packages via Group Policy:

If the EXE has a silent installer flag I would run it as a startup or login task the first time. Just add a check in there to see if it has already been installed.

Meant to say I would put it on a share and have a startup script execute it with the silent flag. Drop a installcomplete.txt file somewhere on the local disk and query for that at startup.

Cool, that's the direction that I was headed.

@scottalanmiller said in Native Virtualization For macOS:

Had no idea that Mac OSX had a native hypervisor framework built in.

Hypervisor is available on Mac OSX from Yosemite.

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/releasenotes/MacOSX/WhatsNewInOSX/Articles/MacOSX10_10.html
Hypervisor (Hypervisor.framework). The Hypervisor framework allows virtualization vendors to build virtualization solutions on top of OS X without needing to deploy third-party kernel extensions (KEXTs). Included is a lightweight hypervisor that enables virtualization of the host CPUs.