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.

@scottalanmiller said in Wordpress on Vultr 768:

@fuznutz04 said in Wordpress on Vultr 768:

@scottalanmiller said in Wordpress on Vultr 768:

@fuznutz04 said in Wordpress on Vultr 768:

@scottalanmiller said in Wordpress on Vultr 768:

@fuznutz04 said in Wordpress on Vultr 768:

@scottalanmiller said in Wordpress on Vultr 768:

Good reading, as well: http://www.smbitjournal.com/2011/02/why-we-reboot-servers/

A little modern design can get that to zero downtime no problem.

Sure thing, but that would have been a huge undertaking in regards to how applications were written/designed. Starting fresh, no question.

Would it? What are you running that wouldn't do that today? Wordpress will sure do that.

Well, my comment was based on what the developers were telling me back then. Specifically, the way the websites (IIS & .NET) and databases (MS SQL) handle individual user "sessions". I'm not saying it couldn't be done, but it was more effort and development time than what the company was willing to invest in at that point in time.

Oh, the developers screwed up and made a bad application that can't scare properly and then got stuck because scaling and transparent updates are done in the same way. Got it.

But for WordPress, it "just works."

More like, it was an older product that was built up over many, many years, and the products were being phased out anyway, and being replaced by a newer product that would scale properly. I left before said product came to market though.

I have no complaints about Wordpress nowadays. Very simple to setup and use. Really a great tool for all user levels.

@Minion-Queen said in iPhone Turns On When Picked Up or Moved:

It doesn't light up in my pocket but since my clothes rarely have pockets I am hanging on to my phone all the time, therein lies the issue for me.

That's a big one. Anytime I move from room to room or shift around my desk, it would light up.

Hmm, I seem to have started a good topic here!

It is purely American, that's for certain.

I have to maintain an active account (but we always need a backup phone so that is fine). As far as maintaining a number because they are all Iphones people can still reach me at my main number it just rings through to the Tmobile phone. The nice part of an ITunes account. I actually have 3 IPhones. One for GS one for NTG (my main number) and one for traveling.

@JaredBusch said in Health insurance plans:

@PSX_Defector said in Health insurance plans:

@JaredBusch said in Health insurance plans:

@PSX_Defector said in Health insurance plans:

You are bitching about the ACA. You really need to be bitching about getting a new CPA who ain't leaving you to the wolves.

This is true and I will be speaking to a new one as my gross last year was just a fraction over $100k with an AGI listed as $98k last on my 1040.

I suspect I will be filing amended returns.

OK, quick math.

$100K gross is around $80K in a W2 return. Self employment knocks up about $20K in self taxes, be it FICA or income. Federal, ignoring state for the moment.

So yes, your CPA sucks. Even using the standard schedules and layout wouldn't get you that. F(***), even I could do better than that.

Did anyone mention to you that those fun deductions for your health payments? Or your mileage? Or even your home office? Jesus, it's not like he's even trying.

Say what you will about the ACA, but what you got is a bad deal from your CPA. He's a lazy f(***)ing moron.

Are mistaking AGI and taxable income? My taxable is much lower, in the range you are mentioning.

I was wondering where those numbers where coming from.

The whole of carpet sounds weird - typically what I've seen is carpet in the walkways.. if you want it in the booth, you pay for that.

Unions are one of the things killing pricing. Of course you can't blame them for the internet fees - that's just them holding you hostage because they can.

While the convention center at Denver Comic Con does provide WiFi, it's so saturated that it's useless. Hell, during Dragon Con, even outside on the street it's nearly impossible to make a phone call or a SMS message with the 90K people in a 4 block area. I'm guessing the phone companies could fix this (how else do you service football stadiums with 140K people?)