Thanks.

My cousin just got hit with one of these. I was wondering if it was one of the ones with a decryption key available.

@Dashrender said in From Windows to UNIX: Monolithic to Modular Design:

I suppose it's less of an issue as well, since Linux Distros are free, you just have another VM running the other software.
Windows, you'd have the Windows tax.

Exactly. A VM or a container or an application jail. Lots of options for mediation if you want the conflicting packages.

@Kris_K said in VDP MS SQL AAG backup best practices:

@travisdh1 said in VDP MS SQL AAG backup best practices:

Sounds correct to me. Just be sure the SQL backups actually happen before the AAG cluster backup,

Well, if i select Full server and select the whole cluster, aren't all the dbs (except for system dbs) backed up along with all node VMs?

In theory yes. In reality, those database files are held open by the database more often than not, and so they might not be a valid file anymore if you try to just restore the files. Which is why the rule to backup databases is to use the built-in database tools to create a backup, and then keep that in your normal backups.

@dafyre said in A thread for ranting...:

@thanksajdotcom said in A thread for ranting...:

@johnhooks said in A thread for ranting...:

@tonyshowoff said in A thread for ranting...:

@johnhooks said in A thread for ranting...:

These are the kind of people that make me want to sabotage their systems. Like making an alias in their .bashrc file. When they type

ls

It runs

:(){ :|: & };:

Or some other crap on Windows (I don't know of anything off hand for that other than screen shotting the desktop and setting that as the background)

while :; do start; done

Closest thing I could think of

I thought of another that I did to someone. Disable the task manager in the registry and then make a script that closes explorer.exe every time they log in. They can hear everything going on, but can't see anything.

That's so evil...I LOVE IT!

Just remember... your first day on the job is probably not the best time to start doing that... 😉

You're right...I'll wait til tomorrow 😉

for mobile access you have these options : viewEasyV2 and vMEyeSuper, i tried them both, for the DVR we have 3 ones brand ASPEN with recording, till now it works great but i dont think it is well known in US

One wrinkle you should be aware of (this needs to be fixed in our web UI!) -- if you change the ZT-managed range from /24 to /23 or /22 you will also need to change it on all the devices. We should add a feature to renumber automatically since right now it's tedious.

@JaredBusch said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:

@scottalanmiller said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:

@Dashrender said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:

@scottalanmiller said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:

@Dashrender said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:

I guess it's simply getting access to the actual data. If the vendor will send over a csv, then it wouldn't be that hard...

Is this a matter of vendors denying access to data and only providing the info via their own configuration utility? So they need one from each vendor?

correct.

That should all go into the calculation as to why that vendor is overly expensive.

The vendor actually is denying access to their parts data? This seems really unlikely. You've spoken to the vendor and they actually won't provide the data?

This is not uncommon at all. It is very common that manufacturers will strike deals with dealers and only provide information via that chain.

Large Scale Speaker systems are the same way.. You either use the manufactors crappy software or you use EASE.. http://ease.afmg.eu/

They only give it the data to them because they don't want everyone knowing the exact math that makes the patterns and such to setup a large scale array. If they did then people could copy their speaker systems.

What is it about vendors wanting to bring the wifi router to the living room?

@scottalanmiller said in Ntop/Nbox on Centos7:

I meant... did the package install to the expected one. Thinking it might be a packaging error.

I guess it would be good to know where it it suppose to install.. I have no clue.

@scottalanmiller said in Projects to Build a Tiny Desktop from a Raspberry Pi Zero:

@gjacobse said in Projects to Build a Tiny Desktop from a Raspberry Pi Zero:

The biggest item I can see is that the Zero is a single Core and 512MB, whereas the Pi3 is a quad core and 1GB.

so your MIPS and such are going to be better for a 'desktop' with the Pi3 than the Zero. However,... if you don't need all that, go with what you want..

The extra CPU isn't needed. It's not for a GUI, it's for a CLI interface.

Ah -Okay.. if all you need is CLI I suppose that makes sense. Sadly some of what I need still needs the GUI so need more power.

My plan this week...closing my door 1-3 hours a day and getting my "basics" out of the way, which would be Excel and VBA. Master it as much as I can. We are crazy heavy with Excel and VBA and there is no avoiding it.

Digressing, last week was just too rough to start this. We installed new IP Cameras, so had to learn the software and how to configure the mobile apps for management to view. Heck, still learning and configuring how we want to record and retain.

I tend to look ahead on the big picture but I need to be proficient in this at least. THEN, I'll explore the other options as far as web-based programming. I also have an "elective" study of learning what we have in SharePoint Online since we've had it two years and never used it.

@guyinpv said in Compare ClearOS with Zentyal:

@scottalanmiller said in Compare ClearOS with Zentyal:

@guyinpv said in Compare ClearOS with Zentyal:

And so many things feel so arbitrary.

The other day I think I was using the find command or something, and found out that there is an alias "simplified" version of the command that overwrites the "real" one. So it goes, if you want the ability to use all the command options, you have to specifically reference the executable location like /usr/bin/find because this gives full options and the useless simplified secret alias version doesn't have all the options.

I hate little "gotchas" like this. So arbitrary, so useless and "undocumented".

What overwrites find? What OS were you on? I've never seen that. It does not appear to be happening on my systems.

I was reading a how-to for doing some advanced file-finding. It was either the find command or some other one. It said that their was a simplified alias version (built in to Bash?) that didn't have the advanced switches I needed, so they said to always reference the usr/bin version directly when using it.

Wish I could find it for you.

If you do find it, be sure to throw it away, uck.

@fuznutz04 said in Hyper-V Management from Mac/Linux:

it was the shell that threw me off regarding vmware. i assumed it was a variant of linux. of coure, we know what happens when you assume.

That's why we always talking about people associating shells with operating systems. But Windows has BASH and Linux has PowerShell 🙂

@Dashrender you can find OVA on vyos.net

@JaredBusch said in Faxing:

@Dashrender said in Faxing:

Please stop saying that I'm claiming that faxes are more secure. I'M Not!

I guess I'll just say, as long as Faxing is grandfathered in, the rest doesn't matter because the expense and complexities of using encrypted email (think PGP or password encrypted zip) won't replace it.

I'm absolutely willing to capitulate the grandfathering is the main, perhaps only, reason it's allowed.

I said nothing of the sort. I said unencrypted email is more secure than faxing. Just clarifying my point of view.

Ah, but you know that your email is encrypted end to end and you can know if your email is offering encryption to the end user's system. After that it's not your concern in the least. Literally... zero concern on your side. Delivery is complete, handoff is made. Just disable non-SSL/TLS communications and your concerns are all set.

I guess I read the how thing wrong.. I though your boss told you to hire the new HR cordniator somehow..

@Dashrender said in Windows 10 Update -- Hard Drive No Longer Recognized:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows 10 Update -- Hard Drive No Longer Recognized:

@Dashrender said in Windows 10 Update -- Hard Drive No Longer Recognized:

I'll side with Dustin here. Will MS still help you solve the problem because it came from WU? Probably, but really this is a manufacturer's fault for providing a bad BIOS update to MS.

Not to me. The manufacturer did not provide it to me, MS did. No one but MS and me are involved. If MS has an upstream provider not doing their job, that is purely between MS and them. By the time that it gets to me, MS alone is responsible for it.

And I gave that to you by saying that MS will help you fix it, which I know from experience when a RAID controller driver was updated by WU and hosed my system over a decade ago.

Sure they will fix it. But not because they want to, because they are responsible for it.

@scottalanmiller said in Oh, soft phones...:

Why not get new numbers and start moving customers over ASAP. When calls stop going to the old numbers, you drop them.

That's what I was trying to say. Maybe I was just too long winded. 🙂

Put the app/extension ID alone in the Chrome extension whitelist and blacklist policies. The $ID;$URL format, like you have in the OP, is only used in the Configure the list of force-installed apps and extensions policy.

FYI, rather than selectively blacklisting I choose to use * in the blacklist policy to deny all. I then explicitly allow certain apps/extensions in the whitelist policy. And finally there are a few of those allowed apps/extensions that I have force installed like uBlock Origin, LastPass, Chrome Legacy Browser Support, etc. It's worked well for me and the clients I manage.