Different scenarios will use this differently. In places where the batteries get run all the way down regularly, Lithium Ion are likely to hold up really well, the same places that kill Lead Acids. but places that basically never have that happen, I bet that they wear out quickly.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/18677/windows-server-2003-cluster-dead/

@JaredBusch said in Metered SIP calling:

@DustinB3403 said in Metered SIP calling:

@JaredBusch said in Metered SIP calling:

@DustinB3403 said in Metered SIP calling:

@JaredBusch just taking this with a grain of salt, but the usage isn't including what they had to pay for the service. Correct?

So their total would be closer to ~$500/month, right?

WTF are you talking about?

Per site the average spend prior to this was ~$500, correct? And now they are spending ~$200 so it's a $300/month savings.

No?

Doesn’t work that way. There were two bills totaling $1,000. Now there is a single bill averaging $200.

Oh!! I completely misunderstood. So that's a much larger savings.

Don't have that keyboard/mouse. But I have not experienced anything like that.

@gjacobse said in Edgemax VPN - Followup.:

set vpn l2tp remote-access idle 1800

Is this needed? Does this 'time out' and auto-log off the user?

It should time-out the user if no traffic for 1800 seconds (1 hour)

set vpn l2tp remote-access ipsec-settings ike-lifetime 3600 set vpn l2tp remote-access ipsec-settings lifetime 3600

These are IPSEC timeouts for renegotiation.

@JaredBusch said in MeshCentral - Unable to update:

@scottalanmiller said in MeshCentral - Unable to update:

@DustinB3403 said in MeshCentral - Unable to update:

@scottalanmiller said in MeshCentral - Unable to update:

Non-MongoDB install here. Update went smoothly.

Didn't mongoDB just change their license too, to something so practically insane that using MongoDB for even free and open source projects makes it worthless to consider?

Nope. They just made it only make sense for open source projects.

Yes, they fucked it all up. But as long as everything is open source, it seems to still be ok to use.

Yeah. For open source, it works fine. The physical product is good, but just not the license.

Have to say, we've been testing Atlas, their "paid" service and it is unstable. So even their paid for product, if you pay to make it okay for non-open source projects, isn't viable. Like seriously unstable. We've had more outages in three weeks of testing with Atlas on Amazon AWS, then we've had with our in house MongoDB on Linode in five years!

FFS, so much stupid going all left, right, and center..

What are the WAN speeds involved. Ubiquiti sells nice gear, but there are potential speed limits depending on router configuration. UTM at home? WTF is the point of such a complicated setup. There is no good free UTM anyway. WTF are you doing for backups that is not already encrypted before going over the wire? You don't need a VPN for back ups. You have an old Ubiquiti router but didn't say shit about the model. As mentioned it is a ROUTER, if you hated it because it didn't massage your dick, then that is your fault for not knowing WTF you bought. There is not a single model of Ubiquiti router that cannot be upgraded to the current firmware. Software routers are silly things that burn power and time.

So what should you do?

Depending on your WAN speed needs, buy a Ubiquiti or Mikrotik router that will handle the needed speeds. I personally recommend the Ubiquiti ER-X for "technical" home use first, then the Ubiquiti ER-4 if you need more speed with the QoS enabled.

For normal home use, I recommend the Ubiquiti Amplifi Instant Mesh System for $179.

Buy a RaspberryPi 3 kit with case and card for $50 someplace and install Pi-Hole. Setup your Router to send all DNS to the Pi-Hole.

Setup MeshCentral for remote support

Setup ZeroTier for any point to point "vpn style" needs you may have.

@Emad-R IOPS varies wildly by how it is tested. The question for your Windows tests would be... how was it tested? We know how the Linux was tested, it tells us. Knowing how the Windows was tested is the real need at this point.

@dafyre said in RocketBook: Security:

@scottalanmiller said in RocketBook: Security:

No NextCloud, so screw that. I'm not getting one of those crappy cloud services just to use this...

https://rocketbook.featureupvote.com/suggestions/1631/add-nextcloud-as-personal-cloud-storage

There's no direct integration, but you could have the NextCloud app on Android sync the folder where it stores the files.

I'm interested... just not enough to spend $35 on something I may or may not use a lot. If I got something like that though, I'd never need a tablet any more. (I mainly like to draw and doodle on my tablets,lol).

Yeah. For $35 I might want one, but not if it is going to be a huge pain to use.

@nadnerB okay, that actually looks good.

@stacksofplates Very interesting, thanks!

@scottalanmiller i agree

@scottalanmiller said in Vultr Storage Instance Availability:

I asked Vultr to modify the notice so that people wouldn't keep being told that they were temporarily sold out.

Thanks.

@IRJ said in Video player with Playlist feature on Fedora:

I know vlc player can do the screen lock, I can't remember if you could build Playlist or not.

How to Set up a VLC Playlist

All the Z-Push state files are located on /var/lib/z-push. I deleted them all for an user and then boom everything started working.

@PhlipElder said in Good Read: Malicious Use of Microsoft LAPS:

This is pretty amazing as LAPS is not that uncommon:
https://akijosberryblog.wordpress.com/2019/01/01/malicious-use-of-microsoft-laps/

Yeah... easy information for the grabbing, I do not use LAPs for that single reason...

@DustinB3403 Aint that the truth .
LOL I dig it

@scottalanmiller said in Minimum Chromebook Specs:

@WrCombs said in Minimum Chromebook Specs:

@scottalanmiller said in Minimum Chromebook Specs:

@WrCombs said in Minimum Chromebook Specs:

@scottalanmiller said in Minimum Chromebook Specs:

@WrCombs said in Minimum Chromebook Specs:

@scottalanmiller said in Minimum Chromebook Specs:

@BRRABill said in Minimum Chromebook Specs:

@scottalanmiller said in Minimum Chromebook Specs:

@WrCombs said in Minimum Chromebook Specs:

@scottalanmiller said in Minimum Chromebook Specs:

@WrCombs said in Minimum Chromebook Specs:

@scottalanmiller said in Minimum Chromebook Specs:

Decent ARM processor and 4GB RAM, 16GB storage.

Isn't that all Chrome books?
So chromebooks are set up bare minimum?

All in what sense? They don't all come with those specs, no.

I guess, all of the chromebooks i've seen are extremely similar in specs.

Do they? 2GB - 16GB RAM is a pretty wide spread. As wide as you realistically get on any other laptop range.

What would you need 16GB of RAM on a Chromebook for?

What do you need it in anything for? Running apps. Chromebooks are just a computer like any other.

Isnt chromeOS based on Internet use?

What does that mean to you?

Most everything you would do on ChomeOS would be based on the internet through google chrome web browser?

Sure, the same could be said with Windows, Linux, or macOS. Almost everything that any one does today is like that. That's just "modern computing" and is not special or unique about ChromeOS.

Fair enough.
I didnt think it was all that special because Like you said, You can do that in WIndows linux, macOS.

ChromeOS isn't all that special, it's just a highly locked down version of Linux. It's light and fast. What makes it special is that it can run the widest selection of Linux apps (standard Linux apps, and Android apps), and uses Chrome itself to build the desktop which lowers the total system overhead by not needing two subsystems, one for the desktop rendering and one for the browser - it uses the browser for both.

gotcha!

Edgerouters can now handle custom dynamic dns providers without the need of the script - here is the guide with Cloudflare as the example: https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/204976324

@PhlipElder said in Windows Server 2016 or 2019:

@NashBrydges said in Windows Server 2016 or 2019:

Setting up a new server and new VM for a client and need to buy a new Windows Server license. I would usually go to the most recent but wondering if anyone here has had any experience that would suggest sticking with a previous version instead? The VM will host an application that only runs on Windows so any mention of Linux isn't an option.

We've been running Windows Server 2019 since GA with nary an issue. There are a lot of under the hood improvements in 2019 so I suggest running with it.

No different than any other large OS dev cycle. Look at 2003, 2003 R2, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, 2019. Roughly equal leaps between them all. It's almost never about features, it is 2-4 years of additional fixes, research, improvements, advances, clean up, etc. Features do play a part, but the lesser part.