@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.

@FATeknollogee said in Cloudflare Domain registration:

@FATeknollogee said in Cloudflare Domain registration:

@JaredBusch said in Cloudflare Domain registration:

@FATeknollogee said in Cloudflare Domain registration:

2 questions for those of you that moved to CF for domain registration:

Are you using CF for DNS. If you have a web hosting provider, do you use their nameservers in your CF dashboard.

WUT?

What is WUT?

Really..?? https://www.quora.com/What-does-“wut”-mean

Try this... Not sure Quora is a solid repository of slang meanings.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wut

Used in response to an unclear or absurd statement when seeking to clarify it or expose said absurdity.

@Pete-S said in Home Security Systems using WyzeCam and PoE Splitters:

There are so many real surveillance cameras for little money that are made for the purpose already. For instance this outdoor model for less than $30:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Hikvision-DS-2CE16D0T-IRF-HD-1080P-IR-20m-IP66-2MP-Bullet-camera-outdoor/264073885252

To get real coverage you need different lenses in different applications and indoor and outdoor options as well. Installing cameras, wiring it all up and installing software and having storage, backups etc and keeping everything running is too much work to save a few bucks.

The hikvision cameras apparently are utter crap and worth avoiding.

@DustinB3403 said in Nextcloud Backup System Idea:

Practicing process also requires that you practice developing process and having holes punched into said idea.

Yep. And you've validated some holes I've considered, but didn't explicitly write in my posts.

@FATeknollogee said in How to make 1 HDMI input displayed to 4 TVs?:

YMMV

UG - all this DRM shit is just so painful. Switching from my Roku to Amazon TV takes almost a full min. and sometimes just won't switch. I end up having to power everything down and start over.

HUGE PITA.

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@scottalanmiller said in Error on Avimark Server: "fail to initialize the LT DLL":

@Dashrender said in Error on Avimark Server: "fail to initialize the LT DLL":

@scottalanmiller said in Error on Avimark Server: "fail to initialize the LT DLL":

@Dashrender said in Error on Avimark Server: "fail to initialize the LT DLL":

@scottalanmiller said in Error on Avimark Server: "fail to initialize the LT DLL":

So we don't have an answer yet, might take a while. But what we found that Active Directory was disconnecting because of a bad manual DNS entry. We've fixed that and are waiting to see if the issue recurs.

Do we assume there was DRM that was failing? lol

I'm not aware of any DRM. Is there something pointing to that that makes you assume that?

No - it was a simple guess as to what the program would want/need DNS for, assuming DNS is reason it was failing.

I assume it needs DNS for AD and it needs AD for SMB and needs SMB for the system files.

I just looked this stuff up - it's Vet software - for some reason I thought it was video editing software.

@maximus said in How to use "the Dude" network monitoring?:

Happy New Year Sir.

And to you as well.

@Obsolesce said in Unpacking Some NTG History:

@scottalanmiller said in Unpacking Some NTG History:

Doing some unpacking and found some old stuff. No idea why this was boxed and kept.

Because we know your love of Windows is a dark kept secret.

And Quickbooks 😛

@wrx7m said in Load balancer inside firewall or not...:

Wasn't pfsense in production, I guess I would say, "frowned upon"?

PfSense is awesome. Avoid turning into a UTM so it can stay stable.

@dbeato I forgot you are an MSP.