@r3dpand4 said in Routers and switches:

+100 for Ubiquiti, also take a look at Mikrotik

Yeah, both are good. Amazing how good a lot of options are today. For cheap.

Ya, so there must have been a change at some point. Setting the zone to drop and then adding services allows those services through. Firewalld site shows what your book says is correct and what (I'm 99% sure) I saw when I initially started with the SCAP stuff last year:

0_1505511440757_drop-site.png

However, here are the actual results:

0_1505511232007_drop.png

0_1505511240422_nmap.png

@eddiejennings said in Dialing Plan Logic Sanity Check:

@jaredbusch

Also NXXXXXXXXX is an invalid dial pattern for NANPA. The valid pattern is NXXNXXXXXX.

You're right. I've fixed my patterns. While the invalid pattern works, it would be best to follow the standard.

It is too loose, so it would never have stopped a real call from processing.

NXX - NPA (Area Code)
NXX - Exchange (ILEC Central Office)
XXXX - Line (Station within the Exchange)

N = 2-9
X = 0-9

So this menas that NPA and Exchange 3 digit numbers can never begin with a 0 or 1.

@jaredbusch said in Sample Configuration files for Yealink T42S:

@dashrender said in Sample Configuration files for Yealink T42S:

Here are a few settings many people might like. These will present popups on the phone for each thing mentioned.

features.forward_call_popup.enable = 0
features.missed_call_popup.enable = 0
features.text_message_popup.enable = 0
features.voice_mail_popup.enable = 0

That is certainly a case by case group of settings. I have those disabled about half of the time..

Agreed.

@wirestyle22 said in Its to early to do math - SIP cost calculations - confirmation needed:

I'm very tired and read this as "Is it too early to do Meth?"

If you're awake, it's not too early 😉

@gjacobse said in Stupid Annoying O365/OWA tricks:

can't see it being a time out issue. But this is really ridicules .. Is anyone else encountering this

See the timeouts for OWA, usually is every 6 hours
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Session-timeouts-for-Office-365-37a5c116-5b07-4f70-8333-5b86fd2c3c40
Maybe is an authentication token expired.

@matteo-nunziati said in What terminal program do you use with Fedora:

@jaredbusch said in What terminal program do you use with Fedora:

Now that I am running Fedora derivitves on all my computers, I have a need for a terminal program.

My MacBook Pro had screen available by default.

What do all of you use when connecting with a USB to serial converter for console connections?

here are some options. I think most here have missed the "serial" bit in your statement...

This morning after installing a few other ones to test, the default terminal started displaying things correctly when using screen.

@dashrender said in Windows 10 Reset password:

did you pull the bitlocker key out of AD somewhere? or was it bitlockered outside of AD and you had it printed out?

I keep all of my bitlocker keys on a separate NAS. I don't know enough about storing the keys inside AD to feel comfortable with doing that yet.

Before you can get in to what OS to run the clients on, do you have to ask what apps the business needs to run? If they need some kind of CAD package and it's only offered on Windows, the linux client goes out the window. (pun intended)

@jaredbusch Good to know. I was thinking about doing this but I wasn't sure if it was truly still in beta or Sangoma was not keeping up to date.

FYI, screens have changed a bit for Version 14

I found that Dell rackmount workstation: http://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/desktops-workstations/precision-rack-7000-series-7910/spd/precision-r7910-workstation
I'm positive it cost a lot and it's far from quiet, but you won't build anything that comes close in terms of quality and reliability.

@mike-davis said in Business thinking - PC replacements:

@scottalanmiller said in Business thinking - PC replacements:

I did this for a shop last week. Everything done in one day, the whole thing. Even replaced the firewall, apps, basically everything. If you have a company that has weekends off, you can do this in a weekend.

How many users and how many apps? Did you migrate user profiles? Was it part of the job to make sure the My Little Pony screen saver was migrated?

Fourteen users, not a lot of apps. Mostly MS Office, some basic stuff that you'd expect like new browsers, a few odds and ends utilities as requested by people and their medical system (which was not large.) Please installing printers, scanners, shared drives and such. All pretty basic, but you generally expect pretty basic in an office of that size.

@aaronstuder said in Korora Custom Partitioning - KVM:

I am installing Korora on a small 120GB SSD drive.

It's a SFF PC, so adding another drive for data isn't an isn't an option... unless I use an external drive...

This system will be a KVM Host, so whats the best way to setup the partitioning?

50GBfor root seems like a lot... and doesn't leave much space for VM's etc.

Also, Where should I store the VM's? I know some people create /data, and store them there?

Disk /dev/sda: 111.8 GiB, 120034123776 bytes, 234441648 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0xfc93f734 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 2048 2099199 2097152 1G 83 Linux /dev/sda2 2099200 234440703 232341504 110.8G 8e Linux LVM Disk /dev/mapper/korora-root: 50 GiB, 53687091200 bytes, 104857600 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/mapper/korora-swap: 7.8 GiB, 8325693440 bytes, 16261120 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk /dev/mapper/korora-home: 53 GiB, 56941871104 bytes, 111214592 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

For a drive that small, shrink the root partition to 20 GiB or less, give the swap partition 4 GiB and the rest to home partition. Or just have root and swap partition only.

VM in user session, the default location is
/home/username/.local/share/libvirt/images

VM in system session, the default location is
/var/lib/libvirt/images

@stacksofplates said in Non .com TLDs:

I paid $1.50 for the first year. It also depends on the domain. A lot of .coms are significantly higher.

They are all the same price. Those that are higher are not available and you are buying ones that someone already owns.

@tim_g said in When you deal with VMs CPU resources, do you give them Vcpu or Vprocessors ?:

It's all the same on they Hypervisor level.

But I'm guessing it may register differently (how you set it up in your screenshot) in the guest OS and software.

@stacksofplates

Btw Centos got updated to:

CentOS 7.4 (1708)
CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core)

https://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS7?action=show&redirect=Manuals%2FReleaseNotes%2FCentOS7.1708

Noteable mentions

At least 1024 MB RAM is required to install and use CentOS-7 (1708). When using the Live ISOs for install, 1024 MB RAM produces very slow results and even some install failures. At least 1344 MB RAM is recommend for LiveGNOME or LiveKDE installs.

The initramfs files are now significantly bigger than in CentOS-7 (1503). You may want to consider lowering installonly_limit in /etc/yum.conf to reduce the number of installed kernels if your /boot partition is smaller than 400MB. New installations should consider using 1GB, which is now the upstream recommended, as the size of the /boot partition.

Sadly Centos 7.4 does not work with this guide 😞 Damn

It is really a fantastic piece of software. It blows many of the other options out of the water for a fraction of the price.

You can also no longer place calls from it. That is now a feature request.

@scottalanmiller lol, right out of the gate! Although I shouldn't be surprised. 😃

I guess I'm posting more for those who want to do right by their employers, even if the employers are dumb and don't understand the issue(s) around IT. Or even for those who aren't forced to handle the droning day-to-day monitoring sort of work and get to operate in more of the company officer who oversees the technical side of the business sort of role perhaps?

For instance, more and more I'm shifting into that sort of role, where if we were a much larger organization, my title would be much different... but as it is, I am predominantly operating as the company security officer and the head of IT's short and long term planning and implementation. Being in a small org though means that I'm also hands-on involved in the actual acquisition, deployment, and management of the environment as well.

I do have an MSP that handles much of the everyday, routine monitoring for me, and a subordinate who is basically our on-site bench-tech who handles all the user-support side of things because no MSP wanted to hire and train someone to put on site for us for any less than we could do it ourselves. My boss just prefers to keep folks in-house when able, and in this case, it gave me a chance to pull somebody away from Geek Squad and offer them a legitimate career-starting opportunity.