For the Over the Air piece I built a Zbox media center computer with Windows 7 and Media Center on it and a USB TV tuner hooked to an antenna. I bought a media center remote and that setup worked pretty good. At the time I tried XBMC, but at the end of the day it was easier for me to get everything running under Windows.

Moved Telegram folder to /opt and then edited (created) /usr/share/applications/Telegram.desktop

[Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Telegram Exec=/opt/Telegram/Telegram Icon=/opt/Telegram/telegram128.png Type=Application Categories=Network;

I had to go download telegram128.png separately. Also annoying.
Google gave me this site to get it. http://deshack.net/install-telegram-for-linux-as-an-application/

right click and save if you want it yourself.

telegram128.png

@NerdyDad said in SteelCase Brody Workspace:

@scottalanmiller I'm missing the point of redirecting us to the hot/cold/blind swap article. We're youbmeaning to link us to the pods?

Argh

@FATeknollogee said in Need to run Windows on Korora:

What are the available choices for Type 1 & 2?

KVM is Type 1. Its built in. VirtualBox is Type 2 and also built in. Those are the only realistic options.

@DustinB3403 said in Free and Open Source Backup Software?:

@msff-amman-Itofficer You think it's missing a good and modern interface?

Having literally just looked at the OSx client...yes.

You can just change the default font in Firefox. Will that do what you need?

That is good info to have.

@aaronstuder said in Vultr automatic backups:

@scottalanmiller and it stored in the same data center! So you still need an offsite backup of some sort.

Only if the concern is the data center going up in flames. It's a stateless device. Doesn't really hold valuable data.

I know this is out of the scope of your question, but is this drone being used for business purposes? That might be out of regulations with the FAA. Just FYI.

http://federaldroneregistration.com/ https://www.faa.gov/uas/

Don't know if you care, but I don't care whether you care or not. So there, you go.

@Tim_G said in IT Profession Guide and Opinions:

I don't see the benefit of requiring federal contractors to be A+ certified.

I know here in CA, they require Sec+... maybe they (your immediate employer) have it wrong, because A+ makes absolutely no sense what so ever.

Definitely no benefit to it, just a requirement.

Good read, thanks.

@DustinB3403 said in Should it take 10 hours to export 32GBs of VMs in XenServer?:

@scottalanmiller New job has had me busy.

Likely story.

OK so it's a complicated pivot table but it still a pivot

@coliver said in When You Think That You Need a Physical Server...:

@wirestyle22 said in When You Think That You Need a Physical Server...:

@JaredBusch said in When You Think That You Need a Physical Server...:

@EddieJennings said in When You Think That You Need a Physical Server...:

@coliver said in When You Think That You Need a Physical Server...:

@EddieJennings said in When You Think That You Need a Physical Server...:

I know there is a best practice that discourages an environment with only one domain controller.

Why? Do you really need two domain controllers? How many authentications are you doing? How much downtime can you afford? Would it be better to have a single domain controller on a VM that you can backup and restore in a few minutes versus having two running at all times?

Why = because a document from Microsoft said so and at the time when I made our domain I didn't know any better :).

What you're asking me is what I'm asking myself, which moves me to the conclusion that when it's time to make the VM for the accounting software, the old box should just go away. Especially since my tiny number of users would be able to log into their workstations with cached credentials until I can get the domain controller VM functioning again.

Who cares what some paper from the company selling you the licensing says.

What does your company need?

I have never used two domain controllers in the SMB space. Even before virtualization at my clients.

It is simply not something needed.

You don't think the downtime justified the cost for a SMB I'm assuming and load balancing isn't a concern

Rarely is downtime worth the cost of mitigating it in an SMB environment. They often don't actually understand what the true cost of downtime is and exaggerate it more often then not. If you're getting enough requests that you're hitting a performance threshold on the domain controller then you may be out of the SMB space.

And authentication often has a near zero impact for short durations. A DC down could easily go 30 minutes and literally have no one notice.

@aaronstuder said in Cross Platform Encryption Tool?:

Is there a cross platform encryption tool?

Would support Windows/Mac/Linux/iOS/Android.

Any ideas? Would love to use B2 on the backend for storage...

Why use anything else than GPG?
https://www.gnupg.org

@Mike-Davis said in Domain Controller and WINS Server Powered Down and Removed without Proper Demotion:

@wirestyle22 said in Domain Controller and WINS Server Powered Down and Removed without Proper Demotion:

We don't use DHCP at all

I would go the other direction then and check for WINS queries and then visit all the NICs that are still using WINS and remove the entry. This article explains it:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/craigf/2010/07/09/decommissioning-wins/

Thanks! This actually answered a few of my other questions too.

@matteo-nunziati said in PowerShell Code Cleanup:

@Tim_G never used PS seriousltùy, but as acoder I would you suggest to make your FW rules instances of a class and put them into an array. then for-looping them
this will fix the growing number of rules.

Thanks, I will look into this.