Trying to figure out if I should learn Ansible or Salt Stack.... hm..... Thoughts?

I am studying for my RHCSA... so maybe Ansible makes since?

Have you attended one in the past? Are you planning to attend one this year?

I keep hearing good things about Bacula.

@JaredBusch

After spending a couple of days with FreePBX VM, I came across with a VoIP provider here in Sydney and ended with a $15/month plan with them (https://au.evoice.com/).

Basically, I got a number to dial in which is now forwarded to 3 mobile numbers and configured to ring only 10 seconds on each mobile (voicemail normally kicks in after 20 seconds or so and I am testing the service at the moment).

Now log into your new FreePBX system and it will show the Apply Config warning.

Do so.

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At this point you can go through the new system one piece at a time and make sure you are good.
Change a couple extensions to point to your new PBX and make sure they register and can call each other.
Once you are sure that the basics are working, disable the trunks on the old system, enable on the new system, and verify outside connectivity works.
Finally, you can change the rest of the extensions.

@aaronstuder said in The Repeating Questions That No One Will Look Up:

@NerdyDad you might want to get that checked out... 😝

I'd say it's about right, I've got a nasty twitch thanks to those topics myself.

@Lakshmana said in Skype Installation Error in KDE Neon:

@scottalanmiller Skype got working installation done from Software Center

That makes things easier 🙂

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Can we get some tags on this post?

URE is one I would love to see added.
Thanks

@KOOLER said in The SMB Two Server Dilema, What to Do:

@whizzard said in The SMB Two Server Dilema, What to Do:

In scenarios such as these what would be the recommended backup approach: DAS, NAS, Backup Appliance, lower end server, removable disk storage, tapes (intentionally left out cloud)?

Should be separate (physically!) entity non-related to your production cluster. Cheap NAS is OK.

For the average scenario (and I really just mean average) it's Synology or ReadyNAS that I recommend. Easy, supported, cost effective, desktop or rackmount options, well known, good brands, nice features.

@Dashrender said in SQL Server Express Edition Ram upgrade - suggestion.:

Where does the above mentioned caching come in?

The two biggest places are disk caches and application caches. For example, does all of SQL Server get moved into memory or only part of it? Does all of the database get moved into memory, or only part of it? (That last part is the part that gets capped at 1GB.) Do all of the OS components get loaded into memory, or loaded from disk as needed? Do the log files stay in memory?

@Grey said in Calling All Grandmas!:

There's a whole youtube channel devoted to this concept, Scott.

I love the constant sighing.

@garak0410 said in Invoice Software - Office 365 Or Purchase Software Suite?:

And this point, it would be easier for me if I could run this Invoice Ninja (self-hosted) on my Windows Server 2012 R2 Applications/Web Server but even had struggles getting that going...

Did you try @Romo's installer for it? Should make Ubuntu 16.10 the easiest option since it is known to work already. PHP, MariaDB and all of that on Windows is quite a pain, in general.

@scottalanmiller said in IT Myths That Seem to Persist:

@JaredBusch said in IT Myths That Seem to Persist:

@scottalanmiller said in IT Myths That Seem to Persist:

@JaredBusch said in IT Myths That Seem to Persist:

@scottalanmiller said in IT Myths That Seem to Persist:

@JaredBusch said in IT Myths That Seem to Persist:

@scottalanmiller said in IT Myths That Seem to Persist:

That Linux isn't the best option for your grandparents.

Because you say so, does not make it a myth.

The myth is that it isn't. People just assume it is hard, which is a myth.

That it is, is your opinion. Your opinion, does not make a myth.

While Linux being hard is a myth or not, is not related.

How is it not related? The one is predicated on the other.

No it does not. Because you are mixing Linux being hard or simple with an opinion that Linux is the best option for grandparents.

That's the full myth. That all Linux is hard and therefore is always bad for grandparents. Linux is not always hard and not always a bad option for grandparents.

No. Linux can be hard and still be the best solution, but it isn't the best solution.
Linux can be easy, and still not be the best solution, and it isn't the best solution.

@JaredBusch said in Getting NodeJS on CentOS 7 with NVM:

@scottalanmiller said in Getting NodeJS on CentOS 7 with NVM:

Updated to the latest NVM and NodeJS versions.

There is also the ability to check out the repo and just use get to pull the current but if I do that how do I didn't install in the same fashion that this is installed?

I've not tried that either.

We have some boxes that have no SSH. We use Salt. If we need SSH, we can turn it on and lock it down for the user in question and shut it down when the need is no longer there.

Thanks @JaredBusch

I went on site and ran the wizard and it was a quick process to fix things. The relevant part of the new config looks like:

interfaces { ethernet eth0 { address dhcp description Internet duplex auto firewall { in { name WAN_IN } local { name WAN_LOCAL } } speed auto } ethernet eth1 { description Local duplex auto speed auto } ethernet eth2 { description Local duplex auto speed auto } ethernet eth3 { description Local duplex auto speed auto } ethernet eth4 { description Local duplex auto speed auto } loopback lo { } switch switch0 { address 192.168.1.1/24 description Local switch-port { interface eth1 { } interface eth2 { } interface eth3 { } interface eth4 { } } } } port-forward { auto-firewall enable hairpin-nat enable lan-interface switch0 wan-interface eth0 }

@scottalanmiller The OS is good to use for the beginner and it is confusion free

@scottalanmiller said in Access Web Application With SharePoint Online - Set Relationships:

I feel like, and of course I am guessing, that you are caught in a world of "get it down now, screw doing it right" which is causing every project to take more work than it should and more effort to support long term making it increasingly impossible to get on top of things to do it right to start fixing the problems.

Sort of...on this latest project that is taking "too much time", they now just want to create 146 separate Word documents with the needed data rather than give me a little more time to come up with something on my own.