@scottalanmiller said in IT is Complex:

@Dashrender said in IT is Complex:

management - you mean anyone who it's IT. For most it seems if you say you are IT, then they assume you know anything/everything to do with computers. Plus they lump things that aren't IT into IT.

And not just broad knowledge, but historic and insanely current, too. That computer from thirty years ago that is nothing like any machine today and for which there is no documentation; you know all about that thing, right? And this new technology that just released this morning while you were busy in a meeting and haven't even been to your desk yet, you've already studied it and have years of experience on it, right?

Here Here!

@travisdh1 yep...

@Danp a distro upgrade would likely be the easier approach. I'm performing this now on my system.

(first day back to work in 11-days!)

I had pretty good success with pfSense in the past. It features a built-in captive portal and guest vouchers. Stable, reliable and highly customizable. Plus there's no need for spezialized access points or wireless controllers.

https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Captive_Portal
https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Captive_Portal_Vouchers
https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Category:Captive_Portal

@Reid-Cooper said in The Leap Second is Coming:

@wirestyle22 said in The Leap Second is Coming:

Alan Rickman 😞

What?

His link has a picture of Alan Rickman who passed away this past year 😞

The only Ubuntu system I have is my UniFi controller

@JaredBusch said in Linux: What is the EPEL:

@scottalanmiller said in Linux: What is the EPEL:

d "frozen" to make for the core RH

To make what?

Fixed

@larsen161 thank u larsen

https://mangolassi.it/topic/12033/backup-target-2-or-4-drive-nas/15

I talked about pricing at this range recently.

There's also comprehensive data storage for Russian customers, allowing you to control via OU which staff data goes to servers located in Russia.

@larsen161 said in Copy Paste replacement tool:

It's been a couple years since using Windows on a regular basis but I know on ChromeOS and macOS Shift-Ctrl-V or Shift-Cmd-V gets rid of any formatting

Thanks I'll give that a try.

@scotth said in Has Anyone Built a Computer Controlled Model Railroad:

If I remember correctly, Tyco was a 'player' in the model railroading milieu at the time as well.

In the power boxes, yes, but not in the trains themselves I don't think.

@scottalanmiller said in What is FakeRAID?:

@Dashrender said in What is FakeRAID?:

Did this pop up again at SW?

Again today, too. Apparently Lenovo is selling FakeRAID on their "servers" now along with all of the other problems. Of course, if a machine has FakeRAID, it's not a server by any normal definition.

WOW... just wow - as if they couldn't fall any further, and they find a way...

What Synology has done, to make this claim kinda legit, is look at what disks "can" stream (which is more than is listed here) and added the "cap" of the network. So if you do a contrived operation that pushes the drives to their throughput limit (a useless number hence why we don't measure drives by that metric) but tells us nothing about performance. That could be just two or three IOPS producing that limit. But in the real world, that's not useful.

I have windows 10 on xs7, the issue are drivers are still in beta.

@NetworkNerd said in Get your free Meraki gear!:

So it's kind of the same as that thread from long ago where you advised get a HDS if you get a SAN, but don't get a SAN? If you're going to get UTM, get Palo Alto, but don't get a UTM.

Exactly 🙂

@Dashrender said in Considering Ubiquiti Wireless:

@scottalanmiller said in Considering Ubiquiti Wireless:

Yes, they keep operating. The controller is just remote configuration, it's not the brains of the device. You dont even need a controller at all. It is just for initial setup.

@scottalanmiller said in Considering Ubiquiti Wireless:

Of course keeping a controller is recommended. Just saying it isn't necessary.

Yep, you don't NEED a controller after configuration, but I would leave one running. It will keep stats on the APs for you.
I don't use RADIUS currently, so I'm not sure if that would require a controller or not?

I also haven't read up on roaming. I know it works seamlessly, I just don't know if a controller is required for that to function or not.

The only thing you absolutely need to leave a controller running all the time for is if you want to present a landing page on a guest network. At least when I set ours up a year ago that's how it was.

Good to hear. Did you figure out what had happened?

I don't have it in "production" any more. I have a few things at home set up on it. I originally had a separate zone for it. Everything in my house is pa.jhbcomputers.com so the zone for ZT was zt.jhbcomputers.com. Now I just have a local hosts file I can push out to whatever I want.

I'm not really using it that much though. I'm mostly just tunneling through my jump box.

I'd put NTG in that category. Year after year growth. But it's still very slow. But it is not a steady state, it's annual improvements. Two steps forward, one step back, but still more forward than back.