I see new, greater, horizons of automation happening here.

We all know Microsoft's servers like to aggravate @scottalanmiller just because they can.

@Mike-Davis said in Online Deals for Cyber Monday on Gaming PCs:

I'm not a gamer at all so bear with me. Do all games get loaded in to RAM where it doesn't matter that these machines don't have SSDs? In the CAD world, it made machines 30% faster to put a SSD in them.

No but portions do. SSD will reduce load time between scenes but not affect gameplay.

We use twilio for what we do. Not really that expensive for US numbers.

@scottalanmiller said in Cannot Send Emails Out on Vultr:

@stacksofplates said in Cannot Send Emails Out on Vultr:

Why not just change the SMTP port?

You can't. SMTP uses port 25. Changing the outbound port only works if you control every posssible email destination.

Ah duh. I was thinking you were just sending email to yourself for some reason. Never mind.

@Lakshmana said in Issue Started in terminal for Wifi Drivers at Xubuntu:

@thwr I have seen usbmodswitch as the alternative for the USB stick.but many dependency need to download the same whether the full package can be downloaded from any sites ?

usbmodeswitch should do just fine. I'm not absolutely sure, but I think I've used that before with some Huawei-based UMTS stick.

@gjacobse said in New Laptop needed:

$718

Use the drive that is in it until you find a good deal on an SSD.

@scottalanmiller

While my main drive wasn't to get the rPi to learn some basic programming, I am hoping that it will help 'encourage' it.

I am planning to load Linux on my laptop as the primary, and take it from there. But I also am pushing myself to use the CLI more in the rPi than before..

@NerdyDad said in Suse Enterprise Linux for the Raspberry Pi:

I'm seeing it as a good entry level device to finally learn Linux Server administration at an affordable device. Granted the hardware isn't something that you're normally going to normally see in an enterprise environment, it would give me nearly identical experience managing a linux server in an enterprise environment.

The hardware doesn't matter at all. Like SAM suggested, go for a VM. There's no difference.

There are actually pitfalls in using a Pi, for example there isn't any RTC (realtime clock and battery). This can give you very weird results during reboots because next to no application expects a filetime to go backwards, which can happen without a working clock (depends on timing, network availability during reboot, working fake-hwclock package etc).

I think we fit in that SMB space as far as an IT department. We currently have less than 500 employees, but have about 120 users in our AD. Of those 120 users, 6 of us are in the IT department. 2 of these guys wear hats that encompass other departments as well. Typically, I spend half of my time doing user support and the other half is doing server-side support. Server administration for me might not be interacting the servers directly, but managing projects that would eventually impact the servers at some time in the future.

@Dashrender said in Cyber Monday Security Training:

I was assuming ec council was the company offering this deal.

yes, that is correct.

@Danp said in Why On Premises Spiceworks Is Impacted:

@scottalanmiller To what platform are you moving them?

Depends on the customer and what they are using SW for. SW does a lot of things. If they are on helpdesk, my guess is that osTicket will be the winner.

@hobbit666 said in Udemy - Black Friday sale 90% - IT Courses:

Dam why is pay day so far away!

Would you like a loan 😛

This is an amazing deal and well worth the bump.

@BRRABill did you get everything answered that you needed for your WordPress project?

Getting lots of eyes on this thread today. Very interesting.