We have a gigabit sysmetrical connection. Sadly even if I run a speed test in the middle of the night it's only going to show 100-200mbps.

@Danp said in Convert Inkling developer sites to PDF:

@DustinB3403 said in Convert Inkling developer sites to PDF:

wants to validate the content in a PDF.

Isn't the goal of Inkling to eliminate PDFs? 😁

grr stupid requirements clients.

FTFY.

Maybe this? https://github.com/angelabair/SBU101

Yeah..... it may but I'm not willing to send it over to a client if things are going to be shifty.

I'll tell the client that they are stupid to have this requirement before compromising our integrity.

@FATeknollogee said in WordPress on A2Hosting.com:

Good deal.
What did you end up with, the Turbo package?

No, just the regular hosting. The SWIFT package.

It looks like we'll be going with RC.

Ties in with Outlook, and simple / cheap.

@Lakshmana said in Developer Job??:

@Jason They are giving some practice or giving class in the HTML and CSS then they will hire that person by his performance

Instead of using a portfolio? That doesn't sound legit.

@John-Nicholson They are supposed to be from the PM series (PM853T).

@Kelly said in O365 External Contact Issue:

@dafyre said in O365 External Contact Issue:

@Kelly said in O365 External Contact Issue:

@dafyre said in O365 External Contact Issue:

@JaredBusch said in O365 External Contact Issue:

@Kelly said in O365 External Contact Issue:

Why aren't you just using one or the other system for students since they're both free?

Because he likes to overcomplicate things apparently.

Only some times.

No, this is a decision made before I ever got here... and as others have mentioned, I have no idea why it is like this, but I know of several schools who do so... It's mind boggling.

I pushed the school I worked at off of GApps pretty fast so I would only have to support one platform.

I wish I had that kind of clout here. At my last job, our students would have gone into open rebellion had we disabled Google. I actually wanted to push everybody to Google, but there was some political crap going on that I wasn't privy to.

Even pushing the students to GApps and staff on O365 is better than the bastardization you're fighting with.

lol. Yeah. The problem is that the students get licensed for O365 and local installs of Office... but... To get to them, they must have a MS-Account. /sigh.

@Dashrender said in Adobe Reader DC printing black bars after Anniversary update:

@gjacobse said in Adobe Reader DC printing black bars after Anniversary update:

Check for the Print Driver.

I had a printer do this years ago (Windows 2000) I aptly named it my Government driver as everything was blacked out. All the text on the Windows Printer Test pages appeared to have been Redacted.

We've tried three different printers and printing to the Windows 10 PDF Print Driver - all have the same results.

It's not all PDFs either, maybe a third of them.

Is it 1/3 if you print the same document 3 times, or does a document that gets 'redaction lines' always get them?

1080p was cheap in 2012.

@jospoortvliet said in Nextcloud Box is out - feedback welcome!:

@scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud Box is out - feedback welcome!:

They do resell Pis. That's why I think you can do it. It's just a bundle. You are just selling the pieces at the same time. You ARE the store at that point.

You're right, I checked with them today about what we can do. We can indeed bundle it as long as we don't pre-assemble it all. We're discussing how/when/what, I am personally of the opinion we should do this once we support the oDroid C2 and include that. Pi's are everywhere, many people have them - not with the oDroids 😉

Makes sense to me.

Nearly any workload that is extremely erratic or bursty in nature that can withstand a small amount of expansion latency that does not need to relocate massive data sets for processing (like video rendering) is ideal for cloud computing.

Modern applications built with a standard web framework are ideal for cloud computing as all of their layers can scale out independently and fluidly. Web based interfaces work well in this model.

@Romo said in What is the best way to deploy Linux desktops?:

@stacksofplates said in What is the best way to deploy Linux desktops?:

@Romo said in What is the best way to deploy Linux desktops?:

@stacksofplates said in What is the best way to deploy Linux desktops?:

@Romo said in What is the best way to deploy Linux desktops?:

@stacksofplates said in What is the best way to deploy Linux desktops?:

@Romo said in What is the best way to deploy Linux desktops?:

@coliver said in What is the best way to deploy Linux desktops?:

Ansible or kickstart files could go a long way to automating the process. So if you ever have to deploy more its just dropping it into the environment without touching it again.

Can I use Kickstart with Debian base distros?

Debian has preseed and I've never used it. Kickstarts are great because you can do a lot with your post install. It's essentially a big shell script. So you can update, configure users, make config backups, etc.

Is it worth to learn about preseeding in this case or using something like Clonezilla would be better in your opinion @stacksofplates

That's a tough one. I really know nothing about preseeds. However, if I had to make a guess, I would think it would be much easier to use those than to Clonezilla everything. Preseeds would allow you to have different configs for different systems. I can't imagine using Clonezilla for 30 machines. I can do 30 machines at once with kickstart configs (using pxe). Using a disk, I can start the kickstart on one machine, and then take the same disk and go to the next machine, etc.

I'll try to research more about preseeds then, by the way using Clonezilla SE you can PXE the image to several computers at the same time.

True, but how do you set hostnames, IP addresses, etc?

Ip addresses won't be trouble since my machines are using dhcp but hostnames indeed would be trouble. I have been reading that I am going to need to use a simple kickstart file plus the preseed file in order to deploy debian based distros.

How are different hostnames set when using kickstart?

They are assigned in the kickstart config for each machine. What we did was write a bash script that takes the hostnames, IPs, disk sizes, etc from a table, adds the package list and post install script and generates the kickstart config from that. Then when you boot the machine from the disc, you give it the http address of the kickstart config and it pulls everything in and starts imaging. It takes about 15 mins to kickstart a workstation. Less for the server since they're minimal.

@Dashrender said in Small office:

@Jason said in Small office:

BTW this type of fiber is sometimes called Dark Fiber.

Who owns that fiber?

I used to refer to the fiber between our two buildings that we own completely as dark fiber, and I was filleted on SpiceWorks for it.

You would be, if you are using it it isn't dark. Dark refers to it not being lit, no traffic. The moment it is used for any purpose it literally stops being dark. 🙂

On SW there are a ton of people calling all kinds of random things "dark fiber" which is really weird. It's one of the least technical terms in all of IT, no idea how people got the weird usages of it. It's like saying a "dark room" because... the lights aren't on.

Very cool, great to see Electron getting more traction.

@BBigford back on the original question though. You never answered a damned thing.

Forget AWS/Azure.

What services does this friend want to move? Answer this and we can give intelligent on topic answers.

@Dashrender said in Pfsense to Meraki Site-Site Ipsec VPN:

At what size network do you normally turn on BGP?

Pretty much any time you have multiple routers & subnets. BGP is to routing what DHCP is to Up addressing (kinda). With static routes every device has to be setup manually with every network which is insane. With BGP and Autonomous system numbers it's automated and less likely to have mistakes.

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