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@thwr said in Need advice on OS X Server & DAS/NAS:

@scottalanmiller said in Need advice on OS X Server & DAS/NAS:

@travisdh1 said in Need advice on OS X Server & DAS/NAS:

They figured out how to do parity RAID with dis-similar drives. Something ZFS has been doing for how many years before Drobo?

It's not parity with dissimilar exactly, that always works. Always has. It's parity with dissimilar drives while getting maximum usable capacity out of the drives using a horrific mix of RAID levels. It's a terrible thing to do.

Goosebumps, everytime I'm seeing this. The idea is good, but how they made it...

Even the idea isn't good. It's "Oh, people refuse to listen and buy many dissimilar drives... instead of punishing them for this, we'll pretend that this is just fine and screw their reliability and performance because they aren't paying attention anyway and who cares, it isn't our data."

@Grey said in Steam summer sale 2016: June 23 - July 4:

@scottalanmiller 😞 I was laid off a couple weeks ago so no new games until I get a new source of income. I hope you got some good ones that I can play with you later in co-op, maybe Portal 2, for example?

I do have Portal 2 but have never played it. Without a mouse I can't finish Portal 1 😞

@aaronstuder said in Alternatives to LMI:

@JaredBusch Right, but if the user isn't on the computer, why can you just push the agent to the computer with something like PDQ Deploy? That's basically with LMI is doing, more a less.

There is no one time agent to push that the administrator has easy access to. When the user is sent a link to the session, it downloads and the user has to run it.

I am sure I could work around that. But it is not in the design. It would be a hack. LMI has it in the design.

Neat

@aaronstuder said in You know you have been...:

@thwr that's not a DOS prompt 😉

I'm using PowerShell 99% of the time. ps or [WINKEY] -> po is shorter than cmd

@JaredBusch said in NIC teaming on Hyper-V:

Then you make you vSwitch. If you already have your vSwitch setup, make a team with the ports NOT on the vSwitch, move the vSwitch to the team and then add the final NIC to the team.

Not much to add here. SwitchIndependent mode is a big one on Hyper-V. Sure, Windows can easily use LACP and other means, but what if you want to use two or more uplink switches for redundancy? LACP can't handle this and there is just a handful of proprietary protocols that can. SwitchIndependent mode is doing exactly this by "load balancing" VMs and Host traffic between the available links and failover in case something goes south.

This way, like @JaredBusch said above, you can have LACP-like functionality (max single port speed for a single traffic source) over multiple inexpensive switches. In fact, the switch doesn't know anything about that type of teaming, you could even use unmanaged switches (but really, don't do that)

My hosts are running in this mode.

Looks good!

@scottalanmiller said in Using a NAS for backups & Unitrends FREE:

@hobbit666 said in Using a NAS for backups & Unitrends FREE:

The version I got doesn't seem to support XenServer?
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Not at the hypervisor / platform level. You need to work with agents the same as if it was physical. Doesn't work with ESXi Free, either.

ESXi Free version has no backup API's... that's the issue.

@IRJ said in SEO for dummies:

Unix based systems are the king of web servers and case actually matters on these systems.

Not so much these days since sites run CMSs and don't rely on the underlying OS. Wordpress, for example, as I've mentioned, isn't case sensitive, despite the majority of Wordpress sites running on Linux.

@IRJ said in Today i decommissioned an Athlon Xp 2200+ machine I may have built:

@scottalanmiller said in Today i decommissioned an Athlon Xp 2200+ machine I may have built:

@IRJ said in Today i decommissioned an Athlon Xp 2200+ machine I may have built:

@wirestyle22 said in Today i decommissioned an Athlon Xp 2200+ machine I may have built:

@IRJ From what I've seen of the benchmarks, Intel is killing it. There is a market for AMD with budget gaming builds etc though.

I think the Athlon XP processor was the last time AMD actually beat Intel for a brief period of time when you consider overall value.

Oh no. The first several generations of Opterons were the real winners. The XP wasn't even in the same class. it was the Opteron that put AMD in the lead for several years. AMD owned the decade of 2000.

Athlon XP Processors weren't top of the line, but they offered more VALUE for typical PCs.

And the Opteron offered even more comparative value. Nothing came close.

@Ambarishrh said in Asterisk PBX so many choices, where to begin?:

I would be interested to make calls outside. Here in the UAE they have pretty strict policies on VOIP. I use a voip service called Nymgo with PrivateInternetAccess VPN, but would be great if i can use a provider and try this from the PBX. Not sure if google voice works outside US

Sorry, I keep forgetting about the outside the US thing.

@IRJ said in Any decent Open Source Speech to Text Products?:

@aaronstuder said in Any decent Open Source Speech to Text Products?:

@IRJ Ah, I use it personally 🙂

How accurate is it?

We used it when I worked at the local high school. It was 90-99% accurate depending on how well the students could enunciate. Although it still did really well with people who tended to mumble.

@anthonyh said in Ubiquiti AF5 Connection Question:

@wirestyle22 said in Ubiquiti AF5 Connection Question:

@anthonyh said in Ubiquiti AF5 Connection Question:

"UBNT-Chuck" from my Ubiquiti thread (the employee who initially tested this for me) re-tested and confirmed that in his environment directly connecting the two results in a 100Mbps link. Hopefully they fix that in a future revision.

Did they confirm that this is an auto-sense problem due to the POE injectors?

They just confirmed that it was a problem. Haha...

Unfortunately the issue I'm having still exists...I may start a separate thread about it if I get completely stumped.

God's speed.

Here's another one:
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/07/malware-caught-10000-facebook-users-unaware-in-three-days/

@scottalanmiller said in ML you popular beast... 😉:

@BBigford said in ML you popular beast... 😉:

@coliver said in ML you popular beast... 😉:

Nope haven't seen it since yesterday.

I saw it twice yesterday. Nothing today though. Comes and goes.

We only made the change yesterday.

My expectations are unreasonable.

@JaredBusch said in Permissions in Linux - Asterisk:

@scottalanmiller said in Permissions in Linux - Asterisk:

@fuznutz04 said in Permissions in Linux - Asterisk:

@scottalanmiller said in Permissions in Linux - Asterisk:

@fuznutz04 said in Permissions in Linux - Asterisk:

@JaredBusch said in Permissions in Linux - Asterisk:

@fuznutz04 said in Permissions in Linux - Asterisk:

Is one method preferred/better than the other? (script to change permissions vs changing file location of file)

To me, it would come down to WTF you are using these custom things for. Without that detail, I have no idea what would be better.

We're querying a file in this location to get some information from the PBX such as current calls, queue information, etc for an internal piece of software. It doesn't have to be in that directory, so I'll go down t he path of just moving the files and referencing them. Hopefully FreePBX wont overwrite the apache conf file when upgraded/reloaded.

Why not push it directly to where you need it?

You mean push the original files in question to the PBX via script?

I thought that they were already on the PBX. Push them to somewhere else via script is what I was thinking.

They (apparently) have custom scripts that pull data from Asterisk for use elsewhere. These scripts would have to reside on the Asterisk box.

Understood. Was thinking that instead of saving the data locally, they could immediately push it elsewhere so that the perms wouldn't be an issue.

@JaredBusch said in Windows 10 - screen sleeps but only wakes with ctrl+alt+del:

@Dashrender said in Windows 10 - screen sleeps but only wakes with ctrl+alt+del:

@JaredBusch said in Windows 10 - screen sleeps but only wakes with ctrl+alt+del:

I would check what GPO are affecting her. Maybe the user or machine has some GPO applied that requires CAD.

She has the same GPOs as 80 other people, but I suppose there could be a profile problem.

Did you confirm that with gpresult /r and gpresult /r /scope computer

Not yet 🙂

@Dashrender said in Alternatives for Microsoft server products: Active Directory & Domain Controller:

@thwr said in Alternatives for Microsoft server products: Active Directory & Domain Controller:

@scottalanmiller said in Alternatives for Microsoft server products: Active Directory & Domain Controller:

@thwr said in Alternatives for Microsoft server products: Active Directory & Domain Controller:

Samba is quite capable of running AD, but what about management options or multi-site environments?

What is the issue with management (the Windows tools should work with it) and what happens with multi-site?

Sorry, didn't see your question because of the formatting. FTFY.

Like I said, the whole topic is just about discussing valid alternatives for the typical SMB / EDU environment. I was aware that Samba 4 got full DC capabilities, at least when it comes to authentication. I did not know about its GPO support and other things like replication between "DC"s or the possibility to use Microsoft's RSAT tools for management.

@coliver (and you) mentioned one can use RSAT for management. That's good and would mean that the Samba4-team is trying hard to get to a high level of compatibility. How to say... looks like a perfect replacement for a real DC.

Back to your question, multi-site (and/or subdomain) is a quite important feature in case you got a branch office, for example.

I've run many branch offices with no local DC. AD authentication is extremely light traffic wise. installing software via GPO could give you problems, or needing a local server for file access might be needed, but and AD in most branch offices isn't. Unless your branch is like 100+ people.

you can put Linux fileservers in branch offices to handle the load locally.