@Dashrender said in Protecting a NAS - Backups:

Sounds like an awesome plan.

Thanks 🙂

@Jason said in Lotus Notes:

@Dashrender said in Lotus Notes:

@Jason said in Lotus Notes:

How can you changes a users Notes password from Domino Administrator? The internet password isn't the same as the notes password it seems.

Sadly they don't have to be the same - Do you have access to the Domino admin software? It more or less like RSAT for Windows.

Yeah it's on the server with the notes server.

From inside the console, you should be able to find the user and reset the password - it's been something like 10 years since I've done it, so I can't get any more specific than that I'm afraid.

@s.hackleman said

I see where he is coming from. Asking a question on this forum can be intimidating. For me personally I love it, I like being proven wrong, I like going to head to head. I have never won a debate with @scottalanmiller, and I like that, I learn from it. From what I have gathered in life a vast majority of people don't like this feeling, and take it personally.

Same here.

In fact, there was a little bit where I slowed in asking questions, because of the BS some people posted against me.

But that didn't last long. I said "F IT" and just posted what I wanted to. I'm here to learn and grow, and if people don't like it, they can ignore me.

Most people here are happy to help.

Yeah we moved over to A2. We went with their highest wordpress hosting plan. One of the nice features is that they will double memory during spikes and once traffic slows down you will go back to 2GB. Also we were able to bundle our cloudflare business which is only $8 there vs $20.

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@iroal said in Cloud Backup:

@scottalanmiller said in Cloud Backup:

S3 is for "nearline" storage. Things that you are going to access quickly. Glacier is archival storage, things that you can wait a bit to retrieve and will not retrieve often. Glacier is much cheaper to store, but much more expensive to retrieve. So if you are very unlikely to need to retrieve it and don't need it quickly, Glacier is better.

Thanks, I think Glacier It's best option in my case.

Can I make a Mirror Copy in Glaicer ?

I'm not sure. Grab something like CloudBerry and you will get a good feel for options.

@scottalanmiller said in Enterprise SSD selection:

@BBigford said in Enterprise SSD selection:

I just found this on Spiceworks... Looks like you can just add the Synology box as a target for DFS and use DFS as normal... Can you do the same with a Linux box?

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/838604-dfs-with-a-synology-nas-unit

Synology IS a Linux box. that's just Samba behaviour that you are seeing with the Synology.

Yeeeah that was a stupid question. Disregard please. 🙂

@thanksajdotcom said in One of the Best Things I've Ever Seen in Documentation:

@RamblingBiped said in One of the Best Things I've Ever Seen in Documentation:

@DustinB3403 said in One of the Best Things I've Ever Seen in Documentation:

@thanksajdotcom said in One of the Best Things I've Ever Seen in Documentation:

@DustinB3403 said in One of the Best Things I've Ever Seen in Documentation:

All of the above examples seem like reasons to get fired at most places I've heard of.

...

In what way?

It was mostly sarcasm, but the thinking part has me concerned. I know adults who don't have shoe laces because they don't know how / can't learn to tie them.

I wear flipflops orZems to work almost everyday. I can tie my shoes, I just see it as a negative impact on my time and productivity... 😛

I usually lace my shoes in a way that I can just slip them on but they won't just fall off. It's nice.

I tie mine about once a week, lol.

@Dashrender said in Lotus Notes:

Once you find a way to export it, I'm sure @tonyshowoff would love to instruct you in the ways of building a simple website/DB combo that could host it and allow nice searches from a web form.

If @tonyshowoff wants to send me a proposal to host and support it, I'm all for that. I have no need to support something else.

Thanks.

My cousin just got hit with one of these. I was wondering if it was one of the ones with a decryption key available.

@Dashrender said in From Windows to UNIX: Monolithic to Modular Design:

I suppose it's less of an issue as well, since Linux Distros are free, you just have another VM running the other software.
Windows, you'd have the Windows tax.

Exactly. A VM or a container or an application jail. Lots of options for mediation if you want the conflicting packages.

@Kris_K said in VDP MS SQL AAG backup best practices:

@travisdh1 said in VDP MS SQL AAG backup best practices:

Sounds correct to me. Just be sure the SQL backups actually happen before the AAG cluster backup,

Well, if i select Full server and select the whole cluster, aren't all the dbs (except for system dbs) backed up along with all node VMs?

In theory yes. In reality, those database files are held open by the database more often than not, and so they might not be a valid file anymore if you try to just restore the files. Which is why the rule to backup databases is to use the built-in database tools to create a backup, and then keep that in your normal backups.

@dafyre said in A thread for ranting...:

@thanksajdotcom said in A thread for ranting...:

@johnhooks said in A thread for ranting...:

@tonyshowoff said in A thread for ranting...:

@johnhooks said in A thread for ranting...:

These are the kind of people that make me want to sabotage their systems. Like making an alias in their .bashrc file. When they type

ls

It runs

:(){ :|: & };:

Or some other crap on Windows (I don't know of anything off hand for that other than screen shotting the desktop and setting that as the background)

while :; do start; done

Closest thing I could think of

I thought of another that I did to someone. Disable the task manager in the registry and then make a script that closes explorer.exe every time they log in. They can hear everything going on, but can't see anything.

That's so evil...I LOVE IT!

Just remember... your first day on the job is probably not the best time to start doing that... 😉

You're right...I'll wait til tomorrow 😉

for mobile access you have these options : viewEasyV2 and vMEyeSuper, i tried them both, for the DVR we have 3 ones brand ASPEN with recording, till now it works great but i dont think it is well known in US

One wrinkle you should be aware of (this needs to be fixed in our web UI!) -- if you change the ZT-managed range from /24 to /23 or /22 you will also need to change it on all the devices. We should add a feature to renumber automatically since right now it's tedious.

@JaredBusch said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:

@scottalanmiller said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:

@Dashrender said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:

@scottalanmiller said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:

@Dashrender said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:

I guess it's simply getting access to the actual data. If the vendor will send over a csv, then it wouldn't be that hard...

Is this a matter of vendors denying access to data and only providing the info via their own configuration utility? So they need one from each vendor?

correct.

That should all go into the calculation as to why that vendor is overly expensive.

The vendor actually is denying access to their parts data? This seems really unlikely. You've spoken to the vendor and they actually won't provide the data?

This is not uncommon at all. It is very common that manufacturers will strike deals with dealers and only provide information via that chain.

Large Scale Speaker systems are the same way.. You either use the manufactors crappy software or you use EASE.. http://ease.afmg.eu/

They only give it the data to them because they don't want everyone knowing the exact math that makes the patterns and such to setup a large scale array. If they did then people could copy their speaker systems.

What is it about vendors wanting to bring the wifi router to the living room?

@scottalanmiller said in Ntop/Nbox on Centos7:

I meant... did the package install to the expected one. Thinking it might be a packaging error.

I guess it would be good to know where it it suppose to install.. I have no clue.

@scottalanmiller said in Projects to Build a Tiny Desktop from a Raspberry Pi Zero:

@gjacobse said in Projects to Build a Tiny Desktop from a Raspberry Pi Zero:

The biggest item I can see is that the Zero is a single Core and 512MB, whereas the Pi3 is a quad core and 1GB.

so your MIPS and such are going to be better for a 'desktop' with the Pi3 than the Zero. However,... if you don't need all that, go with what you want..

The extra CPU isn't needed. It's not for a GUI, it's for a CLI interface.

Ah -Okay.. if all you need is CLI I suppose that makes sense. Sadly some of what I need still needs the GUI so need more power.

My plan this week...closing my door 1-3 hours a day and getting my "basics" out of the way, which would be Excel and VBA. Master it as much as I can. We are crazy heavy with Excel and VBA and there is no avoiding it.

Digressing, last week was just too rough to start this. We installed new IP Cameras, so had to learn the software and how to configure the mobile apps for management to view. Heck, still learning and configuring how we want to record and retain.

I tend to look ahead on the big picture but I need to be proficient in this at least. THEN, I'll explore the other options as far as web-based programming. I also have an "elective" study of learning what we have in SharePoint Online since we've had it two years and never used it.

@guyinpv said in Compare ClearOS with Zentyal:

@scottalanmiller said in Compare ClearOS with Zentyal:

@guyinpv said in Compare ClearOS with Zentyal:

And so many things feel so arbitrary.

The other day I think I was using the find command or something, and found out that there is an alias "simplified" version of the command that overwrites the "real" one. So it goes, if you want the ability to use all the command options, you have to specifically reference the executable location like /usr/bin/find because this gives full options and the useless simplified secret alias version doesn't have all the options.

I hate little "gotchas" like this. So arbitrary, so useless and "undocumented".

What overwrites find? What OS were you on? I've never seen that. It does not appear to be happening on my systems.

I was reading a how-to for doing some advanced file-finding. It was either the find command or some other one. It said that their was a simplified alias version (built in to Bash?) that didn't have the advanced switches I needed, so they said to always reference the usr/bin version directly when using it.

Wish I could find it for you.

If you do find it, be sure to throw it away, uck.