yeah, i've done that. weird that i dont have it. suck

@JaredBusch said in FreePBX on VPS:

@Dashrender said in FreePBX on VPS:

The last time I stood one of these things up I spent around $1000 on add-ons... But those were one time fees, not monthly.

For a larger office, I would expect that, but for a basic small office, spending more than $100-$200 on pro modules likely is a misunderstanding of the needs.

Agreed.

@travisdh1 said in Linux skills are hard to find:

@scottalanmiller said in Linux skills are hard to find:

@travisdh1 said in Linux skills are hard to find:

Apropos is yet another new thing @scottalanmiller takes for granted I've never heard of before. Looks much more efficient than using find just to look for a program that doesn't happen to be in $PATH!

LOL it was taught for first time computer users when they took "intro to your computer lab" one hour course at college in 1994. Not an admin tool, just a general user tool on UNIX systems.

My Intro to UNIX course never mentioned it I don't think. Learned a lot more in a couple of 1 week training sessions at SGI than 2 years of college... not that anyone is going to be surprised by that.

It was taught to the kids who were learning how to use UNIX for word processing and email back in the day.

@Carnival-Boy said in Creating training videos for users:

The main problem with hosting on YouTube is you get adverts and suggestions of other videos, which doesn't look too professional. For example, at the end of your excellent AetherStore video I got a My Little Pony video suggested (disclaimer: my daughter uses my Google account).

Ah, you only get the adverts if you use other's content. Music/visual, etc. Or if you are trying to make money from advertising.

Suggested videos, you used to be able to turn that off per clip, I think Google forced it back on for everyone annoyingly, I'm sure their view counts across the site went up though.

I've now got a Vimeo account as video is something I want to do more with but I'm really annoyed that after paying for the upgrade, they had 3 periods of downtime in the magical forest within the week. Youtube with their suggested videos, no downtime.

@iroal said in Why It Is Not a Backup Unless It Is Decoupled:

It was a Hoax

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3057676/it-management/that-man-who-deleted-his-entire-company-with-a-line-of-code-it-was-a-hoax.html#tk.rss_all

Yup, that's what the thread has been discussing 🙂

@BRRABill said in Wordpress multisite migration issue: Solved:

@Ambarishrh

This looks like per site pricing, backupbuddy or Updraft especially has unlimited site option

Does it? I looked at the pricing for Updraft and it said it was a site licence, with options available for unlimited.

Yes, was talking about the unlimited site option- Dev

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Cisco network assistant does stuff like this for smaller setups. Not sure if it works with the fake cisco/SMB SG Line though.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/cloud-systems-management/network-assistant/index.html

@Dashrender said in OneGet - anyone using it?:

@scottalanmiller said in OneGet - anyone using it?:

@Dashrender said in OneGet - anyone using it?:

uhhh I don't know - I guess... Can nuget manage packages or only make them? Can Chocolatey only manage them and not make them?

Well Chocolatey just automates NuGet. What functionality is OneGet adding is the big question.

OneGet is automating Chocolatey and any other package managers you install. From the above linked post - the idea is that you can use anything you want for a package creator/manager.. and then manage them all through OneGet.

I have a better question - why isn't MS doing this through through the MS store instead? Even on Server?

meaning... why isn' tthe Store sciptable? I think the answer is because the Store is a totally useless piece of crap and this is how actual Windows package management has to be.

Well it worked for a while. It was running for 15-16 days and it was at 33% finished. Then I logged in again and I got the error. Not sure when it broke in the timeline.

@Jason said in WDS vs. MDT vs. WAIK:

We use WDS approx 30,000 users. The number of users wouldn't really affect how you image if you plan it right. It's not like every user has their own image.

SCCM isn't worth the trouble. You really don't gain much when you count all the time you have to put into it.

Dell KACE is probally one of the best/most flexible options out there. Not cheap though..

Guessing you also use MDT/WAIK for building. Just using WDS to deploy?

@scottalanmiller said in Windows 10 Replacement for Movie Maker:

@brianlittlejohn said in Windows 10 Replacement for Movie Maker:

@gjacobse said in Windows 10 Replacement for Movie Maker:

What I have called Firewire, they call i.Link.

You can thank Apple for that... Apple trademarked "FireWire" so everyone else had to come up with their own name for IEEE1394

Well, you can thank people using Apple's term for IEEE1394. The real name is just IEEE1394. Calling it FireWire or i.Link is the issue. Just call it by its real name and it gets much clearer 🙂

True!

OK so the powershell method does work remotely, when you kill the quicktime process.

Updated PS1.

Stop-Process -name QuickTimePlayer $quicktime = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product | Where-object { $_.name -match 'Quicktime 7'} $quicktime.Uninstall()

@DustinB3403 said in Server 2012 R2 VM RDP Access Logging in Super Slow:

@BRRABill That is the same prompt I've received, I often just click cancel as I don't need any thing pushed to the server or back.

I wonder if you unchecked CLIPBOARD and hit CONNECT if that would make a difference.

Seems like CANCEL does the same thing anyway.

@Dashrender said in SATA vs NL-SAS vs SAS For New Array:

This whole thing stemmed from my comment that even though the drives are already paid for, they should still be included the actual cost column of the project.

But for discussion with management, they could be left off.

Only in a post mortem sort of way, not for a planning sort of way. Their cost isn't useful information for any purpose that I can think of except determining if the decision to buy them in the first place was a good one.

yeah, bunch of crap in that title. After reading your post, I will not even click through.

@coliver said:

@Breffni-Potter said in Evolutions in software - how do you handle it?:

@scottalanmiller said:

What other apps are you thinking of that you feel have no good alternatives?

I'm going to define the needs rather than products.

Photo Editing (Gimp)
Video Editing (Premier)
Audio Editing (Audition)
Graphic Design (Inkscape)
Print/document design (indesign)
Bulk video/audio encoding (media encoder)
Certain PDF features (Acrobat)

Have you looked at Audacity or Ardour for Audio editing? I have a musician friend who uses Ardour.

I've been using Audacity for forever. Using it a lot since 2005, or so.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Ambarishrh said:

Wanted to setup Let's Encrypt for my blog which is now hosted on ASO but as per their tech agent, this is not possible! 😞

Is that because SSL is not offered at all?

As per them, its only on dedicated servers and not shared. But using https://gethttpsforfree.com/ i was able to generate certs and install 🙂

I've noticed odd behavior like this before - or what I considered odd behavior - the Outlook shortcut for example. If you pin it before Outlook fully launches the screen, but instead do it while in the Outlook profile setup, you get weird results.

Assuming that the icon on the taskbar is the embodiment of the EXE, I'm not surprised that that is what is pined instead of your PS script. I'm guessing you're going to have to manually create a Pinned object to the launcher, not after it has executed and quits, leaving the actual exe running.

Petya ransomware victims can now unlock infected computers without paying.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36014810

@DustinB3403 said:

@Jason said:

@Dashrender said:

But users are idiots..

That's a horrible attitude. No wonder you don't train your users. No we aren't a tech company.

It's actually an honest answer. People in general are about as smart as a bag of doorknobs.

In a Jeopardy style contest between a sack of users and a sack of doorknobs.... my money is on the doorknobs, all day long. Users are simply "average" people. The "average" person is stupider than f@ck (that's a fact), ergo users are idiots.