Crontab jobs might make a backup copy as you're scheduling cron jobs or making adjustments. IE: crontab.XXXXGvrDIU

Which for some reason take a ton of space...

Making certain you clean up any manually downloaded patches (if the built in patcher fails for some reason) and removing log files if they become unwieldy.

Rolling out several more Linux machines here today and hopefully will be building out some demo environments of what a 100% Linux environment would look like.

How goes your project?

We use gotomeeting here. Saw https://www.fuze.com/plans and never knew that 3CX has one http://www.3cx.com/web-conferencing/

@JaredBusch said:

That is why you enable rating restrictions. if you do not want people to have access. use the tools provided.

Does it show the actual item, and restrict it? Or not show it at all? I am going to set it up and play with it myself soon enough ... was just curious.

Also, there is stuff that isn't rating related that I just might not need everyone to see. It would be nice if you could go the opposite. Everything is hidden, and you enable what you want. But perhaps I'm an outlier. (PROBABLE.)

@anthonyh said:

@Dashrender said:

for the username on the application, have you tried domain\username or [email protected]?

I did try [email protected], but I did not try domain\username. I'll give that a shot.

No go unfortunately. I'm going to ask the vendor if the app supports SAML based authentication. I'm pretty sure the answer is going to be no, but it's worth an ask.

@scottalanmiller said:

Is GZoogle the compressed version of Google?

GYes.

@gjacobse said:

@travisdh1

No - User accounts are 'left' so that is connection to the AD / DC is lost, then the user can still log on.

That's not totally true, all profiles files are left, that doesn't mean you can still login to it necessarily. There's no process for AD to talk to the local computer to tell it the user was removed. It is just a directory service, The local computer has to request to login to the account. There is no method AD to tell computers anything changed without them requesting.

I have tested a few times, and it works great. This is a huge help and I don't have to worry about limits or trials. It's completely free.

Main PC:
Late 2012 27" iMac, i5, 32GB Ram, 1TB fusion drive - Apple gave it to me for free!!!

Server:
Intel NUC i5, 16GB Ram, 250GB M.2 SSD, Esxi 6, VMs running Adtran WLAN controller, Centos 7 running Jackett app, Ubuntu 14.10 running Mfi controller, Unitrends appliance, Ubuntu 15.10 running MusicBrains mirror

Storage/file server:
Custom build, Asrock E3C224D4I-14S mainboard, Intel Xeon E3-1231v3 CPU, 16GB 1600 ECC ram, Lian-Li PC-Q26A case, 10x 3TB WD Red drives, 120GB Kingston SSD, 64GB Crucial SSD, FreeBSD 10.2', ZFS RaidZ2, Crucial drive as L2ARC, running Plex Media Server, Transmission and a few other media workflow automation apps

Cloud
Amazon Cloud Drive
iCloud
OneDrive - moving away from it after Microsoft pulled the stunt with (un)limited storage
Google Play Music

Mobile
iPad Air 2 64GB
Kindle Fire HDX
IPhone 5S 16GB
Apple Watch - my wife just bought it, so I might not get to use it at all 😞

Media Center
Asus Chromebox - rooted and running Openelec distro with Kodi and PlexBMC client
PlayStation 4
Chromecast
Fire TV stick
Amazon Echo
Apple TV 2nd gen, retiring soon
Apple TV - the new one
Roku 3 - probably retiring soon with old Apple TV

absolutely @MattSpeller But I look at everything as a consultant anyway, if i'm called, i bill 🙂

@Dashrender said:

Interesting question. I still wouldn't say that we are cloud based as a core, because I read core as what I'm doing inside my own walls. It appears that to you core means what your LOB app is.

If you asked the owners / doctors what the core function of your IT was... would they think that it was the LOB or that it was.... other stuff?

The core is what runs operations, not what IT uses.

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Yeah, surprisingly there appear to be many companies using Skype for normal employees now. It works surprisingly well.

What I want to know is how do you transfer a call? I suppose you could conference in someone, then simply drop out.

But I ask - where are you seeing this Skype in Business use? in those California Startups you mentioned in the other thread?

Lots of modern companies don't use a receptionist. Once you go to Skype, people contact by name, not by "company."

We see it all over. California is where I've worked for companies that use it. But it was the northeast where I kept saying it was useless and I kept being told that tons of customers used and required it.

@Minion-Queen said:

@IRJ Yes the answer is yes.....

Sigh!

@johnhooks said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@DustinB3403 said:

A bit of an old post (2013) but apparently "Facebook doesn't virtualize its servers, because its software already consumes all the hardware resources, meaning virtualization would result in a performance penalty without a gain in efficiency."

Seems odd, but ok, and I assume their still using Spinning Rust too... (again I know the topic is almost 2 years old)

This is one of those odd situations. I had a 10K compute node (yes, 10K individual servers) cluster on Wall St. We didn't virtualize at the individual server level because the entire thing was treated as a single computer and virtualized at the cluster level.

This is what Facebook is doing. Those are not really individual computers, the virtualization is up the stack higher.

You can even do this at home with Maas and Juju 🙂

Not quite the same. That's just super efficient management of hardware. It doesn't turn the hardware itself into a cluster that acts like a single computer. It acts, more or less, like an autoprovisioning cloud, but not like virtualization.

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Would you rather all of your IT staff be rabbits or all of management be frogs.

I have no idea what this mean?

Once we are asking fanciful, impossible questions... what is the point? We might as well talk about fairies and talking animals taking over jobs.

Well, Youtube does have the armies of code monkeys.

@DustinB3403 said:

Alternatively and at the bottom of the page, there is SADMS. A GUI way of joining Ubuntu to a windows domain.

thnks ... will check soon

I can report some off and on Bluetooth issues on a Thinkpad from the Lenovo outlet. No wifi issues for me, but after resuming from hibernate I often have to uninstall the monitor to be able to adjust the brightness at all.

The price was pretty right. But yeah that was before Superfish etc. too. I put in more memory and an ssd, reinstalled Windows fresh and we'll see if anything catastrophic keeps it from holding me over for a while.

The display isn't too hot though, and makes me want one of those 1080 Toshiba Chromebooks for some browsing (and playing with Crouton).