After some more testing it seems enabling output to journald.conf has worked. I did restart it after I tried that but it didn't show up. Now it's working. Not sure what changed, but at least it's working.

We use ADCom for this type of stuff. http://www.adcomsolutions.com/ They monitor the connections and even put in tickets with the providers for us.

When I was at my last employer we had a 300-Tonne Punch Press where the clutch brake would occasionally go into a fault state. Well the apparent fix for this is to reinstall the class A programming.

Which uses a very specific cable (cost $1400 at the time for a modern USB one) and an XP Laptop.

Well it so happens that this press would lose power rather consistently (due to maintenance etc). Finally getting fed up with this, I pass it off to our maintenance department to address.

Any time the machine goes down (since we're a 24/6) shop they can fix it.

Bandaid applied.......

All comes down to if learning VMware specifically is important to you or if you just want good virtualization.

dude, go with your wireless bridge. I have atleast 10 of these setup in the wild for clients using ubiquiti gear from 200ish feet to 1ish miles without issue. as long as you have LOS, and since you're so close turn down the gain, you'll be golden. i'd roof mount, but since this is just residential and you're apparently just helping someone out who doesn't want to pay for internet (or you want to LAN game/share) the wifi will be your Cheap/easy/good setup.

Ok jason, you're right. I haven't the slightest idea. None.

Have a good day.

I'll have to go suck my thumb..

I have used Keyboard shortcuts for years. I can't isolate a specific task, but there are times that I have one hand on the keyboard and the other on the mouse.

When I was teaching computer and Office basics and short-cut keys was one of the things I would cover. Some of them can be such a time saver.

@Jason said:

Looks like Some linux like Arch do. FreeBSD does as well.

Wow. That's not totally surprising but is to some degree. I wonder...

Which FR controllers are commonly handled. Is it from the vendor or just an open source driver. If the latter is it just automating MD or is it completely rewritten RAID? Why would anyone do this??

I use the remote control software that comes with System Centre Configuration Manager for work stations and just the standard RDP software that is built into Windows for accessing our servers.

I don't like how RDCM doesn't pass all keyboard shortcuts. Total deal breaker.
It also messes with my head having it in a window.

We have mainly stuck with Windows 7 and the few 8.1 machines haven't needed .Net 3.5.
So we are yet to experience this.

Thanks for the heads up 🙂

@JaredBusch said:

@Dashrender said:

awww Inbound doesn't have this limit. even better!

Huh? The trunk being used for inbound calls on my system is VoicePulse and it has an 8 concurrent call limit. The outbound trunk is VoIP.ms which is soft capped at 25, and there are also 2 IAX2 trunks connecting to other PBX systems. Those systems have no caps

Clearly I'm just off today, ignore me.

@garak0410 said:

I did find a few on Google from some school districts. And this is a single user and close friend to our lead engineer. He will be engineering buildings for us an while, along with our in office engineers.

Might be OK just this once but making a "policy" just makes sense now.

We were going to just share files via DropBox or the like but the push suddenly came to get him VPN access like NOW. 😞

Odd I though you meant a software/IT consultant. You should have HR handle that and have them sign the same AUP as any normal employee. However we don't give these type people network access, they aren't employees. We have an FTP server external engineers share AutoCad, Tekla, and other BIM models over all the time.

I just went and tried it with 'none' as my IP mode... I set a static IP address on my Windows DHCP server and activated a DHCP scope and it not work. I switched back to ZT for IP handling and everything went back to working agian.

I'll try it with a LInux DHCP server on the controller in a little bit and let you know how that goes.

@DustinB3403 said:

@Jason Of course you should for confirmation, but the point of any centrally managed solution is so that you don't have to.

You push updates, you push scans, you push removals, and even system restarts.

Centrally managed doesn't mean you don't need to confirm, that's not the point. The point is alerts. And also ease of deployment in a large environment.

That's not how centrally managed AV works. It does not "push" definition updates. The AV client pulls them, you might have a local cache of updates, but it's still pulling them and you don't generally pick and choose. You can push scheduled scans with GPO's even with standalone endpoints.

That name Simontatham I think was the creator or something. Putty makes that entry. It has nothing to do with the user on the computer.

@Dashrender said:

Short of getting a direct link to what someone is suggesting for you, it's very likely you'll get the wrong (though infected) thing. 😞

Windows is the worst. The Metro store has no search at all, no idea how you were supposed to use it. The Windows Phone store was actually nothing but malware. No real apps at all. The entire platform might as well have been designed for malware. It seemed to have no other function. For that reason alone, nothing more needed, I don't see it as a viable device.

One of the most important steps of taking backups is testing them. Not just the processes, but that is how you verify that the backups are being taken correctly too.

@Dashrender said:

I'm not sure about that if that was the case, then why is Scott so dead set against Hot Spares? Unless he's only against hot spares for spinning rust RAID 5.

Hot Spares with R5 are insane as it could be a live part of the array making it a RAID 6. RAID 1, same thing, just make it part of the array. Both cases are insane to have hot spares.

With RAID 6 you can have them in situations where the hot spare does not push you unnecessarily close to RAID 10 and RAID 5.3 (aka RAID 7) is not available. But that's relatively uncommon.

In RAID 10 you can have them but they only make sense in very large arrays or cases where you just can't get to the array to swap the failed drives.

In some cases it is an architectural problem, in others it is that the cost is just not justified.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

I'm at X for 110 PCs and 10 servers... so we're doing better, but my pay is higher than Scott's number too.

Right, I was targeting someone that was principally focused on desktops. And it came out very high. The enterprise numbers that I have heard are like $1,000 - $1,500 per desktop, per year.

I'm guessing we are closer to the higher range that you mentioned.. that's all I was trying to say.