• Home internet usage monitoring App

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    You bet!

  • Anyone tried DigitalOcean?

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    Rackspace offers pure SSD hosting too.

  • Documenting Common Knowledge

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    @tobywells said:

    It might be worth turning it on its head, by that I mean pointing out that unless you can prove your documentation is the irrefutable source of all knowledge its never going to be referred to in that way. We already have a source of (nearly) all knowledge its called google-fu

    If logic prevails then this is a good approach.

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    Egnyte has a relationship with Netgear ReadyNAS. Very handy option.

  • We've launched a Channel Partner group on the Webroot communtiy

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    @Nara said:

    Awesome! I hope you get more partners to help spread the Webroot goodness!

    Is that like a web of grassroots?

  • Installing Centos in Virtual Box

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    @scottalanmiller said:

    @Joyfano said:

    Finally i installed my Linux mint to my Virtual Box. 🙂

    And it is working? The Atom must have virtualization that I was not aware of.

    yes but its too slow 😞

  • Reluctant to recommend servers that aren't new?

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    I would not recommend Used or Refurb gear to my company. I just don't see the value in it. Hardware is so cheap these days.

    Most Small to Medium businesses only need a few Servers to host their virtual environment of 50-100 servers.

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    @JaredBusch said:

    @NetworkNerd said:

    Thanks to all who responded here. We're going to roll with PSX's idea.

    I will also tell you I posted this somewhere else and did not receive as many responses as I did here.

    What other device you going to use? If you buy the right thing you can shitcan the entire ASA

    I already had a Cisco RV180 lying around and used it for the camera traffic. The only thing I do not have setup right now is static routes.

  • Metal 3D Printing

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    @FiyaFly said:

    Hold on a minute. So if you were to get a plastic 3d printer and a metal 3d printer, in theory you could print most of the mechanical replacement parts you'd ever need for the two machines.

    Correct. If you owned a custom plastic fab and a custom metal fab you could make most anything.

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    I tried moving us to a TS environment about 4 years ago - I couldn't get past the thin clients 'flashing' on websites that used Adobe Flash. When moving between screens on our EMR of the time the whole window would flash white before going to the next screen. I posted about it on SW... someone posted a reason why (can't recall now). Never had the problem when using a Windows machine as a terminal into the TS.

    In the end it worked out since our current EMR strictly forbids TS.

  • NSA declares war on sysadmins

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    @Dashrender said:

    I'm fairly certain I'm on the list too, especially considering that I'm an arms owner as well.

    No arms here but nearly a decade in international finance.... I'm at the top of the list.

  • Do You Push Your E-mail?

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    I've found that iOS calendar functions work better with push enabled, so I just turned of all notifications, sound, and such for email. Every couple of hours or so, I'll process my inbox, as well as make sure that I'm at zero before bed and when I wake up. During the workday, I process my inbox about every 40 minutes or so, but constantly work out of my "next" folder. The reason for this is that I found out that constantly trying to keep up with my email was preventing me from really getting into projects and tasks effectively. This way, I can still keep on top of email and address actionables, yet I can still perform non-email tasks effectively.

  • Postfix as Smarthost

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    Setting Postfix up as a smarthost's pretty straightforward. I've done it in reverse as an inbound mail gateway instead of using an MS Exchange Edge Transport role. I'm guessing you'd be allowing access based on IP?

    While you want to keep it simple, I can't stress strongly enough to use at least outbound spam filtering. That way, in case you do somehow start churning out spam, it'll get caught before your IP gets blacklisted.

  • Outlook 2013 Very Slow

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    @Nara said:

    @scottalanmiller said:

    Office 2013 is slower. It just is. You have moved from a Windows native app to a web app. They don't tell you this anywhere but look closely. Office 2013 is actually running in a frameless browser.

    Are you sure on that? I just took a stroll through my office directory and found all the appropriate DLL files and such that would go along with a regular program. Outlook still has all the native quirks, features, and errors that wouldn't be part of a web app.

    The interface is running in the browser. It still has some hooks because lots of stuff needs the DLLs. But the part that you see is all in a frameless browser. Lots of applications run this way, it is a lot of Microsoft's vision for the future and makes sense for portability and hostability.

  • What Is Your Favorite Linux for Server Use

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    @Joyfano said:

    Speaking of Linux Server.. correct me if i am wrong can i use Linux as my server then my client computers are Windows?

    Yes. But it depends what you are serving. "Server" and "client" only mean "provides a service" and "consumes a service" so the terms are pretty loose. But to prove what you ask is true, you are currently reading this website on Windows (the client.) The site itself is running on Linux (the server.) So this interaction that we are having right now is both of us using Windows as the client and Linux as the service.

    Likewise you can use Office 365 on a Linux machine. So Windows is the server and Linux is the client in that case.

  • Building my website

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    @Hubtech said:

    I hate content...is that weird?

    Not at all. Churning content is more of the creative/artistic mindset, whereas getting a site running's more of a practical one. Any time I've done web work, I've had others feed me the content. "You want your website to look like your latest product catalog? Ok, send me a copy of it and the content you want to show up." It's easier to have a goal/image to work to rather than create "stuff".

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    @Nara said:

    @Bill-Kindle said:

    @scottalanmiller said:

    It's the only install option that I normally use. I only install the GUI if there is a specific site technical deficiency making it necessary.

    It's the default option and the option that is suggested with all new 2012 R2 installs thanks to the Server Manager and PowerShell. The really nice thing is that you can deploy Server Core, and if you so choose at a later date install the full GUI and even revert it back to Core. It's not a irrevocable decision now with 2012.

    That has saved me a few times so far.

    Up until about a month or so ago I was still afraid of doing this because I thought it was still irrevocable like it was in 2008 R2. After seeing how to switch back and forth with a few PowerShell cmdlets and parameters, I'm going to install and maintain more core systems because I always have RSAT and Server Manager now.

  • Are you using IEAK to deploy required settings for IE?

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    So far, all the changes for IE that I've had to make have been doable via GPO. I recall using IEAK years ago, but stopped using it once I could start using GPOs.

  • I'm Looking for Free Server 2012 Practice Tests - Know of Any?

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  • VOIP Vs VPN

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    @scottalanmiller greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat, that's what i'm looking for, a bunch of experts willing to help and share their knowledge with other people,
    really people will appreciate your work, thanks