@Dashrender said in Soft Phone issues:

HP sure in the heck isn't local in Omaha, they hire contractors to go to businesses to replace motherboards, etc for the onsite component.

NTG got much of its early business being those "local" guys for HPE, Dell, etc.

And funny enough... even being the "local guy" meant that our Rochester, NY guys covered like eight states. When those big companies are sending their "local guy", they are driving hundreds of miles much of the time unless you are in a huge city.

@jmoore said in Large File Sharing:

@Romo said in Large File Sharing:

@dave_c Lucid link seems to be super interesting really.

I looked at that and it seems really nice.

We have been talking about testing it with a client.

@WLS-ITGuy said in Aastra phone replacement:

I don't see a firmware for the T54W nor is the EXP50 available.

These phones are basically new since October or so. They will not be in EPM anytime soon because of how that has traditionally worked. The device manufacturer has to sing an agreement with Sangoma (Schmoozecom) to get a device supported. I assume, but do not know for a fact, that the agrement includes monetary compensation also, as anything in EPM is fully tested by Sangoma also, and testing takes manpower (money).

@krzykat said in How may of you own your IT business and have more than a handful of employees?:

@scottalanmiller

I think you need to have mitigation plans for key man not just for the longevity of your company and your heirs, but I've been asked more than a couple of times if we have plans in effect in case God forbid, that I catch this and fall over. Yes - its very important for employees and clients that you have a proper succession plan in place and I've had some conversations about that already in light of what all is going on. Then realized, I should have done this long ago ... what happens if I get hit by a car crossing the road ... things need to proceed and a plan needs to be in place.

Romo is my key man replacement. He'd need to hire more people to assist with capacity problems, but key functionality would not be disrupted.

OK - JB to the rescue again.

He saw I was marking my allowed IPs as Local - FreePBX doesn't know the 4445 service, so it's not allowed to be part of Local as far as the firewall is concerned.

So two options exist -

mark allowed IPs as Trusted, not Local create a custom service under the firewall, and set it as a local service, then IPs marked as Local will get access.

Thanks @JaredBusch

I don't really use them. I have 3 monitors though. they have been around forever it seems but limited use for me. I do it occasionally but not really out of necessity.

@JaredBusch said in Any good getting started with Hugo resources:

@stacksofplates said in Any good getting started with Hugo resources:

cp -R themes/theme/examplesite/* .

Why do this? Why can't I just create my own things? Why bring everything from the example up?

I don't mind this, just trying to understand the logic.

Each theme has it's own specific settings. The example gives you all of those settings without having to read through all of their theme and find the settings for yourself. You can delete the files in content/ that you don't need. It's just a way to show you how to use the theme and give you a default config.toml.

@scottalanmiller said in Mattermost Behind Nginx and Cloudflare Script Load Error:

@Pete-S said in Mattermost Behind Nginx and Cloudflare Script Load Error:

@scottalanmiller said in Mattermost Behind Nginx and Cloudflare Script Load Error:

@black3dynamite said in Mattermost Behind Nginx and Cloudflare Script Load Error:

s your setup is Cloudflare proxy -> Nginx proxy -> apache (mattermost)?

CF Proxy > Nginx Proxy > Mattermost (MM is its own server)

And yes, if I disable the CF Proxy, it works.

Why the double reverse proxies?

That's the standard. You are always expected to have your node.js servers behind a reverse proxy. And CloudFlare is the CDN cache in front. This is the universal standard for all web servers. Plenty of times to avoid it, of course, but this is the baseline system design.

In this case, MM is a raw node server so has none of the protections or handling of a system like Nginx. Nginx also provides the ability to have multiple sites behind one IP address. MM doesn't do that on its own, nor does CloudFlare. No different than how MangoLassi is on NodeBB, also a node platform, behind Nginx, behind CloudFlare.

CF can't do the details port and IP handling, Nginx can't do the globally distributed cache.

Thanks for the clarification Scott. I (wrongly) thought that Cloudflare was a full featured proxy and could do the same job as haproxy, nginx etc.

What about using Ghost? I started with it before moving to Wordpress. It is completely markdown if I remember right. I liked it but didn't feel the plugin availability was there.

I find it to not be of concern. I would never have it happen, because it's a bizarre and problematic way to handle internal DNS. But anyone who can exploit private IP mapping can figure it out without DNS in the first place. So I see no reason to want to hide it.

@mroth911 said in Nodeweaver:

I am going to setup Proxmox tonight with LizardFs and see what the big deal is with nodeweaver and see how it functions. I will write down documentation if need be so I can share it if others what to do it.

I was actually reading about Proxmox and LizardFS.
https://docs.lizardfs.com/cookbook/hypervisors.html#using-lizardfs-as-shared-storage-for-proxmoxve

The virtualization... do we only count hypervisors, or do we count the VMs? Or only the VMs? My desktop has full VMs that are used as if they are completely separate machines. How do we count them?

How do we count VDI, Terminal Servers, Thin Clients, etc?

@Dashrender said in Windows 10- Cant Connect to this network?:

I have seen specific devices have a hard time getting/staying connected. My old Lenovo laptop had this issue. Replacing the wireless NIC solved the problem. Others I've updated the driver and it solved, and yet others never resolved. Recommended solutions at that point were - replace the AP, replace the laptop/device.

I didn't mention updating the AP, but I suppose that should be mentioned.

Agreed, this is more likely to be hardware or driver related, than to be Windows 10 related.

We used to use that product for redundant monitoring of SCADA system. We would monitor door latches, pumps, water levels, etc. It worked great.

We have since moved to Raspberry Pi to meet the needs of other controls we wanted to include in our management systems.

The control by web device will do what you have asked for above. It's very inexpensive too.

If you have, or plan to add, custom alerts, you may want to consider something like a Raspberry Pi to give you unlimited flexibility when it comes to PLC.

@dave_c said in Data Base Management:

@Pete-S
We were not sure they were dBase files. Even Oracle database uses .dbf extension for data files.

I understand. You can't be sure until you try but usually you'll know if you're running Oracle because you'll have oracle listener and other services running as well as a completely different folder structure. When you find files that are dbf somewhere, they're usually dBase because you can make a small database inside an application just by importing some libraries. So dBase isn't something that has to be installed on the computer but Oracle is.

@WrCombs said in Proposal to my Boss - Thoughts?:

Proposal to my Boss - Thoughts?
......I want to propose to my boss

Thoughts? Yes, make sure her husband is okay with it! 🙂

And don't forget, the newest craze: Zoom Bombing.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/20/04/02/1937229/the-internet-is-now-rife-with-places-where-you-can-organize-zoom-bombing-raids