https://www.traccar.org/

The sad part is no Linux client, cause there is a lot of GPS modules USB type that work well in Linux. However
you can use an android client on Pi and do some magic, or turn smartphones into GPS.

It works but you need to get the right smartphone, the one that gives access to services and disables battery optimizations for apps and large battery.

@Dashrender said in Active Directory change logging / auditing:

@Obsolesce said in Active Directory change logging / auditing:

@scottalanmiller said in Active Directory change logging / auditing:

@notverypunny said in Active Directory change logging / auditing:

@JaredBusch said in Active Directory change logging / auditing:

Netwrix works well. I know people that have purchased it and love it.

The product looks good, but from an IT perspective I don't like the licensing as it's on a per AD user model, (which IT has no control over) whereas ManageEngine is based on a per DC model which is much easier to manage.

Is there a reason IT should have control over that? All IT expenses are just business expenses anyway. Just make it a per-seat cost like other per-seat costs. You already have to pay for Windows, Office, CALs, and whatever else "per seat", it's just another line item for whoever is paying for those.

So why dig a deeper grave?

Why not lay out exactly what you are talking about, what you consider the option to be?

Because I'm not an IT buyer and don't just buy the first turn-key product with a pretty web interface I find. I can see the appeal, especially for a smb with no staff, or an MSP with no time. The thing is, for those solutions, you may end up doing and maintaining more in the end anyways. Not always, but depending on the environment and how it changes over time. Yeah, maybe a turn key solution is best, I don't know the environment at all, just one requirement, which is literally no need for third party product and can be completed in an hour, without needing much if any maintenance.

@Dashrender said in Windows 7 End of Life Countdown:

@warren-stanley said in Windows 7 End of Life Countdown:

@Dashrender so much PC driven medical equipment out there will be affected, not to mention the EHR systems that get, at best, medical compliance patching and are stuck on older non-10 MS OS'es

The shit thing is that most have no way of knowing if the device is running Win7 embedded or not.

But they SHOULD have a way to know if their vendor is providing HIPAA required updates! If they don't, they can't deploy it.

@Dashrender said in HP print drivers:

@travisdh1 said in HP print drivers:

@marcinozga said in HP print drivers:

Does that driver come with inf file that you can use to install drivers through add/remove printers wizard?

It does, and that hadn't worked for me either. Even went so far as to try adding the driver into the "print server settings" manually. Nothing worked till I got the windows update services fixed.

I wonder what the dependancy was? .Net 1?

Something that shouldn't be around anymore is all I know. It was .Net 1.3 something

I'm marking this solved as I create a direction from / called scripts and that does what I need.

No real need for a public shareable desktop when this works just fine.

@pavvelmorozov said in Firefox Multi-Account Containers:

What about antidetect browsers like gologinapp and others? Good alternative?

Never heard of those.

@Nic said in Big Patch Tuesday - updating the cryptographic functions in Windows:

@JaredBusch my bet is the NSA was using it, but now some other nation state has found it and is using it. Which is why NSA now wants us all to patch it.

Yeah this was my point earlier. This tracks with their behavior with EternalBlue.

@scottalanmiller said in Gigapixel Images and File Sizes:

@dafyre said in Gigapixel Images and File Sizes:

Found a site that gives a formula and steps on how they calculate file sizes...

https://4nsi.com/faq/how-do-i-calculate-the-file-size-for-a-digital-image

It's hard to know if it's accurate, but he math makes sense.

Except it is completely wrong so the math making sense doesn't matter, since it's absolutely wrong. That's for calculating a bitmap file type, which no one uses.

You are right about nobody using bitmap files any more. I'm not looking for exact measurements -- or even conservative ones. Just an educated guess as to how big a gigapixel file could be.

By using raw data, rather than worrying about how good of compression the chosen file type gets, I can simply estimate high on the amount of storage we'd need.

Have you tried the linux Icloud Photo downloader?

https://github.com/ndbroadbent/icloud_photos_downloader

Or installing Icloud for Linux and then mounting the photo space?
sudo snap install icloud-for-linux

If I recall, the drive folder is here, photos can't be too terribly different
~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/

@JaredBusch said in Tutorial Flow:

@JasGot said in Tutorial Flow:

I believe most tutorials are written to get something up and running with as few steps as possible, assuming there will be no variances that create differences from the norm in a lab, and the person who wrote the tutorial expects the person reading the tutorial only wants it to work, rather than understand how and why it works, along with how to configure it for different scenarios; and the the writer must also believe the reader has no issues with run-on sentences.

If you ever see one of mine like that, call me the fuck out on it.

Didn't read; sentence is too short 🙂

Oh, and I will, just for you!

Plus you'd get things like single use passwords, SSH CA, encryption as a service, and some more

@Obsolesce said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness:

@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness:

@Obsolesce said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness:

@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness:

@CCWTech said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness:

@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness:

On Ubuntu 19.10, there is a brightness setting on the power screen in settings. But it doesn't seem to do anything. You can slide it, but nothing happens. Anyone having luck adjusting screen brightness on Ubuntu?

We've tested on multiple machines, all seem the same. Both Nvidia and AMD cards same lack of adjustment.

Running 19.10 and I don't even have a brightness setting at all.

I have it, but it affects nothing.

Laptop or desktop monitor? I can't imagine it working on anything but a laptop.

Desktop

That's why. I know of no OS that controls monitor brightness unless it's a laptop/tablet/phone/etc. Never an external monitor with separate power source.

Me either, but @CCWTech was asking for it. I've never looked for it before. No idea what it should do in that situation.

@DustinB3403 said in Kari's Law and Special SMB Onus on IT Staff:

@scottalanmiller You just said that Enterprise customers can be forced to update their information, but smaller orgs get a pass.

I must be misreading what you've typed.

Yes, the CUSTOMERS get a pass, IT that supports small customers has to provide the information that they don't have control over. Enterprise customers have to provide the information from the company.

SMB customers get to not tell anyone when changes are made and blame someone with no power or way to get that information for certain.

@JaredBusch said in Kari's Law and other telecom changes:

@scottalanmiller said in Kari's Law and other telecom changes:

law ....... simply .............. written

HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA

LOL - yeah, pretty much this.

At least the notification requirements are pretty simple and straightforward. For almost everyone, just email out a notification.

@DustinB3403 said in Kari's Law and Hotdesking:

@scottalanmiller I would say, you should disable it if someone can't pick up any phone and call 911.

It IS disabled in that situation. So removes it from law coverage.

@black3dynamite true, you just have to make sure everyone restarts their FF!

@gjacobse said in Large MBOX file:

@DustinB3403 said in Large MBOX file:

@gjacobse said in Large MBOX file:

Thunderbird wants you to create the mailbox settings first.

This is part of a state investigation, so, no gmail account is available. This needs to be a free standing solution. While MBOX reports the ability to handle a 4GB file, it never finishes indexing.

you can add literally anything in, and bypass the process to actually create an account with Thunderbird.

So-

Yes, it worked. I found that it was also an issue the the file name. It was longer than Mozilla wanted. I wonder now if the MBOX viewer would open it now also...

I see.

@Dashrender said in SuiteCRM - Followup impressions:

Did anyone use it at all during the 'trial' period? or did end users just at it and walk away?

I love the fact that the company at least was willing to try something - then move to something else.. instead of just being stuck.. it might be costly to do so.. but at least they are working toward a solution they will hopefully like and works well for them.

Yes. It was used by a trial group. But then afterwards, it was never a) forced or b) even pushed on the main users.

@JaredBusch said in HP Z440’s Bricked Hard:

@Dashrender said in HP Z440’s Bricked Hard:

By this I mean - we have to make our own image that includes the storage drivers so the image will boot and be able to detect the storage devices automatically and allow a typical installation.

This is overthinking things. You Boot to the Windows ISO and then simply click "Load driver" and have the driver on another USB.

No one in the SMB should be doing anything else. Building bootable images with all the right drivers? waste of time. You should not be installing often enough to worry about that.

You're not wrong - but I was trying to give the OP all the information.