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  Do I Need a Unifi Controller for a Unifi AP Deployment
  networking ubiquiti unifi unifi controller access point • • WrCombs  

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  OK late to the thread. We use a cheap travel router for this purpose. GL.iNET GL-MT300N think we paid $25 for it. Supports up to 4 SSID's and can do VLAN's though we only use 1. We can actual do wifi to wifi bridging with it. We use it for these wifi Sapling clocks that need to connect to a pre-provided WPA2-PSK ssid for initial setup. This is the newest version: https://store.gl-inet.com/collections/travel-routers/products/gl-mt300n-v2-mini-smart-router Can get these on Amazon now for $25
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  Linux OS Thoughts?
  linux linux desktop windowstolinux • • WrCombs  

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  @scottalanmiller said in Linux OS Thoughts?: @JaredBusch said in Linux OS Thoughts?: @scottalanmiller said in Linux OS Thoughts?: @WrCombs said in Linux OS Thoughts?: @WrCombs said in Linux OS Thoughts?: @scottalanmiller said in Linux OS Thoughts?: @WrCombs said in Linux OS Thoughts?: @Dashrender said in Linux OS Thoughts?: Back to the OP. @WrCombs wants to things most likely... a desktop environment to run in - So Fedora or Ubuntu most likely... and then a separate "server" box to install Linux Server OSes on to experiment with to do things like - setup FreePBX, setup NC, setup file server, etc. yes. I could even VM those, right? or no? - Forgive the newbness, but I'm thinking a Desktop and then run a VM Boxes with server OS's to do what @Dashrender is saying and thoughts on which ones to try. Boxes is weird, but yes. Throw Fedora or Ubuntu onto a laptop or desktop, install KVM, and virtualize anything that you want. You get a fully functional, and gorgeous desktop environment, but can test any server OS or alternative desktop OS that you like. sounds like the likely chose.. I know they're out there; anyone got the link for the guides? for installing KVM ; I'll start another list of projects that I'm going to work on and go from there https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-install-kvm-on-fedora/ Did I not have a guide here on ML? For KVM on Fedora? Don't recall one. Apparently not. I just did some searching, and it is mostly posts and screenshots of the various things in other people's threads.
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  Equipment Placement in Rack
  rack • • hobbit666  

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  @hobbit666 Two switches but looks like there is space for everything in the top switch? Anyway, it's tricky to make it nice when you have to use what you have. But different length patch cables make a big difference. Same color unless it's color coded for some reason. I suggest the thin patch cables that someone from here recommended to me. They are awesome and a lot thinner than what it looks like. You can fit about three times as many cables in the same space. https://www.fs.com/c/28awg-slim-patch-cables-613 And yes, put 19" power strip on the bottom. Something like: https://www.fs.com/products/29452.html I'd probably forgo the horizontal cable management and go directly from patch panel to switch. Perhaps even move them together. If you have vlans, reconfigure the switch so you cable it neatly.
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  Post Parity and a New Era
  • scottalanmiller  

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  That's nice lol, I have posted here 1/7 of the posts I have done in SW which is crazy lol. I really do casual posts here for sure.
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  Ridiculous Words Lacking from the Google Chrome Dictionary
  google firefox chrome google chrome web browser dictionary • • scottalanmiller  

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  @JaredBusch said in Ridiculous Words Lacking from the Google Chrome Dictionary: @scottalanmiller said in Ridiculous Words Lacking from the Google Chrome Dictionary: @Dashrender said in Ridiculous Words Lacking from the Google Chrome Dictionary: @scottalanmiller said in Ridiculous Words Lacking from the Google Chrome Dictionary: @Dashrender said in Ridiculous Words Lacking from the Google Chrome Dictionary: @scottalanmiller said in Ridiculous Words Lacking from the Google Chrome Dictionary: natatorium Huh, never heard this work before. In NY, we use it like "gym". You'd head to the "school's natatorium". And that's how it would be labeled on the door. Seems to be the same here in Texas. The city buildings say "Such and Such Municipal Natatorium" on them to designate them as having a pool. Just checked, Google lacks this word, too. I get it - I looked it, I've just never seen it before... it's just - indoor pool, in every reference I can recall. Yup, just like a gymnasium is an indoor activity / exercise area. It's not used in the midwest. I'm not surprised. It doesn't "feel" like a super common term, but it's definitely written on public buildings that I see pretty often.
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  Streaming music for office (or anywhere)
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  @JasGot Thanks, good to know! Another option might also be to use a Raspberry Pi. I was looking at RuneAudio which has a slick web interface - so no apps needed. I haven't gotten around to it yet, but it's on my todo list.
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  Learning Spanish - Voice centric
  languages learning resources spanish • • CCWTech  

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  @scottalanmiller said in Learning Spanish - Voice centric: Rosetta Stone isn't too bad. So far I'm digging it.
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  Carless in Dallas
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  @Alex-Jones said in Carless in Dallas: Anyone know where I can find a carpet cleaner in Dallas? No, but keep a lookout on the main page here. Something will pop up sooner than later.
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  Aclose Should Be in the Dictionary
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  Afar can be used only as a noun or adverb. Your two new examples work as a noun, and I assume would make them correct.
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  Spiceworks users don't understand Google ads
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  @scottalanmiller said in Spiceworks users don't understand Google ads: @batman said in Spiceworks users don't understand Google ads: @scottalanmiller other than Spiceworks has always used Google for remnant space and the first iterations of the desktop product solely used Google ads. Maybe super long ago, but for the big majority of their time when it was popular, it was normally just their "sold" ads. Correct, and it is not like they don't understand it, it is that ads have been very strange lately and no one is looking at the quality of them.
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  Time for a mobile phone upgrade
  mobilephones cell phones water closet for fun • • WrCombs  

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  @Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade: @Obsolesce said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade: @Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade: @Obsolesce said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade: @scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade: @Obsolesce said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade: @WrCombs said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade: SO- I'm giving IPhone a shot. heard great things and after a while of playing and trying, I went with an Iphone XR .. Even with this thing out there? https://www.asus.com/us/Phone/ZenFone-6-Edition-30/ That looks awesome. Seen a price yet? Just the pricing here in Sweden, https://eshop.asus.com/sv-SE/zenfone-6-edition-30-12-512-gb-matte-black.html 8,300 SEK (roughly $850), which right now, buying in USD is a sweet deal because 1 USD = 9.8 SEK which is the highest I've seen it ever Tempting, but still expensive. I think I'd do it if it did 5g. But it doesn't seem to. Why do you care about 5G? Aren't you moving back to the US? who has 5G here - really has it? Because That is a phone I would want to keep for like 3 years, and San Diego is the kind of place 5g will actually be a thing relatively soon. Considering your options then.. I'd wait at least 1 years before buying a phone. That's probably a good idea.
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  SpiceWorld 2020 in Austin, TX
  spiceworld spiceworld 2020 • • scottalanmiller  

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  @scottalanmiller said in SpiceWorld 2020 in Austin, TX: @Dashrender said in SpiceWorld 2020 in Austin, TX: I bought my ticket.. though won't know if I'm approved to go until a month or so before. You never do. nope.. sad way things are around there. Hell she's going to a convention for our EHR in 2 weeks, and only booked airfare last week.. but has known she was going for 4 months.
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  IT Kitchen & Grill
  it kitchen and grill recipe • • thwr  

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  Guinness Stout Chocolate Cake (This can be made with nearly any kind of stout) FOR THE CAKE: Butter for pan 1 cup Guinness stout 10 tablespoons (1 stick plus 2 tablespoons) unsalted butter ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa 2 cups superfine sugar ¾ cup sour cream 2 large eggs 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 2 cups all-purpose flour 2 ½ teaspoons baking soda FOR THE TOPPING: 1 ¼ cups confectioners' sugar 8 ounces cream cheese at room temperature ½ cup heavy cream Email Grocery List PREPARATION Step 1 For the cake: heat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9-inch springform pan and line with parchment paper. In a large saucepan, combine Guinness and butter. Place over medium-low heat until butter melts, then remove from heat. Add cocoa and superfine sugar, and whisk to blend. Step 2 In a small bowl, combine sour cream, eggs and vanilla; mix well. Add to Guinness mixture. Add flour and baking soda, and whisk again until smooth. Pour into buttered pan, and bake until risen and firm, 45 minutes to one hour. Place pan on a wire rack and cool completely in pan. Step 3 For the topping: Using a food processor or by hand, mix confectioners' sugar to break up lumps. Add cream cheese and blend until smooth. Add heavy cream, and mix until smooth and spreadable. Step 4 Remove cake from pan and place on a platter or cake stand. Ice top of cake only, so that it resembles a frothy pint of Guinness. Edit: The last 3 times we made this, we used the vanilla toffee stout pictured below. Even better than regular Guinness.
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  Mangolassi Right Now
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  @scottalanmiller said in Mangolassi Right Now: @JaredBusch said in Mangolassi Right Now: @scottalanmiller said in Mangolassi Right Now: Having a good time here. No time to be posting, though. Yup. So much so, that I did not see this thread until I was at home. Exactly. It's intense. Like camping in the forest... In tents
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  I love flying. Nothing bothers me while in the air.
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  My closest to any of theses is Juneau Alaska. Didn't make the list, but before their JAWS system to measure wind shear off the mountains, it was a difficult landing to say the least. It used to require a 180 degree turn during last stages of descnet.
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  The Death of Sysadmin
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  Other Agile methodologies, at least in their earlier incarnations, didn't pay much attention to CI. CI is great, but people were trying to figure out what it was and how to do it in 1999. Shops talking about (not doing, just talking about) CI were in the top .1% back then. It was an era of huge software engineering progress and change. Loads of ideas came up and some became major, like CI, and some died off and are forgotten, like PP.
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  Traumatizing Muppets
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  @scottalanmiller said in Traumatizing Muppets: Don't remember that one. But all puppets seem morbid to me. Hell yeah! Youtube Video
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  Enterprise IT community
  community enterprise it pro • • EddieJennings  

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  @notverypunny said in Enterprise IT community: Don't know if we qualify as enterprise, but communities like this help get an external perspective regardless of the size of the organization. The challenge I find in larger orgs is the inertia involved in anything IT. Almost in the literal sense as far as trying to get something started but also in trying to halt / redirect a project that's heading for a bad outcome. In an actual enterprise, I would suspect that only the management team of IT could have much real impact on a project going a bad direction. And again, it's getting those in management to have buy-in before anything would change.
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  Bed Bugs
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  I almost popped in here to ban/delete this. But, I read the thread... In some humor- maybe I should have deleted all the cleaning service threads- That’s a joke son-
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  The Patch Tuesday
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  @RojoLoco said in The Patch Tuesday: https://www.saudereggs.com/blog/how-to-make-a-cocktail-with-egg-white/ Now I want a Pisco sour. Clover Club looks good, too.
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  Have computers gotten boring, or is it just me?
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  @notverypunny said in Have computers gotten boring, or is it just me?: @IRJ said in Have computers gotten boring, or is it just me?: @Pete-S said in Have computers gotten boring, or is it just me?: @notverypunny said in Have computers gotten boring, or is it just me?: So, all kidding aside (about me becoming the boring thing) is there something that I'm overlooking or missing out on or have computers and OSs in general gotten really boring over the last few years? I used to recall getting interested in new features, a new distribution or a DE's latest release not so many years ago. Now it seems that things are more or less the same across the board... a boring game of IT theme and variation. Anyone else seeing the same thing(s) out there? It's your age (as in experience). And the fact that the technology is becoming relatively mature. It's natural to not feel enthusiasm when you see something similar for the 15th or 30th time. If some completely new mind-boggling technology showed up, you'd probably feel like a kid again! He should go play in the clouds Ouff, cloud..... being forced to play there but not exactly enthusiastic about the whole idea.... damn I'm starting to sound (and feel) like an old curmudgeon Cloud DevOps is pretty damn cool. You can spin up complex and secure environments in automated fashion that IT people only dreamed about 15 years ago. Cloud Infrastructure and Autoscaling is definitely interesting as well. You think differently about deploying servers and can easily restore things in a disaster. Cloud DR is awesome.You could potentially have your entire infrastructure in warm storage that you can deploy very quickly, and only pay storage costs. Cloud Security is all whitelist only and is very granular. Cloud is much more secure than on-prem in most cases
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  Spiceworks Just Got Acquired by Publisher Ziff-Davis
  spiceworks ziff-davis • • Nic  

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  Or if you just want something simple, quick, and free: https://bestpractical.com/
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  New York City In Winter???
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  The bad winter months are really Jan and Feb.. and into March.
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  What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech
  reading • • scottalanmiller  

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  https://theconversation.com/do-smart-people-tend-to-be-more-liberal-yes-but-it-doesnt-mean-all-conservatives-are-stupid-57713
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  zip and . rar files?
  zip winrar rar • • WrCombs  

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  @Dashrender said in zip and . rar files?: @JaredBusch said in zip and . rar files?: @notverypunny said in zip and . rar files?: The advantage that I remember rar having was that it could split and then recombine an archive at the appropriate size for floppy disks. Seems foolish now but in the era of dial-up and 1.44 MB 3.5" diskettes it was a killer feature that winzip (also a paid software once upon a time, not always built into windoze) didn't have. Correct, that was the huge benefit to rar over zip in the 90’s. You are also correct that native zip support in windows is relatively recent. If by recent you mean Windows XP... LOL, yeah, 18 years ago at this point
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  AirDropping is the latest horrifying subway trend
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  Back on the news. Man accused of sending obscene image to stranger on subway in Japan via AirDrop FUKUOKA -- A man who allegedly sent a nude female image to a stranger on a subway train via Apple's "AirDrop" file-sharing service is accused of violating a prefectural ordinance, police said on Aug. 20.
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  Looking at Ideas for a Grassless Backyard
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  @DustinB3403 I've thought about gravelling the whole thing. Paving doesn't work, we have so much heave.
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  How to remove incorrectly uploaded to imgur
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  @Pete-S said in How to remove incorrectly uploaded to imgur: @Pete-S said in How to remove incorrectly uploaded to imgur: @scottalanmiller said in How to remove incorrectly uploaded to imgur: @Pete-S said in How to remove incorrectly uploaded to imgur: @scottalanmiller said in How to remove incorrectly uploaded to imgur: It was really frustrating setting Imgur up, because you didn't get a sign in like a normal app when we did it (this is 2014.) Crazy confusing to use, because you registered and got the API info, but no account to use. Looks like you have to register at some point. And there seems to be a header when imgur API's are accessed and that how they know which account it is that is posting the image. If you can check what that is, you'll know your client id. From https://api.imgur.com/: Register an Application (IMPORTANT) Each client must register their application and receive the client_id and client_secret. For public read-only and anonymous resources, such as getting image info, looking up user comments, etc. all you need to do is send an authorization header with your client_id in your requests. This also works if you'd like to upload images anonymously (without the image being tied to an account), or if you'd like to create an anonymous album. This lets us know which application is accessing the API. Authorization: Client-ID YOUR_CLIENT_ID Yes, you register. But during the registration process, at least in 2014, there was no "account login" involved. No username or password. There was registration and the API / secret. But can we use that to log in? No, doesn't look like you can use that to login. It actually looks like you can't remove images using the API either - if they have been uploaded anonymously with your client_id. You need the deletehash value from each upload mentioned earlier in this thread and it look like nodebb imgur plugin doesn't save that info. So no dice. I think @JaredBusch has another setup. He tied the application to his imgur user account - by getting the client id/secret for the webapp from imgur while being logged in. So when images are posted to imgur using the client id Jared got, they will automatically belong to his user account. How do you get a client if and secret without an account? I used My twitter log in to make the imgur account forever ago. Long before I made the api creds. I would never do it that way in today’s world.
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  BMW Oslo Marathon 2019
  fitness • • Joy  

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  @scottalanmiller said in BMW Oslo Marathon 2019: @Joy said in BMW Oslo Marathon 2019: @scottalanmiller just update my timeline post Very soon! will post my drunk picture soon
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  My Weekend Linux Misadventure
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  @IRJ said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure: @Dashrender said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure: But Scott had examples where some Wall St firm was doing wacky (but acceptable) stuff and showed that the OS had bad code.. but they refused to fix it because the Wall St company was using LTS, not the latest version. So there was no 3rd party problem here, there was an OS problem in that case. How many times does the opposite exist? Where LTS is the only thing supported? From a Linux POV - I have no clue.