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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?
  • notverypunny  

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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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  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.
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  ProtonDB: Look Up Windows Game Testing on Linux from Valve's Proton
  linux windows gaming steam valve proton protondb • • scottalanmiller  

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  I went to MicroCenter tonight and was looking at laptops. I had a salesperson ask what I was looking for. I got a strange look when I said I wanted W10 Home cause it would get wiped anyway. I don't think she thought I was serious.
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  Any Camera People Here?
  • siringo  

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  @RojoLoco said in Any Camera People Here?: @PhlipElder sweet flower pic! I spent most of a year taking flower pics at my parents house. Totally basic camera though. Thanks. Unfortunately, a camera kit is out of the question for us right now thus the pursuit of a lens kit for my iPhone X which takes half decent pics ... just a crappy camera app that is nowhere near as good as the Microsoft one was. My wife's birthday presents for the last three years has been garden roses along with two rose gardens one two years ago and one this year. I love roses. My mother had an amazing rose garden when I was growing up and I have lasting memories of them.
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  Equifax claims process is now open
  • Nic  

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  @marcinozga said in Equifax claims process is now open: @Dashrender said in Equifax claims process is now open: @marcinozga said in Equifax claims process is now open: I'm getting the cash. 10 years of credit monitoring is worthless, same with their insurance. It won't prevent identity or credit card theft. And their reaction time is piss poor, you'd get a notice 1-3 months later of someone opens new account in your name, and by that time crook will probably charge thousands. Credit freeze is the only option and they don't offer that. Discover bank offers credit monitoring for free to anyone: https://csp.discover.com/free-credit-score/index.html Who doesn't offer Credit Freeze? All three of the credit agencies offer credit freezes now - for free. It was a law passed a shortish while ago. I managed to freeze Experian and Equifax 2 years ago.. but had issue getting into Transunion... well, in that time, it's become free and all three have made it much easier (though still not brain dead easy) to freeze unfreeze your credit). As of this morning I have all three frozen. What I meant was they didn't list that as an option in settlement, instead they offered some useless services. If you don't know about credit freeze in first place, you won't get it. And even if you do, you have to do all the work, and you have to contact all 4 credit bureaus. You're absolutely right - and as Scott will undoubtly say/agree with - of course they won't do that, that is counter to their business, against their shareholders, etc.
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  Color Question
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  @BRRABill said in Color Question: Yes, I just talked to another friend who is a designer. He said that basically the PMS color is "out of gamut" (the ! in the software) and the software does as good a job as it can to color match it. That is why it is different, and it technically correct, or as correct as it can be. The hex values are also apparently "web safe" colors. Not sure why they picked those, as I don't think it is applicable anymore, but what the heck. Man ... learned a lot of graphics today! Change the web safe colors to the closest instead. Web safe was way, way back in the days (about 20 years ago) when you had 8-bit color graphics adapters and you had to use a palette to spread those colors over the entire color spectrum. Heck, that was so long ago this was a trip down memory lane for me...
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  No Facebook - 30 Days. Go
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  @PhlipElder said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go: @Dashrender said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go: @PhlipElder said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go: @dafyre said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go: @Dashrender said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go: @scottalanmiller said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go: @WLS-ITGuy said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go: I use Facebook as a way to keep in touch with family and friends who don’t live close to me. I use FB Messenger to talk to my wife throughout the work day. If I wasn’t in IT I doubt I’d have a phone with internet. I’d prefer to be disconnected from the world. I’d rather be on my boat fishing all day. I was doing that (family and stuff), but honestly, it seems like if people don't move to something else to talk to, not a big deal. 15 years ago, before Facebook - what did you use to keep in contact with your family? I don't know about you - buy my answer was - oh yeah - nothing. We didn't stay in contact and we didn't feel like we were missing anything - otherwise we would have found a way to stay in contact. 15 Years ago? Ha... We were using Skype and IRC. Edit: The old man still runs his own IRC server for like 5 friends. ICU? MSN Messenger? AIM? Heh, there are some vague memories in there of those in the latter part of the 1990s early 2000s. Most of my family didn't have internet until the mid to late 2000's. Even then, didn't use it much until smartphones and tablets. Chat is something my family has never used. by family I mean -my mom/dad/brothers. The biggest way we still communicate is either SMS or a phone call. I've been online since the mid 90's. SMS seems to be one of the better ones. I've been texting my brothers-in-law back and forth quite a bit over the last few years. We've become quite good friends. I tend a mail list for family members with regular postings of pictures and events that are happening in our family life such as home school and extra curricular stuff. They generate a fair amount of e-mail exchanges and a few phone calls here and there. Effort. Just like a garden family takes effort. FB is much too much like, "I can feel really good about myself keeping family in touch" without ever reaching out to them to talk to them ... to show interest in their lives. [/SOAPBOX] It can, that's for sure - but email is a horrible way to have a conversation. Just like these forums aren't what I consider great for conversation. That's because they aren't meant for short super fast exchanges. A conversation (i.e. talking) is a group going back and forth at a good clip. While that sometimes happens here, the problem with forums is that it's so difficult to keep up at times. In the time I made this post, it's possible 5 people have posted... I go to read those 5 posts, and another 30 posts are up and I've forgotten what I wanted to add about the first 5 posts, etc. The short quick replies like you see in FB comments definitely seems more engaging for actual conversation - than that flame wars still don't break out all the time all over the place.
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  Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2
  travel • • scottalanmiller  

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  Trip is done, time to head for home. See everyone from the US (or from the airport, probably.)
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  Ontario, Toronto roommate opportunity
  canada roommate • • Emad R  

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  @Emad-R : There's a market for that too...
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  Remote Sudo Escalation
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  @IRJ said in Remote Sudo Escalation: The vendor is telling me I should be able to run .sh file directly from samba share on client server2. So ssh should not need to be part of equation. Otherwise having the share would be pointless. Sounds like the vendor needs some basic IT support themselves.
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  Blue light glasses
  • IRJ  

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  I've them . 5 years now. My eyes don't bleed anymore and so I spend way more time in front of a screen
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  Test
  • IRJ  

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  @IRJ said in Test: From mangolass.it , hey look we have a Or just a second domain name...
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  Purchase An Already Registered Domain - Best Practices?
  domain name domain name registration • • wrx7m  

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  @JaredBusch said in Purchase An Already Registered Domain - Best Practices?: @scottalanmiller said in Purchase An Already Registered Domain - Best Practices?: @Curtis said in Purchase An Already Registered Domain - Best Practices?: @scottalanmiller said in Purchase An Already Registered Domain - Best Practices?: I was saying bad faith in the other direction, attempting to start a business under the same name as a domain name that was already in use. He clearly states it's for a brand, not a company. Same thing, though. Attempting to start a new brand that is already in use. Purchased and parked is not in use. It is “available for the right price.” Is no one reading what I wrote? I specified everything that people have said in my original statement.
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  Intentionally Bad Hold Music
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  @Dashrender said in Intentionally Bad Hold Music: @JaredBusch said in Intentionally Bad Hold Music: @Dashrender said in Intentionally Bad Hold Music: @JaredBusch said in Intentionally Bad Hold Music: @Skyetel People like to defend the weirdest things. The only purpose of any business is to make profit. It is not like this is a secret. Now this I most definitely disagree with. I will agree that most businesses want to make a profit - while at the same time, not trying to squeeze out every last time of legit legal profit - instead making enough profit to the CEO's/owner's happiness... You are injecting your own bias in here. The purpose of the business is to make a profit. The purpose of the CEO is to be happy. Those are not mutually exclusive things. Except that the CEO actually sets the purpose of the business - unless it's a publicly held company then it is more about profits, though the CEO can still make it not about ultimate profits. No, you are not correct. A business is about profit. The people running the business in a way that is not that, are not running a business. They are running a hobby, or a charity simply to provide employment for no reason, etc. But they are not running a business.
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  Automation For Lights?
  automation lighting oncall • • WrCombs  

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  @scottalanmiller said in Automation For Lights?: @Dashrender said in Automation For Lights?: @scottalanmiller said in Automation For Lights?: I sleep with a smart watch on my wrist and a phone under my pillow. I am bound to wake up. Phone under pillow would never work for me.. two things 1) I move so much the phone would be under the bed for sure, 2) it would be to muffled and I'd sleep through any vibration. The watch though... that might help. I move a lot and it stays put. I don''t have a case, so the phone is very smooth. It doesn't shift around from the pillow moving. I can wake up from vibrations from a phone a floor away so.... lucky/unlucky you... I could sleep through a tornado taking the roof off.
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  Resignation - And what's next
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  BEst luck on your next venture!
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  Samsung One UI
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  @Emad-R said in Samsung One UI: @dafyre said in Samsung One UI: @JasGot said in Samsung One UI: @dafyre said in Samsung One UI: This could also work. If your carrier is Verizon, it is usually slightly more painful to do. It is, plus that means rebuilding the whole eco.. If I am going to do that, I will get a new phone too. I've been reading around different forums, I am one of several million people very unhappy about this update! Not necessarily... Root the phone, install a custom OS, and then install the Google Apps for that OS, and you're good. I just finally (after 2 years) rooted my 1st gen Pixel XL. This path is like rabbit hole, sure you feel great, but you rarely get better phone afterwards. I had Lenovo a6000 and it was amazing for flasing, very easy but you rarely get better results from the one given to you, and back in the day the community was more vibrant about flashing, now you will get literally a rom done by only 1 person. Pick and choose wisely... A good custom rom allows you to change things and eek a little bit more life out of your phone without utterly destroying your hardware. I rooted a Droid Eris and (ab)used that poor phone for 4 years. My Pixel is coming up on 3 and I'm just now rooting it. It runs better than it ever has before. I will grant you that Custom ROMs are very much YMMV!
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  Creating MangoLassi Podcast
  mangolassi podcasts • • dbeato  

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  @flaxking said in Creating MangoLassi Podcast: @scottalanmiller said in Creating MangoLassi Podcast: @dbeato said in Creating MangoLassi Podcast: @scottalanmiller said in Creating MangoLassi Podcast: We're going to have an official one up soon. Just waiting on the site to get made. Oh okay, so then I should stop right? Yeah, I think so, I'm trying to get one up by tomorrow. Did this ever happen? Not yet
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  Linux users with iPhones / iPads
  storage music media streaming media server • • EddieJennings  

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  @marcinozga said in Linux users with iPhones / iPads: @NashBrydges That's most likely direct connection. Plex uses UPnP and NAT-PMP to open ports on router, otherwise you simply cannot connect directly. If you stream through relay, that's where limitation is in place. I have UPNP + NAT-PMP enabled. I'll disable them and test things out when I have a chance.
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  QuickBook Alternatives for the SMB
  smb software account multiple users • • DustinB3403  

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  Been using Xero for a while. No issues. It works better than QB Online. I tried it.