It reminds me of the movie "Law Abiding Citizen".

The suspect would "confess" to all kind of things but if you actually listened to what he said it wasn't a confession at all.

Not that a movie is real life but still.

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@Dashrender said in Rant: I feel like Rodney Dangerfield.:

@scottalanmiller said in Rant: I feel like Rodney Dangerfield.:

@Dashrender said in Rant: I feel like Rodney Dangerfield.:

If you're going to say the disjoined nature of email is what makes it unique, then I'm going to say the same thing about SMS - it's totally disjointed, each carrier provides it's own connections for it's users, but allows for an interconnect between systems, like DNS allows interconnect between email servers.. .

Except the carriers OWN them, in silos. Email is not like that. You are misunderstanding the nature of the two things. Email uses the Internet to connect people, it is converged. SMS requires non-Internet connections between silos. At no point does it enter the converged, public domain.

Not even close to being the same.

Until you can run your own private SMS server, have no phone carrier, and know that it can reach everyone else with SMS and they can reach you, for free... you have no point to make. Free, open, public, converged. Show me another tech that comes close. SMS is the farthest on every point.

No chat solution has that either though.

I didn't argue that they did (except one does, I just didn't point it out.) My point is that email is the lowest common denominator and the only modern technology of its type. And my second point was that modern instant messaging was superior to SMS - not because they are perfect, but because they improve on SMS with SMS having no actual benefits.

However, XMPP actually does fix the problems. It covers all SMS basis, while also being free, open, converged, etc.

@JaredBusch said in What do you use for a home media server:

@JasGot said in What do you use for a home media server:

@JaredBusch said in What do you use for a home media server:

Plex works with more gear.
https://www.plex.tv/features/live-tv-dvr/ (scroll down)

Just curious, did you ever decide on an OTA tuner? I am looking for one to play with using Plex. Seems there are several options, and since this tech has been around awhile, they probably all work ok. But if you looked at them and chose one in particular, I'd be interested in which one you chose and why.

Thanks.

I purchased a HD HomeRun unit.

I think that that is what my dad uses on Fedora.

This is more about books than movies for me, but one of my greatest regrets with good books is that I can never again read them for the first time. There is something in the flavor of the story that is lost in the knowing. For me. My wife prefers to read the last chapter if things get at all tense.

@JasGot said in Nicaragua Trip:

Awesome! thanks for sharing!

De nada 🙂

It was a really great trip.

@scottalanmiller said in Never get between a man and his tax credits:

@dafyre Don't tempt me haha. I did claim my big move 5 years ago, that was a sweet sweet tax year.

Under the new tax code in the US, only military can claim relocation deductions.

Unless you.... "relocate out of the US"

US citizens are still on the hook for US Income tax. You can deduct foreign income tax (unlike SLAT that was capped). The issue is once it saves you enough locally your tax credit will drop below the US taxes and you'll just have to pay them (So this only helps if you are still net/net higher income tax locally).

Even worse, basic tax advantaged accounts that may exist somewhere like Canada may now trigger foreign grantor trust reporting as the US doesn't recognize them.

@Dashrender said in American Airlines:

@IRJ said in American Airlines:

@JasGot said in American Airlines:

@RojoLoco said in American Airlines:

I think the point here is that @JasGot can afford to take us ALL on vacation, first class of course. Where are we going?

How about dinner and drinks in Key West? I would be willing to do that.

I can be there in several hours 🙂

OH? did he send you your ticket already? 😉

I'll drive

never mind I found it.
I'm running a command that's saying cfcshellinstallermsi.msi and the file I have is an .exe🤦

@flaxking said in Difficult co-worker:

@Kelly said in Difficult co-worker:

Without more experience or information it is difficult to draw an exact conclusion, but have you considered that he is on the autism spectrum? Some of the things that you're listing could be indicators of that. There are significant differences to how you will work with someone on the spectrum vs someone who just has control issues.

This sounds a lot like my co-worker, who I am pretty sure is on the spectrum. He is amazing technically, reading comprehension of technical documentation that is out of this world. But he can't think in terms of business needs and what is practical. He will also assume he knows what you're saying without listen so you really have to watch for cues that the didn't actually understand what you said. Also can be a lot of work to convince him he is wrong, you need to have definitive proof ready.

Yes this sounds quite similar to what I have seen. Although, I will add that he always 100% believes he is doing the right thing. Its not because he wants to cut corners or anything. Sometimes we cannot get him to cut corners where they need to be cut.

Check out Fortigate product. FortiNet offers documentation on setup of their firewalls for PCI DSS compliance:
https://help.fortinet.com/fos60hlp/60/Content/FortiOS/fortigate-compliance/PCI-DSS.htm?Highlight=PCI
They office a subscription service whereby they manage patches/updates for their firewalls as well as monitoring (specifically, Logging, to me it really isn't monitoring) in order to match the "managed firewall" checkbox. Now, I only have a little experience with Fortigate's as we just installed one in our data center as we have a customer requesting us to be compliant (for no apparent reason other than they want us to be, we do not store credit card data and do any processing via https web site)

@Pete-S said in AI will replace managers and automation will replace workers:

For instance, how many worked in the tech industry a hundreds years ago? Right.
How many worked in tourism? How many worked in sports and recreation? Beauty industry?
When one door closes, another door opens.
Nobody is getting replaced.

Exactly, there are so many industries that can't hire today because more necessary industries have all the workers. People will move from necessity to opportunity for a long, long time to come.

We don't even have to begin to worry about this stuff until we are all on single income households, everyone has time to not work and go to university instead, all workers are skilled, and the remaining people only need to work four to sixteen hours a week. Right now, people are working 80 hours a week, dual incomes, and there is so much more to get done.

@JaredBusch said in Discussion on LTS OSes:

Another reason to hate at least one LTS...

CentOS 8 will not provide an upgrade path from CentOS 7.

https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=16116

There are no plans for the CentOS core team to support or package leapp but if there is sufficient support from the community to provide copies amended for CentOS then they could be released as part of a SIG. However, given the current lack of support for the preupgrade tool to migrate from CentOS 6 to 7 and the total lack of response to all calls for volunteers to package that, I would not be optimistic about it happening.

There’s probably others but good thing Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora makes upgrading easier.
Hopefully it’s changed now since CentOS 8 is now using dnf.

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

@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.

@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.
patchpanel_switch_cabling.jpg

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.

@scottalanmiller said in Learning Spanish - Voice centric:

Rosetta Stone isn't too bad.

So far I'm digging it.

@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.

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.

@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.