I have a copy of SCO Unix. Very niche. Full box and license. Found it when i was clearing out the IT attic at work. I havent seen a Solaris box since 2010.

So I stopped using the text install and went to full graphical and... it started working. WTF

I'm not going to knock the article, cause I do agree, Linux Distros are constantly becoming better, and software developers are realizing they can still make a dime by developing their software so it works on Linux.

My issue is in the work-space and stupid black box appliances that require archaic software to operate that keeps me tethered to Windows.

If I could rip those solutions out, I'd be using CentOS as my daily office driver.

@travisdh1 said in Installing Amazon Alexa on Raspberry Pi 3:

@dafyre said in Installing Amazon Alexa on Raspberry Pi 3:

@travisdh1 said in Installing Amazon Alexa on Raspberry Pi 3:

@DustinB3403 said in Installing Amazon Alexa on Raspberry Pi 3:

So this isn't something @travisdh1 would want to build and leave around?

Maybe in someone else's house. I haven't jumped on the automated assistant thing yet, I'm still quite leery of having something like that in the house.... yes, I know I carry one around in my pocket with the phone. Doesn't mean I use it.

Also doesn't mean you want yet another one reporting everything you say to the NSA.

@dafyre Are you sure you don't wear a tin foil hat as well? 😉

*quickly whips something shiney and metallic looking behind his back*

Who? Me. Never! *coughs to cover the sound of crumbled up tin foil landing in the trash can*

But you learned something along the way. 😄

systemd has got this since early development. this, among other things (PID 1 master process...etc), was one of the reasons Poettering designed systemd. It borrowed this idea from other systems like this

So I also realized that if you have even a small number of records, a dictionary will become super long. So you can compact the dictionary like this:

records: ns1: {forward: 10.1.30.11, type: A, last: 11, rev: 30.1.10.in-addr.arpa.} ansible: {forward: 10.1.30.5, type: A, last: 5, rev: 30.1.10.in-addr.arpa.}

So while the other way may be easier to read, this saves a TON of space.

@jaredbusch said in Install NextCloud 11 on Fedora 25 with SaltStack:

@scottalanmiller why install a proxy when Apaches here and working what is the benefit to having a proxy on the same server. Let’s Encrypt perfectly with Apache

Security and flexibility typically. Here is the admitted marketing material from Nginx on security: "Security and anonymity – By intercepting requests headed for your backend servers, a reverse proxy server protects their identities and acts as an additional defense against security attacks. It also ensures that multiple servers can be accessed from a single record locator or URL regardless of the structure of your local area network."

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@aidan_walsh said in Build a Pine 64 Android TV for Under $50:

@scottalanmiller said in Build a Pine 64 Android TV for Under $50:

Well it is specifically Android TV, so if you want the Android TV OS, interface and compatibility. It's a video gaming platform as well as television system.

Its not through. Its a stock Android 5.1 image that requires you to get a media style interface from the Play Store, rather than a "proper" Android TV system.

Weird, maybe they pulled the version. They have Android 7 TV...

http://files.pine64.org/os/android/android-7.0-pine-a64-tv-v1.11.0-r67.img.gz