What Are You Doing Right Now

dbeato

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Today started with a meeting with an MSP at a coffee shop in Dallas. We were set up by someone else at the company for the meeting, so the person with whom we were meeting had only heard that "Scott and Paul" were coming. So I was just "Scott" and that was all.

So we got together and got coffee, exchanged cards, but we'd already spoken by email so who really looks at business cards at that point, it's just for your wallet for later in case you need to call.

So after a bit something came up and Paul said "Oh, so you know Scott Alan Miller." The guy instantly is like "oh yeah, I'm on Spiceworks, of course I know Scott Alan Miller."

I look over at him and look at my card and I'm like "I AM Scott Alan Miller". LOL

Guy's eyes got huge, and he looks down at the card and puts two and two together. It was pretty funny.

Amazing what Internet Life and Real Life can do to you

WrCombs

Trying to re-image a windows 7 PC that the customer corrupted by unplugging it.

Apparently the hardware guy set up the images to be per board, but He has nothing for the intel board that is in the PC.

Waiting for him to call back.

travisdh1

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Today started with a meeting with an MSP at a coffee shop in Dallas. We were set up by someone else at the company for the meeting, so the person with whom we were meeting had only heard that "Scott and Paul" were coming. So I was just "Scott" and that was all.

So we got together and got coffee, exchanged cards, but we'd already spoken by email so who really looks at business cards at that point, it's just for your wallet for later in case you need to call.

So after a bit something came up and Paul said "Oh, so you know Scott Alan Miller." The guy instantly is like "oh yeah, I'm on Spiceworks, of course I know Scott Alan Miller."

I look over at him and look at my card and I'm like "I AM Scott Alan Miller". LOL

Guy's eyes got huge, and he looks down at the card and puts two and two together. It was pretty funny.

Amazing what Internet Life and Real Life can do to you

Things can get a little weird when the two merge.

JaredBusch

Custom FrePBX coding...

https://community.freepbx.org/t/can-i-do-this-custom-context-better/56012

[macro-dialout-trunk-predial-hook]
exten => s,1,Wait(1)
exten => s,n,NoOp()
;exten => s,n,Log(NOTICE, Arrived in macro-dialout-trunk-predial-hook)
; Check if we came from the route "88_stripped_AUTCODE"
exten => s,n,GotoIf($["${OUTBOUND_ROUTE_NAME}"=="88_stripped_AUTCODE"]?autcodestripped,1)
; If not, pick apart OUTNUM. Normal format 81NXXNXXXXXXXXXXX
exten => s,n,Set(AUTDIALED=${OUTNUM:2:10})
exten => s,n,Set(AUTCODE=${OUTNUM:-5})
; Lookup the outbound CID for this AUTCODE
exten => s,n,Set(AUTCODECIDNUM=${GET_AUTCODECID(${AUTCODE})})
exten => s,n,Set(TRUNKCIDOVERRIDE=${AUTCODECIDNUM})
;exten => s,n,Log(NOTICE, Leaving macro-dialout-trunk-predial-hook)
;exten => s,n,DumpChan
;exten => s,n,Goto(outbound-allroutes)
exten => s,n,Goto(from-internal,881${AUTDIALED},1)
exten => s,n,Hangup()
exten => autcodestripped,1,NoOp()
;exten => autcodestripped,n,Log(NOTICE, In macro-dialout-trunk-predial-hook but already stripped autcode)
;exten => autcodestripped,n,DumpChan
;exten => autcodestripped,1,Log(NOTICE, Leaving macro-dialout-trunk-predial-hook but already stripped autcode)

notverypunny

waiting to see if the cmos battery in an XPS13 will recharge... might be able to get it cheap from work if I can revive it

JaredBusch

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Trying to figure out how to install MeshAgent without logging into user machines.

PDQ deploy?

Like GPO, I have that in one place, but not all.

The only thing I have every place is ScreenConnect.

I can download the Agent easily.

I can execute it, and a MeshAgent.exe process shows up.

But nothing hits the console.

The ScreenConnect session is not a full environment. I do a lot with it, but never tried this before.

Are there commandline options that allow it to install silently? If it's not hiting your console, I'm assuming is requiring user interaction on the desktop by the default installer?

That was it.. Command line for windows was a -install and not a /install and I needed to use -fullinstall to make it work.

Winner Winner Chicken dinner

So used to Windows using / for switches on the command line.

tonyshowoff

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

So used to Windows using / for switches on the command line.

The moronic decisions of Gary Kildall and everyone else that decided to copy the command syntax of OpenVMS and RDOS rather than something a bit more logical like Unix. Not to mention busted ass syntax made worse even today with PowerShell... great, commands with hyphens, that's not irritating at all. Maybe let's copy bash or something, oh no let's instead really mess things up even more and invent something worse.

Also with classic DOS, you want to run it in the background? Can't use &, instead && is used as a command separator. Essentially the bad syntax choices made early on made it to where every additional change was equally terrible or made even worse.

StrongBad

@tonyshowoff said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

So used to Windows using / for switches on the command line.

The moronic decisions of Gary Kildall and everyone else that decided to copy the command syntax of OpenVMS and RDOS rather than something a bit more logical like Unix. Not to mention busted ass syntax made worse even today with PowerShell... great, commands with hyphens, that's not irritating at all. Maybe let's copy bash or something, oh no let's instead really mess things up even more and invent something worse.

Also with classic DOS, you want to run it in the background? Can't use &, instead && is used as a command separator. Essentially the bad syntax choices made early on made it to where every additional change was equally terrible or made even worse.

I think VMS copied Kildall. C/PM was 1974, VMS was 1977.

tonyshowoff

@StrongBad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I think VMS copied Kildall. C/PM was 1974, VMS was 1977.

Yes, you are correct. In either case, he still at least copied RDOS. What's astonishing to me about the whole thing is we know that people were aware of Unix and its well thought out approach to CLI, or even Multics, et al. I imagine though OpenVMS probably copied RDOS.

I recall reading something many years ago where Bill Gates mentioned the superior command syntax of Unix (after all Microsoft had their own version of Unix, Xenix) but they had to remain mostly-compatible with CP/M for competitive reasons.

scottalanmiller

Hanging put with the kiddo.

black3dynamite

Learning something new with lxc.
https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/forward-port-80-and-443-from-wan-to-container/2042/2

scottalanmiller

Dealing with a Zimbra outage.

scottalanmiller

Making some coffee.

scottalanmiller

Zimbra fixed. Now to answer all of the emails.

scottalanmiller

Finally drinking my coffee.

Kids are just waking up now, too.

StuartJordan

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Zimbra fixed. Now to answer all of the emails.

Services?

scottalanmiller

@StuartJordan said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Zimbra fixed. Now to answer all of the emails.

Services?

Several services were not running, that is correct.

scottalanmiller

@Dominica just made chocolate chip cookies.

Dashrender

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Trying to figure out how to install MeshAgent without logging into user machines.

PDQ deploy?

Like GPO, I have that in one place, but not all.

The only thing I have every place is ScreenConnect.

I can download the Agent easily.

I can execute it, and a MeshAgent.exe process shows up.

But nothing hits the console.

The ScreenConnect session is not a full environment. I do a lot with it, but never tried this before.

Are there commandline options that allow it to install silently? If it's not hiting your console, I'm assuming is requiring user interaction on the desktop by the default installer?

That was it.. Command line for windows was a -install and not a /install and I needed to use -fullinstall to make it work.

Winner Winner Chicken dinner

So used to Windows using / for switches on the command line.

Which is hilarious, I remember you berating me for this very thing in the past.

dbeato

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@StuartJordan said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Zimbra fixed. Now to answer all of the emails.

Services?

Several services were not running, that is correct.

Did it just restart the services by a scritp?