@scottalanmiller said in GitLab Now Integrates VS Code Into the Browser:
This is a really cool update to GitLab. Microsoft's VS Code is now the web IDE used online in GitLab. So you can use VS Code without needing to install it. This is the coolest!!
That's interesting.
Editing on the webserver breaks the idea of how git is suppose to work though. Basically makes it a central version control and repository, instead of a distributed one.
Good to know that it exists though!
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just got notified that our server room air conditioner is going to be shut down as of 3pm to keep it from freezing. So now I get to keep 1 eye ony phone all weekend. Or maybe it will be ok through tomorrow while the India team is working and then I'll shut it all down.
Temp usually rises very quickly. It depends on the ventilation but I guess it's only a few hours and you're up in the 90s.
I'd look if there are any servers that could be shutdown until the ac can be turned on again. Every Watt counts.
He or his guests doesn't need to type in anything.
Most phones for example support qr codes for ssid & pwd.
There are many sites that can generate the right qr code for him to print out.
For example https://wifiqrcode.com
If you're buying into the Dymo ecosystem it would have been smart to get the 550 turbo model instead, since it has a network connection.
Trying to make it work with some old usb print server is just setting yourself up for failure.
I can't really think of any reason to connect a printer with USB in this day and age. At least not for printers that are stationary. So as a general rule a printer that has a network connection should be the first criteria when buying something.
@PhlipElder said in How to fix RDP dpi awareness problems:
@Pete-S said in How to fix RDP dpi awareness problems:
@PhlipElder said in How to fix RDP dpi awareness problems:
@Pete-S We have a few older accounting apps we support that don't scale well in RemoteApp no matter what the client setting is. The menu items appear to be microscopic.
Great for Session Host desktops but what about RemoteApp?
Windows DPI scaling is not working 100% so it is what it is.
I have on purpose avoided purchasing any display / resolution combination that doesn't fall between 90 to 110 dpi. So I don't really get into much trouble.
Anyway, I don't have any specific experience with remoteapp. But since it uses RDP I would disable the scaling in the registry on the server. And then work on setting the dpi on the server to whatever is needed. There is also the possibility of setting DPI scaling behavior on a per application basis.
That's the route I would go.
DPI settings are normally per user but if you have users with multiple devices with widely different dpi I don't think you can get it right.
Yeah, we learned that lesson with the first batch of ultra-high resolution laptops that we deployed and users started complaining almost immediately. We were able to bandaid to some degree as the Session Host settings would get picked up by the RemoteApps after the user tweaked them and logged out of the SH Desktop but those legacy menus never did get addressed.
Folks need a magnifying glass.
Besides buying new laptops there is also the option of changing the resolution to a non-native resolution.
From 3840x2160 to 1920x1080 for example. That always work.
Not ideal of course but better than not seeing it at all...
@PhlipElder said in How to fix RDP dpi awareness problems:
@Pete-S We have a few older accounting apps we support that don't scale well in RemoteApp no matter what the client setting is. The menu items appear to be microscopic.
Great for Session Host desktops but what about RemoteApp?
Windows DPI scaling is not working 100% so it is what it is.
I have on purpose avoided purchasing any display / resolution combination that doesn't fall between 90 to 110 dpi. So I don't really get into much trouble.
Anyway, I don't have any specific experience with remoteapp. But since it uses RDP I would disable the scaling in the registry on the server. And then work on setting the dpi on the server to whatever is needed. There is also the possibility of setting DPI scaling behavior on a per application basis.
That's the route I would go.
DPI settings are normally per user but if you have users with multiple devices with widely different dpi I don't think you can get it right.
Some applications still doesn't work well with dpi scaling.
The problem is that RDP uses the clients dpi scaling on the RDP server when you connect.
So assume that a remote server has no dpi scaling enabled, (set to 100%).
When you connect with a client that has dpi scaling, say 125%, the remote server tell it's applications to use 125%.
If you want to disable this feature you can do it by changing the registry.
On the REMOTE SERVER:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\WinStationsIgnoreClientDesktopScaleFactor1.When you connect the next time the server will disregard the clients dpi setting.
I did this with Windows 10 as both client and server. But the info was found on a Microsoft support page regarding Windows Server 2012 R2. I assume it will work with anything newer than that.
PS.
If you need to scale the RDP window bigger or smaller, use the Remote Desktop Connection's Zoom setting (in the system menu on the RDP window). Or use the Smart Sizing. Both of these methods are plain scaling and doesn't mess up any applications.
@pattonb said in isc-dhcp-server:
Now that isc-dhcp-server is officially eol, what is most/everybody using ?
isc-kea ? or ????
We use the firewalls dhcp server, which happens to use ics dhcp. But in either case there's no point in doing anything at the moment. Making a decision on a replacement is a couple of years away from now.
When distros deprecate the ics-dhcp package then it's time to see what options there are. We use debian and given each release lifecycle that will be a decision for debian 13 (the next, next release) which will probably happen late 2025.
@Pete-S That's a commercial module that relies on using their official distro. I use PIAF, and would prefer to find an OSS if available.
I don't think there is one but Zoho CRM has full REST api, webhooks and what not, so it's certainly possible to roll your own integrations in different ways.
There are also a bunch of integrations under Zoho Phonebridge which basically connects all the different Zoho apps to a PBX.
But they are vendor based so while I'm sure many of them are using asterix under the hood, they will probably not work with something else.
Has anyone done a Zoho CRM integration with an asterisk/FreePBX based system?
Looks like it's pretty straight forward.
https://wiki.freepbx.org/display/FPG/Setup+for+ZohoCRM
We plan to connect Zoho CRM with our 3CX in January.
With libreoffice you can do batch conversion to pdf immediately from the command line like this:
From odt to pdf:
"C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\swriter.exe" --headless --convert-to pdf *.odt
Replace *.odt with whatever format and wildcard you need.
From docx to pdf:
"C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\swriter.exe" --headless --convert-to pdf *.docx
Works the same on linux.
Replace the path to LibreOffice with whatever you have. Above is default for Windows.
@krzykat said in VitalPBX reporting:
@Pete-S Not sure if he even has a CRM setup. Often when clients like an aspect of a current implementation, telling them that you can't, that you must do it a different way isn't always met positively. They say - Yes I want the new better stuff, but I still need this old piece.
That's true. I would just assume that if you have a PBX and you're interested in call statistics, it a sign that you are dealing with more than the occasional call. In which case you are likely a business that uses a CRM or probably should use a CRM to keep track of your customers. But yeah, you never know.
The info below is from Debian but should be the same under Ubuntu.
GDM (GNOME Display Manager) will automatically use Wayland when supported, except when using the proprietary NVIDIA driver, in which case it will fall back to X11 due to instability.
To use the X11 backend by default, uncomment the WaylandEnable=false line in the /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf file.
I think you might be looking for statistics in the wrong place.
PBX calls should really be logged in the CRM automatically - if were talking about customer calls. Then the CRM will provide the useful statistics. That's the place to control a sales organization and you have all the other useful metrics there already.
Another thing is support. PBX should log support calls in the help desk system. That's where you want to have the statistics because that is where you can see incoming calls, emails, chat, ticket response times, customer satisfaction etc, etc.
So I don't think it matters what statistics you have in the PBX - unless you're actually looking at the PBX for troubleshooting or something like that.
Look for integration options to CRM, helpdesk etc instead.
When a customer, calls it's invaluable to know that they called yesterday and spoke to Joe about XYZ and so on and it took 1 hour with some teamviewer support.
When you log calls in the appropriate systems, managers get the entire picture of what's happening, not just what calls where made.
@scottalanmiller said in "Snapshots" on win10 laptops?:
@Pete-S said in "Snapshots" on win10 laptops?:
@Dashrender said in "Snapshots" on win10 laptops?:
Unlike VM backups - Windows generally doesn't have the ability to stop using the "disk file" and create a new one for changes, then allowing you to discard the extra disk, thereby reverting to the original. That's the process that makes snaps so good.
I think it actually does have that ability. That is what volume shadow copy (VSS) does.
I think both system restore points and backups uses it behind the scenes.
That's exactly how it works
VSS is just a "normal" snapshot service.
I made a real image backup earlier in lieu of snapshots and I can see that it has made a "System Image Restore Point".
It's shows up under the properties of the system drive under Previous Versions. You can view all files in the snapshot but to restore it you'll have to go through the same procedure as restoring a system restore point but click to see more restore points.
I believe VSS snapshots are full volume. So it's possible you can create a real snapshot indirectly by just running a backup on a single file or folder. I will explore that possibility.
I found out that you can work with volume shadow copies directly with the diskshadow utility. Unfortunately it doesn't come with Windows 10, only the server editions.
But there seems to be a vshadow utility in the Windows SDK that has similar funtionality. I will try that.
There is also a vssadmin utility in Windows 10 but you can't create snapshots with it.
Then there is the wbadmin utility for backups that is available in Windows 10 as well. But it looks like it has the same restrictions as the GUI version.
Microsoft just makes life complicated. If it were linux any utilities needed would be immediately at my fingertips and without being bundled with spyware user metrics collection. Oh well.
@scottalanmiller said in "Snapshots" on win10 laptops?:
A local snapshot uses a fraction of the space, potentially, and can move the data way faster.
Yes, exactly!
A full image backup that needs to be copied to another disk needs about 40GB on a fresh Win10 install. From that point it just grows and grows.
@scottalanmiller said in "Snapshots" on win10 laptops?:
It's not really "running inside a VM that does it", it's just that the use of an LVM layer (LVMs are what make snapshots possible) is assumed with virtualization whether it is LVM2, Storage Spaces, ZFS or Qcow2 files.
Of course. But from a practical point of view, running it in a VM "solves" the problem by giving you the ability to make snapshots.
@notverypunny said in "Snapshots" on win10 laptops?:
Am I imagining things or did Windows licensing at one point allow for use of a virtual environment on top of the physical install? If this is (still?) the case, would a W10 install in vbox do the trick?
Running inside a VM regardless of tech would get the job done, but it's not what I'm looking for in this case.
I want to maximize system resources (RAM & CPU & GPU) and also have the OS on bare metal for suspend and energy saving as it's a laptop.
@Dashrender said in "Snapshots" on win10 laptops?:
Unlike VM backups - Windows generally doesn't have the ability to stop using the "disk file" and create a new one for changes, then allowing you to discard the extra disk, thereby reverting to the original. That's the process that makes snaps so good.
I think it actually does have that ability. That is what volume shadow copy (VSS) does.
I think both system restore points and backups uses it behind the scenes.