@stacksofplates said in Intranet suggestions....:

I'll recommend Drupal. It's the most flexible and you can build anything. It's great for very simple sites or really complex ones.

The farthest that I ever got with Drupal was installing it.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I'm removing Windows clients from the domain controller on the student network. A domain controller is not needed anymore. I will be managing Windows clients via SaltStack.

Awesome

For now, I'm only using Salt to manage chocolatey packages and to send some PowerShell commands.

Why are you so determined to make CentOS work on a laptop? If you want to study for Red Hat exam, create a VM instead. CentOS hardly support hardware the requires propriety drivers.

Ubuntu Server 18.04 installer is weird and it doesn't even give a choice to use LVM.

Found an awesome keepass compatible password manager called KeeWeb.
https://keeweb.info/
https://github.com/keeweb/keeweb

Desktop apps for Linux, Windows and Mac is available.
https://github.com/keeweb/keeweb/releases/latest

Online Webapp.
https://app.keeweb.info/

You can self-host the app too.
https://github.com/keeweb/keeweb/blob/master/README.md#self-hosting

There is only deb files. So for those Fedora users, you can download zip file and extract it.

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Patching what will be come Windows 8 and 8.1 VM templates.

What’s the reason for still needing Windows 8?

@hobbit666 said in KeeWeb - cross-platform password manager:

On the train to work so can't look into this too hard. Looks good on first look, but what about encryption?

Besides setting a master password. You can use a key file. And in the advanced settings, there is a key encryption rounds setting. From the online web app it is set to 6000. Not sure what that means.

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dustinb3403 Man up and learn how to cook!

So much effort, plus I have a kid on the way. I have other things to learn. Like how far do kids bounce before they get hurt. . .

Having kids makes you learn how to cook pretty damn quick.

If only Linux can be used.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/06/tickr-open-source-desktop-rss-news-ticker

Tremors: A Cold Day In Hell on Netflix.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/easyfeededitor/

The Rain on Netflix.

@scottalanmiller said in Create NFS file share on Hyper-V Server 2016:

@tim_g said in Create NFS file share on Hyper-V Server 2016:

@scottalanmiller said in Create NFS file share on Hyper-V Server 2016:

Any reason not to host it from a lean VM on top of Hyper-V?

This would require the NFS share to live inside of a .VHDX.

The NFS share would be a backup repository for some things, and having to restore a .VHDX first to restore an NFS share is more time consuming and complex, and I was hoping to avoid that if possible. Otherwise, no I could create a VM to do it, I just prefer not to.

I get that it is an extra step, but a trivial one. You have to restore the data to Hyper-V regardless. If anything, restoring a single VHD is easier than having to restore an NFS directory and restoring the settings and such. I'd actually think that this logic would push you towards the VM rather than away from it.

Plus you can mount the vhdx file to access the data too.

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Firewall:

@wrcombs said in Windows Firewall:

So it is possible to use Windows Firewall in our system, but instead of going through and creating rules in windows firewall, we just turn it off..

Correct. This is how all firewalls work. If the firewall is mangling packets and has to be turned off, that means that it is broken. If the Windows firewall is broken to that degree, it would mean that your managers believe Windows isn't viable in production and use it anyway. No matter how you look at what they believe, they are doing something knowing it isn't okay to keep moving forward with what they are doing.

This is a bit like someone claiming that their car is broken and refusing to listen to reason. When in fact they are knowingly leaving the garage door closed and using the door being closed as their logic for claiming that the car doesn't work. Obviously there could be something wrong with the car, but we know that they've never even attempted to drive it as they left the door closed.

OS firewall can also be broken because it wasn’t configured correctly. And if Windows Firewall rules is messing things up, it’s easy to reset the firewall back to default.

@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:

@black3dynamite said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:

http://www.battware.co.uk/desktopticker.htm

From what you are seeing does this one allow you to set the position just above the taskbar?

You can move it.
http://www.battware.co.uk/desktopticker_guide.htm

Watching Wonder with my family.
Youtube Video

You can’t use wget or curl download the files?

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/vaccination-method-that-wiped-out-smallpox-gets-unleashed-today-on-ebola/

@scottalanmiller said in Centos 7.3 Wifi Issue:

@lakshmana said in Centos 7.3 Wifi Issue:

@dustinb3403 said in Centos 7.3 Wifi Issue:

@Lakshmana it's possible that there just aren't drivers built into the system. You might have to install 3rd party drivers to get the wireless NIC to work.

Now trying for the Ubuntu 16 LTS.Will create a new thread if new issues arises

Why would you use an old version? This exacerbates your issues. You need to use the latest that you can get for the best driver support. Never use old products intentionally.

Ubuntu 17.10 is most of the way through its life already, 18.04 is just three months away!

Especially if you are planning on using KVM.

@wrcombs said in Windows Firewall:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Firewall:

@dustinb3403 said in Windows Firewall:

@wrcombs said in Windows Firewall:

The topic of Windows Firewall came up again today when a site had turned it on
When I asked "Shouldnt there be a way to write rules in the windows firewall so that we could just keep it on?"
He replied: "look into that, and see what you can find. It would have been better for the vendor to add that to their image they give us to boot the POS but if you can find a way to do it we can try it that way."

That's a win in my book, now setup wireshark and see what the hell is being used!

Or just look at netstat and know instantly.

Ran netstat in CMD as admin.
Do I use the Foreign address or the IP address?

Foreign is the device you are connected to. IP address is the local address.