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@scottalanmiller said in MeshCentral Future:

@EddieJennings said in MeshCentral Future:

The one ask I have of MeshCentral is Wayland support. 🙂

Maybe, at some point, it's Wayland that needs to step it up.

1.24 is out now.

I can see the use for this in a multi user system where you have virtualization admin. They would not need sudo access to do things.

For most though, just using sudo will suffice.

@black3dynamite said in Remote PowerShell from Fedora to Windows:

@stacksofplates said in Remote PowerShell from Fedora to Windows:

Sssd works with multiple domains.

If sssd is installed will I be able to use -Authentication Kerberos without needing to join to a domain or when accessing Windows machines that isn’t joined to a domain?

No it only works for domains.

@wrx7m said in Microsoft Windows Default Permissions for Fixed and External Drives:

@black3dynamite said in Microsoft Windows Default Permissions for Fixed and External Drives:

And I noticed that they are different on Servers and Desktops

I had no idea they would be different.

On the server one of the permissions that stands out for me is the CREATOR OWNER (full control / subfolders and files only.
From what I can tell, when a user creates a folder on the root drive, that person will be given the permission of full control of that folder only and then CREATOR OWNER on that folder is also added with full control of subfolders and files only.

But for the desktop, on the root drive you are not given any full control of that folder.

@Pete-S said in Change the install behavior by setting variables when running the script:

You set them before running the script and can use them in scripts but if you restart the shell they are gone.

Besides probably losing whatever was running in your current shell session, is there any benefits of adding exec $SHELL at the end of a script file?

Idk I didn't mind the windows 8 interface because it felt like GNOME 3 to me.

I have to wonder if Microsoft would have got the same push back if the internet was as prevelant back when they first introduced the start menu.

@Carnival-Boy said in Learning Python from Microsoft:

I'm planning on learning Python to help my son who is studying it at school (with a useless teacher).

Python 3 is definitely the best option for learning. My kids have had some luck using the learn online free tools out there.

@black3dynamite said in Using unison instead of rsync?:

The author, Elliot Cooper says that unison is able to backup new files extremely rapidly compare to rsync

Under certain situations. They each is more performant at different times.

Great! I had a look at some of them and they're not bad at all actually.

@IRJ said in Laptop for stock trading:

I would guess there are better alternatives out there that can be run on Linux servers

All enterprise Forex software runs on Linux (and generally UNIX, and nothing else.) On the Forex floors they sometimes use Windows desktops, but all the analytics comes from UNIX systems (including Linux.) Windows is only used as a GUI for the trades to be places, and generally isn't used even for that.

@Obsolesce said in Dar (Disk ARchive):

Looks pretty standard at a glance. How's it differ over other disk archiving backup tools?

I still prefer restic, but I could use this as an alternative to tar.

@scottalanmiller just upvote and quote me. 🙂

Slowpoke.

@black3dynamite said in DBeaver Community:

@JaredBusch said in DBeaver Community:

I use the MySQL plugin for VSCode to access MySQL/MariaDB directly.

Which one are you using, MySQL 0.3.0 from Jun Han or MySQL 0.3.1 from Yury Bukin?

The 0.3.0. I noticed the other one today when I addded it to my laptop. He only added a single feature that I don't need. So I went with the one used more.

@storageninja said in Which skills is more valuable to you? Hard skills or Soft skills?:

@scottalanmiller said in Which skills is more valuable to you? Hard skills or Soft skills?:

But in the enterprise, so few people need to talk to anyone but other tech people, the interfaces to the outside world are few and far between.

I agree here, but there is a minimum viable product of soft skills where even other tech people don't want to put up with your shit, or your ability to communicate with other tech people is crap and so you don't get good feedback or collaboration. The 10x engineer who belongs in a closet is something that fewer and fewer companies will put up with. Hell Linus recently admitted he needs to stop being an asshole. Netflix has an official policy to not keep them.

Lacking soft skills doesn't make you an asshole, though. That's not the alternative. Soft skills is a lot of things. Being nice isn't one of them. Being nice is just being a good person. Seeming to be nice when you are actually an asshole, now that is a soft skill.

I worked with a guy like that. Came across great, but openly admitted he was a horrible person that would screw you if he could. Great soft skills, mediocre hard skills, not a nice person.

Looks like I will not be using any Ubuntu based systems if I can help it... I'm liking Debian 9 rather well right now.

@black3dynamite said in LVM Thin Provisioning for a KVM setup?:

What advantage or disadvantage is there selecting LVM Thin Provisioning instead of LVM partition scheme?
https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/install-guide/chap-oVirt_Nodes/
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It's just thin provisioning, with all the benefits and pitfalls of any other type of thin provisioning. Why it would be required, I don't know.