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My son (14) is interested in making and editing videos like the ones he subscribes to on YouTube. He is wanting to learn the editing and capture of audio and video. I have a few USB webcams but do not feel they are sufficient to "learn" with. For those of you that do this type of thing - any recommendations on camera and/or camera with mic? If he wants to learn, I want to have whats necessary.

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@NetworkNerd The internet bandwidth is 100/100 from AT&T. Everything was analog but I plan to port everything to a SIP provider with the exception of the single fax line. Because I have to have the gateway as well, I can use the fax line as a failover should the internet go down and they need to make an E911 call. I know everyone has cell phones but it's also a CYA thing.

I was specifically told NOT to eat Mexican in Maryland. I got a strange look there once when I asked for chicken fried steak.

We had an IT and Security audit last week. Guess what the auditor was sporting... A Lenovo laptop!

I bought an Asus laptop - the most expensive one at the time. It exceeded the requirements to run CAD software. It was horrible. It would hang, freeze, shut down, etc. straight out of the box. Replaced with a new one. Same model. It did the same thing as the other. Returned it and used the money to purchase an HP. I too will never buy Asus again.

Our local weather (Lexington, KY) mentioned it was going to gain due to the high water temp - nearly 90 deg. That is a massive amount of energy.

Thats always been the bad thing about the Gulf. The water stays warm and fuels these things.

I had to laugh about it. Last year I got dinged for not blocking github and the similar sites. This time they tell me I can go on github and get a piece of software that will compare my firewall config and detect any changes. The logic makes ZERO sense.

@DustinB3403 We are long time friends and he trusts me completely. I have helped their company over the years and made great changes for them. In fact, one of the "higher up" managers had him call me last Friday to thank me for some of the changes I recommended and implemented. He said it has saved them money and avoided constant issues they were having prior to the changes. Craziest part is that while I was there making the changes for the better is exactly when said MSP was remotely creating more issues. They were on speaker in the server room for hours and hours and I heard every word.

Shopping for IP cameras. Not fun at all.

The download link on NC site takes you to the regular version 18 download. I will be ready for this when it does release.

@DustinB3403 They were there on recommendation from another company. I try to avoid touching their mail server because it is very fragile. To put it in worse perspective - they were set up as a workgroup with approximately 100 users until 2011 when I came in and migrated everything to a domain on New Years Eve. You would have to see it to believe it.

Hopefully I can make it this year.

I have Plex running as a VM and the media as a mount on a ReadyNAS. It works great. I use it for music the majority of the time. I bought Magic DVD Ripper and ripped a few movies as a test. I had the settings on the highest quality in MP4 format but feel the playback quality is lacking. I know some of you stream video. What is your preferred method to get video from disc to a file? Maybe I need another format besides MP4. I thought about MKV but don't want to have to re-rip the colection in the future. I use FLAC for my audio and have zero complaints.

I am slowly weaning them off of the MSP. I do way more now than before. Really, all that is left for them to manage is the mail server. I am afraid to "get in the middle" until it is migrated to one of the hosts as a VM.

I have some numbers that need to be migrated to SIP. The client had a salesperson leaning them towards SipStation from Sangoma but I'm leaning more towards Voip.ms

@scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud Questions:

@brandon220 said in Nextcloud Questions:

Normally I would just migrate to a new block device, but it depends on what your needs are.

This was supposed to be a "demo" but they used it for production and filled it quickly once they realized how great it works. Now I need to get them more space. Trying to determine the best path forward.

I guess most of us have been spoiled with Veeam and assume it should all be easy.

I thought about making a new VM using Fedora 25 as the one @scottalanmiller provided the group works so well. I'm just afraid I won't be able to successfully migrate the data.

@wirestyle22 I always do exports to external drives as another disaster recovery copy and then take to another location.