Does he use wall jacks? Or just run them straight out of the wall to the device... same concept.

Wish I could have gone this year...

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just wrote a mail to pizza.de. Ordered something, got a confirmation (received by restaurant XYZ) and ... nothing. Called the restaurant a few times and finally someone picked up the phone. The guy told me that they never received the order.

Awesome to have something like pizza.de, but can't they build transactional processes which requires the restaurants to confirm an order before telling customers that their order has been received? That's not exactly rocket science.

There was a restaurant where I live it had an online order process, but then relied on fax machines to get the order to the local restaurant. It never worked well.

I didnt have any trouble getting my AD tied to O365. I use the DIR Sync for accounts and passwords, no ADFS, no Single Sign on.

I like that his profile says 9 years of IT experience

@Dashrender said in Best speakers for School Epson projector:

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@Dashrender said in Best speakers for School Epson projector:

@scottalanmiller said in Best speakers for School Epson projector:

@Dashrender said in Best speakers for School Epson projector:

@scottalanmiller said in Best speakers for School Epson projector:

@travisdh1 said in Best speakers for School Epson projector:

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@FiyaFly said in Best speakers for School Epson projector:

This seems to be incredibly subjective. This really depends on HOW much better, and what they're willing to pay for. I mean, I know an audiophile who can design, build, and setup the entire room with properly proportioned surround sound with speakers that have a "true to sound" quality for several thousand, but something tells me that isn't what you're looking for.

LOL... audiophile and surround sound don't go together

I don't think I agree with that - but I'd have to check definitions to be sure... If you're a movie audiophile... I'd think you'd want surround more.. if you're a music audiophile.. then heck.. mono might be best.. but stereo is the norm.

I'd agree with @scottalanmiller on this one. I've got a 5.1 at home that sounds great. Still, any surround sound system has to modify the original signal.

If you don't have a screen to blast through, drop that center channel and your sound quality instantly improves. That center channel thing is the bane of sound quality.

For music sure.

Nope, you missed the point. It's better, period.

the problem with that is that most media have a dedicated center channel for dialog. Without that dialog can get muddled or lost.

Then your system is handling it wrong. Anything that is sent to the center channel sounds better when sent to the R and L channels equally. Literally, the center channel cannot improve the sound over stereo, it's not possible as you have no center ear. All the center channel does is break your perfect sound experience and risk colouration and cause reflection interference. In all seriousness, audio physics makes it impossible for a center channel to improve the sound quality.

well, then perhaps I have to find a way to turn off the center channel when using my receiver.. because when the center is simply unplugged, you can barely hear the dialog.

If you go into the receiver and tell it there is no center channel speaker it will output it to both L&R

@wrx7m If it is the unifi line, it will need the controller.

@gjacobse Yes, When you click the Add button and select a Distribution group, the second sentence on the window that opens says to create a new distribution list, click here.

We use a product called Fishbowl Inventory that integrates into QB, we are looking at moving away from it and QB to an actual ERP system, but right now it is getting the job done.

@Dashrender I saw it before... I was prepared.

@wirestyle22 said in Coming Out of the Closet, SMB Enters the Hosted World:

@brianlittlejohn said in Coming Out of the Closet, SMB Enters the Hosted World:

@scottalanmiller said in Coming Out of the Closet, SMB Enters the Hosted World:

Take a look at the draw on a server. Now if you are using an Intel NUC, that's different. Or a Raspberry PI. But a real server might draw 350 - 1500 W easily. Lower than that isn't reasonable. Higher is possible, but unlikely. Something under 700 W is more expected. Say 500 W. Running 500W around the clock alone pays for the majority of the cost of colocation. Then consider that you have to use your AC for a good portion of the year to remove 500 W of heat from your house and you easily make up the different. Have any cost for anything like racks, extra switches, or whatever and that's all on top. It's not like you save a fortune going to colocation for one small server instead of home, it's just really really close to free (break even.) Add in any business factors like uptime, access, performance, longevity, mobility, features, round the clock support, etc. and it's a significant win unless you have additional extra factors to change that. In pure cost, it's basically a pure win.

hmm... at my current energy rate, 500W costs me $1.20/day

That's majority idling though right?

Idle, my server pull 138W

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@BRRABill said in Linux system maintenance; /boot nearly full:

I did all the auto removes and it still did not remove.

From my Googling of the issue, it was a common problem.

Just ran into that same problem. Still showing 98% used.

I have found with newer versions of Ubuntu (16.04 and 16.10) that "apt-get autoremove" won't remove kernels, but "apt autoremove" will.

The windows licenses apply to the physical machine, everytime you add another fully licensed copy of Server 2012r2 (2 Server 2012 Standard licenses in the case of 4 processors) you can legally run another 2 windows VMs.

If you only had two processors instead of 4, for every standard license you would get 2 vms, so if you bought two standard licenses you could run 4 vms legally.

@openit Look at Ubiquiti Unifi's captive portal. I believe you can do that with it.

@dbeato said in Netgear woes:

@Carnival-Boy This is normal with Netgear and HP on their returns. While that is normal, I have had different experience with Synology and Buffalo. Where they only ask for a credit card when you have an advanced RMA.

Last month Synology advanced replaced my NAS without a CC.

On the plus side, the unread notification works for me again.

@Grey I don't believe a shared mailbox uses a CAL, since everyone (or device) connecting to it is already licensed.

Trying to renew a certificate and Certbot fails to detect the apache plugin on Fedora 26 systems, luckily this is on a personal system and not critical so I can wait until a fix is released.

Cert is due for renewal, auto-renewing...
Could not choose appropriate plugin: The requested apache plugin does not appear to be installed
Attempting to renew cert from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/domain.tld.conf produced an unexpected error: The requested apache plugin does not appear to be installed. Skipping.

All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed:
  /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.tld/fullchain.pem (failure)
1 renew failure(s), 0 parse failure(s)

@scottalanmiller I use it for my side work...I don’t think it is anything special, but I just use it for invoicing, no other accounting.

I bet it will be priced around $1000 USD