@Mike-Davis said in daisy chain Ubiquiti AC Pros?:

@coliver said in daisy chain Ubiquiti AC Pros?:

@Dashrender said in daisy chain Ubiquiti AC Pros?:

@Mike-Davis said in daisy chain Ubiquiti AC Pros?:

@DustinB3403 said in daisy chain Ubiquiti AC Pros?:

I would honestly just run conduit to each location and have everything connect back at the main house.

It's not that much effort, and PVC is stupidly cheap.

The more I think about it, I don't need 1" the entire run, only to the first cottage and then I can leave that cottage with 3/4" to the next one and so on. The only concern then is the distance. The labor to trench is the same no matter the size of the conduit. (at these sizes)

Is the price difference here really that bad from 1" to 3/4"?

Not a significant amount. Just run 1" the entire way. You'll have room for expansion in the future if need be.

$4.21 vs $2.71. You guys are right. On a project this size the difference would be under $100. It would cost way more to have to go back and dig for another run.

That's actually more then it used to be. When I worked in a hardware store it was pennies a linear foot difference... and we weren't getting the bulk rate. But either way for under 100$ trench the 1" pipe and not worry about it.

Back at work after a long weekend.

@JaredBusch said in PowerShell - Create New AD User Using Prompts and Variables:

@wrx7m said in PowerShell - Create New AD User Using Prompts and Variables:

@JaredBusch said in PowerShell - Create New AD User Using Prompts and Variables:

This is why you run things manually and not in scripts until you know WTF you are doing.

Use the PowerShell ISE, that is what it is for.

You also do not have the Country in quotes. It is a string value.

I am running it manually and I am running it in ISE.

Change your New-ADUser to a Write-Host and keep adding to the concatenated line until it breaks.

Write-host is one of the best debugging tools for poweshell. Does ISE have the ability to report what variable is assigned to what at a given step?

@jaredbusch said in Fitness and Weightloss:

@dashrender said in Fitness and Weightloss:

@wirestyle22 said in Fitness and Weightloss:

Somehow I'm losing weight but have not changed my eating habits at all or started exercising

you're stressed.

Generally stress causes weight gain, in my experience.

Thankfully? It's the opposite for me.

@Dashrender Kind of. SMB is an inherently LAN-Centric protocol that wouldn't work well over the WAN and can be much harder to secure without central authentication/authorization.

WebDAV is a protocol built on top of HTTP and thus has none of the latency related downfalls of SMB. It also can use dozens of different forms of authentication/authorization which makes it a bit more modular.

@rojoloco said in What Are You Watching Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Watching Now:

@rojoloco I loved both of these. I watched this episode like 3 times

"The impossible flavor of your own completion..."

That is deep comedy.

This episode was probably one of the best of the season. I really enjoyed it. I'm really curios to see what <spoilers> Evil Morty does at the Citadel </spoilers>

@Dashrender said in Why you don't need a VPN or not?:

@coliver said in Why you don't need a VPN or not?:

@Dashrender said in Why you don't need a VPN or not?:

But I don't see that working very well for large files - say AutoCAD or even some graphics files.

AutoDesk and Dessault both have toolkits to get around SMB limitations. I think most CAD vendors do actually.

Not that I've dealt with this in a long time - please share what you know - I'm interested.

Dessault has Solidworks PDM (https://www.solidworks.com/category/product-data-management) which is a massive piece of software that uses a database and IIRC web protocol to transfer data. It solves the latency and file locking issues that plagues SMB when doing large files that change very frequently.... on top of dozens of other enhancements.

AutoDesk does the same thing with Vault (I think, it has changed names and feature sets a few times).

My parents had some serious flooding. We have pictures from one of their neighbors on a kayak going through the streets. It's really crazy.

Thankfully they only have to gut one room of their house and repair the siding and sheathing ~3 feet up the front of the house.

@scottalanmiller said in Why you don't need a VPN or not?:

@Dashrender said in Why you don't need a VPN or not?:

@coliver said in Why you don't need a VPN or not?:

@Dashrender said in Why you don't need a VPN or not?:

But I don't see that working very well for large files - say AutoCAD or even some graphics files.

AutoDesk and Dessault both have toolkits to get around SMB limitations. I think most CAD vendors do actually.

Not that I've dealt with this in a long time - please share what you know - I'm interested.

It's nothing special, each of the big vendors makes their own "cloud tool" to bypass SMB and other LAN-based storage, but with CAD awareness so that it can work with these kinds of files effectively.

This is a good way to describe it. These softwares do make a "cloud-like" environment for users. Still a pain in the butt over the WAN.

@irj said in Finally Back to Work After Irma...:

@coliver said in Finally Back to Work After Irma...:

My parents had some serious flooding. We have pictures from one of their neighbors on a kayak going through the streets. It's really crazy.

Thankfully they only have to gut one room of their house and repair the siding and sheathing ~3 feet up the front of the house.

We are on an island so we were really worried about storm surge. We got some flooding from it, but luckily we are in a high area of the island so our house wasn't affected. I do know quite a few people that were under water. It certainly wasn't as bad as Harvey in my area though.

My parent's house is up just above Daytona. A1A held up this year thankfully so they were able to get to it when the water receded. They had power, oddly, before the storm surge went back out.

Most of this info can be easily pulled with powershell.

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Going through home inspection

Ugh. We do ours on Monday.

https://adoptopenjdk.net/

I'm looking for a new series to read. Thinking of starting the "Old Man's War" series.

Curious as to the extent of book available via Kindle Unlimited. I could easily make that subscription fee back every month.

There are several community members that provide hosted VoIP. I think both @Bundy-Associates / @JaredBusch and @NTG provide this service.

@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

On a call. Realizing how much I detest OneDrive. Totally useless.

I've had good luck with it so far. What are your pain points?

No way to download or open files. It forces the opening of the file to Word Online, which doesn't work, and doesn't let me download to open it with an application that actually works.

I think you need to do a screen recording of this stuff someday. These sound like the weirdest issues.

What's interesting is that there are three places to download Onedrive documents.

This could be based on the security settings set by their O365 administrator, if it is under a business account.

That's fair. But then the security policies are useless not so much the app itself.

@DustinB3403 said in Fedora WS: (simultaneous) install on multiple pc's:

@Dashrender said in Fedora WS: (simultaneous) install on multiple pc's:

You could deploy an image using FOG

While this was my initial thought as well, he has asked about doing this simultaneously. Which fog generally isn't "all at once go".

It kind of is...I was using FOG to do multicast imaging 7 years ago. We're talking 30-60 machines at a clip.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

This is freaking awesome...

What are you air quoting? It looks like "Professional".

HAProxy is really powerful. We use quite a few of them here.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

This is freaking awesome...

What are you air quoting? It looks like "Professional".

I can lip read really well, and I can't make out what he's saying, ha ha.

I wish someone would do SAM bad-lip reading. Normally I can do pretty decent after seeing it enough but that's looks like some jargon I haven't seen said before.