@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

A list of things depreciated in Windows 10: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/planning/windows-10-deprecated-features

Here's a few that I found interesting:

• Wi-Fi WEP and TKIP
• Windows To Go
• Snipping Tool
• Software Restriction Policies in Group Policy
• Windows Hello for Business deployment that uses System Center Configuration Manager
• Windows PowerShell 2.0

Good. All that that should go.

The only one that was halfway decent was Software Restriction Policies. Being able to whitelist apps was/is a decent tool. I think it's getting replaced with some Intune and SCCM though.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

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@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/google-is-killing-google-cloud-print/

Bye to another Google product.

Whoa, that seems like a big one.

I agree, very surprised to see this go

And there is nothing on the market to replace it!

Not sure that’s true. I recall some vendor at SW a year or two ago... not sure it was cloud based though.

Papercut is pretty standard from my experience. But I don't remember if that used Google print or not.

Papercut provides a cloud printing service?

Kind of. It has a "driver-less" and Web-based printing GUI. You upload a file to Papercuts and it prints to the printer you selected.

Oh okay, I had no idea. That's nice.

It really is. Doesn't really do what Google's Cloud Print did though.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/google-is-killing-google-cloud-print/

Bye to another Google product.

Whoa, that seems like a big one.

I agree, very surprised to see this go

And there is nothing on the market to replace it!

Not sure that’s true. I recall some vendor at SW a year or two ago... not sure it was cloud based though.

Papercut is pretty standard from my experience. But I don't remember if that used Google print or not.

Papercut provides a cloud printing service?

Kind of. It has a "driver-less" and Web-based printing GUI. You upload a file to Papercuts and it prints to the printer you selected.

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Installing Ecobee Thermostat at home.

We have two of those. Probably going to get a third one if they go on sale Black Friday.

@WLS-ITGuy said in FreePBX 15 released:

@coliver said in FreePBX 15 released:

@WLS-ITGuy said in FreePBX 15 released:

@JaredBusch said in FreePBX 15 released:

I posted the blog link a few days ago, I didn’t make a thread because

@WLS-ITGuy said in FreePBX 15 released:

Anyone ballsy enough to upgrade?

Hell no. It is not ready.

Also you can’t even download the thing yet. Well as of late last night, at least. Maybe they finally put the ISO up.

Curious if anyone has upgraded. I am about to purchase new hardware for our PBX server and was wondering if I should go to 15 or wait on the hardware/upgrade.

Hardware.... for a PBX?

Yea, you know that thing that sits in the corner, some call it a PC, some call it a server.

You aren't virtualizing it?

@WLS-ITGuy said in FreePBX 15 released:

@JaredBusch said in FreePBX 15 released:

I posted the blog link a few days ago, I didn’t make a thread because

@WLS-ITGuy said in FreePBX 15 released:

Anyone ballsy enough to upgrade?

Hell no. It is not ready.

Also you can’t even download the thing yet. Well as of late last night, at least. Maybe they finally put the ISO up.

Curious if anyone has upgraded. I am about to purchase new hardware for our PBX server and was wondering if I should go to 15 or wait on the hardware/upgrade.

Hardware.... for a PBX?

@Obsolesce said in Spoliers - are you angered when people post spoilers on social media?:

I enjoy spoilers.

I'm the type to want to know what happens before I watch.

For example, on Netflix for a given show I'm watching, I'll scroll ahead to read the descriptions of the ones I haven't seen yet so I know the basics of what will happen.

I don't know why, but it makes it more interesting to me. Same with movies.

Yeah I do this as well. If I'm really interested in the story I'll go on the internet and look at episode synopsis just to see what happens faster. Most of television is just filler anyway so I'm not really losing out on anything.

@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Disney+ fans without answers after thousands hacked

Disney's system is definitely broken.

they claim that one account accesses all Disney stuff - but that clearly is not true.

I just tried to log into disney.com and shopdisney.com and my disneyplus.com account didn't work there - in fact it sent me a password reset email because possible compromise.

Get your shit together Disney!

Disney and modern have never really gone hand-in-hand.

No.

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs i wish, would save on the flight too

@scottalanmiller forgot about uber. There's 5 of us, 1 in a wheelchair so thinking pre book something.

Almost every major hotel around JFK has a shuttle service. Give the hotel a call I'm sure they can provide that.

@bnrstnr said in Trying to find a good, on-premises, multi-department help desk application:

Looks like Zammad does both SSO and Groups (Departments). I don't use it though, so no experience there...

I have this deployed locally. It can be multi-department, but it is, obviously, geared toward IT more then anything else. It can do LDAP and SAML auth and have the ability to integrate with pretty much anything.

It's also stupid easy to install. The big complaint I have at the moment is that some of the customization that I wanted to do needed to be done in the backend.

@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

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@hobbit666 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@hobbit666 said in Non-IT News Thread:

UK drone pilots have 25 days to register with regulator

Super easy test i've just done it (despite not using my drone for 12 months ), 20 questions multiple choice and only need 16 to pass. This gets you a Flyer ID, valid for 3 years.
If you own a drone you need a operators ID which is £9 for 1 year.

Why - seriously why? This is little more than a money grab.
If the ID isn't required to purchase a drone, this is dumb, if all drone sales in the UK aren't serialized and reported to government to their person of purchase - based on the ID, again, what does this matter?

I can only assume this is to make those that fly them and crash them can be held liable? without the tracking, this is pointless and little more than a money grab.

Because drones can shut down airports as has happened more than one time. Obviously criminals don’t care. But that’s no different than firearm registration.

Like everything, it’s simply a deterrent.

In the US at least. Drones over a certain size are required to have their FAA identifier clearly labeled on the underside of the drone so it can be visible from the ground. I assume the UK will have something similar. This identifier is linked to a physical person or company.

@dbeato said in Want some Wasabi with that Azure Cloud?:

@dafyre said in Want some Wasabi with that Azure Cloud?:

@wrx7m said in Want some Wasabi with that Azure Cloud?:

@VoIP_n00b said in Want some Wasabi with that Azure Cloud?:

@IRJ said in Want some Wasabi with that Azure Cloud?:

As far as Wasabi, I think it has proved to me not to be an enterprise solution over the outages. The pricing is so low in comparison to AWS and Azure, that it isn't much of a surprise they cut corners.

Have you used them?

I used them. They were great for several months. I redirected my off-site backups from AWS S3 to Wasabi. During September and October, I could not get any files into (or out of) my buckets, so I was forced to switch back to AWS S3.

I'm using Wasabi East-1 and I've not had any problems with my backups not working-- or retrieving files.

Yeah, same here. No problem at all.

I had some issues getting to the console a bit back. But my backups continued without an issues.

@MattSpeller said in UniFi AP XG - Anyone running one yet?:

@coliver anyone published an eta on that? I don't have to make a move on this for a year

Not sure about Unifi. Our vendor is going to be sending us a demo unit Q1 for their stuff... not that we have any clients to use with it yet.

@MattSpeller said in UniFi AP XG - Anyone running one yet?:

@JaredBusch said in UniFi AP XG - Anyone running one yet?:

@travisdh1 said in UniFi AP XG - Anyone running one yet?:

An AP that requires a 10Gb uplink port? That is sexy.

Party pooper time, do you *really * need wireless with that density and throughput?

Today? Maybe not. In 2021? Possibly.

This is more thinking about 2031

So the question is: super sexy top of the line AP VS middle range AP and shorter lifecycle

Environment is a high end laboratory, gym, doctors office & admin area. This building will produce cutting edge research and is staffed with more Docs and PHDs than you can shake a stick at.

Wifi 6 is just around the corner. By the time the mid-range ones age out you'll be to move to the next technology.

They're 800$. I know that will be inexpensive for what they are... but seems pricey for Ubiquiti.

@Dashrender

Plug in Anywhere in Your UniFi Network
Mount the UniFi LTE device anywhere with a strong LTE signal and connect it to any part of your UniFi network. The UniFi LTE device creates a secure tunnel to the UniFi Security Gateway or Dream Machine and shows up automatically in the UniFi Controller.

Requires a USG.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

SO cold here we actually kicked on the heat this morning. We hit 31F last night.

It's almost 70 here now.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Watching Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Watching Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Watching Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Watching Now:

Ok, so b-movies are considered low-budget and whatnot. But what would it be called for TV shows? Soon-to-be-cancelled-budget?

example?

Another Life. So bad it was good?

Never heard of that show.

It's on Netflix. It's the soap opera of scifi. A weird guilty pleasure. The first 8 episodes aren't good. The last two get much better and I'm hoping they get another season to answer some of the questions they put forth.

Wow - 8 bad episodes? I give a show 4 episodes, if they can't make something by then, I drop them normally. Only 2 decent shows in a season of 10, not sure it's worth it.

The Orville was like this - the first 3 episodes weren't great, but they started to get their legs by episode 4 and now they are part of my normal line up - sucks I have to wait until mid to late 2020 for season 3... but at least there will be a season 3.

Yeah, the weird part for me is I couldn't stop watching it. Katee Sackhoff is the main character and she's pretty much on point the entire series.

Oh, now that you name drop - I heard the show was meh - something about what they wear on the show - they made some lame excuse why people wear odd clothes and other weird things like that.... I haven't seen it, that's just one of the comments I heard about it.

I don't think she qualifies as a name drop. This is her first starring role, lol.

She was one of the main characters in Battlestar Galactica.

@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Watching Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Watching Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Watching Now:

Ok, so b-movies are considered low-budget and whatnot. But what would it be called for TV shows? Soon-to-be-cancelled-budget?

example?

Another Life. So bad it was good?

Never heard of that show.

It's on Netflix. It's the soap opera of scifi. A weird guilty pleasure. The first 8 episodes aren't good. The last two get much better and I'm hoping they get another season to answer some of the questions they put forth.

Wow - 8 bad episodes? I give a show 4 episodes, if they can't make something by then, I drop them normally. Only 2 decent shows in a season of 10, not sure it's worth it.

The Orville was like this - the first 3 episodes weren't great, but they started to get their legs by episode 4 and now they are part of my normal line up - sucks I have to wait until mid to late 2020 for season 3... but at least there will be a season 3.

Yeah, the weird part for me is I couldn't stop watching it. Katee Sackhoff is the main character and she's pretty much on point the entire series.