Posts made by coliver

@wrx7m said in Buttercup Password Manager:

@coliver Right, bitwarden.

I am.

@wrx7m said in Buttercup Password Manager:

@stacksofplates said in Buttercup Password Manager:

@Dashrender said in Buttercup Password Manager:

Ultimately the project owners want to turn it into a company like LastPass, generating their revenue from SaaS, but they are starting out as an open source project.

This is what Bitwarden does too. They are open source but have their free SaaS and their paid enterprise features.

Are you using them?

Bitwarden?

@scottalanmiller said in NextCloud Automated Installation:

@JaredBusch said in NextCloud Automated Installation:

@scottalanmiller said in NextCloud Automated Installation:

Although at this point, I suspect that the online editing experience trumps any amount of file compatibility concerns.

This is true for me. I've setup a client with OnlyOffice recently. But I am curious what is the better choice for this simply in online editing. Ignoring compatibility, as that is a different consideration.

Collabora / CODE for online editing is rough. It's far from smooth. It works, for sure. But it isn't smooth like Zoho or Google Docs are.

I've got an OnlyOffice collaboration server running with NextCloud. It's very smooth... except you can't undo changes while in collaboration mode.

@IRJ said in Should SodiumSuite Be Open Source:

@Obsolesce said in Should SodiumSuite Be Open Source:

@scottalanmiller said in Should SodiumSuite Be Open Source:

It's been kicked around but adds a ton of complication to any monetization strategy.

You can't monetize something that doesn't exist!

That is true as well. Open Source will dramatically reduce your development costs as you have interested parties actually contributing to project

You could also do the open core model, which a lot of FOSS software does. Have the core functionality, maybe RMM specific stuff, be open source but all the "game changing" things be behind a pay wall.

@JaredBusch said in Chromebook and ScreenConnect:

@scottalanmiller said in Chromebook and ScreenConnect:

@JaredBusch said in Chromebook and ScreenConnect:

@Dashrender said in Chromebook and ScreenConnect:

But the old thought of using a $300 Chromebook - will just end in sadness of crap performance from my experience.

I don't see this.

Mine is only $179 and I have no performance issues whatsoever. It's snappy. Very snappy. And that's two years old and already being abandoned by Google, and still that good. It doesn't even have an OP-1 in it.

I have a friend who just bought a new Chromebook for the same price as that and it's even nicer, of course. I can only imagine how fast a $300 one would be!

So, what is it? I'm needing to order something today or tomorrow and wanting recommendations. SO far I have a $600 recommendation.

This is the one I bought my wife a few years ago. I like it a lot. She does a lot of work on it. I'm sure there is an upgraded version of it by now.

I'm pretty sure this is the one my mother users: Dell 5190

@Dashrender said in Chromebook and ScreenConnect:

But the old thought of using a $300 Chromebook - will just end in sadness of crap performance from my experience.

My wife's was ~300$ actually a bit less when it was on sale two years ago. It's fast and able to run basically anything on the play store.

@JaredBusch said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

No one I know with an Oculus Rift has any issues.

Pretty much this. Other then the Windows only complaint.

@Dashrender said in Is not bringing PCs in Domain is a sin?:

@dbeato said in Is not bringing PCs in Domain is a sin?:

@coliver Yup, and it is all based on registry settings so it shouldn't be dependent of Microsoft only.

huh? Does anything other then MS Products use registry settings? or is compatible with MS registry settings?

As I understand GPOs, they are files stored in SMB file shares (very specific ones) that are accessed by the workstations at a given interval, and then applied to the workstations. As far as I know, it's a pull only system.

All that said - the GPO being hosted from a 'nix based domain controller instead of Windows is pretty cool!

Pretty much this. GPOs are just XML files that tell the client machine how to configure itself. It's stored in a file structure.

@JaredBusch said in Chromebook and ScreenConnect:

Can a current Chrombook use ScreenConnect to connect back to things?

I need a device for someone that will only use web browsers and ScreenConnect.

If it can do it, what is a recommendation for a model to purchase?

It can use the Android App. I use it on my wife's Chromebook to connect to my desktop.

We just picked up this one for my dad - Asus Flip

He seems to really be liking it.

@DustinB3403 said in Is not bringing PCs in Domain is a sin?:

@Dashrender said in Is not bringing PCs in Domain is a sin?:

Also, to save significantly on licensing, you could ditch the Windows Server and install a Fedora Server with an SMB share. To the Windows machines it would look identical. Heck you could seutp AD using all Fedora on the server side removing all server side licensing and still having AD - you can even use the Windows AD tools in most cases. (FYI - DHCP/DNS are not AD tools, so you'd have to use the Linux tools for that assuming you ran those from the Fedora box)

He could also setup a domain controller (it's not AD) on Fedora at no cost and centralize the user administration. Won't help with GPO, but could limit some of the issues I imagine he's having with 75 workstation systems. .

Samba 4 does provide GPO.

@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:

@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

stuck thsis year working the Christmas holiday period. At least its slow so cleaning out our storeroom of ancient "artifacts"

We have 2.5 hours to go before sending everyone home.

I get done in 1.5 hours. Then going with my father for the traditional X-Mas Eve shopping trip.

We've have to slog through till noon out west as vet clinics are open.

That makes sense.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

stuck thsis year working the Christmas holiday period. At least its slow so cleaning out our storeroom of ancient "artifacts"

We have 2.5 hours to go before sending everyone home.

I get done in 1.5 hours. Then going with my father for the traditional X-Mas Eve shopping trip.

@Dashrender said in ASA 5516-X Intermittent Downtime:

@travisdh1 said in ASA 5516-X Intermittent Downtime:

This is more an issue with @Jimmy9008 not setting realistic expectations with management. If management signed off on having a single firewall, then he shouldn't be working on it at 4am.

I think this is overstating it. Nothing wrong with him being oncall for a problem like this. it's the situation where he can't afford 5 min of downtime that would move to the HA setup...

I'm with you here. The oncall bit is their recovery operation. Nothing about him being called in at 4AM tells me they need HA.

@Pete-S said in ASA 5516-X Intermittent Downtime:

@Pete-S said in ASA 5516-X Intermittent Downtime:

Two is one and one is none.

If you are depending on something, there should be two firewalls.
And in that case you just get the faulty one checked out. That's what support and service is for.

Now you are paying the price for not having the right setup in the first place.

I would go up the food chain and ask how important this connection is. If it's important, have a new one shipped out immediately.

When you get the old one replaced or repaired, have it as a spare on the shelf or better yet set it up in a HA config.

Depends on cost of downtime vs cost of a new ASA.

@Emad-R said in Is Flickr circling the drain:

@JaredBusch said in Is Flickr circling the drain:

@scottalanmiller said in Is Flickr circling the drain:

@JaredBusch odd, nothing has come in to me.

It’s a beg for money so if you’re a pro subscriber you probably didn’t get it

Speaking of which do you Americans see this

when you visit any Wiki page, cause i didn't see it when I lived in Jordan. And im Curios if Wiki thing Americans are generous and nice like us

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slim_Thug

Yes. I need to donate thanks for reminding me.

@Jimmy9008 said in ASA 5516-X Intermittent Downtime:

Would the engineer they send out generally restore my backup config to the replacement too? Ive not done that before...

Depends on the agreement. But generally, from my experience, no.

@Jimmy9008 said in ASA 5516-X Intermittent Downtime:

Its under support until July 2020. Just trying to make sure I have done all I can before Cisco call back. Would I be right to say the SSD light should be solid green?

Don't worry about doing all you can. Get Cisco on the line and tell them the issues. Tell them it's a services out issue and it needs to be replaced.

@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:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

The original trilogy was truly amazing

I'm going to disagree here, and I'm a huge Star Wars fan. The original trilogy really wasn't amazing. The story was contrived and a copy of pretty much every samurai and western story in existence at the time. The acting was bearable but not phenomenal. The only truly good things about it, for the time, was the cinematography and the special effects.

Again, the original trilogy shaped my hobbies and nerd-dom and I'm a millennial... but all in all it they were better then average but not phenomenal movies.

This is why I believe you feel this way. It's true that it copied those things you mentioned, etc, but at the time it was a totally new spin on them. That alone made it awesome. Seeing it 10+ years after it was released, the technology had grown so much in that timeframe, there's not chance you could see it but through different colored glasses of your own youth.

Oh no, I admit that ILM did some phenomenal work on the movies... and that there was spectacle to it at the time. I love Star Wars... but honestly, until Disney destroyed the rest of it, the movies were the worst part.

The worst part? So what was the best?

The books were definitely the best part.

@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

The original trilogy was truly amazing

I'm going to disagree here, and I'm a huge Star Wars fan. The original trilogy really wasn't amazing. The story was contrived and a copy of pretty much every samurai and western story in existence at the time. The acting was bearable but not phenomenal. The only truly good things about it, for the time, was the cinematography and the special effects.

Again, the original trilogy shaped my hobbies and nerd-dom and I'm a millennial... but all in all it they were better then average but not phenomenal movies.

This is why I believe you feel this way. It's true that it copied those things you mentioned, etc, but at the time it was a totally new spin on them. That alone made it awesome. Seeing it 10+ years after it was released, the technology had grown so much in that timeframe, there's not chance you could see it but through different colored glasses of your own youth.

Oh no, I admit that ILM did some phenomenal work on the movies... and that there was spectacle to it at the time. I love Star Wars... but honestly, until Disney destroyed the rest of it, the movies were the worst part.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

The original trilogy was truly amazing

I'm going to disagree here, and I'm a huge Star Wars fan. The original trilogy really wasn't amazing. The story was contrived and a copy of pretty much every samurai and western story in existence at the time. The acting was bearable but not phenomenal. The only truly good things about it, for the time, was the cinematography and the special effects.

Again, the original trilogy shaped my hobbies and nerd-dom and I'm a millennial... but all in all it they were better then average but not phenomenal movies.