@scottalanmiller said in Has Anyone Played with KVM-VDI?:

And I've not used SPICE, anyone know how well it performs?

I've seen some nice demos of it..

Youtube Video

That's the Cantivo VDI system... It was open source...

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 I'm confused, are people stealing the Ethernet from your offices?

Apple power cables

Seriously? Wow.

I was thinking kiosks might stop it from happening. I Think we have somewhere around 20 of them and I've had to replace so many of them already its crazy. I need to come up with a way of stopping them from walking.

Seems like I remember a suggestion of JB Weld... this might work, lol.

The XX concurent users only comes into play if the licensed application offers such a thing. In the case of something like Office 2013, you'd definitely need 300 license...

But for Something like... Raiser's Edge, or a Student Information System... You'd only need to license for the expected number of concurrent users.

IE: Raiser's Edge can be installed on every computer on my campus... But only 15 of us can log in at one time.

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

The issue is they are charging through a USB cable that plugs into the power cable. There is no good way (that I have found) to secure the power cable to the USB cable.

Use a little JBWeld and stick it to the underside or back of the table... or to the nearest wall... Wait... no, don't stick it to the wall.

@scottalanmiller said in ZeroTier DEB Package Failing on Linux Mint 17.3:

Fully up to date Linux Mint 17.3 is failing to install the DEB packages for ZeroTier with the following error:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 zerotier-one : Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 4.9) but 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3 is to be installed
                Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.18~) but 1.14 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I am assuming, due to the error, that Ubuntu 14.04 is affected as well but do not have one on hand with which to test.

@adam-ierymenko

I have this problem as well.

@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Cup of broccoli cheddar soup, a Redd's, and some french fries.

*dodges flying apple.

I think somebody mentioned this already... but why not use a GitLab repo and set up a cron job to pull down the file every xx minutes.

Hey you guys!

Nothing like starting off the morning with a dead HDD.

@Breffni-Potter said in HelpDesk Ticketing System:

@Veet said

Instead of developing one, right from scratch, would it be a bad idea to develop one, based on an existing Open Source solution ?

Because of the nature of software, you kind of need to start from scratch to get what you want, A lot of things have to be re-done and re-written when you take someone else's tool and try to shoe horn it in.

And when said shoehorning is complete... the code is generally... very messy.

Tater-Tot casserole (Tater tots, sour cream, cheese, and chicken (some folks prefer hamburger)

It was painfully difficult to manage. I'd recommend using their hosted service . It's free for up to 100 devices.

@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Getting told to install an agent for what I believe is a compliance audit on five machines. Proxy server blocks access to the given links from the users' machines...FML...

Complaince Audit: Fail.

Security Audit: Win?

@BRRABill said in WordPress Hosting:

@scottalanmiller said in WordPress Hosting:

Never GoDaddy, of course.

What's wrong with Go Daddy, BTW?

(This should be good...)

You mean SlowDaddy?

It takes me 5 minutes to get logged in, and another 2 to 3 to pull up the DNS settings for the domain I hijacked from Pops, lol.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Today has been...interesting.

How so? ... and Interesting good... or interesting Bad?

I've just been running around like a nut. It's been wild. Tomorrow I have to find every phone line in the entire place and check to see if all of the devices are capable of T.38 -- If so we are going to save a ton of money.

Saving a ton of money is nice... but isn't T.38 for faxing?

Faxing over voip. Yup.

No, Faxing over IP. FoIP. There is no voice when faxing.

That's what I meant. Sorry!

Good I thought you were going to replace all of the phones in the office with faxes and make everyone, fax EVERYTHING, forever and more.

FoVoIP would be someone mapping a fax onto graph paper then having two people call each other on VoIP and read graph paper coordinates manually to each other to say if that pixel was on or off. Would be a fun experiment.

I'll help! I'll play the part of the Fax machine with a noisy line, ha ha.

In the bleeding edge version of it, it now supports RemoteApps and usage of the Remote Desktop Gateway as well.

In other news... Happy birthday to me... lol.

Hi All,

We had a question about Intrustion Detection systems recently... I'm a long time fan of Open Source tools like Snort (www.snort.org) and Suricata (https://oisf.net/suricata/).

We've also heard a bit about the ELK stack from folks like @scottalanmiller . I just happened to see in my inbox this morning a project I had forgotten about. it's called SELKS. Basically, it integrates Suricata, the ELK stack, and a couple of other tools to create what looks like quite a useful IDS package.

I'll quit writing now so you can go check out the tools: https://www.stamus-networks.com/open-source/

Or read the blog article here: https://www.stamus-networks.com/2016/08/12/the-third-selks-is-out/

@jt1001001 said in Weekend Plans:

@coliver Miss the "relaxing" part, now its the Chase after the 1 year old while making sure the 3 year old isn't up to no good!
Cleaning house this weekend out of town relatives coming in hope I can get the kids to help. One of these days I'll actually get a home lab setup!

If you are chasing the one year old around and the house gets too quiet... better check on the 3 year old... that probably means he's (?) busy being an upside down tornado somewhere.

If the file came from the internet or a network share, or the shortcut points to a network share, you may be able to right click on the file or shortcut and go to Properties, and then choose the "Unblock" this file option...

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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

That's pretty much what it was. Emilia is used to white noise so without it she kept startling herself awake. Normally she wakes up at ~3AM and goes immediately back to bed after a feeding. Last night she was up ~every 10 minutes.

WIth my boys, battery powered radio on static got us through some overnight power outages. Being an Amateur Radio nut, it was easy to just set one of my ham radios to an unused frequency and I have enough batteries to go all night.

That's a good idea. Need to find a radio though.

My Dad has my Grampa's old ham radio with a built in amp of questionable legality, lol. Dang thing dims the lights in the neighbor's house... and I used to be able to hear grampa over our TV set half a mile away when I was a kid, lol.