Best posts made by EddieJennings

Just shared this in our #it-private channel. Hopefully the appropriate person will take note.

Finally! I can haz name resolution! Time for bed.

@scottalanmiller said in Ma be repeated, I'm looking for Cost effective and open source solution with overall linux environment!!!:

@eddiejennings said in Ma be repeated, I'm looking for Cost effective and open source solution with overall linux environment!!!:

The big question I had was how to manage user accounts and configuration settings for workstations. Looks like it's time for me to finally start learning about the aforementioned tools.

Did you miss the talk by @QuixoticJeremy at MangoCon 2017? This was his topic.

No. I was there, that's why I asked the question about whether or not you could manage workstations with the concepts behind Sodium :). I worded my post poorly. Basically, I'm saying I need to learn about those tools, now that I know they exist.

Even though I moved the data to local storage, for giggles, I put a new drive into my Synology just to see if it would rebuild the RAID 5 successfully. After 10 hours, it seems to have completed without a problem. Methinks though, my next RAID 5 rebuild will not be so lucky.

I'm not at my computer at the moment, and I can't visualize the account registration screen. From what I remember when I've played with Zoiper, when you register an extension, you don't use the UCP credentials. You'll use the extension number and it's secret. For the SIP domain, just enter the IP of your FreePBX VM or FQDN if you have a DNS record for it.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I imagine in the Linux world backing up and restoring scheduled tasks would look something like this:

1. Make a copy of the files related to cron (like crontab)
2. [something happenes to your scheduled tasks]
3. Replace damaged files related to cron with your copies.

Am I right? Is it truly that simple?

At least with Windows Server, I've found that copying the contents of c:\windows\system32\tasks then transplanting the contents into the same folder for a test server, doesn't cut it. As I'll need to go through an import setp to get stuff setup in the Task Scheduler.

Yes, it's really that simple.

/sigh I laugh a bit about how I'd have far less head-against-the-wall beatings if we were a Linux shop.

windows Cals also.

Triggered.

@scottalanmiller Heh. Last 48 hours have made me consider honing some skills and finding a gig in a Linux shop.

Yeah. The "issue" is me seeing the malicious traffic, and starting a discussion about what's considered best practice for securing a FreePBX server.

My tolerance for stupid / lazy has now been depleted for the day.

@scottalanmiller said in FreePBX - Thinking Through Directories:

@eddiejennings said in FreePBX - Thinking Through Directories:

@scottalanmiller said in FreePBX - Thinking Through Directories:

Quantify your concern. What exactly are you worried will happen?

For the direct-dialing concern, I'm ashamed to admit that I didn't think my concern through fully. I suppose the worst that can happen is a department would be annoyed by potential crank calling their queue directly rather than waiting through the IVR options. But then again, they can simply memorize which single digit to press, and achieve the same thing.

If someone can dial you, they can dial you. Imagine this same discussion about email. "We have to hide our email DLs and aliases, what if people EMAILED us?!?!?"

Um... yeah, that's the idea.

Point taken.

@dafyre for the person responsible, yes, this is an improvement.

I've been looking off and on for a few months now for Vultr Storage Instances. All locations seem to be temporary sold out at all times. Am I right in thinking the few times new instances come available are bought immediately? Or is Vultr phasing these out and are just saying they're temporary sold out?

@NerdyDad Will this affect my Nokia 3310? I cant lose mah contactz!

@dashrender said in Vultr Storage Instances:

@eddiejennings said in Vultr Storage Instances:

@dashrender said in Vultr Storage Instances:

@eddiejennings said in Vultr Storage Instances:

I can't see the price now, but perhaps it's cheaper than SSD VM + Block storage, if SATA storage meets your needs.

I thought all their storage was SSD?

I'm pretty sure their Storage Instances were SATA. I only had a chance to see the details briefly a while back.

well, my quoted portion seems to show that currently it's SSD based/backed.

Their block storage offerings != storage instance.

@JaredBusch 1.3k more inbound toll-free minutes, and 1.9k more outbound long distance minutes.

Looks like we've been approved for the non-profit offerings of Office 365. I now have a new after-work task tomorrow. Getting this stuff configured

I look at my feed and see that 90% of the threads are about something to which I can't contribute much if anything.

Ping times between your PBX and the SIP providers points of presence as well as ping times between your office and the PBX (if the PBX is off site).

I hate making errors. Brought our website down for 4 minutes due to a misidentified power cable. >(