@JasGot

The Xerox line is a work horse. The State pretty much has gone only to them. In the 'new' building I'm assigned to, we have about eight big MFP units per floor set with Follow-You print. It's handy - and yet also some times annoying. More so with being who are WFH and in office - they will some times come up with Printer Offline.

@gjacobse said in How To: for files:

That said, from what you are saying; is my ‘failure’ was omitting the /M which specifies the ‘searchmask’. And because of that omission, it didn’t have the comparative variable, and deleted everything.

There were two things that tripped you up.

The lack of /M to just find *.tmp files Using del *.tmp as the command

First forfiles is a for-loop that executes whatever command you want for each file it finds.
As @JasGot mentioned you will get one hit for each file it will find.

With /D -15 you are specifying that you only want to find files older than 15 days.
With /S you are telling forfiles to look in all subdirectories as well. You may or may not want that.
With /M you can specify a filter which matching filenames you want to search for. Without /Mit will find all the files regardless if it's named 123.tmp or installation.txt

Your initial command would find all files in all subdirectories regardless if it what name it had. That's why you needed /M.

Secondly, forfiles will execute whatever command you want for each and every file it finds.
Since your command was del *.tmp it would delete all tmp files every time it found a file.
What you really wanted was to just delete the file it found.
The @file will have the name of the file so del @file would only delete the file that was found.

@Dashrender said in Pre-Planning new domain and environment:

It's the whole ZT/DNS

@Dashrender said in Pre-Planning new domain and environment:

and when I tested ZT in the past,

It is just DNS. You have to have it on EVERYTHING if you go that route.

Or, you make the ZT network the same subnet and not different.

Just take your 10.0.0.0/24 and make it a 10.0.0.0/23 instead.
have the local DHCP server hand out 10.0.0.101-254
have ZT DHCP hand out 10.0.1.101-254

or use ZT Bridging
Lots of ways to skin the cat.

@gjacobse said in Android tablet or CutiePi:

@scottalanmiller said in Android tablet or CutiePi:

@DustinB3403 said in Android tablet or CutiePi:

ha they want $203 US for the full version. . .

Not... horrible. But too much for what it is. Between that and the cost of the Pi, I could almost buy a new iPad.

The problem I have currently with my iPad is that it's so old, the current iOS for it is 10.x... and iOS 14.x is out. so, I really need to upgrade, ..

Brand new is just like $330, though. With full support and 100x the power of an RP.

@black3dynamite said in RoboCopy Syntax:

@gjacobse said in RoboCopy Syntax:

I feel that I’ve made decent progress on the script, that said, I’ve run into a snag trying to grab Google Chrome User default folder:

RoboCopy “%src%\appdata\local\google\chrome\user data\default\” %dst%\chromeProfile\” /xa:sh /xjd /r:5 /w:5

I can’t seem to isolate the issue, this is almost the same syntax I am using to copy the profile.

Before you copy make sure Chrome processes is not running first. And last time I check, saved passwords doesn’t work when copying the chrome profile. I think Firefox is the only one that you can backup the profile without losing your saved passwords.

Good point, and I did run into that during a manual copy. I'm pretty sure that it would be a simple matter to added kill process - but I'll have to research that to see if it can be done by process name, not process number.

Yes - I'll do that. Seems easy enough.

@black3dynamite said in LibreOffice: Auto-formats texts:

In Tools > AutoCorrect, I have "While Typing" turned off because its annoying.

I do that too.

We use Trello and like it a lot, but we use it for a coding process, not job tracking.

@JaredBusch said in pi-Hole: Dashboard times out:

@gjacobse said in pi-Hole: Dashboard times out:

@JaredBusch said in pi-Hole: Dashboard times out:

Unless you have the Vultr Firewall in place restriciting access to your home IP or some software firewall running on the instance, you have setup a fucking public DNS server. What else would you expect to happen?

Great - that's an extra $10 a month unless I can run firewalld on the system and be fine.

um wut?

Admittedly - I may have misspoke and that is the DDOS not the firewall. I have to go back and look through.

@scottalanmiller said in pi-Hole: Dashboard times out:

@gjacobse said in pi-Hole: Dashboard times out:

@JaredBusch said in pi-Hole: Dashboard times out:

Unless you have the Vultr Firewall in place restriciting access to your home IP or some software firewall running on the instance, you have setup a fucking public DNS server. What else would you expect to happen?

Great - that's an extra $10 a month unless I can run firewalld on the system and be fine.

$10? Should be $3.50 on Vultr

This instance is indeed $3.50

Oh-kay . Yes - you are right... and yet you are (slightly) wrong.

In this case, while Libre Office is ''content flow'' as opposed to ''page based'' The project is page based - something I was doing, but didn't know exactly how to explain.

thusly;
https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/91386/can-i-change-the-page-order-in-writer/

From your question, your document is "page-based". Go to the logical consequence of your choice and store your "pages" as independent documents. To guarantee a common look-and-feel, I'd recommend to design them from a common template.

Then, you create your "synthesis" document (the one meant for printing) as a master document which references all your "page" documents. Read the LO User's guide if you aren't familiar with the concept.

In the master document, the included "pages" can be reordered from the Navigator panel (F5) with "up" and "down" buttons after selecting the "page" you want to move. In essence, it is equivalent to @RGB-es copy-and-paste solution without the risk of incorrectly selecting page content or overwriting other text.

This is basically what I had done in Word...

@scottalanmiller said in piHole: Forwarded queries:

@gjacobse said in piHole: Forwarded queries:

@gjacobse said in piHole: Forwarded queries:

Looking through my pHole - I see that a number of entries (IPaddresses) are shown as forwarded. Is this something that should be allowed (forwarding) or blocked?

Or - is it a reply to the request and completely normal

Completely normal. A forward in DNS is when the local DNS server (the Pi-Hole) doesn't have the "answer" in its table.

I wondered - I went back and read it 'backwards' and from that stand point - I can very much see it as being normal. the request is forwarded on - ... not something coming in that shouldn't.

Thanks

@jmoore said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

@stacksofplates said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

@jmoore said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

@scottalanmiller said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

@jmoore said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

@scottalanmiller said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

A big question would be... why do you want to restrict binaries from users?

Thats the sysadmin decision. He considers it a security measure and I can understand it somewhat.

Does he? Because he's not restricting them in any way, and totally okay with all the portable apps delivered in the web browser, right? So he's totally okay with them. Just confused, I'd guess.

Well, I can't presume to know his mind but hes just trying to limit the damage that can be done i suppose. I am guessing that is what he is thinking.

Is this from a government requirement? The only way to do this is checksum all of your executables. Unless you are required to do this, you're insane.

Yes we are a 2 year college and this is what I am told.

That's a lot to deal with for a 2 year college. I can understand the annoyances of accreditation and also following like FERPA requirements.

@gjacobse said in pi-hole: Xbox; Ads on Youtube:

@Dashrender said in pi-hole: Xbox; Ads on Youtube:

@gjacobse said in pi-hole: Xbox; Ads on Youtube:

@marcinozga said in pi-hole: Xbox; Ads on Youtube:

Pi-hole won't block youtube ads, at least not the in-video ads. You need youtube premium to get rid of them, no way to block those I'm afraid.

Noted - I don't get ads on the PC(s), likely due to different adblocker there.

and well - dang.

How are they being blocked on the PC... something other than blacklists/DNS not resolve...

My default had been to install adblocker when building a PC,.. so it's likely still running even with the pi-hole running.

Right, but how do most of those work? as far as I know they work by blocking DNS queries

@scottalanmiller said in NextCloud: Unrecoverablely broken?:

Bottom line, in NextCloud you shouldn't be looking at the files from the command line, ever. Not NextCloud files anyway. Permissions are meant to be handled by the app and it's database, not by the filesystem.

Well mostly. Nextcloud needs the files to have the right system permissions.

But user permissions have nothing to do with system permissions.

Also, for a few specific instances, I do quite a bit with Nextcloud files on the command line. But that is a very specific use case, and also has nothing to do with group or share permissions.

@scottalanmiller said in Multi Stream Video - Demo Recording:

@gjacobse said in Multi Stream Video - Demo Recording:

@scottalanmiller said in Multi Stream Video - Demo Recording:

Lumix mirrorless

I should have mentioned ---

On a small budget. so a $1,600 camera isn't going to work.

Um WHAT?

Lumix makes high end cams for like $300. How the heck are you shopping?

I’ll have to go back and look- I was trying to do four different things and my first search may have been off.

@gjacobse : What about just using Microsoft's USMT then? It's a little more difficult to use but accomplishes the same thing as Forenzit's tool.

@dbeato said in Ubuntu: Auto Update 18.x vs 20.x:

I don't see anything blatantly changing on 20.04 as opposed as 18.04 and I have working for the few 20.04 servers we have.

Thanks for the reminder - I went back and discovered that one single line was still uncommented. I checked a few minutes ago, and the number of updates was zero, where last week it was up to 15.

@gjacobse said in pi-Hole: Client and Recursive DNS:

And since i'm running this now, I get a notification on recursive DNS -

Yup, just ignore them.

@scottalanmiller said in pi-hole: Group Management:

@marcinozga said in pi-hole: Group Management:

@stacksofplates said in pi-hole: Group Management:

@stacksofplates said in pi-hole: Group Management:

@marcinozga said in pi-hole: Group Management:

@stacksofplates said in pi-hole: Group Management:

I just use CloudFlare for families. If I need to, I can change DNS on whatever to view something.

That only blocks malware and porn if you choose to. What about ads, marketing crap, tracking, etc.?

I leverage what's in the browser for that stuff.

That might not be 100% the best way to handle it, but I don' thave to manage and pay for a server to do it.

No Raspberry Pi lying around?

Who has an unused computer lying around? lol

I don’t, this old box of mine is hitting its last legs...

@gjacobse said in UBNT EdgeRouter Lite; Performance:

Performance seems best with Upload set and download off....

Those numbers seem about right for a EdgeRouter Lite. If you need QoS enabled for download, you'll either need to upgrade or just live with the slowdown.

@flaxking said in Relative path in batch:

.\ Won't necessarily refer to the folder the script is in, it will refer to the working directory at the time that the script is launched.

%~dp0 refers to the directory the script is in, but I don't recall if it works for Network shares.

Good point. mapped drives would help this, even if you're mapping it long enough for the script to run, then unmapping it at the end.