@irj said in What's the best DVD ripper right now?:

Try dvd shrink. That is what I used back in the day.

^^ this was one in my tool box

You mentioned an existing alarm system that you cannot hook up to. Can the landlord contact said alarm company to see what they offer?

Pagers are still a thing in a lot of places. Super convenient as they run on AA batteries and generally last the better part of forever on a single one.

@jaredbusch said

@dashrender is irrationally against devices.

He is also staying away from his name being paged.

Perhaps he is scart to discuss.

I think for now I'm going to go with Crashplan business, mainly because it's 75% off. I'll push this off for a year and save a few bucks.

My user folder and my data drive are just over 500GB so not a huge backup, but still, CP is currently dead and waiting even a week to backup to BB hurts a little.

I do have O365 so I've got 1TB there. I actually store some Windows user folder (docs/music/images/videos) directly into OneDrive. I just don't want to use it as a "backup" in the fuller sense of the word. It's not exactly protected from crypto and would be a huge pain to recover from.

Wireless HDMI adapters.

@guyinpv sign up for a demo i guess this might be a good fit

@guyinpv said in Small office phone setup, looking for improvements...:

Are we using IVR and voicemail greetings the same way?

Isn't IVR the interactive thing with menus and "press 1 for this" etc?

Nothing interactive about standard voicemail.

Does FreePBX have separate voicemail vs. IVR or is it all one in the same?

Separate

Are you seriously going to keep it?

I guess i figured this was a stop gap measure until the Ubiquiti stuff arrived.

Define "good"

Even three years ago, top three holiday sellers of ALL Amazon computer categories were Chromebooks...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2863936/amazons-three-top-selling-computers-for-the-holidays-were-chromebooks.html

This exact thing happens to me, I've tried using APC, Tripp-lite, and CyberPower. The laser printer (not directly attached to UPS) but on same circuit warms up the fuser thus causing a brown-out condition on the circuit, then causing the UPS to activate to hold up the PC and other devices.. thus cycling its sealed lead acid 6v battery within a few seconds, causing them to go below 50%. This may work a few times but if it drops below 50% charge it damages the 6v battery.. thus will need to be replaced continually unless you move the laser printer or have the circuit conditioned to handle the greater load.

@JaredBusch said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:

@guyinpv said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:

@BRRABill said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:

@JaredBusch said in What's the best standard HDDs these days?:

This entire discussion was stupid. There is never need to worry about a "best drive" for 99% of users. You buy what ever is cheap and available. Even more so because you have clearly stated this is a short term solution.

Hear ye, the word of the lord. And rejoice, because it has been given unto you.

You dare blaspheme the name of Jared!!?!?! Burn!!!

Say what you want, but th time you spent looking for drives, and then purchasing a drive that is probably double the cost of what you could have gotten, means money wasted.

Don't sweat it. I did one Google search, posted a thread on here, then looked at Amazon's popular stuff.
10 minute decision.

@curious_mindz said in While on the topic of ransomware...:

I didnt see anyone talk about preventing Crypto virus from encrypting files. We used AppLocker and it resolved the issue for us, if you are not using an enterprise OS then you can use Software Restriction Plicies.

This discussion is not on preventing cypto. this part of the discussion was on dealing with the backups in a way that they cannot become tainted.

@bwarden1

I have an old Toshiba U505 Laptop that I use in my bedroom. It has KODI 17.1 and is hooked directly to My TV with HDMI and I go optical from my TV to my sound bar. I also use a TP-Link T4U wireless adapter its USB AC1200. I have had no problems.

@guyinpv said in XenServer 7 install not working for SD-Card setup:

@travisdh1 said in XenServer 7 install not working for SD-Card setup:

@guyinpv said in XenServer 7 install not working for SD-Card setup:

@momurda said in XenServer 7 install not working for SD-Card setup:

@guyinpv From the storage tab while a vm is selected in XenCenter, Click on Attach Disk. choose the disk from your list of SR.

The only thing in this menu is "Local storage" and "Removable storage".

The VHD files I have are not located on the local storage media, they are on my NAS backup device.

Somehow I have to get the VHD files off the NAS and imported into the existing VMs.

I'm not sure how to do this off the top of my head in XenOrchestra (me=fail). How I got my XO back was by using XenCenter. Have the VHD files available on the local machine, and then go to file -> import inside of XenCenter, and select one of the VHD files. You'll then get the normal vm creation questions, but without the storage creation. You should be good to go after the import.

Sounds reasonable. Then I just have to figure out how to copy the files onto the server local storage. There is no general "file browser" in XC where I can just copy files from the network.

The import takes care of that for you, you don't have to copy any files to XenServer yourself.

@DustinB3403 said in Should it take 10 hours to export 32GBs of VMs in XenServer?:

@scottalanmiller New job has had me busy.

Likely story.

@NerdyDad said in Thinking about moving...:

@gjacobse said in Thinking about moving...:

Tennessee or Kentucky . I live is a 'smaller' town, but an 20 minutes for three cities. There are some really great mid level mountains in KY, and TN has the Great Smokies.

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I'm about five hours east of St. Louis, less than two hours south of Cincinnati, and about three north of Knoxville...

Really good area - good people and you get most all four seasons here....

So you live in Lexington?

Nope - but close.

Dang it.

XenServer is 6.5.
XenCenter is 7.1 as of today.
The VM is headless Ubuntu 14.04 running Seafile.
I happen to also run a VM for XO but I don't know how that plays into this. Is XO better at extending partitions?

I eventually gave up trying to extend the partition anyway. The docs I found said I had to blast away the partition so I needed to move data around to do it. Just a pain in the butt. It was only a test install of Seafile anyway. I intend to build it up properly this round.
The only question is now, I really don't want to go through this again, or I need to set it up so changing drive size isn't as big a deal.
We've used up our 10GB of Box space so I could easily just throw, say, 50GB at the new setup and it would probably last us a half decade. But still, it would be nice to do this in a way where I can more easily adjust available space if the time comes.

If they are going to be your only client like this, I would just do the VPN thing. The fixed costs and overhead of some of the other tools are not going to be worth it.