Eating lunch

All humor aside, I am all for the state to do this though.

My hometown (Highland, IL) was long forgotten when it came to the internet.

The phone company refused to install DSL back in 2000 and to this day still offers no broadband service.

The cable company did have basic cable internet services in 2001 but refused to upgrade anything after that (no DOCSIS 2/3).

So local citizens and businesses got together and proposed a municipal fiber project. The cable company suddenly got very interested. They sent reps to council meetings with all kinds of misinformation. They also suddenly had trucks in town all day everyday and began to offer new higher speed services.

Thankfully, the scare tactics did not work and the citizens voted to fund the creation of Highland Communication Services.

Why would you ever buy something non-basic form Best Buy? That just amazes me.

Basic, in stock items? No problem if I need it now and can't wait for shipping from someplace..

But I would never have even thought about ordering your machine from Best Buy.

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200169466-Can-I-use-CloudFlare-with-WebSockets-

@Minion-Queen tell @scottalanmiller to quit making f[moderated]ing excuses.

Enable SSL.

So over in this thread, it was mentioned that expanding the OP's current subnet would be the better way to go.

The following two things were said, and I wanted to expand on them.

@Dashrender said:

1. change your IP to a /23 or /22 - this will require updating all of your current equipment with a new Subnet Mask.

@scottalanmiller said:

Not range related. You are changing your subnet mask. So if you are /24, go to /22.

For the purpose of this example, I am going to use the good old 192.168.1.0/24 that no one should ever be using in their business.

As we all know a /24 gives us 256 IP addresses of which we can use 254 (.1-.254).

In this type of setup, most people have their router using 192.168.1.1 and all the devices had the netmask set to 255.255.255.0.

When you expand a network from a /24 to say a /23, you suddenly have access to 512 IP addresses, of which 510 are usable.

Due to the arcane arts of binary, you also expand downward on the third octet, but that is a lesson for a different post.

Now that we have that background information I will get to the reason I copied in those responses above.

When you expand your network, it is a common fallacy to assume that it is a huge thing requiring reprogramming all of the things. This is simply not true. The only device that is required to be updated is the router itself and on top of that only the netmask needs updated. That is it. So our router will still be on 192.168.1.1 with an updated netmask of 255.255.254.0 or a /23 if your router uses CIDR nomenclature.

All of your existing devices will continue to work unchanged on their original /24 netmask because the router is still within their IP range.

You can immediately add new devices to the expanded range, but you will be need to avoid using 192.168.1.0. Now the devices you put in the new range, will be able to talk to the router because that is withing their netmask. What you will not be able to do is communicate with any device above 192.168.1.1 that still has the original netmask because that is outside of the old netmask range and the device will send it to the router instead of the device.

But what this does is allow you to expand in a planned and controlled fashion. In the case of the original post, they can simply select a range of IP addresses to be used for the phones and set them up without affecting the existing network.

You can then take your time and plan out the schedule to update your DHCP scope and then the various fixed IP devices for the new netmask.

Readdressing your network is not a super hard thing. It just takes a little knowledge and planning.

maybe he can keep his tabs straight now and not cross post as the wrong account all the time?

@Dashrender you are reading way too much into that.

Thank you for taking the time to address concerns.

You will need to update owncloud.org to reflect this clearly, but hey 9.0 just came out. I won't kill you for not getting all the documents up to date for a week or three.

I know I will work on new documentation for myself (and post here like always) for installing the community edition making use of the REMI repo and PHP 5.6

Just caught up on my morning email after getting to the airport and through security.

Was the fastest I have ever done that in O'Hare. Less than 15 minutes.

I got out of the car, kissed the wife and kids at 7:03. I had my bag tagged and checked in then to the security line by 7:08.

The TSA line had some new policies because the plastic bins are gone. All items HAVE to be in your bags to go through the scanner. Shoes stayed on, and then a walk through a standard metal detector. Not the wave scanner thing (which was right there too).

I was in line at Starbucks by 7:15.

@Son-of-Jor-El said in Spiceworks let go 12% of their workforce today:

@Minion-Queen I put a link to the jobs that are available in Japan. We are based in Fukouka, but that doesn't mean you'll stay there

If anyone wants to make a huge jump to another country, we are growing fast there.

Cough

One of the wanrings that the ownCloud administration page gives is that there is no memory cahce enabled. This is a PHP setting and it is half enabled by default. A little work needs to be done to finish the job. The general instructions can be found in the ownCloud documentation.

APCu is only available in PHP 5.5 or higher. The ownCloud documentation has instruction for installing a different solution if you are running PHP 5.4.

Since this is a PHP 5.5+ package, it is assumed that you have used the REMI repository to enable PHP higher than 5.4

Depending on how you enable the repo, the installation is as simple as running a yum install command.

yum install php-pecl-apcu

If you need to enable the repo manually you can add the --enablerepo=remi-php56 (or 55) to the yum command.

Once that is installed restart Apache

systemctl restart httpd

Now you simply update your ownCloud config to make use of it.
nano /var/www/html/owncloud/config/config.php

Add this to the config.

'memcache.local' => '\OC\Memcache\APCu',

Next time you go to the admin control panel, the memcache warning will be gone.

@Minion-Queen and @art_of_shred on the Scale Computing cruise.

@dafyre said in Apple Watch 2 Expected in September:

@scottalanmiller said in Apple Watch 2 Expected in September:

@tiagom said in Apple Watch 2 Expected in September:

What do you see yourself using it for?

Keeping track of my location. I do a lot of walking and like to map it but often the phone dies.

And so people can find you too.

#Iknowwheresamis

#trappedinaparkinggarage

@LAH3385 said:

I have 80 devices (printers, phones, server) that is on statics. The rest are DHCP. Should I eleminate statics all together and use DHCP reservation instead?

I would take this opportunity to move all the non 100% critical (aka the DC and the Hypervisor) to DHCP reservations.

Beautiful cloud colors this morning.

And gone.

http://www.ittesi.com/2016-09-06-ITT-Educational-Services-Inc-to-Cease-Operations-at-all-ITT-Technical-Institutes-Following-Federal-Actions

@Dashrender said:

But receiving an order for work via a Text Message seems odd - I'd definitely request that it be sent via an email for confirmation.

I get this all the time. It is certainly not odd to me. But if it is a change like this with potentially severe consequences, I would always confirm via email for CYA purposes.

Server failure at client A
Single drive failure in RAID5 at client B (ancient old, 2008ish i think, RHEL 4 system)
User issues at clients C, D, E.

Happy f[moderated]ing Monday!

http://www.zdnet.com/article/moscow-to-microsoft-were-ditching-outlook-exchange-on-600000-machines/

Ditching exchange and outlook is fine, but mandated to choose local? WTF?