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@eleceng
The basic premise of helping to stop horizontal attacks is wonderful. Last year we reviewed this as an option. In a test, it implemented well enough, but the PW was not truly encrypted. This can be better explained here:
https://techgenix.com/case-against-using-laps/amp/

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Nebraska - I have 100/20 for $80 + $50 for unlimited downloads, I average 1.8 TB, the extra .8 would cost me $80 if I paid for it per 100 Gig

Lucky enough to have 1Gig Fiber for $39 in Arlington Tx

@scottalanmiller
With Packt, you can get the book and ebook for the $40 price

I spun up MC for home based on advice gained here. Based on the results, we now use it at work. It has been solid in both environments. My personal one sits in Vulr on a Linux VM @$5/mo and has about 80 devices on it currently.
It just works.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

saw a report on the cold weather you're having up there. it doesn't look very pleasant, hope you're all doing ok.

In Ohio it's just another winter day for us. Texas and other southern states are just not prepared for this sort of weather, because it really doesn't make sense for them when this sort of thing happens so infrequently.

@siringo How's your summer going?

It's not THAT infrequent, that's the thing. Every apartment building uses that excuse, but this is like the fifth time we've had an event that causes buildings to get destroyed by not being built correctly. That's every two to three years!

WHile this cold snap was severe, it's not THAT severe. It's only the fourth worst in 150 years, very far from a record. It's bad, but not unexpected. And with climate change, that weather will be more dynamic and severe is expected. So this is absolutely anything but a surprise.

This week in TX reminds me of a normal February growing up. You shoveled out, and went to school. Of course, back then we had to walk up hill in both directions.

When we hit temps like this, my body reminds me why it has been so happy at these more southern latitudes.

Unlike many in this area, we have been lucky. No power issues and plenty of food.

@travisdh1 said in Sodium's new name! Looking for some input!:

H2O Na

Na H2O

@Danp, got me started

That's kind of a watered down solution don't you think?

@carnival-boy
Many moons ago (when most screens were still monochrome) I wrote an ERP for a manufacturing company. It was built from the ground up to meet their needs. It was extended to include barcode scanning and some other enhancements that were not considered initially. Long story short, this solution is still in use today decades later. Did it take a lot longer to work it from the ground up? Hell ya. If a framework like Dynamics existed, it would have saved a lot of Dev time. We would have been quicker to market using a framework. Would it have been better? More reliable? I'll vote for more troublesome using a generic platform like Dynamics.
Given how long it has been used with only minor enhancements, their TCO is awesome. Is it the right answer for everyone? Obviously not. However, it should always be part of the conversation.

@AdamF
It works quite well - especially for the cost.
For our company's onsite ones, I even have a cheap POE add-on card, so I can restart the Pi if it fully hangs up (rare). Obviously this does not work for your use case.

A joke or not, once "Disneyfied" it will lose some luster.

Interesting that BackBlaze is now integrated with Vultr. No egress fees. This may prove useful

Spiceworks can connect to your AD, so that importing is not needed. Look under SETTINGS, and then ACTIVE DIRECTORY INTEGRATION.

I would like to say that I have not spoken to people who disagreed with the title. I would like to, but...

Long night working on some side projects... Starting my work day now.

I use a laptop for work, and connect via usb-c dock to dual screens at the office. I have a similar setup at the house. So, I just plug in my work machine and off I go.

Learning GCP management. Starting on Terraform tomorrow

Chocolatey is more flexible, but PDQ is super simple. We implement PDQ here currently, as it was an uphill battle to get anything going. Now that the benefits are seen, many roads have opened.

I am all for automation, and open source is a plus. Salt may be the next venture, as it looks like a fleet of Pis, and an expansion of Linux servers may be in our future.

"It's not our job to train the stupid, just to try and make it stupid proof" - DustinB3403
@DustinB3403
Back in the early 90s when colored screens were a luxury and the main desktop OS was 3 characters, I wrote an ERP system for a manufacturing company in C. One of the secretaries there did her very best to make me a better programmer. It seemed to be her mission.

Google bought a company (early last year maybe??) that was doing this for several years. The company was called Cloud Ready if I recall. I used it and found it an effective means of repurposing older hardware. In my case, I was able to repurpose 6-7 year old desktops. Of course it is only usable in situations where ChromeOS can be effective. The devices were manageable through Cloud Ready's console (with a license) in much the same way ChromeOS devices can be managed. I assume this is fully integrated now that it is Google Branded.

This would be ideal if the project could/would get ported to non-Intel processors. I would love to run it on Raspberry Pis

@brandon220
I have this on my whiteboard:
"That's the way we have always done it is NEVER the right answer"

When I first peeked at Proxmox, it must have been about 7 years ago. It was not ready for primetime. I just started dipping my toes back in that pool in a homelab

When you drill into some of the solutions out there, some are just black boxes that give you a result. However, what was missed? In these cases, you don't get an audit trail on anything other than what was identified.