@Texkonc said in Cellular carrier - who do you use?:

VZW.
But now that I am with DirecTV at home, I can port to AT&T and get a lot more cool features at a lower cost.
Been with VZW for ages, no service issues. Ever. All of my issues have been equipment issues.
I hate AT&T with a passion.
Do I stick with Quality or sell my soul for budget?

I'm with Verizon too. Scumbags and thieves. Every few months they try to steal from me. A few times they added some bs insurance on my phones, for "only" $10 a month, and reps dared to argue it's for my own benefit. All of that without my knowledge or approval. You're not selling your soul by going to AT&T, you're showing middle finger to the thieves. I was with AT&T for a couple of years and I've never had any issues with service or billing.

Now I'm waiting for Google Fi to be available on iPhones.

@Ambarishrh said in Auto-scale Drupal site: AWS or Azure:

As the title says, I am trying to deploy a drupal site on either Azure or AWS, this site is expected to have huge traffic for a campaign next month end. Currently on a vps hosting, single server (LAMP), as that handles the normal traffic without issues. I still need to look at both solutions, but i guess Azure higher VMs has autoscaling in built i guess based on the usage, it scales up and down and for AWS you need to set it up with Amazon CLI to set threshold.

Define huge traffic. Anonymous or authenticated? Perhaps you don't need to throw money on cloud hosting if traffic is mostly anonymous. Varnish in front of your web server will let you handle much more than moving to scalable host. Or even Boost module and cache directory mounted in ramdisk - much simpler than Varnish - might do the trick.

I think the biggest blowback should come from end users. Perhaps we should send those printers back to HP HQ, like people did with AOL discs. I, and my workplace, will not be buying another HP printer in the foreseeable future, so that's one home and one business customer less for HP.

It's hard to tell whether they violated any laws, but perfectly working printers will not work anymore. Before buying their printers nobody really knew they would pull such a dick move. Firmware updates are not mandatory, so nobody is forcing anybody to intentionally cripple their printers, but most people don't read release notes. It's a grey area, but I think it needs a lot of publicity, and HP deserves really huge financial hit.

@JaredBusch said in Plex Media Server Install Guide (CentOS 7.2 Minimal):

@marcinozga said in Plex Media Server Install Guide (CentOS 7.2 Minimal):

@JaredBusch said in Plex Media Server Install Guide (CentOS 7.2 Minimal):

@scottalanmiller said in Plex Media Server Install Guide (CentOS 7.2 Minimal):

@marcinozga said in Plex Media Server Install Guide (CentOS 7.2 Minimal):

I find this guide really confusing. Plex installation should boil down to downloading package with wget and installing it with yum.

You probably don't need wget, you might be able to install it directly. Often that is the case.

I agree, this is really a guide to installing nano and Samba, not Plex.

They bit about transferring the Plex install just comes down to his admitted inexperience with Linux.

The document as it stands is decent. @wirestyle22 missed a little formatting and needs to retitle it setting up samba for use with Plex.

But that's the wrong way of working with Plex. Here's a guide of doing it the right way:

https://www.cuttingcords.com/home/ultimate-server/getting-started

It's a guide for Windows, but installation on Linux is very similar. Just ignore the author's statement that Plex is optimized to run on Windows, it's not. Plex server will run on anything, Plex client was build for Mac first, Windows came later.

This guide is no different it has little to do with setting up Plex.

how is this the wrong way of working with Plex? There is nothing here about working with Plex beyond installing it.

You said it, title should be setting up samba for use with Plex. Beyond initial media upload to Plex server, which is much more efficient with ftp anyway, there is no need to use samba at all. Adding media to Plex should be automated, and this is where Couchpotato and the likes comes into play.

@dafyre said in Plex Media Server Install Guide (CentOS 7.2 Minimal):

@scottalanmiller said in Plex Media Server Install Guide (CentOS 7.2 Minimal):

@JaredBusch said in Plex Media Server Install Guide (CentOS 7.2 Minimal):

@scottalanmiller said in Plex Media Server Install Guide (CentOS 7.2 Minimal):

@marcinozga said in Plex Media Server Install Guide (CentOS 7.2 Minimal):

I find this guide really confusing. Plex installation should boil down to downloading package with wget and installing it with yum.

You probably don't need wget, you might be able to install it directly. Often that is the case.

I agree, this is really a guide to installing nano and Samba, not Plex.

They bit about transferring the Plex install just comes down to his admitted inexperience with Linux.

The document as it stands is decent. @wirestyle22 missed a little formatting and needs to retitle it setting up samba for use with Plex.

Yes, retitling would do the trick.

I don't get it... He covers configuring the firewall and the Plex services in the OP.

80% of the guide is about setting up samba share.

@JaredBusch said in Plex Media Server Install Guide (CentOS 7.2 Minimal):

@scottalanmiller said in Plex Media Server Install Guide (CentOS 7.2 Minimal):

@marcinozga said in Plex Media Server Install Guide (CentOS 7.2 Minimal):

I find this guide really confusing. Plex installation should boil down to downloading package with wget and installing it with yum.

You probably don't need wget, you might be able to install it directly. Often that is the case.

I agree, this is really a guide to installing nano and Samba, not Plex.

They bit about transferring the Plex install just comes down to his admitted inexperience with Linux.

The document as it stands is decent. @wirestyle22 missed a little formatting and needs to retitle it setting up samba for use with Plex.

But that's the wrong way of working with Plex. Here's a guide of doing it the right way:

https://www.cuttingcords.com/home/ultimate-server/getting-started

It's a guide for Windows, but installation on Linux is very similar. Just ignore the author's statement that Plex is optimized to run on Windows, it's not. Plex server will run on anything, Plex client was build for Mac first, Windows came later.

I've seen it a few times. In most extreme cases system reset was necessary to fix it.

I find this guide really confusing. Plex installation should boil down to downloading package with wget and installing it with yum. That and opening firewall ports should be entire guide. Samba is really irrelevant here. Besides, why would anyone want to add anything to Plex manually? That's the job for Couchpotato, Sonarr + Jackett, Headphones and similar apps.

@momurda said in OWA is vulnerable to Phishing:

Quick question; How would you go about getting your phishing page to OWA users at a company you were targeting? send them an email with a subject like 'click here to login to your company webmail"? with a link to the fake owa site? They would already have their email open. I suppose it could happen that way, these are users we're talking about.
In the Eternal War on Spam/Malware, what can be done?

Instant messenger is one option.

I can't believe that everyone here is dead wrong. None of the websites mentioned here or OWA are vulnerable to phishing. Not a single website on Internet is. Users are vulnerable to phishing, not websites. Phishing is a social engineering technique to deceive users, not websites. You can create fake Google login form that has both username and password fields and users will fall for it.

If you're his manager/supervisor, fire him instantly. He's clearly stabbing you i the back. If you don't have the power to fire him, don't get him involved in any decision making anymore. He's probably the type of employee that will throw anybody under the bus just so he looks good.

Or simply confront him in front of the boss and ask why he's suddenly changing his mind.

@DustinB3403 said in SETI Investigating Deep Space Signal:

@marcinozga said in SETI Investigating Deep Space Signal:

@DustinB3403 said in SETI Investigating Deep Space Signal:

@marcinozga said in SETI Investigating Deep Space Signal:

Not exactly. All you have to do is to jump-start the whole process by sending robots and mining equipment to a small planet. Getting raw materials to orbit would be relatively easy, because of lower gravity force, and initial harvested energy would be delivered to mining equipment on the planet, greatly increasing output over time, as more and more energy collectors orbit the sun. Once you're done with one planet, move to another. Rinse and repeat.

The harvesting of the raw materials is easy in comparison, but you still need power to do it (an unbelievable amount of power). You can't be spending centuries chewing through a planet.

It would have to be done in a scale of a few years (worst case). Longer than that and you get into the "fix it stage" where your equipment is breaking down so often that you can't possibly replace it fast enough to keep a forward going pace.

Not possible in a few years right now, but closer to a century. If things break, that's what you have robots for. And once we have the capability to actually send robotic mining crew to a different planet, I think we would be capable of building them to last a few decades.

You have all the power available already, from nearby star.

Solar power is great, but this only goes so far, you have storms/clouds etc on planets. All of which effect solar power. If we're talking CrapWars death-planet thing, this is completely unreasonable, as discussed.

Planet like Mercury hardly has any atmosphere so solar power is perfectly applicable there. Venus would be more challenging, but we can always convert solar into microwave and beam it to the station on surface. Sulphuric acid in atmosphere poses bigger problem than supplying energy there.

Originally we were talking about Kardaschew Type II civilization, which could potentially build Dyson sphere (rather impossible), but more realistically would build Dyson swarm, and that's something even humans could build in about a century.

@DustinB3403 said in SETI Investigating Deep Space Signal:

@marcinozga said in SETI Investigating Deep Space Signal:

Not exactly. All you have to do is to jump-start the whole process by sending robots and mining equipment to a small planet. Getting raw materials to orbit would be relatively easy, because of lower gravity force, and initial harvested energy would be delivered to mining equipment on the planet, greatly increasing output over time, as more and more energy collectors orbit the sun. Once you're done with one planet, move to another. Rinse and repeat.

The harvesting of the raw materials is easy in comparison, but you still need power to do it (an unbelievable amount of power). You can't be spending centuries chewing through a planet.

It would have to be done in a scale of a few years (worst case). Longer than that and you get into the "fix it stage" where your equipment is breaking down so often that you can't possibly replace it fast enough to keep a forward going pace.

Not possible in a few years right now, but closer to a century. If things break, that's what you have robots for. And once we have the capability to actually send robotic mining crew to a different planet, I think we would be capable of building them to last a few decades.

You have all the power available already, from nearby star.

@DustinB3403 said in SETI Investigating Deep Space Signal:

@scottalanmiller said in SETI Investigating Deep Space Signal:

@DustinB3403 said in SETI Investigating Deep Space Signal:

Well the obvious answer is from harvesting materials from other planets, moons and asteroids.

Yeah, like millions of them.

To go on this subtopic. To be able to even get so much material to harvest planets for the raw materials in them, you'd need to be able to travel extremely vast distances in unbelievable large and capable ship. Scale would be required here, as you'd have to store the materials harvested somewhere on board.

But before you even get to this point, you'd have to build this vessel in space, outside of the orbit and gravitational pull (far enough away to not crash back into the planet), which actually leads to the next problem. The ship (or ships) would have to be the size of the planet or larger. With extremely vast management crews or automation systems (AI).

These ships would have to be able to self repair, along with self replicate (almost breeding) as sending more ships from the home planet would take forever. Literally millions of light years to get to wherever the "original" ship is now at.

Being able to produce new planetary mining ships in space would be an absolute necessity for anything like this. Which if you can do this, and travel the vastness of your galaxy to harvest the raw materials to be able to make a Dyson Sphere, you'd be better off just building a ton of ultra fast ships that get sent out in ever direction searching for life.

Not exactly. All you have to do is to jump-start the whole process by sending robots and mining equipment to a small planet. Getting raw materials to orbit would be relatively easy, because of lower gravity force, and initial harvested energy would be delivered to mining equipment on the planet, greatly increasing output over time, as more and more energy collectors orbit the sun. Once you're done with one planet, move to another. Rinse and repeat.

Check Frontier, I think they bought FiOS from Verizon in Florida. They should have FTTH 50/50 Mbit at least, Verizon goes up to 500/500, I don't know if Frontier has the same speed available.

@Dashrender said in SETI Investigating Deep Space Signal:

@DustinB3403 said in SETI Investigating Deep Space Signal:

So a Kardashev Type II civilization as theorized "can harness the energy of the entire star (the most popular hypothetical concept being the Dyson sphere—a device which would encompass the entire star and transfer its energy to the planet)."

A Dyson sphere encompasses the entire sun for the purposes of using that power to send a beacon into space...

Okay but if you can encompass an entire sun for the purposes of broadcasting a signal into every direction of space, wouldn't you be capable of doing more than that.

That by it's self is a huge undertaking. Wouldn't planetary exploration be a tiny project in comparison?

I'm more curious where they would get the raw materials to encompass and entire star.

From nearby planets. Although more likely they would build Dyson swarm (solar panels and mirrors in orbit around the sun) rather than sphere, sphere is almost impossible from engineering point of view. Gravity forces are just to strong for any material to withstand, and even a slightest nudge towards the star, from being hit by an asteroid for example, would create even more tension and break the sphere apart.

We actually could build Dyson swarm by harvesting Mercury, Venus and Mars, but what would we use all that energy for?

@gjacobse said in System Fonts: Installing when not an Admin:

@RojoLoco said:

Ask for a one-time, comprehensive list of every font they will ever want installed, install them, keep admin rights away from user, profit!

That would work - if they weren't Graphic Artists working with Photoshop and etc on a daily basis....

If they are only working with Adobe software, they can put fonts in %appdata%\Adobe\fonts folder. Just make sure it's not in %localappdata%.

My wife had Apple Watch, we returned it after a few days, battery wouldn't last until evening charge. What you're describing is clearly faulty watch, if you have Applecare, just insist on express replacement option, or demand appointment at Apple Store or authorised service center.

If they really want to see pictures of your burns, I'd go to a doctor and get a report, then visit a lawyer, and then let the legal teams handle that. Getting electrocuted is no joke, if you had a pacemaker, this could pose serious health risk.

Until the drama settles, I'm going to replace TV with something else. Any recommendations for free (as in free beer), cross platform (Win, OS X, Linux) solution that supports 2 FA?

I had 2 FA enabled, so I wonder if my account was compromised. If they gained access on TV end, it probably was, if there was a hack of course.