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@ntoxicator I think he is grabbing a temp snapshot and then he tar.gz's the snap to the destination (e.g. an NFS mount). Then the snap is destroyed, otherwise you get worse and worse on performance.

@Laksh1999 personally I would use postgres flask and vuejs
But basically anything from php+mariadb and on is ok.

Being 2019 I would do it web based.

trying to wake up after a drive to my work place: yeah I drive in sort of mesmerized state.

My long term plans:

• coffee
• meeting with a local telco company (boss's friend have to...)
• cleanup the "entropy" of my office to make room for the marketing girl/lady (don't even know her)
• maybe got auth to test and order an ubiquiti AP, so let see if the day has a fun part

My short term plans:

• coffee

My centos 7 machine has a number of cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} scheduled works.
by default crontab in Centos 7 is empty and cron jobs are executed by anacron according to its conf file.
This is ok for me, but one thing I'm missing is where the anacron definition of week/month is located.

I mean, e.g., that the weekly jobs are run on friday. This is ok for me but I've searched a bit around and I've not found any setting for move the weekly execution to -say- Sunday.

On debian like distros the setup is slightly differtent and you can easily adjust the execution day in crontab. Everyone is just saying: put your cron.weekly job in crontab even on centos and avoid anacron to run the job. But this is not the solution I'm searching for.

any hints?!

never been in enterprise. always in envs with <=50 people - these includes warehouse guys.

• first 7 years as researcher at university, mine was a small group (<10 people), approach was: no retirement money just salary. fixed salary no strict timeframse, just get the job done then feel free to go and return.

• then I've opened a company. a production one. terrible mistake, no commercial experience. closed it after 3 years. It was something like 24h per day at work.

• 1 year as consultant in small comapnies - production, machine vision. you were the consultatnt, you were expensive, better to not waste your time with stupid stuff (like boss's pc is stalling)

now it's my second year in a pure commercial business - buy'n'sell. Terrible place. no planning, hysteria all around up to the company owner. today I've cleaned up the warehouse as job. and yes I've written some stuff into an excel sheet. for a 15 mins I've got a chat with altaro support for a issue. REALLY derailing.

this would not happen in a bigger company.

On the other side in these 2 years I've literally built their infrastructure, from wiring the company with fiber up to introducing virtualization, backups, standardized printing (no more 15 different printers from 100 vendors) and so... now switching ERP (PITA MAXIMUM!). I've written a couple of web apps. So basically I've been a 360° IT kid, from engineering to fixing printers

can't do this in enterprise. Don't know how much of a drama can be switch to this.

In Italy people is going away from enterprises in search of less-I'm-a-robot-doing-all-the-same-thing-every-damn-day job.

on the left it is italian smb, on the right italian enterprises.

@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Drinking:

Dihydrogen Monoxide mixed in both liquid & solid forms.

http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html

I was not aware of this thing! I'm impressed, especially considering its involvement with younger people.
Is this localized in USA or is this already spread worldwide?!

...just informed my wife: I'm concerned about my daughter, which can be exposed to this at school when we can't control it!

help me spread this on social media, pls!

I've reversed the IP: yukinko.canonical.com.
I've accessed it via ftp on google chrome and everything seems in place. via ftp I'm also able to download the tar, here.
maybe they have fixed something in the while?

I own a redmi 4 by xiaomi. Buyed the global version from local import shop. Glass is really sensitive. Anything else in 1.5 month of usage is on par with any other more expensive phone. A collegue of mine has the mi 5. Really good too.

Just need few months to get the official global rom out and you can buy it in Europe.

8:00 am medical check w/ daughter (<- mean wake up at 6:00 on saturday :().

then tons of yardwork, as we have got 2 weeks of sun/rain/sun/rain/sun/rain...

holy shit I've a jungle not a garden.

ok, I've pushed the configuration scripts for Salt on github. In the while here is my conclusion, after I've experimented a bit with both systems. Again: this is the newbie approach so keep it with a grain of... Salt(stack)

My conclusion here is that Ansible is more radicated and mature, but Salt is more powerful/easier to deal with when up and running. The issue is how to make it up and running:

• The first thing to consider as now is that Salt is less available than Ansible in distros’ packages. Moreover, being Ansible backed by Red Hat is possible that they will purge Salt as they done with Xen. This implies a bit of troubles as the recommended install ways of Salt either require you to stick with a vulnerable version or expose you to the fast pace of updates which - for security reasons - already have broken backward compatibility twice. Considering this, I’ve ended up with the salt-ssh approach, which resembles the Ansible one and involves just the control machine, avoiding risky version upgrades.
• Both systems don’t run on python3, with Ansible having an experimental mode enabled. This implies that even today you have to instrument Ubuntu distros (as in a near future Debian too) with a python-minimal package which is able to deal with Salt/Ansible.
• Salt doesn’t work well with sudo. It requires that the user has NOPASSWD rights for sudo. This basically kills usage on any Ubuntu like distro. The solution is to manually add a special locked user with NOPASSWD rights in sudoers. In fact, giving the standard user NOPASSWD is close to security suicide.
• Considering this, instrumentation is a bit more of a trouble in Salt: while Ansible can check with pure shell commands for its platform requirements (and install them), you have to force salt to install those items from a salt-ssh cmd line. It can’t create a state file for instrumentation in the likes of ansible “instrumentation” playbooks.
• This implies that rebuilding an infrastructure is not a one line away with Salt as it is with Ansible, first you need to instrument with salt-ssh, then run environments (cascade of playbooks in Ansible terms). As a side note ansible requires libselinux-python as additional dependency in CentOS 7, while Salt doesn’t.
• Basically this means that Salt instrumentation is more cumbersome: while ansible requires you to export your keys and set up the hosts file (Roster in Salt), here you also have to create the user and then manually issue a salt-ssh command system wide, without any target filtering, as you cannot know if you send an apt-get command for instrumentation even to CentOS machines. Really a bad hack, maybe due to my noobness.
• The relevant thing here is: how can massively create this user from a plain VM not customized at installation time and deployed on N VMs (with N possibly really big)? Maybe a datacenter can customize an iso, but a small company like mine is best server by Ansible like solutions, especially in disaster recovery scenarios, where you have to think fast at a lot of things.
• Another thing to mind of is that issuing raw shell commands is neither well suited for error catching nor for input security, but, in the end of the day it can save your day, as it fits well the role of fallback. While this is not possible before instrumentation with Salt, both systems can do this once up and running, allowing you to fill possible features holes in the functions (somethin glike systemd modules not already in place).

@momurda said in Windows on arm this quarter!:

There will be even less applications available here than through the Windows Store for x86, which is a wasteland of malware.

Windows arm pc = linux arm pc. Wipe and reinstall. I don't see other uses in the near future.

@emad-r said in I.T Question for Parents:

@dashrender

@dashrender said in I.T Question for Parents:

@msff-amman-itofficer said in I.T Question for Parents:

Hello,

I wish all the best to your children but I wondered this, especially for small kids (I dont have any):

1. Would you like your kids to be I.T Smart as you and be in the I.T Field ? I actually would hate it, I would want them the farthest thing from I.T so we can leave the house once a while.

What does this have to do with leaving the house? Granted, if your hobby is something on the computer, you're more likely to stay indoors, but it doesn't mean you're relegated to never going outside.

I think this has more to do with exposure to those other things.

2. Abit related to 1, if you teach them how to be smart in using I.T devices, It is scary for me seeing my brother child seeing all those weird videos supposedly target-ted for children on You-tube and ...

How to use devices doesn't mean you're smart in IT, it just means you learned how to use a device. A person who can make an iPad sing doesn't mean they are an IT Pro.
What weird videos are you talking about? Of course as a parent, it's your job to monitor what your children are viewing. I'm pretty sure YouTube has a child friendly mode for things like this.

how soon kids age of 4 can navigate smart phone or tablet, but how can we combat this? Offline content perhaps, any other good ideas .

What are you trying to combat? Their use of technology? why? It's the world we live in. Should they have more skills than just how to operate a smart phone/tablet, sure, but should you reduce their skill there? I don't think so.

Is there something about your own life you are unhappy with, that you think forcing yourself to do outdoor activities will make you happier? or any non IT activities that will make you happier?

What about shit like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYDWLuoE-vA
Youtube Video

For some reason its all the rage for some kinds of kids, they are obsessed with it. The thing is you cant monitor them all the time, btw I heard 2 parents complained over this in Canada and Jordan.

you do not protect your kids by make them more or less ignorant about a comminication medium. You protect them by educating them to contents.

@Tim_G it is a standard file server vs a nas appliance thing

https://kororaproject.org/about/news/time-for-a-break

Let me know when you Will be in tuscany! I live there!

So last december my company signed for a new ERP, so they wanted to buy a package generically described as "integration between VoIP phones and PC to get business info about the incoming call".

So I pointed out that, hell, we do NOT have VoIP in the company, how do you think to deal with this?
Answer: Let's see at the right time. (hint: that was the right time)

fast-forward, today I've discovered that:

• the packege is instead a fully asterisk based custom PBX (namely an ESXI VA, hey we have just picked hyper-v, yuppy!)
• we have our own non VoIP analog (mostly UTP) phone system and PBX
• the two are of course in conflict and... the VoIP needs specific certified phone brands/models
• no, we do not have POE switches

me: "hey we do not need another PBX what do you want to do?"
answer: "let ditch current supplier and the whole equippement, including phones installed 6 month ago, and move to the new PBX, buy all the new phones make new cabling/switching, let the ERP provider manage our PBX"

h.o.l.y.s.h.i.t

now the "cool-let-see-who-is-at-the-phone" feature is required by more or less 15 people into a 50 people company. Here around 40 between DECT and analog phones are deployed. also some phones runs over phone wiring not UTP.

to me this is an overkill solution in search of a problem.

my questions.

is there a way to let our PBX silently pass external calls to the new VoIP PBX and let this manage the internal lines dedicated to customer care?

is also possible to keep those lines able to forward the calls to other internal phones? Is this going to kill my dog?

we have an optic fiber connection which is then split into the rj45 data line (plug into the firewall), the rj45 fax line wiich is managed by a black box (to me) and provides 3 analog fax lines (on copper couples), the rj45 phone line which is managed by another black box and provides 4 UTP analog lines, those enter the PBX.

how the hell a virtual PBX fits in this!?!?!?!?! where do I put the plug? and which plug?

I would not throw away the entire stack and a trusted supplier just because the ERP feature is cool. Also I do not want an ERP provider to manage my lines...

any suggestion?! (no, job shift is planned for 2018).

+1 for tar.bz2, you can encrypt it if you want.

@gjacobse the main window shows >40gib free. My bet is the logic under it stops at the first free partition of 1MB.

ok, so according to the presentation a netscaler is:

• a load balancer
• a reverse proxy
• a SSO gateway
• a (W)AF (web application firewall)

now first two points can be obtained by haproxy/ngnix

point 3 can be obtained -just googled- for web apps by naxsi + nginx or modsec + nginx/apache.

also point 3 for non web apps can maybe obtained via these softwares (wiki)

I miss point 2 an - with a bit of effort - I have my free open netscaler

@Tim_G said in Managing Hyper-V:

@matteo-nunziati said in Managing Hyper-V:

@Tim_G yes but @scottalanmiller was discussing the binding caused by mmc: new hypeev? New windows workstation...

I'm gonna have to go back and read all 95 posts.

Nope! 95% is @scottalanmiller just read the last one