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

Sodium Suite is winning. So far, that's what people are liking.

No I did not come up with it, I just posted it here

Tinkering a bit with FreePBX at home and I saw there is an option for using SMS service with it. Documentation suggests that this only works with SIPStation and I was not especially looking to sign up with them.

Does anyone know if that function is really locked down to the one SIP provider? I saw that VoIP.ms has some support for SMS but wasn't able to find anything about whether that would work within FreePBX or not. All signs kind of point to this being a no go at the moment.

The single most useful bit of advice I've ever gotten on the whole weight loss deal is to take more time when eating.

Pick a quantity of food for your meal or snack and then give yourself 20 minutes to finish. This gives your body time to adjust to the fact that you've eaten and you will likely find that you reach a state of satiation with a significantly smaller amount of food.

If you don't have 20 minutes to eat at least wait until 20 minutes is up before going for the next round. If you want to be aggressive you can set yourself a longer goal say 30 or 40 minutes.

It can be really helpful when starting this to set yourself up with a way to tell that you are waiting long enough. Using a timer is great. Watching a lot of 20-30 minute TV episodes while eating to gauge time and give me something else to engage with was helpful for me early on. Dining companions to converse with are also awesome especially if they have similar goals.

Also helpful:
Find yourself something specific to work towards other than weight loss. I stuck to my plans and achieved much greater success with losing weight and gaining fitness/strength after deciding to compete in a Muay Thai tournament than at any other time in my life.

Pick an event near you that sounds interesting, it doesn't need to be as crazy as getting in a ring. Maybe a bike ride or a run, one of those goofy obstacle course events, whatever. Other types of goal might be to increase your max lift a certain amount and give yourself a time period to achieve that in. Or gain the ability to do unassisted pull-ups or go from the 5 you can manage now to 10 in a few months.

14.6 billion in revenue and 120,000 employees according to the Wikipedia page for them.

So a decent size company. I would guess working for one or more of the company's customers rather than on anything internal.

You would think that at that size they might be able to afford a better template for recruitment posts though...

Not sure we have enough info/access yet to get to an answer but worth a try anyhow!

The company I work for has been bought recently and we are dealing with an infrastructure we aren't super familiar with just yet but have been tasked to help with the issue.

Branch offices access virtual desktop sessions hosted on a server at the HQ(NY).

One branch in our area (Denver) is having performance issues with their remote sessions. Performance is reportedly fine at the rest of the offices. We are by some margin the furthest away so I sort of suspect some kind of latency issue.

Everything in the remote session is laggy at this location. For example load a webpage with a photo slider at the top and each change ends up being drawn line by line.

There is a site to site VPN between the locations provided by SonicWALL devices.

Pings to edge devices and the server being accessed have so far seemed decent to good.

Have checked traffic on the internet connection and so far it doesn't look like they are over running the connection capability.

Also ran an RD session to a host in AWS West region which worked without trouble from the same location, internet, piece of hardware. Not sure this tells us a whole lot though since there is still a lot changed from one situation to the other.

What other steps can we take to find the issue and stamp it out?

Filing to create an LLC in CO appears to be $50. Based on some previous statements I was expecting it to be more. Are there typically extra steps that will bump up the cost or are we just cheap?

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@Kelly said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

I am talking about coop boardgames, just to be clear. Not CoD coop.

OH, like D&D.

Not Pen and Paper, board games in general. Haven't really convinced any players to try RPGs unless they've done them before... male or female.

I'm finding that half of everyone that I know, with some strong leaning towards the female, are playing D&D these days.

This makes me sad D&D in it's most recent incarnations heavily encourages the railroad. People need to discover better RPGs.

IIRC the difference is just a boot time thing. It can be slightly slower to bring the DC back online if it looks at itself for info and the DNS service isn't up yet. So if you point the first DNS entry to another machine you theoretically save a few seconds on reboot.

@JaredBusch said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@Kelly said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

I am talking about coop boardgames, just to be clear. Not CoD coop.

OH, like D&D.

Not Pen and Paper, board games in general. Haven't really convinced any players to try RPGs unless they've done them before... male or female.

I'm finding that half of everyone that I know, with some strong leaning towards the female, are playing D&D these days.

It's been a gaming renaissance of late. Lots of really amazing role playing games and board games are coming out in-part because of Hasbro/Wizards investment in the space since 4e. I'm not a big fan of D&D but I appreciate where it is driving the market.

It has jack shit to do with Wizards and Hasbro. They are flat abandoning D&D.

IMO, Board games are resurging thanks to Felicia Day and Wil Wheaton teaming up to produce Tabletop. Hasbro's celebrity D&D games drive a little, but not much.

I would say that board games were long since exploding by the time TableTop started but I'm sure they haven't hurt things at all. Crowdfunding has also been a crazy driver of both RPG and board game development since it came into existence.

@wrx7m said in Microsoft Office - Licensing Questions For 3 Scenarios:

@Obsolesce said in Microsoft Office - Licensing Questions For 3 Scenarios:

@wrx7m said in Microsoft Office - Licensing Questions For 3 Scenarios:

Scenario 1

You need to install O365 on that machine using the shared option. Forget the name atm, not at a PC.

What happens is when they log on to the computer, office asks them to log in.

They'll need to have their own login for that computer.

Technically, doing it this way is the only allowed way to do it. You must specifically install the shared version of office.

Edit: found the link
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/overview-of-shared-computer-activation-for-office-365-proplus

I have read that, and the shared activation is for proplus. We have business premium. So, we would have to assign users with proplus licensing. However, a chat with MS last night yielded no solution. Sure, you can use proplus to do this, but what about if you have those same users that have office 365 mailboxes/exchange online with business premium? They couldn't answer that.

I read that MS has expanded the selections that can do shared activation somewhere. I want to say that happened in April? Here we go MS blog about the change.

@wirestyle22 said in Fitness and Weightloss:

I'm close to starting P90X. They discontinued the p90x protein bars and I'm looking for a good alternative if any of you have a recommendation. Thanks

Protein bars/shakes etc. are not strictly necessary, depending on whose info you look at not even helpful. If you want them anyway I have used https://us.myprotein.com/ previously for powder. They are one of a few producers of protein supplements that have been independently tested and don't come out looking like absolute shit.

They don't come out as perfect or anything but their labeling is somewhat more accurate than most and the prices are pretty good especially when they are doing a sale which happens frequently. I have no idea of the quality of products that aren't part of those tests which includes their brownies and cookies which are possibly closest to what you are looking for. You can check on ratings at https://labdoor.com/ there is definitely some new info since I last looked at it.

@wrx7m said in Windows RDS User Profiles - Migrate, Recreate or User Profile Disks?:

@NDC OK. Thanks for sharing your issues. I am just going to use regular profiles on a standard disk. I don't have time to deal with those types of issues.

I spent a fair amount of time trying to figure out what was going wrong and never saw anyone else with a similar problem in all my searching.

I don't get the impression that this is common at all. Most people seem to think they just work and are an upgrade on old school roaming profiles.

I don't think I'd let the one anecdote of trouble rule it out as an option unless you are in an extreme hurry.

@JaredBusch said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@NDC said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@JaredBusch said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

I'd like to do something like this when the two new guys get more accustomed to actually roleplaying. Combat seems to draw people in but when the roleplaying ends up being the most fun imo

I've never witnessed someone make that transition. People who like it long term tend to join for the role playing. The combat stuff tends to turn those people off so you risk losing people if there is too much of that and too little role play.

So much this. You will never convert people from one to another style of play. Yeah sure, the odd person might, but I can say that in all my years of playing, I have never met said person.

If you try and force it you will have nothing but unhappy players or DM.

We certainly have role playing and there are rare nights that we have no combat at all, but it is rare. We are a combat encounter focused bunch really.

That does not mean that we have no story or roleplaying.
Both of these happened in game:
https://obelisk.daerma.com/topic/109/about-ayla
https://daerma.com/history-lore/arg-discusses-the-origins-of-the-power-masters-and-the-ancients/

I'd never try to convert them I just need to give them breathing room to open up a little to the RP part of the game. I think I'd actually have a lot more fun DM'ing than I would playing but I need to learn a lot more about...everything practically.

Hard to make a transition when the system actively discourages role play.

It is the players not the system, barring 4e.

Recent editions of D&D are largely a miniatures battle first and an RPG as a way distant second(at best) priority.

While 4e was this, 5e is not. Prior to moving to Chicagoland, I was a player in a D&D group every other Friday in a 3.5e campaign. That campaign was many, many nights of story encounters and the dice were rolled more for skill checks than combat. It all comes down to the players.

If you are interested in story input and role playing from players you probably want to look at other systems. If you are happy with the way things go currently then play on!

This is certainly true. there are definitely other systems out there for a more pure roleplaying/story-telling game.

I will admit to ignorance on the 5e front. 4e left a bad taste and I never really looked at it. 3.5 definitely has some flexibility and is my sweet spot for D&D though I prefer other systems.

Players definitely influence what goes on heavily and if you don't have buy in from most or all of the group to a significant degree there is little point in switching things up. Even if another system might support their priorities in a better fashion.

@scottalanmiller said in Deploying a password manager product to an entire company?:

Walmart store manager near me (I'm in one of the lowest cost major metros in the country) was in the $400K range. Which makes sense if you think about the volume of business a Walmart does and their need to have skilled people in those roles. If you can't pay prevailing wages, you'd be screwed. Department managers (real ones, not office managers) in finance can be $300-850K in a low cost area (easily seven figures in high cost ones) as a comparison for a competitive type job that depends primarily on broad management and business skills.

Probably not definitive but Glassdoor suggests ~140k on average for Walmart store managers. That would put your acquaintance well on the north end of what people are reporting for compensation for that position.

Started Nier: Automata last night.

Profiles can be 1-2 GB easy even without the user intentionally adding things to it. Every program out there seems to want to pack info into the profile these days and not in small quantities.

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Heading to Cleveland to meet with a client, and then on to crash at @Minion-Queen's house this evening.

Must remember to buy some Hershey's Chocolate for @aboyd before Friday afternoon.

We can easily get some on the way there

I work about 20 minutes from the Hershey Plant in Hershey, PA. Maybe I'll pick some up for Mangocon. I should really get that booked....

Total suck - my wife made plans and I can't go to MLCon

No, she made plans and didn't say anything about you not going to MLCon.

oh yeah - when I said I wanted to skip those plans - shit hit the fan.

Conveniently forget about her plans and catch the plane to Rochester.

yeah.. I wish.

She did it to you. Precedence set.

LOL - She has traveled without me once in the past 7 years. So this Precedence isn't that helpful.

I think the precedent Scott is referring to is the part where she forgot that other things are in the works and made a different plan. Or had you not already told her you were doing MLCon?

@wrx7m

I'm working on similar project a bit.

The script I'm working with pulls a bunch of info from CSV to create an AD account and populate.

Group membership is based heavily on location and job role here.

I'm thinking I'll use some of the info in the CSV about those attributes to help assign groups using If statements.

Curious what other ideas people may have for this.

@wirestyle22

There is plenty of vulnerability in that area without connecting the toilet/bidet to the internet...