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Met Lt. Tasha Yar of the Star Trek: TNG in Roswell, NM. They were actually having galaxy fest at the time back in 2012.

Fedora 29 is released today

https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-29/

Added Creating a New User w/ O365

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Kind of lost hope and faith in Spiceworks, as a company.

It's really sad that so many people are leaving Spiceworks due to so many fixable problems. Interestingly, it's all the fault of the CEO because that's where all blame eventually lies in a company, despite the 3 envelope joke. Since we know that Jay has a marketing background, it's super obvious to see why things are failing at a company that, at it's core and slogan, was designed for IT. They've shifted to marketing their mistake, the community, and it's clearly hurting them. I predict that, unless Jay realizes that his boat is headed for Davy Jones' Locker, that ship is going to sink before anyone realizes it, if it hasn't already. People are already leaving the app and community in rafts and competitors like ManageEngine are just cheering.

At the very least, we can thank them for bringing people like Scott and most of the people in this community together. I hope that MangoCon picks up steam and is a viable event to replace SpiceWorld when it finishes circling the drain.

Should we start a deadpool on their community?

It was once a good community with people that I could learn from and ask for help if having problems. At one time, I could go to the community and learn something new about real world problems and some best practices, such as why not to use RAID5 with the exception of SSDs.

Application was good (not great), especially for the price tag. You paid for it through the advertisements, but they made money either way. Devices scanned well along with associations. Network Monitor never really worked for me well, but I figured that it was probably more of my environment and less on the product.

Then within the last year or 2, it was like, they weren't focused on the application anymore and began focusing on cloud products and tools. The tones and mood of the community started to subtly change. CTRL+ALT+TECH went away with no notice or reason. On The Air started to get very cheesy and just hard to watch with all of the bad cliches. We started to see the same questions come back around every so often, usually because the poster believed that their environment was too uniquely different to comply with best practices and thought that they were more of the exception than the norm. As time progressed, questions and posts were becoming the same over and over again and nothing was really grabbing my attention anymore. I started to answer the daily question just to keep my streak up and that would be all that I would do within the community. Then there was the layoff. Not a good day.

One day, I finally run into @scottalanmiller and was able to finally understand what was going on behind the scenes, as if he pulled the curtain revealing the wizard. And he eventually introduced me to ML when I was having a problem with a SAN 3 months ago.

The updates for the on-premise application seemed to get further and further apart. For a while it was like, every other week, then once a month, and eventually once every 3-months. This last update shows me that they are more compromising their application in order to either get them to the cloud or find something else. Plus, November's outage was not a good indicator on their part either. They were not following best practices when they're trying to teach us best practices. They failed to communicate except for through key people such as Scott via ML.

Since that day I met Scott at the Spicecorps meeting, we have been on the search for another helpdesk/asset management system. and have finally settled on one that fits our needs.

Its sad to see Spiceworks go down this path, but this is like watching your friend drink them self to death after you've tried to warn them to not go down that path.

Scott, you are absolutely right. It is a marketing company that centers around IT. It was hard for me to see it as I was wondering why a software company sells advertising. Sometimes its just difficult to get around the stones that are right in front of our noses.

Set up two-factor authentication for SSH on Fedora

Every day there seems to be a security breach reported in the news where our data is at risk. Despite the fact that SSH is a secure way to connect remotely to a system, you can still make it even more secure. This article will show you how.

Added Disabling a User w/o O365

@hobbit666 Good luck to ya. Never been successful for me. That's why I went to Veeam.

I'm just going to go ahead and post this right here.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/14446/what-type-of-hypervisor-is-hyper-v-samit-video

Youtube Video

Added Disabling a User w/ O365

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

D&D game night.

This is what I imagine

Downloading it now...

My dad taught me to stay curiously hungry, keep learning, and to keep developing yourself.

For those that can't read Fahrenheit like us Americans.

@scottalanmiller said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

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@alex.olynyk said in Of What Should Baseline IT Education Consist:

Group Policy, sorry thats vendor specific

Yes, and higher end. Very systems admin focused. Think what we'd expect from someone who wanted to enter university.

But coming from somebody that went through college, they are only going to teach you theory and principles and nothing too much vendor specific. If they do teach something vendor centric, then it will more than likely be Linux-based at it is easier to get your hands on (legitimately anyways) and deploy while sticking with the principle/theory.

VERY much the opposite. Windows and Cisco are taught at university 10:1 over Linux. They are PAID to be sales people for those vendors. And universities can't afford to hire Linux skills, but Microsoft and Cisco are a dime a dozen. So they teach whatever professors are unemployed on the market at the time.

College should only teach theory and principles. And that's all we are looking for here. If a college teaches hands on useful stuff, it's violating its mandate (outside of using them to demonstrate theory.)

I NEVER had a MS lab with servers or Hyper-V or anything. If I touched Linux, then it was through Cygwin. That was it. Otherwise, it was theory and principles.

How do you "touch Linux" through cygwin? Cygwin is an application layer for Windows only.

The only point of using Cygwin was to teach on how Linux's file systemS are different than Windows.

But Cygwin sees the Windows NTFS filesystem, not a Linux one. There is no Linux, at all, with Cygwin. What the heck did they think that they were showing to you?

And I barely made a B in the class because the teacher was not good at teaching. He had a difficult time explaining the same thing in different ways so that his students would understand how the principle worked. However, a lab would still have been very valuable for this class, even if the professor hosted it themself.

Probably not, since he apparently didn't know the subject matter well enough to even know what to have put in the lab!

Team up with Mike Rowe and create MangoU has an IT Trade school for the different facets of IT. You want to be a programmer? Take this course. You want to go into networking? Go into this program.

mangolassi.it

We are 130 and don't have a FTE bench person. That is one of the part time hats that we wear along with the other IT duties that we have. I know that bench technically isn't IT, but we do have to fill those duties.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

What is Fat Tuesday?

@NerdyDad is correct regarding people that observe Lent... but to me, it's a debacherous celebration of all that is great about 'Nawlins (food and booze and boobs).

Advantages of MangoCon versus other conventions.

1. Convention location is the same spot as the hotel.
2. It's not in an isolated, once-abandoned, redone convention center that takes shuttles and maybe a private guard with the Mafia just to make sure you don't "swim with the fishes" or "get a new pair of concrete shoes".

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

You guys must be reading SW threads.

In Motha Russia, SW reads our threads.

@kim-valley said in What happens at MangoCon gets posted here for all to see 2017:

@nerdydad Hi

If you're not a fake, then why don't you post a real picture of yourself?