@Dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@NerdyDad said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

SPRINT SUCKS!!!!

<RANT>
Just spent over an hour dealing with them just to get data working on my phone again. Their customer support and technical support sucks big time. It takes going to twitter just to get something to working again. They never believe the customer, and their towers "Never" go down. Its always the subscribers device. I can go to my house and not have a problem on a Sprint tower.

You talk to their customer service, work with you a little bit, then refer you to technical support by either chat on their website or phone call. Chat wants you to take them the device. It doesn't make sense on it being my device when it works at one place by not another. Calling their technical support wants to troubleshoot the device.

I had to go to Twitter to get it fixed, and then it STILL took forever.

</RANT>

So what was the fix?

On an LG V40, go to:

1. Settings
2. General Tab
3. System Updates
4. Update Profile - Wait for it to do its update, just keep it awake.
5. Go to your phone app
6. Dial ##72786# and it will reset the PRI then reboot.

SPRINT SUCKS!!!!

<RANT>
Just spent over an hour dealing with them just to get data working on my phone again. Their customer support and technical support sucks big time. It takes going to twitter just to get something to working again. They never believe the customer, and their towers "Never" go down. Its always the subscribers device. I can go to my house and not have a problem on a Sprint tower.

You talk to their customer service, work with you a little bit, then refer you to technical support by either chat on their website or phone call. Chat wants you to take them the device. It doesn't make sense on it being my device when it works at one place by not another. Calling their technical support wants to troubleshoot the device.

I had to go to Twitter to get it fixed, and then it STILL took forever.

</RANT>

@JasGot said in ZentriOS??? What could it be?:

Well, that was easy! I received an e-mail a minute later from my JuiceBox, saying it was offline. JusiceBox is the Class 2 Charging Station for our car.

Wait!!! How did you get an email from it if it is offline? Did you get an email from a mothership saying its dependent was offline?

Already have a network setup. Now have to deploy clients.

So, I have an OpenVPN server on Vultr right now for $5/month. This was the recommended setup from a hamfest last September in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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Its not too amateur radio heavy, but more towards IT for hams. Normally, for one operator, this is great. For $5/month + data service, you can remote into your ham shack and operate your radio remotely. However, I have some limitations with it.

1. It limits you to 2 consistent devices at once for free. If you want more devices connected to the VPN at the same time, then you need to pay at least $150/year for a 10-pack of licenses. A little steep for my blood.
2. It is difficult at best to get an OpenVPN client to working on a Debian system. Debian systems are best for amateur radio because they provide the best variety of applications on any Linux distro.
3. The Net-44 really isn't needed because the VPS is going to give you an Internet address anyways. If you want, buy a domain, and tie a subdomain to the IP address of the VPS.

My dad and I are wanting to share the VPN, in order to decrease costs, but that limits us from connecting both of our ham shacks at the same time because that will meet our 2-device limit.

Then, I remember hearing talk about SSH Tunneling, that its a poor-man's VPN, its more secure because it is not as "big" of a tunnel over the Internet. So, after watching some YouTube videos

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Could I replace the entire thing with just a server acting as an SSH proxy? This design comes to mind:

Each of our shacks would create a persistent SSH tunnel to a Linux server on vultr. When one of us wants to remote in, we would remote through the Linux server and back down the SSH tunnel to the ham shack. Once we create the SSH tunnel from our device back to the shack, we would then use some type of remote desktop service (vnc) in order to access the applications on the computer in the shack.

This solution would allow me to host as many users and locations as I wish, only restrictions would be the resources of the server, not licenses anymore.

Where would my bandwidth bottleneck be? My ISP? The SSH tunnels?

Would this even work?

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

I mean....what was he planning on doing with the chicken nuggets once he got home? Eat them? Anything else is better than eating them right about now. Feed them to the dogs or something, but not human consumption.

How did I miss hearing about this? I could have made this one.

Oh well...maybe next time.

You are all giving me more reasons to just stay in Texas.

@jmoore said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller Should I even ask why she was doing this?

Nutritious high?

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@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just got home from Children's Hospital in Dallas.

My son tested positive for the flu and was beginning to setup pneumonia when we brought him in. They're keeping him overnight to treat him for the pneumonia.

Kid is still in the hospital. Everybody is exhausted. He's getting better though. This is the best I've gotten in almost 2 weeks.

@scottalanmiller said in Email Fields mail and mailfrom Need Not Match:

email admin who doesn't know email basics

This makes me question the admins qualifications. Maybe their new and still learning their role?

@LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Persuading the boss to lemme drive his new car. @CCWTech

Come on Boss, you trust her, right?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Gotta run out to teh donut shop for the seven year old.

Good luck this time of day. Most of the doughnut shops are about out...of doughnuts.

Just got home from Children's Hospital in Dallas.

My son tested positive for the flu and was beginning to setup pneumonia when we brought him in. They're keeping him overnight to treat him for the pneumonia.

@Reid-Cooper said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Today's issue: I gave everyone in the company my personal email address. Now they email me there instead of the company email address. Can IT make them stop?

Put yourself in the outbound spam blocker?

@wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Building an OpenVPN server on Debian 9 Server on Vultr.

Interesting. I have one on-prem running on CentOS 7.

Mine isn't really for a production environment, but is to tie together Internet IP addresses to a DMZ in my house. All of the instructions I am seeing show to use Ubuntu 16.04, but I figured I would give it a try on Debian 9.1.

Building an OpenVPN server on Debian 9 Server on Vultr.

At the Dallas Veeam User Group. Talking about the new features in U4.

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Chromium-based Edge screenshots might as well be Chrome

It's early days yet, but so far Microsoft has done little to distinguish its browser.

In many ways the browser is what one would expect of a Microsoft Chromium browser: in those places where Chrome would use a Google account for syncing or a Google store for extensions, Edge-on-Chromium uses a Microsoft account and a Microsoft store. Similarly, the homepage is similar to that of Edge, using Bing pictures and Microsoft News links. Perhaps the biggest change is the settings page, which adopts a similar look-and-feel to the Windows 10 settings app—section headings down the left, the actual settings on the right.

If you can't beat it, copy it and join it?