@vignesh said in Reactjs connection with backend.:

hi im created a llogin form in rectjs.how i store data in backend using nodejs and mysql?
please give some valid url to refer.

Here is a good place to start.

@dave247 said in Exchange Environment - Lab:

The majority of people on this forum are arrogant assholes who like to pick apart your posts and criticize and insult what you are doing.

Some may see that way... while others will see it as questioning motives and pointing people in a better direction to improve their career and broaden their skillset to become more useful in the market.

But it is understandable some may not want that who are happy where they are and take offense to a better approach.

@laksh1999 said in Exchange Environment - Lab:

Hi Team,

I am trying to create a Exchange 2016 in Microsoft 2016 server DataCenter Evaluation version.I am trying to do this from my virtualbox application.Any one have followed this lab setup before ?

Followed Link : https://www.prajwaldesai.com/step-by-step-guide-to-install-exchange-server-2016/

Your whole issue here is that you didn't follow the instructions.

You first need to mount the Exchange Server 2016 installation Media.

Then from the location of where your media is mounted, you run that command.

What you are doing, is blindly running commands from where ever. You aren't running the command from the proper directory, which only you can know where you have mounted or extracted the Exchange Server 2016 media.

@siringo watch resource monitor, resmon.exe, when during the delay of opening an app seemingly caused solely by connecting to the wifi network.

For paint.exe to open instantly prior to wifi connection, then slowly after, and instantly off wifi... seems like you'll notice something in resmon somewhere. Maybe A/V or something. Look at everything even the network and possible new tcp connections when you open paint.

@dashrender said in Why Do People Still Text:

@obsolesce said in Why Do People Still Text:

@dashrender said in Why Do People Still Text:

they have a flip phone, so SMS isn't an option, but those people are so few that it doesn't affect the masses.

Huh? Every flip phone and service I've had in the 90s and early 2000s had SMS texting.

sure it does, but those that I know that have flip phones don't text, I know three.. none of them use SMS.

Not an option versus choosing not to use something are very different things...

@breitenberg said in Gaming PC Setup:

it is cheaper to build a gaming PC rather than buying a pre-built gaming PC. ... In most cases, the more expensive a prebuilt PC is, the more the cost of assembly and profit margin of the seller will be. Therefore, it is indeed cheaper to build a PC.

That's not completely true currently. If I want to build a gaming PC with an RTX 3090, that alone will cost me at the very least $3k for an off brand card... Yeah just the card itself. However, I could order a pre-built gaming pc with that card for about the same price or just a little more. Some even less.

@gjacobse

choco install git vscode /y

or if you prefer
winget install git.git
winget install vscode

@gjacobse said in ChromeOS vs Linux:

@travisdh1 said in ChromeOS vs Linux:

@gjacobse said in ChromeOS vs Linux:

The topic of ChromeOS and Linux has come up once or twice I believe.

I'm trying to help my brother deal with his 'wants' and 'needs' with using and older laptop for what he wants to do with his streaming provider (some cable company that rarely gets positive comments).

So, I have ChromeOS running on a older HP laptop.. no big deal and easy to have setup. No different than starting with any other Linux based system.

And now I am sitting here at the terminal window and all the commands I would expect to work in Linux are not the same in ChromeOS.

Have I managed to mislead myself in believing that the two - while different - are in a basic manner, the same?

Seems I need to know a different command base to perform things I already do in Linux on the x86 and ARM platforms...

That's why I picked up an Intel based Chromebook when I got one. I can load Ubuntu on it and work the way I normally would.

I've got no useful experience with with the ChromeOS shell.

I dont either. But he goal is not achievable under Ubuntu….

I wouldn't pick up a ChromeOS device for any other purpose than basic web browsing and regular Google Play Store apps.

I'm sticking with PHP for now no matter what. I'm getting a bit in to it now, and it's really easy for me to understand and pick up.

I don't know if that's because I'm already used to loops and that type of logic already from PowerShell and BASH, but it's way easier for me to catch on than it was with Python.

But the differences are so small. I took a quick look at Python last night to compare it to PHP, and it was SO MUCH EASIER after I had done the same stuff with PHP.

So PHP is definitely going to be my gateway language, I've been wanting to learn PHP anyways, becuase it's just everywhere and I will get a lot of personal benefits from knowing it.

I'd rather do Python, but I feel learning PHP first will be better for me when I get into Python.

Where the complexity comes in, is that it's not just simply one IP address being matched to a single domain name.

If that were the case, there wouldn't have been any outages for these websites.

The problem is that there's thousands of IP addresses that are mapped to tens or hundreds of domain names for a single domain, for example, load balancing and other supporting services.

Visit facebook.com and record all network activity. It's not just facebook.com you see, there's x.facebook.com, xyz.facebook.com, etc... It's also not the same IP address for everyone. It get's very complex.

If the authoritative name server for a domain or several domains that support a single domain becomes unavailable, things will be fine until the TTLs expire. Once that happens on the DNS servers down the chain, you don't get the name resolution anymore, and those dns servers can no longer find a path to resolution.

When you combine that with all the other interworkings of a domain, it can be awhile until things get better, even if the attacked name servers get better.

How many of you have ever bought a single domain name and see the message it may take up to 48 hours or whatever to propagate?

The above is pretty a pretty basic explanation and understanding, but I'm just trying to get my point across without making a massive wall of text.

Enterprise jobs seem to be more focused on a specific area, where SMB are more generalist type jobs.

In an enterprise job, your job may ONLY be working with Backup. Or it may ONLY be Group Policy.

Where as in an SMB, you will do it ALL, and then some.

@Oksana

I've been working on this now, actually

@BBigford said in SMB firewall options:

There is a metric ton of vendors out there. Some use on-premesis, some point at a cloud firewall service, and there are tons of vendors in between.

There isn't much of a difference between a (US) ton, and a metric ton... a metric ton is only 205 lbs heavier. 907 kg versus 1000 kg

So the way I understand it, is there's only one extra vendor person out there vs a regular ton of vendors.

But... on to the main point of your question...

@BBigford said in SMB firewall options:

For businesses under ~20 users, what do you use for a firewall, content filtering (basic stuff like porn & gambling), VPN site-to-site?
I've used:
SonicWall
pfSense (mixed with Securly for filtering)
Sophos
Cisco (though that was getting out of the price range)
Fortinet (800C down through the small units)
WatchGuard (larger X series down through their Firebox models)
Anyone using anything cloud based? Haven't really looked into it.

For about 20 users, I've seen success with RRAS, SonicWALL, Fortinet, and Sophos.... oh, depends on the SonicWALL, and also had success with Untangle... and OpenDNS worked well in a few places.

I have set up some decent SQUID proxies on CentOS. That's does a freakin awesome job of filtering. I think I have a guide on setting up a basic configuration of SQUID somewhere...

I've been digging through WordPress a little bit in the evenings to see how it's really set up, starting with index.php and following it.

It's freakin huge with so many moving parts and gears, I can see why there's so many devs lol.

But it's very interesting to see how it works at that level, and helps to learn a little too.

@penguinwrangler said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

@coliver True but my kids will be working while going to college. They know that is expected of them.

But what about all of the better things they can do with their time instead of wasting it on college time... Well depending on their chosen career.

@KOOLER said in Accelerate your backups with StarWind Virtual Tape Library and Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager:

@Tim_G said in Accelerate your backups with StarWind Virtual Tape Library and Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager:

@Oksana

I've been working on this now, actually

Mind sharing YOUR feedback / results so far?

Meanwhile StarWind VTL ...

StarWind VTL

... is going to have a major feature update announced on VeeamOn 2017 in New Orleans

So far it's going well. I've pretty much set it up in the same way as in the guide Charbel Nemnom made: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/technical_papers/virtual-tape-library-used-with-microsoft-system-center-data-protection-manager-2016.pdf

The performance is good and backup is fast. My test was with 8 LTO5 virtual tapes using 4 virtual slots. I limited the tapes to 250 GB each for testing certain things.

I also want to try having the virtual tape files living on a volume that is deduplicated. I haven't found anything that says whether or not it will work well with the StarWind VTL, or how efficient it will be... so I'm just going to try it and see what happens!

@JaredBusch said in Data Backup solution for Linux servers:

You are implying multiple varying pieces of software and licensing schemes.

Yes, there are multiple (and too many) varying pieces of software and licensing schemes needed in a mixed environment when using Veeam.

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Veeam has exactly 2 products that we are concerned about here.

1. Veeam B&R for the Hypervisor
2. VEB for individual systems.

I wasn't referring to this specific case when mentioning Veeam's purpose. But here are what typical mixed environments need:

1. Veeam B&R for Hypervisors
2. VEB for individual systems (NOT SERVERS (and if you do, you shouldn't))
3. Veeam Agent for Linux
4. Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

For comparison, here's what you'd need with Unitrends:

1. Unitrends backup software (for all servers)

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Veeam also has exactly 2 licensing modes that matter.

1. Free
   1. B&R Free is limited in functionality to only full backups, but does work perfectly.
   2. VEB is free always
2. Purchased
   1. B&R Purchased gives you a lot of good options, but they are only for B&R and his non virtualized systems gain little benefit from this.

You will need 4 licensing models for a typical mixed environment:

1. Free - VEB (because a lot of people do tend to use it with servers, although that's not what it was designed for, and you shouldn't)
2. Paid - B&R (for hypervisors - enterprises typically need this in a standard mixed environment)
3. Paid - Veeam Agent for Linux (needed for physical Linux servers that are not hypervisors)
4. Paid - Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows (needed for physical windows servers that are not hypervisors)

For comparison, here's the licensing you'd need with Unitrends:

1. Free - Unitrends Backup (if you have less than 1 TB of data)
2. Paid - Unitrends Backup (if you have more than 1 TB of data)

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You have made multiple posts about Unitrends. Unitrends is a great product, but your bias is showing. Other solutions exist and depending on the specific details, may be or worse.

I'm not showing bias. I was presenting a possible solution based on assumptions that were missing from the OP's original post. That, if he did have a mixed environment, Unitrends comes to mind first as (one of many) good solutions worth considering. I only mentioned the Veeam thing because that seems to be the knee-jerk reaction when back up or replication is mentioned, typically without any thought going into it. I was just trying to prevent that.

Then the OP mentioned he was just looking for open sources backup for only his Linux machines. That flushes Unitrends down the toilet, where I then mentioned some backup software more specific to his needs.

@scottalanmiller said in Dipping Toes Into Programming:

@tim_g said in Dipping Toes Into Programming:

I was playing around with the concept of using PHP and forms to do things with PowerShell (given a Windows Server is running a web server with PHP such as XAMPP).

Lots of potential there.

I can get form data processed by powershell and outputted to a web page.

I didn't do much last night, but I was able to output PING results to the web page, and when I was finished for the night, I put in code so when I refreshed the web page, it shut down my computer.

I'm thinking I could potentially create an internal web app to control anything via PowerShell by use of forms... such as adding a user to AD to running reports. (of course secured and login required)

So basically recreating Honolulu?

If that's how it work, I haven't looked... then yes.

Except this would be a learning tool for me as I'm going through my PHP book, where I implement things as I learn them.
That's what I'm doing now with this other PHP web application.

@frodooftheshire said in Looking for best bag/case/box solution for storing cables, HDs, tools:

Thank's Tim. Definitely interested in what your friend uses. The Samsonite looks pretty good, but I'm not sure it would be big enough to hold what I need. I do like the fact that it retains a professional look which is nice. It's a fine line between rugged toolboxes that are used by construction workers, and a more high end professional/leather looking bag.

Again, I might have to end up with two different storage solutions. One bag for laptop, and the Pelican box I mentioned above. The main reason I like the pelican is because the modular compartment design, but it's also somewhat overkill because it's usually used to protect expensive equipment (cameras/lenses/etc) and I would be using it for my drill/patch cables.

I suppose it just comes down to what you do. If you walk inside of some company, sit down at a desk, break out your laptop... do some work, then go out to trace some network cables or wire some up quick... possibly install some switches or work on some servers... that professional look is what you want.

But if you walk in, start tearing out equipment, run wires through walls, need a lot of tools, need a lot of equipment, need a lot of hardware, then you need big cases that can fit all of your stuff in it or you just have to make multiple trips out to your car/truck.

If you perform the best of both worlds, then bet a big bulky box for your big tools, equipment, and hardware, and get one of those professional looking Samsonites for your laptop/charger/mouse, small hardware, rack screws, a few drivers/mini drill, etc... you get my point.