@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

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@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Grafana with Zimbra
https://grafana.com/dashboards/2846

I wish I was smart enough to make cool dashboards.

I can’t make dashboards either

Design isn't my strong suit. I've been thinking about a decent dashboard to show the health of our infrastructure for our CIO (and maybe put it in the public somewhere?) but just can't really get the look right. May try and do Grafana for that but it's a very low priority.

I think people either have an eye for design or don't. I do not.

@bbigford said in Fitness and Weightloss:

6'5" and was 215 at Thanksgiving. After TG dinner I said I was going on a diet to get back down to the 185 I'm comfortable with. I got down to 175 by New Years. Just takes proper planning of meals to automate your groove; along with exercise, and no cheating.

6'5" tall and you are complaining about being 215? You must have a small build for someone that tall. I was gifted with a linebacker type of build. I am 6'4" tall and I was 313 lbs. Most people tell me, you couldn't be that heavy, but I was. I have a long tall torso so hiding my true weight was easy, relatively normal length legs, 32" inseam on my pants.

@momurda said in Fitness and Weightloss:

@penguinwrangler I have also stopped eating sugary candy. I do still eat strawberries and grapes almost daily, but it is much better than a couple full size snickers bars every day.

I still eat fruit. Just no processed sugar.

@jaredbusch said in Install BookStack on Fedora 27:

@nashbrydges said in Install BookStack on Fedora 27:

@hobbit666 said in Install BookStack on Fedora 27:

Woop installed and ready to use.

(Does it matter i have no idea what half those commands did, but yet i have a working system )

I guess that was the point of the post, was to make it crazy simple. I suppose whether it matters if you have no idea or not depends on whether you want to learn what those commands do or not

That is the point of my guides. They are for both education and getting a working system.

I could easily make it a script like @scottalanmiller did to my Nextcloud 13 guide, but I don’t want to.

I want my guides to educate as well as get the job done. I think the way that I breaks them up with a little blurb in between each set helps give it that right balance. Too much text and people who do not want to learn just move on. Not enough text, and it is basically just a script and the person learns nothing.

Learn by doing is an axiom for me.

@danp said in Fitness and Weightloss:

Anybody tried TRF?

I do weight watchers. I just pay 13 dollars a month to use their app, I don't buy anything else. Honestly, the best approach is to eat reasonable food in the correct portions. I am not eating any sugar, or drinking soda. The only things I drink other than water are coffee in the morning and maybe an unsweet ice tea. Instead of red meat, I tend to the leaner meats, poultry. This doesn't mean I don't eat steak or pork. I just plan my diet that day to allow for that type of stuff. It is hard. My wife and I both have been gaining weight, she went to the doctor and was upset about her weight so we both agreed to do something about it. That helps to have someone doing it with you. I have lost 19 lbs but have another 60 to go. So I am nowhere near my goal.

Lost 19 lbs so far!!!

@JaredBusch Nice write-up. I am definitely going to be trying this soon.

@jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Billy Graham just died at 99.

A great servant who made a huge impact to the world.

Made a huge impact, yes. The type of impact is debatable.
A great Servant? Fuck no.

Starting hospitals in impoverished countries that accept people of all faiths, running orphanages, helping in refugee camps, helping subsistence farmers learn how to start growing enough food to actually start making income, rescuing children and women from the sex slave industry, just to name a few things. That isn't being a servant at all. Of course, people will hear a religious message through these but they don't have to convert to take advantage of these ministries. So yes I do believe he was a great servant. Was he perfect, no. But I will most likely say that we will just have to agree to disagree on this.

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@penguinwrangler said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@penguinwrangler said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I pulled the trigger on a new (used) car for me last night. Nothing fancy, I hate spending money on cars. 2016 Chevy Spark with only 23K miles. 5,000 dollars. I thought it was a good deal.

Doesn't sound like a bad deal.

That is what I thought. My car had 280,000 miles on it. So I thought it was time. This car should last me till my daughter turns 21, then my child support ends.

Really 21? I thought it was supposed to end at 18. . .

In Misery...I mean Missouri if they go to college it ends at 21.

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@penguinwrangler said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I pulled the trigger on a new (used) car for me last night. Nothing fancy, I hate spending money on cars. 2016 Chevy Spark with only 23K miles. 5,000 dollars. I thought it was a good deal.

Doesn't sound like a bad deal.

That is what I thought. My car had 280,000 miles on it. So I thought it was time. This car should last me till my daughter turns 21, then my child support ends.

I pulled the trigger on a new (used) car for me last night. Nothing fancy, I hate spending money on cars. 2016 Chevy Spark with only 23K miles. 5,000 dollars. I thought it was a good deal.

@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Spiking a feaver, got chills, feel like dog poop. Think I have the influenza, so working remote today

Why are you working from home? You need to do nothing but rest.

Is the title suppose to be:
"Securing BootStack behind a Ubuntu NGINX Reverse Proxy"

Or was it suppose to be:
"Securing BookStack behind a Ubuntu NGINX Reverse Proxy"

?

@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Billy Graham just died at 99.

Also... wow. I thought he had died a few years ago, lol.

My Grandfather got to meet him years ago, I believe it was in the 1970s. They were about the same age. Billy Graham has not been doing well, healthwise, for a while.

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/17/digital-nomads-are-hiring-and-firing-their-governments/

There is something to be said for putting down roots. To actually invest your time into a community. I would not want that lifestyle. I love traveling, but I love coming back to where I call home.

@tim_g said in SaltStack:

Here's a SaltStack repo for Windows software:
https://github.com/saltstack/salt-winrepo-ng

These are ready to go and install via your own State files, or CLI.

I was looking at a lot of those files, and it would appear to be very easy to setup my own in house repo. I will eventually be trying that.

Thanks guys!! I am loving salt. It looks amazing. Already have a salt master up in the cloud.

@scottalanmiller said in SaltStack:

Windows works the same, nothing really specific to know about it compared to Linux.

Okay. Just starting to dig into it.

Starting to work with Salt. I see plenty of guides on how to use it with Linux, and that is really what I am looking for primarily for my servers, but I also see you can use it with Windows machines. Any good guides out there showing how to do things on Windows in Salt. I have found a few through google but didn't know if anyone had any that I haven't found yet.

@jaredbusch said in Disk imaging tools:

I use clonezilla for this.

I have no problems going to a smaller disk. Just have to use the right options.

That is true. If you know what options to use with Clonzilla it can shrink it as well.