@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

My wife put a "Don't Panic" towel in our bathroom long ago.

Great idea. Most people would need that towel if they go into the bathroom after me.....

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy with Luciana.

Gave my son a leatherbound edition of the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy for his 12th birthday. Told him it would guide him through puberty. Since that day he always carries a towel with him.

@kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@penguinwrangler said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I am trying to figure out how to eat. I chipped a tooth and don't see dentist till Thursday. Pretty much can drink but not eat. So So So hungry. More egg drop soup for me tonight.

Shakes are good too.

I just started my diet.

I am trying to figure out how to eat. I chipped a tooth and don't see dentist till Thursday. Pretty much can drink but not eat. So So So hungry. More egg drop soup for me tonight.

@gjacobse said in Tax software requires User to have Admin Rights:

@jaredbusch

Installing maybe... But it's need to run the software

I saw that all the time with crappy proprietary video surveillance software. You had to have admin rights to run it. Ridiculous!

This smells like someone trying to find a technology fix to a HR problem.

I have a Raspberry PI and a Raspberry PI 2. I run all sorts of things on them. I use them to play around/learn about things. Great little devices. I am getting a 3 soon. I use these cases: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MRKSGP2/ref=s9_acsd_hps_bw_c_x_7_w

They are stackable which I like.

@black3dynamite said in Intranet suggestions....:

@penguinwrangler said in Intranet suggestions....:

@black3dynamite Tumbleweed

Any cool how to guides that you might like to share here? CentOS and now Fedora is pretty much the goto here.

I guess I could. I haven't installed https://wiki.js.org/ yet on it. I will report back once it is up.

@black3dynamite Tumbleweed

@scottalanmiller said in Intranet suggestions....:

@black3dynamite said in Intranet suggestions....:

@scottalanmiller said in Intranet suggestions....:

@stacksofplates said in Intranet suggestions....:

@jaredbusch said in Intranet suggestions....:

@zachary715 said in Intranet suggestions....:

@fuznutz04 said in Intranet suggestions....:

I'm still evaluating https://wiki.js.org/. I have it installed and setup, and I love the interface, but have not had a lot of time to really test it out in a production environment yet.

Wordpress is definitely a solid choice, especially with the right plugins.

I've been playing with https://wiki.js.org/ as well and I'm really loving it. It's still fairly young it seems but looks promising. Been spending a lot of time migrating notepad and word file documentation to it over the last week or two.

I also use Wordpress for a personal website, and would recommend it if you're needing additional functionality that a wiki may not offer.

ok, damnit. now I really need to set this up.

Ya it's pretty cool. It's awesome that it auto commits to a Git repo.

Yeah, we have been using it a little bit. It is what we are replacing Sharepoint with.

Easy to setup? What OS are you using?

Not my first choice, but it is on CentOS 7 shared with some other workloads.

I will be trying it on OpenSuse. My preferred Linux server distro.

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3024623/google-ditches-ubuntu-for-debian-from-internal-engineering-environment

Can't say that I am shocked over this.

I think I know what I will do:
https://www.dokuwiki.org/template:lcars

Wordpress is definitely in the lead.

@brandon220 said in Intranet suggestions....:

I was looking to do something similar and was steered towards a Wiki (mediawiki, dokuwiki) for local content.

I have been looking at both of those as well.

What would you all recommend for a basic intranet? I am not a coder, haven't done it in, well let's just say I can say decades. Not against learning anything. All I really need is a way to organize information, the intranet now is a basic html page with some simple php. It basically just presents information and links to various sites that we need access to. We need a little more functionality. We need some places were our users can upload files, like the HR people being able to upload new HR documents for the office etc. We then also need a page for some of our users to list contacts. I work in the public sector so this isn't like sales, we just need to list contacts at hospitals/agencies/ etc that we steer people to. I would like for that to be searchable. I am looking at Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal, possible Sharepoint. Any suggestions would be helpful. I really need something that once setup will pretty much be hands off for me.

@thwr said in Network in industrial environments:

@penguinwrangler said in Network in industrial environments:

At a huge hog farm that I service. I used the Ubiquiti ToughSwitches. They stand up to the heat and the cold with no issues. I have them in hermetically sealed boxes. No air or water can get in, just the nature of the business, with all the ammonia from the poo and urine if left out the switches would corrode, and then they bring in water pressure jets to clean out the pig areas on a regular basis. I haven't had any fail in the three years they have been in.

Now that's what I would call a harsh environment Thank you, I've already had a quick look on them.

They will do POE as well.

At a huge hog farm that I service. I used the Ubiquiti ToughSwitches. They stand up to the heat and the cold with no issues. I have them in hermetically sealed boxes. No air or water can get in, just the nature of the business, with all the ammonia from the poo and urine if left out the switches would corrode, and then they bring in water pressure jets to clean out the pig areas on a regular basis. I haven't had any fail in the three years they have been in.

@mike-davis said in Remote Control Software:

@bigbear said in Remote Control Software:

Apparently the IT guy drives between offices in different states. He literally just told me "The bosses dont much like new purchases and I dont mind the mileage and travel time".

wow

I drive between states on a daily basis. It is only 20 miles for me.

I have used https://www.dwservice.net in the past. If you are in need of free remote control software. It works very well.

@wrx7m My friend runs two piholes in his school district. Cuts down on so much crap for him.

@thwr said in LTO tape library upgrade:

@penguinwrangler said in LTO tape library upgrade:

We are looking at going with LTO-8. The capacity and speed and the ability that it is offline and can be offsite extremely easy were all winners in our books. Offline meaning once the tape is in storage it is not on a network and can get hit by ransomware.

It's just a requirement for us. But yes, your points are valid. 12TB uncompressed per tape isn't that bad. I was looking for an upgrade because 1.5TB for LTO-5 isn't exactly what fits todays capacities.

We can't use cloud backup, hasn't been approved for us yet. So the capacity of the LTO-8 tapes is what we like.