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@StrongBad said in Operations System Administrator:

This comes to mind:

the volume of my voice

that's totally a StrongBad problem 😉

@Dashrender said in Senior Systems Engineer:

@RamblingBiped

What does does HR do if not put out accurate and reasonable job postings? 😛

I did my stint in IT/Engineering Recruiting many moons ago... I'm now blissfullly ignorant when it comes to the inner workings of human resources.

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:-O.... I can't even comprehend having those speeds, lol!

@BRRABill said in System Administrator - Newburgh, Indiana:

@RamblingBiped said

It is a nice little city on the Ohio. It is off to it's own small corner of the state and maintains an identity all it's own. We don't even share the same time zone as the rest of the state! 🙂

See, @scottalanmiller , UTC to the rescue! 😉

Indiana really needs it. They use to have FOUR time zones in one state!

@RamblingBiped said in SIP Phone registers no audio...:

Here is the guide I followed to get the Yealink T23G to work with OpenVPN: http://www.sunstatetechnology.com/docs/YealinkOpenVPNGuide.pdf

When I disable NAT on the extension the phone is unable to register.

Something is wrong there, that sounds like the VPN is not working as there is no NAT when there is a VPN.

Good luck man, this market is so saturated... VMware if you wanna work for a corporation.

I wonder, when you change preferences do those changes get applied once, or if the user is pre-existing on the system, are they ignored?

hey does anyone have the scripts to setup a new network ? I cant seem to get my head around this curl -X POST stuff... i got it compiled and properly running, i just need to create a new network. thanks

C is pretty easy to learn... only takes 3 fingers...

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This is something I worked on for a while,.. I had a 1U server I could use, but it only had slots for 2 drives.... something I thought was 'risky'.

I looked at getting a heavier box something that could take up to 8 drives,.. but boiled things down to getting a ReadyNAS 314, 4 bay with 2TB drives.

IT's been running fine, have a few shares on it,.. permissions and attached a 1TB external USB drive as well (already had).

Small form factor and serious lack of ambient noise makes for the win...

ETA: I credit research and speaking with @scottalanmiller and ML for insight on it.

@Reid-Cooper said in Quickbooks Online:

@Nic said in Quickbooks Online:

@Reid-Cooper said in Quickbooks Online:

@Nic said in Quickbooks Online:

Last I heard it still doesn't have all the functionality of the non-hosted version. Still, if you can live without the features that it doesn't have, then it's a good option. Also consider some of the alternatives like Freshbooks.

I've heard that recently as well. Lots of limitations that you would not expect.

Yeah I used to work at Intuit so I was pretty familiar with both products. QBO was a complete rewrite, which is good because the QB codebase is 30 years old, but bad in that you have to play catchup with the features and the dev/support efforts.

How long is it taking to catch up? Isn't that like a decade?

It's like Zeno's Paradox

@RamblingBiped said in Disable folder redirection for specific users:

The laptops are used for development and they need to have full control over the systems.  Also, the user is the CEO.

even more reasons why he shouldn't have those rights. Dev's should be forced to program in a locked down environment to ensure they write code that WORKS in a locked down environment. LOL

Yeah I know.. it might not really work that way, I have no clue.. just sayin' is all.

@wirestyle22 said in FreePBX Remote Extension Problems:

@scottalanmiller said in FreePBX Remote Extension Problems:

@wirestyle22 said in FreePBX Remote Extension Problems:

@RamblingBiped Hope this is the solution. I unfortunately have Cisco CM and its my first time managing VoIP

So sorry.

Complication for the sake of complication

And spending money for the sake of throwing away profits 😉

@black3dynamite said in Vagrant and KVM:

@stacksofplates said in Vagrant and KVM:

Vagrant is much better than kickstarting

Why is it better?

It's much faster and you can use tools like Ansible to provision the Vagrant boxes. It's just really flexible and fast.

Way better!

@scottalanmiller said in FreePBX External/Remote Extensions:

@JaredBusch said in FreePBX External/Remote Extensions:

@RamblingBiped said in FreePBX External/Remote Extensions:

Option #1 up and running. Now to work on the OpenVPN part of the equation... 🙂

I have set this up but then ran into the problem of the OpenVPN port being blocked. Slightly hard to change once out in the wild.

On which end?

The remote end obviously. As I have full control of the server side.

@scottalanmiller said in Free Programming Courses - July 2016:

@thwr said in Free Programming Courses - July 2016:

@scottalanmiller said in Free Programming Courses - July 2016:

@thwr said in Free Programming Courses - July 2016:

@scottalanmiller said in Free Programming Courses - July 2016:

@thwr said in Free Programming Courses - July 2016:

@scottalanmiller said in Free Programming Courses - July 2016:

@thwr said in Free Programming Courses - July 2016:

@dafyre said in Free Programming Courses - July 2016:

@thwr said in Free Programming Courses - July 2016:

No need to fiddle around with gcc toolchains, makefiles and whatnot.

This is one of the reasons I enjoyed developing with Visual Basic in Windows, and Gambas in Linux... I didn't have to muss around with Make files, etc... The system handled all that for me in the background.

I've switched to almost exclusively developing for the web now.

Yeah, it's odd. I'm asking myself why there are so much Java courses for students, but only a very few for C#. The .NET ecosystem is the best thing I have seen so far: Very well documented, very few bugs, runs on different platforms (ARM, x86, PPC..) and operating systems. Must be because Visual Studio wasn't always free. On the other hand, mono got its own compiler for many, many years now.

.NET is Windows centric and not appropriate to teach at university. It's also not nearly as common as Java. It's a good system for sure, but it is not academically apropos. Java is far from the only good option, but .NET is only appropriate as a side elective and as university should not be focusing on specifics, it's not really appropriate at all. If you learn Java, C# is a few days of work away from you.

.NET isn't so Windows centric anymore. Large parts of the framework are open source now and mono became a very good runtime today. In fact, I'm doing lots of stuff in C# on my ARM boards. Visual Studio is free for students and small companies. MonoDevelop is also ok. Not comparable in any way, but ok.

That's extremely recent and it's not really ported yet and Mono is... weak. I have high hopes, as I love C# and F# (heck, I wrote the certification tests for C#!!) will get wide adoption. But I'm not holding my breath.

You did? Hell, maybe I should get one just to see your test 😉

Yes, only one, not the entire series. One of the Previsor ones. I've written about a dozen certification exams over the years. I once had a job require me to take my own test in an interview. They were idiots. I told them ahead of time that I wrote it and then they nearly shit themselves when I scored the highest core ever. I wasn't sure if they thought that I was an idiot and could not pass my own test or if they thought I was lying. In either case, I wasn't too impressed.

I guess that I wouldn't want to work there anyway. I've always refused to take any test myself. "Thanks for the coffee, but no, bye". Got an offer from MS once, they sent me a test in a wordfile with some very, very stupid questions like "How many windows do you see when you open this developer tool?" REALLY, WHO CARES? Anyway, told them that if they send me that test by mail and I'm given like 4 hours for it to complete, I can easily cheat them by just using Google (or Yahoo). The lady on the other side didn't understand that.

Well I had to be somewhat impressed that they were paying hundreds of dollars per candidate to basically have me evaluating their candidates. But it also meant that I was way, way above what they were prepared to be working with. They wanted someone for a position that I would be hiring and mentoring. But you have to give them some credit for picking me as the person that they wanted evaluating people, even if indirectly 😉

Sounds basically where we are all aspiring to be one day

Looks good!

Sorry, was on vacation.

@RamblingBiped said in SPF Records for Google Apps Mail:

@TAHIN So I should be able to get away with the same entry as what you have then? What does the addition of "a mx" add?

Adding the 'a mx' parameters indicates that only servers that match a public A record or public MX record of your domain are allowed to send. Generally, just saying MX is enough - you're telling the recipient to fail the mail unless the sending IP matches the IP address of one of your domain's MX records, effectively eliminating spoofing. We added 'A' to give us the flexibility to source email from an application or DMZ server. The include: parameter overrides these defaults, allowing Google to proxy.

80% of the reason we (and most companies) implement SPF is to protect their own organization from incoming spearphishing via domain spoofing. The fact that it isn't 100% adopted by all organizations shouldn't be a deterrent to use it.

Im in the process of upgrading all of our servers to hardware based LSI Cards. They are not cheap, and are a little UI unfriendly, but we have not had a single problem with them and when I had questions during configuration (Because their UI sucks), their support answered immediately and gave me all the information I needed. LSI Cards are nice, the central RAID management is awesome and reduces maintenance costs