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    • RE: Random Thread - Anything Goes

      @travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

      @DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

      @travisdh1 I've been pretty disappointed in Firefox personally, ha.

      It's still better than Chrome, but that's not saying much.

      I feel the same, Firefox remains my go to.

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: How Secure Is Your Network

      Now, of COURSE, how did one random password result in full network access? Sure, that's a failing. It's not nothing. But, it's gotta be taken in context.

      posted in News
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    • RE: How Secure Is Your Network

      Security isn't relevant. They didn't have backups. This was gross incompetence. Everyone getting ransomwared tries to cover up and trick the media to not admit that they didn't have the most basic of IT oversight.... just having backups. Had they had backups, the impact here would be very small. The concern about a compromised password is a distraction. Yes, MAYBE a secondary problem, but they are scapegoating an "unnamed employee" to protect their head of IT from a lawsuit. The investors are being scammed.

      posted in News
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    • RE: How tailscale helped me

      I use it for Jellyfin

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: Linux Breaks 5% Desktop Share in U.S., Signaling Open-Source Surge Against Windows and macOS

      @Obsolesce Well that's unexpected. Pretty cool to see it making inroads. Microsoft screwed the pooch a bit lately, good time for Linux to get some momentum.

      posted in News
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    • RE: OpenAI ChatGPT 4.1 vs 4.5 Models

      @Obsolesce said in OpenAI ChatGPT 4.1 vs 4.5 Models:

      @travisdh1 o3 is for the best advanced reasoning.

      Right o series are reasoning models. GPT are intelligence models. o for strategy, GPT for tactics.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: OpenAI ChatGPT 4.1 vs 4.5 Models

      @travisdh1 said in OpenAI ChatGPT 4.1 vs 4.5 Models:

      This is a somewhat surprising because all the recent reviews I've read or heard claim o3 and o3-mini are the best models so far at least for programming purposes. Are 4.1 and 4.5 newer than o3?

      Much newer, 4.1 is actually the newest, very confusing. 4.1 is the most up to date. But a much smaller model.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • OpenAI ChatGPT 4.1 vs 4.5 Models

      Until you spend a lot of time in technical tasks, you might not be aware of just how significantly different the output from different models can be for coding and other technical tasks where we want discrete results and not wordy soliloquies. After weeks of deep diving into using several models for technical research GPT-4.1 is a clear winner by quite a stretch. Keywords has a great breakdown of the two latest ChatGPT models, 4.1 and 4.5 and how they stack up (and why) for different tasks.

      https://www.keywordsai.co/blog/gpt-41-vs-gpt-45-a-comprehensive-comparison

      posted in IT Discussion ai chatgpt
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    • RE: What Are You Doing Right Now

      Refactoring huge amounts of code. It's been quiet around here.

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: VMware vs Hyper-V: A Side-by-Side Breakdown

      @Oksana the two hypervisors no one should consider.

      posted in Starwind
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    • RE: Ubuntu Server "Search Domains"

      @EddieJennings said in Ubuntu Server "Search Domains":

      @scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu Server "Search Domains":

      It's not a LInux thing, it's a general networking thing so the same on desktops, Windows, wherever.

      This is correct. If I recall right, within the Windows network config GUI, it's called a "domain suffix.".

      Sounds right.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: Ubuntu Server "Search Domains"

      If you use Active Directory on Windows, it fills it at least one search domain automatically. Windows is about the only place to see search domains still used frequently. This is primarily used for when Linux is put onto legacy style Windows based LAN networks.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: Ubuntu Server "Search Domains"

      @CCWTech they serve little purpose in the modern world. It's just the network domains that are automatically tried when you put in a URL with only the hostname and leave off the network name. Which no one does, so it's unused. It's not a LInux thing, it's a general networking thing so the same on desktops, Windows, wherever. Just a standard part of DNS, but like many DNS functions, one that is mostly a vestige.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • HPE Acquires Juniper

      Just got this press release..

      On July 2, 2025, Juniper Networks was acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). As this integration moves forward, we will continue to steward your data with HPE's help. The personal data we hold about you is being transferred to HPE and will be processed by them in accordance with their privacy statement.

      If you currently receive marketing emails from us, you will continue to do so, and your preferences will follow your data to HPE. You can manage your preferences using the Juniper preference center.

      Yours sincerely,
      Juniper Networks, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company

      posted in IT Discussion hpe juniper
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    • RE: Rethinking Virtualization? Start with Hyper-V 2025

      @CloudKnight said in Rethinking Virtualization? Start with Hyper-V 2025:

      I wouldn't even consider hyper v. Proxmox and xcp-ng are the future

      And like, they were the "now and future" like, a decade ago. This isn't a recent thing.

      posted in Starwind
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    • RE: Alternative to Screenconnect (and Mesh Central)

      @EddieJennings yeah, that would be nice for sure.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: Rethinking Virtualization? Start with Hyper-V 2025

      @Oksana LOL, if you are considering Hyper-V in 2025, you should be looking for a different career path.

      posted in Starwind
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    • RE: VMware VCF 9.0: Smarter Infrastructure or Just More Complexity?

      @Oksana VMware still exists? LOL Why?

      posted in Starwind
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    • RE: Alternative to Screenconnect (and Mesh Central)

      @CCWTech Looking at it, I think that it requires a client. Which isn't all bad, but limiting. The convenient web interface is paid only.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • Telling ProxMox a Backup Target is Mounted Externally

      While generally not recommended, sometimes we need to back up to a USB drive or other hard mounted backup location in ProxMox.

      Problem: USB and other external devices can easily lose their mount while a system is already online causing the mount point to unmount forcefully and leaving a folder where the mountpoint had been. Rarely do we want the backup function of ProxMox to backup to that local folder, we rather want the backup mechanism to fail and then have an opportunity to alert us to fix the backup location issue.

      Solution: Inform ProxMox at an application level that the backup location is a mountpoint and not a local folder so that it runs detection prior to backing up.

      What to do?

      1. Get your list of storage locations from ProxMox
        pvesm status

      2. Find your backup location NAME on that list. It is a ProxMox label, not the folder name. For many of you it might just be called something like "backup"

      3. Inform ProxMox to test if the location is mounted prior to backing up. Replace the word backup in this example with the NAME you got from step 2.
        pvesm set backup --is_mountpoint yes

      4. You are done if that succeeds silently, but you can double check that the change has been made by looking for it in this file:
        cat /etc/pve/storage.cfg

      posted in IT Discussion proxmox storage pve pvesm virtualization backup
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