Trying out the free Minecraft servers from https://aternos.org

This makes things a lot more handy.

@RojoLoco said in Cloud Based Auto-Attendant:

@Danp said in Cloud Based Auto-Attendant:

@DustinB3403 I used RC in the past, and it should be able to handle this without issue. You should only need to pay for a single user for this to work.

We currently use RC. Honestly, as much as I want to bag on it, I can't. It works, all the time. The only thing I ever have to touch on RC is add/remove users.

If you are only doing a single line or two, RC is basically unbeatable. Get beyond that, they start getting pretty pricey.

@DustinB3403 said in Cloud Based Auto-Attendant:

@gjacobse said in Cloud Based Auto-Attendant:

I'm ONLY suggesting this as we are moving all of our sites to it. Scalable, handling routing, extension to Paging adapter and more.

RingCentral

May be an option.

How would I setup an IVR or Auto-Attendant on it? I don't need to it to do anything other than to route calls from the "office number" to a cell phone and maybe have VM to Email (but this is TBD).

You do it as a FULL phone system.

@gjacobse said in Cloud Based Auto-Attendant:

I'm ONLY suggesting this as we are moving all of our sites to it. Scalable, handling routing, extension to Paging adapter and more.

RingCentral

May be an option.

That's MORE than standing up FreePBX though, not less.

@DustinB3403 said in Cloud Based Auto-Attendant:

It seems like everyone offers this, yet only as a part of other bundles... and standing up freepbx for something like this seems like overkill...

Well, at the end of the day, that's what's happening more or less. It's a full phone system no matter how you slice or dice it. So FreePBX or similar makes sense.

Well known commands but very handy to have them all in one place.

First check where things are currently held..

get-addomain | select InfrastructureMaster, PDCEmulator, RIDMaster
Get-ADForest | select DomainNamingMaster, SchemaMaster

And then these commands to move the roles. my_dc is the name of the DC to which to want to move the roles.

Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity "my_dc" PDCEmulator
Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity "my_dc" RIDMaster
Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity "my_dc" Infrastructuremaster
Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity "my_dc" DomainNamingmaster
Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity "my_dc" SchemaMaster

We've been using Acer and Asus for a few years now and are SO much happier. Hardware costs a fraction as much and just works. Just bought another laptop this week, $299. Can't beat that. And staff is super happy with that gear.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just realized that 2024 will be TWENTY YEARS since IBM shed its Intel server and end point business (sold it to Lenovo.) It's been a full two decades and people still regularly mistake laptops as being IBM devices today. That's like 4-5 IT generations later.

Ha. Was thinking about this the other day. Wasn't one of the big things with that was that Lenovo were a Chinese company?

Oh, I'll never buy one of those.

Being a Chinese company has nothing to do with why I'd never touch Lenovo and recommend any company that has them immediately replace Lenovo gear.

Why is that my good man?

20 years ago it was because they were Chinese and nothing good ever comes out of China, well 20 years ago that was general mood.

They're still loading spyware via drivers. I'll grant that it's been around a year since I was forced to do a factory install to see it for myself, but at this point they've been so bad for so long they can't be trusted.

I've yet to use any hardware from them that I'm truly happy with. Some have been okay, some have been awful. None have made me want to buy more.

@gjacobse said in ChromeOS vs Linux:

@scottalanmiller said in ChromeOS vs Linux:

The idea behind ChromeOS is to be "set and forget." It's not meant to be twiddled with.

I get that,… why so popular with schools..

Secure, simple, NOT to be twiddled with.

It's got everything normal people want. Less risk of people doing what they don't want.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Working on cleaning up a new gigs XCP-ng backups, getting drivers installed and documenting everything..

Merry Christmas and long time!

Nice, where are you working now?

A company out of Buffalo, I'm basically fully remote.

Nice, congrats.

2024 is a "big" year for me in my career...

35 years working in IT and software engineering
25 years at NTG specifically

Wow that makes you feel old. 2024 is the year that I will have had more time working in my career than my dad did in his before retirement! He retired at 34 years in his field (but 38 years total working.) I'll be 35 years in my field (but just 35 years total working.)

Just realized that 2024 will be TWENTY YEARS since IBM shed its Intel server and end point business (sold it to Lenovo.) It's been a full two decades and people still regularly mistake laptops as being IBM devices today. That's like 4-5 IT generations later.

@siringo saw you mention the qualifications thing... wondering what you meant. What are "qualifications"? We had certs here in the US market 20+ years ago, but those got discredited after a few years and experience became the only real qualification. Wondering what you are seeing there that are called qualification and isn't experience? That's the opposite of what I've seen.

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

just saying hello and merry christmas or whatever it is to you at this time of year.

Merry Christmas!!

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Working on cleaning up a new gigs XCP-ng backups, getting drivers installed and documenting everything..

Merry Christmas and long time!

Nice, where are you working now?

The idea behind ChromeOS is to be "set and forget." It's not meant to be twiddled with.

@gjacobse said in ChromeOS vs Linux:

Can you make cOS ignore one network adapter over another? Setting it to only know of/use the WiFi? And this is for NoMachine specifically ….

I'd assume so, but no idea how to do that.

@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….

What does he want to do? Ubuntu can normally do much more than ChromeOS.

@DustinB3403 said in QBX, Priorietary Dashcams and Hacked Police Departments:

@scottalanmiller Yea I've had to deal with this in the past, the software is just awful to deal with, and literally makes nothing more secure, for either the prosecution, defendant(s) or the public attempting to view the material.

Simple answer is, that it just proves how vulnerable police departments are with such horrible software requirements.

Not aware of any requirement. They just choose this kind of equipment over other options.

@DustinB3403 said in Is Intel VROC FakeRAID?:

@scottalanmiller

I'm not shocked.

Par for the course for Intel storage.