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What makes even less sense, is that any customer can publish pricing information publicly. So a reseller need only have someone else mention their lower prices and work around the MAP process quickly and easily. So the MAP doesn't keep the prices up, it just makes the process overly silly.

If the policy wasn't aggressively "no support unless it's authorized", none of it would matter. That they put such a policy in place before having a way to verify is a huge problem that they could fix in a split second.

I wonder if the new feature in Server 2019 called SMB WriteThrough would help in this situation. https://www.veeam.com/blog/new-smb-client-parameter-windows-server.html

@scottalanmiller said in LibreOffice 6 How to Set a Background Image: @black3dynamite How do you make it fill the page? Will this work for you? Right-Click the image Properties Crop > Image Size Width = 8.50 " and Height = 11.00"

Okay, we got it figured out. Works well, but is not intuitive. You go to "New Conversation" and then you have to just make a new for a new conversation. Only then can you add people to it. Totally works, just.... why would you ever think to do that?

@scottalanmiller said in MSP Helpdesk Options: @dbeato said in MSP Helpdesk Options: @scottalanmiller said in MSP Helpdesk Options: @dbeato said in MSP Helpdesk Options: @scottalanmiller said in MSP Helpdesk Options: @JaredBusch said in MSP Helpdesk Options: @scottalanmiller said in MSP Helpdesk Options: @JaredBusch said in MSP Helpdesk Options: The product development was dropped, but it was never disabled to be used. Now it likely will. They claimed that they disabled the "remote kill" ability so that their infrastructure was no longer in use. Is the assumption that they broke their terms of service and secretly kept it tied and they can (and will) remote kill people's systems? I never saw that. So I assumed it was still all tied to the community accounts and such. they had a massive outage a couple years ago and everyone found out that they had been tying it together (and had no redundancy) so when their ISP failed, every on prem SW failed with it. Then they promised that it was separated and no longer depended no their no-redundancy, no-failover back end. And I'd heard from people who tested that it seemed to actually be done. So my understanding was that they really did it, but they are always pretty suspect, for obvious reasons, they've violated their terms so often that there is a good chance they would have turned it back on later. But they were so exposed when it happened that it seems kind of unlikely that they would risk that happening again. It is still tied to it at least on the initial setup, same for network monitor. You can set it up offline after that but it does need checkins for the plugins such as warranty check, cloud detection, alien vault alerts, software updates by Zoho and many more. Additional stuff i"m not surprised, but I think that the product itself is offline, at least after install? Only after install and still dependent of gekko.spiceworks.com What does Gekko do and what happens when it goes away? Scripts and such https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2142631-spiceworks-hangs

@scottalanmiller said in Tracking Down Ubuntu BASH Session Closing: @matteo-nunziati said in Tracking Down Ubuntu BASH Session Closing: @scottalanmiller said in Tracking Down Ubuntu BASH Session Closing: If I use zsh, I'm good. If I enter BASH from zsh, I get kicked out after several seconds. Definitely is something to do with BASH. Stupid tryout: use bash and then enter zsh before being kicked out. Still out? To understand if it is the firing of bash itself or the stay in bash... No, the underlying bash remains until the ZSH closes. Same as if you were running top from it, for example. So basically bash is able to run long running jobs with your user... It's the interactivity with the shell to be broken... Meh. Sorry the thread is long, did you mention any test from zsh with: Bash <-- ok this kills the session Bash -i any difference??? Bash -l ??? bash --norc bash --noprofile From bashman page

@travisdh1 said in Cincinnati Area Remote Hands: I'm ~3 hours away Not much less... about 2 hours for me.

@Fredtx This has usually worked for me in the past.

@wrx7m said in Configure Nginx as Reverse Proxy for ScreenConnect to Enable Lets Encrypt: Less to that than I thought there would be. It's surprisingly simple and basic. It's really just passing one port to another, and using SSL. About the most basic setup you can have.

Thanks @black3dynamite .... before I saw that I tried a fresh install (over the top of the old one) and that fixed it for me.

@flaxking said in Outlook SMTP Non-Compliant Sender Address: Hmm, I just got the same when testing using telnet 550 5.7.1 Non-Compliant sender address. Code : -4 Oh, good info! Thanks.

@scottalanmiller said in Get Active User Login Count from Dovecot: cat /var/log/maillog | grep pop3-login:\ Login | sed -e 's/.Login: user=<(.)>, method=.*/\1/g' | sort | uniq | wc -l This tiny variation will get you all logins from all logs that you have stored. cat /var/log/maillog* | grep pop3-login:\ Login | sed -e 's/.*Login: user=<\(.*\)>, method=.*/\1/g' | sort | uniq | wc -l

I went to MicroCenter tonight and was looking at laptops. I had a salesperson ask what I was looking for. I got a strange look when I said I wanted W10 Home cause it would get wiped anyway. I don't think she thought I was serious.

It is also a free trial weekend for the game on Steam, for anyone wanting to fire it up and see what they think.

@scottalanmiller said in P2V Windows 2000 on KVM: So this is ridiculous, but we just found out that it is actually 2003 R2, not 2000. So I assume that this will be way better. I had a ton of issues getting mine to work - I had to run chkdsk like 15 times before it finally booted... I don't recall what migration tool I used.

@stacksofplates said in Ansible Agent Option?: Yeah it's obviously bad to treat it like a LAN but if you stop using tools just because it can be treated that way you are sometimes stopping yourself from doing some really interesting and helpful things. Yes, LAN-like tools are only LAN-like if you treat them in that fashion. The behaviour is rarely intrinsic.

Maybe they have a couple keys...

Trip is done, time to head for home. See everyone from the US (or from the airport, probably.)

Maybe this has it? http://rtellason.com/manuals/Designjet500.pdf

@JaredBusch said in Building VitalPBX on Vultr Automatically: @scottalanmiller said in Building VitalPBX on Vultr Automatically: and be fully updated. I noticed that the defualt CentOS 7 image was pretty much fully up to date before I ran the install script. Only thing that came down when I ran yum update -y was wget. Yeah, it is more of a "just in case" something is out of date. I almost never see it not fully up to date when I fire it up.

In CPAP news, my new headgear should arrive in NY a few days before my flight to Athens.

@JaredBusch said in Exploring VitalPBX: @scottalanmiller Well, at least he left FreePBX quite a while ago. But yes, just slightly insane in that thread. Yeah, only a reflection upon the history of FreePBX, nothing to do with their current owner. But it scares me that he touched that code!

@Emad-R said in SAMIT on Huawei vs US & Google Day Two Recap: huawei owns middle east the global market FTFY

@valentina said in Come See Valentina's Word at the Tokyo Palace Modern Art Museum in Paris This Summer: @scottalanmiller You've got to post pics of the show! Will do!

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@hobbit666 said in SAMIT on Huawei vs Google: One thing I don't get yet is my have Xiaomi, Umidigi and other manufactures from that side of the world not been effect by all this stuff with the US? My thoughts would be if the government have been asking Huawei to but spying/data harvesting stuff in gear wouldn't they be asking all manufacturers? If they go after "all" it would over expose the falseness of the whole thing.

jees @scottalanmiller can you please just start posting giant fucking walls of text so I can ignore everything you have to say. Thanks much, sarcastically Dustin

@wrx7m said in Summing Up Hiring Practices: @EddieJennings said in Summing Up Hiring Practices: @scottalanmiller said in Summing Up Hiring Practices: Simply put: hiring the best means living with the requirements of the best. Filters don't apply to companies hiring the best. I’m hoping my next gig can be remote or have remote component. I’m not holding my breath though. Same here. I need to finish my resume first though (sounding like a broken record). Have you started looking? ha Same!