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@scottalanmiller said in Any Techs in the Tampa Area for 1-2 Day Project?:

Simple stuff, looking for basically remote hands to help at a veterinary clinic that is being built. So plugging in new computers and phones, mostly.

I can be if you provide travel, lodging, dining, and a few $k :)

@scottalanmiller said in Mass Shooting, 13 Injured on Austin 6th St:

https://abc13.com/mass-shooting-austin-6th-street-texas-gun-violence/10779665/

Reporting right across from Touche ;(

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Good to know we got a slew of requests for a self-audit back in October, same phone number, all hit our spam filters so we ignored.

They don't display for me. When checking the browser console, I'm seeing an HTTP response of 403.

GET [HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden 0ms]

@scottalanmiller Hm... I'd thought of posting that up here but figured it'd be old news for you lassi it hounds... Good news for the battle for ROSS.

@scottalanmiller said in How to Install PHP 7.3 on Ubuntu 18.04:

I hate having to do this, but sometimes it has to be done. Here is how to get this middling PHP version onto this old version of Ubuntu.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php sudo apt update

I'm not sure that is the proper way to do it.
ppa are personal repositories - meaning someone put it together.

I think Ubuntu has offical backports, just like Debian.
In that case it would be better to get a the "newer" php version from the backport repository instead.

UPDATE.
It looks like the ondrej/php repository is actually maintained by a Debian developer, Ondřej Surý. He is one of the package maintainers for the official debian and ubuntu php packages.
https://deb.sury.org/

@carnival-boy said in Free Laserdisc Collection and Two LaserDisc Players to Good Home in DFW Area:

@scottalanmiller Nice. Have fun.

Thanks. Can't wait.

@mr-jones said in SAMIT: The Roles of Web Hosting:

@scottalanmiller I don't know how new any of this is, but I'm really digging the transitions and logo stuff you got going on. It's got the RGB feel to it, but not over the top.

All that stuff is done by our marketing team in La Paz!

@gotwf said in MangoLassi: Seven Years:

@scottalanmiller Lots of newness in 16.x. Been kicking it's tires a bit myself as of late. But... ya' know... 1.17 is almost here! ;-P

Congrats & Happy Anniversary!

Yeah, 17 already in beta!

@scottalanmiller Thanks! It had me in a sad state for weeks....

@dafyre said in Bad Pings from Windows, Good from Linux:

How old is this IOGear device? Could it be a bug in the IOGear's firmware that dislikes (recent changes to) Windows? ...I mean we know Microsoft never breaks printing, right?

:face_with_tears_of_joy:

@Pete-S said in Adding 2FA to BookStack Wiki:

And if the client for instance use google for email (workplace) then they already have an SSO solution without needing anything extra.

They have no SSO source right now.

@Pete-S said in MariaDB Package Issues While Updating from CentOS 7 to CentOS 8:

But nobody in their right mind...

...uses LTS releases. So we have to accept we are working from a crippled situation anytime that this comes up. It means we are already dealing with politics over function. So knowing that, it should explain why we have to deal with what we have to deal with. Would have been super fast to do a fresh install.

But you'd not do a fresh install of CentOS 8 or Streams if it wasn't for politics. We'd be putting in Fedora, Ubuntu, or OpenSuse. So not getting to do a fresh install is just one artefact of many when doing what's best for the application platform isn't what drives decision making.

@DustinB3403 said in Solarwinds Blames Intern for Laughable Password:

@scottalanmiller said in Solarwinds Blames Intern for Laughable Password:

@IRJ said in Solarwinds Blames Intern for Laughable Password:

They should be required to do audits and pen testing yearly due to requirements of government systems. It sounds like solar winds worked with pen testing firms that that just gave passing grades. Sometimes organizations purposely hire bad security talent so they don't get exposed as doing a bad job.

You mean like how the government hires Solarwinds?

I have a client that uses at least one solar wind product and I shudder....

Me too.

@DustinB3403 said in Microsoft Hid Known Vulnerability According to Senator:

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Hid Known Vulnerability According to Senator:

@Dashrender said in Microsoft Hid Known Vulnerability According to Senator:

you're saying that they can't ever be wrong in their releases?

No, I'm saying that whether right or wrong is irrelevant. That it happened is what matters. Deciding if it happened accidentally or on purpose is a different discussion. Things that happen on accident doesn't make them not have happened.

Like teen pregnancy....

LOL, exactly.

@scottalanmiller said in LastPass Goes As Predicted Like LogMeIn:

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@Dashrender said in LastPass Goes As Predicted Like LogMeIn:

from the sounds of it - the marketing wasn't paying off, at least not in their opinion.

They probably looking at the conversion rate from free to paying customer.

If 99% of all free users are happy with the free version then they need to remove features from the free version or remove it altogether. Or adjust their business model.

The marketing is of no value if it's successful, but only ever generates "customers" using the free version.
A lot of SaaS companies are run on venture capitalist money though and generates no profit, only losses. But that can never go on forever. But some have deep pockets. I think it took Spotify 10 years to have their first quarter that was not in the red. On a yearly basis they still never have been profitable.

Yeah that kind of crap is some thing I simply do not understand why the investors continue to pour more money on that fire. Just see that money burn

Spotify has nothing on Uber. Uber looses money on every ride still. The business model was setup to take advantage of driverless vehicles, and that's taking longer than they expected to happen. In the meantime, they keep getting the funding to continue operating.

Now this is somethign I also don't understand... Are we assuming the cost of the drivers AND administrator/IT staff for the company cost more than the app brings in? that just seems like a crazy idea.. but yet I know it must be true... I wonder what make their costs SOOOO expensive? is there that much need to continue updating the app, are the servers needed to keep the platform running THAT expensive?

For Uber, the app cost is trivial. Even if it is $50m USD a year, that's nothing in their revenue. Their costs are around payroll, payment processing, legal teams, marketing, market creation, insurance, etc.

Think about trying to make Uber... it might cost you $100m USD just to convince a single city to let you use your product there. The BIG money is in getting the laws and regulations changed to let you exist. The actual app and driving of the cars is background noise to them.

oh yeah - I keep forgetting about the requirement to buy off cities, etc to allow the thing to happen... good point.

And they keep having to enter and leave markets. All that startup cost and advertising and loss leaders, then they limp along for a year or two, then the city decides to make a competing service and kick them out once Uber paid to develop the market. It's rough.

I don't feel this is something cities should be able to do... if you can legally have the business - they they shouldn't be able to stop you....

the whole taxi aspect - selling medallions, - what a raquet!

That's the thing, they stop you by changing if it is legal for you to have a business. That's the problem with government, they change "what is legal" whenever they want.

I want to down vote this because of the gov't, not because of your post :(