@Pete-S said in MailCow Command Line Reference:

@scottalanmiller said in MailCow Command Line Reference:

@Dashrender said in MailCow Command Line Reference:

@Pete-S said in MailCow Command Line Reference:

If you don't intend to use the webinterface then what purpose does mailcow have?

You could just install dovecot, postfix etc for email and sogo for calendar and have the same thing without the middle man. I bet you have to tweak config files even with mailcow.

I'm assuming Scott is asking about management stuff - he wants to script that stuff, not GUI manage it.

Right. GUI is fine for low capacity sites. But we are looking at two use cases both in the 10K+ range.

But mailcow doesn't add any functionality that the original packages don't already have. It's just a wrapper. Is it not?

Mostly. But it is handling the testing and integration of the components, which is the hard bit. It's actually doing a fair amount of work. I've built an extremely similar system in the past and the effort was quite large for just the "wrapper" bits that they are doing 😉

And the central API is a huge deal.

@scottalanmiller said in Scam CDC Phone Number in US Passports - (877) 347-8747:

@Dashrender said in Scam CDC Phone Number in US Passports - (877) 347-8747:

@CCWTech said in Scam CDC Phone Number in US Passports - (877) 347-8747:

@Dashrender said in Scam CDC Phone Number in US Passports - (877) 347-8747:

@scottalanmiller said in Scam CDC Phone Number in US Passports - (877) 347-8747:

@JaredBusch said in Scam CDC Phone Number in US Passports - (877) 347-8747:

But seriously, my money is on the odds that the number was slammed.

If so, you'd expect there to be some record of the government announcing not to call it.

No more - I would expect the government to use eminent domain to demand it turned over to them.. but surprisingly, they haven't even don that..

As of right now, we aren't even sure they know. Scott and I have both tried to report this and so far... crickets.

That's the biggest issue - I'm sure it's been reported.. but whoever received the reports didn't know what to do with the information.

CCWTech even sent it to Trump!

Well, shit. Now we know it will get fixed. I mean, he'll delegate it to the best person, a really terrific guy (no women allowed in the clubhouse), just a fantastic individual. Then in about a month, he'll fire that person and hire someone else as an interim, or maybe no one at all, but by then, we'll all have forgotten about the issue, until the person that first brought it up goes to a committee after 4 months and then ...wait, what was the original problem here?

@WrCombs said in How to Stop an Ongoing RAID Rebuild HP P420i RAID Controller:

we use Intel Rapid Storage - CTL +I on Boot gets you there? - Disclaimer I may be thinking of Software RAID rather than Hardware RAID - but It may be worth a shot to try..

Yeah, Intel Rapid Storage is the most prominent example of Fake RAID. So it is software.

@Obsolesce said in City of Munich Moving to Closed Source Software:

It looks like the whole issue was due to their use of some weird distro years ago.

That article technically doesn't say why they need Windows now, so for all I know they have some new weird requirements I don't know about, but assuming they don't, I think the decision to go to Windows is a horrible idea. They'd be much better off going to Ubuntu instead.

Yes I upvoted a post about how Ubuntu would be better than an alternative. Please no heart attacks people.

Instead of contacting support, have you tried the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation along with viewers like you?

@Dashrender said in SAM on Web Design with HTML 2005:

so much more hair.

And still not very much.

@Obsolesce said in Static Web Site Design Tools:

@scottalanmiller said in Static Web Site Design Tools:

Playing with Hugo today and I'm liking it a lot. Thanks for pressuring me to stick with it till I got it working 🙂

I got Hugo working well and set up in Azure DevOps so rebuild the site when I commit and push an update to the master repo.

I really like it. Jekyll was great too, but now I think I prefer Hugo.

This is what I do for my blog. Except it's built with a GitLab runner and it uses GitLab pages to present it.

Within PowerShell can't use something like Push-Location \\Server\Share\path or Set-Location \\Server\Share\path and then run the cipher command?

@Dashrender said in Disconnected: Why Companies Encourage Bad IT Decisions:

@scottalanmiller said in Disconnected: Why Companies Encourage Bad IT Decisions:

@Dashrender said in Disconnected: Why Companies Encourage Bad IT Decisions:

@scottalanmiller said in Disconnected: Why Companies Encourage Bad IT Decisions:

@Dashrender said in Disconnected: Why Companies Encourage Bad IT Decisions:

The one place the presentation doesn't really hit on is reliability of the circuit. Of course to wit Scott will say - US carriers of old school telecom are horrible, and most ISPs are equally as reliable, if not more so than carriers. And unlike carriers, you can likely more easily setup redundancies with the ISP, when was the last time typical businesses setup redundancy on their phone service?

Not really a place where the CEO should care. In a healthy organization, Jared's presentation would be from the telecom person or team to the CIO. The CIO would just inform the CEO of what they are doing, if he even needed to know. A CEO should not be stuck in the weeds of demanding to understand why modern infrastructure is more reliable than legacy infrastructure.

Right, but in that case the case is made to the CIO, not the CEO, because what you stated.
So the CIO would need to know these things, I would think.

Correct, the information is good, but is for "inside IT", not for "the business".

So question - where do you see that CIO person fitting? You've already said they were IT, but are they more an executive - or more IT? or do you not see a difference in this case?

To me, there is no difference. Anyone making IT decisions has to be a business person to do that job. The CIO has to be completely in sync with everything in the business and be thinking completely within the holistic business context. But they must also be a generalist with a deep understanding of nearly every aspect of IT.

This is why a CIO role is rare and expensive... you need someone who would be reasonably expensive in their business role OR their IT role, then the overhead of putting those two roles together in a single human.

And this is why so many CIOs are terrible, they often only have tech skills or business and are unable to bridge the gap which is their role.

I won't have any Win 7 systems by that time. At least that is the goal. I was thinking it was Jan 20, 2020. Guess I just confabulated that based on the year being 2020. Still have about 40 systems to issue to replace them.

@scottalanmiller That's one hell of a run on sentence! Do you actually speak without pausing or breathing? 🙂

Recorded this in like May and it just posted today, but boy is it right for this discussion.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/20554/disconnected-why-companies-encourage-bad-it-decisions

Shrug I keep reading the headline as a quantum anteater..... 😛

@IRJ said in Remove Social Media Icons like Google+ from Flawless Wordpress Theme by Goodlayers:

Maybe just dump that bad theme all together.

I'd love to, but I just host the site and help out a little.

@Obsolesce said in Why big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS:

That all said, even though I don't care, I'd still prefer the ISP is totally out of the loop and am for encrypted DNS.

Glad to see you come back with this.

The old adage, if ya got nothing to hide/done nothing wrong, then what do you have to worry about, Sadly, this is so not true.

Afar can be used only as a noun or adverb. Your two new examples work as a noun, and I assume would make them correct.

@Alex-Jones said in Carless in Dallas:

Anyone know where I can find a carpet cleaner in Dallas?

No, but keep a lookout on the main page here. Something will pop up sooner than later.

@scottalanmiller said in SpiceWorld 2020 in Austin, TX:

@Dashrender said in SpiceWorld 2020 in Austin, TX:

I bought my ticket.. though won't know if I'm approved to go until a month or so before.

You never do.

nope.. sad way things are around there.
Hell she's going to a convention for our EHR in 2 weeks, and only booked airfare last week.. but has known she was going for 4 months.

@JaredBusch said in SpiceWorld 2019 Events, Plans, Meetups:

@scottalanmiller said in SpiceWorld 2019 Events, Plans, Meetups:

they hold it in the one country where I have extremely limited time allowed (without paying massive penalties)

That is your choice to avoid taxation. Nothing else.

My choice to avoid an enormous price for visitation. It's not my choice to tax in that way, it's my choice to live within the constrains that cannot be avoided.