Clicking through 3 billion ML notifications while having the first coffee for today

@scottalanmiller said in How to help ML with their SEO and Growth:

Of course, you mention SEO and instantly spam bots appear.

Mission accomplished

@scottalanmiller said in Copying Content from other sources:

@thwr said in Copying Content from other sources:

Some people may think that it's a bit odd that we are discussing 99% "orange" content. Do you remember any discussion about superuser / StackExchange topics for example?

I'm not aware of those sites blocking open discussion on their own platforms. Do they share a need for their discussions to be protected? If so, they should definitely be treated similarly. As they are Q&A platforms, rather than IT peer review platforms, they don't tend to suffer the same risks.

Just an example, but good point.

@scottalanmiller said in Copying Content from other sources:

@thwr said in Copying Content from other sources:

Maybe the question is not if we are allowed to but if we should do it.

Well, that's a bigger question. And it goes both ways. To some, it seems like talking about technical content from somewhere else is bad. But most people seem to think that it is good.

What's the condition that quoting and discussing technical stuff is bad? Especially given that the need to do so is that other forums for open discussion are not available?

Some people may think that it's a bit odd that we are discussing 99% "orange" content. Do you remember any discussion about superuser / StackExchange topics for example?

Maybe the question is not if we are allowed to but if we should do it.

@scottalanmiller said in How to help ML with their SEO and Growth:

@minion-queen said in How to help ML with their SEO and Growth:

@scottalanmiller said in How to help ML with their SEO and Growth:

@wirestyle22 said in How to help ML with their SEO and Growth:

@thwr said in How to help ML with their SEO and Growth:

@wirestyle22 said in How to help ML with their SEO and Growth:

@thwr said in How to help ML with their SEO and Growth:

@kelly said in How to help ML with their SEO and Growth:

Is there a way to incorporate an article/blog portion in addition to the discussion threads? It seems difficult to find things here overall, and there is some very good information that is harder to locate/sift through since it isn't distilled down to a how-to/article.

That's a major problem here. We had some very good discussions in the past, but sometimes it just seems that information vanishes into void. NodeBB features a great search function and content tagging, but that's only half of what could be needed.

What about a big "Community best practices" project. We could start to work out best practices based on repetitive topics, for example. How to create users? How to I setup XYZ. How to enable AD Recycle Bin... There's so much that could be collected.

Community Knowledgebase?

Maybe not just a knowledgebase but everything the average SMB admin could need.

We could tag a bunch of threads something specific for that and work on it collectively

Basically ... the Hitchhiker's Guide to IT

I like it!

DON'T PANIC

42 hours brainstorming phase?

Great, isn't it? Just in case you lose a finger or so

BTW: Please add the "biometric" tag.

@wirestyle22 said in How to help ML with their SEO and Growth:

@thwr said in How to help ML with their SEO and Growth:

@wirestyle22 said in How to help ML with their SEO and Growth:

@thwr said in How to help ML with their SEO and Growth:

@kelly said in How to help ML with their SEO and Growth:

Is there a way to incorporate an article/blog portion in addition to the discussion threads? It seems difficult to find things here overall, and there is some very good information that is harder to locate/sift through since it isn't distilled down to a how-to/article.

That's a major problem here. We had some very good discussions in the past, but sometimes it just seems that information vanishes into void. NodeBB features a great search function and content tagging, but that's only half of what could be needed.

What about a big "Community best practices" project. We could start to work out best practices based on repetitive topics, for example. How to create users? How to I setup XYZ. How to enable AD Recycle Bin... There's so much that could be collected.

Community Knowledgebase?

Maybe not just a knowledgebase but everything the average SMB admin could need.

We could tag a bunch of threads something specific for that and work on it collectively

I think the threads are great - for discussions. But what if we compile what we talked about into small how to's and best practices?

@wirestyle22 said in How to help ML with their SEO and Growth:

@thwr said in How to help ML with their SEO and Growth:

@kelly said in How to help ML with their SEO and Growth:

Is there a way to incorporate an article/blog portion in addition to the discussion threads? It seems difficult to find things here overall, and there is some very good information that is harder to locate/sift through since it isn't distilled down to a how-to/article.

That's a major problem here. We had some very good discussions in the past, but sometimes it just seems that information vanishes into void. NodeBB features a great search function and content tagging, but that's only half of what could be needed.

What about a big "Community best practices" project. We could start to work out best practices based on repetitive topics, for example. How to create users? How to I setup XYZ. How to enable AD Recycle Bin... There's so much that could be collected.

Community Knowledgebase?

Maybe not just a knowledge base but everything the average SMB admin could need.

@kelly said in How to help ML with their SEO and Growth:

Is there a way to incorporate an article/blog portion in addition to the discussion threads? It seems difficult to find things here overall, and there is some very good information that is harder to locate/sift through since it isn't distilled down to a how-to/article.

That's a major problem here. We had some very good discussions in the past, but sometimes it just seems that information vanishes into void. NodeBB features a great search function and content tagging, but that's only half of what could be needed.

What about a big "Community best practices" project. We could start to work out best practices based on repetitive topics, for example. How to create users? How to I setup XYZ. How to enable AD Recycle Bin... There's so much that could be collected.

Good content works best, IMHO. Crossposting links may help, but what Google really likes is good content.

Oh my, never thought it would be me who has to say something like that...

Let's stay professional. We got our community, they got their. We'll see who lasts longer.

@travisdh1 said in Cisco devices providing VPN vulnerable.:

The list from the news article I saw looked like mostly ASA devices. Patch quickly.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/cisco-drops-a-mega-vulnerability-alert-for-vpn-devices/

Ouch

@dashrender said in Windows Server 2016 NIC Teaming - No internet:

@thwr said in Windows Server 2016 NIC Teaming - No internet:

@tim_g said in Windows Server 2016 NIC Teaming - No internet:

@thwr said in Windows Server 2016 NIC Teaming - No internet:

@tim_g said in Windows Server 2016 NIC Teaming - No internet:

Are you setting the NICTeam IP or one of the adapters making the team.

Leave the individual adapters alone, and just set the Team

Asked that before, he's configuring the team, not the NICs

Before it's a team you can mess with the NIC settings, and it effects the Team afterwards (in my experience).

Should not happen because Windows will unbind all IP protocols (v4 and v6) from each member NIC. At least in theory.

Don't ya just love theory???

I'm more on the practical side.

@kimberlin said in Networking question, for a friend...:

@thwr it would be a longshot, there would be no reason they would have turned it on. I just keep going back to there having to be a route for all 192.168.x.x traffic to go elsewhere. that is the only thing i can think of that would snipe the traffic off that nic.

Was just a wild guess

@kimberlin said in Networking question, for a friend...:

@thwr thanks for talking through this with me BTW. been a while since i ran in the networking world.

my pleasure

@tim_g said in Windows Server 2016 NIC Teaming - No internet:

@thwr said in Windows Server 2016 NIC Teaming - No internet:

@tim_g said in Windows Server 2016 NIC Teaming - No internet:

Are you setting the NICTeam IP or one of the adapters making the team.

Leave the individual adapters alone, and just set the Team

Asked that before, he's configuring the team, not the NICs

Before it's a team you can mess with the NIC settings, and it effects the Team afterwards (in my experience).

Should not happen because Windows will unbind all IP protocols (v4 and v6) from each member NIC. At least in theory.

@thwr said in Windows Server 2016 NIC Teaming - No internet:

@ccwtech said in Windows Server 2016 NIC Teaming - No internet:

@thwr That's exactly right. DHCP is working but once I assign a static it doesn't work. I am using an unused IP address and am putting in the correct subnet, default gateway and DNS.

That's really odd. Any chance you made a mistake / typo?

You could - and I don't think it makes any difference - try to unplug one cable (or disable one of the physical NICs). Maybe there's something on the switch side like a blocked port or an old VLAN config on that port or...

@ccwtech said in Windows Server 2016 NIC Teaming - No internet:

@thwr That's exactly right. DHCP is working but once I assign a static it doesn't work. I am using an unused IP address and am putting in the correct subnet, default gateway and DNS.

That's really odd. Any chance you made a mistake / typo?

@tim_g said in Windows Server 2016 NIC Teaming - No internet:

Are you setting the NICTeam IP or one of the adapters making the team.

Leave the individual adapters alone, and just set the Team

Asked that before, he's configuring the team, not the NICs