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Deploying my 2nd Citrix Server to the farm for testing

The goats and cows will probably like the ability to work remotely.

the pigs were getting BOAR-ed with the old system...the chickens were getting broody about the old system...

That's not funny, my mother was a chicken

Well that was a bit of a cluck up.

Cluck ya self

XMPP too can be used for this, but it's verbose, and in fact I pretty much hate XML with a passion. Anyway, to answer the question I like MQTT because of how light weight it is, but it is a binary protocol so "light weights" need not apply

Though AMQP and STOMP are easier to deal with, if you can do XMPP or HTTP, you can do those with little effort.

@scottalanmiller said in Homeschool Resources:

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It's hard to come up with a generic response and saying "we tested things out and found the best fit," doesn't clear enough, and come to think of it, it really isn't.

That's exactly what we do. Every kid is different. Why treat them with a single formula like traditional school does when you don't have to?

What I meant was rather where can I tell her to get various resources instead of saying "download hella torrents and spend a month going through them." See this is the problem, I don't even know how to answer this question myself.

@thwr said in Protocol of choice (AMQP, MQTT, STOMP, ...):

You are not alone Wouldn't say "hate", but still PITA. But there's no real alternative when it comes to exchanging complex and strongly typed data. JSON is OK most of the time.

http://msgpack.org/index.html

I use this a lot over the last couple of years, depending on the situation, especially if I'm making something from scratch myself. It doesn't suffer from JSON's typing issues.

Even simpler it's trivial to make a type-length-value encoding scheme if one were so inclined. The problem is XML is far, far too verbose and often contains more information than necessary, and it's great at wasting bandwidth and disk space as well.

Interesting anecdote: a lecture involving satellite communication, the speaker mentioned that in government projects they use XML a lot because they don't care about wasting the money and/or encoding/decoding time, meanwhile on private projects they use extremely small binary protocols.

Are you still able to use subscriptions and exchanges with MQTT? Haven't tried MQTT yet, but I like the concept and it seems to be much more lightweight compared to AMQP.

Subscriptions yes, exchanges sort of, they're typically called topics but to lessen confusion things like RabbitMQ call them "topic exchanges."

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Trump only republican left...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36201042

Youtube Video

This is why I never update Windows, too risky!

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I'd much rather move overseas to Europe at this point. Would need a place with lots of Dairy and lots of IT though.

Dairy is pretty common in Europe. They drink milk just like Americans do. And they don't import it from Asia or anything weird.

Which is funny... because people I know in the industry, connections again, are telling me we export most of our milk as powdered to the Asian markets. I haven't been able to verify that though.

Well sure, because Asia is short of food production. Europe, however, makes a LOT of food. It's an agricultural boom area.

Guess I'll have to keep an eye open then. Moving is hard as we have lots of family in the area.

I can't leave NJ for the same reason. My fiance is very close with her family.

Yep, I'm like your fiance. I spent most of my childhood moving from place-to-place. Didn't have a permanent home until middle school. Thankfully that was in my parent's hometown with lots of family close by.

Between the demands of my job, studying for my CCIE, managing the servers for two doctors offices (friends of mine) and planning for a wedding I don't understand how our families can have any expectations of seeing us in the near future. You'd think they'd at least be coming to us, but no.

EDIT: The real crazy thing too is it's only her family. My brother lives in LA, my dad who lived locally passed away and my mom lives in England. What would we do if we had to appease two families? How do you guys deal with this stuff? I established boundaries for myself but my fiance just does whatever they want. It's rough.

My wife's family is 6 hours away. We see them once every month or so. My parent's, and an uncle, live 8 miles from where we live now. We see them several times a week.

I guess this question would be more for your wife then as I'm in her position. I'm all for family but I don't think that people in our situation (professionally oriented, responsible, extremely busy people) can reasonably accommodate their "needs". Her Dad's retired. Like dude, drive here.

We don't really have these issues thankfully. Unless it is an emergency all visits are planned in advance.

Honest question. Do you think I'm being a dick for asking these sort of questions? Her parents are divorced and her dad alone wants to see us 2-3 times a week. If they were married it'd be different because we'd see everyone at the same time and it'd be done. We have to see her Mom and Dad separately. How can 2-3 days a week be reasonable in this situation? It's crazy to me.

Well, my parents are dead, but if they weren't I'd feel the same way because I really didn't like either of them. As for in laws, it depends. My current wife's father is a pretty cool guy, her mother is a drug addict disaster. They aren't together, we never see her mother, thank god. As far as exwives go, pretty much fairly good, except one wife her siblings were a nightmare, breaking into our house, showing up drunk all the time trying to start fights with me, etc. I hate family beyond my immediate family and my siblings. So no, I don't think you're a dick, I understand.

When it comes to basing things on family, I consider business before family in the sense that without my business my family would be living in dire poverty in post-communist hell. My exwives, both of them, their families in some way or another tried to prevent us from moving or doing things which ended up making me wealthy. I don't let others stop me from accomplishing my goals, especially people without goals. Interestingly this hasn't stopped all the aforementioned people for asking me for money all the time (exwives not included, they're entitled to it for putting up with me).

Disclaimer: I don't really like anyone and most people don't like me, YMMV

I tried to do this about 10 years ago to deal with transitioning a company we had bought out, to "sync" two mutually incompatible pieces of software. The biggest issue is primarily the column types are so different in some cases, I had to write a custom piece of software to even deal with it. It was a nightmare.

I can tell you too that the MySQL Workbench tools for converting MSSQL data to MySQL/MariaDB don't work worth a damn unless your MSSQL schema is very simple and has no defaults. For some reason MySQL/MariaDB doesn't allow more than one current date for column default, but MSSQL does. So, if you've got a table with more than one of them, you're screwed for conversion, and that's just one example.

Now, going back the otherway is an even bigger nightmare, so if you're thinking of syncing back and forth, it is not going to happen.

After we got it working the primary project then our primary software just began inserting/updating directly into the MSSQL database and our MySQL databases, and reading only from MySQL. Of course, this meant anyone using old things which used the MSSQL data, it was effectively read-only, but that was fine for our situation. The next project became to just get rid of that old software completely to avoid MSSQL at all.

I'd setup a local MSSQL database and connect to that, and essentially slave it to the remote one, or master-master if you need to sync it both ways.

So, really, either use only MSSQL or only MySQL/MariaDB, seeing how you already seem to have MSSQL, I'd stick with it. You can find some pretty generic connectors out there too (as you mentioned) or just connect to the remote one. It's not worth it to try to do what you are trying.

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I'd much rather move overseas to Europe at this point. Would need a place with lots of Dairy and lots of IT though.

Dairy is pretty common in Europe. They drink milk just like Americans do. And they don't import it from Asia or anything weird.

Which is funny... because people I know in the industry, connections again, are telling me we export most of our milk as powdered to the Asian markets. I haven't been able to verify that though.

Well sure, because Asia is short of food production. Europe, however, makes a LOT of food. It's an agricultural boom area.

Guess I'll have to keep an eye open then. Moving is hard as we have lots of family in the area.

I can't leave NJ for the same reason. My fiance is very close with her family.

Yep, I'm like your fiance. I spent most of my childhood moving from place-to-place. Didn't have a permanent home until middle school. Thankfully that was in my parent's hometown with lots of family close by.

Between the demands of my job, studying for my CCIE, managing the servers for two doctors offices (friends of mine) and planning for a wedding I don't understand how our families can have any expectations of seeing us in the near future. You'd think they'd at least be coming to us, but no.

EDIT: The real crazy thing too is it's only her family. My brother lives in LA, my dad who lived locally passed away and my mom lives in England. What would we do if we had to appease two families? How do you guys deal with this stuff? I established boundaries for myself but my fiance just does whatever they want. It's rough.

My wife's family is 6 hours away. We see them once every month or so. My parent's, and an uncle, live 8 miles from where we live now. We see them several times a week.

I guess this question would be more for your wife then as I'm in her position. I'm all for family but I don't think that people in our situation (professionally oriented, responsible, extremely busy people) can reasonably accommodate their "needs". Her Dad's retired. Like dude, drive here.

We don't really have these issues thankfully. Unless it is an emergency all visits are planned in advance.

Honest question. Do you think I'm being a dick for asking these sort of questions? Her parents are divorced and her dad alone wants to see us 2-3 times a week. If they were married it'd be different because we'd see everyone at the same time and it'd be done. We have to see her Mom and Dad separately. How can 2-3 days a week be reasonable in this situation? It's crazy to me.

Well, my parents are dead, but if they weren't I'd feel the same way because I really didn't like either of them. As for in laws, it depends. My current wife's father is a pretty cool guy, her mother is a drug addict disaster. They aren't together, we never see her mother, thank god. As far as exwives go, pretty much fairly good, except one wife her siblings were a nightmare, breaking into our house, showing up drunk all the time trying to start fights with me, etc. I hate family beyond my immediate family and my siblings. So no, I don't think you're a dick, I understand.

When it comes to basing things on family, I consider business before family in the sense that without my business my family would be living in dire poverty in post-communist hell. My exwives, both of them, their families in some way or another tried to prevent us from moving or doing things which ended up making me wealthy. I don't let others stop me from accomplishing my goals, especially people without goals. Interestingly this hasn't stopped all the aforementioned people for asking me for money all the time (exwives not included, they're entitled to it for putting up with me).

Disclaimer: I don't really like anyone and most people don't like me, YMMV

I am totally a family first guy. And my employers know it when they hire me... But I also realize that sometimes putting family first means I have to put my job first. My current job, I have no problems with that at all... In an IT emergency, I'd be the first on campus and the last to leave... but if the CXO needs help with his mouse that has dead batteries while I'm at my kid's ball game, or his pre-k graduation... Yeah, it can wait. That got me in hot water a few times at my last job, but I stood my ground every time.

I've hired people like you, and that's fine with me. I don't make anyone else live my lifestyle in that regard. I've seen some of my fellow business owners make people come to work even though their parent had died and so they missed their funeral. I actually ruined a B2B relationship telling my former client that he was a piece of garbage human being for doing this to one of his employees, and even acting unappreciated for giving this guy a job. The whole thing was disgusting. Then again, I've written a post here before about how I pretty much hate all other wealthy people.

You can hack together a non-Microsoft Microsoft environment pretty well, but the ease of use, and general multisite scalability really is, as far as I am aware, only available with actual AD. I think that's a shame too. I'd love to see the Unix world have something just as dynamic, there are similar native things, but nothing at all like it. AD/LDAP is pretty slow, but actually fairly impressive for all it can provide and do on a "Microsoft network."

Anyway, OpenLDAP is definitely a start, you can pretty much run a Windows domain off it, though like I said, with some limitations. Certainly better than Samba, which isn't even designed for that use case, nor can it scale with it like OpenLDAP can.

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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NattNatt Thanks, I got it from the cartoon...

Though the "Eh." meant you didnt understand, my bad

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@coliver Eh.

Contrail is the name for the clouds that are formed from the water vapour etc that comes out of a plane engines... (Condensation Trails)

Chemtrails is a conspiracy that the government are making the planes make clouds or some shit/polluting us all on purpose... (Chemical Trails)

I think there is a mind control element to the conspiracy but I can't keep up with all of the lunacy

isn't EVERY conspiracy ultimately about mind control..?

That's what they WANT you to think

Unless you just want us to think that they want us to think that

IIS -> Apache, nginx
.NET -> Mono

That's basically all you need these days

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@tonyshowoff said in Homeschool Resources:

In fact, Muslims said it was a good idea to wash your hands long before those in Christendom.

they will never be forgiven for that one. So much wasted water.

Well, Jews were given sanitation laws long long long before Mohammad ever crawled out of his cave. They were probably the first people to ever practice things like washing, and pooping away from where you eat, and quarantining the sick, and not playing around with dead bodies, and not eating certain animals prone to giving illnesses/parasites, etc.

That's where the cleanliness laws comes from, that doesn't mean Christians followed them, they certainly did not. Certain monks did, but that's about it, only in Judaism and Islam were they considered applicable to everyone. Islam is based upon Judaism and Christianity, but mostly Judaism.

I wouldn't be condescending about Muhammad crawling out of caves, you've got several prophets in Christianity which did the same. If Muhammad is a joke for the way he received his revelation, which I assume is what you're implying, then King David, Lot, and others are equally silly.

Christianity abandoned a lot of these within the first 300 years, originally though, one had to convert to Judaism before becoming a Christian. Issues with getting converts is why Christianity largely abandoned many of these, later on they abandoned more (remember even in the middle ages usury was a sin for Christians) when they got in the way of making money.

@thwr said in Alternatives for Microsoft server products: Active Directory & Domain Controller:

@tonyshowoff Microsoft is quite powerful in client management, something I'm missing in the *NIX world. Puppet or Ansible for example could be a starting point, but not a replacement as far as I can tell.

Edit: Sorry, mixed Samba and OpenLDAP. Fixed that in my initial post.

Definitely lacking in client side, though you can use LDAP with KDE's login system if you have X running on boot. That's pretty close, though your GPOs are often meaningless. I always used to hold out hope for ReactOS, it was promising, but the project is too mismanaged and team unmotivated. I've always wanted an NT-POSIX kernel, but I'm afraid maybe that train has sailed.

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Meanwhile, in Latvia: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/a-beaver-reportedly-took-a-man-hostage-in-latvia/ar-BBs7qSJ

A lot of hilarity comes out of the Baltic states, except Estonia, they're humourless.

@thwr said in Alternatives for Microsoft server products: Active Directory & Domain Controller:

@tonyshowoff said in Alternatives for Microsoft server products: Active Directory & Domain Controller:

@thwr said in Alternatives for Microsoft server products: Active Directory & Domain Controller:

@tonyshowoff Microsoft is quite powerful in client management, something I'm missing in the *NIX world. Puppet or Ansible for example could be a starting point, but not a replacement as far as I can tell.

Edit: Sorry, mixed Samba and OpenLDAP. Fixed that in my initial post.

Definitely lacking in client side, though you can use LDAP with KDE's login system if you have X running on boot. That's pretty close, though your GPOs are often meaningless. I always used to hold out hope for ReactOS, it was promising, but the project is too mismanaged and team unmotivated. I've always wanted an NT-POSIX kernel, but I'm afraid maybe that train has sailed.

ReactOS is definitely interesting, I'm following it for years. But it seems to like the HURD kernel somehow

Unlike HURD, ReactOS is actually contributing something and has, primarily back into Wine and other projects, but something. HURD is basically the ghost of Stallman's dream which he now lives vicariously through Torvalds by taking credit for his work. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, if it truly is GNU/Linux, then it's also Zend/WordPress, Borland/YourCPrograms, NodeJS/MangoLassi, etc. Give me a break.

@johnhooks said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

So almost 7 months after the chip requirement for cards and stores still aren't accepting it.

It's America, so I can guarantee within 10 years, at least 50% of all stores will have it.

@scottalanmiller said in DHCP:

DHCP is a single protocol and works the same way no matter where it is used. However you can't use DHCP "over" a WAN, it is non-routable. So at best you can get a DHCP lease from a local router that you are connected to.

Not straight up traditional DHCP, no, but with certain router configurations (in my experience with Cisco's broadcast forwarding, for example) you can indeed do this. Is it a smart idea? Probably not for all kinds of reasons. Additionally as I said some things like cable transceivers work in some sort of oddly similar fashion, not like hooking up to a regular switch à la Moscow city-LAN or something.

But I was trying to keep it all simple for the non-network guy

Well, it only took 20 years

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/world/2016/05/07/Bosnia-s-Muslims-reopen-mosque-Serbs-blew-up-during-the-war.html

@scottalanmiller said in DHCP:

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@scottalanmiller said in DHCP:

DHCP is a single protocol and works the same way no matter where it is used. However you can't use DHCP "over" a WAN, it is non-routable. So at best you can get a DHCP lease from a local router that you are connected to.

Not straight up traditional DHCP, no, but with certain router configurations (in my experience with Cisco's broadcast forwarding, for example) you can indeed do this. Is it a smart idea? Probably not for all kinds of reasons. Additionally as I said some things like cable transceivers work in some sort of oddly similar fashion, not like hooking up to a regular switch à la Moscow city-LAN or something.

Still non-routable, being forwarded is an agent that is retransmitting.

Yes, that's true, but from the perspective of a non-networking guy with just wanting a basic understanding of what works then I can't imagine there'd be much of a difference. I imagine any situation where one tried to do it without the specialty knowledge, they'd give up and just setup another DHCP server locally.