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Doing a full backup of the home lab server. Got new SSD drives to double the storage in it. 4x Patriot Burst Elite, not suitable for a production server, but good enough to let me do more things in a lab environment.

@marcinozga said in Handy Linux Utilities:

@stuartjordan said in Handy Linux Utilities:

Glances: A nice resource usage utility:

I have a mixed feelings about this one. It's really useful but it's rather bloated, close to 100MB with all dependencies. Docker images are even worse, developer was hesitant with Alpine based images.

The Docker images being silly large is understandable to me, it's just another lazy container packager.

What I want to know is how you get Glances and dependencies up to 100MB? The rpm file in the Fedora 24 repository is only around 1 MB.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

need more coffee. lol

I think it's about time for a coffee run.

@pete-s said in Handy Linux Utilities:

@travisdh1 said in Handy Linux Utilities:

@marcinozga said in Handy Linux Utilities:

Ubuntu 21.04

I guess I never install just Glances alone, and I for sure never use Ubuntu when I have a choice in the matter.

I'm not a Glances users but looking at it it uses python and psUtils so it's a pretty complicated way of monitoring system resources. So it has more dependencies. Not your typical C unix utility, so to speak.

But you might be able to keep it contained by not installing all recommended packages. Just add the --no-install-recommends options.

If there is some package among the recommended ones that you need, you can just install it yourself.

Yep, Glances is not the normal very small and efficient program. It's the best thing I've found for giving a good idea of overall system performance without having to switch between multiple different programs to look at everything tho.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I had someone recently tell me that their CIO wanted to use Vmware over KVM because, and you can't make this stuff up, they liked "working with the biggest vendor."

Literally, they didn't care if it made sense for the purpose, they didn't care if it was reliable or cost effective, they didn't care if it was secure. They literally only wanted to know which product was made by the largest company. No IT factor considered.

And then, as incompetent as that is, with only a single thing to research; with no need to check on features, cost, licensing, support, price, or other complicated factors; they got the ONLY thing that they were considering wrong.

KVM is made by IBM at about $63bn USD. VMware is made by Broadcom at about $21bn USD. IBM is roughly three times the size. And IBM is the KIND of company that should make hypervisors, Broadcom really isn't. But that aside, no matter how insane it would be to consider market cap or revenue of a vendor as the determination of product applicability to a company, they got that one, insanely simple task, ass backwards.

When you are THAT dumb, it is pervasive. If you are dumb enough to thing company size matters in some significant way, you are also so clueless as not to be able to determine company size.

I've run into that attitude a LOT.

@pmoncho said in Taking suggestions about x86 Access replacement:

@scottalanmiller said in Taking suggestions about x86 Access replacement:

@mr-jones said in Taking suggestions about x86 Access replacement:

@scottalanmiller

LOL. Maybe even in something other than Access!

I talked to the boss and he agreed to moving to a SQL Server. Now I'm researching a frontend for it.

Access can be the front end. That's not a problem when using SQL Server. But if you can avoid Access, then PHP is the absolutely obvious answer. Don't even think about considering anything else, complete waste of time to even talk about it. Keep Access, or upgrade to PHP 8.

I have very limited knowledge in this area so I am wondering why not a .Net front end instead of PHP?

Server side performance, server licensing or compatibility, and ease of finding developers are the first few things off the top of my head.

@Jaguar said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

At the ENT with wife and baby, finding out if she needs tubes in her ears

I'd be completely deaf today without those ear tubes as a kid.

@scottalanmiller said in MS Feature Update: not asked for:

@carnival-boy said in MS Feature Update: not asked for:

Maybe it's more relevant in the US where you have extreme and dangerous weather

That's one thing about the US, the weather is always a worthy topic of concern.

Yep, and you're happy if they get it close to correct.

Finally figuring out how to get my Amcrest video doorbells actually working with Shinobi.

@mr-jones said in Office chair suggestions?:

I made the point to our Logistics department that my office spends the majority of our work day at our desks, and that our chairs are ironically the most basic in the building.

He heard me and agreed to humor a request.

Any go-to brands/models you all would suggest? I've been told to pick from rogards.com.

I like something high backed and padded. Those high backed executive chairs look nice.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Finally figuring out how to get my Amcrest video doorbells actually working with Shinobi.

Nice!

How does Shinobi compare with ZM? I haven't had a chance to test out Shinobi yet. ZM works good enough for my home stuff.

I've never really used either before.

My attempt at figuring out the Amcrest doorbell use with Shinobi hasn't panned out so well. Frustrating when I can view the feed in VLC easily.

It took me a minute to get my ancient camera hooked up to ZM, but once I figured it out, it's worked great.

So after working with both Shinobi and ZoneMinder for a couple of days, Shinobi was the clear winner for me.

I never got the previews working in ZoneMinder for some reason. Probably not going to pursue ZM any further since Shinobi is now working how I want it to.

@ranahashem said in linephone softphone file sharing:

@scottalanmiller
I didn't understand why you can't be pampered, is it because you will be restricted to using the linephone as the only soft phone, or is there another reason for that?

Why do you want to use a phone for file sharing? It doesn't make sense to us because there are much better ways to share files.

I just realized Proxmox supports Solaris VMs, so I'm doing this today. Talk about nostalgia!

@scottalanmiller said in Audit for Saved Credentials on Windows:

So from time to time, someone will type in some credentials when mapping a drive and save them causing a mapped session to have permissions that are not intended for the user. If we are sitting at a computer, it is relatively easy to manually go look for this to have happened.

But if we have thousands of computers across many companies, we can't realistically go computer by computer, account by account manually looking for these entries.

Does anyone know of a good way, likely with PowerShell, to do an audit for saved credentials so that we can list them and, almost certainly, remove them?

I've never done this myself, but I'd think you'd start with Get-StoredCredential

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Moving from iOS to Android...
Honestly wasn't ready to but events have transpired to move things along.

Not sure how I feel about it.

I liked it when I did it. And then regretted it when the instability and hardware problems came, and the lack of vendor protection. It's weird the things you don't think about in iOS are often the killer features. From an interface and usability standpoint, I liked the Android better.

The whole vendor support thing really irks me, as some vendors support for their phones varies by model.
Luckily(?) I'm got the use of a Pixel phone and updates are good (just got Android 14 today!).

Even Pixel update support sucks monkey ****. They're great at getting updates out for supported devices, but devices are only supported for 3 years from the first day the device was sold in retail. For those of us that don't update phones regularly, that still blows. Apple has Google beat hands down in this area.

I say this while my personal phone is still a Pixel 3a XL. It works fine, but I've been growing more concerned over lack of updates for a while now. While I know I should upgrade, it's working great still.

Root it and install a custom rom? I've done that when I've managed to keep a phone beyond it's usual updates.

I've been looking, but haven't decided on a rom yet.

@irj said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@travisdh1 said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@scottalanmiller said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@dbeato said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

What are some

You should always have good old WireSHark, nmap included and a great network scanner.

@dbeato what do you use for a network scanner? I use Advanced IP Scanner.

I use nmap, so much faster and easier.

Generally a full subnet scan using nmap is much slower than Advanced IP Scanner.

I'm annoyed that I even know this right now, such is the state of the documentation we have.

You aren't using Nmap properly... It's so configurable and definitely faster than any GUI scanner.

While true, I'd have to install nmap first and the boss has advanced-ip-scanner already there, sad as it is.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

CloudFlare having issues this morning.

I've been so busy on so many calls, what kind of issues?

Look at your Telgram feed, it's already been posted there.

@scottalanmiller said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@travisdh1 said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@scottalanmiller said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@travisdh1 said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@irj said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@travisdh1 said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@scottalanmiller said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@dbeato said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

What are some

You should always have good old WireSHark, nmap included and a great network scanner.

@dbeato what do you use for a network scanner? I use Advanced IP Scanner.

I use nmap, so much faster and easier.

Generally a full subnet scan using nmap is much slower than Advanced IP Scanner.

I'm annoyed that I even know this right now, such is the state of the documentation we have.

You aren't using Nmap properly... It's so configurable and definitely faster than any GUI scanner.

While true, I'd have to install nmap first and the boss has advanced-ip-scanner already there, sad as it is.

I bet I can install it faster than you can use Advanced IP Scanner, lol.

choco install nmap -y

It's SO fast.

Oh, I'm adding choco everywhere I can, but they haven't even deployed that!

What? That's the easiest way to deploy AIPS! What the heck are people DOING over there?

Being your typical American MSP and going after billing hours instead of good business.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Ordering yet another printer… and I think I have three more that will be needed in the near future…. Crimmy

Is it the worst of the worst and label printers?

Yup,.. I have a fleet of ZD621 printers and another large model with rewind…

Here, I have the solution for you...

@scottalanmiller said in Point of Sale System Recommendations, POS:

As many of you know, I have a new hotel and restaurant. Right now we have an existing POS system and we do not like it. We are nearing the point where we have the option to replace it. So we are looking for recommendations. We are not tied to only considering free or open source options, but obviously those have some advantages - especially considering that we have the IT skills in house to run something ourselves. But we are open to ideas of whatever makes the most sense.

I've worked with clients, and my wife is a retail store manager. After all these years.... they all suck.

None of them have been open source tho, so digging into those would be my first place to look.