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@gjacobse said in NoMachine Server running, not found:

This is a bit frustrating - It seems that NoMachine is 'hit and miss' being being able to receive a connection. Searching for a device that is online find none, and the device shows running. Restarting the service may fix it, but many times doesn't seem too, and restarting the computer leaves the same issue - not found.

Some threads suggest re-installing it - which I will do, but seems like a poor fix on a service that should run on boot.

It's it just my aggravation is causing this or am I looking for something else?

That's why I never ended up using NoMachine. Too many issues like that.

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Re-hanging the bathroom door. I have to put new hangers on it because the previous owners kept putting larger and larger screws in the wood. The door was only hanging on by a single hinge this past week, and the holes the screws used to be in are no longer usable.

Owning a 100+ year old home is lots of work.

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Having fun with another service provider that gave us wrong IP information.

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My favorite thing to do in most of these situations is install the PWA version of Outlook, and uninstall the locally installed version.

This also points out another major shortcoming of Micorsoft's Outlook. Nobody knows which Outlook thing it is by just the name. The free email service? The locally installed software? The PWA? There are probably more that I'm not thinking of off the top of my head.

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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

First evening shift - 2 hours left, I can't even begin to explain how much better this company is

Was anyone even a little surprised?

Not at all.

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@Dashrender said in Decentralized Identity:

The first thing that comes to my mind is - why would anyone trust the ledger (as it's called in the OKTA video)? Not to mention there are 80+ ledgers today according to the OKTA video.

Since you make your own identity and publish it to the ledger - why should I believe that?

Public ledgers are the tech behind cryptocurrencies. As to how secure it is, it can be very secure if they're using standard public/private key authentication

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@toomanytoons said in ScreenConnect Unable to Start on Fedora 33:

@scottalanmiller Probably not worth the effort at this point. Everything else on the system is working and since Screenconnect for linux is EOL, I need to move away from it. Someone else (on reddit) suggested migrating to a Windows install temporarily to help migrate the clients to whatever is next; they at least have a guide for that on the website, seems like it should be easy. Gonna have to install MeshCentral and give it a go I think. I looked like about the only low cost (free in this instance) self hosted multiple client option I could find.

TacticalRMM includes a MeshCentral instance. You can use the MeshCentral instance as a standalone if you want. I'm using TacticalRMM for a bunch of personal stuff, and I've not had an issue with it yet.

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@openit said in SUSE Manager for managing CentOS and SUSE servers.:

Hi there,

Anyone of you ever came across SUSE Manager?

While it is saying open source and it is letting to download evaluation copy with subscription key on email?

I believe SUSE Manager kind product I'm looking, especially for patching CentOS and SUSE servers.

Any clue?

Why not use Ansible or Salt?

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Going to pickup dinner for my mother in law who had surgery to remove a very large kidney stone today. Not much else planned for this weekend.

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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

New project to replace Veeam with Duplicati. Exciting.

you don't like Veeam any more?

Just lacks the power and features to do what we need. Don't want to have to assemble our own solution from scripts when Duplicati does everything we need in a single package. Veeam is great when you need a much more limited set of features.

Duplicati has worked great for me. Normally use it with Backblaze B2 or Wasabi.

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@notverypunny said in Tactical RMM:

Is there a general consensus with regards to the "appropriateness" of using Tactical in a production setting? I've setup a quick install to test and evaluate but I was unaware of the whole monero issue https://www.reddit.com/r/msp/comments/rqm0go/a_statement_from_the_founder_of_tacticalrmm/

Given the increasing costs of everything we're being asked for possible ways to cut opex but wouldn't want to put my head on the chopping block in the event that things go south.

There was no monero issue, unless someone screwed up by the numbers.

What other RMM are you able to audit the code for? All the closed source ones are generally even worse.

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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Slurping coffee #2
Still uncertain if it's Monday today or something else.

It's shaping up to be a Monday, unfortunately. Drink coffee until you can see in triplicate and then go forth and conquer.

Monday for sure. Had an install on my calendar that showed as cancelled to me, but turns out it's still on. Now I'm prepping the stuff and actually going on-site to deliver it.

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@Fredtx said in 2 disks or 1 disk with 2 partitions for new VM?:

@scottalanmiller It's amazing how different types of technology has been around for some time, and people act like some of this stuff is new. Like touch screens for example, everyone was so amazed at them, yet they had been around for years in grocery stores. lol.

We were using CRT touchscreens in the mid 90s in high school.... they've been around a long time for sure!

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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

offer signed, letter of resignation wrote. 8:00am will be fun .

Something tells me that this will be pretty impactful to them, lol.

I got a lot of "really sorry to see you go" and "what are we going to do to now" things floating around, but Not my problem. lol.

Right? They had a LOT of warning on this. Remind them that your wise boss who knows all can handle it all

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@scottalanmiller said in TP-link business switches?:

@Dashrender said in TP-link business switches?:

@JaredBusch said in TP-link business switches?:

@scottalanmiller said in TP-link business switches?:

Yes, that's what I'm talking about. It's free and they host it for you. We've been using it for a few years. It's really quite nice. It's different than Unifi, which I can't explain. But it does a good job.

I've been using UNMS since it came out. They rebranded it to UISP a couple years ago. I had no idea, or forgot, that they had a free hosted version of it.

Yeah free hosted version as long as you have 5+ devices attached to it.

And they aren't very serious about the limits. If you are a vendor, you'll have enough to do it for free easily.

I almost have enough devices with just my personal stuff!

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@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/07/google-wallet-rolls-out-to-users-will-live-alongside-google-pay-in-the-us/

Google Wallet is rolling out

Wow, I think I'll be avoiding that mess.

Yeah not sure how long before they lose interest in it. They have form
We’re up to, what, 15 rebrands/redesigns/redo’s of whatever Hangouts is supposed to resemble this week.