Found a great place for dinner about 35 minutes away. The Twisted Olive

@scottalanmiller said in What does your desk look like?:

Office has a private bathroom too. That AC unit is only for the office. It's super comfy. Not very big, but I have storage, two big "desks", four monitors, and a full bathroom with shower. And two windows. So not too shabby.

Which location is that at?

@scottalanmiller said in ONLYOFFICE has released ONLYOFFICE Docs version 7.1.:

@syko24 said in ONLYOFFICE has released ONLYOFFICE Docs version 7.1.:

OnlyOffice is a pretty nice alternative to MS Office. If they had an email client that would definitely be a huge plus for their product.

An email client? When would that be useful? All business email products have their own clients when needed and use web interfaces for most things (including offline handling.) Generally email clients as standalone things aren't considered a good thing (think the disaster that is Outlook.) I think no one offers one because no one should want it.

What are you looking to do with an email client? What's the use case?

I know lots of people still use Outlook because users are addicted to it. But if you are going to leave Outlook, you'd not move them to another fat client, but to the modern interfaces everyone offers.

Outlook is so much better when using the PWA version, even with it you should be getting rid of the fat client!

That's more than a whisper.

Everything in the home lab is being upgraded tonight.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just tried to upgrade an Oracle Cloud Ubuntu LTS to current. Failed to boot

It's nice that there is a free-forever tier, but if current stuff doesn't run, then I don't know how useful it will be.

Um, you thought something with Oracle in the name would be useful?

No, but it's free, so why not check it out when I have a few minutes.

Just tried to upgrade an Oracle Cloud Ubuntu LTS to current. Failed to boot

It's nice that there is a free-forever tier, but if current stuff doesn't run, then I don't know how useful it will be.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Imagine a flaky filesystem in this day and age.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

macOS Server discontinued after years on life support

Apple is finally killing off the venerable macOS Server, directing users still clinging to Profile Manager toward Mobile Device Management solutions.

The move is arguably long overdue. Much of what made macOS Server a server was deprecated in 2018 as the company announced plans to stop the likes of DHCP and DNS in its product and directed users to handy open-source alternatives.

I thought it was discontinued LONG ago.

It was forgotten about long ago, and existed as only an "application" in the app store.

Just got back from an overnight in a tree-house lodge for our anniversary.

Another round of updates for the home lab.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 ah, that looks better. What features does it offer? Their website is pretty scant on details that would make me interested. Including how the communications happens (can we host remotely) and what it does that non-Windows tools don't already do with more maturity (and lower cost.)

I honestly don't know. Someone had mentioned it here on Mangolassi a while back, and I figured I'd take a look at it the other day. I took a look, and dropped it like a hot potato,

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Is this their website?

http://openmem.com/

No, this one https://theopenem.com/.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just took a look at documentation for theopemem.com. Open source, but servers only run on Windows Server I'm not paying that kind of licensing for my lab!

Heh,… oops

Fumble fingered that one, fixed it now.

Requires 3 Windows servers to run, forget that.

Just took a look at documentation for theopenem.com. Open source, but servers only run on Windows Server I'm not paying that kind of licensing for my lab!

@dafyre said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

I picked up the Final Fantasy 7 Remaake & it's first DLC. It was "on sale", but I went ahead and bit the bullet anyway.

It's definitely a retelling of the game, keeping some of the more important high points. I'm not that far into it yet. But it is definitely worth the money if you're a fan like I am.

I haven't picked it up yet because I just don't have time to play it. I'll be keeping my eye out for when all 3 episodes are released so I can get the whole story-line instead of just 1/3 at a time as well.

A sheriff's office DC (physical, yuck) is down. Grab my go back and go kind of morning.

@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:

Coffee and emails, getting ready for a conference call at 930cst

Oh fun, the Friday morning conference calls. We have one here, too. But I always skip it.

this one is with a customer about adding e-giftcards to their system.

Eww.

I have a REAL meeting this morning with the national brewery.

Let us know how the samples taste!

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Looking into Level Pay plans for Utilities after putting out 5 fires in a row since 7:30. finally getting a hot cup of coffee. Is it Friday yet?

Coffee, that's what I need more of.

@dashrender said in Windows send only specific domains to proxy?:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows send only specific domains to proxy?:

Easiest thing is to override DNS for that domain and point to the proxy. Then the proxy can point on to whatever is real.

How do you propose doing that? remember these are laptops to be used from anywhere, I won't be able to control DNS in most places.

Are you suggesting putting an entry in hosts?

That's what I'd look at for mobile devices.

In a network you control DNS for, it's much easier since you can make the change in one place.