@dashrender said in sending custom CDR from FreePBX:

@pete-s said in sending custom CDR from FreePBX:

@travisdh1 said in sending custom CDR from FreePBX:

@pete-s said in sending custom CDR from FreePBX:

@jaredbusch said in sending custom CDR from FreePBX:

@pete-s said in sending custom CDR from FreePBX:

Long time since I saw that one
It had a name but I have forgotten it. What was it called?

I was serious this time.

I looked it up - it was called Clippy (or officially Clippit).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant

You're too young to remember the horror of Clippy?

1. Get off my lawn!
2. Consider yourself lucky!

I am lucky! Not because I'm too young but because I'm too old - too old to remember every irritating thing Microsoft managed to come up with...

Clippy - how could you possibly forget about Clippy? Now - if you said you forgot about MS Bob - that I could understand.

You just had to bring up MS Bob, didn't you! I spent an evening while working as an intern for my high-school installing that **** ******* piece of **** software in an entire classroom. Nobody could figure out how to use it, even with the teacher's manual to refence.

@pete-s said in sending custom CDR from FreePBX:

@jaredbusch said in sending custom CDR from FreePBX:

@pete-s said in sending custom CDR from FreePBX:

Long time since I saw that one
It had a name but I have forgotten it. What was it called?

I was serious this time.

I looked it up - it was called Clippy (or officially Clippit).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant

You're too young to remember the horror of Clippy?

1. Get off my lawn!
2. Consider yourself lucky!

@nadnerb said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

In the case of that picture, track down where the termination resistor disappeared to.

@dashrender said in Staying at your shitty employer is your fault:

@stacksofplates said in Staying at your shitty employer is your fault:

@dashrender said in Staying at your shitty employer is your fault:

I've read that west coast companies are now starting to have a new baseline salary for a position, then up it based on where you actually live. So the base might be $80K, but if you live in SF, you get $40K/y more, but live in Wisconsin - you just get 80K.

This is the initial post. Dash stated this and then others had to jump in to argue. He is right, they do it. Whether anyone agrees or not with the idea is immaterial, it happens frequently so Dash was correct.

Right - I guess what I really wanted to know is what is wrong with this?

Clearly Scott took this to the extreme, you buy an expensive car - you get paid more, but buying an expensive car isn't required, but often moving to a cheaper place to live (i.e. another city/state/country) isn't an option many can or are willing to make.
So putting aside that we don't live in Scott's perfect world where exactly that will happen - again moving to lower expense area - The purpose of my post was discuss options.

I know this is happening more and more often. Just doesn't make any sense at all!

How does my value to the company change because of where I happen to live? (it doesn't). So why should my pay vary based on where I live, since my value to the company doesn't change?

@pete-s said in New customer - greenfield setup:

@scottalanmiller said in New customer - greenfield setup:

@dashrender said in New customer - greenfield setup:

So the long and the short of it is - Scott is saying - no filtering is worth it, either on the employee side or the guest side.

i.e. the firewall is not a place to provide filtering (via either IP blocking or DNS website blocking) - there is not enough value if it has any cost.

Doing something simplish like Cloudflare's DNS filtering is worthwhile because there's no cost.

Yeah, I think that something simple like CloudFlare or even PiHole (or combine the two) can have good value because the cost is low and the value is basic.

You don't need any PiHole. You can set up DNS filtering policies on your free cloudflare account.

Just block every kind of external DNS queries in the firewall/router. Set the router to forward DNS to Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1. Cloudflare will detect your IP and filter your DNS results based on your policies.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/tutorials/secure-dns-network

I haven't played with it yet but there seems to be a lot of filtering options.

Custom filtering without cost? That's news to me. I've known about the 1.1.1.2/1.0.0.2 and 1.1.1.3/1.0.0.3 options of course.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Swearing at Dell. Latitude 3520 laptops do not use a standard Kensington lock... I'm 2 hours from the office on location with laptops that are supposed to be locked up.

That's odd... While I have never actually used the lock, I've near seen it not fit for anyone that does.

Yeah, neither have I, until now!

Swearing at Dell. Latitude 3520 laptops do not use a standard Kensington lock... I'm 2 hours from the office on location with laptops that are supposed to be locked up.

@dashrender The upgrade to Windows 10 was the first I remember that would just work more often than not. When it didn't work it would roll back to whatever version you were upgrading from. I, personally, never had it fail outright and leave a computer in an unusable state. So we'd schedule the upgrade to happen overnight most of the time if we couldn't get the upgrade scheduled during the day when we could watch it.

@gjacobse said in Windows 11 auto upgrade?:

Heh - I don't have to worry about Auto Upgrade as every computer I have is not compatible with it. One computer is so unsupported - 21h1 BSODs the damn thing...

I'll get 11 when I replace them,.. and I'm not about to replace every one at the same time...

Out of curiosity, how many workstations would that entail?

@wrcombs said in Windows 11 auto upgrade?:

@dashrender said in Windows 11 auto upgrade?:

@wrcombs said in Windows 11 auto upgrade?:

Has anyone noticed an uptick in Windows10 auto upgrading to Windows11 due to windows updates?
Seeing this with many Back office PC's where they "leave at the end of the night and it's windows10 and the come back and it's windows 11"

Just curious if were the only one's seeing this

While I haven't personally - I fully expect this to be the case. The longer Windows 11 is out, the more machines that will automatically go, if they pass the specs.

it just is a pain in the ass when it happens.
cause 3 or 4 of the programs we install on our devices get uninstalled.

That'll suffice for an understatement.

@wrcombs said in Windows 11 auto upgrade?:

Has anyone noticed an uptick in Windows10 auto upgrading to Windows11 due to windows updates?
Seeing this with many Back office PC's where they "leave at the end of the night and it's windows10 and the come back and it's windows 11"

Just curious if were the only one's seeing this

I haven't seen this yet.

It's likely just a matter of time, weather through user ignorance, Microsoft behaving badly, or both.

@dave247 said in Looking for simplest/secure setup for connecting a domain joined computer to corporate network when remote:

@pete-s said in Looking for simplest/secure setup for connecting a domain joined computer to corporate network when remote:

@dave247

On every Windows PC I've seen setup with VPN, you login in to the PC first, using the domain credentials (which I assume are cached). Then you "manually" connect with the VPN client using MFA.

So maybe you're overcomplicating things.

Yeah I think that's my issue. I was at home when I joined my test system to the domain so it couldn't finish the task and cache my credentials. I will have to play around with stuff a bit more not on the weekend. I think I can get this working the way I want...

Sign in with a local user account first, sign into the VPN. Switch user to your domain user, done.

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

apparently there is a new name for Point of Sale systems that we are supposed to use in it's place - because saying "POS" could be confused for something else lol
so now we call them "Digital Ordering Systems" or DOS for short which I'm pretty sure DOS is already an acronym I just for the life of me can't remember what it stands for.

But POS works, because every single one I've dealt with are appropriately referred to either way.

Wondering how many times I'll have to shower before this cigarette smoke stink goes away. I'm here all day

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Reading a DHCP v6 RFC document.

How fast did you fall asleep?

Luckily, it was only one section I needed to read (about DHCP options), so I was able to stay awake

You been learning all about IPV6? So - what can ya tell us about it ?

That no one is using it, hahaha.

LOL - that's for damned SURE!

Sadly - MS is using it.. when you disable it on Windows 10 you get all kinds of weirdness...

You're talking about Windows, it also acts crazy if you leave IPv6 turned on!

@dashrender said in Best practice MFP scanning to email for M365 shop?:

@travisdh1 said in Best practice MFP scanning to email for M365 shop?:

@pete-s said in Best practice MFP scanning to email for M365 shop?:

@dashrender said in Best practice MFP scanning to email for M365 shop?:

@gjacobse
what brand MFPs are those?

My Canon's do fine with 1.2 to MS.

Do you set up the MFP with credentials from a M365 user?

Yep, need a licensed account, and the lowest priced one doesn't work. I forget what it's called at the moment, but you need a license that includes the local apps.

Even if you go with option 1, not sure why the lowest account with an email account wouldn't work?

Because the lowest cost email account is online only. A local device can't login.

@pete-s said in Best practice MFP scanning to email for M365 shop?:

@dashrender said in Best practice MFP scanning to email for M365 shop?:

@gjacobse
what brand MFPs are those?

My Canon's do fine with 1.2 to MS.

Do you set up the MFP with credentials from a M365 user?

Yep, need a licensed account, and the lowest priced one doesn't work. I forget what it's called at the moment, but you need a license that includes the local apps.

@breitenberg said in Gaming PC Setup:

it is cheaper to build a gaming PC rather than buying a pre-built gaming PC. ... In most cases, the more expensive a prebuilt PC is, the more the cost of assembly and profit margin of the seller will be. Therefore, it is indeed cheaper to build a PC.

Have you seen how hilariously bad most pre-built computers have been lately? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY-SEPGvqxY&list=PLsuVSmND84QuM2HKzG7ipbIbE_R5EnCLM

Well, that made for an interesting Monday after a holiday weekend. Had a site down, internal network was all good but no internet. Turned out it was in the other building that's only at half-staff level this week and nobody realized any of the network was down in the other building where the internet connection is actually located.

@stuartjordan said in Neglect in the highest? Shocking!:

https://www.reddit.com/r/msp/comments/rmu82x/advice_about_securing_rdp_connections_for_200/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

How can this still be happening in nearly 2022.

No way to FML anymore at least I guess?