@dashrender said in Centralized Log Management:

@pete-s said in Centralized Log Management:

@dashrender said in Centralized Log Management:

@hobbit666 said in Centralized Log Management:

@scottalanmiller said in Centralized Log Management:

OpenSearch from Amazon. They took the ELK stack, made it 100% open source, and back it by Amazon. It is so good both in technical product and in licensing, that essentially it is the only game in town now.

Interesting take from ELK side
https://www.elastic.co/what-is/opensearch

Our products remain free and open, but Amazon can no longer freely use Elasticsearch and Kibana products without collaborating with us. Rather than collaborate with us and contribute back, Amazon created its own forked projects, which are less mature, not ready for production use, and provide inferior capabilities compared to Elasticsearch and Kibana.

LOL - someone sounds like they are just complaining that their toy was taken.

True, but they are probably right. Amazon and other providers bastardize open source projects because the licences doesn't require them to share their changes with the open source community.

I guess I need to learn more about those licenses - I thought if you partook of those open source licenses - then made code changes and then made the code availalble outside of yourself - you had to give all new cold along with all the old - is that not so?

i.e. I fork ES - I update it with my own code - call it "ES of Mine" I publish ES of Mine - don't I have to give all of my new code away because I used ES as the base?

It depends on the exact license. There are so many ways that licenses work. I'd say Elasticsearch used the wrong license originally and threw a hissy fit about it.

@dashrender said in CentOS - What is the current opinion here?:

@scottalanmiller said in CentOS - What is the current opinion here?:

@pete-s said in CentOS - What is the current opinion here?:

@jaredbusch said in CentOS - What is the current opinion here?:

But this is the thing, not all applications are designed to run on various operating systems. So you do not always have the luxury.

That's true, you have to run what works. But most of the time you can stick to one OS.

Not that we've found. Finding an environment where you are running Linux, and can avoid all variation is pretty rare, I think. So many apps only work on Ubuntu XOR CentOS. It's a mes out there.

You can say that again.

Ok, I will, just look at my home lab! Fedora, Ubuntu and Debian because things either only run or run much better on different ones.

@gjacobse said in Need audio cable help:

@jaredbusch

Would this be close?
1/4 inch TS to 1/8 inch TRS Cable, 1/4" TS Mono to 1/8 inch(3.5mm) TRS Stereo Interconnect Adapter Cable,Mono to Stereo Patch Cord - 6.6 Feet/2 Meters

Or the same thing from Monoprice for $2.99. https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=35793

I didn't look at shipping, so Monoprice might end up costing more.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Ugh, Quickbooks lost a months worth of data at a client. Wish me luck, I'll need it.

Well, storing financial data in a non-production database without basic production protections... seems like someone was thinking this wasn't very important data.

I've been preaching this to the other people at work.

What you've been missing is that they agree with you. They just think that the company's financial data isn't important.

You're not wrong.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Ugh, Quickbooks lost a months worth of data at a client. Wish me luck, I'll need it.

Well, storing financial data in a non-production database without basic production protections... seems like someone was thinking this wasn't very important data.

I've been preaching this to the other people at work.

@nadnerb said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Funny, yet dangerous.

Ugh, Quickbooks lost a months worth of data at a client. Wish me luck, I'll need it.

@dashrender said in sending custom CDR from FreePBX:

@travisdh1 said in sending custom CDR from FreePBX:

@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.

What's even funnier - I have no clue what MS Bob is - other than quite possibly the worse piece of software MS ever put out. and I only know that by reputation.

Youtube Video

@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.