@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread: Bird populations in US and Canada down 3bn in 50 years Bird populations in Asia and the US are "in crisis", according to two major studies. The first concludes there are three billion fewer birds in the US and Canada today compared to 1970 - a loss of 29% of North America's birds. The second outlines a tipping point in "the Asian songbird crisis": on the island of Java, Indonesia, more birds may now live in cages than in the wild. Scientists hope the findings will serve as a wake-up call. The two studies are published in the journals Science and Biological Conservation. Heard about that on WSB this morning.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News: @mlnews seems just incredibly obvious, really. Many of us have felt MS was on this path for a very long time. Only since maybe Balmer left.

I got an early invite to Flotam, besides that I can't say much but the game is pretty flipping amazing so far.

@hobbit666 said in Exploring VitalPBX: @scottalanmiller said in Exploring VitalPBX: It has some negatives, for sure, like a strong focus on chan_sip which is a long dead tech and little on pjsip which is not just current, but current for many years now. Do you know if they plan on changing? @JaredBusch Are you still heavy using FreePBX or do you use something else? I use FreePBX, but if Vital ets their act together on PJSIP, I will look at it more seriously. I still dislike that they lock out custom dial plan. Asterisk is FOSS, that jsut seems rude to not allow without paying for it.

@Dashrender said in Art applications: @Obsolesce said in Art applications: Never heard of any of those except gimp. Me either - that's why I posted them. use the list or don't. - @JaredBusch - me no care. Then next time actually say something. FFS is your name @Aaron-Studer ?

Other Agile methodologies, at least in their earlier incarnations, didn't pay much attention to CI. CI is great, but people were trying to figure out what it was and how to do it in 1999. Shops talking about (not doing, just talking about) CI were in the top .1% back then. It was an era of huge software engineering progress and change. Loads of ideas came up and some became major, like CI, and some died off and are forgotten, like PP.

If you do use Ansible, I'd use Jenkins over AWX/Tower. There is a reporting tool called ARA that gives you per play and per node reports. You can also use a callback plugin to pipe to logs or other systems for reports.

@Dashrender said in Wi-Fi calling?: @scottalanmiller said in Wi-Fi calling?: @Obsolesce said in Wi-Fi calling?: I didn't realize that was a carrier-controlled thing. I thought it was 100% device. Essentially all compute devices can do wifi calling. Anything with a wifi connection. But only .01% of them are connected to a carrier that will allow it. I can wifi call from my cell phone, but not from my tablet or laptop, but they have all of the technology to do so. You can WiFi call if you install a VOIP client on those devices :p No, you can VoIP Call. WiFi Calling is a specific thing that you can't get a client for.

Well done to StarWind HCA! Our users on IT Central Station have given StarWind HCA an average rating of 4.9 out of 5. Here are the reviews for those interested in researching it: https://www.itcentralstation.com/products/starwind-hyperconverged-appliance-reviews/tzd/c981-sf-2

Thank you all for the input. I'm trying to decide between the PEPWAVE and the Netgear. The Netgear has some bad reviews, but your remarks will keep it in the list to explore. I'll let you know how it works out for us when I get one in and test it.

@stacksofplates said in Automated Provisioning - KVM & CM tools: @fuznutz04 said in Automated Provisioning - KVM & CM tools: @stacksofplates said in Automated Provisioning - KVM & CM tools: Terraform will do this and I have an Ansible role to do it also. As @IRJ mentioned Vagrant will work also. However I feel Terraform is a better fit as you have more control over the specific pieces of your infrastructure. You would still prefer Terraform over Ansible for this as well? Yeah. My role can create the VMs, but Terraform had more functionality for that. Ansible overlaps in the infrastructure provisioning space a lot, but it lacks keeping states like Terraform does. I'd like to learn both. I just started with Ansible a day or two ago. I have been (and still am) using SaltStack.

Welcome @That_IT_Guy

@stacksofplates Thanks! I started down the path of Logstash/Greylog/others and realized that it's going to take a bit more of my bandwidth than I can dedicate at the moment. So I ended up throwing together a BASH script that'll copy the current log files over to the share every minute. It works for now...

So I ended up making a special trip because it was bothering the crap out of me. I brought a different usb drive with me to test. The replacement usb drive had the exact same problem. I plugged both drives into my laptop and both worked fine. Finally, I reformatted the drives from my laptop and then reconnected to the server and everything worked perfectly. I shutdown the server a couple times and did a couple cold boots just to make sure everything stuck and all was well. The original formatting of the drives were all NTFS so I am not sure what difference reformatting them from my laptop made but seemed to do the trick. I appreciate all the feedback from everyone. Thanks again!!

@coliver said in Software Catalog: @Kelly said in Software Catalog: @coliver said in Software Catalog: For the opensource side. https://www.opsi.org may have something of what you're looking at. I tested it out in the past but SCCM fit with what the management was looking to do. Just to be clear, I'm not as concerned about the deployment side of things (yet). Do how much is opsi and SCCM: Software Center oriented around end users and how much around administration? I know it should be part of the fabric. I'm just trying to modernize some processes that have been enshrined in the halls of familiarity, and this is the first step for us. Software Center is almost 100% end user oriented. If you are looking to automate this without hands you wouldn't even expose the interface. I think Opsi is the opposite. I don't think, if I recall, it has any real means for the end users to request applications outside of a really bad web interface... even then I may be mistaken. That's good to know. I had only done some surface digging into Software Center, and then when I hit the opsi website it looked as you describe it now, so I wanted to be sure that I was communicating clearly. Thanks.

@scottalanmiller said in Traumatizing Muppets: Don't remember that one. But all puppets seem morbid to me. Hell yeah! Youtube Video

@Dashrender said in TPM module - what is it used for?: @scottalanmiller said in TPM module - what is it used for?: @pmoncho said in TPM module - what is it used for?: Bad guy steals just hard drives, no worries. Owner safe. This is a big deal as this is how most people manage to make off with data. You hear about HD's being stolen, but not the whole unit? That's the norm, yes. Anyone looking for data, that's what they do. That's always the fear in datacenters. A 2.5" drive is "easy" to steal. It is loose, and tiny, fits in a pocket or an arm pit. A server is essentially impossible to steal from any real location.

@WindowsGuy said in Install Nextcloud 13.0.0 on Fedora 27: The Apache vhost file location is no longer available. Do you have another location where I can find it or steps to configure it manually? here: wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sorvani/scripts/master/Nextcloud/nextcloud.conf

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@travisdh1 Bingo. Satellite is going to have delay.

We had the same problem with VitalPBX, and @ScottAlanMiller's suggestion, we made the Opus codec the highest priority and it resolved the issue for us. Maybe it is worth a try for you?

@G-I-Jones said in Fitness and Weightloss: @DustinB3403 Intermittent Fasting, LOL, sorry. Hey a parasite growing in your belly may make you lose weight. . . who am I to argue!

@RojoLoco Because the account is only 7 hours old and no moderators have seen it.