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  @scottalanmiller said in NodeBB 2.0 Update | Ubuntu 22.04:

  The GIT repo isn't showing the 2 branch yet. Not sure why because it shows up on GitHub.

  Well they pulled it, so we are now on the "latest" again.

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  @JasGot said in No audio at Fanvil PA2S Paging Gateway:

  No audio means NAT issue right?

  Enabling SIP Transformations worked. But it broke PJSIP.

  Looks like I will be creating firewall rules to turn on SIP translation for these two devices only 😞

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  @dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

  @scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

  Just relaxing by the lake today.

  We like easy!

  It's a nice change. Beers and poutine by the lake.

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  @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

  DId they actually expected Martians to exist, find it, and plug in a monitor?

  They need to be able to use IGRDP -- Intragalactic Remote Desktop Protocol. It's all the rage these days, right?

  Hey, I wonder if that new fandangled Webb Telescope will have Windows XP on it? lol.

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  @Obsolesce said in How should you handle a potential promotion?:

  Is the new role something you would enjoy more irrespective of a pay bump?

  Or will you do it with the PLAN to move on once you are comfortable and mature in it? That's okay, too.

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  @Obsolesce said in Powershell "-eq" operator and "False":

  @pmoncho said in Powershell "-eq" operator and "False":

  Trying to figure out why this will not work? I'm stumped

  $UserID = read-host "UserID to disable" $UserE = (Get-ADUser $UserID) write-host "Account Enabled?" $UserE.Enabled if ($UserE.enabled -eq "False") { $a = read-host "Move to Disabled Accounts OU? (Y/N)" $answer }

  UserID to disable: test1
  Account Enabled? False

  C:\windows\system32

  If I use the following all is works whether "Enabled" is True or False

  if ($UserE.enabled -ne "True") {...

  In PowerShell, typically if it's in double quotes, it's a string. That's what you were were checking for, is if a given string equals the word "False".... instead of the boolean true/false, as $true/$false.

  To find out what type of output you're dealing with, you can always use the built-in getType() method. You'll notice the Name property of String or Boolean.

  Thanks, as this will be VERY helpful because it was a question burning in the back of my head.

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  @syko24 said in Insurance form and MFA:

  @scottalanmiller said in Insurance form and MFA:

  They mean signing into Active Directory, not the server (the server too, I'm sure.) Do your users have MFA when signing into their desktops?

  No they don't have MFA for signing into the desktops.

  They also mentioned MFA for routers. Not sure the edgerouter can do this.

  They LIKELY mean for a VPN on the router, not for the login. But for login, you can do MFA if you only log in via SSH with certs.

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  I applied for this 🙂

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  Loosing good account reps seems to be the norm in the SBM... a sales person often seems to start out on the SMB desk, if they excel, they are promoted to other desks. This has happened to me at least three times across different vendors.

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  Can you reassign disks between VMs yet?

  The hot add disks was a huge pain before. I couldn't believe I wasn't able to do that.

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  You can read about how StarWind could do the same for your company by following this link.

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  @DustinB3403 said in What is the Latest With SodiumSuite?:

  Any update on this, just thought about it and wanted to see where this project is at.

  Sadly, nothing for the foreseeable future.

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  @Pete-S said in To vSAN or not to vSAN?:

  The problem the way I see it with old stuff like the OP has is while there is nothing wrong with the technology itself, everything is relatively slow with today's standard and much more complex than needed.

  It's very true. And the risk today is that we are so accustomed to that complexity, that we often avoid the simple answers today.

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  I am waiting on Confirmation from @shannon, @Rob and @aboyd They haven't answered my emails this week at all 😞

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  @scottalanmiller said in MangoCon 2020 and COVID-19:

  @adamf said in MangoCon 2020 and COVID-19:

  So.... about MangoCon 2022 ?

  About time to start discussing that. We fully own the hotel here now, so we are in a much better position to do planning.

  I have a few leftover days of vacation - depending on timing - I might come out there!

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  @networknerd I wanna attend but I've got my salsa dance class at that time 😞

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  @JaredBusch said in Lenovo Bypass BIOS Options:

  @Dashrender said in Lenovo Bypass BIOS Options:

  in the 2010's many laptops came with a boot to BIOS/setup button, a Tiny button typically on side of the laptop meant to help you bypass this rapid boot feature and ensure you get into the BIOS

  Never seen that, ever.

  My old Lenovo had it.

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  I have a couple. Never had any issues with anything just didn't use them enough. They worked as advertised though.

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  @Obsolesce said in YAML terminology and Ansible:

  @Pete-S said in YAML terminology and Ansible:

  @Obsolesce said in YAML terminology and Ansible:

  @Pete-S said in YAML terminology and Ansible:

  Other than that it doesn't matter to me what anyone calls it.

  You are 100% to call it whatever you want. But a key/value pair is commonly referred to as a dictionary... or a hash table which is a dictionary data type. This isn't exclusive to Python in the least.

  "Commonly referred" depends on the programming language in question. For example in many other languages it's commonly called an array or collection and never a dictionary.

  If you look at the part you quoted, YAML calls it mappings.

  The proper computer science terminology would be associative array.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associative_array

  The best thing to do is to call it exactly what the language or software you are referring to calls it. If Ansible wants you to create what it has named in their documentation as a dictionary in YAML, that's what you refer to it as. Otherwise, someone who is familiar with Ansible and it's documentation won't know what the hell you are talking about if you call it your own thing.

  I can agree with that point of view - YAML in the context of Ansible.
  https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/YAMLSyntax.html

  So you'd call it dictionaries then. And lists.