Windows bootable USB drive, mainly contains Windows official ISO files, is mainly used as an OS installation media. With it, you can boot PC from the bootable USB and install Windows OS successfully regardless the computer is running or dead. You can also use the bootable USB to repair some PC errors by setting PC to boot from the USB.

The basic idea behind this Clicker counter is to measure the clicks in a particular time interval. That means if you select the time for 30 sec, it will set the timer for 30 sec. As the timer starts, you also have to start clicking on the mouse pad.

Just a heads up on this. If you select their Ampere Arm processor you can have 4CPU with 24gb ram for free as well. VM has boot of 50GB but you can addon block storage for free up to 200GB I believe.

Ampere A1 Compute instances (Arm processor): All tenancies get the first 3,000 OCPU hours and 18,000 GB hours per month for free for VM instances using the VM.Standard.A1.Flex shape, which has an Arm processor. For Always Free tenancies, this is equivalent to 4 OCPUs and 24 GB of memory

Yep works well, I'm part of their Discord channel and speak to the developers regularly. They a good bunch and quite supportive. I have donated a couple of times to the project.

An Idea if anyone wants to try for free, I have just set this up as a test on oracle cloud for free using their free arm processors with 4CPU and 24GB ram.

Good old break everything windows updates.

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This is all you have within the SonicWall control, on or off. I saw this yesterday and assumed I was missing something critical. The most basic APs in the world include the "Identify AP" functionality.

Apparently, SonicWall APs are more basic than basic as they don't include this functionality at all.

On or off is all you get.

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@jasgot said in Forcing the Feature Update in Windows 10 in the Background:

FUWindows.ps1

Best command name ever. Yes, I know what it actually means, doesn't make the alternative any less funny 😆

I was thinking about this last night. Is there anything you could do with QR codes or similar. Issue a card per device. They swipe/flash the card to log on and the same to log off.

@scottalanmiller said in Why Do People Still Text:

@obsolesce said in Why Do People Still Text:

@dashrender said in Why Do People Still Text:

they have a flip phone, so SMS isn't an option, but those people are so few that it doesn't affect the masses.

Huh? Every flip phone and service I've had in the 90s and early 2000s had SMS texting.

That was definitely not my experience. I've had cell service continuously since 1992 and did not get access to texting until more like 2002 and never sent or received a text until I would guess after 2006. But I had email on my phone before that and talked with loads of people because it was common in business then, because of Blackberry devices, to have email on the phones. ANd because texting was costly and rarely available, they had Blackberry messenger instead of texting on the devices. We didn't use it, but it was there.

Not my own experience. Texting was big for me and my circle back then, regardless of your experience. Besides the point though... Being a flip phone had nothing to do with SMS.

I think the answer is, in the rare circumstance that SIP / T.38 is working perfectly, you would not change. We have big customers doing tons of faxing and they desperately need this solution because they can't get SIP / T.38 to an acceptable failure rate.

If you have an ideal setup - modern fax machine, fiber internet, correctly configured ATA (which is, by far, the biggest problem we've had - people just won't read the guides thoroughly), your expected failure rate is about 8% on a T.38 ATA. For small offices who send/receive a fax once in a couple of months, this is a fine solution.

HTTPS ATAs only fail when the party on the other end of the fax fails; which makes them at least as reliable as traditional POTS lines. They are probably more reliable because we will retry the fax 9 times before failing it. So if you need near 100% reliability, you need to use the HTTPS ATAs.

The reason we are charging monthly for the ATAs is because that is how we are charged for them. We have to buy software for these things to work, and its expensive. Most of our competitors who offer HTTPS ATAs charge north of $15/mo.

@dashrender said in Air Gap Backups:

@scottalanmiller said in Air Gap Backups:

@hobbit666 said in Air Gap Backups:

Since we are a SMB we used to use Tape (well RDX), but with people leaving the company, relaying on people to remember to take them home, put the right ones in

There are services for that. But if you use REAL take instead of disk, the eject function makes that so much easier because if they don't take it home, you get alerts that the tape wasn't changed.

I thought RDX did the same?
or could at least?

Maybe they could. If they were ejecting and no one was taking it home, there should have been the ability to catch it really quickly.

@irj There was a spam post here this morning.

@dashrender said in Windows 11 does not let you show all taskbar icons:

@jaredbusch Ya gotta wonder if there is a reg key for that?

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
Create a new 32bit Dword value: "EnableAutoTray"
Set to: 0

0 = Show all
1 = Hide all

To activate:
Log out and back on

OR

Reboot

OR

Use Task manager to kill and restart Explorer

@voip_n00b said in [SOLVED] Group Policy Cental Store Not Updating:

Typo in the folder name 🙄

LOL - will getcha every time 😉

@scottalanmiller said in Edgerouter X - Small Office:

@jaredbusch said in Edgerouter X - Small Office:

@krzykat said in Edgerouter X - Small Office:

@scottalanmiller said in Edgerouter X - Small Office:

@stuartjordan said in Edgerouter X - Small Office:

@scottalanmiller Thanks for the suggestion Scott.

No problem.

The "4" is a really nice unit. Still small, but really powerful.

This really is your only choice right now if buying from UI direct. It's the only router they have available in stock. Is there a link to "Jared's test" ?

Posted somewhere on this forum.

The ERL gets ~60mbps with QoS enabled. I honestly cannot recall what the ER-X did. I thought it was in the 150mbps range, but my memory is not the best thing in the world.

It IS a little faster than the ERL, faster CPU. Less RAM, though, so some features can cause it to struggle.

QoS and other non-offloaded things are all CPU constrained. Unless you load up extra processes on anything in the ER line, you will not typically run into any kind of memory constraint.

@dbeato is the man of the hour today. He had the idea to remove and re create the Exchange Powershell directory and the Exchange Management Shell capabilities were restored.

Kudos to @dbeato !

@obsolesce said in Any good recommendations for web content filtering and reporting?:

I set up Squid Proxy in the past for a company and it worked really well.

Cool. I've always wanted to try that out. I will have to set up in my lab and check it out.

@obsolesce said in weird display issue in Mangolassi:

CTRL+SHIFT+R

CTRL + Shift + W

@dbeato said in My complex Windows Copy command stopped working.....:

@jasgot said in My complex Windows Copy command stopped working.....:

It said Syntax Error. 0 Files Copied.

But..... now it is working....... 🤦

Well, maybe a reboot happened or it couldn't read the data and then now it can.

Possibly. I'm glad is doesn't need any more head-scratching! 🙂

Update on my Linux project -

Just got done with the configuration call with Dell, all of my Linux-ing worked!!!! Once the 1st replication job runs there will be another setup call (hopefully the final one), but everything is looking good so far. Thanks again for the assistance.

@scottalanmiller said in HTML Editing:

@stacksofplates said in HTML Editing:

@jaredbusch said in HTML Editing:

I only use VS Code today.

Even if I was only Windows, I would use VS Code over Notepad++ now.

There is nothing better available since it can be universally installed on Linux, Windows, or macOS.

I've been using a Mix. I use VSCode some days and I use Pycharm/GoLand other days. I like different things about both.

I like PyCharm and its related tools a lot. I just don't use them enough (or like them enough) to justify the extra price.

Pycharm is free. I did pay for Goland because the debugging and some extra features are worth it. I don't need to use pycharm because you can use the Python plugin in Goland but I had a couple issues one time and just decided to use pycharm separately.