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@scottalanmiller said in What happens at MangoCon gets posted here for all to see 2017:

Thought bubble..... "I wish I could play not Jenga."

Working from home today. Listening to my 2 year old play trucks behind me in my office.

@Francesco-Provino said in iMac Pro:

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@Francesco-Provino said in iMac Pro:

Cannot find a purpose.

It's too pricey to be a graphic/video workstation, still lack performance vs the many multi-socket workstation/workstation, use AMD instead or Nvidia (CUDA!!!), non upgradable, non modular design with integrated display… any high-end workstation from Dell/HP/Supermicro can easily destroy it in any benchmark for a fraction of price, and with much better ROI, also.

So it's just like every other mac in that regard. Useless unless you buy into the "coolness".

I disagree. The macbook family (in baseline config) were and maybe are still great unix machines to work with. I had Dell XPS and other cool laptops, but with my macbook I had ZERO and I mean ZERO issue in six years. Still run like a charm.

Ok, Dell precision workstation maybe are even better and with great Linux support, but… guess what? They aren't that portable. The whole current XPS line is plagued with coil whine and other issues. The Thinkpad X1 is pricey and it's Lenovo… and maybe is the better alternatives. The mac just works, in my experience. I'm not a fanboy at all (apart about Linux :D), but I recognize good products when I use it… for years, without an hiccup.

I agree fully. I'm not a fanboy in the least, but I got a good deal on a 2012 MBP, and have been using it for the past 2 years without any issues. Used all day, like 6 days a week, thrown in and out of bags, taken to dirty work areas, etc. No issues at all. However, the first thing I did when I got it was maxed the memory and put in an SSD. I don't see myself needing to upgrade for quite some time. I feel like the "older" MBPs (2011-2012ish era) were the last "IT pro friendly" ones. The things are just tanks.

When it comes time to need a new one, will I get a newer model MPB? Probably not, unless I get a slamming deal.

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@travisdh1 said in MangoCon 2019:

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@donahue said in MangoCon 2019:

Is there any cost for bringing a guest? I would love to bring the wife. I doubt she would be interested in the tech, just a vacation.

I was wondering about that as well. I'll probably be bringing the girlfriend unit if I'm able to attend.

We hadn't really thought about this yet, because let's face it, nobody's main squeeze was interested in going to Rochester, NY

Not really sure they would have ANY interest in going, even it was in an exotic location. Because then they would want to be out on the beach and not in some IT thing.

I know at least one spouse came to Rochester during MangoCon and did touristy things while the IT talks were happening. Can't remember who it was off the top of my head right now.

I don't know if Houston would be more attractive for doing the touristy stuff or not. 2019 will be the first time I'll have been in Houston other than waving while I drive by in a truck.

It was me! Brought he kiddos too. They had a good time in. Rochester.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Seems legit...

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1966204-evaluating-megapath-voip

Talk about a 360 degree turn. What the....

Just saw this come in. Looks like DO is getting to the price point of some of the other guys now.

https://blog.digitalocean.com/new-droplet-plans/

This was posted at the perfect time, since I'm planning on putting Xenserver on my new box for my home network. Thanks!

Thanks for another great it tips conference!

@scottalanmiller Buy that domain name!

Just installed a Snom PA-1 and paging horn in a garage. That thing is LOUD.

@dafyre said in CloudFlare Launches Privacy First DNS Service:

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@fuznutz04 said in CloudFlare Launches Privacy First DNS Service:

OK, new project tomorrow. Install Pi-hole finally.

Here is how to add porn blocking.
https://mangolassi.it/topic/16905/add-porn-blocking-to-your-pi-hole

So, combining the Cloudflare DNS and the pi-hole filter is basically like having a firewall with content filtering?

If so, I just upgraded 2 of my Raspberry Pi's here at work. Might have a new project for home with one of the older R-Pis now.

CloudFlare DNS is just DNS, just like any other DNS. However, their focus is on privacy, and they claim that they will not keep or sell your browsing history. Also, from what the stats say, they are much faster than other big DNS servers like 8.8.8.8

Pi-Hole blocks ads/ad domains, but is also capable of blocking specific sites, or site lists.

I'm using a pihole VM (just set it up a couple of nights ago) pointed at CloudFlare. DNS is nice and snappy, that's for sure!

Same here. Exact same setup. I'm just amazed at how much has been block in the past 15 minutes alone.

@Breffni-Potter What is the name of the tool? Or is this something developed in house?

Attempted to get Mist.io installed on CentOS7 via the buildout procedure. Kept running into errors, so I installed Docker, then the Mist.io Docker image. That was painless. Next to add some servers to Mist to see what I can do!

Well look at that...

https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/company/vmware-broadcom.pdf

And so Begins the new lab setup. Picked this rack up but it's too shallow for my Dell rails. I'm either going to keep the posts as they are and lengthen the depth, or just use the posts and create some sort of hybrid metal/ wood rack. Any excuse to break out the welder and power tools.

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

We made it to the fruit truck this morning when he was in our street. Today he parked right in front of our house so we ran out and both a load of fruit. That will hold us for a while. That was so easy, I love stuff like this which seems to exist everywhere outside of the US and Canada.

You're home at noon. How common is that in the USA? Heck how common is that there?

They come around eight, too. It's super common here, since everything closes midday and everyone goes home till evening (well, late afternoon.) There is a three hour dead time in the middle of the day for lunch, coffee, naps, etc.

We have a truck that comes by our house with fresh baked bread and locally raised meat. It's super sketchy but our neighbors buy from them once a week when they come through.

We live in an area that has a lot of Amish. They regularly come through our neighborhood, with a pull behind wagon, selling baked goods like pies and cakes. That kind of counts, right?

@scottalanmiller said in MeshCentral Future:

@AdamF said in MeshCentral Future:

@scottalanmiller said in MeshCentral Future:

@AdamF said in MeshCentral Future:

By the way, I upgraded to the latest stable, and it's working great so far. Happy about that!

We are still on 1.4, we work around the clock so getting reboot time can be a pain.

Yeah, I did it a few days ago when I saw the thread update. I customized it heavily with company logo, customized agents, etc, and it all "stuck" after the update. So far, so good.

I haven't looked at customized agents. What can you customize?

The agent that comes up when it is running for the user (interactive, not background)...What that actually looks like in regards to color, logo, etc. Also the main page where you send people to: https:url/invite. You can customize that page entirely in regards to colors, logos, images, etc. I did it as a "hey lets see if this works" test, and it did, so I kept it in place.

So this is neat.... I was getting slow upload speeds on my internet connection yesterday. It turns out, it was my ERX all along. I logged in and pressed the reboot button in the GUI, and now the thing does not respond to any pings, I can't connect to it, no internet, nothing. I'm about to do a reset on it and restore the config from a backup. (hopefully that works) I'd like to see what's going on on the router to see where it is stuck. Is there any other way to connect to these devices?

Making my OSTicket install public & setting up a Let's Encrypt Cert in Apache.