I'm doing both German and Spanish concurrently. Hopefully that doesn't hurt my ability to retain. I figure that they are totally different, so it's not like I'll get confused between the 2.

@scottalanmiller I have an old Kindle as well, but never really liked the lag on it and inability to quickly scroll like you can with other devices. Here recently, if I am going to read something other than tech, I prefer the old school practice of actually buying the book. (Those things that are made from dead trees.) Remember those?

Reading through some of the books I bought on Black Friday from https://www.humblebundle.com/books/unix-book-bundle .

Good idea for competition/motivation. I traveled to Germany quite a bit for about 5 years or so and worked with German colleuges. I could understand what people were saying half the time, especially if I knew the context, which was most of the time, technical. Could also order drinks/food, etc, but not much more than that. If you don't use it, you lose it...fast. That's a drawback from living in a country like the USA. You never have to speak any other language.

@scottalanmiller followed.

https://www.duolingo.com/fuznutz04

@Minion-Queen said in Skype For Business Mac now available:

Lync 2011 (haven't tried the newest yet). Couldn't screen share reliably, and voice chat groups (more than one person) crashed constantly.

Oh, yeah, I had the same issue. half the time I am on a Windows box when working at home, so I have no issue with the Windows client, but the other half of the time, I'm on my MBP, and that client was terrible. FIngers crossed.

Looking at the details page, here is a limitation depending on how you handle client accounts, or your own accounts.

What are the Lightsail service limits?
You can currently create up to 20 Lightsail instances, 5 static IPs, and 3 DNS domain zones in a Lightsail account.

But this is pretty cool. Ability to manage traffic before it hits your VPS:

Can I manage firewall settings for my instance?
.
You can control the data traffic for your instances by using the Lightsail firewall. From the Lightsail console, you can set rules about which ports of your instance are publicly accessible for different types of traffic.

@Minion-Queen said in Skype For Business Mac now available:

@fuznutz04 the issue that I have seen is it never improves at all.

Our team uses it for chat mainly, but also video and voice only calls. We use desktop sharing occasionally
, but hardly at all. What issues are you having with it?

@Minion-Queen said in Skype For Business Mac now available:

Hmmm I will have to check that out.. I doubt it will work well though

Who knows. I just installed it, but am working on another machine today. Their Lync 2011 client was awful, so it can only go up from here, right?

I wonder if there is ability to install your own iso like Vultr.

@aaronstuder said in Recommended Cloud IaaS Providers for the SMB in 2016:

Amazon Lightsail?

Whoah! when did this come into existence?

@Mike-Ralston

Might be a dumb question, but are you logged in as a user or admin? Default password for an admin is 456

I just found out that Skype for Business finally has come out with a client for Mac. Before now, you had to use Lync 2011 as the client.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=54108

Just updated now using the script. Update worked great, thanks!

So circling back to this, I was determined to add an SMB remote backup share. Instead of adding a remote SMB backup share through XO, I just mounted the SMB share through Ubuntu where XO is installed. In this case, I mounted to /Backups. Then setup a "local" remote in XO that points to /Backups. Backups are now running and being stored on a remote computer.

Right, the web interface on these devices have a lot of options that you can set, especially if you upgrade to the latest firmware, which can also be updated straight from Polycom servers, right from the web interface.

Is the phone provisioned via a provisioning server via config files? (Do the phones ever reach out to check for a new config?)

@Dashrender said in San Francisco transit hacked:

@fuznutz04 said in San Francisco transit hacked:

Just wait until the Tesla self driving cars are hacked. Can you even imagine....

Telsa hasn't been, but several other car manufacturers already have been - and been shown to be able to take over gas and break pedals.

I really wonder if Telsa is acting more like a tech company, and less like an auto maker, and paying more attention to security, etc?

I would sure hope so. Such a huge amount of risk/liability to take on as a company once you get into something like this.

Just wait until the Tesla self driving cars are hacked. Can you even imagine....

Awesome. Purchased. Looks like I need to catch up on some reading.