Best posts made by brandon220

I love PiHole. I run it as a vm locally at home. It amazes me how much it blocks.

Just got home from a project I've been working on. Trenching in duct and pulling fiber to create a ring around a large ranch for access controls/gates/etc.

@fuznutz04 Did not notice that. Now I really want some to swap out all the ERLs I have plastered everywhere.

Back to my earlier post about NC16 and uploads - I dropped a Win 10 Pro iso into one of the folders and it uploaded successfully. 4.7Gb Not sure what the "limit" is now by default.

@tim_g I've been wanting to set up a Wordpress site for myself. A person could read for days and still not know what they want or how to get started. There are so many options and themes.

I have also been spending quite a bit of time with KVM. I have noticed a big difference in disk activity between 2 servers that have similar specs and the same workloads - one running KVM and one on Hyper-V 2019. The KVM server is using a lot less resources it seems.

I have a friend who runs a small company and has an ISP (wireless) that cannot provide a public IP for them. It is rural and there are zero other choices for providers at the moment. They need a small VPN solution for 1 to 5 employees. Minimal usage as it will be used for invoices, etc. No large files or graphics. I thought about a VPS with OpenVPN but they need simple. Again, they are a small company and do not have an IT staff. Is Zerotier still a logical choice for them? I am leaning towards it as a solution but thought I may gather some input from the brain trust here.

Been using Xero for a while. No issues. It works better than QB Online. I tried it.

Yes. Server 2012 Essentials (IIRC). Single physical server. It is a cheap Dell T320. Not a good setup but I don't know who sold it to them or did the install. Less than 10 users.

It would appear that @scottalanmiller has a bot running at his house spamming the forum with home service ads from his area.

I tend to use Edgerouters everywhere I can. That being said - I have 2 Sophos UTMs because of the web filtering mainly. I realize you can put them in transparent mode behind another router but it seems pointless when it can do everything. The country blocking is another feature that works really well. If I needed just a firewall I would never consider them.

I wish a person could buy a new laptop with no OS and without the added cost of a Windows license. I'm leery of buying used. Basically a plain HP or Dell for general use. Don't need the overpriced System76 stuff either.

@nerdydad I use PiHole at home and it is great. SafeSquid looks pretty impressive. May have to fire these up in my lab and test them out.

@scottalanmiller Makes sense. I don't want dual boot. I just want to get an affordable NEW laptop with a NEW battery and throw Fedora WS on it. Running KVM may be nice to have a Win10 VM but not a necessity.

I have 5 separate systems now with a mix of G3 cameras. I have no complaints.

I went to MicroCenter tonight and was looking at laptops. I had a salesperson ask what I was looking for. I got a strange look when I said I wanted W10 Home cause it would get wiped anyway. I don't think she thought I was serious.

I have 4 installs on their NVR and 1 on a server using Ubuntu 16.04

@travisdh1 I did that a few months ago too... Luckily I ran a backup job minutes before. Was able to restore. I was so mad at myself. Lesson learned.

I have a scenario where a FreePBX system has 2 separate groups of users. Inbound calls are fine and routed to the appropriate persons (ring group) by the incoming DID. There is a separate voip.ms trunk for each of the user groups. My issue - I cannot figure out how to route each group out of a separate trunk for outbound calls. The main reason for this is so that if a person calls out from group A it will show the appropriate CID. Think of it as 2 separate companies utilizing the same phone system but wanting to keep inbound and outbound calls separate. Also, this is a small system. We are talking about less than 30 users total on the entire system. I know this should be simple and a basic task for FreePBX but I may be overlooking something.

Spent most of the day cleaning up and re-arranging my "office". I can see my desk again!