@brandon220 said in AzureAD and shares:
"Cloud" access to them is being able to access files in the browser. They also want to access the same files and folders locally on the LAN. Trying to pick my battles.
OneDrive for Business... if they are already using AzureAD they probably already have a license for it.
Although GPS has the same limitations. It would be pretty easy to add elevation to the location list in modern messaging apps as well.
@Kelly said in Software Catalog:
@coliver said in Software Catalog:
@Kelly said in Software Catalog:
This might be out of scope for what you all have to deal with, but I'm trying to corral a software environment (municipality with ~2000 users). Have any of you used a software package (doesn't have to be free) to provide users with a catalog so that they can go to a central web page and put in a need and identify a supported and licensed (by IT) piece of software that could meet that? I know the ask on this is high, but I figured I'd toss it out here.
SCCM can do this. It actually does a really good job. The other one is VMware Workspace One but I think that does some app virtualization as well.
SCCM can present an end user interface? We do have Workspace One. I haven't dug into it yet because we were grandfathered in as Airwatch customers.
Yep, Software Center. It's a really good tool not just for what your describing but also for application deployment troubleshooting.
@scottalanmiller said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
@coliver said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
@dashrender said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
@scottalanmiller said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
@coliver said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
@dashrender said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
@scottalanmiller said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
@dashrender said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
@scottalanmiller said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
@dashrender said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
@scottalanmiller said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
@dafyre said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
We simply pay for the services we want that have the shows we like. Primarily Netflix and Hulu right now. No need for anything else, really.
Just Netflix and Amazon here, we dropped Hulu as it was just awful. Found that we didn't miss it at all. Plenty on Netflix and Amazon, really no need for anything else.
So you don't want network television at all then? I wouldn't be surprised if you say correct.
Aboslutely not. I won't allow it in the house. Nothing with commercials or that "just plays whatever is on." I told the cable company that even for $1 I wouldn't hook up cable. I'm not even interested in having it available as a temptation. I've not had the ability to get any kind of network television (because I don't buy or hook up TV tuners) for twenty years. I see it once in a while when visiting people or in a hotel and am so thankful it's not available to me at home.
poor choice of words on my part - I assume you don't want any shows that are from network television. i.e. SEAL TEAM. Seal Team isn't on Amazon or Netflix yet, so your only option is Hulu or OTA.
If they aren't good enough for Netflix or Amazon to want them, why would I want to waste time on them. There are too many things to watch that make it to the first tier, shows that aren't good enough to get there I don't have time to watch. I've literally never heard of SEAL TEAM. Is that like one of those late night budget shows like Silk Stalkings?
LOL - it's a new show this season. Originally I was going to say Blue Bloods, but it's old seasons are on Netflix - so you would come back and just say - I don't care about watching it when it's current season is out, I'll just catch it some future date.
What? So you're self selecting your argument? This obscure show that was recently introduced isn't on a streaming service!
But that one is, Dominica watches it. I don't, but she says that it is good. But, my case in point, network TV seems to be where they test all the crap, if it is good enough they get lucky and Netflix picks it up.
yeah, after the whole season is over. So you're watching it later.
I know I know - the whole water cooler talk about last night's show is lost on you. The reality is that I don't have it much either. But JB and I have chatted about a current show that we both recently watched - but if there was no current show - you just have shows that people watch whenever, there would be little actual talking about it. I know when I was younger, with old school TV, shows got a lot of talking about (and frankly I still hear tons of people talking about those shows on network TV - walking Dead anyone?), but if you only watch stuff that came out last year, then the chances seem low that you would care enough about the show to have discussions about it.
This is the argument I hear about games too. You should buy it new so you can talk about it. I do have several people in my social circle that buy games as soon as the release so they can do that.
Which is really just marketing from somewhere. They could all wait till it goes on sale and talk about it then. So clearly they aren't using the "talk about it" argument, but it is a cover for something else.
Yep... which is what a group of my friends have been doing. They all agree to pick up a game during a Steam sale and play it together.
@wirestyle22 said in Address Already in Use AH00072: make_sock could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 (Apache):
I tried to take a snapshot of my Plex server today and it timed out and was unresponsive. A hard reset was necessary. when I powered it back on I noticed that my
httpdservice wasn't running.
As you can see the
apachectl configtestcame back OK, so the syntax is correct. I've never run into this error before.I attempted to look this up and a lot of it points to virtual hosts which I'm not using.
There is something already bound to port 80. That's why it isn't starting back up.
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
Have you watched the video? If so, and you feel there is value to the system, explain what it is.
I already have watched the video, the value is for places like gutty cities in Brazil etc.
Not for highly developed parts of the world.
What value does it have then? Why not just use GPS? I'm not "hating" on it... just seems like a solution looking for a problem that was already solved by a better more reliable way.
@DustinB3403 said in How can I prevent student logins to Google from overriding the Library's public PC restrictions?:
@coliver he would love to set this up via the google admin console, but he's not the administrator. The schools are. So he needs an alternative that is either local to every workstation or some restoration process.
Huh, I thought @LJ was the owner of these machines? It sounds like @LJ has been pushing other policies.
@DustinB3403 said in How can I prevent student logins to Google from overriding the Library's public PC restrictions?:
@coliver said in How can I prevent student logins to Google from overriding the Library's public PC restrictions?:
@DustinB3403 said in How can I prevent student logins to Google from overriding the Library's public PC restrictions?:
@coliver he would love to set this up via the google admin console, but he's not the administrator. The schools are. So he needs an alternative that is either local to every workstation or some restoration process.
Huh, I thought @LJ was the owner of these machines? It sounds like @LJ has been pushing other policies.
@coliver said in How can I prevent student logins to Google from overriding the Library's public PC restrictions?:
@DustinB3403 said in How can I prevent student logins to Google from overriding the Library's public PC restrictions?:
@coliver he would love to set this up via the google admin console, but he's not the administrator. The schools are. So he needs an alternative that is either local to every workstation or some restoration process.
Huh, I thought @LJ was the owner of these machines? It sounds like @LJ has been pushing other policies.
@LJ is in charge of the library computers, not the google accounts that the students are using.
Yeah I haven't referred to them at all.
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
@scottalanmiller said in Three Word Address:
@dustinb3403 said in Three Word Address:
When you call the cops you give them the address you're at right?
Not in the real world, no. That's a television thing.
BAHAHAH you're insane.
You absolutely give them your address. Just because the police in developed areas can quickly pull your location doesn't mean that they are equipped to do so in the parts of the world where this would be critical.
Wait what? Your phone is registered and your info comes up on a screen. They ask you the current location just to confirm and to make sure they know who they are talking to. Even with cell phones they get the info the line is currently registered to and the GPS coordinates of the device or nearest cell phone tower.
This is the reason dialing 911 and leaving the phone off hook in the event of a break in or domestic issues is so important because it gets them to you with out you having to say anything.
does the history command help you at all?
@penguinwrangler said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It's odd because, for Linux, being on a domain doesn't make sharing files between them easier. For the use case listed it would add near zero benefit.
is that true? If a Linux box is part of a domain, it's not easier to map a SMB share? i.e. don't need to provide credentials when making the connection?
You'd still have provide credentials. It makes no part of the mapping easier, at least to my knowledge.
As long as there is SSH enabled, you have sftp between the Pis themselves and you can do that on Windows Boxes with something like Filezilla. Don't even need to map or "setup" shares.
Correct, I think @Dashrender and I were talking about SMB shares though.
@DustinB3403 said in Is SMB 1.0 more vulnerable at the client level or server level:
@syko24 said in Is SMB 1.0 more vulnerable at the client level or server level:
@DustinB3403 said in Is SMB 1.0 more vulnerable at the client level or server level:
Why in God's green earth would you deploy XP today? Or would you continue to operate Windows XP?
The system it runs has an $80,000 camera on it
Also this seems insane that the customer has an $80,000 camera, but can't or won't purchase an updated system to run it.
This sounds like scientific/educational equipment. Most likely that vendor either doesn't exist anymore or the system update is to just buy another 80,000$ camera.
@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Hmmm.... sounds totally legit. Especially the part where I get to pay for my own travel to/from Savannah, GA....
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2075696-seeking-business-partner-for-product-invention
WTF does any of that mean? Outside of random rambling.
Yep a reverse proxy. Traefik, Nginx, or HAProxy would do the trick.
@zachary715 said in Mobile Payments:
@dafyre said in Mobile Payments:
@zachary715 said in Mobile Payments:
@jaredbusch said in Mobile Payments:
@zachary715 said in Mobile Payments:
@jaredbusch said in Mobile Payments:
@zachary715 said in Mobile Payments:
Mobile payments aren't a new thing. They've been around a few years and it seems like now everyone has their own mobile payment platform. I think the three strongest players in this game are Apply Pay, Samsung Pay, and Android Pay. There's also Paypal and the like, but I'm talking mostly about storing credit card info in your phone and paying through an NFC terminal.
I've always wanted to try these (Android Pay) but for some reason have been reluctant. The more I've read lately, it seems that in reality these can be more secure than regular credit card payments using the new chip reader.
My question to you all is have you used before or do you currently use some form of mobile payment solution? If so, which one and why? What has been your experiences? What needs to be improved? Do you find that mobile payments are more secure than regular credit card transaction at a chip or swipe terminal?
Do not forget that Walmart is setting up their own thing. That will be huge also.
How will it be huge? Will it only be usable at Wal-Mart stores? What benefits might it bring from using their mobile payment platform outside of a Wal-Mart store?
Do you realize how many people shop in walmart every day?
It never has to work outside of Walmart to be huge.
Haha yes I do. I initially interpreted what you were saying though to mean it will be huge in comparison to Apple Pay, Android Pay, etc from a competitive standpoint. Yes it may be huge in scale due to the number of customers, but what benefit would it bring Wal-Mart outside of what they can already get from mobile ordering within their app? They get the purchase data whether you use their payment platform or not.
It's my understanding of the Walmart app that you can scan your stuff and pay with the app without having to go through the lines. Anybody know if that's right or not?
I know Amazon was doing something like this at some of their smaller stores before they acquired Whole Foods. Not sure if they've implemented it on a larger scale though or if Wal-Mart has picked this up.
Wal-Mart does however have the ability to order your groceries online or from their app and schedule a pick up time. Then you just pull up and they load them into your vehicle and payment is processed through the app. My wife has used that twice and loves it. Beats grocery shopping with a 1 year old.
Most of the grocery chains around here do this. You can order your groceries then park at a specific spot. They ask what your order number is and someone runs it out to you. It's really convenient and only a slight upcharge.
I know it isn't top of the line but I got a Pixel 3a XL and am very pleased with it. I got it for 400$ and it blows the pants off my 700-800$ phones.
@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@rojoloco Wish I could upvote that one more than once, lol.
I've got your back.
@travisdh1 said in Introducing MeshCentral on SAMIT as a Remote Access and Support Tool for the SMB IT Department:
@coliver said in Introducing MeshCentral on SAMIT as a Remote Access and Support Tool for the SMB IT Department:
@Dashrender said in Introducing MeshCentral on SAMIT as a Remote Access and Support Tool for the SMB IT Department:
@coliver said in Introducing MeshCentral on SAMIT as a Remote Access and Support Tool for the SMB IT Department:
@Dashrender said in Introducing MeshCentral on SAMIT as a Remote Access and Support Tool for the SMB IT Department:
@coliver said in Introducing MeshCentral on SAMIT as a Remote Access and Support Tool for the SMB IT Department:
I know it isn't top of the line but I got a Pixel 3a XL and am very pleased with it. I got it for 400$ and it blows the pants off my 700-800$ phones.
Of the same era, or are you talking about a 7-800 phone from a year or two or more ago?
A year or two ago. Although from some of the benchmarks I've seen it does decent again phones from its generation.
I would fully expect a current phone to trash a few years old phone... and a $7-800 few years old phone is still barely top of the line compared to the prices of Samsung/Apple (not saying the hardware wasn't matching/beating them.. I just know the price is still lower than those two, which makes me at minimum ask - where the specs of that 7-800 device the same or better than apple/samsung?)
Yeah it was a top of the line Moto device.
If you care about keeping your data private, Moto is a NoGo! (They're owned by Lenovo)
Bought it when they were owned by Google... I mean still not great but better.
@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to write a powershell script that will pull the username and computer name of whoever plugs in the USB drive and email it to us, from the USB drive. Username is easy
whoami. Emailing it is easy. Computer name, not so much, so far. Then I have to try to write the batch script that I hope will run when they plug in the USB drive to run the powershell script.
hostnameThank you. That was too easy.
You could also do $env:Username and $env:ComputerName. I believe that whoami and hostname are aliases for those.
