@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Watching Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Watching Now:

Ok, so b-movies are considered low-budget and whatnot. But what would it be called for TV shows? Soon-to-be-cancelled-budget?

example?

Another Life. So bad it was good?

Never heard of that show.

It's on Netflix. It's the soap opera of scifi. A weird guilty pleasure. The first 8 episodes aren't good. The last two get much better and I'm hoping they get another season to answer some of the questions they put forth.

@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Watching Now:

Ok, so b-movies are considered low-budget and whatnot. But what would it be called for TV shows? Soon-to-be-cancelled-budget?

example?

Another Life. So bad it was good?

@marcinozga said in Weekend Plans:

Taking son to Headless Horseman hay ride tomorrow, then Greek harvest festival.

Man, we haven't done that in years. It was so much fine going down there.

@Dashrender said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:

@scottalanmiller said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:

@Dashrender said in Ubiquiti - Small office Router and WIFI:

If he truly wants hands off - I'd look at another solution where at minimum the hardware self updates - many home routers will do that - I'm guess most business class do not.

Unifi will do that. Basically no consumer equipment does.

Would you suggestion then be:

setup Vultr with $5/m VM, install Ubuntu/Debian, set to auto update daily
install Unifi controller
set unifi to update all devices daily?

that could work.

The 5$ instance tends to break if you do any type of logging. I upgraded mine to the 10$ instance and haven't really had any issues.

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

She is a hard core pro-cosplayer

What the Sam Hill is that?

-Cosplay?

It's like adult dress-up ;
@Dashrender Might be able to provide a better answer than I can, seeing how he does it:
but basically, You dress up in costumes based on your favorite characters in Comics/Cartoons/Fantasy Movies

This is not a term I accept applied to myself. thanks.

For those that didn't follow, it's "Cosplay" that Dash doesn't apply to himself. Not dressup that he was saying.

Correct

I mean... that by definition is Cosplay...

@Dashrender said in Datto AP60:

@scottalanmiller said in Datto AP60:

@Dashrender said in Datto AP60:

OK that makes sense... But managing 20 firewalls (one after each AP) yet keeping the network flat sounds HUGELY painful at min.. where the Meraki interface handles that all for you.

It would be a huge pain in the ass, but why do you feel the identical situation is easy with Meraki and hard with Unifi? It's a pain equally in both cases. Remember, we just established that it's a name game with Meraki and that technically there are 20 firewalls there just like with the Unifi. In both cases you have a site manager and a single pain of glass, but in both cases you are choosing to deploy twenty individual firewalls all throughout your wireless (but not wired) network.

No matter how you slice it, that's a crazily complex situation that Meraki has no way to fix over Unifi.

Because with Meraki - it's a point and click set of changes... Even with a total Unif situation there wouldn't be the ease of finding said AP and simply clicking to change a setting... but again - someone it's actually all that likely to do this - so it's mostly a moot point.

....Have you ever used Unifi networking equipment?

@Dashrender said in Equipment Placement in Rack:

I did this for a client recently. We mounted the UPS vertically instead of in the rack, put less strain on the rack. We don't have any servers.

Top down
Patch panels
switch
firewall
shelf for NAS

If you have room. I like the:

• patch
• space
• switch
• space
• patch

Arrangement. Gives room for some cable management tooling. Also if you have the room an oversized rack makes cable management so much easier.

@mroth911 said in Routing port 80:

@coliver said in Routing port 80:

HAProxy

So this is what I am trying to accomplish, Prior to this setup I had 5 static ip's. Now I have only 1 ip. I have 2-3 web servers that are vm's. One is an odoo, and 2 different screen connect servers. I want to be able to use port 80 on each server, router them to there local ip. 10.0.0.x but still use there example.com name

Yeah, you're looking for a reverse proxy.

IIRC Microsoft moved their EU headquarters, or at least their German Headquarters, to Munich not too long ago. At the time they first started talking about moving back to Windows.

It wasn't that this project was a failure, although using their own Linux OS probably was, it was that there was a ton of money invested by Microsoft and they are now seeing the return.

@JaredBusch said in Looking for a 10 inch or so android tablet:

A couple years ago we ordered a number of Galaxy Tab 10. They have generally worked.

The current version of them will also likely work well. But they are $250, so it is worth a short amount of time to look for other models.

I have a 2017 version of that. Really like it.

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

One of my clients IT departments Claims I'm not at a lack PCI Compliance - so I cant get creds to their domain to do the menu update that their boss is asking me to do.

Makes it their problem. I like those kinds of issues.

Now their saying I have "limited creds" and they will "expire" in 26 hours.
LOL

Yeah - and?

I'm lost - why are you doing anything for them if they have their own IT department?

....@WrCombs works for a POS vendor so he manages his companies equipment.

@coliver said in Looking for Career Advice:

@jmoore said in Looking for Career Advice:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for Career Advice:

Can't realistically think of anything that I can't do at home.

Sure I get that and your right. Its just difficult to pay for licensing for everything sometimes. That is really the only thing that keeps me from learning certain things at home.

90% of all Windows tools have a 180 day eval. I believe that SCCM is one of those tools.

Although it seems like Microsoft is looking to take SCCM out of the picture soon and completely replace the ConfigMgr piece of it with InTune. So Intune may be a better tool to learn going forward.

@jmoore said in Looking for Career Advice:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for Career Advice:

Can't realistically think of anything that I can't do at home.

Sure I get that and your right. Its just difficult to pay for licensing for everything sometimes. That is really the only thing that keeps me from learning certain things at home.

90% of all Windows tools have a 180 day eval. I believe that SCCM is one of those tools.

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

For MeshCentral, no I don't think so. That would be nice, though.

Yeah that's what I meant.

Is there a way to make Powershell the default shell for Windows instead of Command Prompt?

@wrx7m said in Windows 10 - Application Incorrectly Requiring Admin Creds to Run:

I have this crappy security camera software that is requiring admin credentials to run on Windows 10. It runs fine on Windows 7. Their support wasn't much help.

What is the easiest way to force a program to run without requiring admin credentials?

Use ProcMon to see what it is touching. And give the local user account access to that. It's probably trying to write a log file or something into the Program Files folder.

vSphere is different.

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc/GUID-7AFCC64B-7D94-48A0-86CF-8E7EF55DF68F.html

They license per socket.

@wrx7m said in Planning for New ESXi Hosts - Which CPU Metrics Should I Use?:

So if I had 1 socket with 16 cores, I would be fine. If I had 2 sockets with 16 cores, I would need an additional Windows Server license for the other 16, correct?

Yes. See the following page: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/product-licensing/windows-server

Licensing is the big thing here. Is your licensing by host, core, or socket? Since your running Windows on top and vsphere you'll need to be concerned with both core and socket.

@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.