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@IRJ Booyaa!!

@Minion-Queen said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@Dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@Minion-Queen said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Some of you people are older than me.... just sayin'

Am I?

Yes don't you know I am only in my mid 20's (and will be forever and ever and ever)

Well, I'm in my mid 20's and that's without the repeating of the same birthday year after year

So, I'm thinking about building a home lab made of various servers and software, mostly for learning purposes and with very minimal traffic. These are my current specs:

-4GB RAM
-250GB hard drive
-Intel E7500 core 2 duo processor running at 2.93 GHz
-Onboard NIC

I intend to install/build these:
-VMWare Vsphere Hypervisor(free edition)
-Webserver
-PBX
-Veeam Backup (free edition)

VMWare will hold the Webserver and PBX as virtual hosts. Does this seem feasible to you guys? Basically I'm operating on a budget somwhere between "Ha." and "Pick the paycheck you're pulling out of very wisely, and replace things on your current desktop. the old hardware can go to this."

A lot of jobs are looking for examples of things that I've done, and I want to be able to tout the current things listed, and use them if possible for home. I will be building a website to act as a portfolio on the webserver and detail the progress in all of this. If you have better suggestions than what I've listed, please let me know.

Okay, okay. We get one of these a day, so here's a handful lol

@art_of_shred said in Amazon released Chime, skype alternative:

@gjacobse said in Amazon released Chime, skype alternative:

@art_of_shred said in Amazon released Chime, skype alternative:

@scottalanmiller said in Amazon released Chime, skype alternative:

@Breffni-Potter said in Amazon released Chime, skype alternative:

@scottalanmiller said in Amazon released Chime, skype alternative:

$2.50/user/mo for screen sharing. That's a bit expensive when Skype is free (but doesn't work, so I get the issue.)

Works fine for me as does Google Hangouts.

Chime feels like, we're Amazon, lets make yet another product.

Depends, can you call me on it? nope, because MS has their accounts all broken. So in reality, it doesn't work for you, it just makes it feel like it works for you.

Danielle thinks it works for her, too, but people with her in their user list see her account broken and have problems contacting her and her account will semi-randomly get deleted and show up wrong with images and details from old accounts she doesn't have any more and she, too, can't get calls to work to some people.

Because the issues with Skype are account based, people often feel that it "works for them" even when they too are experiencing issues.

"People"? You mean you. No one else. Don't say Gene, because his issues are not isolated to Skype.

Yea,.. Because well - It's Gene

I think there's something deeper than just Skype on your computer, maybe even at the OS level.

Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Well, looks like the server boot drive is dead. Looks like I'll get to upgrade that to XS7 after lunch. For now, everything is working how it's supposed to in a fail over scenario, and I knew it would before I had to juggle things around, yay.

what happened?

Root was in read only mode and I couldn't start/reboot anything from the console. That's all I know for sure at the moment.

XO restored everything we need to get by to the backup workstation I keep around for just this situation. Nobody else would know anything was wrong at the moment if I didn't tell them.

Well, sir, that deserves a beer and a celebration. I tip my hat to you, in your well thought out and designed DR plan. You are a gentleman and a scholar, and are held in high regard in my book.

I know it sounds sarcastic, but really it isn't. I've seen a few too many people get their servers and networks dropped hard due to a poor or non-existent DR plan.

Here is additional information we were given. A packet capture on their end of the SIP headers:

Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 201.45.53.67:5060;branch=z9hG4bK583ca6e0;rport
Max-Forwards: 70
From: sip:[email protected];tag=as2c743cc9
To: sip:[email protected]
Call-ID: [email protected]
CSeq: 154 REGISTER
User-Agent: FPBX-2.11.0(11.14.2)
Authorization: Digest username="user", realm="sip.provider.com", algorithm=MD5, uri="sip:sip.provider.com", nonce="201.45.53.67", response="7f9c9cb3f38d2a262f33869f6171d238", qop=auth, cnonce="717a598b", nc=00000034
Expires: 120
Contact: sip:[email protected]:5060
Content-Length: 0

From: sip:[email protected];tag=as2c743cc9
To: sip:[email protected];tag=f897ad48-cc0e38ca-13c4-6006-ea019c-6c08ad76-ea019c
Call-ID: [email protected]
CSeq: 154 REGISTER
Contact: sip:[email protected]:5060;expires=1794
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 201.45.53.67:5060;rport=1032;branch=z9hG4bK583ca6e0
Supported: 100rel,replaces,timer
Content-Length: 0

Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 201.45.53.67:5060;branch=z9hG4bK1857f536;rport
Max-Forwards: 70
From: sip:[email protected];tag=as2c743cc9
To: sip:[email protected]
Call-ID: [email protected]
CSeq: 155 REGISTER
User-Agent: FPBX-2.11.0(11.14.2)
Authorization: Digest username="user", realm="sip.provider.com", algorithm=MD5, uri="sip:sip.provider.com", nonce="201.45.53.67", response="3e373ba013b0fd62c0baa86a566c0d48", qop=auth, cnonce="61dba914", nc=00000035
Expires: 120
Contact: sip:[email protected]:5060
Content-Length: 0

From: sip:[email protected];tag=as2c743cc9
To: sip:[email protected];tag=f8869610-cc0e38ca-13c4-6006-ea088f-77415d06-ea088f
Call-ID: [email protected]
CSeq: 155 REGISTER
Contact: sip:[email protected]:5060;expires=1795
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 201.45.53.67:5060;rport=1032;branch=z9hG4bK1857f536
Supported: 100rel,replaces,timer
Content-Length: 0

As Scott said, note the rport value. It sticks out because it's a lower number, but it is random. Let me know if I'm looking at this right if you guys can.

David Allen's Getting Things Done:The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. The book is more or less expanding on the concept that he created with the same name. So far it has helped me quite a bit.

Also, Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. Okay, I haven't actually gotten to reading it yet, but I just bought it last weekend and am excited to get there.

@wrcombs said in File Sharing:

What Fixed this issue:
I downloaded : Mspsvc.reg
and BFE.Reg

After download : Right click and select merge
repeat with second file,
Restart PC

the advanced sharing settings were set correctly.
Shared the file and Watch the Point of sale start up as normal.
Thanks for all the help.

Hell yeah. Glad we could help!

@wrx7m said in Creating a Shortcut for Chrome Incognito with Proxy Settings:

I am trying to see if I can use PS to create the shortcuts. Not sure how to get this path to work with the quotes it needs.

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --incognito --proxy-server=squid1.domain.com:3128 --user-data-dir="%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Squid1\User Data"

This is the template I am using.

# Create a Shortcut with Windows PowerShell
$TargetFile = "$env:SystemRoot\System32\notepad.exe"
$ShortcutFile = "$env:Public\Desktop\Notepad.lnk"
$WScriptShell = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell
$Shortcut = $WScriptShell.CreateShortcut($ShortcutFile)
$Shortcut.TargetPath = $TargetFile
$Shortcut.Save()

Took me a minute, but got it working. The template you are using doesn't account for arguments. Give this a shot:

$TargetFile = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"
$args = '--incognito --proxy-server=squid1.domain.com:3128 --user-data-dir="%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Squid1\User Data"'
$ShortcutFile = "$env:UserProfile\Desktop\chrome1.lnk"
$WScriptShell = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell
$Shortcut = $WScriptShell.CreateShortcut($ShortcutFile)
$Shortcut.TargetPath = $TargetFile
$Shortcut.Arguments = $args
$Shortcut.Save()

@scottalanmiller Not at all. I think 6 hours or so?

I'll have to log that one in the back of my head to check out in a couple months lol

If you don't want to deal with a lot of customers/users, you will probably want to try to hit the engineer level in my opinion. I spend a lot of time on the front lines, as it were. I still don't entirely know which direction I am pursuing in the IT field, but I am keeping wide open to suggestions.

Even for non-customer facing, IT is a wide field. You can be a programmer, an engineer, system admin. When I was focusing on certs, I was intending to get a cert for A+, Network+, and Security+. That is where I intended to start, and that will almost certainly help you to get a foot up.

Hope this helps.

I use a Yealink T22P. I've recently seen some settings with the Polycom phones and do not like the complexity of changing some things, but I have not personally used them to be certain. I do see a lot of Yealinks out and about.

@FiyaFly said:

I'm expecting to be able to make it. Gotta wait until I get vacation time in January to really be able to plan my year out lol

@scottalanmiller said:

Do, or do not. There is no try.

I guess it's a good thing I didn't say try then, eh?

I see things like this often in my state. For example: http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2014/02/14-year-old_lil_carl_howard_se.html
It's still pretty controversial as to whether or not that should stick in this link, but what kind of society do we live in now that a pocketknife can get you brought up on felonies and 14 year olds are charged as adults?

I live in a very rural area myself. Small town. In high school one of my history teachers was once attempting to open a package that had the plastic seal on it. After a second of struggling he looks out to the class, says 'does anyone have a pocketknife?' 'right here!' the teacher grabs the knife, opens it, uses it, closes it, and hands it back. 'Thanks!', pauses for a minute, then says to the class, 'I guess it's a good thing that no one had a pocketknife, right?'

In about the middle of junior year, I was starting to realize that I was a pretty smart person and started to get more involved in my school and such. I also happen to be cursed when it comes to technology( ask @ajstringham ) So things would break around me. After a while, considering I was broke, I started to learn to fix these things. Then, in senior year, teachers at the school started calling me out of classes to fix their tech. Then, a job was posted to the school for a part time tech and the counselor informed me immediately and let me submit my resume before she even posted it. Got the job the next day.

While I have only a little experience with proprietary systems, I can tell you that Asterisk systems are pretty easy to administer in an overall sense. You've got countless options- Elastix, FreePBX straight, PBX in a Flash, etc. Extension creation takes 30 seconds, and modifying current settings is pretty intuitive from the interface.

Could you give me some examples on what administering a proprietary system like that is like?

@NetworkNerd
Hey! Picking up a little spare time to post now, eh?

@StefUk Welcome!

Who has a count on the amount of countries we have now? @addie do you have something like this or something you can conjure up? Just curious.