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@Dashrender said in Legitimate University Programs Are Not Certification Training:

You don't think learning programming in college is possible/worthwhile?

Possible? Very. I got my start with Python from a college course. Worthwhile? Not so much. The amount of debt you accrue due to these courses is just not worth it to me. Yes, I got my start with Python from college. VB.NET? Javascript? C#? All of those, I developed on my own time. Free. When you're talking what you learn from the course compared to the price, I see no justification in it, and especially if you're talking about getting a degree.

Excellent!

Right now I run technically three monitors. My laptop, an additional external hooked up to my laptop, and my desktop. I use one keyboard and mouse and can pretty seamlessly transition between all three of them with Synergy. Synergy works in a client/server fashion that you install on both machines and point to the host(server for which one you want to hook your keyboard and mouse up to. Very good for spreading your workload across your computers.

One pitfall I have run into though is if my laptop, which is working as my server, is under heavy load, I cannot transition. I have to have some resources just available to be able to do it. Other than that, Synergy is working wonderfully for me.I could picture getting a multitude of PC's together with this kind of setup and just wreaking havoc on things.

Do you guys use a system like this? Do you use a KVM to switch through multiple PC's?

I can dig it.

@scottalanmiller Hence the reason I stopped going after a couple semesters. lol.

@Dashrender said in News Ideas for City Driving:

but for a decade now scientists have been able to transfer power through gaps up to 2 meters with efficiency nearing 100 percent.

Wow, nearly 100% efficiency?

Is this one of those lines where nearing actually means 50%, but hey they were only at 40% efficient a year ago.. so they are nearing...

lol. Just some quick research tells me somwhere between 50-75%, with the current average being around 52%

@Hubtech Who are you registering your trunks with and what settings are you using in your outgoing side? I might be able to provide some insight on that. I've been dealing with Elastix trunk settings very recently to the point where my head hurts lol

@art_of_shred Y'know now that I think about that correlation...

@FiyaFly said in If you could get a Bachelor's Degree for under $8,000 in less than a year... would you?:

@scottalanmiller said in If you could get a Bachelor's Degree for under $8,000 in less than a year... would you?:

I had actually planned to have an article out about why everyone feels that lacking degrees are holding them back and why you can't determine that from that evidence. But then we had the funeral to get to. I'll have this out soon, though. It's really important to understand why lacking a degree will almost certainly make it feel that way when it is not true.

I agree it may always feel that way, regardless. However, it also seems to be true

This might be a good read on the topic- http://burning-glass.com/wp-content/uploads/Moving_the_Goalposts.pdf

In the key findings portion of that document:

In other occupations, such as entry level IT help desk
positions, the skill sets indicated in job
postings don’t include skills typically taught at the bachelor’s level, and there is little difference in skill
requirements for jobs requiring a college degree from those that do not. Yet the preference for a
bachelor’s degree has increased. This suggests that employers may be relying on a B.A. as a broad
recruitment filter that may or may not correspond to specific capabilities needed to do the job.

@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Looks like the EU is moving to restrict free speech on the internet: https://edri.org/eu-member-states-agree-on-monitoring-filtering-of-internet-uploads/ and http://copybuzz.com/copyright/france-spain-italy-and-portugal-go-beyond-maximalist-on/.

WTLF, first gdpr and now a bill to limit what people say and references to a source?

And I thought the USA was an internet backwater...

You have absolutely no idea how backwards the EU is right now, as far as I read. Sure, I have a bit of bias, but at this point I feel like they've crossed over lines that anyone should be worried about.

But, that manages to get a bit political, and is a whole different discussion.

When a supervised transfer is made in Elastix with FOP2, the caller ID on the receiver of the transfer points out the receptionists caller ID. Does anyone have any experience with using this in FOP2 or in elastix in general that might be able to provide some experience with it? Trying to get a feel for how Elastix handles this sort of thing.

Thanks!

Welcome Jason!

@scottalanmiller said:

Python is a good language to know, very general purpose and used heavily. VB is useless, unfortunately. It's a long dead language only used for supporting legacy code and as it was always the red headed stepchild language it isn't just legacy code but only legacy code from low end, bad shops. So it ends up being the worst of the worst code.

Mainly the reason I got good at VB, and more specifically VBA, is due to Excel. The first job I worked in IT we were the dev team and had to work with what we had, which was Excel. Built a small ERP system in Excel once with VBA. I can macro in Excel in my sleep now.

Hold on a minute. So if you were to get a plastic 3d printer and a metal 3d printer, in theory you could print most of the mechanical replacement parts you'd ever need for the two machines.

Making headway with a drive mapping issue with a client only to find that several of the users left files open in the share I have to move, meaning it might be possible these files get corrupted.

Do ya feel lucky, punk? Well, do ya?

I enjoy the desktop notifications, but sometimes they can be overwhelming. They don't go away on their own. I am glad they only stack three at a time, but if I step away for a bit my computer will laugh at me and just put another set of three where I closed out of the first couple. Is there any way to modify these so that They disappear after a while?

I am using Chrome

@NetworkNerd said:

@JaredBusch said:

@scottalanmiller @FiyaFly was that done manually? I was under the impression that the built in update did not take it to Asterisk 11. I can drop to console and do yum updates, but that defeats the purpose of using the Elastix package.

I remember seeing some discussion in the Spiceworks community about someone wanting to manually update the FreePBX version to a latter version to use the endpoint manager functionality. I've not done as I didn't want to break Elastix by doing that. If you want FreePBX 2.11 features like the parking pro and endpoint manager, I'd just roll with it as a distro to start.

Every time I throw Elastix on a box the first thing I do is run yum updates. I think, out of the box, Elastix runs Asterisk a few versions back, but a yum update brings it to 11.7

Chiming in under 'better late than never.' Flying into Buffalo, NY from Michigan and hitching a ride from there as well. Looking forward to seeing you guys!

Things really are starting to grow!

Removes VoIP hat
Puts on Android hat

Apparently there has been some miscellaneous issues running MangoLassi on Android. I have been attempting to reproduce this but so far have had no luck. This seems to span not just multiple devices, but multiple apps and multiple OS versions. I have tested what has been reported to me, but have not been able to reproduce this on my devices.

These are the devices that have been tried, the version numbers- (Device - Carrier - Connection type - Android version - Chrome version - Stock browser version - Has Issue??)

No devices are rooted
Nexus 10 - None - Wifi - 4.4.2 - 34.0.1847.114 - N/A - No
Droid 4 - Verizon - Wifi - 4.1.2 - 18.0.1025469 - 4.1.2-49 - No
Galaxy S4 - AT&T - ? - 4.4.2 - 34.0.1847.114 - 1.5.28 - Yes*
Galaxy S4 - T-Mobile - Wifi - 4.3 - 34.0.1847.114 - ? - No
Note 3 - T-Mobile - Wifi - - 4.4.2 - 34.0.1847.114 - 1.5.28 - No
Razr Maxx - Verizon - Wifi/4G - 4.1.2 -34.0.1847.114 - ? - Yes

*- This has been resolved with a factory reset.

I can see no correlation between what has had problems and what does not. Most of the devices with no problems correlate in some form to the ones that have. Anyone have any additional ideas? All devices, where applicable, have tried with both Chrome and stock browser. Question marks indicate a lack of information.