@scottalanmiller
My company uses rocketchat internally, and I'm not impressed. It's not bad overall, but if you download the apps for both PC and mobile you can blatantly tell that they essentially just put a wrapper around it for a different OS from the web version and called it good. The browser version is alright, but the rest are very buggy

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1949770-conflict-of-interest

What was that about? It got taken down.

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

Day 2 of being sick. Missed the company holiday party last night because I wasn't feeling good. Apparently if I had been there I would have won a $2400 travel voucher.

Still came to work.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@FiyaFly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse

I'm assuming it was an artifact from some change or another in ML. I haven't edited my profile since I created it. Just did, now that banner is gone lol.

Yup.

And it's good to see ya.. Slacker.

@gjacobse Likewise, old man.

Well, I would see it as you have two ways you can go about it, depending on your reasoning for finding out this information.

"How fast is your internet?" coupled with "Do you find yourself waiting for pages to load or items to download more than you'd like?" may be a good starting point without getting into detail. It will at least tell you their level of satisfaction with their current speeds.

Or

"What internet speed does your company pay for?"

This should at the very least prompt them to ask the right people. If they were tasked with taking interest in your services, they should be at least partially invested in getting you the information you need.

@DustinB3403 Fair enough. My mistake for assuming on that one. I apologize. Though, still in my mind, as a decision maker they should, in theory, have at least some knowledge on that purchase, or be able to find it. Maybe not via speed test, but via billing, IT, C-level execs. I feel like in this day and age quite a few departments have an idea of that.

@DustinB3403
Considering that they are decision makers, they should have a decent idea on what speeds of internet they pay for, especially if they are deciding on purchases of IT services.

It's starting to sound to me, without additional information, that these questionnaires you're sending out are to the wrong people. The head honchos will know speeds because they made that decision. The IT will know because they're IT. Who else are you sending it to?

@DustinB3403 When you're fighting office politics like that, my vote is if you've got your foot in the door enough for them to be interested enough to answer a questionnaire, your response to 'I'm not authorized' might best be something along the lines of 'Then point me to someone who is' (just put nicer). Honestly they must understand to an extent you cannot help them without getting information.

@DustinB3403 I can't say it won't be like that, but I've walked predominantly Chinese college students through a speed test before, so I do know it is possible. By Chinese, I mean to the point of barely English speaking.

But, it sounds more like a 'political' issue for you than a competency one. They may fight you because "That's not my job" or "I'm not authorized to do that."

I work for an ISP currently and that is one of the main things we have to do to diagnose connection issues. When explained properly it's not usually that hard to talk someone through a speed test. Speedtest.net, hit the "Begin Test" button, and read me back the results. This is probably going to still be the best option for you. If your client is willing to fill out a questionnaire for you, they should be decently willing enough to run a speed test.

@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.

This could send me on a rant about the educational system overall, but I feel like that may be off topic. Put simply, I don't feel any degree in IT fields is useful, and certifications are, at best in my mind, questionable.

Of course, my main focus, or attempted main focus, has always been development so I may have a skewed outlook.

@gjacobse

I'm assuming it was an artifact from some change or another in ML. I haven't edited my profile since I created it. Just did, now that banner is gone lol. My profile still showed no group title.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Is anyone else seeing this oddball label after some usernames today?

I saw it on someone else earlier, didn't get a screenshot (and can't remember what thread it was on). Or is this expected behaviour and I missed the announcement?

I noticed it on mine as well, and have no idea what it is there for lol

@scottalanmiller

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@FiyaFly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller That is entirely possible, which is why I threw in "for some reason or another, one that I didn't get the chance to track down". I'm not 100% certain why it didn't work, but I do know that it was a lot smoother to install when we rolled back to 6.

Because it's supported on 6 and not on 7 Went talked to FreePBX support about that. The 7 installers weren't working.

I kind of figured they would take down their install guide for 7 then? lol

Sounds like I made the right move anyway. I remember talking it over with Mike and telling him that something IS NOT playing well here and we need to drop back to an earlier version.

@scottalanmiller That is entirely possible, which is why I threw in "for some reason or another, one that I didn't get the chance to track down". I'm not 100% certain why it didn't work, but I do know that it was a lot smoother to install when we rolled back to 6.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

The FreePBX site has install instructions for building your own. Don't try anything except the CentOS 6 version. The others don't work.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Mike-Ralston did a FreePBX on CentOS 6 install on Friday with @FiyaFly if there are any questions.

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

They are your experience. If you wish to make these claims ensure that your state as much and do not broadly claim something demonstrably false.

Just to bring this full circle, it was my experience with trying to install FreePBX onto CentOS7 that for some reason or another, one that I didn't get the chance to track down, It doesn't seem to play well with their new recommendation of MariaDB instead of MySQL. Couldn't get the UI to properly connect to the backend, then when trying to do a reload from the backend I crashed the entire database, and this was before we even added anything to the config. Clean install. So, I dropped it back to CentOS6 and ran with MySQL and was able to get it up and running. I ran into some minor issues with that as well, which if needed I can discuss, but it was definitely a lot more manageable than the issues I ran into on 7. On 7, we got the Die FreePBX errors, which are just plain bad juju. On 6, sometimes we ran into a permissions issue from the UI, but the integrity of the database was solid and never faltered.

If you have any questions, shoot me a message.

Can you think of an easy way to get the information from the switches as to current configuration in an automated manner to create and update the tables accordingly? SNMP is an option but I'd have to think on the best way to output and parse the information.