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I think the perfect project management tool would be a combination of these.

Calendar is easiest as it just has to do what calendars do, and sync up to Google calendar and Zoho or any others for convenience.

Project management would let me separate things by client and their projects, and ultimately into todos.

Todos would not just have a "due date", but rather have a type of due "range". Or even separate dates for "get started" and "due". If I set a get started date 10 days before due date, the app would give me a working range.
If todos had time estimates, and ultimately the project had a time estimate, that would also help align starting and due dates, which would all be represented on the calendar.

Finally I could do time tracking but not in the usual sense. I might find it useful to track time on each todo, or on the project as a whole. But I actually track time by day. So each day of work I'm logging the tasks I do and taking notes on that.
At 9am to 10:30am I'm working on client X across two projects A and B.
Then from 10:45am to 12:00pm I worked on client Z on project C.

What this looks like is basically a chronological log. Like this:
Client Acme (a OneNote file)
-- Project X (A particular page)
4/19/2019 - (2:00) - (BILLED)
... notes ....
4/21/2019 - (1:30) - (BILLED)
... notes ...
4/22/2019 - (3:00) - (UNBILLED)
... notes ...

Within the concept of a daily log, I could work on any number of tasks or todos, doesn't really matter, as long as I have the total time spent and tracked in the daily log notes.

Then when I go to invoice Acme (every two weeks), I can add up the time on all their projects dating back to the last time entry that was billed.

I know todo apps or project management apps often have time tracking, but I feel like this is not a smooth experience, and the data is scattered around. I track time with a separate app Toggl which has a list of clients and projects to track against. This makes all my time entries feel together and easy to see at a glance. I can start a new timer in a few seconds and bounce between clients and projects and end up with 15 different entries through the day and easy to see them all. I don't find that simplicity within project management apps.

My ideal project management app would find a way to have that simplicity in its time tracking.

And the app doesn't need to try and become my billing tool, I have professional tools for billing. I don't know why every tool today wants to be your invoicing app too, it's annoying!

I had a similar issue in a workgroup with drives disconnecting. A bunch of Googling brought me to this.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/297684/mapped-drive-connection-to-network-share-may-be-lost

That seemed to fix the issue for me.

Still nothing?

In my notes I have syspass.org and passbolt.com
Haven't tried either, probably noted them after someone mentioned them here

@guyinpv said in Can we force drivers to install any more in Windows?:

@marcinozga said in Can we force drivers to install any more in Windows?:

@guyinpv I had similar issues with certain USB dongle, on Intel USB controllers, after upgrading to Windows 10. I had a PCIE USB controller lying around, non-Intel chip, and that allowed me to install drivers. If you have a spare controller, it's worth a try.

It's not a controller, it's a dual DVD duplicator/printer device.

I know that, but from your screenshots it looks like that duplicator is USB device. What I'm suggesting is connecting it to non-Intel USB controller.

If you already have office 365, that would be the no brainer winner IMO.

I disagree with some of the others and say you don't even need SharePoint. One drive is fine IMO for what you need.

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is there a system that can display tags in a way that would look like folders to the user? Like a way to change your view to see the files organized by tag 2 instead of tag 1? I use this perspective change all the time in SQL, and I would love something equivalent in a file system using tags.

There is a way to write a system to do that, but no one makes one today.

well get on that @scottalanmiller, the world is apparently waiting

I guess so! Time to reinvent the local filesystem abstraction!

It really is needed.

Agreed... though - is there any money in it?

It would be an open source project, sadly. Sadly meaning, no, not any money in it.

what about fame and recognition? 🙂

I already have that 😉

what's +1 more?

This is a looooong time issue for me. I just hover the cursor over the top right-ish area to close the box. Never actually seen the icons here before.

@guyinpv said in Lots of Nextcloud issues:

I'm feeling like Dr. House right now, I think everybody is lying.

That's what most people do.

@guyinpv said in Anybody use Confluence for their project management/todos?:

@dafyre Looks like your basic list-of-checkboxes.

Can the tasks have subtasks? Can they have a description and extra text/comments added to them, or attachments?

I admin my needs seem to be complex. Or not?

I use the word "todo" but I don't mean one sentence with a checkbox next to it. I'm not making a shopping list. So I do want the extra project management stuff to go along with it like subtasks, organization by folders or projects or clients or whatever term they use.
I do like subtasks to help split up longer tasks. And a good description field for comments and notes. If it can track start and end dates, that's fine. Priority levels, cool, tags, ok, comment stream, nice, attachments handy.

Producteev worked well and it was probably very similar to Asana and those direct competitors. Guess I can try free version of Asana, see what kind of limits I run into.

Yeah, you can do Subtasks, absolutely.

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My issue is that it only shows the Subtask start dates on a calendar, or if you click on one of them.

@irj said in Week 2 of switching to NextCloud:

One day, you'll stop giving a shit about making end users happy. Just make sure they can do their job and lock it down so they can't fuck it up.

One day, all the emotions go away.

For me, I'm doing a mysqldump of the database, then using rclone to copy the files, the mysqldump, and the /var/www/html folder over to Wasabi.

Depending on the VPS's PHP implementation the child processes may or may not contain some useful stuff in the command line, such as which script is being executed.

Would it be helpful for you to get the PID's of any processes which open any file in a target dir, then log the full command line of that PID to a file?

If so, you can run the code below.

You should run this momentarily, exit with "CTRL-C" and check the log output. Loads of stuff writes to '/tmp/' and this will log all of it, so you might very likely fill the disk if you run out for a coffee and leave it running.

Ideally you should have a second SSH session to the VPS so you can kill it if necessary, and use 'tail -f /tmp/test/log/lsof.log' to monitor it's output in realtime.

watch -n 10 'for pid in $(lsof +D /tmp/ 2>/dev/null| awk '''/[0-9]/{print $2}'''); do if [ -n "$pid" ]; then ps f -p $pid >> /tmp/test/log/lsof.log 2>/dev/null; else sleep 0;fi;done'

The VPS probably doesn't have 'watch' installed, which runs the command every -n seconds. The rest of the commands used here should be on more or less any linux server, so you can use a while loop instead if necessary:

while true;do for pid in $(lsof +D /tmp/ 2>/dev/null| awk '/[0-9]/{print $2}'); do if [ -n "$pid" ]; then ps f -p $pid >> /tmp/path/to/log/lsof.log 2>/dev/null; else sleep 10;fi;done; done

Replace '/tmp/path/to/log/lsof.log' with whatever you want the logfile to be. '/tmp/' is the target dir to watch.

Example output is:
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
25394 pts/46 R+ 0:00 dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/test/test.php bs=512 count=100000

VMs make sense to me. Whether you do this on the desktop with VirtualBox or a server with KVM or LXC, whatever works. But you don't want a million versions of things installed onto ap hysical box and the pain of things interacting while you test.

@guyinpv community edition is unlimited and we had no use for the extra pro features, but yes, horses for courses.

@dafyre said in Best backup and security for Android phones?:

Titanium Backup is good for this, but I'm not sure if your device has to be rooted or not.

For pictures and videos, I'm currently using NextCloud for this. The app automagically uploads pictures and videos to my NextCloud server.

This is what I do. Titanium Backup doesnt need root, but you get more functionality out of it.

@guyinpv said in Any options for a highly customized Roku-type device for daddy?:

Ok so clearly some kind of open Android device seems to be the most open for modification.

What I don't get is the software. So Android is installed, then what? On the GooBank it doesn't say what is the actual media software.

Is this just downloading something from the app store? If so, can I do this from any old Android phone or laptop? I happen to have an older Android tablet with an HDMI port, could I just use that and get a docking station and wireless remote or something?

You an install apks directly and/or use Google play Store.

Possibly, but the Android TV is better for this imo. It runs a slightly different OS specifically for Android TV.

Pretty sure that's part of the patch(es) applied for Meltdown & Spectre - I also have it on XS7.2 hosts

@Dashrender's process only creates a shared link.

It does not just make the folder show up in everyone else's OneDrive. So if a shared link is good enough for you, then it will work.

If it's just nix based systems, Prometheus is super easy to set up. Prometheus, node exporter, and alert manager are really easy to automate and get going.

https://gitlab.com/hooksie1/ansible-prometheus

https://gitlab.com/hooksie1/node-exporter

I made these roles so all you should need to do is create a playbook to plug in the variables.