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@dafyre Rufus is awesome

@scottalanmiller I had an issue with Korora Mate and my dual screens. It never wanted to pick them up correctly.

For what it is worth Korora is nice but Linux Mint imho is still slightly better. Enough that I will stick with Mint for now.

Just install Korora onto a Dell Latitude e6410 just a couple of days ago. Went fine. New download and install media is where I would look to first.

We have Spiceworks setup. People email an address we have setup for help. Spiceworks sucks in the email and creates the ticket. Other than when we respond out of it people don't know anything about the ticketing system. You can really change how and when Spiceworks sends out emails, making it almost invisible to the end user. I recommend some type of ticketing system just for tracking purposes.

I think today it is easier to get farther on less knowledge because of the technology. Back in the 80s and 90s you really had to understand how everything worked together. I think it is easier today than back then. I believe the internet and Google have exacerbated this. Before you had the internet, in today's form, you really had to search out people. You learned from live people. My first BBS that I set up when I was 13, was done with the help of an older kid. He was 17. He came to my house and taught me how to do it though. I really looked up to him. He was awesome. I also believe that the IT community was much more willing to teach back before today. My Uncle introduced me to some IT guys at his work. They mentored me in the late 80s and early 90s. I volunteered at my Uncle's work, it was a non-profit. I will say that, at least in the USA, we taught better before the internet, not to say there hasn't been good things with education and the internet. What I see is missing is critical thinking and logic skills. Once you know the baseline, anything on the internet you should be able to use critical thinking and logic to do a "sniff test" and see if they are selling BS.

I believe this is from the fact that in the USA at least, that is all I can really comment on, that we might value the information but we never value the teacher. Especially in IT. I think this is why the baseline is so hard to find. We have devoured our teachers. I liked the post you had on that Scott.

@scottalanmiller said in How Do Such Big Gaps Get Missed in IT Education:

It's like RAID, just as an example. One hour of learning "what RAID is, what parity is and what mirroring is" combined with a trivial amount of "these are the naming conventions" is all you need to basically know everything that there is to know about safety, speed, capacity, cost, etc. Yet it takes thousands of threads covering that topic and people get it ass backwards every day. You can Google it till the cows come home but without the baseline, it is really hard to know which information is right, relevant, up to date, or applicable for the given situation (e.g. RAID 5 is the devil!!! But only from 2009 on, and only with Winchester disks and SSDs are fine and... and.... )

If I see another question about RAID.......... you hold them down and I will pepper spray them.......

I started learning when I was middle school aged back in the early 80s. I learned DOS because I was fascinated with computers, that is all my computer had on it. I had to make boot discs and learn how to manage the memory if I wanted to play games, ahh Star Control I and II, those where the days! Back in the 80s and 90s to do cool stuff you had to learn how the computer worked, I remember running my BBS system. All before you had Google or the internet. Now I think all we have are people that know how to push GUI buttons. They don't understand what that button really is doing. I don't really program that much but I find bugs all the time and often it is because someone didn't understand how the computer really works. I took a break from computers when I was in law enforcement for several years and I was scared when I went to change careers and actually get into IT because it had been so long for me just even away from it as a hobby. After getting in the field I wasn't worried at all. It seems like they don't teach the basics.

Ubuntu - For Ubiquiti Servers. Video or for my Unifi Controller.
CentOS 7
openSuse
Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop for my laptop

@scottalanmiller I have pictures of me that young, dressed exactly like that.

@scottalanmiller What you say is correct. However, you have to move people in that direction. As of now that business has a need to backup the software on the local machines. When I have clients like this I show them that this is not the best practice and often will say we need to have a roadmap to get them to best practices because that leads to them being able to recover from a disaster. 40% of businesses don't recover after a disaster. I take care of their current need, that data that is stored locally but I work to move them in the right direction. If they don't want to move in the right direction I usually turn the job down.

I misread what you wanted to do. I thought you wanted to backup the NAS. If you want to backup Windows machine to a NAS I would use Veeam Endpoint backup. It is free and easy to use.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

OUCH. I am so inflexible, due to injuries. That just hurts looking at it.

@NerdyDad said in Nokia 3310 Returns:

@coliver said in Nokia 3310 Returns:

So legitimate burner phones are back. Spies around the world will be glad to hear it.

So would grandparents that still just want a phone to be a phone.

My Dad will be ecstatic

Setup my Google WiFi again and it has been fine. That was the only issue for me. Didn't sign me out of any accounts.

Edgerouters are great. I have used them at clients places in the past, along with OpenVPN. You could also look at Untangle NG Firewall. I virtualized the firewall and the OpenVPN aspect of Untangle is very easy to setup. Of course you can use any firewall you want and just have a OpenVPN server. Turnkey Linux has a great OpenVPN appliance that you can download and run in any hypervisor. Also if you have a Raspberry Pi you can check out http://www.pivpn.io/

Thank you. You see these names and unless you heard it pronounce correctly how else are you going to know how to pronounce them. I have a auditory disorder and have an extremely hard time sounding words out. I always try to look this stuff up before I talk to someone about it. Even then a lot of times I have to be careful not to mispronounce it just because my brain and tongue seem to be fighting each other.

For lunch today I am having a traditional St. Louis food: Pork Steak. This one was slowed cooked on the grill and I choose no sauce for this one. Sometimes I put sauce or a rub on it but today I didn't feel like it. Here is the link for what a Pork Steak is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_steak

This impacted me last night as my Google WiFi was factory reset by this issue. Something in Google's authentication backend cause this issue. They referenced it once in the Google WiFi forums but reference to the authentication issue was removed. See screenshot. For me I have to setup my wireless network all over again at my house.