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Happy birthday @Mike-Ralston

https://lonetreerob.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/the-technical-side-of-aloha-pos-integration/

Finally, from an Aloha interface perspective, I need to discuss the Aloha database file system. Instead of using a single large database file to store all of its configuration information, the developers of Aloha elected to put most of this information in Dbase format files (DBFs). You can read these files with Excel and you can read these files programmatically. You can write to these files, but that’s dangerous, because Aloha adds fields to these files from time to time with new versions—so you can end up having to write code that treats the DBFs differently, depending on the version.

Aloha is the database engine here. There is no database tool being used. It's just something akin to CSV files with DBF names. If you show us the contents of one of them, we could tell you in a few minutes what they are. But they are not from any "database" product, they are simply the data files of Aloha.

So it sounds like Notepad will likely work just fine.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Downloaded this file,.. but I guess it is telling me I didn't

Oh you definitely downloaded something

It's hard to tell what is working for people and what is just something someone is suggesting. Also there is a lot of conflicting info, for example some people are saying that the system "used to be" flat file based, then others saying it has changed and is now SQL based. But flat file refers to how the data is stored on disk, and SQL refers to how it is referenced through the application, so it's like saying that a car used to use rubber tires, but has changed and how has leather seats - maybe the tires changed, too. But that someone says that the seat material changed and they associated that with the tires just tells us that people don't know what they are saying.

Worth a quick read:

https://mangolassi.it/topic/15408/don-t-use-serverfault-com

I don't recall anything like that, but it makes sense that if a company can produce records, they would be compelled so to do. The policy would show what they were supposed to destroy, anything that was kept outside of that policy would be expected to be called upon in court.

Lots of new people. Welcome @techincolor @Fredtx @kuyaz

Thanks guys. Seems like not too many people have plugins focused on performance. I'm surprised, seems like those things would be pretty common.

Maybe it knows, but doesn't care.

Except it is only sold to people without brains.

Are vendors like Meraki doing anything more than a traditional VPN site to site setup? I don't normally think of vendors like that in conjunction with SD-WAN.

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As someone who struggles for normal television to even qualify as interesting, binging is one of the few mechanisms that I have to make it worth sitting down for.

I think its a boxed wine vs bottled wine thing. Or Bourbon vs Scotch maybe?

Wait, maybe Seagrams vs a 7 & 7 is the best comparison?

Boxed wine is better if you want the wine to be properly maintained. Bottled it to make people feel better about it. One is about the quality, one is about the emotional response.

Just like an aluminum can is a far better storage and transportation vessel for beer than a glass bottle. Glad they started putting good beer into cans, removes some of the stigma.

Exactly. Seals better, keeps more light out.

And you can take it to the pool, the beach, or anywhere else glass bottles are a no-no.

Also a good point. Same with boxes of wine

Up your box wine game by removing the box and carrying the bag around. Bag wine is where it's at.

Up that game by replacing the wine with bourbon. bagged bourbon is the real game in town.

No doubt.. I need to ask Monkey Shoulder to make a bagged whiskey.

LOL I still have half a bottle of this. You tried Lagavulin 16? I ehter drink a bourban called 1792 that is equivelant price to Monkey Shoulder or a my premium drink, Lagavulin.

I dont know if the Monkey Shoulder made me sick or if I just was getting sick anyway. I thought it was good for the few drams I had, but its in my head now that it made me sick and I cant finish the bottle.

Nope, haven't heard of that. I don't go in search of whiskeys.. I sorta just bump into a good one every now and again.

In Soviet Russia, good whiskey goes in search of you!

Assuming that UAC is the issue, I went into regedit and set:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

To 0

Will let you know.

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Cat decided all computer time needed to halt for 10 minutes of cuddle time. Now to start tonight's Linux Academy videos.

If you have many cats, you could have CAT 5 and CAT 6, for example.

Break glass for emergency shared accounts. Keep the shared account info in a locked safe or even a safety deposit box. Some place that you know if it is accessed.

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Someone probably needs to write up a Xen to KVM conversion guide.

That would'be been a good idea. I just blew away the Xen to make the switch in the home lab tho

Well that was a big missed opportunity.

Have you checked into Blissfully?

It's about the games, not the systems. What games did you have her try?

I have an older Cisco ASA at a site that is interested in possibly getting a second ISP after some downtime with the main line and we are wondering if the Cisco ASA can handle a failover line like that. I am pretty sure that it cannot do load balancing. But just failover seems like it would. Has anyone does this? Does it work? If so, does it work well?

You could grab the early snapshot and just use that. It is all but released at this point.

@Pete-S said in ISP Failover with Cisco ASA:

All ASA 5500 series are EOL though so I don't think you can (or should) upgrade the license on them..

Very good point. I'd love if this was the excuse to replace them.