Posts made by Reid Cooper

@FATeknollogee said in Fedora 29 Server (or 28) install is stuck...?:

Update from SM:
"After we perform more test and use a non-widescreen monitor, we can finish installing Fedora 29 on our 4C version MB."

Very odd.

NUC are good and well known / supported.

@DustinB3403 fingers crossed for this one.

@manxam said in All computers cannot access 1 specific site:

@travisdh1 : Very good point. Router reboot changes nothing. I'll send someone on site to connect to the modem directly and see if it's an ISP issue or that terrible SonicWall.

Thanks!

Any news from them?

Maybe something like NinjaRMM? I've seen internal departments use that before.

Okay, I know that this is awfully subjective. But what standard plugins do you "always" use for your WordPress sites? There are some that just seem like no brainers and should be standard for most any deployment.

Here is what I am thinking so far, would like to hear opinions of what other people use, like, whatever.

• Breeze: by Cloudways. This handles cache, integrates with Varnish, and does minification.
• CloudFlare: Assuming you have CloudFlare for your site, this integrates the CDN cache.
• JetPack: Integrates with WordPress stuff.
• Really Simple SSL: Handles SSL complexities.
• WordFence: Can be a pain, but provides some protection, monitoring, etc.

Is there something I should be considered for more speed? Some of these don't make sense?

https://skateboardingbudgies.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/p1017307.jpg

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Contacting @colocationamerica about getting my new home lab into a colo space.

What hardware are you colo-ing?

A Dell R620. Single 550w power supply, 2x Xeon x5-5660 8-core, 96gb RAM, 4x Cruical MX-400 500GB SSD (my new home lab box.)

FFS fodder, but I must ask. Is having the single supply enough power for you to fully utilitize the hardware in that server? I know you can get 1U + an additional power plug for a fee with Colocation America.

Typically, yes. If you need two power supplies for things to work, then you don't have redundant power.

@jmoore said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

Shrimp pasta with pesto

I've seen soy pasta, but that sounds a little gross.

URLs have to be stored somewhere, presumably. Whether in a relational database or a flat file database edited manually, results are more or less the same. But in a traditional, robust database there is more centralization of configuration and data so it is easier to backup and restore, manage, and so forth.

Ideally you want enough RAM to hold the database and any temporary or cache tables in RAM without having to touch the disk. More than that, and it is just wasted.

No cert errors here. Maybe something is cached?

Looks like maybe they got a new URL and decided to change some branding?

@Obsolesce depends on the license. You can get SQL Server in 2, 4, 6, 8, etc. If licensing by core.

I am interested, too.

I think you only need to update the package that you are installing. Nothing around the package has changed.

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Schooling by Jared done for the night. Doing a few tasks now.

That's like a brand name.

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Shutdown hits government websites as certificates begin to expire
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/01/14/shutdown-hits-government-websites-as-certificates-begin-to-expire/

If only the government knew about LetsEncrypt and basic automation.

@WrCombs said in Data Base Management:

@Reid-Cooper said in Data Base Management:

@WrCombs said in Data Base Management:

@JaredBusch said in Data Base Management:

@Reid-Cooper said in Data Base Management:

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.

and nailed it..

Notepad does not work, but I found one. It's called "db navigator".
The "dbfs" are stored in what looks to be "csv "?now that I look a little more closely.
Sorry for the confusion, but I honestly didn't have the answers for what you guys were asking.
I get it, my question in and of itself was vague. But I didn't have an understanding of what you all were talking about.

Notepad opens CSV, CSV is just a text document. What happens when you try to open in Notepad?

its a bunch of Symbols and circles

Well, that suggests that it is a binary file of some sort. Might be something simple, like Base64, but not an ASCII file.

@dave_c said in Data Base Management:

@Reid-Cooper
it seems like there are 2 versions of Aloha, one uses a SQL database and the other uses only DBF files easily manipulable in Fox Pro. But it seems like the SQL based Aloha stills has DBFs in the server.

So the easiest thing would be to download a dBase DBF viewer and try it on a copy of an Aloha DBF.

I'm out but I will check later to see if @WrCombs has success

It has been a while since I used Fox Pro, but I am pretty sure that Fox Pro can talk SQL. Fox Pro is "a SQL database." It is fully relational, just like JetDB and SQL Server.