@scottalanmiller said in macOS 14 Sonoma:

macOS Sonoma 14 has released this morning. Mac users can update now. I'm just about to kick off the update myself.

https://www.apple.com/macos/sonoma/

No major features that I would call important in any way. but lots of little things.

Released yesterday. I upgraded to it with zero issues. I'll be using my laptop as my primary device today and tomorrow, so if there are any issues, I expect to find them. so far, nothing.

After scouring countless sites and articles, only thing that could fully read the drives was UFS Explorer. $700 later and many, many crashes, we are starting to have a reliable process of recovering the data. We have to use UFS Explorer and recover as raw disk images. Then attach those raw images to new VMs manually. Then do a Windows recover to each one.

@scottalanmiller said in Resources for Learning HTML & CSS Web Design:

Does anyone have good resources for web design? Good books or YouTube or websites? I'm talking actual skilled design, not "I bought a template for WordPress and changed teh colors using a GUI". I want to get people up to speed on hand coding HTML and CSS, understanding things like Bootstrap and so forth.

I'm not aware of any specific videos for HTML and CSS, but what I have been using here and there is SoloLearn. The Android app for it is great. The best part about it is that for each part of the course, there's public comments. You can learn so much more useful things browsing through those after reading each step of the course. It's been a great help.

My most recent course in Sololearn is the C#. I don't only use Sololearn, but it's a great addition to other resources. I used a great 45-hour Udemy course as my main source. That said, I do remember seeing HTML and CSS in Sololearn.

As for websites, when I need to reference HTML and CSS, my go-to sites are:

HTML:

CSS:

Most of my HTML/CSS usage these days is the ad-hoc need to reference something, so there's likely better tutorials than I listed. But it might be good to check out SASS and SCSS as well, as I have been needing to reference those more and more.

Leaving this new system standalone, not joining the old cluster or creating a single system cluster.

The new (added in 7.3) qm remote-migrate works well. The docs suck, but the function is great.
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@scottalanmiller said in Configure Mastodon to Use Zoho ZeptoMail for SMTP Email:

@PhlipElder said in Configure Mastodon to Use Zoho ZeptoMail for SMTP Email:

All of our mail servers are properly set up with a SmartHost, SPF, and DMARC. We don't have any reputation issues. That's a 2000s kind of problem.

No, it's current. Microsoft blacklists entire datacenters still. There's a lawsuit in Illinois about it that they lost. It's a very real thing still that RBL are used by the majors (like Microsoft, but not Google) and used to shut down entire ISPs and IP blocks. I've been brought in to help providers with these issues, it's a huge legal problem and if you don't get hit with it, it seems like it doesn't exist, and if you do get hit, it seems like there's no recourse (hint: there isn't.)

We're dealing with a client who has their site hosted in a Yandex.RU data centre and guess what? Yeah, some putz between their web server and ProofPoint has a sinkhole because Ukraine. The web server can e-mail @Outlook.Com because they have servers around the world but not ProofPoint.

We've had lots of issues over the years where one midbone/backbone provider either shapes or blocks packets from another because they're in a contract dispute. Poof. Packets gone.

@scottalanmiller said in Installing Mastodon 4.1.2 on Debian 11:

@stacksofplates said in Installing Mastodon 4.1.2 on Debian 11:

Their official image is here ghcr.io/mastodon/mastodon

Yeah, that one was flaky. But is it official? Why's it on a different account?

Yes it's their official. Ghcr is the GitHub packages repo. It's similar to GCR, ECR, etc. Other OCI image repositories are more popular now since Docker has imposed limits on Docker Hub.

@scottalanmiller said in Get Alert Whenever There is MS SQL Server Access:

It's a production database so there should be an email when the application connects and absolutely no user should ever, ever, ever be able to log in unless it's an admin doing an emergency backup and/or restore (likely alerts would be off during a restore.)

I cannot imagine a MS SQL Server based client-server application that does not make a billion DB calls all day long. So you will have to exclude that system user from being audited.

@scottalanmiller said in Get Alert Whenever There is MS SQL Server Access:

There's no user ever authorized to just connect.

The application user is always connecting. Repeatedly.

Side question: When does 23.04 get moved into LTS mode?

LOL...absolutely!

SAM...making IT better for humans...have an extra avatar on us....

@syko24 said in SAMIT: Why You Can't Share QuickBooks on Google Drive for Mutiuser:

@scottalanmiller said in SAMIT: Why You Can't Share QuickBooks on Google Drive for Mutiuser:

@syko24 said in SAMIT: Why You Can't Share QuickBooks on Google Drive for Mutiuser:

There is a product out there called QBox that allows you to lock and sync the file with multiple locations. The downside is that remote users can only access the file when the local users have closed out of QuickBooks. Kind of a neat product but again not ideal when you need multiuser access all the time. The best solution in my opinion is an RDS server with the QuickBooks data file stored on the RDS for best performance.

As the QuickBooks desktop products seem to be coming closer and closer to an end, I agree that the online version is likely the best way to go. Part of the problem is that users have been using the desktop version for so long that the online version becomes very foreign to them and most want to return back to the desktop version.

https://www.coraltreetech.com/how-qbox-works

Yeah, that's not multiuser but rather "rapidly changing and coordinated single user". Could be a useful solution for some, though. You can do this with most products. NextCloud for example.

From the use case I've seen that is correct on being a single user product. I did watch the video on the link I posted and it does look like you can still do multiuser as long as the users are all on the same network. The remote user can only access once all the local users are out of the file and it has done it's sync. The file locking is automatic as well which is nice. It basically prevents the outside user from accidently overwriting your changes.

Sure, you can always bypass the sync and do local multiuser, but the humans have to manage that.

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@travisdh1 thanks! 🙂

And one last update from Node 15 to Node 19. I bet we are a lot faster now.