Dealing with this shitty Chinese software that "interacts" with Amazon. It doesn't work because it won't update from the server (throwing 403 error). Everything is in Chinese and support is only available during Chinese day time and in Chinese only. Their own support can't fix it and now this marketing person wants me to uninstall and reinstall it.

You can't even run it without running as admin, so I had to create a Microsoft application compatibility exception just to get it to run in a regular user's account. Also, you have to switch the entire OS to Chinese to get it to accept the serial number.

I don't trust this thing so much that I have a non-domain joined system that is connected to our guest wifi network.

Waste of time/money.

@scottalanmiller said in Large file sharing to, from and within mainland China:

Picking RHEL 7 is probably fine.

I tried Other Linux but it only had the E1000 NIC so I tried RHEL 7 and it had the VMXNET 3 NIC so I went with that and am doing the updates on the Fedora installation now.

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Yeah, the annoying part is

Luckily they show on our supplier website
The Dell X1052p £600

I never used the X-Series, but whatever the series was right before it seemed like it was solid.

It was PowerConnect which were solid and still some running for me.

Yeah, I still have 2 running. There is a location that some cables were run long before my time that has a powerconnect 5548P and it is uplinked to another one in the server room. I have 5 drops left to replace, before I can get rid of both.

Edit- My main switches are Extreme XG450 G2 Summit switches, configured in a stack.

@JaredBusch said in Install NextCloud 11 on Fedora 25 with SaltStack:

@wrx7m said in Install NextCloud 11 on Fedora 25 with SaltStack:

Forgive my ignorance. I need a kickstart on what to do first. I just spun up Fedora 25 on an ESXi 6 host and not sure how to get started with the saltstack stuff.

If you don't want salt and just want to use Nextcloud on Fedora 25, I am verifying my guide for it.

Thanks. I will have to check it out when you're done

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

Customer just sent me a picture of this....

This is what I had to deal with. And this is pared down from what it was. Now, I can close the door on this rack. Most of those cables were terminated improperly. Move something and someone lost connectivity.

Same with this rack. Tons of re-cabling.

@scottalanmiller said in Install NextCloud 11 on Fedora 25 with SaltStack:

The directory is /srv/salt not srv/salt. That would do it. But that might just be a typo here on the community, too.

Good catch! I had no idea that was two different things.

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Amazon plans to make Prime shipping one-day by default

Still building up support for more products, ZIP codes before nationwide rollout.
Amazon's latest earnings conference call included the reveal of a major shift for the paid Amazon Prime subscription service: an "evolution" to one-day shipping as a nationwide default.

Now that they have more DCs than ever and are using their own delivery service, it makes sense. In some areas, does it cost more to store it than deliver it?

@scottalanmiller Thanks for the basic explanation. I really need to revisit your Linux for noobs series

Can't wait!
Youtube Video

@scottalanmiller Thanks. I did exactly that and it works

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Today ML be like

Everywhere has been pretty quite.

I'll trade today with everyone else. Just got to sit down and read my email for the first time. Guess who will be working late tonight

I woke up at 5:55 to my alert that the server room AC failed. I am still waiting for the AC tech to come. The internet went down for 8 minutes today. Then I had a budget meeting when I was going to go to lunch. Finally got to go to lunch and their soda machine was broken. Wanna trade?

@scottalanmiller For some reason it isn't holding the SSH part of the ACL. I modified firewalld to add the --permanent and it seems to be holding now. Strange that the https isn't an issue.

@WrCombs said in Automation For Lights?:

@wrx7m said in Automation For Lights?:

@WrCombs said in Automation For Lights?:

Here's a weird one, I apparently have a hard time hearing my phone, during my on call late at night, So Im looking at ways to make it to where I can hear my phone and wake up, as well as stay awake to handle the call.
friend of mine suggested automation of a bright light (lamp or otherwise) that will turn on when the phone rings from my work number in hopes that the light would wake up me along with the ringing of the phone.

Any ideas on how to go about that?
or Ideas on tech that could help me wake up to my phone ringing?

My main goal is to stop missing calls or falling asleep soon after answering the calls so i can help.
The calls that come in at 2-5 am are normally emergency situations where they need help within 10 minutes.

Man, I wish I could sleep like that.

it is pretty great!
but.. Not some much when Emergency calls come in.

I have my PRTG alert notification set to The Walking Dead theme. It has woken me up every time. Including yesterday at 5:55 AM to tell me there was a problem with the server room AC.

@JaredBusch Figured it out. Your commands had a typo and the file name is missing a "c". htacess

@WrCombs said in Automation For Lights?:

@wrx7m said in Automation For Lights?:

@WrCombs said in Automation For Lights?:

@wrx7m said in Automation For Lights?:

@WrCombs said in Automation For Lights?:

Here's a weird one, I apparently have a hard time hearing my phone, during my on call late at night, So Im looking at ways to make it to where I can hear my phone and wake up, as well as stay awake to handle the call.
friend of mine suggested automation of a bright light (lamp or otherwise) that will turn on when the phone rings from my work number in hopes that the light would wake up me along with the ringing of the phone.

Any ideas on how to go about that?
or Ideas on tech that could help me wake up to my phone ringing?

My main goal is to stop missing calls or falling asleep soon after answering the calls so i can help.
The calls that come in at 2-5 am are normally emergency situations where they need help within 10 minutes.

Man, I wish I could sleep like that.

it is pretty great!
but.. Not some much when Emergency calls come in.

I have my PRTG alert notification set to The Walking Dead theme. It has woken me up every time. Including yesterday at 5:55 AM to tell me there was a problem with the server room AC.

Nice.
But also, not nice.
But then again...

The whole point is to wake up. It has a wide range of pitches and volumes.

I have not been able to get NextCloud to update via the Web UI. I tried to do 11.0.2 to 11.0.3 on another server instance a couple weeks ago and now I am trying to do 11.0.3 to 12.0 and each time I get file permissions errors which lists a thousand or so files. (I followed Jared's Nextcloud 11.0.3 on Fedora 25's walk-through)

I tried several chown and chmod commands for a couple of users/groups and still haven't been able to get it updated. Does anyone know which user/group should have which permissions?

Solution- Thanks to @black3dynamite - setenforce 0 temporarily then setenforce 1 after the upgrade. Also, thanks to @JaredBusch for the original walk-through.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just back to the apartment from a day of touring Firenze. Learned to make pasta from scratch today. That was so much fun. Heading to Switzerland and Paris tomorrow.

Oh, nice! Fresh pasta is so much better.

@scottalanmiller said in NextCloud - Updating/Upgrading File Permissions Errors:

Are you seeing 12 available in your GUI? Still not seeing it here.

According to their site, they are releasing a staged roll-out with only about 15% of users on 11.0.3 on the stable release channel getting the notification. If you want to force it to detect 12, you can change to the beta channel, install it and change back.

https://nextcloud.com/blog/welcome-to-nextcloud-12/ If you scroll down to the upgrading section at the bottom, it tells you.

I pre-ordered the Note 10+ in 512GB (upgrading from an S8+)

I saw this marked as solved but can't seem to find the post that mentions the solution/what the OP ended up doing.