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Anyone?

Mine stopped for a couple of weeks and then last night they started showing up again.

Also, wouldn't this be water cooler, not water closet (US translation- bathroom)?

I just purchased my ERX and an AP-AC-LR for home. It was troublesome to setup at first until I realized that eth0 was meant for WAN (I was trying to setup eth1) Once I got that, everything fell into place and I am super happy so far. Got zoneedit for DDNS setup and the AP is using the POE passthrough. This setup blows my old Asus RN66U out of the water. And it is cheaper.

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Some iPad Pros ship a little bent, and Apple says that’s normal

The quarter-inch-thin device may bend as a result of its manufacturing process.

When The Verge reached out to Apple for comment, the company told the publication that the bending is "a side effect of the device’s manufacturing process and shouldn’t worsen over time or negatively affect the flagship iPad’s performance in any practical way." (The Verge's words.) Apple says the bending happens as a result of a cooling process used on the components when the device is manufactured.

Calling BS on Apple. Not a good design if it bends before it is even finished being manufactured.

Just in case someone in charge cares - It went from ML logo to a hex nut. I would upload the screen capture but I don't have enough privileges for that, apparently.

@brianlittlejohn When in doubt, prime overnight.

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Google updates Android Auto design with new default dark mode

A bunch of little changes that should make Android Auto easier to use
Android Auto is getting a little refresh, as Google announced a new version of its smartphone-powered infotainment system ahead of the company’s I/O developer conference this week

I don't know if I want dark mode all the time, but it would be nice if Google maps (in Android Auto) would switch to dark mode when the headlights turn on.

I went with Ruckus because I have had them for over 5 years and it just works.

Here comes the blasphemy - I have a Ubiquiti UAP AC Lite on an erx at home and I have had problems with several ap firmware versions and two mobile devices. I also had to return a DOA one. After a recent upgrade, it works again. In my experience, Ubiquiti has caused some headaches and I preferred to go the route where I've personally experienced fewer problems.

That being said, I will almost certainly be replacing my Sophos UTM (at work) with a Ubiquiti router. I have had zero problems with my erx.

I will hang tight until we can get to the bottom of the, "should I even use OwnCloud" debacle.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

If you read the bit in the article that mentions mobile, you will notice that it is about the WAN backhaul for mobile carriers to use, not the mobile system itself. The Amazon Kuiper system is meant for direct to home access, direct to business access, as well as light use WAN backhaul. These low earth orbit systems are for fixed location endpoints, not mobile ones.

That would allow them to put towers in remote locations where all they need is a means to power them.

5 bucks a month is pretty damned cheap.

The way it works is that it uses a script and an xml file with settings to download the file. You can run it as a startup script via GPO so they don't need to be admins. None of my users are either.

I hate when vendors gate their pricing.

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Hit by a truck - that's how I feel like. Guess I catched a cold.

Rebuilding a patch panel, looks like the incarnation of the spaghetti monster right now. Should look like this when it's done:

Patch panel
48 port switch
Patch panel
Cable management panel
Patch panel
48 port switch
Patch panel

... and so on. A lot of work, but it's worth the effort.

You don't have a full rack of patch panels, then a full rack of switches?

I do it that way now too...

So pretty.

I'm trying to get my posts to look like this but I literally need to tear down the network to make room. . .

Thanks! Yeah, I am not done yet. I had that 2-post installed several years ago and have gradually moved over to it. I started with something worse than this pic below (it is my server room but this was taken about 3/4 of the way through the process of replacing the drops). All cables were crimped directly out of the ceiling without any slack and the crimps were so bad that some would lose connection when you were trying to trace a cable and most had no labels. If they did, they had people's names. That is super helpful when someone leaves the company or plays musical offices/desks, which is very common here.

This may seem super trivial for some of your Linux veterans, but I am working through a couple of projects that are broadening my Linux skill set. I ran into an issue where I would try to connect via SSH to an Ubuntu server, running OpenSSH and when logging in, it would take about 10 seconds to prompt for the password and about 30 seconds to complete the login after authenticating me. This also affected trying to use SFTP via filezilla to grab a file from the server.

After some Googling and trial and error, I found that what fixed my problem was to add a line to the sshd_config file that apparently disables the default behavior of trying to use reverse IP resolution.

The steps I took:

• sudo nano /etc/ssh/ssh_config

• Add this line to the end of the file:
  UseDNS no

• Ctrl X to exit.

• Y to save.

• "Enter" to overwrite the existing file.

• I restarted the SSH service but I don't know if it was necessary.
  sudo service ssh restart

Wondering why the GPO settings for Windows Firewall show that you can use the cidr notation syntax to specify an entire subnet, but 10131 errors on the client complain and show you that you can't. WTF?

GPO Settings-

Client error-

I am not running any VMs off of the NAS that I backup to. That would just be stupid.

I do have a file share for my Graphic design team on another NAS (older Synology 1812+) that does have a VMware datastore on it and a single VMDK for data. That VMDK is backed up during the normal Veeam backup to the normal backup repository.

Have my weekly "IT" meeting. It is more of a, " The CFO asks the only IT person for updates and the CFO looks bored and sleepy during each response" meeting.

@Dashrender That is also for two years. Bringing the total to $155.50 per socket, per year.

@stuartjordan This makes me think of that Family Guy episode where Chris is in this video.

Have been using the ERX for a few months now and love it.