@JaredBusch said in Redirecting feedback from Linux command:

@Pete-S Pretty much what I do not want is the status bar from these two commands.

fwconsole ma upgradeall

fwconsole chown

Well, use grep to match for the progress bar then.

First output stderr to a file and look in the file.

I don't know how the progress bar looks when it's output as a stream of characters.
I'm guessing every update is something like

3076094/3076094 [===========>-------------] 60%<CR>

In that case grep for every line that doesn't contain a [ followed by a number of =, > or - and finally a ].

So something like:

grep -v '\[[=->]+\\]'

Or maybe even better:

grep -v '\[[=->]{28}\\]'

Above assuming there are always 28 characters inside the brackets in the progress bar.

PS.
Funny thing but there seems to be a bug in the forum software.
I had to use an extra backslash to get the above regex look right \[[=->]+\\\] instead of \[[=->]+\\]
They look right in the preview though.

@black3dynamite that will work. I'll report back on Monday when I get the user on the phone.

@scottalanmiller said in Ticket versus Projects:

@Pete-S said in Ticket versus Projects:

Looking at Zoho One we're actually thinking about going all-in for real. Zoho One is a subscription that gives you access to almost everything Zoho has - Mail, Workdrive, CRM, Desk, Projects, etc, etc. It's $30 per month for every employee.

We've looked at it, but the price just doesn't work for us. Even if we bought every tool that every person would ever use, we don't have a single user who comes up to the $30/mo price. Most are in the $3 range, so the gap is huge.

Our core users are mail, workdrive, and connect. Beyond that, everything is unique to a role.

Yes, I think it hard to come up in price for the common cheaper services and only makes sense when you have a high percentage of your workforce on one of the more costly things like Zoho Desk or Zoho CRM.

The enterprise edition of Zoho CRM for instance is $35 per month. Enterprise edition of Zoho Desk is also the same price.

Tweaked a bit to provide an output file.

https://gitlab.com/EddieJennings/bash-general/-/blob/master/find_files_sort_by_filename.sh

@jt1001001 said in ZOOM alternative:

I have our club board meetings on meet.jit.si no cost no time limit no member limit and no client required which is great for the less literate crowd

I use Jitsi for everything. It's great.

So Free/Busy would work on a federated level and you can actually use the schedule assistant from another Office 365 account to see that however that is all you will get. That said the user will need to send an invite regardless. There is a Uservoice on this
https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/273493-office-365-admin/suggestions/36486493-allow-calendar-updates-for-external-users

There are other options like setting up a calendar in Sharepoint and external users can do that.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-a-team-site-in-sharepoint-ef10c1e7-15f3-42a3-98aa-b5972711777d?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us

You can also use this enterprise app in Office 365 as well
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-bookings-blog/you-can-now-do-more-with-microsoft-bookings/ba-p/298461

@JaredBusch said in SMS-Magic or Clickatell?:

I've heard of Clickatell but not SMS-Magic.

I've not researched them at all.

Thanks, we've signed up for Clickatell now so we'll see how it goes.

@Mario-Jakovina said in Vultr Firewall added Cloudflare:

As I said - we do have FQDN.
I was just suprised when @Dashrender said they are free from Cloudflare

I misspoke, I never meant that registered domains themselves were free. What I meant was free was DNS hosting and base level proxying from CF.

@brandon220 said in Fiber Optic LC adaptor:

https://www.fs.com/products/82730.html is all you need.

thank you very much, very helpful post.

And this person has a full guide https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/3775/xen-orchestra-from-source-with-let-s-encrypt-certificates

@EddieJennings said in Do You Look Like a Real Business To Your Customers?:

@DustinB3403 said in Do You Look Like a Real Business To Your Customers?:

@EddieJennings said in Do You Look Like a Real Business To Your Customers?:

@Pete-S said in Do You Look Like a Real Business To Your Customers?:

A real business also have procedures for almost everything.

This cannot be stated enough.

hahahahaahahahaha

Glad I could entertain you.

I needed a laugh, especially before my evening went to shit yesterday.

@Dashrender said in How much RAM for this VM?:

why does the consumed have those dips?

I'd say this was invoked by the apps running on it. This VM is used for analytics and reporting, it's got Visual Studio, Power Bi and SQL server running on it. The vendor must've been doing some shit on it.

@DustinB3403 said in Youtube is down:

Was it HP, I could've sworn it was IBM for a superbowl commerical?

They both have probably pulled the same sort of stunt.

@StorageNinja said in Apple Officially Releases their ARM M1 Powered Lineup:

@scottalanmiller said in Apple Officially Releases their ARM M1 Powered Lineup:

USB4 is TB3 compatible.

Intel removed licensing for TB3 as part of agreement to make part of USB4 spec.

That's great. The two have been way too close.

@DustinB3403 - Got it working!! I appreciate to push in the right direction.

It actually was a lot easier than expected. I had to do two things:

Install SigPlus on both the client and the RDP server Setup 2 GPOs

GPOs:

Configure USB Redirection with RemoteFX

Set the following Group Policy setting on RDS hosts or VDI desktop to "Disabled":

Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Remote Desktop Services\Remote Desktop Session Host\Device and Resource Redirection\Do not allow supported Plug and Play device redirection

Set the following Group Policy setting on client machines to "Enabled":

Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Remote Desktop Services\Remote Desktop Connection Client\RemoteFX USB Device Redirection\Allow RDP redirection of other supported RemoteFX USB devices from this computer

@StorageNinja said in vSAS - Value Serial Attached SCSI:

100% of the time a SAS drive needs a SAS HBA or RAID Controller

Because the RAID controller is actually a tiny computer with its own built on SAS HBA 🙂

@scottalanmiller said in First Look Ubiquiti Unifi UXG Pro:

The new, unreleased Unifi UXG Pro just arrived here at the NTG Dallas offices. Woot! It's dual power supply, dual WAN, dual LAN, touch screen LCD and up and running!

More details as we get to play with it.

DAMN IT!!!

@Pete-S said in How Many HCI Nodes for the SMB:

But if you run a generic benchmark that is not designed to give inflated numbers, the situation is different.

I don't run generic benchmarks in production for a living thankfully 🙂
The reality is most CPU intensive stuff takes advantage of at least some of the new offload extensions and libraries. Also memory throughput is often the limiting factor for databases and other intensive IO applications.

@DustinB3403 said in Powershell variable help:

@Pete-S That is going to be complete subjective based on the type of spam that might come in.

I follow what you're saying but I'm kind of stuck between having something functional or not (due to this).

Well, you need to decide what you are allowing and not. For instance you have already decided to just use the subject line and not any of the other parts of the email, for instance author.

You need to run the string through regex or something like that to remove characters you are not allowing. It might take more than one string operation to sanitize. I think you can escape any special character you want to allow with backtick `.

Another option would be to allow the user to enter the entire KQL query themselves.

Also if you get an error when trying to apply the search you put out an error "Invalid search input!" and go back to prompt the user for input again. That would be one way so solve problems.

@BrownLuther007 said in Any good self-hosted discord alternatives?:

Hi, I might be a little late but specifically for the self-hosted, telegram is there. And for basic functionalities, there are Element, TeamSpeak 3, Overtone, Steam Chat, & Tox.

Telegram isn't self hosted, though.