@scottalanmiller said in Resentment to Purchasing Software - Split From Unrelated Topic on IT Professionals:

@dbeato said in Resentment to Purchasing Software - Split From Unrelated Topic on IT Professionals:

However Windows, Mac OS and any Linux Flavor have their own risks so for me it is about mitigating considering both the usability and risks.

See, this is what I mean. Everything has risks. Risk evaluation involves evaluating how big and common the risks are, what they are likely to do, what the impact is.

If you just say "there is risk", all risk evaluation is useless. IT has to evaluate and consider the risks. Just saying that you have to be afraid of everything because everything has risks and treating it all the same is the same as completely ignoring it. "When everything is a risk, nothing is a risk."

It is understand what you think but saying and doing are two different things. So yes, most things have risks and nothing is perfect but you action it on prevention and being proactive you do no leave it to chance.

@JaredBusch said in pi-Hole: Dashboard times out:

@gjacobse said in pi-Hole: Dashboard times out:

@JaredBusch said in pi-Hole: Dashboard times out:

Unless you have the Vultr Firewall in place restriciting access to your home IP or some software firewall running on the instance, you have setup a fucking public DNS server. What else would you expect to happen?

Great - that's an extra $10 a month unless I can run firewalld on the system and be fine.

um wut?

Admittedly - I may have misspoke and that is the DDOS not the firewall. I have to go back and look through.

@scottalanmiller said in pi-Hole: Dashboard times out:

@gjacobse said in pi-Hole: Dashboard times out:

@JaredBusch said in pi-Hole: Dashboard times out:

Unless you have the Vultr Firewall in place restriciting access to your home IP or some software firewall running on the instance, you have setup a fucking public DNS server. What else would you expect to happen?

Great - that's an extra $10 a month unless I can run firewalld on the system and be fine.

$10? Should be $3.50 on Vultr

This instance is indeed $3.50

@black3dynamite said in Why I Choose LibreOffice:

@travisdh1 said in Why I Choose LibreOffice:

I've been using OnlyOffice personally for a couple of years now. It was just better at getting the MS Office formatting correct when I made the switch. Which was a major factor for me while looking for a job.

/tangent Recruiters, do yourselves a favor and stop asking for resumes/CVs in Word format! /tangent

I've used LibreOffice since it was only OpenOffice. Remember when it started as StarOffice, the Sun aquesition, the split to LibreOffice, and now the Apache OpenOffice. More history lesson here. Sun purchased the company, Star Division, in 1999 because buying said company for 59.5 million was cheaper than licensing Microsoft Office for 42,000 employees.

Even when asked, I’ll still only provide a PDF version of my resume.

LOL, yup. I give a pass to the sales applications. But tech applications in anything but PDF get the stink eye from me.

@Mario-Jakovina said in When Does It Stop Even Being IT: Buyers vs Doers:

My point is - I don't see many companies in non-competitive environment

I see absolutely tons. Mostly because the market is small. I'll give an example...

Crappy restaurant opens in a town of 1,000 residents. It's not horrible, just not very good. Prices are a little high, service slow, a few food items are good, most are blah. They survive because people want a place to eat and they are it.

No competition. Logically a competing restaurant will just open up and kill them off, right? Well, no. Because the market doesn't grow with the new restaurant. So someone looking to open a new restaurant says "even if I make a better restaurant I have to compete against an established restaurant with less debt... the potential market for the second restaurant is smaller even if they do better."

The second restaurant has a lot of fears... can they really do better than the first one? If they cost less, they have fewer profits to use to compete. If they make better food or have better service, that only causes a certain percentage of people to switch to them. Most people will split their time to some degree between the two, lowering the market share for both. Presumably the established company has less debt and is already up and running and can improve their food, service, and prices before the new restaurant opens - potentially making it impossible to compete, then they can go back once the new one fails. Did the first restaurant get the best choice of real estate and the new one just the second best location?

It's actually extremely common in the SMB world for companies to remain without competition because it's often not a market where there is much to any value to competing where someone is already there. Established companies have typically deep pockets to throw at making new start ups in their space fail.

Basically, without a plugin for it, static pages can't be displayed out of the PHP application. NC is a single app, not a collection of pages with some PHP inline. So a plugin approach is necessary.

@pattonb said in raid controller batteries:

@travisdh1 thanks, I was able to find a replacement, with module. less than $20, so I figure it is worth
the gamble. From a previous entry , the battery is Li-ion, not LI-polymer. The official documentation from LSI confirms it.
as happenstance would have it, just noticed this on twitter today, re li-polymer batteries

pic.twitter.com/FQxDGZo5L1

thanks everybody for your comments.

That goes for all lithium based batteries, and has been a known issue since they were first invented.
Youtube Video

@gjacobse said in Chocolatey install Microsoft Office:

@DustinB3403 said in Chocolatey install Microsoft Office:

choco install office365proplus is what I've always used

Curious - will it allow you to apply the license using this method?

I am not sure. It might be possibe, however I can't say for sure as I have never tried.

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@scottalanmiller said in piHole: Forwarded queries:

@gjacobse said in piHole: Forwarded queries:

@gjacobse said in piHole: Forwarded queries:

Looking through my pHole - I see that a number of entries (IPaddresses) are shown as forwarded. Is this something that should be allowed (forwarding) or blocked?

Or - is it a reply to the request and completely normal

Completely normal. A forward in DNS is when the local DNS server (the Pi-Hole) doesn't have the "answer" in its table.

I wondered - I went back and read it 'backwards' and from that stand point - I can very much see it as being normal. the request is forwarded on - ... not something coming in that shouldn't.

Thanks

@jmoore said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

@stacksofplates said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

@jmoore said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

@scottalanmiller said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

@jmoore said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

@scottalanmiller said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

A big question would be... why do you want to restrict binaries from users?

Thats the sysadmin decision. He considers it a security measure and I can understand it somewhat.

Does he? Because he's not restricting them in any way, and totally okay with all the portable apps delivered in the web browser, right? So he's totally okay with them. Just confused, I'd guess.

Well, I can't presume to know his mind but hes just trying to limit the damage that can be done i suppose. I am guessing that is what he is thinking.

Is this from a government requirement? The only way to do this is checksum all of your executables. Unless you are required to do this, you're insane.

Yes we are a 2 year college and this is what I am told.

That's a lot to deal with for a 2 year college. I can understand the annoyances of accreditation and also following like FERPA requirements.

@marcinozga said in Tomcat with an NGINX Reverse Proxy and Self-signed SSL Certificate:

I don't know if it's strictly required, I'd add it.

Because the one tells the port to listen on. The other tells it what protocol to use. Since you can use any port, with any protocol, it has to be listed. You can just add it to port 80 if you want, for example.

@gjacobse said in pi-hole: Xbox; Ads on Youtube:

@Dashrender said in pi-hole: Xbox; Ads on Youtube:

@gjacobse said in pi-hole: Xbox; Ads on Youtube:

@marcinozga said in pi-hole: Xbox; Ads on Youtube:

Pi-hole won't block youtube ads, at least not the in-video ads. You need youtube premium to get rid of them, no way to block those I'm afraid.

Noted - I don't get ads on the PC(s), likely due to different adblocker there.

and well - dang.

How are they being blocked on the PC... something other than blacklists/DNS not resolve...

My default had been to install adblocker when building a PC,.. so it's likely still running even with the pi-hole running.

Right, but how do most of those work? as far as I know they work by blocking DNS queries

@gjacobse said in New user in Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi OS has no programs:

@scottalanmiller said in New user in Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi OS has no programs:

@gjacobse said in New user in Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi OS has no programs:

Just for reference (mine) what are you using the rPi for? I have two rPi 3b+ and 1 rPi Zero running currently;

rPi 3b+ running Diet-Pi hosting APCups, CUPS, and Unifi Controller rPi 3b+ running Raspbian for HamRadio activies (using Build-A-Pi found on YouTube) rPi Zero - DMR radio hotspot (transceiver to internet gateway)

Still could use one or two more

Desktops

I would go with the rPi 4 as a desktop... bit more power and more memory..

That's the first model that offers a real desktop option. No one has suggested trying anything else.

@dbeato said in Ubuntu: Auto Update 18.x vs 20.x:

I don't see anything blatantly changing on 20.04 as opposed as 18.04 and I have working for the few 20.04 servers we have.

Thanks for the reminder - I went back and discovered that one single line was still uncommented. I checked a few minutes ago, and the number of updates was zero, where last week it was up to 15.

@DustinB3403 If it is not DNS, firewall is always a problem lol. Nice find.

@dbeato said in O365 - shared mailbox full access to another calendar.:

YOu can actually give Full Details mailbox permissions to calendar to the Shared Mailbox either with PowerShell or Local in Outlook or Web access.

I'll admit that my user told me they couldn't - I didn't try myself... I'll if if I can remote in and give the shared mailbox access.

These seems rather bizarre that you would give permissions to the shared mailbox because it could be an end around for someone who shouldn't have permission to get them.. but meh.

@Pete-S said in Xen Orchestra - Community Edition - Installing with Yarn:

@travisdh1 said in Xen Orchestra - Community Edition - Installing with Yarn:

@DustinB3403 said in Xen Orchestra - Community Edition - Installing with Yarn:

@travisdh1 what issue are you referring too? As far as I recall everything that is needed is included in the appropriate script install/upgrade

It's git, not the scripts. Since you need to have your git user information entered for it to work, would be good to have it added to the instructions.

I don't understand. Do you have to have a github account and be logged in to be able to download anything from github?

I can reach this without being logged in:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jarli01/xenorchestra_installer/master/xo_install.sh

No you don't have to actually have an account, it's a git requirement to put something in there though and we don't autofill that information in case someone wants to supply their account details.

@scottalanmiller said in NextCloud: Unrecoverablely broken?:

Bottom line, in NextCloud you shouldn't be looking at the files from the command line, ever. Not NextCloud files anyway. Permissions are meant to be handled by the app and it's database, not by the filesystem.

Well mostly. Nextcloud needs the files to have the right system permissions.

But user permissions have nothing to do with system permissions.

Also, for a few specific instances, I do quite a bit with Nextcloud files on the command line. But that is a very specific use case, and also has nothing to do with group or share permissions.

@scottalanmiller I realise this is an old topic, but I've been fighting something similar all day. As it turns out, the implementation of PTY (and also TTY) has changed in recent versions of OpenSSH for windows. When the SSH session is built from within a script, the new OpenSSH implementation detects that the session is not setup from an interactive terminal, and therefore does not assign a PTY to the session, which results in the unability of the Get-Command command to send its output to STDOUT, hence the access denied error. Solution is (at least in the situation I am in) to use the -t (or even -tt) flag with the ssh command to set up the session