@matteo-nunziati said in How can I build this displaylink driver for fedora 29:

@JaredBusch said in How can I build this displaylink driver for fedora 29:

I have a standard Dell USB dock but want to use it with a Fedora 29 user.

https://github.com/displaylink-rpm/displaylink-rpm

That repo has a pull request in for the Fedora 29 updates, but I figured I could build it early for testing. Also I want to get more familiar with doing this on Linux in general.

I have no *devel bits installed on my system. Obviously, I can clone it down and run make, but I wonder if I need any other resources?

Inside the "ci" folder there is a script to let fedora downlad everything and compile via makefile

That did it.

@Reid-Cooper said in Zerotier issues this morning?:

@wrx7m said in Zerotier issues this morning?:

My understanding is that once connected, ZT's service doesn't have any impact on the connection. It only brokers(?) the connection.

That's my understanding. But if the brokering goes down, I imagine that problems crop up pretty quickly.

Yes because it has to check in fairly often. Otherwise you could have terminated users still with access.

@DustinB3403 said in How can I backup an Azure SQL database to Backblaze B2:

@matteo-nunziati That's pretty bad design if there is no automated way to backup to a remote blob provider or to push said backups to said outside provider. . .

That $399 is sounding incredibly reasonable now.

A main goal of any cloud service from major vendors is to lock in. Try to access a backup in GCP to export data: you can't.
I'm digging a bit to understand if the SQL backup in azure is accessible or managed by any infrastructure account which prevents users to access them directly...

BWT, 399 lifetime is good.

Also, the difference in requirements between streaming external vs internal might be wildly different

@black3dynamite said in What flavor of linux to replace windows?:

Choosing .NET Core or .NET Framework depends on your need.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/choosing-core-framework-server

Summary.... .NET Core when you are a competent developer. .NET Framework when you are using legacy crap that you can't get away from.

They make it pretty clear which is first class and which is a crippled fallback.

Hmmm, forced reset and I can get into command prompt now

@black3dynamite said in Remote Desktop to Fedora 28?:

@dafyre said in Remote Desktop to Fedora 28?:

@black3dynamite said in Remote Desktop to Fedora 28?:

@dafyre said in Remote Desktop to Fedora 28?:

@fuznutz04 said in Remote Desktop to Fedora 28?:

@dafyre I didn't ever get back to needing this until now. How were you able to achieve this? I use Fedora 28 and the Cinnamon desktop.

Sadly, no, I haven't. From what I can tell, Fedora 28 (probably 29 too) use Wayland by default. I haven't found a way to get it working yet. I tried switching the Login Screen to use X first, but even that didn't help.

Have you tried disabling Wayland instead?

I hadn't thought about that. I'll have to do a fresh install and see how that's done, unless there's a working VNC Server package in Fedora 29...

Just edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf and uncomment WaylandEnable=false and then restart. You will have only two options GNOME and GNOME Classic.

That gets me one step closer. I can get XRDP to connect to the local VNC server, but the user has to log in (locally) first... :face_with_cold_sweat:

@JaredBusch said in Cloudflare - Forwarding CNAME to HTTPS URL?:

@Dashrender said in Cloudflare - Forwarding CNAME to HTTPS URL?:

I don't really understand this - wouldn't you need a redirect command to make this work correctly? As stated - the browser thinks it's going to careers.domain.com, but that's being redirected via cname to joes.website.com, and joe's has a TLS cert.

Wouldn't the correct way be to have a server accept the request for careers.domain.com and execute a redirect to a new URL (joes.website.com) and now the browser will know it's going to joes site and accept the cert?

What server? He has no server. He simply wanted an alias for a nasty long URL.
careers.domain.com instead of adp.com/346y365hy3/365h56/456/y6/

Any good proxy will do this. CloudFlare is one of the best.

So process.

Create a CNAME entry for careers.domain.com pointing somewhere. Make sure the orange cloud is on. This makes the actual destination not matter because the IP will return as CloudFlare. But you want it to be something intelligent in case of problems as the OP found out. Create a redirect rule in CloudFlare. This is no different than the redirect 301 that you would use on your NginX proxy or other system. Profit

Well - there's your website I mentioned - the proxy. It's doing the redirect. OK - fine, it's not really a website (at least not likely), but you get the point - and I'm learning .. so thanks.
But my general thinking was along the same lines as your setup.

@JaredBusch said in question on veeam backup:

The OS doens't matter to Veeam beyond being Windows.

That's a good piece of knowledge.

@NerdyDad said in Fedora 29 stuck in boot process:

@travisdh1 said in Fedora 29 stuck in boot process:

@NerdyDad said in Fedora 29 stuck in boot process:

Removed VLC and reboot borked the entire process.

That sucks. Were you using the default repo?

Nope, RPM Fusion because that's what their instructions said to do.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-fedora.html

Worked fine in 28. @JaredBusch said he got it to work. Do you recall how you did it Jared?

I uninstalled VLC first and by the end of the day VLC was in the packages again.

You might look at the tools that Apple is pushing (and thus supporting). I don't know if Munki will fit your requirements, but it may.

Here is a list of several projects for managing macOS: https://simplemdm.com/2018/07/19/popular-open-source-tools-for-mac-admins/. NoMAD is pretty cool if you're in a Windows-centric environment.

@scottalanmiller said in push "Local Directory" to Yealink handsets from FreePBX:

@360col Parking is a completely different feature.

LOLOLOLOL

Totally downvoted for the horrible pun.

@Emad-R I agree with Emad here, Robocopy is hard to beat for simplicity and reliability.

@scottalanmiller said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:

@Donahue said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:

@scottalanmiller said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:

@Dashrender said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:

@scottalanmiller said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:

@Donahue said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:

@scottalanmiller said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:

@Donahue said in I have to change cloud drive service yet again:

is there a system that can display tags in a way that would look like folders to the user? Like a way to change your view to see the files organized by tag 2 instead of tag 1? I use this perspective change all the time in SQL, and I would love something equivalent in a file system using tags.

There is a way to write a system to do that, but no one makes one today.

well get on that @scottalanmiller, the world is apparently waiting

I guess so! Time to reinvent the local filesystem abstraction!

It really is needed.

Agreed... though - is there any money in it?

It would be an open source project, sadly. Sadly meaning, no, not any money in it.

what about fame and recognition? 🙂

I already have that 😉

what's +1 more?

Finally. Very nice.

Tags added.

@JaredBusch said in Install Telegram Desktop on Fedora 26 and newer with Cinnamon Desktop:

sudo dnf install telegram

It's now telegram-desktop

@WLS-ITGuy said in Shared Vehicle calendar:

@black3dynamite said in Shared Vehicle calendar:

Something like this won't work because you don't want to have anyone managing it?
https://support.sherweb.com/Faqs/Show/how-to-book-a-resource-equipment-or-room

Then I would need someone to manage it? That would be OK if it has to be done as I can have the buildings and grounds manager handle the requests.

Here's another guide that was created. Looks pretty simple to set up.
http://facilities-intranet.anu.edu.au/__documents/systems-it/how_to_add_shared_calendars_for_vehicles-1.pdf

@Dashrender said in Vendor supplied drivers:

@JaredBusch said in Vendor supplied drivers:

@Dashrender said in Vendor supplied drivers:

@JaredBusch said in Vendor supplied drivers:

@Dashrender said in Vendor supplied drivers:

@JaredBusch said in Vendor supplied drivers:

@Dashrender said in Vendor supplied drivers:

Does anyone here use the vendor supplied drivers when Windows detects and installs everything in the device manager?

If so, under what cases do you do so? i.e. all possible vendor supplied drivers? only Chipset? only Video? etc...

Not generally. I do on HP systems for a few things like sound.

interesting - so for normal office users you install the HP sound driver? why? that is one I've never even considered (unless Windows itself didn't provide a working sound driver).

Laptops at one client all had sound issues until I switched to the HP supplied driver from the SoftPaq update process.

OK - that makes sense then. only doing it to solve a problem, not because HP's drivers are better or something.

I started doing this for all HP systems after that.

Using the SoftPaq updated to setup non HP crapware, just vendor drivers as supplied by HP.

I'm confirming - you install the softpaq installer software? than choose the non crapware to be installed?

Yes

@black3dynamite That I haven't tried. It's worth a check!