@Dashrender said in Amazon Prime Day - Oct 2020:

@DustinB3403 said in Amazon Prime Day - Oct 2020:

@travisdh1 said in Amazon Prime Day - Oct 2020:

@DustinB3403 said in Amazon Prime Day - Oct 2020:

@Dashrender said in Amazon Prime Day - Oct 2020:

@coliver said in Amazon Prime Day - Oct 2020:

@Dashrender said in Amazon Prime Day - Oct 2020:

@coliver said in Amazon Prime Day - Oct 2020:

@DustinB3403 said in Amazon Prime Day - Oct 2020:

@Dashrender said in Amazon Prime Day - Oct 2020:

I'm with Wire - it's definitely not a clean... I just installed a new power plug myself behind my TV... though not an outside wall, not that that should be that big of a deal...

Yeah, unless these walls are filled to the edge with spray foam, feeding a few power cables down isn't going to be an issue. With fiberglass you'd just push through the insulation in those specific paths and it still wouldn't be that big of a loss.

Yeah, It's a new building so I hope there is spray foam. But even then it might not be that difficult. Might just need a wire probe.

No one around here does spray foam by default.

It should be. But yeah I don't think it's the default where @wirestyle22 is either.

I wonder what the price difference is? I'm guessing it used to be huge, but perhaps today, not so much??

Now if you were renovating and doing this yourself you can pick up spray foam kits that cost ~$770 which while still pricey, would save money compared to fiberglass.

That's it? We need to replace the insulation in our attic. Might have to do it ourselves if the DIY spray foam is that cheap now.

Yeah, that's per kit, each kit covers ~200 sqf at 1". It wouldn't be unexpected to need 2 or 3 kits to cover a single crawlspace attic.

1" - HAHA, so it's $770 for 57 square feet in reality.

I've also watched it being done (online) - it's an art, like spray painting cars... it takes a good amount of practice to not over spray the amount needed and end up with a ton of waste... in the attic, if it overflows, not that big of deal, but in walls, you don't want to waste a bunch that you're cutting off and discarding.

I purchased a 200ft kit, for like $350 I think, to do my rim joists in my crawl space. It's super easy. I believe once you're spending ~$1000 on materials (depending on local rates) it ends up being cheaper to hire somebody to do for you.

For closed cell foam you can only apply so thick in one pass before it's cured, so to get the R rating you would need for an attic in a colder climate zone, it would be insane to use a closed cell kit. Not only is it stupid expensive to do yourself, but waiting for curing between layers and crawling around in the attic multiple times in a poor mans hazmat suit? No thanks. Typically if you're doing foam in an attic they do a single layer of closed cell, then open cell on top.

When I did my attic I pumped in ~20" (R60) of loose fill fiberglass insulation for like $200... most home improvement stores lend you the machine for free if you buy enough bags, 10 bags in my case. I only used 6 bags and returned the rest with no questions asked. I will definitely go this route again on my next house.

I find myself using Fedora's Media Writer, it's quick and simple.

But good guide @Pete-S

@Dashrender said in VitalPBX and Microsoft 365:

@JasGot said in VitalPBX and Microsoft 365:

@Dashrender said in VitalPBX and Microsoft 365:

@JasGot said in VitalPBX and Microsoft 365:

@coliver Click a phone number in Outlook Contacts and have it dial the phone.

The phone on your desk, or a softphone?

Deskphone.

Interesting - Scott's above link leads you to software that should do this for you. I'll be trying it tomorrow... I have a few users that might like this.

This is standard click to call plug-in and not a new thing

@black3dynamite said in Roaming Profiles killing local copy:

@Dashrender said in Roaming Profiles killing local copy:

@travisdh1 said in Roaming Profiles killing local copy:

@flaxking said in Roaming Profiles killing local copy:

Just wondering if any of you with more experience with Roaming Profiles can explain this behaviour.

There's an old Roaming Profiles set-up that's been dragged along through the years and we're wanting to senset it.

One thing we're seeing is that for users who's roaming Profiles write-back haven't been working, (maybe permission error on some files) if we do something that might trigger it to star working again (like add folder exclusion), their local profile gets nuked.

It seems like this is only an issue with roaming Profiles that haven't been working, if they've been working, any changes we've made hadn't had the affect off killing the local profile and starting fresh.

I've check for any GPO settings that might be asking for the local profile to be deleted, but I haven't found anything. From what I understand, the profiles should only be merging.

Has anyone else seen behaviour like this before where a roaming profile goes from not working to working and it kills the local copy?

It's been a long, long time since I touched anything with roaming profiles. Just about everyone uses redirected folders now if they need that sort of functionality, and this is one of the reasons. Roaming profiles just proved very buggy historically.

man, I dislike redirecting things like the desktop... it's no longer a local folder and makes using it as a scratch pad super slow...

Ever since I embraced using OneDrive and Nextcloud, I would use junctions points. Folders like Desktop, Documents and so on would be stored in the OneDrive or Nextcloud folder and then I would use junction points. The user shell folders paths will still stay the same.

This is what I do.

@JaredBusch said in Unifi Point to Point:

@NashBrydges said in Unifi Point to Point:

UBNT has also recently released a Unifi based option. Haven't tried those though.
https://store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-routing-switching/products/unifi-building-to-building-bridge

Yes, These are a great solution that fill a very comman gap IMO.

So many building to building links are done with products that were designed for much longer ranges, simply because there was never a solution designed for the smaller ranges.

So those look interesting for sure and could be an option.

I got to see the site and there are quite a few trees between the buildings so this may not work.

It might be better fore to just blanket the area from a single focal point.

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Not sure what the original source of this was, but found it interesting that they note the "wall of text" issue specifically as a problem that makes it hard for some people to follow the topic.

@G-I-Jones said in GPO to create scheduled task to run netlogon batch script:

Did you ever figure this out?

No and the person who was working on it has been OOO all day, so its not a priority either.

@JaredBusch said in Validation when renewing let's encrypt?:

@Pete-S said in Validation when renewing let's encrypt?:

When LE certs are renewed are they using the same type of validation again as when they are created?

(We're using certbot)

They should, yes.

OK, thanks.

@pmoncho said in Opinions: Ansible vs. SaltStack:

@scottalanmiller

What would be the sense of purchasing a solid open source project like SaltStack?
Being OS, VMware can add their own developers to the project and still integrate it with their products without the cost of purchasing the company.

I think they're just trying to stay relevant. Like with Harbor, Tanzu, etc.

@travisdh1 said in Windows Servers Archived onto Linux, suggestions/help pls:

@siringo said in Windows Servers Archived onto Linux, suggestions/help pls:

@travisdh1 said in Windows Servers Archived onto Linux, suggestions/help pls:

zpool status -l

Thanks for the help everyone, just become very busy.

I get this:

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What does that tell us?

That you went with the default setting, so are only using a single drive.

Oh, great. Thanks travisdh1, we got there in the end. Now I know I can add the extra disks.

@Pete-S said in How to use firewall-cmd to verify that tcp 80 & 443 is open?:

One thing that would be nice to have, something that I've used on hardware firewalls, is a command that will simulate packets through the firewall rules to see if they will pass or not.
I've not seen something like that for iptables/netfilter.

Not sure about simulating, but you can always send packets at it and use iptables -v to see the counters.

Still down.

https://status.vultr.com

@Dashrender said in Fanvil x5u - Firmware upgrade via server download:

https://www.fanvil.com/Uploads/Temp/download/20191218/5df9dd9ce42f0.pdf

The general configuration file is helpful in automatic configuration deployment of a large number of terminals. For example, only a general configuration file F0V00X600000.cfg carrying firmware parameters needs to be placed on the automatic configuration server to automatically deploy firmware for 1000 X6 terminals.

@Dashrender thanks I had totally missed that section of the pdf. Adding the Auto Image Url option, to the F0V0X5U00000.cfg did get the phone to properly upgrade the firmware automatically.

F0V0X5U00000.cfg contents for the test.

<<VOIP CONFIG FILE>>Version:2.0000000000 <AUTOUPDATE CONFIG MODULE> Auto Image Url :https://URL/x5u-6906-P0.18.23.21-2.2.10-3421T2020-09-27-16.44.21.z <<END OF FILE>>

Here are the logs of the process, phones starts with firmware 1.0.0 and properly upgrades to 2.2.10

[15/Oct/2020:09:20:42 -0500] "GET /F0V0X5U00000.cfg HTTP/1.1" 200 209 "-" "Fanvil X5U 1.0.0" [15/Oct/2020:09:20:43 -0500] "GET /MACADDRESS.cfg HTTP/1.1" 200 93621 "-" "Fanvil X5U 1.0.0" [15/Oct/2020:09:20:53 -0500] "GET /x5u-6906-P0.18.23.21-2.2.10-3421T2020-09-27-16.44.21.z HTTP/1.1" 200 40789888 "-" "Fanvil X5U 1.0.0" [15/Oct/2020:09:21:44 -0500] "GET /F0V0X5U00000.cfg HTTP/1.1" 200 209 "-" "Fanvil X5U 1.0.0" [15/Oct/2020:09:21:45 -0500] "GET /MACADDRESS.cfg HTTP/1.1" 200 93621 "-" "Fanvil X5U 1.0.0" [15/Oct/2020:09:23:02 -0500] "GET /F0V0X5U00000.cfg HTTP/1.1" 200 209 "-" "Fanvil X5U 2.2.10" [15/Oct/2020:09:23:02 -0500] "GET /MACADDRESS.cfg HTTP/1.1" 200 93621 "-" "Fanvil X5U 2.2.10" [15/Oct/2020:09:23:23 -0500] "GET /F0V0X5U00000.cfg HTTP/1.1" 200 209 "-" "Fanvil X5U 2.2.10" [15/Oct/2020:09:23:23 -0500] "GET /MACADDRESS.cfg HTTP/1.1" 200 93621 "-" "Fanvil X5U 2.2.10" [15/Oct/2020:09:32:53 -0500] "GET /fanvil_x5u_hwv1_0.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 115 "-" "Fanvil X5U 2.2.10"

@Pete-S said in Would you put a MS SQL VM and a MS Exchange VM on the same host?:

@scottalanmiller said in Would you put a MS SQL VM and a MS Exchange VM on the same host?:

Vertical scaling is so much more efficient in so many ways, it's nearly unbeatable (for cost and performance.)

Not when you have many workloads and there are lots of things that proves this. But I know you're the master of relentless posting so I'm just respectfully going to bow out 🙂

How does "many workloads" even factor in? Nothing you've mentioned gives a reason for your position. There's no logical reason and nothing in the real world supports that horizontal scaling somehow saves money. This goes against all industry knowledge, common sense and observation. Even your own examples, you pointed out that the factors you were using were wrong and didn't show what you were using them to show. Just posting unsupported random misinformation and "bowing out" before we ask for some explanation just makes it seem like you were just saying those things to say them and don't believe them yourself.

In your last "example", the more workloads you have, the more horizontal scaling wastes money. Vertical scaling specifically crushes horizontal in cost/performance the more numerous and disparate the workloads are. Vertical scaling is where you get the huge cost/performance benefits of shared hardware. And, of course, people trying to make shared hardware look bad with underspec it or misconfigure it and try to say that that makes it bad, but you can underspec or misconfigure anything. Mathematically, vertical scaling works better. It's plain physics, you can't just state that physics aren't real and act like you have special insider knowledge of the universe that no one else has and cannot be demonstrated with real computers.

@Dragon3303 said in Zoom meeting access::

Sounds good. It seems like a nice, easy, free way to go about conducting meetings that one would maybe otherwise have to use a paid service for and there's always going to be some people who get nervous that they don't know the company, you don't have to have an account with a username/password, etc.

You can require passwords for the individual meetings if you like. Usernames are useful for management, but not security. Don't get me wrong, easy management encourages security. But in a case like this, it actually makes it more secure, not less. If you use u/p then you encourage a system where once hacked, people can record you. Jitsi does a non-repeating double password mechanism that's all but unbreakable unless someone shares it, and that's a risk either way.

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