https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/03/americas/venezuela-navy-cruise-liner-incident-intl/index.html This is just hilarious.

A guide to doing that would be great.

The virtualization... do we only count hypervisors, or do we count the VMs? Or only the VMs? My desktop has full VMs that are used as if they are completely separate machines. How do we count them? How do we count VDI, Terminal Servers, Thin Clients, etc?

@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News: Numbers speak. Not desktop use numbers. Those are meaningless as there is no known way to track them. It's all just estimates and absolutely no one knows what they are supposed to mean. Systems purchased? Systems deployed? Systems used? I don't have any clue what that chart is pretending to show us. What I do know is that in working on machines all over, we see alternative OSes often enough that while Windows is clearly still the most used, it's amazing how often non-tech people have already tested and deployed Linux. And how there would be no way for anyone to get a stat on that. Which makes me wonder... how do we get charts showing deployment rates when there is no known way to collect that data? But more importantly, it's about usage. Not deployments. And numbers would speak, if we had some.

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Watching Now: Youtube Video intelligent response. awesome.

@Obsolesce Yeah, no.

@Dashrender said in Windows 10- Cant Connect to this network?: I have seen specific devices have a hard time getting/staying connected. My old Lenovo laptop had this issue. Replacing the wireless NIC solved the problem. Others I've updated the driver and it solved, and yet others never resolved. Recommended solutions at that point were - replace the AP, replace the laptop/device. I didn't mention updating the AP, but I suppose that should be mentioned. Agreed, this is more likely to be hardware or driver related, than to be Windows 10 related.

Space Engineers with my son

I'm looking to retrofit my own office... likely have to work from home soon... considering a pair of 4K displays... but we'll see...

@Grey said in Looking for solutions to allow remote users access to their internal psychical computers: Yes, but I like https://xkpasswd.net/s/ more. Thank you! I have a new favorite toy to play with!

We used to use that product for redundant monitoring of SCADA system. We would monitor door latches, pumps, water levels, etc. It worked great. We have since moved to Raspberry Pi to meet the needs of other controls we wanted to include in our management systems. The control by web device will do what you have asked for above. It's very inexpensive too. If you have, or plan to add, custom alerts, you may want to consider something like a Raspberry Pi to give you unlimited flexibility when it comes to PLC.

@dave_c said in Data Base Management: @Pete-S We were not sure they were dBase files. Even Oracle database uses .dbf extension for data files. I understand. You can't be sure until you try but usually you'll know if you're running Oracle because you'll have oracle listener and other services running as well as a completely different folder structure. When you find files that are dbf somewhere, they're usually dBase because you can make a small database inside an application just by importing some libraries. So dBase isn't something that has to be installed on the computer but Oracle is.

So I got a container to start with the system. I don't like what podman generate systemd gives you because it defeats the purpose of a container. Here's what I have: [Unit] Description=Plex After=network.target [Service] TimeoutStartSec=5m Restart=always ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/podman rm -f plex ExecStart=podman run --name plex -v /mnt/media/movies:/movies -v /mnt/media/tv:/tv -v /mnt/media/music:/music -v /home/jhooks/plex/config:/config -p 32400:32400 -p 32400:32400/udp -p 32469:32469 -p 32469:32469/udp -p 5353:5353/udp -p 1900:1900/udp linuxserver/plex ExecStop=-/usr/bin/podman kill plex Type=simple User=jhooks RestartSec=30 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target I was running ExecStart=podman run -d --rm --name plex blah blah but even when I used forking it was failing to track the process. This will kill the container and spin up a new one for me each time which is what I wanted. That way I'm not dependent on container IDs existing.

@scottalanmiller said in Aastra phone replacement: @WLS-ITGuy said in Aastra phone replacement: @scottalanmiller The SIP-T46S looks like exactly what I want. Thanks! It's really nice. That's what I have on my desk. The SIP-T54 is the model that I think is replacing that in the newer line. But the T46S works great. I have a T46G, T46S, and T54W on my desk atm.

But anyone dumping on zoom because of the latest news cycle is stupid. You don't do thigns based on news cycle. Also, the critical things have been addressed already.

Same plans for all other recent weekend. Try and take over the world..........from home....again.....

@WrCombs said in Proposal to my Boss - Thoughts?: Proposal to my Boss - Thoughts? ......I want to propose to my boss Thoughts? Yes, make sure her husband is okay with it!

And don't forget, the newest craze: Zoom Bombing. https://yro.slashdot.org/story/20/04/02/1937229/the-internet-is-now-rife-with-places-where-you-can-organize-zoom-bombing-raids

@Dashrender said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365: @scottalanmiller said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365: @Dashrender said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365: @scottalanmiller said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365: @BRRABill said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365: a) logging into our machines AD is only useful if you are maintaining central creds to log into multiple machines. And at just 10 users, that's considered not to make sense, even by MS standards. So even when that functionality is needed, AD isn't considered a good option for that. Really? then what is? manually maintaining 10 logons on each machine? Nope, maintaining just one, like any normal person. really - what about the bolded part - multiple people logging into multiple machines? I totally agree if it's a one person to one computer situation, but I quoted you in the multi user to single machine situation. Right, and that's how nearly all places are. Especially when you are dealing with people taking machines home. Are there exceptions? Of course. But we've already highlighted that AD is useful when you have that special case. I literally said it was useful in that one case, and you responded as if I'd said the opposite. And we were saying that its not useful in the general case where 90%+ of companies are. Normal companies, the vast majority, don't have any real use for people logging into lots of machines at random. It's not normal. At all. It's a valid use case, but far from normal. So for normal shops, implementing solutions based on the niche case is crazy. For those in the niche case, there are lots of ways to handle it, AD is a good one, but just one of lots of ways to tackle it.

@IRJ This is the screen I get. I deleted everything. Then you re-enter the gateway, and it will ask you for your password.

I think we need to know more about your VPN setup, sounds like that is just broken and likely the culprit.

@JaredBusch said in Zoom meetings on Ubuntu: Without a green screen or other good color to make the base, it sucks though. Thanks @JaredBusch , that is exactly what I needed.