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    • Lame MS Win 10 Annoyances ..
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      I'm guessing the sort by date is an error that has crept in (like the overlapping printer issue they had for over 3 years). I've noticed it shorts by date for the last several months or more... in my case it has worked out, but I can see where others wouldn't want it.
    • Add file type to Office Save As: .ans
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      As it turns out, it is called Text with Layout It uses txtlyt32.cnv which is in the (x86)\common file\Microsoft shared\Textcnv It is a standard MS-DOS text file with layout, or fixed columns.
    • Control network shares with DNS-
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      @gjacobse said in Control network shares with DNS-: This is a new one on me,.. I don’t have much more than this; . State has AD tree with multiple domains. . Network shares ‘require’ local DNS record for a agency domain. . Displayed list shows servers and IPs and Host A record I’ve never heard of controlling shares with DNS. I may be able to get more information from that team, but they are in the middle of a pilot user domain to domain migration. Shares may be assigned to users via GPO and restricted to certain computers (here's your need for DNS). OR they may be using AD and GPO to create shares on remote computers. GPO Loopback is for the first option: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/troubleshoot/windows-server/group-policy/loopback-processing-of-group-policy
    • NC: Download direct from Plex
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      @JasGot said in NC: Download direct from Plex: @marcinozga said in NC: Download direct from Plex: It's a social problem, not a technical one. Related to Scott? Nope.
    • MS DART and M.2 NVME Drives
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      @DustinB3403 said in MS DART and M.2 NVME Drives: But if the M.2 is completely dead it won't power up at all. Right, that's what it is booting from to run DART.
    • UBNT; Notification of possible unauthorized access.
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      @gjacobse said in UBNT; Notification of possible unauthorized access.: I just received this notice: I got this email as well. you beat me to it.
    • SCCM: Configuration Manager Properties; Run all actions
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      @gjacobse said in SCCM: Configuration Manager Properties; Run all actions: We have noticed that unless you run all actions in SCCM:CM on the PC, it doesn’t update correctly. While I can go to CMP in Control Paul and select/run each is there a way to run this from the CLI? Asking as I am also searching,.. Yes- there is, in PS. Found on poweshellbros.com. Update later when I can
    • M.2: Initialize Drive
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      @dbeato said in M.2: Initialize Drive: @gjacobse At this point if data is important you should use a data recovery company to see if they can get the drive and then you can decrypt it. https://drivesaversdatarecovery.com/ Yup- State device no my problem anymore.
    • TN Explosion: AT&T services down multi-state
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    • VULTR NJ location: Partial Power failure.
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      @scottalanmiller said in VULTR NJ location: Partial Power failure.: But how did you determine that? I just looked at my servers and their specs only match server class Xeon processors (Skylake 16MB L3) so not sure how it is possible for them to be consumer. I don't remember exactly. A couple of years ago you could determine that there was actually no xeon of that architecture that would fit with the GHz. Since they are obscuring the actual CPU in their linux kernel you can't read the model number outright. I going from memory here, but that was the gist of it.
    • Light weight Distro for VMs
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      Honestly the best thing in my opinion is put k3os on it and run the stuff in a single node Kubernetes cluster. You'll get experience with k8s and the applications use very little resources when deployed this way.
    • PXE Boot & Software deployment
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      @Obsolesce said in PXE Boot & Software deployment: @gjacobse said in PXE Boot & Software deployment: What is your preference on PXE Boot deployment and software deployment? SCCM and Software Center seem to be a joke here. Although it could be the team responsible for managing it. We have a tremendous amount of issues with PXE Boot deployments, not installing the right image and thus nothing is installed or installed right ( Office 365, Adobe, VPN software, etc). If the agent isn’t right you delete from ADUC and SCCM and start over.. We are lucky if Software Center works,... some times. Published software packages break on a regular basis, aren’t available to install due to GPO, and you can’t run it ( that my group has found) in an elevated state for applications the user doesn’t see; not all applications are published to everyone... We use Intune for ~10k devices across a handful of countries and is working great for device and software deployment. I agree with this. Intune is replacing SCCM functionality in the best way possible.
    • Fedora History: missing commands entered
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      @scottalanmiller said in Fedora History: missing commands entered: @JaredBusch said in Fedora History: missing commands entered: @scottalanmiller said in Fedora History: missing commands entered: But I know what you mean and I've seen it before. But I'm trying to reproduce it now and can't. Same. I just tried also. Annoying as hell when I know I have seen it. No kidding, I know I've seen it too. I know I've seen that happen before as well, so make that 3. I just don't have time to look at the moment.
    • Fail2Ban: Failed to access sock path
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      @JaredBusch said in Fail2Ban: Failed to access sock path: @gjacobse said in Fail2Ban: Failed to access sock path: Since that is a screen shot, it appears that some parts of the code is cut off. You are not listening. I said previously posted. Thus, you need to look before that. There in the actual .local file I did post, you will see an action listed. In the settings of said action is one of those options. I posted that screenshot of with the intentional size because it contains the comment regarding what each does as well as the format. Actually, I was and am listening. When I you are working from a 6.5” diagonal screen as I have been, you likely miss a bit of information. That said - not that it likely makes any difference. # fail2ban-client status sshd Status for the jail: sshd |- Filter | |- Currently failed: 24 | |- Total failed: 92 | `- Journal matches: _SYSTEMD_UNIT=sshd.service + _COMM=sshd `- Actions |- Currently banned: 2 |- Total banned: 2 `- Banned IP list: (IPs)
    • Windows Batch: Select Drive
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      I was a little bored, so here you go: ## Example drive letter selection # Only allow X, Y or <enter> do{Write-Host -NoNewline -ForegroundColor Cyan "What drive letter do you prefer as a backup?" $letter = (Read-Host -prompt "(X) or Y?").ToUpper()} while ($letter -notin @('x','y','')) # This sets the default to X, allowing the user to simply press enter if X is OK. if($letter -eq ''){$letter = 'X'} # Now set the drive letter. New-PSDrive –Name $letter –PSProvider FileSystem –Root “\\server\backup” –Persist -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue Basic drive letter set is done, but we can be more complicated: # Do actions based on a user that has an network location from IP. $ipaddr = Get-NetIPAddress|?{$_.SuffixOrigin -eq "Dhcp" -and $_.AddressState -like "*preferred*"}|select -ExpandProperty ipaddress # Set the preferred drive letter. $letter = X If($ipaddr -like '192.168.0.*'){ New-PSDrive –Name $letter –PSProvider FileSystem –Root “\\alpha\backup” –Persist -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "You're in Alpha!`nBackup drive connected to Alpha site.`nHave a sumptuous day!" } # if you have more networks, insert here with more if statements. Else{ New-PSDrive –Name $letter –PSProvider FileSystem –Root “\\bravo\backup” –Persist -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "You're in Bravo!`nBackup drive connected to Bravo site.`nHave a sumptuous day!" }
    • Sales force to purchase Slack; $27bil
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      @VoIP_n00b post using the phone, couldn’t edit after, then forgot when got to a computer.
    • Linux: GeoIP Blocking
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      I use it in pfsense router. It works against script kiddies, bots/botnets, at least partially. It's just another layer of security. And like it was mentioned before, it reduces log noise, with almost no effort.
    • Good and Evil of: Technology
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      @pmoncho said in Good and Evil of: Technology: It seems there is rarely time to take a breath. I do understand the anger at the evil-doer's. We need a "Digital Dexter." My previous boss was constantly on about them.. damnit - f'n updates, all those hackers fault...
    • ZOOM alternative
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      @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.
    • Seekout: AI powered job search
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      @Carnival-Boy said in Seekout: AI powered job search: and I believe in Denmark you have to employ a certain percentage of female executives. Roughly the same in the US, except you can never do so intentionally. You have to hire them organically. If you can't, you are stuck. But the laws aren't that strict, which is good, since there aren't that many women in most fields so you often can't get a candidate.
    • Linux CMD: apt-get
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      Okay - Can we stop now? Going back and forth isn’t healthy. Why apt-get over apt Okay, the question stemmed from a Raspberry Pi 3b+ running DietPi. I’m not going to elude that I know how much is or isn’t available in this system, but it’s stripped pretty well from the bits I have read. It’s what the DietPi Updater used. It isn’t my typing the command ad hoc. So - you can quit the beatings as they aren’t going to help me any. On my NC instance running 18.04 - I use sudo apt update. So,.. there is that. apt install man Could I install this? Yep - you guessed it, - I can. Do I want to, I’m not certain. Will I, again, I’m not certain. Now - here is a cup of coffee for both you. This topic is closed.
    • Recommendation: Duplex Document Scanner
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      @JasGot The Xerox line is a work horse. The State pretty much has gone only to them. In the 'new' building I'm assigned to, we have about eight big MFP units per floor set with Follow-You print. It's handy - and yet also some times annoying. More so with being who are WFH and in office - they will some times come up with Printer Offline.
    • How To: for files
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      @gjacobse said in How To: for files: That said, from what you are saying; is my ‘failure’ was omitting the /M which specifies the ‘searchmask’. And because of that omission, it didn’t have the comparative variable, and deleted everything. There were two things that tripped you up. The lack of /M to just find *.tmp files Using del *.tmp as the command First forfiles is a for-loop that executes whatever command you want for each file it finds. As @JasGot mentioned you will get one hit for each file it will find. With /D -15 you are specifying that you only want to find files older than 15 days. With /S you are telling forfiles to look in all subdirectories as well. You may or may not want that. With /M you can specify a filter which matching filenames you want to search for. Without /Mit will find all the files regardless if it's named 123.tmp or installation.txt Your initial command would find all files in all subdirectories regardless if it what name it had. That's why you needed /M. Secondly, forfiles will execute whatever command you want for each and every file it finds. Since your command was del *.tmp it would delete all tmp files every time it found a file. What you really wanted was to just delete the file it found. The @file will have the name of the file so del @file would only delete the file that was found.
    • Pre-Planning new domain and environment
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      @Dashrender said in Pre-Planning new domain and environment: It's the whole ZT/DNS @Dashrender said in Pre-Planning new domain and environment: and when I tested ZT in the past, It is just DNS. You have to have it on EVERYTHING if you go that route. Or, you make the ZT network the same subnet and not different. Just take your 10.0.0.0/24 and make it a 10.0.0.0/23 instead. have the local DHCP server hand out 10.0.0.101-254 have ZT DHCP hand out 10.0.1.101-254 or use ZT Bridging Lots of ways to skin the cat.
    • Android tablet or CutiePi
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      @gjacobse said in Android tablet or CutiePi: @scottalanmiller said in Android tablet or CutiePi: @DustinB3403 said in Android tablet or CutiePi: ha they want $203 US for the full version. . . Not... horrible. But too much for what it is. Between that and the cost of the Pi, I could almost buy a new iPad. The problem I have currently with my iPad is that it's so old, the current iOS for it is 10.x... and iOS 14.x is out. so, I really need to upgrade, .. Brand new is just like $330, though. With full support and 100x the power of an RP.
    • RoboCopy Syntax
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      @black3dynamite said in RoboCopy Syntax: @gjacobse said in RoboCopy Syntax: I feel that I’ve made decent progress on the script, that said, I’ve run into a snag trying to grab Google Chrome User default folder: RoboCopy “%src%\appdata\local\google\chrome\user data\default\” %dst%\chromeProfile\” /xa:sh /xjd /r:5 /w:5 I can’t seem to isolate the issue, this is almost the same syntax I am using to copy the profile. Before you copy make sure Chrome processes is not running first. And last time I check, saved passwords doesn’t work when copying the chrome profile. I think Firefox is the only one that you can backup the profile without losing your saved passwords. Good point, and I did run into that during a manual copy. I'm pretty sure that it would be a simple matter to added kill process - but I'll have to research that to see if it can be done by process name, not process number. Yes - I'll do that. Seems easy enough.
    • LibreOffice: Auto-formats texts
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      @black3dynamite said in LibreOffice: Auto-formats texts: In Tools > AutoCorrect, I have "While Typing" turned off because its annoying. I do that too.
    • MS Excel Formula; Hide #REF!
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      We use Trello and like it a lot, but we use it for a coding process, not job tracking.
    • pi-Hole: Dashboard times out
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      @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
    • MS Office vs. LibreOffice
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      Oh-kay . Yes - you are right... and yet you are (slightly) wrong. In this case, while Libre Office is ''content flow'' as opposed to ''page based'' The project is page based - something I was doing, but didn't know exactly how to explain. thusly; https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/91386/can-i-change-the-page-order-in-writer/ From your question, your document is "page-based". Go to the logical consequence of your choice and store your "pages" as independent documents. To guarantee a common look-and-feel, I'd recommend to design them from a common template. Then, you create your "synthesis" document (the one meant for printing) as a master document which references all your "page" documents. Read the LO User's guide if you aren't familiar with the concept. In the master document, the included "pages" can be reordered from the Navigator panel (F5) with "up" and "down" buttons after selecting the "page" you want to move. In essence, it is equivalent to @RGB-es copy-and-paste solution without the risk of incorrectly selecting page content or overwriting other text. This is basically what I had done in Word...