@DustinB3403 said in Simplicity Linux 16.04 Released:

The second picture reminds me of Apple OS X by a lot.

Yeah, the floating middle menu bar has been copied a lot. I'm not sure if the overall design started with OSX or KDE. KDE definitely had it a really long time ago. The super sized icons, though, is definitely all OSX.

Hmmm, if he cares so much about security he should disable the Universe repository, it's full of security holes. Essentially, installing anything from there is an exercise in installing a backdoor.

Of course, there's not much choice, you want that software to be available. Though choice 😉

I used ChaletOS and it was very intuitive, very much an XP like feel or Windows 7 which was the goal.

Very good OS for basic computer users.

I think that the YUM repo adding system is even easier than the PPAs.

Wow.. nice process they have there too.

Looks great !!

Thanks for the doc.

Codename: Init Freedom

@BBigford said in Extending Pidgin to Support Google Hangouts:

@scottalanmiller said in Extending Pidgin to Support Google Hangouts:

@BBigford said in Extending Pidgin to Support Google Hangouts:

@scottalanmiller said in Extending Pidgin to Support Google Hangouts:

@BBigford said in Extending Pidgin to Support Google Hangouts:

@scottalanmiller said in Extending Pidgin to Support Google Hangouts:

@BBigford said in Extending Pidgin to Support Google Hangouts:

Of the janky company IM setups, I've typically noticed something like 90% use Pidgeon and 10% use anything else (mostly Hangouts). It's all a janky setup, no central management, and everyone using their personal accounts. I

Pidgin is just a client. It can easily be used in a well managed, centralized corporate environment. I've never seen it any other way.

How does the account management work? Just curious cause I haven't saw anyone deploy Pigeon with a centralized, well managed system.

However you want depending on the back end. OpenFire will just tie in to Active Directory, if you want, or LDAP. Or it will run its own database.

I know Spark as a client for OpenFire is popular, but that only works with Windows/Mac/Linux... Everywhere I've setup OpenFire I've only ever had it done internal since Spark isn't available for mobile. Since Pidgin is available on Android and iOS... Could you point it external?

OpenFire is just an XMPP server. Spark, Pidgin and others are just XMPP clients. They are all generic. it's all just XMPP.

Can OF be configured to point externally then? I haven't tried it on mobile but I figure with some DNS entries and a firewall rule, I don't see why not...

Of course, XMPP is just a web protocol, just like HTTP. You just expose it and done. XMPP is XML, just like HTML. That's how 99% of deployments work. Think about Google Chat, that's XMPP.

@JaredBusch Yuck, thanks for the "stay away from".

@Kelly said in Using DSH, the Distributed Shell, on Linux:

Hmm, this might be an interesting alternative to cssh since it doesn't mirror keyboard input, but merely runs the same command. I'll have to see if we can adapt this for running our auditing scripts.

Yeah, a little bit more robust there 🙂

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@Dashrender said in ownCloud Founder and CTO Leaves to Pursue Other Opportunities:

That would be awesome, but is that even legal? I'm guessing that if a company is in bankruptcy, there might not be any way for them to do it..someone else buys it and decides where it goes.

If someone buys them, then it is that new company that should decide. And they should do it immediately. Tons of stuff is bought and lost over time. Very sad.

Video games this is huge. How many 1980s games are abandonware. But someone still owns them all.

@tonyshowoff said in Free to Good Home: Thunderbird:

It wasn't a bad email client overall though. It seems to me that some sort of generic web based email client akin to gmail would be neat. There are things like it, but none fully support multiple mailboxes equally like Thunderbird.

Nylas N1 is interesting and just added that feature a month or so ago.

@scottalanmiller said in Bring Your Child to Work Day Goes Awry:

Whoops

That would be my kid. Until he's old enough to not grab random wires and yank, He's not getting anywhere near my server rooms at work, lol.

Downloading? It was done downloading before my finger was off the mouse, lol.

I can't wait to dive into 2016, though. They're bringing a lot of improvements that me and this team I am with here are excited about in the RemoteApp and VDI realms.