@scottalanmiller said in MeshCentral Future:
@AdamF said in MeshCentral Future:
By the way, I upgraded to the latest stable, and it's working great so far. Happy about that!
We are still on 1.4, we work around the clock so getting reboot time can be a pain.
Yeah, I did it a few days ago when I saw the thread update. I customized it heavily with company logo, customized agents, etc, and it all "stuck" after the update. So far, so good.
For those of you using Vitelity as a SIP provider:
For your dedicated fax DIDs, do you have to have that DID "vFax" enabled? I've been having terrible luck with faxing at one client, and Vitelity support tells me it's because their voice network does not support faxing. I have to transition the fax number to become a "vFax" DID. Can anyone confirm this?
Oh, and I integrated it with Azure for single sign-on as well. That has also worked fantastic.
I've had the same IP at home for the past like 8 months, and have whitelisted that IP on many client firewalls. Of course, I upgrade my router to a new firmware, reboot, and get a new IP. Shame on me for not using a DDNS service sooner.
What does everyone use for Dynamic DNS for their homes networks?
@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Heading to Cleveland to meet with a client, and then on to crash at @Minion-Queen's house this evening.
Must remember to buy some Hershey's Chocolate for @aboyd before Friday afternoon.
We can easily get some on the way there
I work about 20 minutes from the Hershey Plant in Hershey, PA. Maybe I'll pick some up for Mangocon. I should really get that booked....
@quixoticjustin thanks. I’ve been wanting to test since about July, but i kept forgetting.
@travisdh1 Didn't like that either. It also doesn't work if I remove AllowGroups and try it with AllowUsers. It's almost like any line I add into that config borks the entire thing.
Just got back into this. Both my Spanish and German. Let's see how long I can stick with it this time.
@JaredBusch It's been a while since I heard that song. Thanks, it is now stuck in my head haha.
I've been looking through the forums to find an install guide that is already completed for a NextCloud install on either CentOS7 or Ubuntu. Is there one here in the community? If so, I cant find it. This would be a brand new install, not migrating from owncloud or upgrading.
Good write up. I've seen this exact situation where a company will offer to change your title in lieu of a promotion. So wrong.
Upgrading SuiteCRM on my home lab, in preparation for production upgrade.
Next cloud would fit 1/2 of it.(photo storage and auto upload from phones) However, I'd still need photo editing software, and I'm sure I can find Open source something to fit that piece of it.
No way would I pay for Adobe cloud.
@scottalanmiller said in How Do Such Big Gaps Get Missed in IT Education:
@scotth said in How Do Such Big Gaps Get Missed in IT Education:
@scottalanmiller said in How Do Such Big Gaps Get Missed in IT Education:
@scotth said in How Do Such Big Gaps Get Missed in IT Education:
I, by no means am an expert in IT, but I've found that after many years and many issues, that I wonder if it's possible to develop a 'feeling' for systems rather than needing to constantly needing to Google log messages. I catch myself constantly deciding that something doesn't 'feel right' even though the issue isn't glaringly obvious.
I agree there. In software circles it's called "smell". After 28 years in IT, one of the reasons that people bring me in for troubleshooting is that I can often "feel" a system and sense what is wrong long before people can dig through logs or whatever and I know when to say "I know this sounds crazy, but this almost impossible thing... I'm sure that that is what happened."
But that doesn't help for someone who, for example, has never even heard of virtualization. That's a pure gap. He can't be faulted for not "sensing the lack of it" when he was unaware someone had made it. Now how he never heard of it, that's what worries me. What sources and articles and groups and people is he dealing with that never talk about or mention it?
So "I'm not crazy -- and my mother 'didn't' have me tested :).
I can't imagine that especially trade schools or community colleges wouldn't take the approach of creating a lab and moving to hands on as most of the course. Hell, even basic electricity courses make a dummy wall and have the students wire up outlets.
Trade schools aren't considered valid for IT, though. Not at this point. That leaves some big gaps and problems as there isn't an existing, professional trade process for getting into IT.
I'd argue that depending on the school. I went to a 2 year tech school in a program called "computer and network system administration." It was very hands on, where we had about 70% lab work and 30% classroom. Our schedule was from 730 am until about 1 pm if I remember correctly. It taught the basics of how hard drives work, how to format etc, to windows and Linux administration ( Redhat focused) to network basics and the tcp/ip stack. Then on to more advanced networking concepts. That was year 1. Then more of the same in year 2 but with added topics. In my opinion, it was money well spent.
However, I cannot say the same for another tech school right down the road. It was terrible from what I heard and graduates barely knew basic concepts upon graduation. So I think it really depends on the school and instructors at that school.
With that being said, about 4 years later, after working full time, I went back to school in the evening to get my bachelors degree in "IT management". (Paid for by my employer at the time). That program was an absolute joke in regards to actual hands on work.
@scottalanmiller Session- Learning to drive with buggies. - the way of the locals.
I've used it previously, and even have it installed on one of my Windows boxes right now. It's not bad, and very comparable to Photoshop. I could get used to it probably, I just never committed to it for any length of time to give it chance. One thing that it doesn't do well is photo storage/organization/viewing. For example, with Aperture, I can tag photos by person, location, events, etc. Bringing this back to Nextcloud, does Nextcloud offer this sort of photo organization/sorting/viewing?
Driving to PA. Going to stop at Knobles amusement park and take the kids on some rides on the way home .
I was just going to spin up a few items in AWS in a lab scenario to test out the functionality. The timing of this post is perfect. Main takeaway for me is "AWS is for elastic workloads." I'll still spin up some workloads in AWS in a lab capacity to get more familiar with is, but this is good insight, thanks.
@minion-queen
Step 1: get a chicken
Step 2: shake it up real good
You can figure out the rest.
