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@scottalanmiller said in MC16 Vendor Feedback:

From the vendors, wondering what the perspective on the conference is.

With the more or less continuous sessions, are people getting time to come out and visit vendor tables?

Is the lower volume and quiet vendor area more useful because people have time to actually make connections?

I think we need to have @Minion-Queen make a pointed announcement to have us visit the vendors tables.

I spent time during @Nic's presentation talking to @shannon with AetherStore. Happy to learn about the new 2.0 version and looking forward to rolling it out as a test at a client.

I plan to spend a little similar time at the other vendors.

@Joy said:

Your wife is so lovely

And if she knew I posted that picture she would severely beat me.

Encrypt all the things, all the time. A backdoor = no encryption.

https://www.unms.com

Once you have done initial discovery, and know how your current PBX operates, you can then figure out the best place to put your new FreePBX system.

This will be different for every organization and has to be based on what works best for the business.

You have two choices.

1. Host it on your internal virtualization infrastructure
2. Host it on a public virtualization platform

Can it be installed elsewhere or other hardware? Sure, but you would not want to run your main line of business application on random hardware, so why would you run your phone system that way?

You have to base this decision on a number of things.

In no particular order:

• Do you have a solid virtualization platform in place locally
  • If not, go hosted
• Do you have more than one site needing to register phone to this PBX
  • good reason to be hosted, but not a must do
• Do you have solid backups locally
  • If not, go hosted
• Do you have solid internet for the total concurrent call volume
  • If this is no, this will affect service provider choice as well.
• Do you have solid internet for the total concurrent call volume and well as extension to extension volume
  • If this is a no, then you need to have the PBX local

There are always more reasons, but each of them need thought about without emotion to determine what is best for the business.

Part of the FreePBX 13 Setup Guide

Just signed contract for a 50/50 fiber connection for a client office. for $75/month.

http://www.followthefiber.net/pricing/

Much for ScreenConnect yet again.

I just remote upgraded a desktop from Windows 7 to Windows 10 via ScreenConnect

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.newsweek.com/colonial-pipeline-hackers-used-unprotected-vpn-access-network-report-1597842

It was not unprotected..

It was password protected.

The user reused a password from some other breach, since it was found for sale.

The company left it active after the employee did not need it.

The company did not use 2FA, while not good, few companies actually do. This in and of itself does not make the VPN unprotected.

This is simply bad IT management.

@JaredBusch said:

Just sent this email out to all users at one client.

Why did I send it? Because multiple users have called the damned number!

countdown until one of my users somehow clicks through all the things.

5...4...3...2...

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@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch the RUD should make for some cool footage when it is released.

Yes, and that is something I like about SpaceX. They always do release it.

@JoeyJakubiak The Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch is a similar price point.

Closing

Alright, so using Scott's script, i have an ELK server up and running.

I also popped onto an ownCloud server and setup logstash to ship the basic logs per Scott's other post on that subject.

Now how do I begin to make use of it?

When I log in I see this and have no obvious instruction on where to go next.

@Ambarishrh said in Camera for travel:

We are planning to travel every year to new destinations other than our home countries we normally do. Starting this year with Georgia.

I have a Samsung S7 and my wife an iPhone 6. Curious to know what are the recommendations, do i go with a point n shoot camera, or just continue use the phone? Drone is still under consideration but i am worried that this might not be allowed in some places and a very good one is super expensive now.

Honestly, I would never recommend anyone to buy a point and shoot today if they have a good phone like those.

A modern smart phone is a point and shoot equivalent.

If you want to go beyond a smart phone, then step up to a low end DSLR.

Alright. If you are going to push a technology, why don't you try and make sure it works before enabling it by default.

@Microsoft said:

VMQ is a scaling networking technology for the Hyper-V switch. Without VMQ the networking performance of the Hyper-V switch bound to this network adapter may be reduced.

What they don't say clearly is that VMQ is something Intel baked up in 2010. They also do not tell you that your Hyper-V server will perform like shit if it is enabled and the card does not support it.

Today's lesson is VMQ and Broadcom chips. The two do not mix.

Think you can guess when it applied?

Took the kids trick or treating in the neighborhood earlier and had the court down the street offering Fireball to the adults.

+1 for the neighborhood offering booze.
-5 for it being Fireball, because I am not @Dashrender