@travisdh1 right?

@JasGot said in Hosting a website with Nextcloud?:

@jmoore said in Hosting a website with Nextcloud?:

Is this a challenge to yourself? If not there are many better ways.

Can you expound?

Sorry for late delay, and not meaning any disrespect. From what I know of Nextcloud this would be difficult. I am certainly not one to keep up with every little detail though or change within its ecosystem though. With that said I would have to ask why are you trying to find a webserver solution within Nextcloud and not just use something quick and easy like github/gitlab pages, Hugo, Publii, Jekyll, Blogdown, and other similar things. These are usually all you need unless you have to create a ecommerce site or other complicated situation.

@scottalanmiller said in When Does It Stop Even Being IT: Buyers vs Doers:

This is very different. If I have a sales manager (and I do), I want him to be able to do sales, to know when people in the department are good at sales or not, to know how to hire and fire, to train, to mentor.

I like this point. Managers need to be competent in the area they are managing. They also need to do a little of the work to stay competent. Also nothing is more encouraging than seeing your boss in the trenches with you helping getting stuff done once in a while. That really improves morale.

@Mario-Jakovina You have some good points for sure. In my opinion, IT should not just be buyers though. In my situation, they have very few skills and spend a lot more money "buying IT" than they would if people in those positions has some skills. We have a couple good people but the rest or meh. So to me, if your spending more money like this its a bad business decision not to have people with skills in those positions. There is also the fact that if they had better skills then they would make better buying decisions too.

@scottalanmiller Haha right I can definitely see the advantages. Someday I will get away from the concrete jungle I live in. Doing Tech and IT on the beach, I love the idea!

@scottalanmiller
Doesn't Valentina live in Mexico?
Is she also moving to Nicaragua?

Glad i invested in zoom and ring central in february. Zoom is up 295.19% and ring central is up 252.05% per share.

Was listening to some Final Fantasy piano pieces earlier while driving to work.

Dragon Quest sountracks on Spotify.

@gjacobse said in Chocolatey install Microsoft Office:

@DustinB3403 said in Chocolatey install Microsoft Office:

choco install office365proplus is what I've always used

Curious - will it allow you to apply the license using this method?

I am not sure. It might be possibe, however I can't say for sure as I have never tried.

@DustinB3403 said in Chocolatey install Microsoft Office:

choco install office365proplus is what I've always used

Yeah this has been around for quite a while in chocolatey though I'm sure you knew that. I think it is Scott who didn't know about this. He needs to spend more time scanning chocolatey packages. If he wasn't so busy that is lol.

@scottalanmiller said in Ridiculous Words Lacking from the Google Chrome Dictionary:

@jmoore said in Ridiculous Words Lacking from the Google Chrome Dictionary:

that's a nice french word, maybe that's why.

It's a French origin, but so is resume. It's a word in English for a very long time.

all true but maybe they have a cutoff somewhere before it is recognized. I am just guessing though.

Is this a challenge to yourself? If not there are many better ways.

that's a nice french word, maybe that's why.

Happy Birthday Dominica

@scottalanmiller I thought it was perfectly clear what the topic was about. I think people just like to argue or something.

@stacksofplates said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

On Windows I can't help you at all. I mean there's tools like CyberArk but I don't know cost or manageability. On Linux fapolicyd can do whitelisting.

Yeah we are all Windows unfortunately.

@stacksofplates said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

@jmoore said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

@scottalanmiller said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

@jmoore said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

@scottalanmiller said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

A big question would be... why do you want to restrict binaries from users?

Thats the sysadmin decision. He considers it a security measure and I can understand it somewhat.

Does he? Because he's not restricting them in any way, and totally okay with all the portable apps delivered in the web browser, right? So he's totally okay with them. Just confused, I'd guess.

Well, I can't presume to know his mind but hes just trying to limit the damage that can be done i suppose. I am guessing that is what he is thinking.

Is this from a government requirement? The only way to do this is checksum all of your executables. Unless you are required to do this, you're insane.

Yes we are a 2 year college and this is what I am told.

@marcinozga said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

@jmoore said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

@marcinozga said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

@gjacobse said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

@jmoore said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

@gjacobse said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

@jmoore said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

@jmoore said in Applications; Portable vs. Installed:

One thing I found about portable apps is occasionally a smarter user will install these. Yeah, it gets around our permissions in Ad because they do not modify the registry. so I do not like them for that reason. I can't have users installing whatever they want.

Something else you can do to make chocolatey easier to install in multiple places is use an xml file with the apps you want for yourself or for departments. I made one for myself but I really don't use it, however I have one for a few different departments here because they some specific things and its hard to remember the install names on each. So I just carry them around on a flash drive.

I'm curious on how you set this up,.. I know I have just been using a simple batch file once the core is installed.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <packages>
      <package id="googlechrome" />
	  <package id="firefoxesr" />
	  <package id="flashplayerplugin" />
	  <package id="adobereader" />
	  <package id="jre8" />
	  <package id="7zip.install" />
	  <package id="vlc" />
	  <package id="powershell" />
	  <package id="silverlight" />
	  <package id="quicktime" />
	  <package id="irfanview" />
	  <package id="treesizefree" />
	  <package id="windirstat" />
	  <package id="crystaldiskinfo" />
	  </packages>
</xml>

this file is called staff.config
Then i just use:

choco install d:\packages.config –y

I'll have to give that a try on my next build. neat way to address the install.

Why not utilize proper configuration management tool for that? Ansible for example works very well with Chocolatey. The above approach might sound cool, but to me it's more of a stone age way.

Not approved here. However i can use powershell all I want.

What? You have java, flash, silverlight, quicktime and adobe reader approved but configuration management tools are not? Wtf?

lol, see that other thread about where Scott and I are discussing my work. That should explain things.

@scottalanmiller said in Copper Termination Standards - CompTIA Network+ N10-007 Prof. Messer:

@jmoore said in Copper Termination Standards - CompTIA Network+ N10-007 Prof. Messer:

@scottalanmiller said in Copper Termination Standards - CompTIA Network+ N10-007 Prof. Messer:

But I'm literally 100% confident given your description, that you are perceiving it as people using "cell phones" to replace VoIP, and not realizing that it's standard VoIP softphones being deployed onto mobile computing devices that are often, but not required to be, cell phones.

We have cisco everything and I was told it was too expensive to have softphones on our cell, we instead must have a separate cell phone. I doubt that, but who knows.

And yet it wasn't too expensive to have Cisco... suspicious.

yep, agree!