@JaredBusch said in the missing VoIP, the ERP and the solution in search of a problem:

@matteo-nunziati said in the missing VoIP, the ERP and the solution in search of a problem:

@scottalanmiller said in the missing VoIP, the ERP and the solution in search of a problem:

@matteo-nunziati said in the missing VoIP, the ERP and the solution in search of a problem:

@marcinozga said in the missing VoIP, the ERP and the solution in search of a problem:

Use this as an opportunity to learn some new stuff.

impossible: the PBX is fully operated by the supplier. period. the only interesting thing was to understand how to not nuke a plant while introducing VoIP tech in it.

Then it's just an opportunity to chill and enjoy having telephony off of your plate

not the way I do things. usually I try to plan them. and I also tend to fail miserably. but at least I try to make a plan not buy a solution and then create a problem to apply it!

You do things wrong it's not your job. Your job is to do what the business says. Or if you're an actual decision maker your job is to make a decision if it's good for the business not how you do it in quotes

that's the point: I'm used to take decisions or at least being consulted before. not to be thrown into other's wrong decisions - against my advice - and then being asked to solve the problem. I'm employed here I'm asked to evaluate tech and solutions, but then I'm simply discarded if the toy is soooo cute!
also I'm asked to solve by simply paying someone else to actually solve it. I'm now just a proxy for "automatic" problem solving. this is also why I want to leave but this is another story.

Guys you arr doing it wrong. You cant discuss this without a ton of alcohol.

@JaredBusch I run some production machines with macvtap/VEPA: they cannot talk with host or to each other but I'm too lazy and my env is small so it is ok.

I use this as:

• I do not need the VM to talk with the host via LAN
• everytime a VM has to talk to another VM I use internal virtual network to avoid virt2virt network traffic outside the host.
  this also allows me to contact the host via the internal LAN (which should be there on 192.168.100.0/24)
  
  [sorry details in Italian]

side note: what actually happens is than in a macvtap interface traffic can't re-enter the NIC: if you had 2 NICs, VMs on NIC1 can talk to other VMs or host via NIC2.

this should be ok for creating a bridge

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@scottalanmiller said in The Quintessential Linux Desktop Experiences:

@matteo-nunziati said in The Quintessential Linux Desktop Experiences:

still young but this is the reference kde now.

Not really. It's a secondary KDE bolt on to Ubuntu bypassing the mainline Kubuntu. openSuse remains the only major distro building with KDE in mind.

Yes opensuse is the only mainstream imho. But neon is no customization at all. Pure kde

Easter lunch today... Basically whatever could be cooked in tuscany in this season... Well my mum did.

More clear: xdg is a desktop standard. Any cmd line app will not mind about it. sym Links fix this.

Try to virtualize two of them and start with keeping them update, make them be aware of each other (via host name resolution) try generate and explort ssh keys, enter from one machine into another via ssh.
Maybe make one nfs server and try to mount nfs exports from the other machine.
If you have a nas also try to mount shares (even smb://)

also related: CM vs GPO comparison for Windows. Here the CM is DSC.

@FATeknollogee rolling means they constantly upgrade sw when ready. The opposite is sw which sticks at a given version and is subject to security fixes only.

Being invited to a citrix event, they are trying to explain how my smb needs a netscaler... No one talking about prices.. sixth sense says this is BS. Am I wasting my morning?

@Breffni-Potter quite easy: I was here for xenapp. They are talking netscaler for 30 min. Finally landed now on xenapp

@Breffni-Potter what am I gaining?: a bit of biased info. But still an info. What company gains? Nothing now but having a bit of knowledge lets me provide better advice to the idiotic things they shant buy just because it is cool.

@scottalanmiller said in Netscaler in smb opinion:

@matteo-nunziati said in Netscaler in smb opinion:

@Breffni-Potter what am I gaining?: a bit of biased info. But still an info.

That's not always the case. Biased info can be far worse than no info at all. Like learning about a SAN but being told it is a panacea instead of what it really is. Way better to not know that something exists that to learn misleading information about it.

well no, I was specifically thinking about the features of xenapp. their online docs were interesting, but not so detailed. having the possibility to have a talk with a couple or real people was an interesting opportunity. Still info was filtered by commercial s**t but at least more details were to be discovered.

Unfortunately, I was invited as a reseller's lead for xenapp as a way to put all stuff into a virtualized "repo" (automation was my interest) BUT the italian HD of citrix has sent people involved in security.

Netscaler is secure for this, xandesktop is secure for that... I DON'T GIVE A F**K ABOUT SECURITY...
I said it out loud? ops...

err... maybe resellers should coordinate with the distributor/vendor before picking invitations. At least I have had few exchanges with other IT guys at the event. An considering the inclination of my current company to NOT expose me to meetings/conferences with other guys, this has been welcome (why do you want to talk to someone else, just do the work)

@stacksofplates mmm... and I thought HPE was expensive

found this <- kemp
and this <- nginx

@scottalanmiller said in What router are you using at home?:

Sure it can look cool or you really want an all in one, but unless there is a killer feature

THIS!

to use ubiquiti stuff at home I need:

• a modem (rj11 phone line<-> modem <> rj45 network WAN)
• an edge router (routing between LAN and WAN)
• an access point

my living room has enough nasty cabling, knowing that a good all in one is around is great.

while I like the idea to poke with ubiquiti stuff, I'm going to have a fight with my wife if I add additional cabling/complexity inside my IKEA bookshelf (yeah my gear is on an IKEA book shelf straight in the living room, coz here are the phone connections for the ADSL)

we have issues with tape: no one wants the burder and responsibility of managing it. and company don't event provide insurrance for accidental damage of copies. tape managed by external company could be ok, but they ask -of course- lot of money for picking it . So offsite is going to be on a remote site for us (could or colo where we will place other stuff).

@Doyler3000 xfs+lvm or zfs. In any case consider an hba and passthru disks/hba to the vm making soft raid if you can manage it.

Also rhvh has so much automation the more you customize the higher the rish of issues