@Dashrender said in Access 2003 in a 2021 World???:

@scottalanmiller said in Access 2003 in a 2021 World???:

@Pete-S said in Access 2003 in a 2021 World???:

@Dashrender said in Access 2003 in a 2021 World???:

@DustinB3403 said in Access 2003 in a 2021 World???:

And yes I know that best is relative to ones needs.

Access was the "best" at one point I'm sure.

I'm willing to bet that's not true - not a lot.. maybe $100... lol pretty sure Access was never the best for anything.. other solutions while possibly more difficult could still likely be shown to be much better solutions.

It wasn't Access itself that was the thing. It was the JET database engine that Access used under the hood that made it popular.

Back in the 90's if you wanted a simple database in your application and you used something like Visual Basic 3.0 then the JET engine was the first option to consider because Microsoft bundled it with VB and it was free. That's how it gained a foothold.

The JET engine was very very far from the best or even good. It was common to corrupt the database and run tools to "repair" it. But it was available without any effort - today we know that is perhaps the most important "feature"...

If you wanted the best you'd connect your application to an Oracle db.

MS Access itself was never a serious tool that developers used for business applications. It's very limited so VB was the default choice in the MS ecosystem for these kinds of applications.

Once Access could use SQL Server, it became worlds better. But the whole "GUI application interface" made it so expensive and limiting that it could never really be a great tool, even when it was a good enough tool.

I've got customers who have built way too much on it and even though they are tiny and use it about as well as anyone could, it's really clear that if they put a little effort into a PHP developer that they could replace everything in a week with something vastly better.

A week? you mean 40 hours at $250/hr (dev house)?

40 hours, a PHP dev sure isn't $250/hr. That's an ERP cost per hour. Contract a developer for a week and you can definitely find someone who will work at much more like $85/hr if you shop around and find someone available.

I moved a test AP to 4.3.28.11361 yesterday. No issues experienced. I moved some additional ones this AM, and still no issue with DHCP like with the 4.3.24.x version

@dafyre said in Posh-SSH:

For the remote system, is it always creating new files? If so, you could set your script to delete files older than so many days and then run the SFTP?

Of course, the copy of the content is generated with robocopy incrementally, the whole environment is a Windows, except the SFTP which is a Linux, so in theory I could not make incremental copies to the sftp 😞

@Danp Hey Dan, I don't think it's on the xcp-ng forum but I had come across something on the XO forum about it. Don't have the post nearby but it's a known issue.

I do old school and change my keyboard layout to LATAM type and it works fine.

I just followed this guide, worked great! Thanks!

I join the answer above, since when did anyone start using chrome vpn free in a paid form

@scottalanmiller said in MS RDS: How Do You Reset Device License Assignment:

how do we reset it to allow for updated devices?

Open "RD Licensing manager", browse for device who's license you want to "revoke", leftclick on it and choose "Revoke license"
As said, up to 20% of total licenses can be revoked before expiry.

@Dashrender said in FANVIL Deskphone setting for dialing:

@JaredBusch said in FANVIL Deskphone setting for dialing:

@Dashrender said in FANVIL Deskphone setting for dialing:

I've found overlapping issues with my posted rules...

I can't dial any area code that starts with 2 or 3, as that will pull the call to an extension (i.e. 1-213 goes to ext 1213)

This is a typical scenario to be aware of and design for. Nothing more than attention to detail.

Yeah - and I wonder if that's one of the leading reasons for adding a 9 for dialing out?

no.

@marcinozga said in Power in Qatar:

I checked few power supplies in office pcs, every single one accepts 100-240VAC 50-60Hz input. So they will work anywhere. I haven't seen one in years that would be limited to 110 or 230 (or others) only.

Nice, thanks!

One of the reasons that you don't see many good options for this is because the place where the industry has decided that this should go, when hosting like you want, is on the app itself because of the performance and latency aspects of it. So tools tend to be like this one...

https://shieldon.io/en

And they tend to be platform specific to do a good job. This is something your developers would be doing, not IT, generally. Sure IT can buy third party hosted solutions or hardware, but software is going to be rare because it's an additional reverse proxy that hurts app performance.

So any app big enough to need this is generally happy to pay for Amazon or CloudFlare because the cost is nominal (less than having your own IT research and set it up.) And those that want to host themselves do so closer to the app.

@JasGot That is good to know.

@Dashrender Agreed.

@JasGot said in Gophemeral:

@Pete-S said in Gophemeral:

I mean you are mailing the message ID and password needed to decrypt.

You could mail one, and speak the other.

Many institutions send usernames and passwords through separate mediums.

This is anther way. If you really want to be secure, text the ID and email the password. Or call and give one of them.

@gjacobse said in Control network shares with DNS-:

This is a new one on me,.. I don’t have much more than this;

. State has AD tree with multiple domains.
. Network shares ‘require’ local DNS record for a agency domain.
. Displayed list shows servers and IPs and Host A record

I’ve never heard of controlling shares with DNS. I may be able to get more information from that team, but they are in the middle of a pilot user domain to domain migration.

Shares may be assigned to users via GPO and restricted to certain computers (here's your need for DNS).
OR they may be using AD and GPO to create shares on remote computers.

GPO Loopback is for the first option:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/troubleshoot/windows-server/group-policy/loopback-processing-of-group-policy

@JasGot said in NC: Download direct from Plex:

@marcinozga said in NC: Download direct from Plex:

It's a social problem, not a technical one.

Related to Scott? 🙂

Nope.

@JasGot said in Does this IP mean anything to anyone? 192.168.99.184:

@scottalanmiller said in Does this IP mean anything to anyone? 192.168.99.184:

That's a non-routable number. It's part of the private 192.168.0.0/16 range that anyone can use, but can't go out to the Internet.

I know. And that's really the basis for why I am asking. "Is it a default IP used (for some vendors) when there is no known destination?"

https://router-network.com/ip/192-168-99-184
https://forums.grandstream.com/t/issue-setting-up-new-skyetel-trunk-to-ucm-pbx/35731

And here's a packet capture showing this IP as the destination for the RTP traffic (from Skyetel)

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We don't use it when there is no destination, we use it to communicate with our load balances and other routing gizmos. The stuff in "line=sr-...." gibberish is the actual data that we care about, not the IP.

Its basically a way for us to securely communicate across multiple routers that are unaware of each other's existence on a call-by-call basis.

@syko24 said in Old IT won't provide documentation or passwords:

At this point my only option to support their hardware is to modify the root password on their VMWare server and then modify the domain admin password assuming there is no encryption in place. I would much rather the client contact their attorney and have the old IT hand everything over.

Pretty much, yeah, if they aren't willing to take the proper business steps, all you can do is mitigate.

UPDATE: We have replaced the router, wifi APs and enabled DHCP forwarding .... it hasn't gone down since! *Really don't want to Jinx it" Thanks all for you help I really appreciate it