• Planned power outage: best practice

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    @coliver said:

    Hmmm... we have an IBM server that does exactly that. Restarts as soon as power is restored. It has been tested fairly regularly as we don't have the best power infrastructure in upstate NY.

    In central NY that is. Here in Frankfort where I am today the power is outstanding and in the Buffalo/Niagara grid it is really good. But outside of local generation pockets, the center of the state is the area where it is roughest.

  • Network Shim found on Asus computers

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    @nadnerB said:

    It seems that anything "Gamer" related has it installed.
    http://www.asus.com/au/Motherboards/B85PRO_GAMER/

    It's generally easy to sell to gamers based on slick marketing and the market's desire for performance above all things often means that they have short memories and don't hold vendors accountable for bad behaviour. So the risks to Asus are low, in a year no gamer will care and Asus can do this again. One of the many risks of dealing with consumer grade equipment.

  • Internet access through OpenVPN

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    AmbarishrhA

    Found it.
    First run the iptables entry
    iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 10.8.0.0/24 -j SNAT --to xxx.xx.xx.xx

    Then run sudo apt-get install iptables-persistent, and follow the prompts. When it asks to save the current rules, hit "Yes" at both prompts. Now, on reboots, your iptables rules will be restored.
    All done, working fine! šŸ™‚

  • 30% off FreePBX commercial add-ons, today only

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    DashrenderD

    There has been talk about using a chat function at my office in the past, but in the same breath it was mentioned how catty all the women there (by the boss, who is a woman) and pretty much dismissed.

    Furthermore, our EHR recently enabled global chat as well, so we'd probably use that instead.

  • GUI Download for Ubuntu Server

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    @Lakshmana said:

    Whether any link to download and extract in CD ?

    I dont have internet connection for that server now but i need to install the GUI desktop package only through CD or pendrive now

    Just the main Ubuntu website.

  • DigitalOcean control panel unavailable

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    AmbarishrhA

    Yes, mine started now, but they still have the works going on.
    Droplet action events are temporarily disabled in our LON1 region.

    https://status.digitalocean.com/#

  • Kerberos Authentication checked by Script at Nagios

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    Exactly, how do you know you were hacked? Unencrypted Kerberos packets can be used in an offline attack to crack a password, but if you're using a strong enough password this would take to long.

    So first things first, I'd say use a better password, but if you're still worried about it, do as @scottalanmiller suggests and upgrade and encrypt your authentication traffic.

  • Wireless Headsets for Analog Phones

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    @art_of_shred said:

    We've also had really good luck with Jabra Pro stuff. Any of their lower lines I avoid like the plague, but the Pro stuff is great. As much as I like Plantronics, I would actually rate Jabra Pro higher than Plantronics for functionality and ease of use in an office environment.

    Downvote! Then again, I'm the PLT fanboy, so what can I say?

  • There Is No Cloud

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    @PSX_Defector said:

    @Carnival-Boy said:

    Where I think there is the most confusion is in the differences between PaaS, IaaS and SaaS.

    We used to use the acronym CaaS with big red V. We always rocked the CaaS box. Rocked the CaaS box.

    LOL! I assume that it's a reference to:
    Youtube Video

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    Me too, that sounds good now that you say it.

    I am staying with my dad too, here in the land of pizza, subs and fish frys.

  • Azure DC - What's the minimum spec for SMB

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    Thanks for the comments.

    Having a major play with it at the moment.

  • PowerShell command: Event Time

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    @Martin9700 said:

    @g.jacobse said:

    0x01d0b26dc6a4a844

    That value isn't a .NET date/time value so Get-Date won't be able to process it properly (hence the year 0415). So I tried this: http://superuser.com/questions/398983/how-do-i-decode-the-faulting-application-start-time-in-a-windows-event-log-ent

    (get-date "01/01/1601").AddSeconds(0x01d0b26dc6a4a844 / 10E+6)

    And got:

    Monday, June 29, 2015 1:16:14 PM

    Seems much better!

    Interesting - same link I used. I didn't notice that the read through.

  • Samsung disabling Windows updates

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    @scottalanmiller said:

    @Dashrender said:

    Sigh, and I thought consumer wise at least Samnsung was as good as HP and Dell.

    First rule of buying computers, avoid consumer.

    Sure, I guess I was giving them to much credit because there are no business class phones or TVs, two places they make a pretty decent product in.

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    I also noticed if I used the *78 to activate DND/*79 to deactivate DND, I can't reverse DND from the soft button because the phone assumes it's already in the desired state. I can activate (on) DND, then turn around and deactivate it.

    Just something to keep in mind, in case anyone was wondering.

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  • VMWare Pink Screen of Death

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    nadnerBN

    @Mike-Ralston here is some more information (if you haven't already found it)

    Ā 
    Interpreting an ESX/ESXi host purple diagnostic screen - http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004250
    Ā 
    Possibly not as helpful:
    Understanding Exception 13 and Exception 14 purple diagnostic screen events in ESX 3.x/4.x and ESXi 3.x/4.x/5.x (1020181) - http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1020181

  • Axigen Free Mail Server

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    scottalanmillerS

    The web client does look attractive, but Zimbra's is really nice too. Outlook Web Access is pretty decent these days as well.

  • Unresponsive HP Proliant DL385 G7

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    scottalanmillerS

    It was the motherboard. Tested the PSUs this morning with replacements and no issues with the originals. Swapped out the motherboard and the baby fired right up. We are currently recovering everything and anticipate zero data loss. No need to even fall back to the backups.

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    So HP engineering said that this should work but they had not tested it. Make sure you are fully up to date on the firmware and the P410 should be able to go to the P400 safely. But.... caveat emptor, of course.

  • Using new server OS upon release

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    scottalanmillerS

    @lance said:

    I thought I read some where that Microsoft is making the jump from 6.4 to 10, which will be the first time the os and kernel match. I could be wrong though.

    Linux did a renumbering too, recently, to make the number more marketable. But 3.0 is actually part of the 2.6 family. At best you could consider it 2.8. Microsoft may do the same thing, switch from a meaningful numbering to a marketing number. But the new kernel is remaining part of the Vista kernel family.