A lot of places restrict the allowed characters because they're morons who don't understand SQL injection and think it's a way to avoid it. Ideally any character should be allowed that can be transferred over HTTP without breaking the hell out of things, which is everything which can be properly encoded.

I do trim passwords though, something old school jackasses think is bad, because after all, if there's a space at the beginning or end of a password, or a newline/return character, it must be on purpose, despite the fact that 99.9999999999% of the time it's because someone copy/pasted the password from an email or something and accidentally added on the space/\r/\n. Of course you can make the argument of never sending a password in an email (and we don't), but tell that to users who will do it all day long.

I also wrote a method to deal with "easy" passwords, things like repeating words, pattern recognition for phone numbers, birthdates, etc.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

I just realized what the "Big red V" is....

Not to be confused with the big pink V.

And what is that?

I have no idea either.

@thecreativeone91 said:

What the Adavantage with Pbx in a flash? That's the only one I haven't used. I've mostly used FreePBX (and some straight up asterisk)

The PBX in a Flash team also has a lot of nice extra features baked in and some that you can add (Traveling Man is a good example).

PBX in a Flash existed long before FreePBX had a distribution of its own. Obviously, PIAF uses the FreePBX GUI just like Elastix.unli,e Elastix, they do not wrap everything around in their own GUI. All that PIAF does is add a quick and dirty landing page to let you access the various tools directly from one place.

You basically need to know more to truly admin a PIAF system well.

It is also heavily focused on security.

@NetworkNerd said:

If you want to know more about vSphere 6 or VSAN, there are lots of tasks in CloudCred related to them. Oh yeah, and our team is not very active these days.

Probably because VMware isn't as exciting as it used to be 4-6 months ago. I'm curious what new Hyper-V improvements will be in Windows Server 10 (although apparently it's just going to be called "windows server", no version)

I have Publisher but don't use it. Scribus is okay for basic stuff. I really like QuarkXpress for print jobs though. Many would as Adobe InDesign is better I guess but I like Quark better.

@scottalanmiller said:

Don't the scalers typically disable when there is no scaling to do? One would hope.

to some degree. But, they are still there an affecting the signal. Hence why most tv's even today have over/over scan issues. Going from CRT to LCD was suppose to fix that, since they are more predictable but it didn't. High end $4-6k tv's gennerally do much better about it though.

Well, that's an odd issue.
Thanks for posting the fix. It might come in handy later 😄

known "non issue" with veracrypt. the developer says it's because of the added security.... makes it unusable for doctors lol.

@thecreativeone91 said:

Zophos is when Sophos and Zoho merge... It's like a prediction by @g.jacobse

I make no predictions..

@scottalanmiller said:

@handsofqwerty said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

@handsofqwerty said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

It's based on your Public IP.

Only sometimes. It said that it could not determine it when I went to look into it. But normally, on the same IP, it sets to where I actually am. So it is not consistent.

I get the theory, but that's not a reliable way to tell timezone.

Based on what you've told me, the main uplink is usually satellite, right? That could be it. Or maybe it's relaying to another tower somewhere else.

It's never going to be where your house it. It's wherever the ISP connects to the backbone/peering connections.

That's what I'm saying.

Nearly any sat link for this part of the world shows up as Belgium. I'm not on a sat, if I was, that's where it would likely terminate.

Ok.

@technobabble said:

@scottalanmiller Yep...just checked with my cc provider and they have been trying to buy products and the cards are failing multiple times...I'm calling this fraud and scamming.

Sounds like it is time to run away.

Yep. that was it. Did route delete on it and it worked. I'm working how that would get there on a clean install.

Trouble shooter had me login using [email protected] which worked. However next step was using the [email protected] which says:

The account you used to sign in is not provisioned for Skype for Business services.

Arrg...troubleshooter says get a password change.

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller said:

That's silly since they said that they were not monitoring it and they were just trusting you to only use 1TB as it is.

In two weeks you get a phone call: SAM, I see you are using 1.6 TB of source data on our free Unitrends package... Would you like to upgrade now?

For we can settle this in court. haha. Buy or else.

@scottalanmiller said:

Yup, you just do the same process again to expand in the future.

Sweet, thanks!

It me it seems the OS just gets out of the way more and lets me do what I want to do. With Android the OS kinda gets in the way of doing tasks more and doesn't let me just work without having to think about it. If that makes sense.

lol @handsofqwerty
While we are on the subject of yellow attire, I wsa reminded of "the yellow dart":
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail64.html

@DenisKelley said:

To be honest, I've never (after close to 20 years in IT) gotten passionate about a backup software before Veeam. It's weird.

Same here.

@g.jacobse said:

@handsofqwerty said:

What type of headset is this? It may need a firmware update:
http://www.plantronics.com/us/support/myheadset/updater/

Once you do that, you'll want to rebuild the bluetooth stack. Remove the device from your phone, power off, power back on, re-pair the bluetooth. That will rebuild the bluetooth stack and is best practice after updating firmware. (I spend A LOT of time on PLT's forums).

Also, I don't recommend the M series. They are the stupid cousin of the Voyager series.

Sadly my BT isn't any of those. It's the M55 - Just a simple unit.

Oh, I'm sorry...