• MS Excel Formula; Hide #REF!

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    scottalanmillerS

    We use Trello and like it a lot, but we use it for a coding process, not job tracking.

  • Invoice Ninja, Open Source Invoicing

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  • Domain Trust, VPN, Remote workers

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    IRJI

    The only risk here is having a laptop stolen and giving the attacker more time to try to breach a system with cached credentials.

    You can mitigate that by using bit locker and requiring MFA on all important accounts (should be the standard anyway).

  • Yealink Conf Table phone

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    @JaredBusch I've used 960 with remote mics - works well.

  • Fanvil Availability and Suport in the US

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    @Pete-S said in Fanvil Availability and Suport in the US:

    Fanvil is readily available in many regions and the problem people have had is not with the hardware. It's firmware upgrades that breaks things, intermittent problems, provisioning stops working, DSS keys that stops working etc. All related to software.

    Consensus among those that deploy both Yealink and Fanvil has been to get Yealink if possible as Fanvil causes a lot more support issues over time.

    But hopefully Fanvil is getting better so it will be interesting to see what you guys think in a year or so.

    That’s why I am buying one to test. Since warranty/support is supposed to be available now, that means it is time to test.

  • MS Office vs. LibreOffice

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    Oh-kay . Yes - you are right... and yet you are (slightly) wrong.

    In this case, while Libre Office is ''content flow'' as opposed to ''page based'' The project is page based - something I was doing, but didn't know exactly how to explain.

    thusly;
    https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/91386/can-i-change-the-page-order-in-writer/

    From your question, your document is "page-based". Go to the logical consequence of your choice and store your "pages" as independent documents. To guarantee a common look-and-feel, I'd recommend to design them from a common template.

    Then, you create your "synthesis" document (the one meant for printing) as a master document which references all your "page" documents. Read the LO User's guide if you aren't familiar with the concept.

    In the master document, the included "pages" can be reordered from the Navigator panel (F5) with "up" and "down" buttons after selecting the "page" you want to move. In essence, it is equivalent to @RGB-es copy-and-paste solution without the risk of incorrectly selecting page content or overwriting other text.

    This is basically what I had done in Word...

  • Unifi + RADIUS + AD

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    This is a configuration I have for AD with Unifi APs using RADIUS

    SSID
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    RADIUS Profile in UNifi
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    NPS Connection Request Policies
    APs are configured under RADIUS Clients with the Authentication password used on the RADIUS profile in the Unifi Controller.
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    Policies
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    Nothing to change here
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    **NPS Network Policy **
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    Under the Editing of the PEAP settings make sure to select your CA Certificate Authority
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  • NVMe and RAID?

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    @biggen said in NVMe and RAID?:

    But what about the server case itself? What models are you putting these components in? I'd probably do a tower for the initial build.

    Pedestal: Silversone CS381.
    Rack Chassis: We go barebones from a variety of vendors. Intel, TYAN, ASRock Rack, and others
    Rack Chassis Standalone: Chenbro comes to mind. Silverstone also makes them. We've looked into iStar and Rosewill though never jumped on board.

  • Hosted PBX with on site Appliance - Specifically: VitalPB

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    @JasGot said in Hosted PBX with on site Appliance - Specifically: VitalPB:

    @gjacobse said in Hosted PBX with on site Appliance - Specifically: VitalPB:

    With that as a known environment - cell coverage - you could very easily offer Soft Phones

    I have this on my cell phone. It works really well with the exception of battery drain. 😞 I only run it when needed.

    Before anyone tells me it doesn't take much battery, My phone lasts about 36 hours between charges. I EXPECT it to. If the charge lasts less than 24 hours, I go nuts and address the apps using power.

    For those who frequently place their phone on a charger, it may not be an issue.

    Don't lose sight of the fact that I do really like the softphone......

    Oh - very much so ,.. the soft phone would chew through my battery as well. But - it's also a small price to pay for that extra..

  • Suggestion for a call recorder for Android phone

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    Sorry, but this is a case of not running the right OS. Wrong tool for the job if you will.

    If you need Skype for business, you need Windows. It's as simple as that. Everything else is just a fragile workaround and an exercise in frustration.

    Or you could wait until Microsoft have replaced it completely with Teams. Which, if I understand correctly, they've already decided to do.

    Or perhaps get one of the Yealink Skype for Business phones. Don't know how it works but I'm guessing it doesn't need anything else.

  • Finding owner of gmail address

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    scottalanmillerS

    @JasGot said in Finding owner of gmail address:

    Is it possible to find out who owns a gmail address?

    No official way, no. Mostly because they don't collect any information when you sign up. But also because they will never disclose anything even if they knew.

  • PHP Upgrade (Nextcloud)

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    @travisdh1 I always read about Canonical "issues" on privacy and other things but have not kept up with it enough to have an opinion.

  • Nextcloud - Daniel Hansson

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    travisdh1T

    I tried this tonight because I was curious. Man, that is SO much easier to get everything installed and working together.

  • PBX queries

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    scottalanmillerS

    @Dashrender said in PBX queries:

    The VM was only meant for huge implementations,

    E.g. Mitel doesn't consider their solution to be meant for businesses until they are "huge". They view their own small customers has hobbies.

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    @aboka said in Setup LetsEncrypt Certbot with CLoudFlare DNS authentication (Ubuntu):

    hi, thanks for sharing this guide, would like to ask, what port does ppa:certbot use? im running nginx and its already using 80 & 443. i need to find a way to renew the cert when using Cloudflare as the common way(certbot renew) will not work. thank you.

    There are certbot options to use the running server (Nginx in this case.) But I agree with Jared, better to use DNS.

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    @scottalanmiller said in Resentment to Purchasing Software - Split From Unrelated Topic on IT Professionals:

    @dbeato said in Resentment to Purchasing Software - Split From Unrelated Topic on IT Professionals:

    However Windows, Mac OS and any Linux Flavor have their own risks so for me it is about mitigating considering both the usability and risks.

    See, this is what I mean. Everything has risks. Risk evaluation involves evaluating how big and common the risks are, what they are likely to do, what the impact is.

    If you just say "there is risk", all risk evaluation is useless. IT has to evaluate and consider the risks. Just saying that you have to be afraid of everything because everything has risks and treating it all the same is the same as completely ignoring it. "When everything is a risk, nothing is a risk."

    It is understand what you think but saying and doing are two different things. So yes, most things have risks and nothing is perfect but you action it on prevention and being proactive you do no leave it to chance.

  • pi-Hole: Dashboard times out

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    @JaredBusch said in pi-Hole: Dashboard times out:

    @gjacobse said in pi-Hole: Dashboard times out:

    @JaredBusch said in pi-Hole: Dashboard times out:

    Unless you have the Vultr Firewall in place restriciting access to your home IP or some software firewall running on the instance, you have setup a fucking public DNS server. What else would you expect to happen?

    Great - that's an extra $10 a month unless I can run firewalld on the system and be fine.

    um wut?

    Admittedly - I may have misspoke and that is the DDOS not the firewall. I have to go back and look through.

    @scottalanmiller said in pi-Hole: Dashboard times out:

    @gjacobse said in pi-Hole: Dashboard times out:

    @JaredBusch said in pi-Hole: Dashboard times out:

    Unless you have the Vultr Firewall in place restriciting access to your home IP or some software firewall running on the instance, you have setup a fucking public DNS server. What else would you expect to happen?

    Great - that's an extra $10 a month unless I can run firewalld on the system and be fine.

    $10? Should be $3.50 on Vultr

    This instance is indeed $3.50

  • Why I Choose LibreOffice

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    scottalanmillerS

    @black3dynamite said in Why I Choose LibreOffice:

    @travisdh1 said in Why I Choose LibreOffice:

    I've been using OnlyOffice personally for a couple of years now. It was just better at getting the MS Office formatting correct when I made the switch. Which was a major factor for me while looking for a job.

    /tangent Recruiters, do yourselves a favor and stop asking for resumes/CVs in Word format! /tangent

    I've used LibreOffice since it was only OpenOffice. Remember when it started as StarOffice, the Sun aquesition, the split to LibreOffice, and now the Apache OpenOffice. More history lesson here. Sun purchased the company, Star Division, in 1999 because buying said company for 59.5 million was cheaper than licensing Microsoft Office for 42,000 employees.

    Even when asked, I’ll still only provide a PDF version of my resume.

    LOL, yup. I give a pass to the sales applications. But tech applications in anything but PDF get the stink eye from me.

  • When Does It Stop Even Being IT: Buyers vs Doers

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    scottalanmillerS

    @Mario-Jakovina said in When Does It Stop Even Being IT: Buyers vs Doers:

    My point is - I don't see many companies in non-competitive environment

    I see absolutely tons. Mostly because the market is small. I'll give an example...

    Crappy restaurant opens in a town of 1,000 residents. It's not horrible, just not very good. Prices are a little high, service slow, a few food items are good, most are blah. They survive because people want a place to eat and they are it.

    No competition. Logically a competing restaurant will just open up and kill them off, right? Well, no. Because the market doesn't grow with the new restaurant. So someone looking to open a new restaurant says "even if I make a better restaurant I have to compete against an established restaurant with less debt... the potential market for the second restaurant is smaller even if they do better."

    The second restaurant has a lot of fears... can they really do better than the first one? If they cost less, they have fewer profits to use to compete. If they make better food or have better service, that only causes a certain percentage of people to switch to them. Most people will split their time to some degree between the two, lowering the market share for both. Presumably the established company has less debt and is already up and running and can improve their food, service, and prices before the new restaurant opens - potentially making it impossible to compete, then they can go back once the new one fails. Did the first restaurant get the best choice of real estate and the new one just the second best location?

    It's actually extremely common in the SMB world for companies to remain without competition because it's often not a market where there is much to any value to competing where someone is already there. Established companies have typically deep pockets to throw at making new start ups in their space fail.