Boeing set for re-run of Starliner space capsule test

The American Boeing company is about to run another demonstration mission of its new astronaut capsule.
The CST-100 Starliner is set to launch from Florida to showcase how it can ferry crews to and from the International Space Station (ISS). It will be the second test flight, and conducted with no people aboard. A similar demonstration run in 2019, encountered software problems that very nearly resulted in the loss of the capsule. The Starliner will ride to orbit on an Atlas-5 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Lift-off is timed for 13:20 local time (17:20 GMT; 18:20 BST).

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My wife uses square on her iPad as a POS and I've seen a lot of places use square POS systems and clover POS systems.

@dashrender said in Need MS Access app re-written to something else.:

@scottalanmiller said in Need MS Access app re-written to something else.:

@dashrender said in Need MS Access app re-written to something else.:

While I think Scott's a bit overblown with the whole Windows Server and SQL server to be "serious" I see where he's coming from.
For example sticking with Windows 10 for example is likely fine because I'm assuming it's being run on and from a single machine connected to the gate system, not a remote server, etc...

It's a licensing requirement if you want security and reliable multi-user access. Otherwise you have to use the shared-file system of a JetDB that is completely exposed to things like ransomware. And that is highly flaky once you have more than about five users.

This really seems like a single computer setup - so while what you mention could be good, might be overkill for this setup.

It is a Raspberry Pi setup, IMO. I think @JasGot is right on that.

I think he is off on the "wishing he had 5 hours" thing though.

I don't know enough about controlling Pi pins to handle this. I think that would be better than the serial interface for the relay control. But it will also require then new wiring which is physical.

The barcode readers should be a standard listen for input handler.

The database design should be pretty straightforward.

The user interface does not sound like it needs to be complex, but like anything, you need to make it comfortably usable, or users will not use.

Finally, security of the application, it's users, data, etc will have to be designed.

Just watched the original Ghostbusters with the two older kids

@marcinozga said in Proxmox initial setup annoyances:

You may have to clear browser cache to fully get rid of the nag. Mine kept coming back, clearing caches got rid of it.

I run this prior to ever opening the web interface, so never an issue.

@roopankumar said in WiFi router connectivity:

will the laptop can use the router for internet...

You mentioned a wifi modem. Technically a modem and router are different things. We are guessing you mean that you have a consumer router / firewall / switch / access point / modem all in one. But that's a bit of a guess. There's no info in your question. So based on nothing other than "what people tend to buy and call these things", yeah, likely your setup will work.

But do we have anything to go on to determine this? No, not a single detail that we'd need to know to actually determine it.

A client of mine is getting out of a situation like that with Cox.

Cox charged like $80/m originally per phone for 4 phones - they installed the cable, the switch, the UPS, then 5 years ago lowed the price to $50/m/each.

Now they are moving to FreePBX, paying their own hosting fees, and bought the phones outright. Monthly bill fell by approx 75%

@syko24 said in Is VOIP.MS down?:

@syko24 said in Is VOIP.MS down?:

All my clients are not able to register their connections to VOIP.MS. Anyone else having this issue?

Actually it seems Chicago7 is currently down.

So it seems that the Chicago locations were all brought down and eventually failed over to the Toronto locations.

@jaredbusch said in Nginx Proxy Manager:

@stacksofplates said in Nginx Proxy Manager:

To be fair, I prefer to use nginx with k8s,

I don't see the benefit to Kubernetes in the small shops.

It genuinely makes things a lot easier. It's really easy to get up and running. Rancher makes federation really easy. Monitoring and central logging can be handled through a single helm chart. mTLS can also be handled through a single helm chart. Service discovery means your networking just works. Developing containerized apps is multiple times easier than developing legacy apps. 12 factor apps make setup easy.

It's much easier than using config management/infrastructure automation to manage multiple vms.

Really enjoying Diablo 3 season 24 with the Ethereal items. Lots of fun with those!

@stuartjordan said in O365: KUDOS:

A money gesture can be nice and encouraging, but so can someone from high management to sit you aside and give you kudos personally. Sometimes personal thank you can mean so much more.

No disagreement there -

Use SSH keys and whitelist your IP using Vultr firewall. When your IP changes, login to vultr console and add it.

Much safer and way easier.

@dustinb3403

Oh, yeah that changes things... advanced ip scanner as others have suggested might be the safest thing.

We've pushed the config to "Disable the “Allow Print Spooler to accept client connections:” policy to block remote attacks."

Option 2 at the link below:

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2021-34527

@obsolesce said in One more Endpoint Manager - open source - what does it sounds?:

@scottalanmiller said in One more Endpoint Manager - open source - what does it sounds?:

@imager said in One more Endpoint Manager - open source - what does it sounds?:

Windows servers are still relevant. Not everything can be accomplished on Linux.

So no rebuttal? No one suggested that Windows Servers aren't relevant, that was a very emotional response to saying that "requiring a specific OS" was a ridiculous problem to have in this day and age. Your response gives the impression that you are internally struggling with ascribing value to Windows and sense any suggestion that they are not absolutely necessary as an attack on your own value. Let it go dude, our professional value is not tied to vendor products. As IT folks, we can't care about one product over another, our whole value comes from being above that stuff. That's for best buy workers and Internet trolls, not business infrastructure decision makers who need to stay focused on how our decisions drive profits.

You make the wild claim that not everything can be accomplished on Linux. This flies in the face of all known programming knowledge since the beginning of computers. Care to elaborate what you know that no one else in the industry knows?

To add, the need for IT to run any server OS, on hardware or virtualize, is really starting to dwindle. With the direction modern management and practices are going, I can see both SMB and enterprise use of servers going the way of the Dodo.

While I generally agree - there will always be cases where situations warrant the performance of proximity to their data. Though I suppose this could be offset by putting both the data AND the desktop in the DC - then it's about the performance of the interface to that desktop. And as Scott loves to continue to mention, the US is a practical 3rd world country for internet access :P

@scottalanmiller said in Multiple Virtual Disks and Application Performance:

Remember.... just because you are virtual does not imply that your storage is virtual, nor does virtual storage imply that the storage will be shared between workloads or VMs. None of that is implied or suggested in going virtual. You still maintain all proper storage management decision making when virtual as you did physical. You don't get to give any of that up.

In restrospect, I probably ought not have included the System Center Dude stuff in the discussion, since it seemed to just cause confusion about what I was curious.

You still maintain all proper storage management decision making when virtual as you did physical.

I believe this is the greatest takeaway from the discussion. Regardless if the environment is like the one I'm in where ultimately one physical storage device is hosting all of the virtual storage within the VMs.