@scottalanmiller Community or Enterprise?

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RE: Owncloud Windows 7/8 Integration
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Owncloud Windows 7/8 Integration
I've had a personal Owncloud installation setup for over a year now and have loved it. It works exactly as advertised and with each new version the interface get faster and more usable. While the web interface is great I have been mounting via webdav on my Linux Mint laptop and my CentOS (with a GUI) VNC server. This is great, the integration with the file system makes it very simple to copy/paste or click and drag files from one desktop to the Owncloud server.
I have been struggling however to get a similar integration functioning with Windows 7/8. While I have the sync client installed on my Windows 8 desktop, which works flawlessly, on my Windows 7 PC I want to access the files without syncing the entire directory. I've been looking on the forums and most people are saying just use a third-party webdav client. I was hoping I could just do what I did with my Linux desktops and get it to be a mounted drive or network location.
So my question is two fold.
Who is using or has used OwnCloud?
Who has been able to successfully mount their webdav share via Windows file explorer?
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RE: Very Noisy PS3
@IRJ I have this issue with mine as well. Bought it brand new from Amazon several years ago. It will wind up for 10-15 minutes at a time and then go back to normal. I think it may be one of the bearing on the fan going bad and that fan only winds up when it gets too hot in the machine.
Some day I may dig into it and see what is causing it but it hasn't been an issue at this point.
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
For some reason I'm reminded of one of those TV shows they used to play on Nick at Nite when I was a kid. Edit: it was called the Waltons I think.
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RE: HTML5 is Officially Out
@thanksaj Officially there has been, but I believe full support has been a bit broken since then as well.
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RE: Is There No Base of IT Knowledge?
@thanksaj said:
@Carnival-Boy said:
I think one of the characteristics of you two is that you both seem to love IT. So IT isn't just a job, it's almost like a hobby. But for a lot people, and I probably include myself here, it is just a job. That makes it harder to find the motivation to learn the subject outside of work.
When I was in my twenties, my interests were music and football (and beer!). Everything in my life revolved around them, and a job in computing was just a way to fund my interests in them. I had no interest in studying.
I still don't have any interest in studying. I'll confess, I don't know much about DNS or VPNs. I've never read an IT book, I've never studied it at college and I have no certifications or qualifications in it. Despite my ignorance, I've still forged out a decent career as an IT manager, either because I have other valuable skills or because I'm good at blagging.
A lack of interest in the subject maybe doesn't matter as much in a large company, as they often provide decent training. But in the SMB world, a lot of companies offer no training at all.
If my work didn't provide me with IT equipment at home, I possibly wouldn't even bother owning a computer or a smart phone, it just doesn't interest me that much. I quite enjoy my job, but if I could earn the same money by being a lion tamer, I'd be just as happy to do that.
I agree with that. IT is not just a job for me. I knew that when I chose a career path to go into I would need something I could be passionate about. And that passion does not end when I leave my workplace. I wouldn't be very good at what I did if it did.
I am also one of these people who does IT work at home because I enjoy it that much. I find it hard to come up with necessary and usable projects at home though. I find myself thinking about setting up a home automation system in my spare time but I haven't gotten much past the brain-mapping phase.
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RE: Is There No Base of IT Knowledge?
To answer your question, no there is no base for IT knowledge. There is no starting point for everyone which says you must know X to be considered an IT professional.
Look at doctors, to practice in most states you need to pass a certification of some sort that says you are capable of practicing medicine at an adequate level for this state. Lawyers have the same thing, even plumbers and electricians generally need to have a specific license or be part of a specific union to get work in some cities/states. This is a structured way to ensure that everyone has the same base knowledge, from that base you expand on it and have different levels of those careers. (I am by no way saying we need a union, just that it is a form of control mechanism)
IT, being young, doesn't have that type of control, there is no single process to getting into IT like you would for some other careers. I know several IT people who started out lives as accountants, engineers, marketing professionals (no idea the actual title). They began working on IT because they were told it was their responsibility.
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RE: Meraki and Ubiquiti Price Comparison
@scottalanmiller said:
It's only recently-ish that a lot of the solid competition has sprung up. They were good for a while.
They do have a really nice product and the interface made it very simple to troubleshoot issues and find devices that were doing inappropriate things on our WLAN. Although now that I've played with their security appliances there are some key reporting and troubleshooting features that I really wish they would add.
I really want to test out one of the EdgeRouters to see how it works. I'm debating picking one up for the house.
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RE: Meraki and Ubiquiti Price Comparison
@scottalanmiller said:
They are an odd niche. Before players like Ubiquiti came along they made sense in very specific circumstances. But now, it's very hard to figure out when or where to deploy them. And they only really get their value when you go whole hog and have Meraki switches, firewalls and access points. The moment you start using anyone else, their value falls apart. But when you do all of that, that price is insane.
I can do a competitive solution to a full Meraki office for ~$800 total. It will last most of a decade. Meraki is a minimum of $4K just for one of the three pieces!
We went the "whole hog" at a school I worked for a few years ago. Meraki was a new-ish player then and hadn't been bought by Cisco yet. The pricing we got was very competitive when looking at the whole solution, we deployed 75 access points and 30 switches, they were testing their MX series at the time and wanted us to be a test case but we never got around to meeting up with their engineer again. I liked their solution and many of the features/functionality at the time couldn't be had in the price range that we bought the equipment for.
I also installed two MX appliances at my current position after looking at the field and seeing some of the competition was around the same price. I didn't look at Ubiquiti at the time although I did install their access points. If I were to do our infrastructure all over again I would have installed a different firewall then what I had chosen.
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RE: New Publisher on GOG Today: LucasArts
@scottalanmiller http://store.steampowered.com/app/32340/
Probably one of my all time favorite games as a kid. I enjoyed Monkey Island, but Loom took the cake for me, deeper and much better story. The game mechanic, song weaving, was a fantastic addition to the generic point-and-click.
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RE: This Gives Me a Great Idea for the Next Conference....
Fireball - nope, drinking out of the same bottle - nope... I would enjoy watching the video though.
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RE: New Publisher on GOG Today: LucasArts
Holy crap, I didn't realize that Loom is available on Steam. I played way too much of that game when I was a kid. I always wondered why they never released a sequel.
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RE: Western Digital Has Announced 8TB and 10TB Drives
@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksaj said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksaj said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Bill-Kindle said:
@scottalanmiller Why can we just not move towards larger SSD's? why are we still pushing the boundaries with spindles?
Cost. You can go buy bigger, faster SSDs today. But they are extremely expensive.
There are 8TB SSDs?
We've had 4TB since May. 8TB expected shortly. 2015 is the year when it is expected that SSDs will be larger than spinning rust. Late 2014 is the expected inflection point. SSDs might still yet pass spinning disks this year. The 10TB drives are not on the market yet.
Still, those have to cost between 5 and 10K for each drive.
$30K in September.
Where is the use case for a drive that large that costs that much? Wouldn't it be less expensive and quicker to get a stack of 7.2K 2TB drives in a RAID array?
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RE: USB as a Main Storage device
@Mike-Ralston That doesn't sound right... could you post a picture or something with the nonsensical text? If it is gibberish or something else then your BIOS may be corrupt, although didn't you try to flash it earlier in this thread?
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RE: USB as a Main Storage device
@Mike-Ralston You may find an option in the bios that enables or disables boot from USB. Should be somewhere in the boot settings menu.
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RE: Reputation to post ratio
Wait... there was a reputation function on this forum? I thought the up/down vote was just for those posts. Good to know I won't be missing anything.
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RE: VPN and printing
@Dashrender said:
@technobabble said:
I have a CradlePoint MBR1200 business class router. I know I can add IPsec Policy, but not sure if that means it is an Endpoint.
IPSec Policy - I'm not familiar with this wording - but if it means VPN, OK. Does CradlePoint have a VPN client for the end user? Unless more recent Windows include it, Windows doesn't include an IPSec VPN client.
Windows 7 and up do, I configure ours manually but you can also configure it with a group policy.
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RE: Keyboard and Mouse eating up CPU?
Are they plugged into one of those USB adapters that plug into the motherboard instead of the ones soldered onto the motherboard?
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RE: Going with Unicorns
Just wondering, what's the reason for using Ubuntu instead of a different distro?