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Camille & I head to the streets of León #Nicaragua & find some live music in Parque Central and end up trying #fritanga #streetfood

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Debian 12 "Bookworm" is, in theory, under a month away and is going to PHP 8.2. So that is very good. But the long release cycles are always going to be a challenge that there isn't really a reason for.

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@Pete-S said in Debian 11 & php8:

@WLS-ITGuy said in Debian 11 & php8:

One of the applications we use just released a new version and the update requires php8.0 or above.

So right now the best approach is to wait until Debian 12 is released officially and then install Debian 12 with the new version of the application.
If the application is supported on Debian they have likely tested it with Debian 12.

I'd say the best approach is to not be on Debian. Debian is wonderful, but primarily as a base for building distos, running it as the core enterprise OS comes with problems and this highlights them. PHP 8.0 isn't new or current. It's a few versions behind. That means Debian as tested is out of date and less mature (software maturity comes from updating, not stagnation.) There's good reason to want distros that don't update and stay on LTS software, but those reasons are few and far between and should always be met with "why aren't you correcting the problems that led to wanting LTS?"

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@WLS-ITGuy said in Debian 11 & php8:

One of the applications we use just released a new version and the update requires php8.0 or above.

We're using Debian 11 and since 11.7 was just released, which doesn't have php8 in the release. I was wondering how do I find out when things like php. Mariadb, Apache, NGNIX, etc get applied to distros?

If you want any kind of modernity, Debian isn't really for you OR you use Debian as a base and do not use it as your package testing and repo system - which is generally not advised in production, but it is an okay approach as long as you accept it. Basically it means you are using Debian as a base and assembling your own distro instead of trusting the vendors.

With my CIO hat on, we never do that. If we want modern software, and we normally do, we run Ubuntu or Fedora. Both of which have had PHP 8 and 8.1 (8.2 is current) for quite a long time. Debian is great as a base and when you want things that never change. But it is not good when you want things that are keeping up to date.

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That was really Drobo's downfall, making a Windows-based consumer SAN product that promoted anti-best practices as a selling point.

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ArsTechnica callsed it a "NAS that wasn't a full NAS", I think they aren't aware of the term SAN. lol

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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Drobo finally dead

Drobo, having stopped sales and support, reportedly files Chapter 7 bankruptcy

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/drobo-reportedly-files-ch-7-bankruptcy-signaling-the-end-of-a-simpler-nas

You don't hear nearly as much about Drobo boxes as you used to, especially on sites like Ars Technica. We now have some news, but it isn't good.

StorCentric, the holding company for the Drobo and Retrospect brands, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late June 2022. Now, AppleInsider reports that, based on an email sent by StorCentric, the bankruptcy shifted from reorganization-minded Chapter 11 to liquidation-focused Chapter 7 in late April.

I kept being sure it was dead, but checking the website and finding it still around, but they hadn't made a new product in... a decade? Their NAS never got to the point that it could handle NFS because it didn't have enough RAM!!

Like, a Raspberry Pi 1 could do that!

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@Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Already had one morning meeting. Gardeners are here. Working on a video. Drinking coffee. Working on MS SQL Server.

Whatcha doing in the Microsoft services? Do you know what you are doing with no command line?

MS SQL Server around here 100% of the time runs on Linux

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@JaredBusch said in Get Alert Whenever There is MS SQL Server Access:

@scottalanmiller said in Get Alert Whenever There is MS SQL Server Access:

Email is easiest

How in the fuck is that "easiest?" It would be a train wreck of hundreds of emails for a barely used system, let alone a busy one.

Log to audit file and ship the log.

It's a production database so there should be an email when the application connects and absolutely no user should ever, ever, ever be able to log in unless it's an admin doing an emergency backup and/or restore (likely alerts would be off during a restore.) There's no user ever authorized to just connect. So if there is more than one or two emails a month, that would be super interesting for us because there are just two applications that use the system and, I believe, they are holding the connection persistent.

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@Danp hahaha, that's awesome, thanks!

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Already had one morning meeting. Gardeners are here. Working on a video. Drinking coffee. Working on MS SQL Server.

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Anyone know the best way to do that? Email is easiest, but not a requirement. We just need an alert anytime that someone accesses MS SQL Server. Meaning, they connect to the service. This is connecting to the database, not the OS. It's a legal requirement, so doesn't need to make sense.