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I manage hundreds of servers at work. They each have a BMC (remote power on/off, reset, KVM, etc) and we need to use those features frequently. I’ve been using a Google Docs spreadsheet to track their URLs, what each box is used for, specs, etc but it feels like a dynamic web app would be better for this purpose. Does anyone...

I read someone was trying to get Samba AD working in a container and now I am curious what else you guys are working on....

I’ve been seeing a lot of doom and gloom about VMware. The cutting of services and licensing changes of the cost of core offerings are huge issues. Is anyone planning or budgeting to change to another hypervisor? If so what?

I’m looking into building a new remote management with mesh VPNs but it may turn out not to be practical.

About a year ago I introduced Rustdesk as an experiment. For those who don’t know Rustdesk is a piece of software that allows remote access. You can use the public servers or you can use your own private server....

I was wondering how often does one choose to make and keep back ups. I know that “It depends on your business needs”, but that is rather vague and unsatisfying, so I was hoping to hear some heuristics from the community. Like say I had a workstation/desktop that is acting as a server at a shop (taking inventory / sales...

Has anyone used sunshine/moonlight for low latency remote desktop? I’ve used it for remote gaming but I since I’ve had good experiences I though it might be testing for work....

So I recently discovered that the camera NVRs are majority insecure. This lead to my company failing to get PCI compliance which wasn’t all that unexpected. However, this leads to the awkward situation of me comparing mesh VPNs. I’ve been playing around with netbird but I’m looking for a more polished solution....

It’s the last Friday before the New Year. Like myself, many of you will be starting their on-call rotation....

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I opened my laptop for unrelated reasons and was greeted by a slightly bloated battery. Idk if the picture makes it clear, but the individual segments of the battery have slightly raised above the solid structure pieces in between. Laptop is just over a year old. I have already contacted the manufacturer, but with the holidays...

I wrote this a Christmas or two ago and thought it would be nice to share to any of us out there dutifully on call....

Just what the world needs, more software subscriptions. /s...

The Ukrainian government’s military intelligence service says it hacked the Russian Federal Taxation Service, wiping the agency’s database and backup copies....

From the No-Shit-Sherlock Dpmt .

Hey, I’ve recently designed a Poster about the FHS since I often forget where I should place or find things. Do you have any feedback how to make it better?...

Hello everyone....

Oh boy, here we go

“Move to the cloud” they said

Ever since I’ve came to the company as a sole Sys admin (where there was none before) I’ve tried to keep it simple as possible… everyone has MS Office Home&Business, I’ll move everyone to Outlook from the damn Windows Live Mail… and sure thing, I’ll also install Outlook on their phones whoever wants to have Email...

I thought this was the right place to ask, let me know if somewhere else was better....