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Small shops - any recommendations for in-office digital signage? Got a couple of TVs and the solution right now is a laptop in the server closet with an HDMI run to one of the TVs, and a mini workstation mounted behind another TV. I'd like something that's a one-time purchase and not subscription (someone recommended https://www.screenly.io/pricing/). Something like this https://pisignage.com/homepage/features.html looks good "on paper" but would love real world recommendation. My ideal setup is the user doesn't have to stand up from their desk and push content (PPTX, JPEG, whatever) to either or both TVs. I feel like that's low stakes. Low stakes snipe
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I set up appspace at my last job and it worked pretty well. Editing is done on the web application. Their display app is solid and available on almost everything. Their free tier used to allow more devices though.
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We use Concerto for a couple of displays where our older Black Box systems have died. Also looking at Xibo, heard good things but haven't used it personally yet. Both are free/open source.
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Pi based systems are where they're at these days for displays. I've used https://yodeck.com in the past and been happy, but it's monthly/yearly pricing. The do provide a free pi though with each sub. (If you have your own Pi, you can hook up one screen for free "for testing" per account) Finding a free system will usually entail you having to build and maintain a backend system to host it - something generally covered by the monthly fees.
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Raspberry Pi-based systems might not be an option depending on when you need to have this ready for, have you seen the stock levels of them lately?
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Thanks Ants posted:Raspberry Pi-based systems might not be an option depending on when you need to have this ready for, have you seen the stock levels of them lately? I used an RPi based one, super duper easy. I forget what the “signage” OS I used was but it was up and running in 10 min. Never touched it except to change pictures it cycled
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CarForumPoster posted:I used an RPi based one, super duper easy. I forget what the “signage” OS I used was but it was up and running in 10 min. Never touched it except to change pictures it cycled Even my local Microcenter where Pis were previously always available when I needed them in the past has had bare shelves in that section for months. They supposedly have a few 3As in inventory but the use cases where those fit are few and far between. wolrah fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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Alright I feel like I’m spinning in circles here. I have devices in Intune and I have the Windows Remote Help installer pushed out as a deployed Win32 app. This is app is supposed to allow me as the admin to do a remote session with elevated privileges to help users install apps or whatever. Except when the app opens the first time on the user’s device, it tells them they need to install a new version and THEY NEED ADMIN PRIVS to install it. So now I’m let no better off than before. The support article for Windows Remote Help says the latest version is the one I’ve packaged up. What gives?
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Feb 23, 2022 22:19
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Thanks for the recs all.Thanks Ants posted:Raspberry Pi-based systems might not be an option depending on when you need to have this ready for, have you seen the stock levels of them lately? Yeah - I got tired of  looking for them
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The Fool posted:I set up appspace at my last job and it worked pretty well. Editing is done on the web application. Their display app is solid and available on almost everything. Their free tier used to allow more devices though. Thanks for this rec - it's working great over here.
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The dinosaurs in charge think that this is easy:
Meanwhile, I'm clandestinely rsync'ing the data across. Don't underestimate a lovely connection running 24/7 for a week.
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Mar 10, 2022 15:18
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Was the data on the disk at least encrypted
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Deep in your heart, you already know the answer to that question.
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Is it bad form or considered  if I ask someone to help me out with obtaining some cisco firmware?We have a bunch of Cisco Nexus switches (which were bought off ebay  ) that now need a firmware update because a bunch of vulnerabilities were fixed. However since they are ebay switches we don' have a cisco support account and the MSP we hired for hardware support of these things won't give us the files.So now I'm down to asking other industry colleagues or the SA forums. Clearly I've reached my last vestiges of hope.
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What switches? I can see if I have access.
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Also if they're all the same model then you can get the cheap software-only service option on one of them and use that to unlock downloads in future
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GreenNight posted:What switches? I can see if I have access. PM sent! Thanks! Thanks Ants posted:Also if they're all the same model then you can get the cheap software-only service option on one of them and use that to unlock downloads in future They're split between two models. Our MSP says that because it contains critical security fixes I can call TAC and provide them with the CVE and the URL for the Combined First Fixed and they will give me the firmware. But I really don't want to waste a day sitting on the phone with TAC trying to convince them to give software to someone without a support account only to be told to gently caress off. Dealing with Cisco TAC is a pain in the rear end when you have valid support.
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Thanks Ants posted:Phone issues are the worst to try and troubleshoot because people assume that it's just a phone so what can the problem be, they seem to really love their phones, and also they will just flat-out lie about the problem thinking that it will get fixed quicker. In reality, claiming that *everyone* is having a problem when it's three people just means that it takes longer to fix your issue as it fucks up the troubleshooting process. I have to sit through a meetings next week where the ceo and my supervisors (a marketing person and a facilities person who can barely turn computers on) are going to yell at the ISP for all their sins for an hour when the truth of the matter is that most of them are based on users straight up lying. But there is no way it would be good for me to point out they are lying, so I have done my best to try and say we are having some uhh "training" issues that maybe the ISP can assist on.
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MustardFacial posted:Is it bad form or considered I'm cool with it.
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Count down to the routers being counterfeit and the firmware bricking them somehow.
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So here's a question I've been dreading but have not the political capital to prevent... the guy who signs the checks at our sister company wants employee surveillance/nanny software put on all the work PCs (laptops mostly, around 30). He's on that management kick of "they might be stealing time" and has tasked me and my partner to find a product that will take, at intervals, screenshots and some keystrokes to prove his fiefdom is "working properly." Pretend it has to happen, full stop. Pretend it's written into policy and everyone's signed off on it. Focusing on the product, I know some of you in this thread have experience with or cautionary tales of (beyond the obvious Orwell) technical problems. Please help me make this suck less than it has to.
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I was at an MSP during the pandemic, and we had a lot of customers ask for this type of software as everyone shifted to remote work. We weren't partners and didn't resell any, but Teramind was our go-to recommendation. Although once customers realized how expensive this software was, they always backed off, so I don't actually have any experience deploying/managing it. https://www.teramind.co/product/price At my place before that, we did have a couple of these, but they were on-prem based deployments that would only work if the PCs had access to the internal network, which in 2022 I can't imagine is a viable option. It did help me get an rear end in a top hat fired when his google search history consisted of different variations of "how to permanently delete email from Outloook" (don't worry, all email was being archived at the mx level).
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I know you don't want to enter into a discussion on it but ethically I'd have to draw a line somewhere, and it would be before implementing that sort of system
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Nothing stopping me from having a discussion on it with Thants, and it's probably more intereting than house + privilege chat in the other thread. I wouldn't work in an environment where my company provided laptop was taking screenshots all the time. But if it was explicitly documented and employees were warned, I dont think I would have a problem implementing such a system, in some crazy world where I could exempt myself. Seems like those two thoughts are at odds with each other. (I'm also privileged to be able to get another tech job if I draw a line and am asked to cross it).
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The best you can do there if forced to implement is to do it so poorly and slowly the boss either forgets about it or fires you over it.
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Tapedump posted:So here's a question I've been dreading but have not the political capital to prevent... the guy who signs the checks at our sister company wants employee surveillance/nanny software put on all the work PCs (laptops mostly, around 30). For what it is https://www.activtrak.com/ was pretty boring and painless to implement. And in shocking news the same people who asked for it never seemed to ever log in and check it.
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Maneki Neko posted:For what it is https://www.activtrak.com/ was pretty boring and painless to implement. And in shocking news the same people who asked for it never seemed to ever log in and check it. seconding this (and the people who never login to look  ). It's a wonderfully detailed metrics bound system that gives so MUCH useful data it sort of short-circuits the brains of managers. They check and see how long they're in SHITTY_INTERNAL_LEGACY_APP_THAT_DRIVES_REVENUE and click around a bit. Then, they end up giving up after their "feelings" aren't validated.I would, however, fight loving tooth and nail to not do screenshots.
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I would probably use my stock argument of "the equipment we buy is too crappy to run that and the poo poo they need to do in order to do their job" which is, generally true.
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activtrak ran on some pretty slow hardware, regrettably.
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Thank you for all the replies. I know it's hosed up. I knew it before I wrote the post asking. I'm being forced to provide options, and all our stuff is late-gen very capable stuff. Beyond the "Well, gently caress those guys / that idea!" ideology, suggested options help, and I thank you. I feel the "Well, better draw the line" ethos, but that would mean I'd stop getting a paycheck. Please pretend I'm not happy about this, either, okay? Thank you again to those providing options / trip reports.
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Tapedump posted:So here's a question I've been dreading but have not the political capital to prevent... the guy who signs the checks at our sister company wants employee surveillance/nanny software put on all the work PCs (laptops mostly, around 30). Perhaps some of your existing technology can already scratch this guy's itch. For example, if you have Umbrella or some other DNS filtering thing, you can probably give reports on websites, and if he wants the list of all the people who are stealing his precious bandwidth to watch march madness then you can do that without screen shots. If you have to do the screenshot and keystroke thing, please add Controlio to the list of solutions, just because of the name. I have a client that has it and "it's fine" according to them, no direct experience. As I recall they installed it only on specific machines "as needed". Dans Macabre fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Mar 24, 2022 |
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Oh I also had a client using CurrentWare and they said nobody ever checked it but when they opened it randomly it was working. Not sure if it does screen shots. Edit: it does do screen shots.
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I am the great Controlio!
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If you want to be a real rear end in a top hat you can get one of those things that randomly activates the webcam. Remember this thing? https://www.computerworld.com/article/2521075/pennsylvania-schools-spying-on-students-using-laptop-webcams--claims-lawsuit.html
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Just got an email from Meraki sales saying AP lead times are "only 55 days" lol. What a world.
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I mean we've ordered some MS390's last year and the ETA is October.
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Internet Explorer posted:I'm cool with it. Thanks CarForumPoster posted:Count down to the routers being counterfeit and the firmware bricking them somehow. They are real, my team lead used the cisco id from his previous job to get a previous firmware update. But I guess his previous company caught on and removed access because when he tried to do it this time it didn't work.
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I used to YOLO it years ago by grabbing IOS images off whatever random FTP sites were in Google results, and then making sure the MD5 hashes matched. Not sure I'd do that these days.
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I've been tasked with making a report email based on a certain type of ticket we have in our system (querying the postgres database directly). My company is cheap and does open source everything, mostly for being cheap rather than things being open source. So that means when I was tasked this, and wanted it to look nicer than a bash script outputting text, I was told to use Jaspersoft Studio Community Edition. This program looks like hot garbage, and hasn't been updated in years. There's got to be something better, but my DBA who's been working with this program for a while said he couldn't find anything. Please help me to not use this program, someone, I beg you.
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Thanks Ants posted:I used to YOLO it years ago by grabbing IOS images off whatever random FTP sites were in Google results, and then making sure the MD5 hashes matched. Not sure I'd do that these days.
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