 Tom here from Lauren systems and Yes, this is a short notice live stream. I realized I don't really have time later today to do this so I wanted to do it now, this is just a quick 10 minutes before I leave update and There's not too much really to say other than hey, we are having our two-day management meeting This is day two at CNWR of having it These are these big off-site meetings we do to update the company make sure we're still going in the right direction And you know all those little things make sure you are building your target profile customers and things like that they some of the important business things that I'm still involved in still have some input on and Looking at everything from an evaluation standpoint the interesting thing is there's so much more to do It's hard to believe it goes two days, but it's you know, there's a lot of ground to cover We have a lot of people working for us now There's just about 30 employees right now, so it's always making sure the company's doing in the right direction But you know once I'm done with this I will probably do another live stream over the weekend where I answer some of the questions And I'm trying to decide a couple things that I'll throw out here, which is log Thursday at learn systems calm I'm trying to figure out better ways Because it's hard to figure out where to contact me if my forums aren't working for you So I tell people this but I don't want to post this email Outside of here. I know there's some scraping tools more advanced ones that'll pull it out of here so far I've been lucky and it hasn't got too spammy, but maybe I'll have a You know some type of form that is dedicated on my site So if people just need to get in touch with me to let me know something That they can do that because I've had a few people have had to help in the forums it's almost always because they created the problem and the problems people create trying to sign up for forums is and I get it There's so many people trying to grab your email address to send you spam So people who have their own domain will put together blah blah blah at launch systems in in some type of Email then put at their domain calm The problem is people seem to mess this up a lot and they start typing so much random stuff And it ends up being the wrong email box and then they picked the username They wanted and I don't display emails in the forums I display your username that you get to choose well then their username becomes chosen because they registered it even though It's not confirmed and maybe I got to make sure it auto deletes the people who don't click the confirmation email But they don't get the confirmation email because they put the wrong thing in there So and then they asked me to fix it. It's only happened a handful of times, but it's still an issue I'm also working on some trying to figure out a better automation and maybe I just have to have someone write this for me I'm sorry. I don't allow anonymous emails And that's the biggest rejection that I do every day now It's getting worse is people who want to use those anonymous free email services to sign up for my forums I I don't have a way forward and someone says I've got to go people angry because they said they I'm not respecting their privacy And I'm like then I you can't have it both ways I don't know how to control the spam in my forums by allowing just anyone to have an account without some type of verified email address It just becomes when I used to do it I used to fight spam all the time and I said why am I fighting spam? It's always the same anonymous emailers and it's I can just get rid of those and as I started banning those I now have you know amazing number of posts a wonderful community and a lack of spam anymore And it's been great. It's not that nobody gets you every now and then it's kind of weird shady companies will register with their domain and then post some link to their company as if it's an Article hey, has anyone heard of blah blah blah because they'll pick a random username and you can't see their email This actually happened and I reached out to the Marketing people at that company. I'm like this is kind of shady. I Seeed one of your people used their email address and asked and pretended like they were asking about the product I said, you know, they use a rant a random username, but hey, you know such as life It's only happened a couple times either way. I want my forums to be a place where it's interactive It's a good experience. I don't tolerate any BS in there and it has to stay on topic And that's that's where I think forums are so much better than the large pools of social media We try to make these large Everything places where it's the everywhere place for all people you end up with lots of conflicts of you know competing interests and then these companies in order to maintain their size go well the controversial BS Gets a lot of engagement so let's promote that on the site because then we can get more people engaged and enraged and then they're clicking and then They keep going to our site and it's one of those things It's why I had the forums because one I didn't want to have my rules dictated to me via a You know big large media company and it's always and Cory doctor. How is I? Love his phrasing on this and I see Jeff Geerling in here He's actually said what kind of mentioned this before recently It's the instantification cycle that these companies once they get so big and have so much market capture of a niche Or not even necessarily a niche like a community online They figure out ways to make it worse a worse experience and at the cost of the users Having less control and more guidelines as dictated to them So yeah, this is why I run my forums and I'm also working on a mailing list for those interested so that's actually just went live and I have No time yet set when the mailing list will come out But it is I've started at least for those interested This is completely opt-in mailing list, of course you go to my website There's a mailing list button at the bottom where you can join the mailing list my plans the structure Which else as I get the structure finished, which is mostly done I will release how the structure will be but it's essentially The things I find interesting during I'm gonna probably do it every two weeks to things in between each two weeks that interesting sites I found Articles that might be interesting. I'll separate out at the bottom the security articles. I found interesting versus, you know I don't want to focus on Just some of the security articles are interesting But when it actually has an impact and either like the homelab or small business or some of the markets we work in So if that's more engaging, it's not, you know There maybe might be a little bit of silliness in there because sometimes I find something that's kind of novel that just says hey This it might be something that looks silly, but you may be interested in it And of course, I'll have a list of any videos between each newsletter that I release that way for those of you That don't want to be driven by the algorithm or maybe are curious I will have all my YouTube videos listed in there as well I'm debating and this is a future thought is going to be Could I do this where I also have a Section for people to subscribe to for the category they're interested in that would be kind of neat where And it wouldn't be too hard to do from an automation standpoint on the back end where hey You would like to subscribe to my PF sense updates or my true nas updates or my virtualization talks Maybe there's a option later where I fine tune it so you can get a subscription feed And that would just be done via automations that any time a new video is posted of this type you get a notice via email I want to make some automation tools like that because there's always these fights with the YouTube system of Hey, I didn't know you had a video on that I was really looking forward to it and I didn't find out until a week after because I had to search for it YouTube didn't show it in subscriptions because sometimes YouTube if you don't interact with someone for a while on a topic YouTube will decide you probably don't care about seeing your videos even though you subscribe to their videos and that can be Challenging at times when I see that when people said I didn't know you had this video and I'm like It's in a playlist. It's in my you know, so it was a true nas video It's in the true nas playlist and I don't know Yeah, so it's there's always interesting challenges with the algorithm and what they will or will not allow Now I'm eight minutes into this video. So I only got two minutes left last couple things AI and automation is huge right now for what I'm trying to do I'm trying to increase things in the most automated way possible I've reached out to some companies because even though they offer YouTube Transcriptions and automatic title generate or like the titles where you could not just titles but the chapters and I want the chapters To be set up so they have Automatic generation from the live streams and that would be pretty cool because then the live streams aren't just me rambling for two hours Where you can't find it or indexed Yeah, that's I thought that was turned on that's got to be fixed right here. No mail confirmation late process That could be an issue. Yes, that that'll be turned on. I don't I thought it was Yes, who's new to setting up things like I know the things I need to do and I thought it had that on there So that will be turned on for the opt-in confirmation So, thank you for pointing that out. That's absolutely a feature that has to be on there Good morning very quick regarding PSS plus should I change admin username to something else? Yeah, I generally recommend it don't use the admin username change it to something else makes perfect sense to me And I think I have One question might be too long Yeah, I would take me a few minutes even Someone asked me if I want to have an off-site event I will maybe talk about that later. I don't know So I'll that's this person emailed me a really long one Can I still another one this one's a lot shorter so I get these questions all the way before I have to leave Can I still run an entire unified ecosystem including MBR and pro server on a UDM pro? I currently have medium pro set as my running network Can I still run the entire you product and MBR pro No, if you have an MBR pro then the NBR functions go to pro and That you you either use the NBR or you use your UDM I don't think you can stack the two together although unify does support stacking. I haven't done any videos on it But it's weird. It's not it's not the same kind of NBR stacking you get with other systems it's a little bit different and To-to-to Um This is a good topic for business technicalities, but I'll bring it up here since working from home is new norm How do you prove the person you're talking to is the right person since their since their known AI can mimic one's voice? So recognizing voice would not be reliable anymore. Do you have a secret code your team used other method? Yeah, you call them out of band, but maybe we'll talk more in depth about that of having second second ways of verifying people who or they are you will call them to like a known number and You've got to do a level of due diligence, but you also have to do you know figuring out ways to do this There's there's a few methodologies And I think how to deal with support people making sure that you're talking to a right person on the other end is a big deal from Like it managed IT on the other one is in the zen orchestra paid version. Do you frequently get an update? I noticed the self-compiled version easily gets out of date within a week with multiple commits The XC PNG and zen orchestra question you actually get to choose the trainer on When you're doing it you can choose if you want like the latest updates or what they've referred to as a stable update So how many updates you get on the paid version of Zen orchestra is dependent on your choice inside the settings inside of Zen Orchestra when you have the paid licensed versions it says, you know, what release cycle would you like to be on? So that's just an option inside of there but that is it Let's see Any idea why you can't do a multi site on UDM pro Yeah, there's the they don't design it that way they if you use the UDM It's only designed to manage devices to attach itself and the story That's a feature for their self-hosted and their cloud key So those are features that are self-hosted and cloud key and way we go But then the problem is console use recovery management later you need a sudo package a missing piece of that You know a way to quickly regenerate a neck eight device ID Replace them. I believe it's generated off the network card. I feel like that's the answer. So that would be the way to do it Do you have any idea why the SFP plus from unifier FS can't be used on a neck eight eight two hundred I Far as I know the neck eight eight hundred doesn't care what as I don't even know what SFPs are in there I know they're not Intel we're using SFPs on our eighty two hundred and I don't sure what model they are So it doesn't seem to care which ones they are. I have not run into that The mom I don't know which one I think I have Cisco ones because unify doesn't care either I have some unify ones and I have some Cisco like the label on them for what their firmware is on the SFP plus module and I haven't had a problem. I do have some Intel ones I ordered because I have another system I think it matters on a chipset the chips that I have on another motherboard appears to want those I think that's I don't know if I have a bad network interface on this is one other just bored I'm testing at work But most of the time devices don't care, but there might be some that do But at least my experience with the neck eight ones is It doesn't but sorry I do have to leave to go to the management eating So this is where I'll end the vlog. Thank you everyone and I'll just do a live stream Probably this weekend to kind of fill in all of this maybe Saturday morning. I'll do one I'll try to schedule it so you'll see it in the schedule more and be able to Figure out what time is going to be I'm trying to work on if I can do this This is at a regular time all the time But the problem is when I travel and things it bumps it around so yes Alright, well, thank you everyone for joining. Sorry this one was short if I have time Which I don't think I will because there's the company office party later Yeah, I don't I'm not even gonna suggest that I'm gonna be able to do this again. So It's just I'm not gonna be I don't think there's time again today to do this alright and thanks But this weekend I'll follow up with I like doing the long live streams I love interacting with everyone in the meantime email your questions to blog Thursday at learn systems comm and that's where I answer I'm in other live streams as well alright and thanks