 Alright, I think we're live. Hold on. This is awkward. Tell me if it's live. Eric, did it work? Oh man, I got fingerprints on this. Welcome to vlog Thursday episode. Is it 94? Yes, 94. 94. Alright. Audio works. Hello. I got a hi from David. First from David. Hello first. Hi from London. Hi from London. Do we like London? Hi from Corey. London and France. Anyways, we are live today and I'm wondering around the office with my cell phone because I can't stay here very long. I have no idea how long it's gonna last from leaving here till it breaks. But I'm actually gonna try and leave here on this. Okay. That would be it. Yeah, I wonder if that'll work. Are you on the Wi-Fi now? I'm on the Wi-Fi now. I think it'll fail over to 4G. I think it'll fail over to 4G. We have failover support with phones. Think about that. We got some beef jerky here. But does your business have failover support? The business needs from hi from Seattle. Awesome. What is this stuff called? What is the Nitro Methane Ask Kicker? This is the Nitro Methane Ask Kicker beef jerky because we can't just have normal hot or extra hot beef jerky. We got to have Nitro Methane Ask Kicker. Have an arrow. Have an arrow powder. Have an arrow powder. Lots of have an arrow. Lots of have an arrow powder. I haven't done a hot sauce video in a while. We definitely have one coming because we just actually did. If you follow me on other social media places like Facebook, we just posted a Facebook video and we ate some hot challenges with friends. Those videos, I don't know how they fit into my channel all the time so I'm always trying to figure out how to post them on there. What am I doing a secure SSH video soon? I did mention before we have Jay who's done a great video on SSH. Jay has Learn Linux TV. I did a co-opt video with him. He's done a great tutorial on SSH. I'll do some other best practice stuff over here. Eric's because I can't see messages. Eric is over here and hopefully going to answer messages or people if I can. I'm trying to read them all but if I miss them, he'll learn back to me. We've been just way busier than usual. We've got Steve fixing, I don't know, what are you fixing? Alright, beef jerky. Beef jerky and computers over here. We've had just, you know, we don't even advertise the retail store at all anymore and we actually pretty much 2018 has not been advertising your retail store. It's been non-stop for us. Just absolutely, you just people keep coming in. Oh look, and another custom gaming computer is coming in. I'm not going to put customers on live streams. So I'm going to wander around back over here. So let me walk back over here, securing private keys to be a great video. I will be talking about that because apparently that's reactivate my Windows 10. Delete it, install Linux. Is that the best way to activate Windows 10? For you, yes. For me, yes, okay. For the average user, maybe not. That is a problem. So this is Kyle's area and he's also enjoying beef jerky. One of our clients is next to the beef jerky. I just fell off the phone. I've been dying for beef jerky. He's been dying for beef jerky. He's been on support calls all day. So he's been dying for the beef jerky. What we have going on too, and over here, kind of bouncing around before I have to leave to go to another event. I have been doing so many events and speaking engagements. It's been really a uh, yeah. Linux 4k, a high DPI such probably. We have another pile. This is just another job going in, another unified job. And these are all one, two, three, four, 48 port switches that are going in. This job is a new building, which is great. As soon as you buy me tickets, I fly to Tokyo. I seen someone ask when I'm coming out there. The good news is this other job, I may actually be able to film what we do there because it's a brand new building. And with a brand new building means there's no employees and privacy concerns. You know, because like Corey just finished a uh, hey awesome, thanks on the 10G switch video. Here, that video is so fresh. The switch is still warm. We just reassembled it and it's right here. Here's the camera. If you, if you ever look at the other side of my studio, I'm gonna do a studio tour soon. But back to, I'm gonna be able to film at this location because an example is gonna be Corey just finished another job at a bank. You know what you can't do at a bank is bring a camera and wander around showing the equipment he's hooking up at a bank. And this is the problem with a lot of clients between medical and everything else that they do. It's just not always feasible for me to film everything everywhere. As much as I want to, I know you love the videos being on site. I would love to strap a camera to my head, but the privacy concerns alone would just, it eats us up a little bit. I'm hooking up a 10G to the Q NAP switch. Oh, looking at 10G or the Q NAP. I have not directly reviewed the Q NAP. But man, I really like this Unify having been testing with it and having used it to clients just it's a it's a great setup. So I did look the Q NAP switch, at least one I seen briefly don't know technical details. I noticed it was sharing ports. And I thought, well, I kind of like dedicated ports like they have on the Unify. Secondly, because the Unify is already a platform we're using, it integrates well into all the other switching fabric we have here at our office. And when we set these up a client, so all the VLANs and everything else, even though it's 10 gig, they just work like magic. So there's not any real thought that has to go into provisioning and planning. It just matches our network. And once again, once you scale out with switches and start having more and more of around your office, having one central platform to manage those switches makes your life a little bit easier. Computer see me like 30 second delay probably is a 30 second delay doesn't surprise me at all. Definitely an issue. Hey, while I'm here, you want to see the other side of the studio. So we usually stare at this side. This is the view you guys usually have a blog Thursday. This is what we look at. We look at the orange wall. So and there's our studio camera. Let's see. Yeah, I'm trying to respond right away when I'm streaming from a phone. It is not easy. Because the messages disappear very quickly is what do I think about the end of life on a square ubiquity AP? It's old. I mean, I the company supports these things for a long time. Let me point something real quick. Above my head here is a five year old access point that still gets updates. Thank you, Unify for supporting a product for five years. That's actually quite a while. So yeah, that's definitely a great thing there. Just set up DNS over TLS native PFSense support without needing to so editing checks boxes, cloud fairs so you can go update that video. Yes, there's a couple things that need to be updated since the new PFSense. So for sure. Hey, awesome. Love it. And thank you very much for the Yeah. Thank you very much because I do love helping all the community. There's some bigger projects. There's some bigger projects that we're going to be talking about sharing me and some friends are building a hacker space details to come. But we have an idea. And that's all we have is ideas and a building in a house and and a hacker space in Detroit where it might be working on. So there's hopefully some stuff coming in or we just don't have anything to share right now. But I do if you've heard me mention it DC 313 is a project we're doing here local. And we're going to be doing more and more talks about how we're going to be help community and only stuff is completely video. We have some ideas to provide wireless to areas of Detroit that don't really have it. So there's all kinds of fun stuff we're going to be doing. So that's definitely hacker hacker space stuff near and dear to my heart comes directly related this channel. I love sharing knowledge and helping people out. So hey, Willie's here. And yes, definitely great to use your family had to turn my phone off there. Quick tour of the studio. So this is our camera that we film most of log. There's a Canon mark to see 100 cinema camera up here at camera geek with XLR inputs and fanciness. We run the cables over our head like this and over here because something Tom hates his cables everywhere. So you notice the cameras over here, but all the cables plug into the wall because we wall fished all the cables. So they actually come back out over here to the TV and everything else. So kind of an idea is the studio is pretty clean. I'm going to do a detailed, detailed studio thing here. Sorry, sorry if the voice got loud. Unfortunately, I didn't mute my phone before this started. That was my bad. Let me see if there's so customers in here. So hold on. Hi. Alright, there's so customers that are in front of the store. So as they leave, I want to go sit down. I don't want to wander around and give you guys like dizziness. So Steve's the guy we want to talk to you. Because Steve's exhausted because corporate idiots, is that what we wanted to call today? We didn't call it corporate idiots. We really wanted to say corporate idiots. The first way I know you're an IT guy. That's an idiot is when you say, Oh, I work for a corporate arm. I work in corporate. Therefore I must be smart. No, no, no, no, no. I enabled the printer on port 9100. I can't see it when I do trace route. Yes. Well, that's ICMP. That's not TCP 9100, like I told you. Yes, the guy kept trying to trace route to port 9100, not tell that like he told them. Now, what was this guy's title at the company? I don't remember. It was something very, very technical, a long title. And we looked him up in LinkedIn. We're like, How does this guy have this title? He has no idea what he's doing. He couldn't fix understand VPNs. And we've been pulling our hair out with this company. So this involvement is because of a partnership that one of our transportation clients have with one of their providers that broker freight to them. It's a disaster. These IT people could be the largest group of idiots we've ever dealt with it. I mean, I don't I've dealt with end users who are less painful. And I understand end users not knowing but these guys all have titles. Well, they got a guy in Seattle and he's like, Well, let me get the other guy in on the call. I'm like, I'd rather you not. I'm less than thrilled with him right now. Yeah. So he told the client. I'm not responsive. I pulled the phone logs said, Here's the time. Here's all the times he tried to reach out to me all one phone call. And there's my call back two hours later because I was out of the office. For those of you that don't know, we have free PBX, we run our own free PBX system, we have all the logs. So if you called me, I know I have a listing. If I called you, we know we have a listing. So Steve being a smart ass went and screenshot it. He was petty. He has my thumbs up for being petty when we get called out. And our clients like, Look, we know you guys respond. Yeah, she said that today. Like, I she goes, I read that. And she's like, I know they were lying. We know they're lying right away. You guys respond like, and anyone who knows us, I reply to reply to clients like it's this is not a problem for us. So yeah, always keep your logs and not be afraid to screenshot. I mean, it seems like this seems petty, but it's definitely getting emailed. I'm like, Oh, yeah, I know we responded. I see we see see them every reply. The general reply time is what about seven days from their company? No, 30, sometimes longer. Yeah. Oh, even the client acknowledges when they ask something. It's 30 days. Yeah. So it's it's one of those things like yeah, it is just a could I make a free pbx setup? I have a video on free pbx setup is on my channel. I walk you through from start to finish on it. Me and Chris from crosstalk, they go here done. Steve's got to go back. So one of the reasons we're here late is because we work in out of state and Steve's got some California work to go do now. And more beef jerky. And we have print here. One black leopard. Oh, one's nitromethane ass care. Nitromethane. Hey, oh, what do you do? Is this is this like a vlog? Yeah, we got 139 people. Hey there, everybody. How's it going? Yeah, see, hold on. Thanks for your videos discovered a week when searching for pf sense videos. Poor poor number. Awesome. I'm glad I was able to help you out with that. Yeah, me and Brett are gonna go hang out at a business event next. Yes, we are. That's why I'm wandering around on a phone. And me and Brett are gonna be doing we've done a few business videos. If you look at my business playlist, you'll see me and him and some other stuff that we've talked about on all this. So hold on. What's that? So random question. More interested in reaching out to noob or enthusiasts with your tutorials or anything else on your channel. I just like sharing knowledge and my my it's very broad. So I have some basic windows stuff that I done videos on. I've have a bunch of start to finish pf sense firewall tutorials that will not appeal to people who are probably running windows. And then this guy doesn't know what a firewall is for. We got an idea. I know what a firewall is. I actually called you about one today. Yeah, he did. Actually, I got him to plug things in over the phone. But we cover business video topics. So I cover just topics that I'm passionate about. I don't necessarily I have a tech enthusiast audience than a business enthusiast. So it's just all the different things that I do. I'm just sharing all my passions. So I'm sharing where my passions are. You won't find videos about cars on here because I'm not really passionate about cars. Motorcycles maybe maybe motorcycles. People have asked I do. I do have a lot of motorcycles and I think in my last blog I was drinking and I wandered around in my motorcycles in my garage. So there's nothing wrong with the motorcycles. You know, no, no, no, no. Yeah. So most of this channel is more focused on sharing my business knowledge and technology is kind of my bigger focus on here. One, I want to be able to make you a better technician and I want to be able to make you have a lot of reviews of technology because there's a lot of gaps and why should I just take my time to take something apart and learn how it works? Why not share it with everybody else? So that's a lot of the driving force for that. Brett, if you want to die. Can you read that for me? This is the. Okay. So, so, so. We shared this already. It's nitro. So for all my, my, my professional friends out there, I'm looking at, I'm reading, just reading it. It says nitro methane ass kicker. So Brett's gonna see if he can handle on that right there. Holy cow. I don't know. I'm gonna cut a piece. I'm gonna cut a piece here and I don't know if I'm gonna try to handle the whole thing. The knives would be your scissors. The scissors are right here. All right. We use scissors to cut them. Alright. Brett's gonna go try the nitro methane ass kicker. Oh, let's see. I think in generally speaking, sharing knowledge is just importing customers in here. No. Alright, yeah, left. I'm loud again. That's why Steve's loud again. Anyways, just generally speaking, my passion isn't sharing a lot of the stuff. I guess like I started to say before Brett grab the beach jerky is if I take the time to learn something, I like to share it with others. And I found some big gaps in a lot of enterprise or even mid level and homelab people. And I'm reviewing that like you just can't always find good information. So I was like, well, I put it all together. If there's a market gap, why not fill it? There's definitely a demand for it. As I proved by them, we've got almost 40,000 people on here. So yeah, that's, you know, really been an exciting thing to do. And here's the thing. I have people argue about this. Someone said, Oh, you're just a homelabber or something stupid like that. And I'm like, you really don't understand what I'm doing. And this this is an example. I had a guy, a friend of mine, and he learned from my videos, XT PNG. And he's like, wow, this is really neat. And by the way, his day job is working in corporate it for a big company, very big company with offices or place within only a few months of him playing with it. He is now migrated. So it started it in his homelab that he does that he homelab where he builds out and test things. It is now expanded to him replacing all these servers at a very high level with XT PNG. I just met with another client who's also looking at it. And it's because of my videos, he's been playing with it as homelab, and he's responsible for 17 very large locations and a couple of data centers. And his budget is quite big to be able to do all this. Once again, they're going, Hey, you know, we kind of like this whole XT PNG. So what I do scales, that's part of the part, part of the thing I want to make sure everyone knows what I'm doing is not just for I want to be able to support people who are just learning and getting starting out. But it's also, this is a curiosity, because they're sitting there going, I'm sick of hearing from a sales guy, because every sales guy blows smoke up your butt. This is the greatest product ever. We have the best idea ever. And that doesn't help. But it's I've run the same problem myself. I have my reviews of SolarWinds or not because SolarWinds gives me anything I pay for the service and tell you how it works. Because the sales job for every one of the RMM tools I've ever done told me his was the best. Well, he can't all be right. So some testing needs to be done and some honesty needs to be done. I'll be doing pretty soon a rack review. This is getting rewired this weekend. So when you go back here in the back office, let's see whoops IPTV not a lot. And the other related to this, the other thing that's important to me is that I want to see more and more people getting into technology. We need more people in tech. Just that's there's enough too many people think they're scared of it. I'm like, I've got so many good stories of people that even when they were 30 years old, they're not talking like young, we're talking like they were already into one career and did a complete career change based on tech. They go, man, I discovered I was really good at it. One of my friends who is went from a psychology degree to a Python programmer in a matter of a couple of years to leading entire team of Python programmers and traveling and doing all this stuff. And she's like, this is amazing. I never knew I was good at it. I picked it up and go, wow, look at this. So it's really interesting. I think there's a lot of opportunity there. But we installed let's encrypt servers. Let's see. We've been adding more and more stickers to the pile here. We're going to be doing a tour suit of what's inside this. Yes, a sushi sticker. There's all the way down all the way down to the bottom here with all of them. And then the big J-Bot of stuff here. Lots of things, lots of stickers. Stickers are important. So yes, I'll be putting my rack. We're going to be re-railing this rack, too. And this rack is going to get railed and we got more stuff going in here. So I don't do anything with alienware. Sorry. Yeah, it does look like a fridge. This is actually, if anyone wants to know where this came from, this whole rack was in a phone system. And this company came out with an IP phone system back in like the early 2098. Like the earliest days of it. They were very, the name eludes me because I peeled it off. Their name used to be up here under the plastic. And I peeled it off. But we got this rack for like 50 bucks because they had oodles of them. The company had a great idea but couldn't, it was so early in the game they were ahead of the curve for building these. So these were custom built frames with an entire data center they built out here in Michigan to build out a new IP phone company. But they didn't have a real solid plan. And of course IP phones 18 years ago, people were like, huh, what's and the whole company tanked and all their gear went up for nothing. And we picked it all up that I've had this cage this long. Now the thing that I will only briefly show you because it's a little embarrassing is back here. We need to do a little bit of wiring cleanup. We've shifted a lot of servers in this weekend. We're tearing this down and rebuilding it all because, well, I care about the wiring. I'm not a person who says, hey, it works. We're done. No, we take the time to redo them, re clean them up. And actually something we're going to do we didn't do before is we're going to color code it all the wiring when we do it to make sure it's even cleaner than it is now because we didn't color code it the first time. And so now we will, you know, make it a little bit nicer. I think that's all I have back here. But I'll be covering a video because there's also like the way we have the cable chases. This is the umbilical cord as we call it. This is a service loop for the cable, which we didn't put it in the umbilical cord. And this is the umbilical cord because this has wheels and this allows the rack to move. And that way the umbilical cord can slide around. And we keep everything in the split tubing because the advantage of putting it on the split tubing is you don't see any wires, but it's easy to, let me just split it a little bit here. It's easy enough to see what's in the split tubing. So it's one of those keeping it really, really clean when we do it. We'll do a whole video on that part of it. So we'll, we'll get all that for you. So awesome. Well, I think we're going to wrap this up here. Brett's making some faces. I think he's dying a little inside. I think the whole thing almost. Isn't that good? It's really good. It's really hot, but it's really good. Oh, uh, for reasons that I don't know, Cory has decorated his area with Rick and Morty. So this is Cory's area, if you ever wonder. This is where he works. Cory only needs, Cory's the only guy here that doesn't have triple monitors. He's a dual monitor kind of guy because Cory does, Cory manages all the physical contract work. So Cory is the guy who does the wiring, the cave and the stuff like that. Also, we're going to be reviewing Cory's box of tricks. I have a whole series of videos I plan on doing for doing tool reviews. I was like, you know, I really should do these. We got an entire big part of that. So yes, I am going to be doing a video on installing Zen Orchestra and a fun fact where we're going to do me and Jay because Jay converted from Proxmox to Zen Orchestra and he's going to tell you why. And he's not someone who kind of lightly did this. Like he's rebuilding all of these networks with it. He's got some reason that I don't know exactly, but he definitely will be doing that. So I don't need help with video editing. Video editing is easy. It's a video shooting his problem. That's my biggest changes or biggest trouble is getting all the videos shot. Editing, I do really quick. I do them quick because I edit it myself, but it's just a it's a timing thing. I have been absolutely swamped. I have a few large scale projects I'm working on. Some of them, well a couple of them are under NDA. So I can't really do this, but they've been sucking up a lot of my time. And because I'm the one who produces the videos that slows down the video production process. The other people are the workers that things done. But the drones, my drones are here. My drones are doing things like building firewalls and things like that. I asked you to look at those. I didn't look at those. I told you if you get them installed, I can do it remotely. So, but I can look at them tomorrow morning. So these are things that Tom didn't do because he was doing other things. But I just, Steve messes me the details, slacked me the details, and I will make sure or if they're in the wiki. Where they belong in the wiki? They're where they belong in the wiki. The only thing that has not been figured is the static address for the top one yet. Because what clearly it'll stop working here. Yeah. All right. You just need to talk to each other? Yeah, I just confirmed I did the VPN setup on that. The failover's done. I did that. Okay. Confirm that I did the VPN right on the top one and the bottom one will talk to it. Got it. I've never done the point to point without the dual static addresses. Got it. What this is right here is another project that's going out. What we do is we'll pair these and we're going to mail them to the clients, pre-configured, and because we're mailing them to have them plug them in, we won't have any technical people on site because it's that we're their outside IT and they're in Chicago, we're in Detroit. So when we mail everything we tell, we have labels on it for them to plug it in, including the failovers. So before we mail something out, we make sure we double check everything. We have a two-person policy of, you know, before you mail it, you should check those settings, Tom. I'm going to delegate to this guy to check it. It works. Okay. No, not that, this. Oh, I don't, okay. It's one USB's work. He's, whatever. Yes, tools in the van video, that's what that's related to. We've been pulling all the tools out of the van and Cory's been with the van so much doing work and so have I. There's not been really time to do tools in the van video, but we plan to do it. It's really harder to do. What custom PC case is that? I don't know. Cyber power PC. Oh, that's, yeah, it is an iBuyPower. Or whatever, yeah. That one's CyberPower. This one's iBuyPower. This one's a CyberPower. This one's an iBuyPower. Just brought in today. So, just came in today. And these are all, these are all customer stuff. That's why we flip these up so we can't see what's on it. Sorry, you can't have my customer names. I mean, it's a privacy thing. I see, I will tell you Cusper that doesn't, you know, whether you can know their name, I don't care, but I don't release private details of any Cusper. We, we care a lot about that. Anyways, I'm going to conclude vlog Thursday here. It's been wonderful. I went 26 minutes. Me and him, he's got his jacket on. He didn't die from eating the stuff. So, I'm going to conclude this here. Is it different to the world around the van? Are you indifferent? We're all indifferent now. I'm drinking a lot of water right now. That's what I'm doing. We need beer. I lost my water bottle. We got, we're going to an event because networking and beer go together. Kyle, say goodbye to everyone. Bye, everyone. All right, cool. And Kyle did a great job today. He programmed all the UniFi stuff for us today. So, whoo-hoo. All right, awesome. More videos coming. I am, trust me, working as hard as they can. At some point, I just need to hire another, I need to hire probably one more person and I'll be able to do more videos as much as, but I like doing the work. So, I can't decide I'm torn on this and I'm not going to waste your time while I waffle back and forth on what the hell I should do with my life. Thanks to you. Thank you for everyone. Awesome. Yeah, check Daniels and networking. That's a different video. All right, thanks.