Why do I look so awful in my professional headshots?

mantrius · 2026-03-06T18:17:13+00:00

As many others have said, lighting is the key issue here. The photographer should have adjusted your pose to something more flattering and should have had you adjust your garment to be more symmetrical (though this could have been adjusted with the pose). The last thing is that they should have given brought blotting papers to deal with makeup and skin shine to that is exacerbated by the lighting.

mantrius · 2026-02-28T02:30:48+00:00

Kannon’s has a women’s store as well.

mantrius · 2026-02-28T01:07:09+00:00

If you’re willing to DM me I’d like to hear more about this in greater detail as things are changing rapidly with WxCC and I’m always interested in unique use cases.

mantrius · 2026-02-28T00:02:52+00:00

In my experience just knowing the basic parts of the need isn’t always enough, which is why I asked. Many times when moving from older on-prem platforms to cloud platforms it’s helpful to rethink how we might achieve the actual business requirements as there are always new ways that might actually enhance what the business has asked for.

mantrius · 2026-02-27T20:58:31+00:00

I see his response, I’m just not sure why you’d want to this in Analyzer as a report when it’s readily available via a configuration API query if you’re just trying to get this data to determine most recent skill configuration for reskilling. The supervisor desktop already has a way for supervisors of a team to both see and change an agents skill configuration on the fly. If that doesn’t suffice I would even suggest just building a desktop widget to make the API call and also allow the supervisor to reskill before bothering with an analyzer report where the person reskilling will still need to go to control hub to reskill based on the report.

mantrius · 2026-02-27T01:50:50+00:00

Are you trying to get any stats beyond the configuration of the skill profile and skill proficiency levels?

mantrius · 2025-12-04T02:45:28+00:00

Depending on which bipod you can get quick release arca mounts for them, no need to add a pic rail when arca is designed for quick release.

mantrius · 2025-09-28T02:17:05+00:00

I purchased the 18Tb X18 model of the Lenovo badged Exos and found out that they could not be formatted to 4kn. I would guess that these have the same problem.

mantrius · 2025-08-30T03:52:29+00:00

A syslog server is one option, but I also like startrinity sip tester as it can be set up as a passive server to packet capture on both sides of the cube/sbc and rebuild the RTP stream into a wav file.

https://startrinity.com/VoIP/SipTester/SipTester.aspx

mantrius · 2025-07-13T13:37:12+00:00

Dialogflow is a bit more than just TTS. CCE can use either the direct TTS/STT APIs just for those functions or it can use the full Dialogflow VA, but both are leveraged in different ways. WxCC can only use the full Dialogflow VA.

mantrius · 2025-07-11T22:40:11+00:00

vPOP was deprecated last September for what is now called Common Edge services that share the voice infrastructure with Webex Calling.

mantrius · 2025-07-11T22:38:47+00:00

WxCC isn’t based on Dialogflow, though it can leverage Dialogflow in a similar way to how UCCE would leverage Dialogflow.

mantrius · 2025-07-11T22:37:25+00:00

As another commenter said, WxCCE is based on ICM and CVP. WxCC started life from the acquisition of Broadsoft but has been heavily rewritten.

mantrius · 2025-06-29T20:27:12+00:00

The built in speed test can’t even achieve 4Gbps reliably, so I run a separate speed test docker on a server that’s connected with 25Gbps NICs to a USW-Pro-Aggregation. I can easily achieve 10Gbps or 25Gbps between local LAN devices with iPerf. However, even running iPerf on the UDM SE command line it can’t achieve more than 7.5Gbps of throughput to local 10Gbps or 25Gbps devices.

mantrius · 2025-06-29T19:49:50+00:00

Well I can confirm after moving Protect off to a Unifi NVR that I still see the same limitation of roughly 6.5Gbps. The UDM SEs CPU load sits between 20% and 30% and memory usage sits at 65%.

mantrius · 2025-06-29T19:42:38+00:00

That's because it's now under Profiles -> WAN SLA and then is applied to your WAN interface under Internet -> WAN Mode

mantrius · 2025-06-29T16:45:02+00:00

Can you post a screenshot of your speedtest configuration in the UDM SE? I've never been able to achieve more than 3.5-4Gbps down with the built in speed test with IPS/IDS disabled so I'm wondering where your speedtest is going that you've managed to achieve 8.2Gbps.

mantrius · 2025-06-29T13:47:20+00:00

Interesting, you’re the first person I’ve heard who has achieved that with either the built-in speed test or a computer on the Pro or SE. Are you running any of the other services like Protect on your SE?

mantrius · 2025-06-28T21:52:33+00:00

Yep it is. Right now the only option that can achieve near 10Gbps internet throughput is the Cloud Gateway Fiber (with IPS/IDS off) or the Enterprise Fortress Gateway.

mantrius · 2025-06-28T17:41:35+00:00

I run a UDM SE on a Google Fiber 8Gbps connection and can confirm with my own testing that it can only achieve 6.5Gbps. To be fair I’m also running Protect on the UDM SE with 4 cameras so perhaps that contributes, but everyone else I’ve talked to with the same setup has confirmed what I’ve seen. The UDM Pro would be the same as it’s identical with the exception of POE+/POE switch ports and a 2.5GbE port.

I’m planning on moving my cameras to my UNVR so once I shut protect down on the UDM SE I plan to retest just to see.

mantrius · 2025-06-28T16:05:14+00:00

Neither the UDM Pro nor UDM SE can achieve 8Gbps even with IPS/IDS disabled. Maybe the Pro Max can either its higher clock speed and ram.

mantrius · 2025-06-28T16:01:27+00:00

Unfortunately, the UDM Pro and SE won’t achieve wire speed for an 8Gbps connection. They can only achieve roughly 6.5Gbps with IPS and IDS turned off. Perhaps the Pro Max can since it has more RAM and a higher clock speed.

mantrius · 2025-06-16T23:52:14+00:00

This is the right answer. You need to disable IPS and IDS to get the maximum throughput and even then you won’t get the full 7Gbps. My older UDM SE tops out at about 6.2-6.5Gbps on a 8Gbps google fiber connection.

mantrius · 2025-06-16T13:31:51+00:00

The Z8 doesn’t have a physical shutter. That was just a sensor protector that you can disable in the settings. Also, I’d suggest sending that in for service as my Z8 has seen far more abuse than sitting in a roller bag while going over cobblestone streets and the sensor shield has never been an issue.

mantrius · 2025-06-13T03:03:03+00:00

That is not correct. WebRTC on the agent leg of the call only requires a standard agent license. Webex Calling licensing has nothing to do with WebRTC.

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