What Are You Doing Right Now
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Storytime again guys:
When I was 15 I worked for a company who manufactured CNC Cutting Machines making internal cabling etc. The vice president of the company decided they would outsource work to china. Now, as I'm sure all of you are aware, a CNC cutting machine has to be balanced to within fractions of a millimeter. It's very specific. Well, our president went over to China to check on the progress and they were attempted to balance the machines with string. You read that correctly.
One of my Chinese coworkers said that most Chinese people don't care about their jobs because there are so many of them in China that you can get fired before lunch and have another job after lunch. She was complaining about the work ethic of her country.
This was my only direct experience with China and manufacturing.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone ever hear of the company Huawei? We are apparently moving from cisco to...Huawei?
EDIT: These are switches. Thanks @dafyre
I'll be interested to hear what you think of them, because like everybody else, I've only ever heard of them when talking cell phones.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone ever hear of the company Huawei? We are apparently moving from cisco to...Huawei?
EDIT: These are switches. Thanks @dafyre
This is a huge company, that has been around for ages. They just have not chosen to move on the American market until recently.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone ever hear of the company Huawei? We are apparently moving from cisco to...Huawei?
EDIT: These are switches. Thanks @dafyre
This is a huge company, that has been around for ages. They just have not chosen to move on the American market until recently.
Great to hear.
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@JaredBusch Stocks seem to be doing well.
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Creating yet another VM for RabbitMQ (AMQP/MQTT/STOMP broker)
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone ever hear of the company Huawei? We are apparently moving from cisco to...Huawei?
EDIT: These are switches. Thanks @dafyre
That's like asking: "Have you ever heard of a company called Microsoft?"
Probably 20-30% of the tier 1 traffic runs on top of Huawei hardware. I've been reading some article about that a few months ago, but can't find the link right now. Anyway, Huawei is on of the major players in telco and networking.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone ever hear of the company Huawei? We are apparently moving from cisco to...Huawei?
EDIT: These are switches. Thanks @dafyre
That's like asking: "Have you ever heard of a company called Microsoft?"
Probably 20-30% of the tier 1 traffic runs on top of Huawei hardware. I've been reading some article about that a few months ago, but can't find the link right now. Anyway, Huawei is on of the major players in telco and networking.
Yeah I'm getting that impression now. I've never seen anything from them in any of my jobs. It's just an experience thing.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Creating yet another VM for RabbitMQ (AMQP/MQTT/STOMP broker)
Meh, looks like there's no (up to date) RedHat repo that contains RabbitMQ... We just had this discussion. Will switch to Ubuntu Server.
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Renewing some SSL certificates on a couple old Elastix 2.4 systems.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Creating yet another VM for RabbitMQ (AMQP/MQTT/STOMP broker)
Meh, looks like there's no (up to date) RedHat repo that contains RabbitMQ... We just had this discussion. Will switch to Ubuntu Server.
While it's a yuck, yep. (Not a fan of Ubuntu Server, can you tell?)
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Just ran the KnowB4 ransomware simulator. No vulnerabilities = feeling good about our security layers.
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just ran the KnowB4 ransomware simulator. No vulnerabilities = feeling good about our security layers.
Do you use them for other stuff as well, or did you just download that program?
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@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just ran the KnowB4 ransomware simulator. No vulnerabilities = feeling good about our security layers.
Do you use them for other stuff as well, or did you just download that program?
I haven't tried any of their other services yet. I know they have great user training, but when I signed up to do a simulated phishing test, their sales reps got a little out of hand with the calls and emails, so I backed out of that test. This is a program you download and run (even though they take your info to get it). I'm sure I'll get lots more sales calls now.
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
their sales reps got a little out of hand with the calls and emails, so I backed out of that test.
This was my experience as well.
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just ran the KnowB4 ransomware simulator. No vulnerabilities = feeling good about our security layers.
Do you use them for other stuff as well, or did you just download that program?
I haven't tried any of their other services yet. I know they have great user training, but when I signed up to do a simulated phishing test, their sales reps got a little out of hand with the calls and emails, so I backed out of that test. This is a program you download and run (even though they take your info to get it). I'm sure I'll get lots more sales calls now.
I had the same experience, and asked them to back off, and they did.
They call me like once every 3-6 months now.
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On the phone with @Minion-Queen
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Building a Salt server.
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just ran the KnowB4 ransomware simulator. No vulnerabilities = feeling good about our security layers.
Do you use them for other stuff as well, or did you just download that program?
I haven't tried any of their other services yet. I know they have great user training, but when I signed up to do a simulated phishing test, their sales reps got a little out of hand with the calls and emails, so I backed out of that test. This is a program you download and run (even though they take your info to get it). I'm sure I'll get lots more sales calls now.
I did their phishing test as well and you are not kidding about the calls and sales follow ups. Good grief.
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Reading an article examining load averages: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9001
Even though it's old.
