@Dashrender said in What happened to the website?:

@Jason said in What happened to the website?:

@aaronstuder said in What happened to the website?:

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My boss will never approve a expense to a person. How does he know I am not splitting the money with @Minion-Queen, and take taking a couple of paided days off lol

No TAX ID would be a no go for us. It's required for financial audits

Eh? You require a tax ID from anyone you buy something from on Ebay? or you just don't buy one? Do you have Amazon's tax ID also? I'm guessing it's published somewhere?

You ask for it. We have to have forms from anyone we buy from. We don't buy from ebay. Amazon's and many other big companies post their Tax ID, now if you are buying from random sellers on amazon most of them aren't even companies. Most companies meant to sell to big bussiness have their W9's posted on their websites. This is a requirement for being a publicly traded company. for example you can find SHI's here: https://www.shi.com/CustomerServices/Admin/Download.aspx?ID=87490&Name=8a9580a9-9499-4331-9afd-a7c1b3d1982b

Netwrix has a good solution, and is relatively inexpensive.

They also have a number of free tools.

I believe that they also now offer the full version 9 for free with a node or user limit or something. Not 100% on this bit.

If you're running CentOS you're most likely going to need to change SELinux contexts to match also.

@travisdh1 Workaround? Use iptables? Fedora? CentOS6? Ubuntu? Hm.....

@DustinB3403 said in VMware Support Sucks:

@aaronstuder said in VMware Support Sucks:

Does anyone know if I pay for a higher level of support, will I get better support? Maybe talk to someone in the United States?

Doubtful that you'd get a native English speaking person just because you're paying for a higher tier of support. Usually this doesn't happen until you're at tiers 3 or above of the tech queue.

We get 2 Hr support and people in the US. It can be as little as 30min depending on the serverity

Also this likely isn't a VMware issue.

@Dashrender said in Is Windows 10 Pro a free upgrade for businesses?:

@scottalanmiller said in Is Windows 10 Pro a free upgrade for businesses?:

@Dashrender said in Is Windows 10 Pro a free upgrade for businesses?:

Exactly - the confusing part is they (Microsoft) use the generic term Business, and say they will have to pay for upgrades, but that only applies to companies with Enterprise Level agreements, i.e. Windows Enterprise Edition.

When has Microsoft said that businesses would not be free? i've never seen them say that.

I've read many things that said that businesses would have to pay for upgrades - sure never MS, always journalists.

I know the OEM and FPP licenses are all upgrade-able free, Enterprise Agreements and VL licenses are what don't upgrade free.

VL is only for upgrades, though, so it overlaps. It would be silly to upgrade a VL since the VL itself is the upgrade! The upgrade replaces your VL rather than being on the VL. Only VL that doesn't count is the version of Windows that doesn't apply.

@Jason said in What's your favorite brand for network gear?:

@Dashrender said in What's your favorite brand for network gear?:

@scottalanmiller said in What's your favorite brand for network gear?:

@Dashrender said in What's your favorite brand for network gear?:

Huawei could solve this by making their platform completely open. Basically only sell hardware and allow others to make their own firmware/software that runs on it.

Who would buy it then? Useless hardware without vertical support? What business would use that? That's the DD-WRT model. Great for hobbyists, but that's not what they are going for. They want business usage.

Well the hope would be that the FOSS environment would make awesome firmware for it, than you could KNOW didn't have a back doors.

Hardware itself can have backdoors

Heard the story where the NSA intercepted shipments of switches and routers from well-known brands just to open the package, install a custom firmware and repackage it and finally sent it to the customer?

We're living in an odd world, even Orwell wouldn't believe that I guess. Hardware can have backdoors, same for software. But even the NSA or the big red dragon need to use IP I guess, so we can at least place a firewall in front of everything.

As for FOSS, well, I had a look at this:. There are quite some Linux based OS's for switches out there, like Cumulus or OpenSwitch (http://mangolassi.it/topic/9388/openswitch-moves-under-linux-foundation-umbrella). This on some open switch (bare metal or SDN) like the ones from Quanta (http://www.qct.io/-c77c75c159) or SuperMicro (https://www.supermicro.nl/products/accessories/Networking/SSE-G3648B.cfm for example) would at least increase the situations about software backdoors, but won't solve the hardware backdoor problem. But having software and hardware separated, both can be more easily tested for backdoors. And THIS could in fact improve the situation.

Sadly, we are just not there yet: Bare metal and Linux/BSD in core networking is coming, but it will take many years to reach the average SMB. Right now, the whole open switch story is all about SDN in the datacenter, as far as I know.

Saw this email when I got to work this morning.

I need an "I ❤ ZeroTier" tshirt to wear around.

@Kelly said in Congrats IRJ and Family!:

@david.wiese said in Congrats IRJ and Family!:

congrats!. I just had my first on 6/1 and went back to work after 7 business days off. It has been a very long 2 weeks thus far but quite rewarding. There is nothing like coming home from a crappy day at work and see them smile or just holding them. It just makes everything better.

Yes, I had one of those moments just a few days ago. Got home from a long day, and my two year old ran to me with her arms upraised. Made everything better.

That's the greatest feeling. And the worst when they cry when you leave.

In a similar situation. We've used APC for 1500VA or less, and Liebert/Emerson for 3000 for the last couple years but looking at Eatons and Tripp-Lites this time around as APC pricing seems to be a bit higher. Liebert pricing is very high all of a sudden.

@JaredBusch said in Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR):

@scottalanmiller said in Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR):

Growing a RAID 6 is the same as failing a disk in it, so you have to take that into consideration.

While this is true, the stated use case is backups.

I never recommend RAID10 be used for backups. If your backup process is being done correctly (3-2-1 or similar), then you can easily handle a failure in one of the backup stages. Rebuild it and move on.

Oh I agree, RAID 6 probably makes sense. It's growing RAID 6s that I often avoid (as I avoid growing RAID 10, too) but for backups, even that can be okay. But he needs to be aware of the situation.

@Nic said in You Are Two:

Sounds like it was almost as bad as a frontal lobotomy.

I'd rather have a bottle infront of me

@Jason said in I am heartless?:

@gjacobse said in I am heartless?:

@Jason said in I am heartless?:

@DustinB3403 said in I am heartless?:

Would you want to find the driver who hit and ran if your child was hit while walking down the road at night with their father?

Same thing.

A dog and a human are not the same thing. This is an animal.

@Jason said in I am heartless?:

@DustinB3403 said in I am heartless?:

Does it matter if it's a dog a cat or a snake? The pet was family, just like your child is family

Dude, not even the same at all. Don't try to compare animals to a child.

Not to split hairs here - but for some couples who are unable to have children (medically) a pet to you is a child to them. They have the same attachment and love for the animal as they would have for a child if they could have one.

It still not the same.

and it's still up to those parents to tend to their child/pet.

This is the bulk of what this boils down to for me. Be responsible. You don't want something you love destroyed/killed - then take care of it!

I know a guy who built his own blade unit. Wooden blade enclosure and some simply power supplies and his own fans, then made it allow straight motherboards to slide in so that it make having a handful of systems running in a cluster super cheap. Pointless for production, but for a lab was very interesting.

@aaronstuder said in Moving to a New WSUS server:

@BBigford No Problem. Once I realized that the port numbers change, I realized the issue right away.

Clients are being seen by the WSUS server now 🙂

Sweet!