@obsolesce said in NG AV / Endpoint Protection in 2021:

@notverypunny said in NG AV / Endpoint Protection in 2021:

Any vendors people want to recommend or warn off with regards to endpoint and server protection? We're shopping options to replace our current NG solution. Currently on a call and it's kinda meh.... I'm not a fan of sales in any context and this seems to be lots of sizzle and not a lot of steak (or bacon... substitute your delicious protein of choice)

Crowdstrike has worked well in a few large places I've seen. It's great cross platform.

That's what we just moved to.

@scottalanmiller said in New Years Resolutions v2.0:

@wirestyle22 said in New Years Resolutions v2.0:

@nerdydad I've been drinking Dasani sparkling water instead of soda. I'm slowly getting used to it.

Ewww. I hate sparkling water.

Tastes like industrial ozone.

@siringo said in windows based FREE imaging app:

@obsolesce said in windows based FREE imaging app:

@siringo said in windows based FREE imaging app:

hello.

i'm looking for a windows based (or anything that can be used easily by a non linuxite) FREE imaging app that can perform restores via a script / command line.

I have to reimage 50 new PCs.

in the past i've used free gui based apps, booted up, clicked here and there and the job was done. But i'm getting lazy and would just like to be able to boot up, click on script and walk away.

I could afford up to 10 bucks if the right thing can be found.

thanks everyone.

You try MDT?

No I haven't. I need something that doesn't need a network. Thanks for the help.

You can do network less MDT deployments.

@scottalanmiller said in New Years Resolutions v2.0:

@tim_g said in New Years Resolutions v2.0:

@scottalanmiller said in New Years Resolutions v2.0:

@wirestyle22 said in New Years Resolutions v2.0:

@dashrender said in New Years Resolutions v2.0:

@wirestyle22 said in New Years Resolutions v2.0:

@coliver said in New Years Resolutions v2.0:

@scottalanmiller said in New Years Resolutions v2.0:

@wirestyle22 said in New Years Resolutions v2.0:

@nerdydad I've been drinking Dasani sparkling water instead of soda. I'm slowly getting used to it.

Ewww. I hate sparkling water.

Tastes like industrial ozone.

It's not easy

So why bother? Choice of plain water or soda, just do plain water.

I also drink plain water but because I've been drinking soda for my entire life and I crave carbonation

I'm probably the weirdo here, but even when I drank soda I preferred it flat. I hate carbonization unless it is really trivial.

Instead of sparkling water, I'd prefer tonic water. I love quinine.

Non carbonated or flat soda is just gross. At that point, it's just a disgusting flavoured juice. Carbonation is what makes it what it is.

I find air in drinks odd. It's bitter and unpleasant and makes my stomach hurt.

FIFY.

@dustinb3403 said in I can't even:

@bnrstnr said in I can't even:

@dustinb3403 said in I can't even:

Software RAID is used and recommended all of the time for people and orgs that can maintain it.

What type of maintenance is required for real software RAID?

Maintenance as in "oh shit a drive died, what do I need to do?"

Because hardware raid makes this stupidly simply, pull the drive, install new drive let it auto rebuild. Software raid requires you to mark a drive as bad, eject the disk from the array, shutdown the server, replace the drive, mark the new drive as a replacement and then rebuild the array.

Just different management/maintenance process.

I think everything but shutdown the server. I was able to replace a drive hot with MD-RAID on my little test box.

Delaware got snow... where is our snow :disappointed_face: ?

@dustinb3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

What the hell does IP based CCTV systems have to do with setting up a schools network?

I get that English probably isn't this guys first language.... but man that's pretty bad.

@penguinwrangler said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I switched from State Farm to Amica a while back. Haven't looked back.

I'm getting ready to switch from State Farm. They've been jacking my rates up every 6 months for the last 3 years... and I go back down to the local office and fuss, and they fix it again... I'm getting tired of that.

I have farmers and they have been doing the same thing to me too. I fuss, but it doesn't do any good. They say that it is a state wide increase. I'm considering other options.

I use Liberty, they've been great.

I am a little jaded about insurance companies. The Law firm I worked at for 7 years represented insurance companies and they will weasel out of anything they can. They are not in business to pay claims but deny them, sure some should be denied but others that shouldn't get caught up in it. Then they pay firms like the one I worked at to battle you in court. They can afford the cost, most people can't.

Insurance is 100% a scam. I like the idea of a protection pool but the way it's implemented for vehicles and homes is most definitely not the that.

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Progressive has been great with me, I am paying same rate with probably 5 to 10 dollars up from when I started 8 years ago. not bad.

Progressive just did the rate hike business with us. We're going to start looking at a different provider.

Do you have home insurance with it bundled up?

No, tried to but they wouldn't ensure our late 1800's farm house. We've since sold it and will be looking to bundle our new home (when we purchase it) with whomever we have our auto insurance through.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-42026485

Gritsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Anti-Slip Machiney and David Plowie. Pure gold.

https://support.duolingo.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002887326-What-is-Health-
https://support.duolingo.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002860463?flash_digest=a6a99dadc409601450c6573e0cc4b3778f23dea2

@thwr said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

2200 watt power supply. 7x GTX 1070's

Youtube Video

What for? Mining maybe.

I think that's probably the case. I know VR can benefit from two GPUs but much more then that is just silly.

@dashrender said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@coliver said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@dashrender said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@dustinb3403 said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@dashrender said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@scottalanmiller said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@dashrender said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@scottalanmiller said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

Wife made pot roast.

is she not a vegetarian?

Vegetarian pot roast, of course.

What is the protein made from?

Could be soy or beans.

So what makes the roast part of that then?

Isn't roast just a cooking method?

I'm sure that's how it's being used in this case - definitely outside of my box of thinking of a 'roast', meh.

Pot roast is supposed to be a braised beef dish. But I've see it done with beans and mushrooms.

@tech1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tech1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

wondering if I should go to the gym tonight. I know I should, but I have Zero motivation.

I've been doing early morning workouts, mostly weight training. I'm way too out of shape but even I feel a bit more energetic during the day.

I tried to wake up early this morning because I also feel better throughout the day but man this morning was rough. I still want to work out and not use that as an excuse to not go but it's so easy to procrastinate and forget about it.

I would be in the same boat. So I roped one of my friends/coworkers into working out with me. We have keys to the campus gym so it just kind of works out.

@momurda said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver How many monitors you use with Elite>?

I use one 2k monitor... I'm debating on getting a second one but then I'd have to update my graphics card to support more then one display port.

Did you make this one yourself or buy the ready to use from them?

I purchased this one... only took 8 days to get it here. I was debating between this and a Tobii Eye tracker.

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

I played Elite Dangerous with an EdTracker Pro Wireless last night. Holy shit the difference in immersion is amazing.

That's some really interesting stuff

It's pretty cool. Still have quite a few little tweaks to work out but I was surprised at how much more immersed I was in this game when my head movements were mirrored by the avatar on screen.

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/tesla-making-solar-roof-tiles-in-buffalo-factory-general-installations-begin/

Going to look at this if I ever have to do a roof on a house. The pricing is more but not that much more then standard roofing.

@thwr said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

I played Elite Dangerous with an EdTracker Pro Wireless last night. Holy shit the difference in immersion is amazing.

I guess I haven't mentioned it yet, but I'm currently starting a small side business with a friend. We will sell our own head tracker and probably other (gaming) hardware.

We tried a few of them and eventually designed our own. Wireless, approx. 30 hours battery time (rechargeable), approx. > 170° horizontal recognition, weight approx. 50 grams / 2 oz. I could start a thread on this if anyone is interested, but please keep in mind that this is more a hobby than a business

I'm interested. I would love if someone made an open source hardware version of this kind if like the original ed tracker. I'd be interested to see someone do something like this with 6dof.

My wife made prosciutto wrapped cod on spinach greens with a balsamic caper sauce/dressing for dinner.

@thwr said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@thwr said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

I played Elite Dangerous with an EdTracker Pro Wireless last night. Holy shit the difference in immersion is amazing.

I guess I haven't mentioned it yet, but I'm currently starting a small side business with a friend. We will sell our own head tracker and probably other (gaming) hardware.

We tried a few of them and eventually designed our own. Wireless, approx. 30 hours battery time (rechargeable), approx. > 170° horizontal recognition, weight approx. 50 grams / 2 oz. I could start a thread on this if anyone is interested, but please keep in mind that this is more a hobby than a business

I'm interested. I would love if someone made an open source hardware version of this kind if like the original ed tracker. I'd be interested to see someone do something like this with 6dof.

There are serveral thingiverse models available if you like a DIY solution. I'm afraid our product won't be open source. It's not exactly rocket science, most information is freely available online. But we invested a lot of effort into this (finding suppliers, designing PCB and Clip, German / EU law compliance and what not) would like to see at least some "ROI"

BTW, ours is 6 degrees of freedom.

Then I'm interested either way.