@nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@coliver said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/banning-chinese-network-gear-is-a-really-bad-idea-small-isps-tell-fcc/#p3

This is a really big deal.

I think small ISP's haven't looked at the entire market to find better products, such as ubiquiti. But, if they are forced out of the market (which I hope they are), then that could also drive up the prices for other manufacturers as demand increases.

But banning products based on country of origin isn't a realistic means of security. Ignoring everything else this doesn't make sense from a security perspective.

I heard there was a conference in upstate NY that would be a great way to network and be introduced to technical topics.

@scottalanmiller said:

Apparently I am the most Spiced Up person on SW this week. That's awesome. I really wish that I knew which comments, threads, posts were the ones that people found so interesting or insightful or whatever.

@MattSpeller Operation Spice SAM was a success.

@bnrstnr said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Unifi LED - Dimmer Switch
https://unifi-led.ubnt.com/

This seems like a silly product to me... People are seriously going to buy a bunch of high power PoE switches to power lights?
The biggest Unifi Switch is 750w, you could power 30 of these lights with that, and nothing else.

I've seen companies purchase PoE switches for lighting before. Everything was network controlled, color, temperature, etc. It was actually really cool. They had 48 on one switch with an uplink though. The best part was that since it was low-volt they didn't need a certified electrician and their contractor put them all in... saved them a boat load of money.

@iroal said:

Sorry for my english level.

Yes i need 6 ports 1Gb.

I like Pfsense because is easy to learn and manage.

I see Ubitiqui as a great option but more complicate to install and with less support, and unfortunately i dont have enough time to install it.

Uh... That's seems backwards to me. Ubiquiti has a huge customer base and most of the configuration can be done via a very simple wizard and GUI. You'd be spending almost twice as much on something that is more complicated and slower if you went with pfsense.

Don't handle it. Document your concerns in an email and keep both a digital and physical copy. If he continues to go down this path then you've done what you can and have to follow management's lead. If management doesn't care about security then obviously you shouldn't either.

@crustachio said:

@MattSpeller said:

I love the idea but there's two main obstacles to it for me.

1. StarTech

2. $400

Why the StarTech hate? They make handy little doodads that work fine for me. Why I'm typing this on a PC connected through one of their USB 3.0 hubs + 1Gbps Ethernet adapters and I have yet to have any tro

And in the middle of typing trouble it shat the bed.

@johnhooks said:

So if you're holding Bentley and you ask her if you can have a hug, she will lean her head in under your chin. Hits you right in the feel box.

Did we determine if this was your daughter or butler?

@scottalanmiller said:

@tonyshowoff said:

So as I understand it, if you guess wrong too much it will destroy the data, so... why not dump the memory of the phone? There's got to be a way to start it up and dump the stack to something else and all the data so you can crack it at your leisure.

That's what I have always said... just make a full copy of absolutely everything.

This is standard practice for computer forensics... at least from what I was taught. Also make a copy of the original data and only work on the copy never the original.

This whole thing just sounds like it was a ploy to get a backdoor in iOS for government entities to use on a whim.

Had date night last night. We went and saw Deadpool. Really good movie my wife loved it. I'm excited for Deadpool 2 with Cable, hope they are able to tie in some of the Apocalypse stuff.

@wrx7m said in Why is VMWare considered so often:

I started with free ESXi just before 5 came out. I had very little experience with virtualization. My only real experience was with VirtualBox running a BESx server. I learned how to use it and since Hyper-V was very limited and I am the only guy here, I decided to deploy VMware on 3 hosts. I have had some headaches in the past (vSphere Storage Appliance) with them but I overall have had a good experience. My main complaint, other than cost, is the slow and clunky vSphere Web Client. The C# client is so much better.

I do want to dip my toe into XS but will wait until I have more time and they upgrade the UI, as someone has mentioned in an earlier post.

The XenCenter interface is very similar to the VMware C# interface. Both in terms of looks and functionality.

For @Dashrender

Youtube Video

@dafyre said in Why is VMWare considered so often:

The VMware web console (last I looked) was still only compatible with Windows... Have they finally gotten away from that?

It relied on flash. The new one is HTML5 so it should work anywhere.

Good news, "Boaty McBoatface" may very well be the name of the new CERN polar research vessel. That's what you get for having the internet name your stuff.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Employee of the year? I'd expect at least a 60-65" 4K for that...

I would much more appreciate a raise.

@Mike-Davis said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:

@Breffni-Potter said in 2 sponsored facebook ad malware attacks in 2 days:

https://www.facebook.com/business/help/162606073801742

The blue screen only triggers when the user clicks on the ad right?

As soon as some clicks the facebook ad, it triggers the new tab and won't let them off it. You can't even close the browser because the pop up is open. You have to kill IE with task manager.

Train your users not to click ads on the internet?

Sorry, this was what I meant to post not sure how I got the previous link.

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-makes-dozens-of-patents-available-in-public-domain-to-benefit-us-industry

Overall I agree with @scottalanmiller, NASA has often operated as an R&D department for big/wealthy companies. I would love to see their entire patent portfolio turn into public domain.

http://www.smbitjournal.com/2014/11/the-home-line/

Take a look at this article, the website has a ton of good ones.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1678789-what-gpos-do-you-use-to-chain-down-win10

Sounds like someone needs a tin foil cowboy hat... and a different career (user name is blahblah1969 with 1 whole year in IT...)

Should reply install Linux Mint.