@dbeato said in Protek Support MSP Ransomware Hits Customers in Salt Lake City, Utah:
I think that if it was VPN, still bad practice to have VPN from MSP or any other systems that unprotected. MSPs should not need to have VPN to customers at all.
And vendors wonder why I won’t let them VPN into my network.... ha
Last week was fantastic!
Drove to Greeley, CO - ok that was boring.
Drove to Moab - visited Arches National Park - drove a 4x4 trail - my friend nearly freaked out.. It was awesome!
Drove to Zion National park - walked The Narrows! - man, can't wait to go back.
Drove to Las Vegas - at at Gordan Ramsey's Steak - had the tasting menu - the Beef Wellington was meh at best, the rest was fantastic!!!
Drove to Hoover Dam took some dam pictures
Drove to Grand Canyon Skywalk - paid for the skywalk - was a let down!!! visit other viewing point in that area - SO MUCH BETTER than the over priced, no pictures allowed skywalk...
Drove to AZ south rim Grand Canyon - hiked the 3 mile trail, very scenic!
Visited Bedrock - Fred Flinstone's home town and watched a raptor show - and got to hold the raptor (on a a glove of course).
Drove to Four Corners - it was exactly what I expected - a plaque marking where the four states meet, took a picture and continued on...
Drove back to Greeley, CO -
and lastly,
Drove home.
58 hours in the car, 3200 miles, 5 states, 3 National Parks, a million pictures - great time!
As some might recall, I ran into Wiztree a month ago. I asked the author to look into adding it to Chocolatey.
And he did.
https://chocolatey.org/packages/wiztree/3.17
It's been a good year for Dashrender - down 40 Lbs since January!
Brought my mile time from 8:29 to 6:47.
Only bad thing - good cholesterol is a bit low (but bad cholesterol is in the good range). Doc suggested I drink Red Wine to improve the good Cholesterol.
Just read about this free book on that other site, thought i would share a link to it here.
I was restoring some files from our backups when I ran across this.
These files have been sitting there for a month plus. Unbelievably it appears that non of my other network shares were affected by this.
OMG - I think we some how dodged this bullet.
@Cagatay said in Remembering the MCSE+I, Microsoft's Terminal Certification:
Lol here is mine... does it still have value these days? or are we considered as dinasours?
Roar!
@JaredBusch said in How to find lost phone numbers?:
@Dashrender said in How to find lost phone numbers?:
where are the 100 number I've been paying for for years that are suddenly not showing up on my bill?
They probably haven't been paying for them. They just did not know it. That is the point.
we don't have the full information.
But let's assume they bought 100 numbers in the past and they were being billed for them - how and why did they just drop off the bill would be my next question.
@JaredBusch said in How to find lost phone numbers?:
@JasGot said in How to find lost phone numbers?:
I'll see if Skyetel can help since they are getting them.
You are porting and found these missing? Yeah, your incoming carrier is not going to be able to do more than look up who owns a number.
But they shouldn't tell you who that is.
They could tell who the carrier is... that shouldn't be any type of violation (that I can currently think of) but yeah - it doesn't help your new carrier in any way to tell you - so they will likely err on the side of caution.
Reach out to your old carrier and ask them what's up! where are the 100 number I've been paying for for years that are suddenly not showing up on my bill?
@xavierdelaraunt said in User Profile handling anno 2022:
Great and stream-lined!
I have quite a lot of settings I cannot get into the default settings in any way like that.
Because I don't know - what settings can you not apply to machines via intune? I assume you've tried and it simply won't work?
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco
Ouch - the '06 Ridgeline is getting close... We've had it for seventeen years now and just under 280k miles.. things are starting to let go... sigh.. been a good truck.My 2010 Honda Insight is still doing ok at 275,000, but I had some bad luck the last month shatter the driver’s mirror and then 3 weeks later a tire and wheel.
my 2011 prius at 180K is OK, but definitely needs new tires.
@JasGot I know a vendor like Skyetel can tell who owns a number -
I guess the thing to do is call their telco provider and ask where the numbers are? why they aren't on the bill anymore, etc.
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Today I was called communist for shopping at Walmart.
ROF - Damn...
@scottalanmiller said in Is Real Estate Actually a Good Investment on Average?:
@Dashrender said in Is Real Estate Actually a Good Investment on Average?:
@scottalanmiller said in Is Real Estate Actually a Good Investment on Average?:
@Dashrender said in Is Real Estate Actually a Good Investment on Average?:
lack of social interaction with peers - i.e. water cooler work.
Of course lack of #2 is good for the employer - should mean the employee is spending more time on the job...
That's awful for an employer. Employers don't make money by people not working nor from them "being at work". They make money from them working. Water cooler time isn't just bad, it's the absolute worst. Employees view it as "working" and the government views it as "working" and it carries all the costs of people working and all the risks and insurance problems... yet it has zero business value. Huge negative business value.
A smart employer wants the water cooler thing out the window more than almost anything. Water cooler time is loathed by productive employees who are there to work and it makes them disenchanted. It's mostly a tool to avoid work at the employer's expense.
Middle managers willing to sabotage their businesses for their own gains like water coolers because they make it easy to fool upper management that work is being done when really, everyone is lost and doesn't know what to do.
Did you miss where I said - "lack" of #2 is good for the employer?
Oh, must have, sorry. Yeah, lacking that is great.
While I completely understand where you're coming from for this - from an employee moral point of view - it's often a big factor.
Makes me wonder if the work day shouldn't be something more akin to 36ish working hours and 4 dedicated BS hours - at least that way everyone knows what's really happening.. but the reality is that some will always bend it more, not matter how much you give them.
@Obsolesce said in Is Real Estate Actually a Good Investment on Average?:
Here's a real example.
I'm renting. I love the area we're in. There are other areas where we would enjoy living as well that are exactly the same.
I'm paying under $3K a month for rent. It's a large condo, 3BR 2Bath, wonderful area, 4 pools 4 hot tubs, awesome view, great location, great & quiet neighbors, great community.
Renting other places around here are similar priced, many are a few hundred $ more for now, but still in range.
We'd like to buy a house in our current area, or another area we like, and pretty much keep our current standard of living as we are in this condo, but in house form.
If we did that, the minimum mortgage payment we're looking at MINIMUM is $6.5K, that is with dumping a bunch of cash as a down payment... note that the $6.5K does not include insurance, PMI, taxes, closing costs, etc.
So you see, renting and owning a home is not the same thing. Just because I choose to rent, doesn't mean that I automatically will rent the same kind of house that I would want to buy. So it's just not logical to me to compare them like that. Typically, you rent to save money. Sure, I could rent a house for $8K a month, but wtf would I do that? I'd rather buy! Except, I don't want to buy, because I need the freedom to be mobile and choose where to live and not be stuck... I don't want to throw all my money into a house and live paycheck to paycheck and be forced to sell at the next higher bubble than is currently to make anything.
Yeah, we could move to a cheaper area, but we don't want to. There's no point because we just don't want to give up what makes us live happy and looking forward to the next day/weekend/time off, etc.
I'd rather keep renting, and saving money, and investing money, that I'm not throwing into a house that I may or may not get back plus more later, if life works out perfectly for home ownership. I'm very likely to move as well, need that freedom, while saving! We can't time our life according to the house, we need our housing to work for us.
What does your condo look like - more like a duplex or an apt building?
Condos have the advantage of shared resources, i.e. less land per unit so costs 'can' be lower compared to a single family home.
additionally - there is a huge value add to single family home compared to condo - so definitely not an apples to apples comparison.
What does a single family home rent for in that area?
@scottalanmiller said in Is Real Estate Actually a Good Investment on Average?:
@Dashrender said in Is Real Estate Actually a Good Investment on Average?:
There is value to actually living in the house - so at worse, to me - sounds like he broken even.
I believe that the downpayment was $35K in 1976. An index would have generator $1.55m in 2021 when he sold it.
Assuming 45 years of monthly rent of $1,500 (way, WAY above market for the entire time) that would have been just $810K, or about half of what the money would have cost.
In reality, in those early years rent of $400 would have been more accurate. And by the end, more like $1300. So really, actually renting on his street would like have cost around $450K - $500K over those 45 years.
So roughly, considering he "gained" around $100K on the house, and would have spent $600K... He only LOST about $800K... plus any additional improvements that he had to make over the years which I know were more than $300K.
So his total cost for ownership over renting was easily a loss of more than $1,000,000 USD.
Where are you getting rent of $1500 in 1976? Did he live in a mansion?
