@LilAng said in Protek Support MSP Ransomware Hits Customers in Salt Lake City, Utah:

LOL, this did not age well.

The only way it could've been worse is if they said "We're all vulnerable to emergencies (because of Protek), but if you are prepared. . . ."

@momurda said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

@obsolesce said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

@momurda said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

This is wrong; starting in a few years when automation takes over everything. I dont think you understand the scale of the next round of automation in the workplace. 19/20 jobs driving, gone.

Automation doesn't "take jobs". It provides more jobs, actually.

Explain what the 25 people working at your local McDonalds will be doing in 10 years when a couple robot burger flippers replace their entire work crew.

Japan already has these.

Youtube Video

And quite honestly, I'd like to have a robot finish the burger as well . . I've seen their bathrooms, one can guess at their habits in said bathroom.

Are you looking for an appliance? If you're willing to install it yourself I'd look at zoneminder and avoid the appliance route.

@wrcombs that doesn't surprise me about the compliance requirement, there are a bunch of stupid compliance requirements for all sorts of industries.

Okay so figured it out with this guide.

From Windows administrative Powershell

ssh-keygen
type C:\Users\<username>\.ssh\id_rsa.pub | ssh user@linuxserver 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys'

Exit administrative Powershell

Open Powershell

ssh user@linuxserver

Logged in.

I hate slow days, they make it seem like time itself is standing still.

@wrx7m said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

@marcinozga said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

@wrx7m said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

@marcinozga said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

I know they are not experts, that's the line you use to teach them a lesson when they screw up.

@DustinB3403 said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

That's what we try here but with the "if you have admin access, we aren't touching it any more".
It takes it from an IT system to a different class with where we work.

I am the only IT guy here. I don't have time to teach people lessons after they screw up something that should have been restricted in the first place.

Do you have time to keep explaining why admin access is a bad idea?

No, but I can copy and paste a response I can't clone myself yet.

I would make the final explanation that, administrative access is for people who are going to be fully accountable for the site, including not just the content, theme, users or addons but also with ensuring the site is backed up and updated regularly.

If an addon, theme or user needs to be invited they can contact the IT department to request these changes are made.

If contacting IT is to cumbersome and they insist on Administrative access, save that communication as a CYA with a declaration that IT can't be asked to "Fix the wordpress" because there have been to many chefs in the kitchen.

I'm off today, so I got roped into replacing a toilet for the in-laws.

Well that's done. Time to drink their booze.

@CCWTech said in Content filtering with granular settings:

I have a client who wants sites like facebook, instagram, etc. filtered on one computer but not another. They are looking for a very granular solution. I am guessing it's out of their price range to do something like this but they want more than just basic adblocking / Porn filtering (which I use PiHole for)

Any suggestions?

Remotely edit the workstations host file.

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dustinb3403 mainly yeah as i looks like a cheaper costs over time.
I need a new printer anyway. Mainly be used for school work by the kids.

While I agree, I hate that schools still need things printed off. . . it's 2018 take my damn emailed in homework . . .

@mroth911 you need to have the ISP providers work together and setup this failover for you. This isn't something you'll be able to do within your budget or capabilities to ensure works.

Get Frontier and whoever your main providers are on the phone. Your ISPs can certainly do this, but you as a lessee of the IP addresses cannot, not nearly as reliably anyways.

And if this goes towards your goal of running everything yourself and setting up a true HA environment with literally 0 downtime then you absolutely cannot consider doing this yourself.

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Creating a Hardware Replaced/Scrapped form as people are forgetting to do simple things like remove the TS License and remove the machine from AD etc.

Is this "form" in the shape of a 2x4?

@Dashrender said in New PBX - on prem or off?:

@JaredBusch said in New PBX - on prem or off?:

The last conversation I had with him regarding this was that it would go off prem. But there still deciding if they’re even going to do anything.

huh - I don't recall that. you do have a better memory than me though.

we've had zero movement in my company on this - though, we finally have a meeting to start it next week.

To start the deployment of a PBX that has yet to be settled on a solution, where it will reside and how it will be configured.

Are you sure you don't work with me? Sounds like my place of business from time to time.

WAIT WAIT WAIT GO (can it be complete in 5 minutes)

@Donahue said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Donahue technically speaking, you could have the receptionist install this drive.

But do you trust that person?

nope

What's worthwhile about automation like LE is that if the root CA was compromised, LE would simply revoke all certificates and create a new CA and issuance would begin again.

He's acting like if someone isn't clicking "buy" that security is more vulnerable.

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Musk: New Tesla summon feature will “follow you like a pet”

"Car will drive to your phone location" thanks to a forthcoming software update.

Oh great. . . So now not only my phone is stolen, but my car is missing too!!

#!/bin/sh

read -s -p "Enter a wheel username: " USER
read -s -p "Enter a password for wheel: " PASS

# Setting (office) offname variable
read -p 'What office are you in?: ' offname

# Setting (computer username variable) compuser variable
read -p 'Enter this computers username (SAMAccountName) IE jdoe: ' compuser

# Setting the asset tag (tagnumber) variable
read -p 'Enter this computers asset tag: ' tagnumber

echo $PASS | sudo -S scutil --set HostName $offname$compuser && sudo -S scutil --set ComputerName $compuser$tagnumber && sudo -S scutil --set LocalHostName $offname$compuser$tagnumber

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Moved all my XenServer Pools to XCP-ng and XOA is the backup for them now.

I just showed @wirestyle22 how to migrate to xcp-ng, he owes me a bottle.

Try this? https://malwarefixes.com/remove-litar-ransomware-litar-decryption/

Being that he reinstalled the OS I have no idea if it'll work or not.

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Getting Chromebooks ready for tomorrow. Rolling over peoples 401k's and they don't even own a computer. <smh>

Why do they need a computer now? There isn't a form they can fill out and have some keyboard monkey enter the changes?

Keyboard monkeys cost more then chromebooks.