Controversial posts made by DustinB3403

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Working on some audio editing before teaching a saxophone lesson.

You mean a sexiphone lesson. Anyone who can play an instrument (and is of age) has sex appeal!

@voip_n00b said in DNS Filtering Service:

Anyone have a recommendation? Been looking at a bunch of them - looking for some first hand experience. Im looking for a hosted service not a pihole, or something like that.

A hosted service that isn't pihole.... then what is PiHole?

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Users alarmed by undisclosed microphone in Nest Security System

"The on-device microphone was never intended to be a secret," Google says.

Google's Nest smart home brand is in hot water this week after news surfaced (via Daring Fireball) that its home security system, Nest Secure, shipped with an undisclosed microphone. Google activated the microphone earlier this month for Google Assistant functionality, but that meant the device sat in users' homes for up to a year as an unknown potential listening device.

While I agree this is an issue, anyone who has purchased these products should be plainly aware that this functionality & hardware is there, by the very nature of the brand.

Voice enabled everything.

"Okay Google" is the phrase. So anything from Google should be expected to have this functionality.

But it was NOT voice enabled.

That part I get, as it wasn't a part of the marketing. But everything from Alphabet should be understood as Voice enabled.

@gjacobse So definitely a Furry party. ;-D

Why would you want to do this, an iso is just a container.

If you have the original installation media are you trying to move it to a new system to install on?

@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

I whether have Linux filesystem support from Windows. Especially back in the days when I was dual booting.

What?

I was talking about Windows should have been able access disk drives that are ext4, xfs, etc...

But what were you trying to say?

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

I whether have Linux filesystem support from Windows.

He just told you...

No, he didn't. He attempted to explain what he was trying to say and I still think he was experiencing a stroke while typing both of his most recent replies.

Now get off my lawn!

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Writing PowerShell to do something that my RMM should've made easy, but instead it fails at doing the most basic tasks....

Fortunately the PowerShell works so I've just got to push it out..

what RMM so we all know to stay away from that product.

The largest one in the US. Other than that I can't really offer more details.

Something not touched on here is back ups, are there any at all? If not then clearly this system wasn't at all important.

If it truly is so important now, what changed to lead up to this cluster fuck of a failed physical server 2003 still being present today?

I know I'm coming off as a dick, deal with it.

@coliver said in Congressional Pharmacist Accidentally Tells That Some Congresspeople Have Alzheimer's!:

Statistically it's probably close to 1/3 of them. Alzheimer's effects 33% of people over 70.

“over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.”

David Mitchell

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Debugging undesired script behavior.

Heh -
We are trying to use MS AutoPilot. Except that the PS Script Exception is blocking the needed script to onboard a new device. That have a the GPO set to block PS execution, so you can't build the device HWID file.

Thus far, I have not been able to get around the GPO to allow it.

I've love to say don't use Windows, and instead use something like Ubuntu and Ansible but the realities of the world are harsh.

So this is what I have currently

  $driveEject = New-Object -comObject Shell.Application
  $driveEject.Namespace(17).ParseName("E:").InvokeVerb("Eject")

This works to eject a USB drive mapped to E:

Now what would I have to do to remount the drive after 5 minutes (for example).

Yes, I'm fixing a personnel issue with technology, and no I don't care to hear about fixing the personnel issues - because I'm not in a position to fix them.

This is a means to fix those issues and save me and my team effort by conforming to stupid requests.

@StrongBad said in Yahoo! Sold to Verizon:

Now Verizon can offer low end, consumer email. Yay.

Except almost no one pays for personal email. You'd just get a free account from Yahoo or Google.

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Either my boss is having a really bad day and just cant handle it or he is upset that I fixed an issue that he was helping me on and I may or may not have blatantly ignored his suggestion .. although at this point I couldn't tell you.. But what I do know, is I feel pretty good that i got this working and completely fixed.

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

/Sigh.
FML . Boss lady had a Coin Changer in her office for over 1 year. She gave it to me maybe a month ago. I had the coin changer working on the POS system Lab I have in the office in 45 minutes total (this was 2 weeks ago) so I did some documentation on it and passed it on to the tech i was working with.
We sent them a new cable to put on their existing Coin Changer (same POS system as my lab), 2 weeks ago, Apparently this call was passed onto me without me being on the email that passed the buck to me.
So now I'm putting out a fire on a client I've never worked with directly while taking the responsibility for this issue cause the other tech stopped responding to emails..
am I wrong to be Pissed off at this? - Maybe I'm over reacting to it. .

In any scenario if you're still working for that crappy company, why haven't you worked to get let go and collect unemployment while you get a better job?

why would i want to lose my only source of income ?
I have many things riding on me bringing home a paycheck (like my son and I having a house still)

So you're saying you've not seriously looked at alternatives. In how many months you've not received any offers (or none that match or beat what you're currently making)?

Sounds more like you're comfortable working for this employer and are afraid of something new, and unknown rather than actually embracing that and demanding more money for it.

@IRJ it's like tagging Trump on Twitter, I didn't want to increase his followe count

@scottalanmiller said in If you thought Skynet was just a story why is google building an AI kill switch:

@JaredBusch said in If you thought Skynet was just a story why is google building an AI kill switch:

@scottalanmiller said in If you thought Skynet was just a story why is google building an AI kill switch:

@wirestyle22 said in If you thought Skynet was just a story why is google building an AI kill switch:

@scottalanmiller said in If you thought Skynet was just a story why is google building an AI kill switch:

@wirestyle22 said in If you thought Skynet was just a story why is google building an AI kill switch:

@scottalanmiller said in If you thought Skynet was just a story why is google building an AI kill switch:

@Dashrender said in If you thought Skynet was just a story why is google building an AI kill switch:

I think we'll have 20 years of both self driving and piloted cars on the road, and a time when a car can be either.

I doubt that humans in the driver's seat will be legal for that long. The cost of allowing human drivers once computer drivers are available is astronomic. So much of the value and safety in the automated driving system requires getting all of the other cars off of the road.

Yeah but they can't even release an XBOX right now without a lot of bugs. I wonder how bad the initial release is going to be and how many fatalities we will have. It scares me actually.

So far in testing they are already outperforming all but the best humans. Zero at fault accidents and nearly no not at fault accidents. The initial release has been out for a while and doing quite well... from several companies. Google and Tesla have both been on the road for a while now.

That is very good to hear. I'm surprised considering the amount of variables

Only one variable really matters.... humans are terrible at driving. We react very slowly and don't pay attention well. And we get drowsy. And sneeze, cough, blink, have heart attacks, etc.

What are you talking.. Just because i cannot recall over half of my drive from St. Louis to Chicago yesterday evening?

I once woke up on the opposite side of a city (small one) having fallen asleep before I entered it. Thankfully my eyes were open and my automatic system managed to just follow a car in front of me (through a few turns!!!) but it was pretty scary when I came to and had no idea where I was.

You've been in a self driving car?

@Obsolesce said in Oracle Linux Installation and performance seems insanely bad:

@DustinB3403 said in Oracle Linux Installation and performance seems insanely bad:

CentOS Stream

That's what I'm referring to.

CentOS Stream != CentOS.

They are fundamentally different systems as one is based on "Just before production ready" and the other is based on "Production ready and redeveloped after release of production"

@JaredBusch I think you should install WSL with Ubuntu 16.04 to do this with bash. . .

Kind of forces corporations to embrace open source if they want to use what he's patented.

Has anyone else kicked the tires on Oracle Linux and thought that the install seemed to take a long time to install?

It may just be my environment (I've honestly not tested outside of my lab) but it seems to take much longer to install compared to Ubuntu (desktop and server), Fedora and CentOS (granted this is essentially dead, I wanted a comparison).

rclone would be my go to personally. You'd be using the 'local' storage approach.