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I think we're hitting a saturation point. There are so many "computers" (desktop, laptop, tablet, phone) in so many hands that the market growth has "tanked". It has tanked because the number of new customers entering the market has declined sharply and sales are only coming from replacement purchases. Where we are now is normal.

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

I'm being screamed at because people can't watch Jenna Marbles. Is this real life? I seriously don't even know anymore

You're going to wake up tomorrow and wonder if this was all a dream... and then your phone will ring, and you will realize that nope, you are still stuck in the nightmare.

The buddhists really had it right. Life is suffering.

That was Princess Bride

@Breffni-Potter is near London. @Huw3481 is in Nottingham. Not right next door, but closer than across the pond, and both are MSP/ITSPs.

Me whenever @scottalanmiller jumps into a discussion involving installing to bare metal:

@momurda said in How long to keep people's AD/Exchange accounts:

Just had to lookup what catfacts is.

https://sendcatfacts.com/

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Tim_G said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Is Robert5205 being serious?

Wow. Just refreshed the page.

Yeah, advice fail right there I mean I get his point, but I don't agree. It's "you don't know how to do your job to a minimum level of competence, so let's just gloss over that and give bad advice since it's too hard to treat you like a professional." If I gave that same advice people would be all over me for being condescending and thinking that the OP was too "dumb" to do his job. But other people treat him like a child and it's considered normal.

You should leave spiceworks' community for a week. Don't log in there, do do anything relating to it, and see what happens.

@Dominica speaking to the doctor: "I don't know what happened. One day he was fine, and the next his blood pressure dropped so low he lost consciousness."

@irj said in Thoughts on Bonanza and legality?:

@kelly said in Thoughts on Bonanza and legality?:

It looks like there is the possibility that you can purchase perpetual license software (non-OEM, non-subscription) in the US so long as the license was designated as an EU license and originally sold to a company in the EU. It isn't a matter of EU law vs US law. The EU has simply clarified existing law clearly and US courts have not.

So the answer here is it is probably ok for personal use in the US?

Bonanza has been around for years, you would think Microsoft would have them blocked from US buyers by now if it were an issue...

The answer is dependent on the level of exposure and risk you're willing to assume. As a personal purchase your exposure is low, and you're thus unlikely to become a test case. We have gotten used to the idea that if something isn't specifically allowed it is illegal. The truth goes in the opposite direction. I believe (IANAL) that you would not be doing something illegal to purchase software from Bonanza and using it, even in a business. That said, case law does refine interpretation of law, so I won't be recommending Bonanza to my clients as a way to save money

@scottalanmiller What is with necro'ing all the posts from 2014?

@tim_g said in Eight new Spectre Variant Vulnerabilities for Intel Discovered - four of them critical:

Wow....

But how practical is it to not only first exploit the Spectre vulnerability, but then to get any useful data from most likely other unknown shared VMs on the same box? (really, only on a shared hosting provider host is where 99.9% of the threat is)

This stuff is discarded speculative cached data... maybe a thumbnail you won't be viewing (if it goes that big), or maybe a few bits leading in that direction... maybe credentials (that are encrypted anyways)...

It seems like all you can do is "fish" for unknown discarded speculative data... it doesn't really sound like a huge practical threat, however, I do see the severity and horrible potential of it, just not the practicality.

Here is how I see it playing out in the larger world. Bad actors will be spinning up VMs on hosting providers' hardware, and then trolling for data of cohosted VMs. It isn't a large problem in a secure environment where the list of people who can spin up VMs also have the credentials necessary to make a Spectre-ng attack a waste of time and energy.

The ROG machines have amazing venting. Look at the back of the things. They're almost absurdly thick because of it, but it does the best job of heat dissipation of anything I've looked at.

@wrx7m said in Apple ID on Company-Issued iOS Devices?:

@dustinb3403 said in Apple ID on Company-Issued iOS Devices?:

@wrx7m said in Apple ID on Company-Issued iOS Devices?:

I need to re-work our MDM procedures a bit. How do you deal with Apple IDs on company-issued iOS devices?

You login with one you control on all devices. Never allow a user to use their own personal account.

Is there a special type of account for business/IT? I know they have something for businesses but can't remember what it is called and exactly the capabilities.

You need to get a DEP account set up: https://support.apple.com/business. Then you can get a VPP account as well. DEP is the keystone of all Apple MDM/deployment methodologies.

Dr. Strange is on Netflix, so I'm hoping to fit that in one of these nights.

My first question when presented this is why. You're investing a decent amount of time and resources into maintaining on prem server when the cloud version is free for you (assuming you're a school from your comments). If I were in your situation it would be difficult for me to justify keeping that old server.

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Finally a question that people know the answer to.... oh wait, it's a bench question not an IT one.

What end-user types "OSI Layer 1" in their ticket?

Sounds like a test question was taken from an A+ test verbatim.

I only used it a little, but Thycotic has a decent password manager: https://thycotic.com/products/secret-server/, and there is a free version.

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

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

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

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

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

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

@Grey Let me know how Civ6 is. I was debating on it for ages.

It is decent. Probably the best vanilla release Sid Meier has had since Civ II. There are some annoyances, and it takes some getting used to compared to other Civ games, but I enjoy playing it. I also really enjoyed BE, so maybe my standards are really low.

I have heard a lot of negative things about it, but Civ purists are some of the hardest people to please

I've honestly never found a Sid Meier game that I could stand. I've tried many over the years, they are all garbage.

But how do they enjoy them? Argh

Every played Pirates!, it's flat as shallow as can be. It's painful.

Your comprehension of another's enjoyment of a thing is not requisite for that enjoyment to occur.

The most effective tool for SMB is training, particularly in the security segment. Nothing will provide you with more bang for your buck than this.

Winning Youtube comment of the day:

@ccwtech said in Desktop photo for all PC's in the domain:

@kelly said in Desktop photo for all PC's in the domain:

@ccwtech said in Desktop photo for all PC's in the domain:

@dustinb3403 said in Desktop photo for all PC's in the domain:

The easiest way I've found to get a GPO to update, is to one, set it to "update" and in cases like screensavers (backgrounds etc), literally just name the anything else.

"bg.jpg" the new one gets changed to "bg1.jpg" etc.

Trying to do this without the user touching GPO. I'm still fuzzy on how to set the GPO to update?

You only change the file copy GPO. I would have a different file name in your source file like 20180907_info.jpg. That way the GPO will process because it detects a change event. You can have the same destination file.

That would require editing of the GPO that applies the wallpaper.

It depends on how you set it up. My preferred method, and I believe best practice, is that you split your policies. The User policy applies the wallpaper based on <localpath>\picture.jpg. The computer policy copies the wallpaper from <remotepath>\20180907_picture.jpg to <localpath>\picture.jpg. When you need to update the wallpaper you place 2018xxxxx_picture.jpg in <remotepath> and update the policy to the new file name. When the machine reboots or refreshes its policies it copies the file from <remotepath> to <localpath>. When the user logs in the user policy is applied which uses the same file name (because as far as it is concerned nothing changed), but the new wallpaper is loaded because it is a different image.

Does that make sense?