@scottalanmiller said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

Definitely Jamestown is the example I'm thinking of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_who_does_not_work,_neither_shall_he_eat
It's originally from Paul and is famously cited by John Smith as a foundation for the failed Jamestown Colony.

That's interesting. The same thing happened to the Plymouth colony at about the same time. It's almost like experiments in communism don't end well.

@scottalanmiller said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

The original, infamous source of America's unique "fairness ethic" comes from the Jamestown colony. It was the "you work, you eat" thing. Which made sense with 50 people trying not to starve collectively.

Today, it makes no sense. But it has been drilled into us through systematic education programs. To a degree that Americans have no idea that no other country in the world thinks of "fair" with the priority that we do. It's uniquely American.

I think you're thinking of the Plymouth colony where they worked "collectively" for two years and collectively starved. Then a change in policy gave each family a plot of land to work for themselves. That year they had an abundance.

I'm not sure I follow you though. Are you saying that it's unfair to work for your food? Should some able bodied people be able to eat for no effort on their part?

@penguinwrangler said in Discussing Basic Income from Forbes Article:

My Dad, with only a high school education, started cleaning businesses and eventually turned it into a business where he made over $100,000 a year during the 1980s

The book "The Millionaire Next Door" says this is primarily the way 1st generation millionaires are made. Their children often earn six figures, but are effectively broke. The book explains that the blue collar parents want to provide for their kids things that they didn't have, such as an education. The problem is the kids don't learn to live within their means, and because they are making lots of money, spend even more money...

@jaredbusch said in cordless VoIP:

The W60P is $128 vs the W52P for $108.
What is it that makes you want to pay $20 more per phone?
edit: That is the cost of a single handset with a base station

Mostly I'd like to play with it. I'm willing to pay the extra $20 for that.

BTW, where are you getting those prices? Amazon prime is ~ $170 others are around $140 before shipping.

@jaredbusch I think I'll get the W60P and see how it goes. Thanks for the input.

to speed up troubleshooting, do a gpupdate /force and reboot.

I'm looking for a cordless VoIP solution. It's for a dispatcher that gets a low volume of calls and doesn't want to be tied to the desk. The office has solid wifi, but I think the DECT would work well. It doesn't need to have long talk time, but it should be easy to answer the call and transfer the call. If someone knows of something with a dedicated transfer button, that would be better than fumbling through menus while the caller is sitting there in awkward silence.

I found the Grandstream dp750 + 720 and the Yealink W60P. Does anyone have any experience with either of these or something similar?

Like @matteo-nunziati says, see if STP is turned on on your ProCurve. If it detects a MAC on two interfaces, it will shut one down. Then it doesn't see it, so it turns it back on. I had issues at one time with a Wireless controller (Nortel) that had proxy arp on that would cause a segment of the network (the switch the wireless AP was on) to get shutdown when a laptop would boot up.

Here's a list you can format and add/subtract to/from:

QUESTIONS FOR FORMER IT PROVIDER
Domain admin username and password:
Domain registration details and logins:
Domain DNS hosting details:
Domain Web hosting details:
SSL Certificate provider login details:
Local PC usernames & passwords:
(If applicable)
List of Microsoft Servers and roles:
Switch details and logins:
Router details and logins:
NAS details and logins:
Access Point details and logins:
Printer/MFP details and logins:
Web filter proxy (If applicable):
Key IP addresses & usernames / passwords of anything else relevant i.e Office 365, Cloud Services:
Server details (brand, model, serial, warranty):
Virtual Environment details:
UPS details (Logins / warranty):
Antivirus uninstall passwords (all products):
Cable or Fibre details (provider plus account details – login):
Secondary Internet Connection (If applicable):
Offsite backup details eg. Storage, S-Protect licences, cloud services:
Wireless Network SSID / Password:
Service Account Usernames and Passwords eg. Backup printers:
iLO / iDRAC login / password:
Remote access methods:
Phone System:

Licensing
MS Licence Agreements / Login:
Antivirus / malware / Spam – product, login and expiry:
Firewall – Model / Serial / Licence expiry and supplier:
Virtualisation agreements (VMWare / Hyper-V):

Software Management
Provide details on all business applications:
SharePoint (If applicable):

Documents to be provided
Router / firewall details:
Switch / Router Configuration Files:
Any VPN Config – pre shared secrets / config:
System Documentation including diagrams:

Outstanding Problems or Project work to discuss
Current issues, tips on support / maintenance, etc:
Active / unfinished projects:
Support contract expiry date:
Pre-paid support hours in credit:

Have you checked eventvwr to make sure it isn't powering on to run a backup or something?

Outside of port 25, the only other time I have to do anything with outbound traffic is when I have load balancing across two ISPs enabled. Applications like voice and some secure sites that don't like the source address bouncing around require that.

I may or may not have done stuff like unplugging the ethernet cable halfway. Putting vaseline on their headset. I also may or may not have spent 2 hours coding my own version of match.com (back when that was a thing) and then updated DNS for the entire office for an elaborate prank.

@jaredbusch said in URL filtering on EdgeRouter:

Well the correct way is not to try to shoehorn this into your edge router but if the site is small enough yes you can add the packages and do it this way

This would be for 4 computers and a server. Since the users won't be able to get on the internet and it's only windows updates and AV updates that will generate traffic, I think they will be OK.

Have you used this in a typical office environment? Where would you draw the line in terms of number of users/number of rules? I've never used the ER to filter on domains before.

@kyle said in Practical jokes on fellow IT colleagues:

The quick and easy one is to put a cut sticky note on the bottom of their mouse.

clear tape is the next level. mouse is erratic and hard to see what the problem is.

Best of luck in your future endeavors!

I have a network where I only want the computers to be able to get out to Windows updates and their AV software. Both of those things work on URLs and not IPs. Is the correct way to go about this command line on the ER with some commands like:

url-filtering {
     squidguard {
         redirect-url http://google.com
          rule 10 {
             local-allow windowsupdate.microsoft.com
             local-allow *.windowsupdate.microsoft.com             
             local-allow *.update.microsoft.com
             local-allow *.windowsupdate.com
             local-allow download.windowsupdate.com
             local-allow download.microsoft.com
             local-allow *.download.windowsupdate.com
             local-allow test.stats.update.microsoft.com
             local-allow ntservicepack.microsoft.com
             source-group LAN-desktops
         }
 source-group LAN-desktops {
             address 192.168.10.2-192.168.10.254
         }

Is there a better way to go about this?

If the laptop isn't worth much to you without the NVidia, you can Google "laptop oven reflow"
http://www.computerrepairtips.net/how-to-reflow-a-laptop-motherboard/

If it does serve some purpose with the built in Intel video, you may not want to try that....

Usually if it's heat related, you can get it to boot and work until it warms up, and then it fails. As @Pete-S said, blowing compressed air over it continuously would solve the heat issue if there is one.

Verizon has been rebranding the Yealink T46g for a while now and there are a ton of used ones out there. Does anyone know if you can flash the firmware back to Yealink's? The last time I tried to work with one, Verizon had disabled the web interface entirely.

I have a couple of cloud based systems that need a ftp back up target. One in Azure and one on Vultr if it matters. I'm looking for the most cost effective place to set up a ftp backup target. Along those lines, is there a pre built appliance for that, or is there one Linux distribution better than another for setting that up?