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Explaining to @Tech1 that Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy is different than Spaceballs

Spaceballs: Comb the desert
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Marvin

PS: Better read the books.

Spaceballs the movie: the NOVEL!!!! Where the real money from the movie is made!!!

I thought it was moichandising?

Spaceballs, the Flamethrower. Kids love 'em

Spaceballs 2: The Quest for More Money
Pity that was never made.

Your first full backup is going to take a long time.

You know in movies when people do a 180 in their car and then as they pull away they fishtail? It is a classic movie car chase bit. I did that this morning on the ice, it was lots of fun.

@Texkonc Cheaper than an outage for sure. With 2 million log files (2.2TB of logs/1024kB each) if this exchange server has something go wrong it will be very hard to to get it all working again.

@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@danp said in Non-IT News Thread:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/us/politics/fbi-raids-office-of-trumps-longtime-lawyer-michael-cohen.html

So is there more to come from this, like an impeachmentpublic execution broadcast nationally using the Emergency Alert System?

FTFY

That is a lot of network ports for a house. Great, neat job though.

First day back in office in 10 days. No major meltdowns while i was away

Hi all just a quick question.
I need to fill out a basic questionnaire for an RFP. The customer wants(among other things):
"Describe your security incident response procedures"
My assumption is they want to know what happens if we get hacked/breached, what our response would be.
Rather than just filling out "Call a professional security response company" I feel something else needs to be there.
Also,
"Indicate your company's information encryption level for data at rest and data in motion"
We arent using Bitlocker or LUKS. SMB shares dont have encryption enabled due to it requiring smb3 and the disabling of smb1, which may have an effect on non windows machines to connect to the smb shares

I see scripts like that and realize how bad i am at scripting.
That is really nice

I just ran
get-aduser -filter * -properties passwordlastset | select name, passwordlastset | sort-object name | export-csv "passwordslastset.csv"
the oldest

Those are two older accounts from back in the inglorious IWAM days of Windows 2000 and 2k3 IIS. Accounts are disabled but still around in our AD.

@tim_g

Instead of rolling six sided dice:
During a rebuild after failed drive in a 6 drive RAID 5 array you have 5 dice with 10^14 sides each. One of the sides on each of these dice has a skull and crossbones. You roll all 5 of these dice thousands of times a second until the rebuild is complete. Just one of those dice on any roll during the operation required to rebuild needs to stop on skull and crossbones. Skull and crossbones wont come up right away, but given enough rolls it will. The number of dice rolls to rebuild is a function of array size and rebuild rate. Rebuild rate is the same for the RAID 5 set in question(whatever it is, is the same whether the array is 1TB or 1000TB). Higher array size = more chance of skull and crossbones. The relationship isnt linear, but the longer you dont land on skull and crossbones the higher the chance you will in the future.

Now i am going to go design a DnD ruleset with 10^14 sided dice.

@wrx7m Does your ERP run 40 year old cobol base? Does the 'server' merely host file shares of text files that have to be downloaded to each client? Do the clients run the queries and display results, rather than the server doing the work in a real database? Does the single thread performance of your client machines determine the speed of the application? Does your ERP require each client to download thousands of dll files every time it is updated?
You likely answered no to all of these questions, so your ERP not as bad as could be.

Middle of day yesterday, i am talking to my boss and all of a sudden everything stops working instantly. Go in server room, see two of my 3 Cisco switches rebooting. Then rebooting, then rebooting...
Got home after midnight.
Need to buy some new switches.
Why are Ubiquiti switches so much less expensive than Dell HP Cisco?
Am I missing something here? I can get 3 of
Ubiquiti Networks 48-Port UniFi Switch, Managed PoE+ Gigabit Switch with SFP, 500W (US-48-500W
for the same price as one HP Dell or Cisco switch with similar features.
Do i have to buy subscription service or install a vm to manage these?

You know what i hate? The Post-It notes that are glued like an accordion rather than a notepad. So annoying.

@jaredbusch
These arrived an hour ago. Racked.
I downloaded the firmware, then hit Begin Transfer.
Still waiting, i assume this is normal as others say updates take awhile.
edit: transfer done, now actually switching to the new update,
1.1>1.7

Lock screen on one vm i have.

Windows Update Settings is changed as well.

You can see your GPO settings from here if you click View configured update policies.

Sometimes the pedantry is a bit much. Don't care usually about people being rude assholes, cause I do that sometimes.

@eddiejennings
http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/howto/redirection_tutorial#order_of_redirection_ie_file_2_1_vs_2_1_file
This has good explanation