@quixoticjeremy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
In other news, Yay, Friday! Has been a killer of a week here.
I actually think I said this like 2 days ago saying it was a "Monweek" just a week full of Mondays.
Didn't you go to a baseball game half way through the week, got to drink at said baseball game, then got to go home early?
@black3dynamite said in Buying new business desktops - what do you like?:
Dell OptiPlex Micro desktops is our preferred choice for the majority of our users.
@jaredbusch said in Buying new business desktops - what do you like?:
I prefer the Dell micro (square box) configuration with the monitor mount for it.
We're doing the same thing here, but we don't have the nifty monitor mounts for it.
@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Richard
I think he should have stayed with webroot
We have Lenovo laptops. I don't recommend Lenovo laptops. We're getting rid of all of the Lenovo laptops.
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Law department got new carpeting done Friday. No one told us. We get a call this morning first thing that nothing is working (still no mention of what took place). I get up there and everything is unhooked. All of the cabling is a gigantic knot that they taped to the desks with duct tape. They pulled an access point out of the wall and broke a ton of cables by crushing them with furniture.
What a day
Sounds like somebody stepped out of scope of a project or there was a failure of communication somewhere.
Now get you're mind out of the gutter. This isn't the kind of place for that.
We have a location where we are burning up printers and computers because of dirty power in the plant. While I agree that the Maintenance department is ultimately responsible for this, they would be busier protecting larger and more expensive machines than worrying about printers and computers.
How should we address this problem? UPS for all of the computers? Is there some kind of sine wave filter that we could purchase for all of the printers? It doesn't have to be a UPS on every printer, and is even advisable to NOT have a UPS on every printer. What would you suggest besides just letting Maintenance handle it?
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Law department got new carpeting done Friday. No one told us. We get a call this morning first thing that nothing is working (still no mention of what took place). I get up there and everything is unhooked. All of the cabling is a gigantic knot that they taped to the desks with duct tape. They pulled an access point out of the wall and broke a ton of cables by crushing them with furniture.
What a day
Sounds like somebody stepped out of scope of a project or there was a failure of communication somewhere.
Well, it actually sounds like vandalism.
Actually, they were hired to do a job. This sounds more like incompetence.
Here is some of my script. Its just a 2 liner, but gets the job done by looking at AD and everybody who hasn't logged in in the last 3 weeks (or whatever set period of time you want to establish based on days:hours:minutes:seconds), puts it into a spreadsheet, stores it in a file server to hold it until the next line. The next line creates the email, and attaches it the csv it just created and sends it along.
Search-ADAccount -AccountInactive -TimeSpan 20.00:00:00 -UsersOnly -SearchBase "CN=Users,DC=Domain,DC=com" | Select-Object Name,Enabled,LastLogonDate | sort enabled | export-csv \\server\filelocation.csv
Send-MailMessage -From [email protected] -To [email protected],[email protected] -Subject "Inactive Users" -SmtpServer tennant-com.mail.protection.outlook.com -Attachments \\server\filelocation.csv
Hope that helps.
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Watching Now:
@QuixoticJeremy just get a SlingTV account, you can have HBO and like 45 other good channels for ~$35/month
I just subscribed to SlingTV and I am not too entirely impressed with it. I've watched on my laptop, my phone, and the TV. Phone and TV still has some problems. I have not really watched it a lot on the laptop, so I can't tell if that is affected as well. I generally see mono-audio and grainy video until it fully buffers. That is when the stereo and video really kicks into gear. That generally takes about 30 seconds. However, between shows, it will start a new buffer. So, if you watch one channel for a few hours, then you will see when the shows break because it will fall back from stereo to mono and the video will suffer as it tries to rebuffer the new show. Plus, the DVR is not capable on all channels. Some channels you can pause and rewind, but not all of them. Shows that you have recorded? Sure, but not all that you are capable of watching.
One major downside is that the stream will just cut out for no reason at all and the show will just drop. Could be an application issue.
Plus, some markets are missing CBS (DFW) and all markets are missing ABC. Bear those in mind as well.
On paper, it is a great service, but in practice, they still have some work to do to really get this service to where it needs to be, either in networking services or in app development.
I would just recommend a different strategy all together because if you're UTM is compromised, then where is the rest of your security going to be? This is why I recommend breaking it apart. AV at the firewall might not be a bad idea, but I would recommend breaking out the IDS/IPS behind the firewall. Also, breaking out the proxy just right behind the firewall as well, if you need one.
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Watching Now:
@nerdydad I've had the application just drop out on me (channel master dvr+) but have never had quality issues. I attribute this to the fiber internet service I have at my residence.
I have 100/7.5 cable and have no issues at all with Netflix, either on the TV or the phone. So, I'm thinking this is more of Sling than my ISP.
@dustinb3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@dustinb3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
That incitement bit has me confused - If I remember I might have to look into that more.
On the surface that seems to imply that if your speak incites someone to action, your speak is no longer protected... but I'm sure there is a lot more to it than that.
Essentially, speech that gets people to act violently against others isn't protected speech.
is the violently specifically spelled out in the Supreme Court ruling? Or only the use of the work Incitement?
That I don't know.
I never read the ruling myself, but believe when it was explained to me is "when speech leads to the potential and direct loss in life, it is not protected". For example, you can't yell fire in a theater in fear of a cause of panic and loss in life because of trampling if there really was not a fire in the theater.
@scottalanmiller said in AntiVirus on Servers?:
@bbigford said in AntiVirus on Servers?:
It comes down to security vs. convenience. Performance is something completely different and can be tuned/scheduled.
Do you leave your keys in your vehicles ignition? Do you leave your front door wide open? Do you write your personal identity numbers on your arm?
No? Use anti-virus.
Do you still use it if you have servers that are not accessed directly or accessing anything? What will the AV be scanning?
If the servers aren't "serving" anything out, then what would be the purpose of the servers?
If an IT person keeps praising RAID5 with spinning disk as the way to go because of the storage efficiencies and speed, but we keep telling them that they are setting themselves up for failure with proofs and references and testimonials, then we don't have the right to physically assault them because they will not listen. We have tried to warn them that RAID5 will fail on them and that RAID6 or RAID10 was the way to go, but they will not listen. We must let them go to their own doom and failure.
Same goes for society. If they choose to keep going with this rhetoric to incite violence, then we must let them go to their own failures and separate ourselves from them. If they choose to attack us, then we have a right to self-defense, but not to attack.
Have a MS Windows Server 2016 Datacenter that won't activate. I have tried GUI in system properties and settings and have tried DISM. Ran for updates and all patched up. Tried activation again, and not working. Anybody have any ideas?
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If someone is putting people in danger, there is nary a time you aren't allowed to take action.
I put people in danger all of the time, just by driving a car, people are put in danger.
Should we stop them from driving too?
Just simply living adds risk. Just ask George.
I miss that show.
@rojoloco said in Surveillance Cameras and NVR:
@mike-davis said in Surveillance Cameras and NVR:
I have one G3 Dome running and I really like the picture and price point. I'll be adding some more cameras in the future. I'll have to decide if I want to keep running my own NVR or buy one of theirs prebuilt. I just used an old Zotac box I had no other use for to test the camera and software.
The Ubiquiti NVR software was available (might still be, haven't checked lately) to customers so you could run their NVR as a VM (the one I have runs on Debian). So you could get all the functionality without buying the actual NVR hardware.
I was thinking the same thing. I have never messed with Ubiquiti cameras but always heard great things about them.
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