IT Team gets together and creates the hold from hell.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/29/it_helpdesk_creates_oh_hold_hell/

https://www.reddit.com/r/VOIP/comments/dypp36/20191119_critical_freepbx_security_vulnerability/

"There has been a criticial security vulnerability discovered in FreePBX which allows remote code execution without authentication."

v14/v15 should automatically update themselves. Earlier versions will not.

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

thanks

This is what's keeping me busy lately. Building a Chicken Coop, though we're calling it the Palace, for our girls.



We have Leghorns (apparently pronounced LegUrns, Rhode Island Red, and Plymouth Rock (black) to start.

Construction is 2x4 insulated 8' x 8' with the run being 20' x 8'. All those years in construction back in the day always seem to pay off in some way.

Apparently, I've been elected to be the one to get them from the coop to the table when the time comes.

@dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@nadnerb said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

So sad but true!

Why do so many companies have to hear it from an outsider before they believe it?

Prophet is never known as such in their own home land.

The announcement page: Starwood Guest Reservation Database Security Incident Marriott International

My thoughts on the matter though rather curtailed from what I really want to say due to polite company: Some Thoughts on the Starwood/Marriott Reservations Database Breach

@dustinb3403 It's been a while, but there's a set of files the Mac writes to all folders it touches. .DS_Store or something like that.

We've seen busy graphics houses have their file servers brought to their knees by this "feature".

These guys: https://dea.nbird.com.au/2014/11/19/windows-server-prevent-mac-files-on-shares-ds_store-_-trashes/

@Danp Whoever made the T-Shirt was probably too intimidated to mention the grammatical error or maybe let it go because the guy was a d*ck.

@WrCombs said in DHCP Question...:

This is for a friend of mine who asked me ; And Wanted to be able to send him a link to read up on DHCP Best practices and ideas on his situation.

He came to me and said "if you set up a dhcp why do you set up .2-.254 with a gate way of .1
don't you want to keep some open for Static IPs... for example: printers?"

what can I say to him other than .1 is reserved for gateway? .1 is the gateway so it can't be used in the scenario.

He is explaining to me that this company Cybera is setting up a firewall for him at his location and is curious why they would leave it that wide and open without any reserved Static IPS.

I'm sending him the link to this thread to have him read through the answers I get.

Our rule of thumb, and it's a "we've been doing it this way since ... so we keep doing it this way" situation, is to set up the full subnet in DHCP and then set exclusions for what we want to set aside for servers, printers, and the like. We generally set printers via reservation.

Here's a simple scope setup in PowerShell:

Add-DHCPServerInDC
Add-DHCPServerv4Scope -Name "OUR Local Scope" -StartRange 10.100.10.1 -EndRange 10.100.10.254 -SubnetMask 255.255.255.0
Add-DhcpServerv4ExclusionRange -ScopeID 10.100.10.0 -StartRange 10.100.10.1 -EndRange 10.100.10.49
Add-DhcpServerv4ExclusionRange -ScopeID 10.100.10.0 -StartRange 10.100.10.200 -EndRange 10.100.10.254
Set-DhcpServerv4OptionValue -ComputerName DC.Domain.com -DnsServer 10.100.10.254 -DnsDomain Domain.com -Router 10.100.10.1

@mlnews said in Why aren’t chip credit cards stopping “card present” fraud in the US?:

Fraud is on the rise despite a move to chip cards.

A security analysis firm called Gemini Advisory recently posted a report saying that credit card fraud is actually on the rise in the US. That's surprising, because the US is three years out from a big chip-based card rollout. Chip-based cards were supposed to limit card fraud in the US, which was out of control compared to similar fraud in countries that already used EMV (the name of the chip card standard)....

I remember reading comments from the American payment industry folks that basically said Americans were too stupid to do Chip & PIN. We've had it here for a very long time with TAP being a relatively recent addition. TAP is limited to $50 or $100 depending on merchant and product. It makes transactions fast versus any other method.

Swipe needs to be banned. Period.

Next up: RFID protection wallets. A must-have for frequent travelers.

@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

A is positively the correct answer.

Kids in our family know what Eye-Dee-Ten-Tee (ID10T) and PEBKAC (Peb-Cack) mean.

@Pete-S said in Mikrotik software firewall/router?:

@PhlipElder said in Mikrotik software firewall/router?:

@Pete-S said in Mikrotik software firewall/router?:

Does anyone have experience with Mikrotik's software firewall/routers?
Or any opinion on their products in general, especially for business use?

I used to think they were some kind of garage company but it turns out they're a billion dollar company.

We worked with them quite a bit at a site. Clunky, difficult, and not the most stable at that time.

Have they improved? Not sure, but IMNSHO, there's better products out there for the same or slightly higher pricing.

Lack of stability doesn't sound good because that is the most important IMO.

What brand are you thinking of? I have tried to look at the low budget business market but haven't found any other brand that have a complete line-up. Ubiquity for example, only have a small subset of the routers that Mikrotik have and no software router.

The stuff we were working with was their entry level business class products.

Ubiquiti would be one I think. They are pretty stable though we do have issues with them when there's a fair amount of VLANs configured on the switches.

@Pete-S said in Mikrotik software firewall/router?:

Does anyone have experience with Mikrotik's software firewall/routers?
Or any opinion on their products in general, especially for business use?

I used to think they were some kind of garage company but it turns out they're a billion dollar company.

We worked with them quite a bit at a site. Clunky, difficult, and not the most stable at that time.

Have they improved? Not sure, but IMNSHO, there's better products out there for the same or slightly higher pricing.

@scottalanmiller said in MS SQL Server Error: No Process is on the other end of the pipe:

Full error...

A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the login process. (provider: Shared Memory Provider, error: 0 - No process is on the other end of the pipe.)

(Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 233)

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This error tends to happen when you are trying to authenticate with a SQL Server account on a system that is only configured for Windows Authentication. MS SQL Server allows SQL accounts to be created regardless of this setting in the configuration and gives no errors (for logical reasons we could go into) so it is easy to do without realizing it. So if you see this error, check to make sure that SQL Server authentication is enabled or use a Windows account instead.

We deal with some really clunky front ends that run with SA/SQL Authentication so hybrid mode is a setting that gets done during the initial instance setup process.

The other thing to keep in mind is that if there is more than one admin account being used to manage that instance, or those instances, to make sure to add those accounts during the instance creation process otherwise pain ensues.

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Toss this at the fam as I was clueless in this matter.

This we came up with:
Roses are Red
I am Groot
Have you seen my Super Suit?

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Coffee good beer or other spirited libation better.

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

That's about all Asus boards are good for IMNSHO of course.

This is fitting from the show Kung Fu:

Youtube Video

@Dashrender said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:

@PhlipElder said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:

@Dashrender said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:

@scottalanmiller said in Why have mass shootings increased - you thoughts?:

And that's really the fundamental issue. At the end of the day, maybe for all the reasons I pointed out, in America while it sounds impossible... a very, very large number (percentage) of the population doesn't support mechanisms to reduce mass violence because they don't think that there is anything to fix in the first place. They don't actively want mass violence, they just don't see it as the big negative that the rest of us do. It's seen as simply an acceptable artifact of getting the things that they want more.

Until we address the fact that half the population is A-ok with the state of things because it gives them what they want more, making an argument for how to fix things will never work because they don't see anything wrong to fix in the first place. You can call it a mental illness epidemic that so many people actually are okay with what is happening, maybe it is. But that they are okay with it, is just how things are. But no one wants to admit that they are okay with it, so instead they say "you can't completely eliminate it, so let's not bother making it better."

Nothing I could ever have written could have made my point as strongly as someone who is actually willing to write how much they were okay with it posting crazy things to try to distract us from noticing that they aren't upset by the state of things at all.

I see your post as it's own slant against those who support gun rights. You've focused on the child killing aspect, but completely ignored the manage the government aspect to citizens owning guns.
I know the 2nd amendment is about the militia, but it's also about the people not being afraid of their own government, having the ability to rise up when it becomes to corrupt.

That's what I see when people don't want to take away guns - they weigh the costs of lives lost against their concerns of the government taking over - and their opinion of keeping the government in check wins.

This is very well said.

There's a pretty solid body of "evidence" from the writings of the Founding Fathers to the Declaration of Independence's clear statement that We the People have the right to throw off tyranny that make it clear the 2nd Amendment had a very specific purpose of keeping Gov in check.

EDIT: And recent SCOTUS and state SC rulings back this up.

SCOTUS is a puppet of their masters - I'm not saying I disagree in the specific instance, but they clearly are voting along political lines - I don't believe they are taking the constitution into mind much anymore.

I concur with that observation.

The "conservative" judges seem to be ruling towards the Constitution while the "left leaning(?)" judges are legislating from the bench.

Ours up here legislate from the bench a lot. Our previous Prime Minister, today's PM's Papa, who put our current Constitution of 1984 into place wrote all sorts of loopholes into it so that our rights are basically nil/nul. Oh, and that the West can be permanently bent over to the tune of over $600B transferred to QC and elsewhere over the last half a century. We're Communism Lite with a leaning towards the Gulags if Dear Leader could have his way (publicly stated: I admire China's "basic" dictatorship).