http://torrentfreak.com/netflix-cracks-down-on-vpn-and-proxy-pirates-150103/

Not good news for those outside of the US. Harder to buy content. Netflix appears to want you to just pirate the content instead.

@wrx7m said in Intel CPU question:

@jmoore said in Intel CPU question:

@reid-cooper said in Intel CPU question:

Even an i5 is typically overkill today. What kind of workloads will these run?

I totally agree. Bottlenecks are hardly ever the cpu, they are almost always disk and memory. I have been going round and round with my management on this. They buy I7's but a mix of 5400/7200 hard drives. The i5 would be just fine for general use.

I have been buying SSDs, for users, exclusively, for about 6 months and it is by far the most noticeable improvement. Period.

It's the one big leap we've had in the past fifteen years.

Wow, that is not good at all. Is Netflix still online? That's all that really matters.

@jmoore said in How to Layer Your Security Needs:

@reid-cooper said in How to Layer Your Security Needs:

And training your users, I didn't see that mentioned. That might be the biggest thing.

Good points and your probably right on the training

And beatings, user beatings are often necessary as well.

Of course this teen doesn't pretend to be a neurosurgeon or a podiatrist.... he decides to pretend to be an OBGYN. I think we all know what he was hoping to accomplish with this ruse.

@dbeato said in Examining unRAID Storage:

unRAID is really bad, I have posted many times in SW that I would recommend FreeNAS before I even get to unRAID. I have seen many bad stories using UnRaid.

I would agree with that. Bad to the point of worse than FreeNAS.

Mark Russinovich's baby has its latest update this week: http://windowsitpro.com/windows/sysinternals-updates-now-available-sysmon-accesschk-and-ru

Sysmon (now at full version 2.0) – Used as a security tool for detection and analysis, version 2.0 now provides these capabilities:

• Driver load and image load events with signature information
• Configurable hashing algorithm reporting
• Flexible filters for including and excluding events
• Support for supplying configuration via a configuration file instead of the command line

AccessChk (now at version 5.21) – Used to query and display Windows object permissions for things like registry keys, files, services and more, version 5.21 brings:

• Reporting permissions as SDDL strings
• New process permission types
• A fix for a bug with showing process security descriptors

RU (now at version 1.1) – Version 1.1 of RU gets a couple minor but useful feature updates:

• Supports loading hive files
• Reports last write timestamp in CSV output

Guest additions are a big deal. It should have sped up considerably after you installed them.

This is something different. A Linux computer powered targeting system on a consumer (sort of) rifle that allows most anyone to be able to accurately shoot over a mile away! Now that is crazy. It tracks distance, wind, temperature, barometric pressure... everything to make sure that you are able to hit what you mean to hit. And only $8 per round, it's nearly free!

They might be using the term SSH proxy to mean an SSH VPN. Or they might want an SSH jump box, where they log in via SSH, then SSH again to the SQL Server. It's a little ambiguous. But I agree with @marcinozga just install a simple Fedora, CentOS, or Ubuntu server and you are done Tiny VM should do.

More, less than thrilled, articles on Windows 10. This always happens when Microsoft has a release.

http://linux.softpedia.com/blog/Sorry-Windows-10-Fans-but-This-Is-How-Icons-Should-Look-Like-471302.shtml

These guys make several tools, maybe one of them will meet your needs?

https://www.oetiker.ch/en/oss/projects/

Like SmokePing or RRDtool?

http://www.howtogeek.com/207964/just-switch-to-linux-if-you-want-to-download-lots-of-freeware/

An interesting piece on why Linux is winning because of a healthier ecosystem.

No, it is not failover, it is still load balancing. Your server will have loads of traffic. It will be split up to the different NICs. Just a single action can't be split up, it has to be on a single NIC. But as you do many things at once, this affects you very little. Failover means you only use one NIC at a time, very different than using them all at once like here.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2877487/techology-business/boom-or-bust-for-tech-startups.html

Who knew that so many startups valued at over a billion dollars existed! Those are very high numbers. And eight of them are over ten billion dollars!

I think you mean Linux is getting ported to RISC-V? RISC-V is the hardware, Linux is the software.

Make sure to check out this Group Policy security bulletin.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms15-010.aspx

Holy necro-post! Four years ago!

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/12/tactus-phorm-ipad-mini-case/

I like User CALs because they are easy. Count users, get that many CALs.