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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

First-aid for my wife who was attacked by... well, from what I understood it must have been an elephant-mosquito. Or more like a brontosaur-mosquito. At least.

Everything okay? No allergies or anything?

Any really critical data on those desktops? As long as it isn't like government secrets or something, I'd think that zeroing out is more than enough.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Reid-Cooper said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I'm considering getting half a cow. . . The price per pound is $3.95 . . . Not sure if I have enough freeze room. . .

That is a LOT of freezer space.

Yeah I kind of figured. . . Anyway have a picture ofor half a cow?

Not a picture. I bought a half a cow long ago. It was a ridiculous amount of meat. But the price and quality was great. It was all prepped but it took a couple freezers. I had roommates at the time.

Remember that if they can install things without any prompting, it means that malware will install without any prompting either. And that malware will have admin rights, not user rights.

I need more coffee. It's been a sleepy day.

@dashrender said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

@tim_g said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

@kyle said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

@dashrender said in Hyper-V Failover Cluster FAILURE(S):

The logs say the switches aren’t saturated, but I wonder is a network broadcast issues can’t be an issue here in the new network size.

I'm going to have to verify the network settings are correct tomorrow again since the 5 NICs associated with the nodes are all over the place I'm going to guess it has something to do with that.

They said they had this exact same issue a few months ago but the logs do not go back that far so I cannot compare the events. But having the cluster fail twice in 2 days isn't sitting right with me since it started occurring just days after switching IP ranges.

I've dumped all the logs and documented everything I have found that look out of place.

Isn't the SAN network isolated both physically and logically from everything else?

Nope he said they are not.

That's not good. So it isn't really a SAN, just a normal network with SAN traffic dumped onto it?

Hey @colocationamerica welcome! Even if you were already here

Ubiquiti FTW. Great stuff, there.

@scottalanmiller might be easier to just do the jury duty.

@mike-davis said in domain controller in the cloud for small office?:

@gjacobse said in domain controller in the cloud for small office?:

HIPAA security without it.

How do you create a password change policy that gets enforced without a domain controller?

Enforcement is always local, never from the controller. The Local Group Policy Editor is the standard tool for setting this on a Windows machine, or the Local Security Policy console.

With the LSP:

1. To open Local Security Policy, on the Start screen, type secpol.msc, and then press ENTER.
2. Under Security Settings of the console tree, do one of the following:
   • Click Account Policies to edit the Password Policy or Account Lockout Policy.
   • Click Local Policies to edit an Audit Policy, a User Rights Assignment, or Security Options.
3. When you find the policy setting in the details pane, double-click the security policy that you want to modify.
4. Modify the security policy setting, and then click OK.

With the LGPE

1. Open the Local Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc).
2. In the console tree, click Computer Configuration, click Windows Settings, and then click Security Settings.
3. Do one of the following:
   • Click Account Policies to edit the Password Policy or Account Lockout Policy.
   • Click Local Policies to edit an Audit Policy, a User Rights Assignment, or Security Options.
4. In the details pane, double-click the security policy setting that you want to modify.
5. Modify the security policy setting, and then click OK.

Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/device-security/security-policy-settings/how-to-configure-security-policy-settings

@DustinB3403 wow, that seems like someone got pretty overzealous there.

@dashrender said in Windows 10 1709 VLSC ISO the same for all version:

@travisdh1 said in Windows 10 1709 VLSC ISO the same for all version:

Hasn't it always been like that?

For those that don't know, even the home version has a file you can remove from the installer and it'll do any version. Once installation is complete, register it with the proper key and you're good to go.

Maybe with Windows 10, but definitely not with Windows 7 and previous versions. There was no home version of VLSC. I suppose there were files you could change, but damn.. now you're screwing with the HASH of the ISO.. no thanks.

But I think his point is that the VLSC version has long been a single ISO for many versions.

I think that efforts like what HPE and Dell have been doing to get very high density, very low cost ARM "blades" into the datacenter is where it is going to be. And that there will either be loads of hypervisor management used to push out workloads or something similar that does this for bare metal much like Ubuntu's MaaS (Metal as a Service) to get the ARM blades to act as much like VM hosts as possible.

That would be great to see happen.

@brianlittlejohn said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@mlnews said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

http://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/axgDz0D_460s.jpg

He fits right in with the youtube commenters....haha

Can't even tell that he is new.

Use it or lose it money is always tough. I agree on new firewalls. But beyond that, it's really hard to say. What kinds of things are you allowed to spend money on?

Yes, fail indeed. I've been waiting my whole life for just this product.

Oh Etsy, what hath thou wrought.

@kuyaz said in Dell R720 Display problem with Fedora 26 server:

I have problem with starting the Linux desktop. it seems the display is not set properly.
still figuring how to set the display properly in x11.

Why are you using X11 on fedora 26? Wayland is the default.

@Minion-Queen said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

Cheese and rice (think mac in cheese - the mac) for lunch and coconut pancakes for dinner (comfort food- recovery food).

I like cheese and rice. It's like the Taco Bell version of mac and cheese.

@kuyaz said in Dell R720 Display problem with Fedora 26 server:

@francesco-provino i assumae your idrac is enterprise license? mine is express only sad... haha...
official price of the idrac enterprise license is 400$ ++ .... -.-

This is a reason to use SuperMicro. That stuff is free.