Posts made by scotth

The Wheel of Time series.
Honestly, I wasn't looking for a series like this. I'm pleasantly surprised. It's quite involved and I enjoy the byplay between the characters as well as the varied plot(s), although the constant 'stare that could flay the flesh from your bones' repetition gets tired.

@dbeato said in Small Restaurant Network Redesign:

Also, do they need to be PCI Compliant?

In my experience, it you want to transact using credit / debit cards, you'll either be PCI compliant today or compliant tomorrow. Either way, it comes into play. I think the current advertised 'due date' is sometime in 2020.

@kimberlin said in Networking question, for a friend...:

@scotth there is not a "regular" network for nic 1. It is a simple communication network between the computer and a command board.

Thinking this through, you're using an IP network capable device. In order to talk they both will have an address. I'm thinking you may at least bandaid this by setting NIC1's default gateway to the machine (command board). Just a guess.

Are you using a single / common default gateway?

58, while not exactly in the twilight years is certainly at the dinner table.
I thought that age was just a number.

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

WatchGuard bought Strongarm.io

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/watchguard-technologies-acquires-percipient-networks-and-adds-security-at-the-dns-layer-to-companys-smb-security-platform-300583673.html

Hopefully things don't change much but we will see.

Is anyone here using strongarm.io?

I am

Tagged it. Don't have time to read it right now.
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@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:

@eddiejennings said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:

@coliver said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:

@eddiejennings said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:

Any regulation of any kind is some form of control--not a positive or negative thing, it simply "is."

Net Neutrality isn't a regulation. Title II is. Net Neutrality isn't about control at all. It's an idea that packets will be treated equally.

I agree with that. But isn't the issue of today the vote that the FCC is making about a regulation?

It's about the regulation of the providers of service. Who can now choose to do whatever they want with the service you are buying from them.

IE they can reduce your ability to get access to NetFlix (imagine having to wait for over 3 hours to load a movie). You'd just stop using netflix and maybe even start using a service that they offer that competes with Netflix.

At twice the price

@dustinb3403 I'm feelin your pain

I haven't really had time to check.
Can I easily move my VM's from XenServer to KVM?

Edit: If I use Veeam agent to create ISO's & backups, I should be ok. I'm guessing.

Crap,
My XenServer home lab is running nice. Looks like I have a New Year's project.

Asset / change tracking & management has been moving up the priority ladder.
To much to track, too little time, too many cooks <<-- left out the r--->>

Cool,
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Wow. How does that business model work?
Remember, I'm IT. I are not two smot

I've seen many posts about Sodium Suite. Is / will there be a charge for the product and / or hosting? I don't have an issue with this, I just need to know when evaluating.

I'll check these out. Eventually, I'll need to arrange for support. I'll be more about rolling it out, configuring & troubleshooting. Operations & issues, will be an operational function unless.... Well, you get the picture.
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I did a search for 'facilities management' before I posted. Didn't see really see anything.
Does anyone have a recommendation for ticketing / asset tracking for facilities that I can try out?
Obviously, free / open source would be desired.
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If your configuration is recent and the OS level is 12.x or better, out of the box the proxies enabled should be http, https, pop, smtp, ftp & tcp/udp. The settings are quite generic and you'll want to examine the live log as you attempt to connect looking for deny's. You may need to bump up the logging in the individual policies to catch your issue. The exception(s) can then be added to the proxy creating the issue.

I use OpenVPN as a client and connect to my network so I can't help or comment on your product.

@scottalanmiller said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@scotth said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@scottalanmiller said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@jmoore said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@nerdydad said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

Its hard to test "what would happen if" if you don't have a lab. It doesn't have to be an exact replica, but if you have some "application" servers (plex/kodi, freepbx, nextcloud, or whatnot), and you make a simple change in networking or in infrastructure, then you should be able to see what happens and how that affects your environment. How to setup backups. What happens if I VLAN this off? What would happen if I put that in my DMZ? Etc.

yeah we should have tested all of our network applications before we moved to win 10 but we did not. The management decided to move us there and new computers for around 400 staff so we have had some hiccups. Applications and other things have reacted differently than expected. Then one of management left and I am now picking up some of that workload. Its been enlightening.

Ouch. That's just bad management, lol.

Oh! Btw, we bought this. See if you can get it work by next Thursday.
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Or LAST Thursday!

Did I mention that sales staff will be inputting customer information next week?

Making it work is kind of a bane. It's also ego soothing.
I'd rather have some notice --- just because.

@scottalanmiller said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@jmoore said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@nerdydad said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

Its hard to test "what would happen if" if you don't have a lab. It doesn't have to be an exact replica, but if you have some "application" servers (plex/kodi, freepbx, nextcloud, or whatnot), and you make a simple change in networking or in infrastructure, then you should be able to see what happens and how that affects your environment. How to setup backups. What happens if I VLAN this off? What would happen if I put that in my DMZ? Etc.

yeah we should have tested all of our network applications before we moved to win 10 but we did not. The management decided to move us there and new computers for around 400 staff so we have had some hiccups. Applications and other things have reacted differently than expected. Then one of management left and I am now picking up some of that workload. Its been enlightening.

Ouch. That's just bad management, lol.

Oh! Btw, we bought this. See if you can get it work by next Thursday.
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@dustinb3403 Not feeling the warm & fuzzies