Posts made by scotth

@scottalanmiller said in IT is the Opposite of Doctors:

@dafyre said in IT is the Opposite of Doctors:

Also Good Management: You rolled the dice with good reason, but had a bad outcome. What did you learn from the outcome?

Hopefully... nothing. In a good roll, most of the time, you know what the bad outcomes could be. I've been through some big time disaster post mortems and the "what did you learn" ended up "that we calculated correctly and bad things happen some times - our decisions were spot on."

When taking risks, we know that there is risk. It's like wearing a seatbelt, just because you have an accident and get hurt doesn't mean that you should question wearing a seatbelt next time just because it failed to fully protect you this time.

Sounds like the motorcycle helmet argument. But I digress.

Choices are great. <<what platform>>
Choosing can still be hard. <<what support, what tie-ins>>

@StrongBad said in HP Laptops Found with Keylogger Built Into Audio Driver:

@scotth said in HP Laptops Found with Keylogger Built Into Audio Driver:

@Kelly said in HP Laptops Found with Keylogger Built Into Audio Driver:

So I have a Spectre 360 and it has the MicTray64.exe, associated process, and the logfile in C:\Users\Public\MicTray.log. The log file is zero bytes though and appears to be empty. I'm wondering if it isn't logging, or if the list of affected machines is longer than officially announced.

The driver is Conexant via whomever it's hardware ends up on.

Does that mean that other vendors might have this too? I mean, it might, that we know. But why has only HP been discovered thus far? Is it an HP version of the driver? Is it HP unique hardware?

In all honesty, I don't know. But I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up on a bunch of OEM branded equipment. I'm guessing that HP's just got found out 1st.

@Kelly said in HP Laptops Found with Keylogger Built Into Audio Driver:

So I have a Spectre 360 and it has the MicTray64.exe, associated process, and the logfile in C:\Users\Public\MicTray.log. The log file is zero bytes though and appears to be empty. I'm wondering if it isn't logging, or if the list of affected machines is longer than officially announced.

The driver is Conexant via whomever it's hardware ends up on.

https://www.axios.com/hp-says-it-has-a-fix-for-flaw-that-caused-some-pcs-to-log-every-keystr-2403751321.html
Spiceworks - Spark

Last night, I fired up KillSwitch (Comodo Task Manager on Steroids), killed the process - MicTray_64.exe (can't really remember) and the log file was released for editing / viewing.
Sneaky.

@momurda Not right now. I may play around with it tonight. Comodo has a crazy task manager that I'll run on it tonight

@scotth said in HP Laptops Found with Keylogger Built Into Audio Driver:

@momurda No. Zero byte file at this time. I haven't checked alternative streams yet.

Interesting. While attempting to open the file, I get denied access due to another process.

Edit: It's currently marked as readonly and hidden.

@momurda No. Zero byte file at this time. I haven't checked alternative streams yet.

I have one here.
I made the log file read only.
Let's have a little fun.

C:\Users\Public\MicTray.log

Westinghouse

@Kelly said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

@scotth said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

I'm currently on book 10 of 10 -- The Crippled God -- of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson.

Fantasy / Military

It's actually quite good.

I started reading Willful Child by him, and it seemed really bad. Is this better?

I'm not sure how to answer because I've never read Willful Child.

This series has been a little tough for me because he jumps around entire books to connect groups and scenes in the story, ie. books 1 & 3 are connected, books 2 & 4 are connected and wanders from there.

The characters are really hard to follow in each new scene because he completely throws you into each situation as if already developed but soon catches you up.

Many times, I grew tired and was going to read something lighter, but I kept going back and stuck it out.

There are lots of under / barely developed characters. I guess you could say it's in the flavor of Game of Thrones.

Overall, I'd give the series 4 - 4.5. If I ever do a re-read, I'll give it plenty of time.

There's a kind of 'Cliff Notes' on Tor.com -- http://www.tor.com/2010/07/07/the-malazan-re-read-of-the-fallen-gardens-of-the-moon-part-1/

These reviewers to a summary by chapter through the series. This I haven't checked out more than tagging the site.

Enjoy

I'm currently on book 10 of 10 -- The Crippled God -- of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson.

Fantasy / Military

It's actually quite good.

Yesterday I installed on our XEN lab and it went in ok.

The interface is interesting. I didn't run the wizard but did click through the choices -- not too terrible to get used to.

I did change the update choice to stable and ran the update today. After restart, IPV4 had no binding when I did a show config, but the web interface answered in my browser. It wouldn't log in.

I ran renew, up, down and got the message that the interface wasn't configured for DHCP. I disabled IPV6 and still couldn't bind IPV4 to the XN0 interface. I didn't try a different NIC. I'm re-installing now and will run the wizard 1st and see what happens.

Praise be to labs.

We have an M300 and run a combination of SIP & H.323 and have no issues.

Most folks who post issues regarding call quality (I'm guessing) need to scan your help files to implement QOS and bandwidth reservation -- not just on the firewall but on the switches & phone system processors as well.

Also as @Patrick said, SIP ALG isn't enabled on Watchguard devices unless you see it in your policy list - AFAIK

Good Luck

@scottalanmiller said in XenServer 7.0 issues on HP Elite 8100, 6.5 Flies.:

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@DustinB3403 said in XenServer 7.0 issues on HP Elite 8100, 6.5 Flies.:

Isn't this a desktop?

Why would you operate on a desktop footprint? I'm glad 6.5 worked for you, but it's still odd that you'd go down this path. I hope it's just for testing.

@DustinB3403 We needed to create a test lab. At this time we have no spare servers. For our purposes, these boxes work fine.

Without checking under the hood to see what is or isn't supported by XS 7.0, we installed it on an HP Elite 8100 I5 with 16 Gb RAM. Barely ran in safe mode, completely dumped otherwise and got stuck in a reboot loop.
We gave up and threw on 6.5 and it sails and runs great.
Just wanted to put this out there in case anyone is thinking of using one of these boxes for a lab.

I haven't even started on switching.... wiring - forget it.