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@Reid-Cooper said:

@johnhooks said:

@Dashrender said:

@johnhooks said:

So just left a new client's office. They paid $500 for some Indian scam company to do their IT for 2 years. There was a file on the desktop called scan.bat that when run essentially echoed different percents complete and then at the end echoed you have 5823 issues that need to be resolved (along with some other junk). There was another batch file called reset that added and removed a bunch of registries and deleted some files.

Wow - so what did they say when you wanted $500 a month or more?

I didn't even quote anything. I just charged them for the time I was there and promptly ran away.

That's, um, great. How did they take the news that they had been scammed?

They just kind of brushed it off. But if I would have charged them $500 they would have complained and never paid.

@DustinB3403 said in At Least 30,000 U.S. Organizations Newly Hacked Via Holes in Microsoft’s Exchange:

@Dashrender Yeah so what's the math on 8 * # of Users * ∞= ????

It gets expensive damn quick.

He has like 90 users. So $720 a month. To hit the cost of his old phone system will take 7 years. But they never updated the old one. So if you include updates to the system then it's even further out. If you include features that are introduced to the SaaS system that you would have to pay for in the old system it's even more. It makes sense financially to pay per user for most things.

So in another thread we were talking about AzureAD. I had an issue and @Dashrender suggested I make a new post. I'll just copy below what I said:

I have an Office 365 and a normal Microsoft account. I used AzureAD to authenticate so the domain was AzureAD and the username was just JohnHooks. I have no idea how it knows the difference between me JohnHooks and someone else JohnHooks. I guess by device id?

I recently changed my password. So I tried to install an app from the store and it wouldn't authenticate with my email and new password, but it would accept my old password and then just give me a non useful error.

It could just be me not understanding Microsoft stuff, but it just seemed really convoluted.

@MattSpeller said:

"turn on mouse acceleration and drastically lower sensitivity. this will hopefully cause him to overshoot a lot."

AHAhahaha That's incredibly evil, I love it

hostfile redirect
paypal.com lemonparty.org

hahaha.

It's nit-picky but it's on-premises not on-premise.

@scottalanmiller said in Programming Printers:

Programmed a printer... via telnet... because the GUI as too slow? That implies not only that you can program that device (you can't) but that there is a programming interface in the GUI!!

Well you're programming this site when you type in the box at the bottom right?

@gjacobse said in I am going to start an ISP:

@nerdydad said in I am going to start an ISP:

@emad-r said in I am going to start an ISP:

@nerdydad

Best of luck, if you pull this off, you will be your own boss.

Thanks. My only concern is I will be trading a much shorter commute for more working hours. Will I even see my kids during the week besides when they are already in bed?

Working from home has been great - yet not. during the summer we have had a sitter for the kids, most days they get out and do things. bad weather they stay in,.. and here lately as we end out the summer - they are going less and watching videos. This week is odd since we have a temp sitter while the other is doing training for classes. School starts next week.

When Ison was sick in November of 2017, it was great to still work, but take care of him here at home - and then the two weeks he was in the hospital..my working vacation.

While down time is few some days, I take the time to grab then and hug them, fix them lunch, tickle them and talk to them... so it's been a win.

Next week I'll be so thrilled to have to go back to school... but I will be extremely disappointed at the same time.

With all things, there are Pros and Cons...

November of 2017

You're from the future????

@Ambarishrh said:

Need to check this today, can this be a complete replacement of other web control panels like webmin? I dont expect this to replace cPanel, but basic management that can be done on webmin if available in cockpit would be great.

It's more for getting info from your servers. You can do small things like start and stop services, make volume groups, add a bridge/bond, restart the host, things like that. I think they're more aiming at a central place for server information over a web controller.

@coliver said:

@johnhooks said:

So if you're holding Bentley and you ask her if you can have a hug, she will lean her head in under your chin. Hits you right in the feel box.

Did we determine if this was your daughter or butler?

Ha it's my daughter. I don't think I could hold a butler.

@IRJ said in 802.11 Wireless Standards - CompTIA A+ 220-1001:

@Grey said in 802.11 Wireless Standards - CompTIA A+ 220-1001:

@valentina said in 802.11 Wireless Standards - CompTIA A+ 220-1001:

watching this rn

Porn?

Some do consider 802.11 wireless standards as pr0n. It didn't quite do it for me, though. I prefer IRQ channels and dip swithces :heart_with_arrow: . I like old school pr0n, what can i say?

Flash me like your EPROM baby.

@scottalanmiller said in Programming Printers:

@RamblingBiped said in Programming Printers:

I've been programming since the late 80's. I can remember setting the time on my parent's VHS so they could record a TV show.

I can't believe I've been leaving that off my resume all these years!

That's nothing, in the old days we used to program using analogue turn dials! That's when the hard core programmers were still around. You young whipper snappers have it easy with your buttons and digital displays.

I remember programming my grandmas rotary phone to make phone calls!

I used Wave (https://www.waveapps.com/). For mileage I actually built my own with Drupal but that was just for fun.

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller What separates the two? er... What makes Webmin not enterprise friendly vs Cockpit? (it has been a LONG time since I've used webmin and I haven't used Cockpit yet).

I think a big part of it is there is more of an attack surface with Webmin. You can't really change much with Cockpit but Webmin was made to make system changes. There is also the fact that Cockpit is actually developed by Red Hat.

Date at Cheesecake Factory

I’ll see your VSCode and raise you an Atom.

https://github.com/blog/2468-introducing-teletype-for-atom-code-collaboratively-in-real-time

I've used Nagios and it works well. I know @scottalanmiller and @dafyre use Zabbix.

When I get a chance I'm going to try Icinga, it looks promising.

The nice thing about nagios is people make plugins for almost everything. You can monitor a ton of stuff with it (this may be true for others as well).

Here's an idea for the favicon.

You can spin up a sandbox environment on Pantheon for free to build it.

@Dashrender said:

Medicare discovers that the company only pays like $30 to make the product

Does that include the millions or even billions you have to pay for FDA bribes (I mean trials)?

About to call the first company to say I'm not going to be able to work for them after all. I hate needing to do things like this.