Not mapping drives is really just an attempt at security through obscurity. The actual technology hasn't changed, the access hasn't change. All that has changed is where the share is listed.

@mobeen said in What's making ML different than other communities ?:

Here in this topic, my question is what's making ML special/different from other communities or what's the vision with this ?

One thing that makes the community a bit different is that it is fast, really fast. You post and people are responding right away, sometimes before you even navigate away from the thread. But I don't just mean that the people are fast, which they are, but the actual community is very fast. It's basically like a real time chat forum, in a way.

@dafyre said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:

Given enough time, it will seek us out.

Make a thread, and they will come.

By lost, I meant... down the rabbit hole of the ML archives

@ccwtech said in Prevent users on local workstations from changing the time:

@romo said in Prevent users on local workstations from changing the time:

@ccwtech said in Prevent users on local workstations from changing the time:

@dbeato Yes, but they move the clock back 10 minutes, clock in, and then they move it back to the real time.

The backend should be the one setting the time when saving to the db. Why accept the time from the clients if it could easily be modified like this.

Yes, the program is supposed to pull the server time but is not doing that for some reason. I am working on that angle as well.

Probably triggers NTP from time to time and they hit it in between the cycles.

@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I might need to get one of these in the near future:
https://www.amazon.com/ThinkGeek-Phantom-Keystroker-V2/dp/B002YJW7C4

That's just evil.

User confirmed, it appears to be working. Edge isn't working, but it's not needed. Just made Chrome the default and everything that was remaining was fixed. Thanks everyone, looks like it is good now.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

~On the road again...~

He's constantly on the road, I can't imagine he actually spends time at client sights, I think he just drives in circles on the highway to make it look like he's being productive. . . . .

I'm not a NASCAR driver I don't get paid to drive in circles.

Then why does your picture look like you're about to make another right turn? Ha ha.

Somebody take away your southerner card. NASCAR only turns left dumbass.

Yeah but @RojoLoco drinks inhumanly strong coffee. It's crazy.

Most coffee people consider strong is the dark stuff, which has less caffeine than a light roast, and considerably less than that cold brew @RojoLoco makes. Take it from me, you don't want to drink much more than an expresso cup worth of that stuff at once, I was awake most of a weekend when I made my first batch.

Hrm, might be just the thing for MangoCon!

Espresso. This is an expresso....

@bbigford said in Synology-Storage Manager less than File Station:

Figured it out. Some backup software can create sparse files. File Station is reporting the size of data including sparse size, but Storage Manager is reporting only actual data on disk.

On Linux, this is often the difference between the output of df and du.

Easier to just not bother.

This is very cool indeed!

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Conversation excerpt:

CEO: Has [Director of Sales] been in touch regarding our [new sales person] who will be starting on [date]?
Me: I know not.

Tell him to put in a ticket.

Thanks for getting these posted.

Thought that I would find something humourus for this and a quick search the first result was...

I never tire of these shenanigans.

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@rojoloco Do you prefer doing updates after hours and no one reports the issues until the next day?

Why not do them after hours and task them with verifying before work starts?

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller It was 10 to 15" when I was waking up this morning, and up to 1' 6" for specific areas of upstate.

That's what she said.

Thanks!

Just wanted to be the first to wish you all a happy SysAdmin Day! Anyone have special plans today?

Well, having done a degree like this, what I found and what I've found from every degree like this is that what you will need to learn outside of school is.... programming. It is very, very rare for a software development program to actually teach you how to program. Oh sure, there is a little here and there, but the amount they teach is generally less than you would hope you would need to know going in, let alone coming out.

Learning Java is good and a very useful language that is still widely used today (the most widely used) and it has all those frameworks and does all that web stuff that you can also do in Python, Ruby and JavaScript. But it isn't "hip and cool" either.

But there is far more than just learning a language. Actually learning to program, getting coding done and learning what it is like to actually make projects is where university typically fails and fails hard. You will be very unlikely to encounter professors who should be able to graduate from a community college in programming - typically they use professors who know other things (often poorly) and have them teach these classes. The list of certs that have nothing to do with programming and tons of technical classes for the wrong disciplines suggest that this is the case. Things like the Net+ and Security+ have no place in a curriculum like this (or any curriculum.)

So, sadly, the university portion is likely standing between you and the time to learn to program. You'll probably pick up some stuff and be introduced to a few things. But be prepared that very likely all of the part that you are interested in will likely need to be learned on your own.