Posts made by TAHIN

It would definitely take some creative thinking and a lot of motors! Ideas are endless though, you could script out an entire episode of Thomas and Friends ha

Funny you mention this, I was just thinking about it the other day. When I was a kid my dad built a train set on a table (about 8' x 6'). N-scale I believe. All electric that went back to levers and buttons to control switches, train speed, etc.... The legs detached so it could be easily rested up on it's side and stored.

You could rig up something like that to a raspberry pi?

@DustinB3403 @yiyafly We should a rocket league group up one night.

Ooh this will be cool. I do miss AOE:O though. Was a nice change of pace.

After some great advice from you folks, we are going to be very disciplined about the fact that you don't just throw something like this into production. A lot of planning hours will go into it. (HP c7000 enclosure with a couple servers and flexconnect gear). Thanks all!

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@RojoLoco said in Tax question / free hardware:

@TAHIN so you won that $60k HPE contest on SW?

Affirmative. After a meeting with the CPA and receiving the green light, we are good to go. No taxes will be incurred. Don't ask me to explain it because I don't know how

I used Sophos EP from to 2011-2014. During that time there was only one big hiccup where a definition update flagged a Windows system file as a virus, which sent a virus popup to our 300 users. If your settings were set to quarantine, the procedure to fix it was VERY painful.

Also (somewhat) annoying was some of the manual intervention I had to take to remediate an infection. Sophos would alert me of the infection on the dashboard but said that no action could be taken and it would have to be manually deleted, so I went to the path in the alert and deleted I manually. I thought this strange so I reached out to tech support, who verified that the Sophos client service was not able to automatically remove or quarantine a somewhat trivial file in some specific paths. It was not amazing at detecting a threat before it made it onto the filesystem... maybe there's no minifilter driver?

That's the bad. The good is that I was in an environment where most users were local admins with very little content restriction, so this thing was seriously, seriously stress tested - and we never had any ransomware/serious breakouts. Everything was containable, the UI is awesome, it ties in nicely with other Sophos modules, and the client is lightweight. Support was always very good. I would recommend it.

Spiceworks is down here

click all the carrots!

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

@TAHIN said in I can't even:

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

IOP's. That's a new way to write that.

1. Slow server? Just increase the IOP's. It's right there. In the settings. Don't worry: it exists.
2. Slow internet? Wiggle the network cable, and then flex it back and forth like a glow stick. That will get rid of any blockages in the line.
3. Slow printing? Try using a more slippery type of paper.

Yo ushould just make a How To for them.

Ha yep. Make it a how-to in SpiceWorks, receive upvotes, be awarded 200 points. This is a solid plan.

My bet is Marai.

I'm not even mad. We've been warning people for years that insecure IoT would lead to this. I really wonder that when doomsday really comes and nukes are dropping and volcano's are erupting and an earthquake sends CA into the Pacific, 3/4th of our politicians will still say "This is obviously not doomsday".

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

IOP's. That's a new way to write that.

1. Slow server? Just increase the IOP's. It's right there. In the settings. Don't worry: it exists.
2. Slow internet? Wiggle the network cable, and then flex it back and forth like a glow stick. That will get rid of any blockages in the line.
3. Slow printing? Try using a more slippery type of paper.

Sorry I can't get too wordy until we decide if we're going to accept. I'll update you soon.

To shed some light on the 'business value' inquiry - this was a contest win. So the ROI on the sending end is advertising exposure.

"Software is a form of language -- in essence, a set of instructions.... It is inherently abstract because it is merely 'an idea without physical embodiment." Software is to a programming language as a poem is to a spoken language, making Copyright law still viable.

If this does come to fruition, and copyright law becomes the only way to protect a literal software program, I wonder if software vendors will push for legislation for additional protections that go outside of a program's definitive code. Such as how Vanilla Ice wrote Ice Ice Baby with a baseline copied from Queen, but didn't copy the entire song or other instruments. As a result, Queen is receiving royalties to this day. Plagiarism is interpreted in a lot of different ways. In one class I was in, it was defined as "a string of seven words directly copied from another author". What is the technical counterpart of that scale? At what point is a piece of code a work of originality versus a common methodology when being scrutinized at that level?

Copyright law can be just as chaotic as patent law. And if anyone can muck up those waters to the point of making it a pool of polluted sludge, it's Apple and Google.

But the upside is that this will make patent trolls go away, which makes me ohsohappy.

@scottalanmiller said in Tax question / free hardware:

If you pay $100 to try to make something not a gift that was really a gift that's called tax fraud

You mean... that's just us being "smart"?

haha, sorry, HAD to!

What if the asset is treated like a "demo unit" that we will have until it's fully depreciated, at which point the vendor writes it off?

Which is also why I had to google "use tax".

Ignorance sure is bliss!

@scottalanmiller said in Tax question / free hardware:

You are not familiar with use taxes? That's what you owe when you didn't pay sales tax on something.

"The use tax imposes a compensating tax equal in amount to the sales tax that would have been imposed on the sale of the property, if the sale had occurred within the state's taxing jurisdiction."

I thought use tax was imposed according to the state in which the product is being consumed. There's no sales tax in Montana, and therefore no use tax either. There is a small clause for sales and use tax, but that is limited to campgrounds/tourist stuff (go us lol).

It's not non-profit unfortunately. Private company. I've been chatting with Dustin and I think he's right in that some professional consulting may be in order. Any sort of avoidance seems pretty risky. Thanks for your help!