@scottalanmiller said:

@thanksaj said:

I don't use Safari...I use a real browser, like Chrome...

This is the exact pattern you use every time. Slam Apple, try to sell Google. No one has ever made me dislike Google the way you do AJ. You've actually taken me from a pretty big fan of Google to almost cringing anytime someone mentions them. They've become a fanboy product to me and I'd feel embarrassed to use their stuff now, even though it has nothing to do with them. You are ruining one of my favourite companies. Are you trying to ruin them?

I didn't think of this as an Apple vs. Google thing.

@coliver said:

@ajstringham Good luck hope you killed it.

We'll know soon enough.

@Nic said:

Interesting idea to encourage people to pay up, when they see the tweets about everyone else who has:
http://www.webroot.com/blog/2014/11/07/cryptobot/

Fun fun...

@scottalanmiller said:

Cool. Addison is a great place to work. If you can move there, even better. It's an awesome little community.

Where they are located is very close to me, right off Belt Line.

Interesting. Thanks for explaining!

At work now. My skype interview went REALLY well! I interviewed with the Director of Engineering and another senior IT guy. First guy was asking questions I just didn't have an answer to. Then the Director of Engineering got on and I felt it went really well. They are going to discuss me internally and I may be interviewing with people at their Addison office.

Oh, and I wore jeans. I never had to stand up, so we were good.

@Dashrender said:

You could fix this with network level authentication - but I'm sure it's not worth the expense, or issues.

I was thinking that RADIUS was an option. Or do I have that wrong?

So I have my Skype interview tomorrow morning (or this morning technically), and I'm going to dress up for the interview. Dress shirt, tie, jacket...however, considering the limited perspective of the other end, I'm debating about how comfortable I want to be for it. That and the old joke about business up top and party below for webcam sessions just seems too perfect...thoughts?

@thecreativeone91 said:

@ajstringham DHCP by default isn't going through the firewall (without a IP Helper/Forwarder) It's broadcast traffic on the local subnet.

True but a lot of devices that I've seen allow you to create allow/deny lists for DHCP. Even if it's manually, it's the only option I can think of.

Just finished watching "Good Will Hunting" for the first time.

I know there are options that you can, in firewalls, create a list of approved devices, and create a deny all for anything else. If something gets plugged into your network, it gets shut down immediately basically, assuming it's not on the approved list. Otherwise, rogue DHCP is just one fun thing IT gets to deal with as I can't think of any real good ways to prevent it outside of company policy. If you find a way, let us know.

Via Skype.

@Hubtech said:

@g.jacobse said:

This morning fun-escaped was half the network was down for some reason. Won't recount most of it, but it boils down to an Linksys WRX54 device was sending out DHCP in the 192.168 arena. Our network is configured to 10.0, so the change in IP was throwing people into oblivian when trying to get to servers or the internet. Others were 'ok' for most things.

Searched around the office for the offending device (person) but wasn't able to locate it. I had a PC that was pulling DHCP from it which is how I knew what type of device it was. Using a browser I attempted to log in... but failed.

It took about 20 minutes of cycling USERID and passwords to come upon the default USERID (blank) and password. I was in and could take it down.

I don't know where it is,.. but I've turned off DHCP, the wireless and changed the Admin Password. There were no listed DHCP leases.

It's been a fun morning.

Question: Is there some way to prevent this from occurring?

dont use dhcp.

DHCP is standard in an environment. No real good way to avoid using it unless you want to manage static IPs for every device and workstation. That's way more hassle than it's worth.

It's likely someone plugged in the device thinking it was a switch, or to bypass the company wifi, or to just get a wifi signal for their phone where they can't normally get one.

My technical interview is in the morning.

@Minion-Queen said:

Now for my phone. Not really seeing much other than the predictive text which is awesome.

I still prefer swype. Faster, easier, and no stupid autocorrect.

@JaredBusch said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@JaredBusch looks like you guys had some good attendance!

Had 19. Would have been 21 if @pchiodo and Karen had been able to make it. But Paul had some health problems over the weekend.

Hope he feels better soon.

I like it all integrated and together, but that's me.

@Jaguar said:

Texting Scott and wondering if I still have the right number...

uh oh...he's TEXTING @scottalanmiller

@thecreativeone91 said:

There is also a Outlook app for phones with push notifications. It only works with O365 not regular exchange. But I prefer it over using the built mail app, because when you add a corporate account to the phone it always wants to try (on both android and iOS) to make that the place to store calendar events and contacts.

That's exactly why you use it. Why wouldn't you want your calendar and contacts synced?

@scottalanmiller said:

My last HR call was very casual and just a conversation. Nothing to "answer" at all. Just me and the HR girl talking.

Like I said, it was really weird. I wasn't sure what to make of the whole call. Hopefully I can "make it up" on the technical interview.