@RojoLoco said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Ok, so how fucking creepy is this face shaped wasp nest that now sits proudly in my friend's house... I told her to get some surveillance cameras so we could have some closure after wasp ghostman emerges and.... Well, you know...

Now we need the videos from where waspman emerges.

Is Crashplan running as a particular user?

If it's running as "System", it won't see the junction, will it?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I was given a QNAP as part of a project (We had no say in what was purchased, sadly), and I don't have any problems with it. I backup 15 OS disks to it with no issue.

The OS is fine. It's the support that was always the problem.

Never needed their support, so if I do, I'll report back my findings.

@FATeknollogee said in Co-lo + 5 (or more) sites....connect 'em all:

@dafyre said in Co-lo + 5 (or more) sites....connect 'em all:

I'm up to 3 sites for the moment. Once of them goes away in about 2 weeks.

I connect them all via ZeroTier.

This is you: https://mangolassi.it/topic/19493/zerotier-site-to-site
How has it worked out so far?

Yeah, that's me, and it's been great. I haven't had any problems with it at all.

@FATeknollogee said in Co-lo + 5 (or more) sites....connect 'em all:

@dafyre said in Co-lo + 5 (or more) sites....connect 'em all:

I'm up to 3 sites for the moment. Once of them goes away in about 2 weeks.

I connect them all via ZeroTier.

How's the speeds between sites?

Speeds were good. I don't remember what they were, but I transferred 1TB of stuff over ZT without any issues.

@Dashrender said in The Fundamental Flaw in Not Listening to the Boss:

@dafyre said in The Fundamental Flaw in Not Listening to the Boss:

@Dashrender said in The Fundamental Flaw in Not Listening to the Boss:

... the point being that the boss demands X, you do X, and then something bad happens and you get blamed for it.

This is why I will never blindly do something. I'm sorry, I don't care if you're the janitor, or the Master of the Multiverse, I'm not doing to do something just because the boss says to do it -- Especially if it is something that will come back and bite ME for doing what my boss said to do.

Now that's not to say I won't do it. But I'm going to talk with the boss about it, get more details and have a conversation with him about why his request is a good or a bad idea, or why I don't understand why he wants it done in a particular way.

Once I understand what the boss wants, and/or have my CMA's (Cover My Ass) in writing and documented, then I'll do it, even if it is still something I don't agree with doing.

I have a brain, I'm going to use it.

OK truly doing something totally blindingly is lightly stupid.. as IT professionals, it's definitely not unreasonable to ponder the request, and inquire if it just seems wonky in some way, exactly as you mention.
But there is no real CYA for a boss who is unwilling to accept their own blame in a request they make.

In that situation, it's one of you can't fix stupid.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Manager has me looking at this. Seems like an interstin g"all-in one" solution thats destined to fail:
https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/qgd-1600p?utm_source=deliverable&utm_medium=fb_ad&utm_campaign=QGD-1600P_fb&fbclid=IwAR0EYLHVA_ASR9-L6tho24fmrAMKfQvzW5NM4hIDss3E7bVoKgO_ouflBEs

Clueless end users love them some QNAP.

I was given a QNAP as part of a project (We had no say in what was purchased, sadly), and I don't have any problems with it. I backup 15 OS disks to it with no issue.

The interface works, and isn't terribly hard to figure out. I mean we're using it as a backup target. It hasn't been terrible for that.

I'm up to 3 sites for the moment. Once of them goes away in about 2 weeks.

I connect them all via ZeroTier.

@Dashrender said in The Fundamental Flaw in Not Listening to the Boss:

... the point being that the boss demands X, you do X, and then something bad happens and you get blamed for it.

This is why I will never blindly do something. I'm sorry, I don't care if you're the janitor, or the Master of the Multiverse, I'm not doing to do something just because the boss says to do it -- Especially if it is something that will come back and bite ME for doing what my boss said to do.

Now that's not to say I won't do it. But I'm going to talk with the boss about it, get more details and have a conversation with him about why his request is a good or a bad idea, or why I don't understand why he wants it done in a particular way.

Once I understand what the boss wants, and/or have my CMA's (Cover My Ass) in writing and documented, then I'll do it, even if it is still something I don't agree with doing.

I have a brain, I'm going to use it.

@black3dynamite said in Remote Access & HIPPA:

Don't no much about HIPPA, but I would definitely enabled Two Factor Authentication (2FA) if you end up using MeshCentral and adjust the password requirements.

I would do 2FA regardless.