@flaxking said in How M$ shakedown stupid corporations:

Aren't they talking about the hypervisors Azure is using? Which I believe used to be a modified version of server 2008 R2? So now being server 2016 would be good news, and thus the improved time syncing.

Azure does not run on any version of Windows Server or modified version of Windows Server, at least today.

It runs on a highly-customized extremely hardened and stripped-down version of Hyper-V basically, but that is where all similarities end. The management layer on top of that is ARM.

But, Azure is WAY more than just VMs. Other Azure services run on Linux, such as ACS and many others. It's not about what they want to run on, it's about building Azure. Windows can't do what Azure does. Hyper-V can't do what Azure does. Linux can't do what Azure does. It's all highly customized platform of many things. Pieces of Hyper-V, pieces of WIndows, pieces of Unix/Linux, etc. Management layers on top of it such as ARM and others.

@dbeato said in How M$ shakedown stupid corporations:

@Obsolesce not even multi-billion companies. That's where it takes more time to get things implemented...

No it doesn't. It's way faster. Or, it can be. But I know the real answer is it depends. Many SMBs barely ever stay current. One could, and it could be done in a day if they have one easy server to upgrade.

On the other hand some multi-billion $ companies are continually updating, staying on top of things. And because it's a priority, systems are current while other smaller companies are still on 2008 R2...

I'm not saying all, it does depend, but I think it's not good to generalize, because in my own personal experience, it's the smaller guy's who are much further behind.

@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Disney+ fans without answers after thousands hacked

Disney's system is definitely broken.

they claim that one account accesses all Disney stuff - but that clearly is not true.

I just tried to log into disney.com and shopdisney.com and my disneyplus.com account didn't work there - in fact it sent me a password reset email because possible compromise.

Get your shit together Disney!

It seems as there is no (so far) evidence of a Disney+ hack.

What I got out of it is lots of account credentials stolen from other previously hacked websites and services that now work to log in to Disney+ due to people using the same username and password across different websites and services.

@Emad-R said in How M$ shakedown stupid corporations:

@Dashrender

You have not seen much of "real business" then, I cannot disclose info, but I think this corp is like multi-million revenue.

Thats how it is ins real world, they get bloated and move slower, thats what happen when corp grow, if you keep it startup-ish vibe and "move fast and break things" you will be running the latest but not everyone is like that.

Besides windows painfull upgrading process helps you to stick to whats running.

And no on the client side, its all Win10 ... sadly we use Win10 to manage Linux machines
I hate that mremote/putty shit

This is false.

Big business makes quite an effort to stay current in the Windows world, especially if they are multi-billion $$ company. They HAVE to. It's not a choice.

It's constant change going on, all the time. 2019 is current, when a server is needed at all. Most are really going serverless when possible, lots of SaaS, Cloud, etc.

You might be thinking of U.S. defense companies. I mean they run old shit and pay millions and billions to maintain OAF software support.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Working on my script for installing the latest version of Hugo.
https://gitlab.com/black3dynamite/scripts/blob/master/Hugo/Install-Hugo.sh

Why not just use Snap packages that keep it always updated automatically?

I do this now always. I learned the hard way. In most cases, snap is more current and reliable than the built in repos.

@Emad-R said in Remote management of employees personal cell phones ...:

@JaredBusch said in Remote management of employees personal cell phones ...:

While I agree with all the arguments above, it is also true that there are things like selective wipe possible. But as stated it comes down to how much you wanna pay for the product to do something like that. As an employee I would be perfectly comfortable with allowing control of my device to a limited sandbox like that.

Of course she wants to have to trust your employer when they say that’s all they can do with the solution they are using.

Well guess what I will just get the cheapest smartphone like Nokia 2.1 and that is my "personal" work phone, I think this is the only way to manage that kinda of crap, Im sure managment will be happy and this is what they want, for employees to PurchaseYOD, which is fine I will handing them a frekn 512mb RAM android phone, let us see what kind of app will be installed there ? hell it will crash every 10 seconds

maybe this

or this

https://www.amazon.ca/Unlocked-Smartphone-Screen-Android-Dual-Core/dp/B07RKMS7BZ/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=cheapest+android+phone&qid=1573852976&sr=8-5

What a freekn shame, i cant beleive I had more freedom in my previous workplace than I have in Canada, and I lived in what you guys call third word developing countries, hell we even made more progress, where I work now everything is blocked, even SSH to other servers that is not company servers are blocked, that mentality is so stupid, and basically tells you we dont trust you. YOu should worry on hiring good people and thats it. Why do you do all the refernces check, and job checks then limit your employees and constantly monitor them ?

If it wasnt for certain family conditions I would go back

It's about way more than the employee.

Nothing in a background check will protect the company against some user installing some infected fake Angry Birds game on their Android phone, which ends up being a gateway for a hacker into private company data, or a way to get any other kind of information making it easier to an attacker to phish..., or a million other things that make sense to secure access to company data that you don't understand.

Don't be so damn narrow-sighted and quick to compare countries that actually try to secure their data from all aspects, from one's that don't know what they are doing.

@scottalanmiller said in Installing Hugo Static Website Generator on Linux:

Hugo is a popular static website generator and runs on Linux just fine. However, they don't have any standard Linux install documentation on their website and only show using Homebrew, a MacOS package that essentially no one on Linux uses. Very odd. For those on Linux you likely want the Snap package instead. Here are the install instructions for all major Linux OSes.

sudo snap install hugo

Yeah, their documentation, while it appears great, was actually 100% useless. It was far from intuitive. The only thing that gave me a working Hugo to start with was installing from snap.

Hololens

@NDC said in Remote management of employees personal cell phones ...:

I believe some devices/MDM setups allow you to create an isolated space on an employee owned device. You then control that isolated space not the whole device. When the employee leaves that controlled bit can be removed without wiping the device.

No idea how effective/reliable/manageable any of that is since I've not implemented or supported that style of MDM setup. Only done full company owned devices myself.

Yeah this is how Intune works with BYOD. It just manages and controls the company aspect.

Nope, company provides phones, manages them via MDM platform.

Data is connected to via SDP, which a personal device will not be allowed through.