@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:

Disney sets record for highest-grossing with $7.67 billion so far
https://www.wfmz.com/news/disney-sets-record-for-highestgrossing-year/1100840768

This makes me so sad.

Because its Disney?

Well, sure. But because Disney has totally given up on quality across the board.... going from making quality stuff to making the worst popular garbage ever (opinion I know, but it's so bad I'll no longer watch movies Disney is involved in, they've become a brand name of crap), they've taken their parks from ground breaking and oriented on customer service to just being overpriced six flags with gobs of stupid promotional stuff. They were a great company, and now the world would be a better place if they didn't exist.

That in doing so has made them more money than by creating good content or being ground breaking or whatever is sad because it shows what a horrific state society is in.

All you can do is....

"Let it go, Let it Go
Turn away and slam the door"

:winking_face:

@obsolesce said in Handling DNS in a Single Active Directory Domain Controller Environment:

@kelly said in Handling DNS in a Single Active Directory Domain Controller Environment:

just challenging the "most commonly correct approach" statement

It seems you are mistaking the "most common approach" with the "most common correct approach". I haven't been around the SMB as much as JB, but I'm assuming the most common approach to SMB DC implementations are incorrect. Meaning, 2+ DCs are being used when 1 should be used. Perhaps two DCs are used because so many other things are done incorrectly, it's thought 1 should't be used due to so many other things not properly in place, but that's besides the point in my reply here.

IMHO, SMB's use 2 DC's (me included) because it is drilled over and over in our heads by outside forces, including the application developers and the OS companies themselves. On top of that, we are completely stupid if we don't have a second DC if the hardware is available. So to follow "Best Practices," SMB's just do it. It doesn't necessarily mean that things are done incorrectly though. It mostly means, we (aka I) have an extra DC there sitting, waiting, getting monthly updates and then gather more dust for years on end all in the name of protection and risk reduction.

That is why coming here and having extensive discussions about general topics has helped me changed my own thoughts about system/network design in SMB's.

@dashrender

Grilling is fast with medium to high temps (10 minutes at 375-700) while BBQ is slow and low temps (many hours at 200-225)

IMHO, you cannot really BBQ a steak (Strip/Ribeye), hotdog or hamburger but you can BBQ or Grill a chicken.

@coliver said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@nerdydad said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@dashrender said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@nerdydad said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@dashrender said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

Here's a question for ya'll.

What do you call cooking steaks or hotdogs or burgers on a grill?

Grilling

OK, and what's the difference between grilling and BBQ?

Grilling is just applying the meat to the grill to cook. BBQ requires a sauce.

BBQ is a specific cooking style that may or may not use a sauce (don't talk about sauce in some states in the south)

I'm in the north but I am a no sauce BBQ/steak person. My motto is, "If it needs sauce you didn't do it right." :)

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Packed lunches not a right in Italian schools, court rules

Parents have reacted angrily to a decision by Italy's top court which states that the right to eat packed lunches in schools is not "unconditional."
Italy's Supreme Court said schools should have the autonomy to decide if children are allowed to eat packed lunches on school grounds.
A lower court previously ruled in favour of a group of Turin parents who wanted to opt out of school meals.
Parents say school meals are costly.
They also argue that food provided by schools can be unhealthy.
The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that bringing a packed lunch was "a possible violation of the principles of equality and non-discrimination based on economic circumstances".

I'm trying to figure out how far one has to stretch a logical argument to even equate Packed Lunch's = inequality????

That is way the f*%& out there.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

She doesn't have her own because it would be wasted money at this point, but she will as soon as she has the capability to speak.

Mine got their own super young. Otherwise they'd be using battery, storage, access on ours .... and the last thing that we wanted was them dropping our critical devices. By giving them their own we got them more age appropriate devices, that weren't critical to adults functioning, that could be in child-protective cases.

Oh how many non-IT parents don't understand this. I cannot tell you how many parents here at work come to me for help with virus's and such on their own device (with saved banking logins and all the goodies). I ask what they clicked on or what they were doing and 90% of the time the answer begins with "Well, my child..."

@Joel said in HyperV Server - Raid Best Practices:

This got a little heated :face_screaming_in_fear:
-So can we clarify, back to the OP - Consensus out of the options I have, Option 2 is the best way to go?

6x 2TB 12GB/s Drives in OBR10 for everything and then creating two partitions (1 for the HyperVisor OS) and then (1 for data - to store all my Virtual Machines and Data).

My VMs would be in D:\Hyper-V\VM's
My Virtual Hard Disks (daily data) would be in D:\Hyper-V\Data

Don't forget to do the cost comparisons of SAS in OBR10 vs SSD in RAID5. You may be surprised to find out that SSD in RAID 5 is cheaper (Stick with SSD 6Gb/s vs 12Gb/s) depending upon your server manufacturer.

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

@pmoncho said in I can't even:

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

@tim_g said in I can't even:

Actually I give up on that thread. We don't even know what he means by cluster.
We don't know what version of Windows/Hyper-V is being implemented.

The OP has only responded 4 times and never clarified anything.

So much is being assumed. I have a lot of questions to the OP that have never been answered, and it doesn't look like he intends on answering them. So I'm done.

That's a common problem. OPs that won't respond leave everyone wanting to discuss and nothing to work with. So it just spirals into a world of guessing and loads of discussion based on the guessing.

I have given up on many posts where the OP does not respond to questions. I give OP's about 3 hours to respond after the first response with questions. If they cannot bother to check back, why waste the time answer with assumptions.

The platform really encourages that behaviour. It doesn't show updates and encourages you to leave and await an email or something. That pattern is good for tiny, slow sites that no one is looking at. But when people are responding in real time and you aren't sticking around to watch, it doesn't go over well.

Absolutely. Just an huge UGH!

So now I mainly just hang out here. :)

@dbeato said in What would your recommendation be for a Type 1 Hypervisor - including backup and restoration options:

@DustinB3403 said in What would your recommendation be for a Type 1 Hypervisor - including backup and restoration options:

Most of my clients have an on-site data server
All have an AD server
All have a webserver of some type.
A few have terminal services

The fact that
Most of my clients have an on-site data server
A few have terminal services

Terminal Server is also something really annoying and cumbersome to manage without AD.

Microsoft keeps intertwining RDS and AD. Trying to manage RDS without AD is as bad as Hyper-V without AD.

@WrCombs said in Sonic Wall Rules?:

@WrCombs said in Sonic Wall Rules?:

@JaredBusch said in Sonic Wall Rules?:

@WrCombs said in Sonic Wall Rules?:

I did Find This but Im not exactly sure that's what im looking for.

This points you in more or less the right direction.

You will need to create objects for the devices and then make rules like this allowing communication from network Z to it.

Okay, So I need the Camera IP's and the Door Camera/Controller Ip to create objects, and then follow the guide?

@JaredBusch Cant I make one Object with Multiple IPs ?

Do as @travisdh1 stated. You can then create a Group from the Objects.

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Watching Now:

Watched Godzilla vs Kong

Watch it last night with the girls. Not a bad movie.

@dashrender said in Staying at your shitty employer is your fault:

@pmoncho
What’s weird here is that they are catching them red handed .... yet I assume they don’t consider that good enough.... if that’s not good enough how does their browser history help?

My only guess is, if its not written proof it didn't happen. The manager could be in a verbally acknowledge, gather hard copy evidence, wait for next employee review and then lay down the hammer mode. (Just a wild ass guess as this managerial behavior confuses me)

@dashrender said in Staying at your shitty employer is your fault:

@scottalanmiller said in Staying at your shitty employer is your fault:

Known terrible employer and put of despair place to work announced already that they are making people come back after the pandemic.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/31/google-speeds-partial-office-reopening-and-puts-limits-on-remote-work.html

Yeah, I was asked just yesterday - can you spy on people what websites they are visiting and for how long?

I asked why do you care? Why not look at their production numbers and if they are bad - council them, if they remain bad, get rid of them...

Totally agree here. I've been saying that to my previous boss and new current VP's in charge. Before allowing Internet access, it was texting. Before that it was personal phone calls.

When I would get asked what I could do from a tech standpoint, I always replied with, "How are their practices doing? Are they behind in charges and slow entering payments? Is the monthly AR up? If all bad, why are they here?" Never did get any decent answers.

@marcinozga said in Ubiquity breached, downplayed the issue:

@scottalanmiller said in Ubiquity breached, downplayed the issue:

If you read the claims by "Adam" and then read the statement made by Ubiquiti, you can see from that alone that he was lying. The entire premise of his claim is that UBNT downplayed something and tried to blame Amazon. But there is nothing of the sort in the statement that UBNT made. Nothing. This "Adam" character fabricated it completely just to get attention. And Krebs didn't do any verification, even bothering to read his own story. He just published something he already knew to be false to get a headline.

How do you know it's Adam who's lying? What makes you so sure UBNT are telling the whole truth? In the end, the company has more to lose here, not the whistleblower.

Does that sound like a trustworthy company? Or one trying to cover their asses to protect stock prices?

I don't have much to say about the validity of "Adam" / Krebs but the stock is down roughly 25% in the last 3 days alone. The largest down day being today.

Don't know if it is related to this but that much of a loss in 3 days are the big boys dumping (plus the algos too)

@irj said in Staying at your shitty employer is your fault:

@scottalanmiller said in Staying at your shitty employer is your fault:

@irj said in Staying at your shitty employer is your fault:

90% of jobs I'm looking at are remote post covid. Remote work existed before, but was less common

But 90% of good jobs were remote PRE-COVID. Anyone who is remote only because of COVID is a shitty shop that got better because they had to... means that the management failures are still there. Don't be lulled by jobs forced to look better than they are temporarily.

Good shops were always remote (when possible.) You can't be good and make people come into the office just for shits and giggles, the two are polar opposites conceptually. You can only make one thing a priority... is it doing a good job, or is it sitting in an office.

I've still had a few jobs reach out and say they are remote until covid crap is over then they want you to move somewhere.. I just tell them no thanks I'm not interested in even talking.

Did any of those jobs that reached out to you explain why they are no longer going to be remote post-covid?

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

anyone know of any print servers that can convert usb printers to ethernet?

I can only find a TP Link model down here. Think I used to use a DLink model but don't seem to make 'em any more.

There are Digi AnywhereUSB's here for USB to ethernet devices.

Unfortunately, a little on the expensive side.

I don't know what all is required but is it possible to use the google-authenticator-libpam module with modifications to the /etc/pam.d/nginx file.

I was thinking, if Ubuntu GUI can use it, nginx can use pam modules, is it possible to mesh it with bookstack???

This could be totally irrelevant as I am just throwing some crap ideas out there.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Spending the morning renewing the kids' passports.

If your a member of AAA, they have free passport photos.

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

can anyone suggest an android tv box I can plug into the TV? nothing expensive, just something that works. just for streaming services.

why android TV?

because I don't know what i'm doing?

we got an apple tv but it's not very useful, it makes searching through things too hard.

enlighten me.

Roku works well and start at $35

yeah, Roku is super solid.

I replaced an old Apple TV with Roku so I could watch Daily Wire content. Roku has been solid.

Big fan of Roku as we have four of them. The only thing that ticks me off about them, then and now, is that they don't have a Bluetooth transmitter. Unless I missed it somewhere.

@hobbit666 said in LastPass Goes As Predicted Like LogMeIn:

@JaredBusch said in LastPass Goes As Predicted Like LogMeIn:

Correct, that’s an entirely different issue and the reason why I started looking to move solutions last year but that’s not the point of that stupid ass article the Scott linked.

What have you been looking into? I'm happy using and paying for lastpass myself but if I do start looking be nice for some options

Have a look into Bitwarden. The wife and I have been using the free version for the last 6 months and has worked out fine for us. Individual use is good and sharing specific passwords between family members is nice.