@TAHIN said in When the Auditor is Tricking Your Business:

@scottalanmiller said in When the Auditor is Tricking Your Business:

How does "legit" and that go together? That his boss was able to cover doesn't make it legit. Could someone be confused to that degree? Maybe. Was it likely? not very.

By legit I meant not a social engineer. He represented a legit company, though he was not reputable himself. Maybe he wanted it so he could sell it later, who knows 😕

How do you know that he wasn't a social engineer? What he did is exactly what a social engineer would do when caught. How did you determine that he wasn't trying to trick you and that he was only incompetent?

@JaredBusch Just what I was looking for. Thanks a lot, Jared!

@DustinB3403 said in Does it make sense....:

The idea from the MSP was to just let the array silver over as new, and see if the drive comes back.

This to me sounds like a bad idea, to try and save costs.

Then the data isn't worth anything. Sounds like this will work.

@scottalanmiller As I said, it certainly isn't a product I'd use. "Maximizes internet connection speeds." Yeah, right.

SMB 3.1 is the latest, I believe.

Fixed

@Jason said in Breaking Encrption on DVDs:

@IRJ said in Breaking Encrption on DVDs:

This is a tough one. The law is confusing and chances are you won't get caught, but I agree that your best option is to check with the vendor and see what they offer an online solution. I would guess that midway through 2016 most vendors do offer a solution. If they don't offer a solution you have two options.

Find another vendor who offers similar content in an online delivery method Copy the DVD to your network and you'll probably be ok.

Obviously option 1 is better.

Problem is that is repaying for it all. That could be $100,000 per site easily. These 4-30min DVDs cost any where from $500 - $3,000 a pop. Not that we wouldn't spend that but if we can copy them to a legally Laptop vs $100,000 we will do that.

Well, according to Scott's argument that the DVD itself then becomes the backup, and the in use image is the copy on the laptop - I'd say you're probably OK - other than of course the Library of Congress' feeling of the week, wither or not it's legal or not to break the encryption.. lol

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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/automatically-get-recommended-drivers-and-updates-for-your-hardware

Could this be it?

How many other remote systems do you have? IS there a VPN that this users is on? Was/is DNS working correct on that VPN?

Does the Exchange testing website come back clean?

https://testconnectivity.microsoft.com/

@johnhooks said in Linux: Looking for Large Folders with du:

I've always just used -h for human readable. I never realized -m would give you the MB size.

I have the "advantage" of having learned this stuff before the human readable flag was added 😉

I should add, with --keepDays 30 tells B2 to keep 30 days worth of versions.

@Dashrender said in Linux: Directory Utilization with du:

I take it there are hidden files then in the /tmp directory? The one listed don't add up to 96.

Correct.

@JaredBusch said in Battery life on a Mac - How typical is my cycle count average?:

@travisdh1 said in Battery life on a Mac - How typical is my cycle count average?:

@JaredBusch Hopefully that 0% is more like 15-20%, otherwise lithium ion batteries get ruined quick. Being a Mac, they probably manage that and will work it so when it displays 0%, it's not detrimental to the battery yet.

Lithium batteries need treated much differently than NiCads used to. If a LiPo actually hits 0%, the internal components break down and the battery is ruined. Try to use it after that and you've got a fire starter, not a battery. My current hobby of making quadcopters made me memorize all the different safety and usage of the new batteries.

I have to trust the device manufacturers for that. For me it is just a habit. I know batteries and devices are smarter about it. But even lithium batteries need to hit < 20% for best lifespan.

Yeah, any iOS device I've had, you don't let it hit 0% (according to the device at least) regularly and the lifespan of the battery plummets. You can notice the loss of durability after just a few short charges. Doing a full discharge / recharge cycle and you eventually gain in back in most cases, but it takes months of training it to get it back.

We have so many devices like that that get full charge and discharge daily and we have original iPads and such that last for like five years or longer with battery life the same as when they were new.

Did you check the repos before calling me an ass or taking the word of some random person on a forum? I don't think so. You are so insistent that this is my fault and wanting to call me names that you are blindly willing to assume anything. Bottom line.... one official spokesperson for the company responded that the issue should not exist after asked directly if it was fixed. A random person on another forum made a comment about something that doesn't exist and you took their word for it as a reason to badger me.

Here are the full contents of the repo for those interested.

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So where is the PHP7 package that you are berating me about? Please provide me the link as I cannot find it.

@Jason said in Planning to get Mini DisplayPort KVM:

DisplayPort has very high royalty and licesnse costs

I would almost used adapters to DVI first

Ya all of our KVMs are like $300-500 because of the DisplayPort, it's kind of nuts.

Most companies won't even return or replace products with dead pixels. It's considered par for the course. Many require over 16 dead pixels for a return or replacement.

@Danp said in XO - Unknown error occurred while trying to start a VM:

Do you have a Default SR established?

Haven't done that, will check.

For now, i followed the advise of @DustinB3403 and setup Ubuntu server with XO! 🙂 All working fine.

@Dashrender said in Windows 10 disable sleep/hibernation:

damn.. missed that, thanks!

I keep forgetting about Preferences. Awesome advancements in GPO there!

@tonyshowoff said in Linux: Zip and 7Zip:

Sorry if this was mentioned but I didn't see it directly mentioned for clarity:

If your compression is unavailable directly in tar (-J being essentially 7zip, my favourite), you can tar it first (without compression) and then compress the tar, this maintains both Unix metadata and also gives the benefit.

Also, if you compress something already compressed you won't get the best benefit, at least not when it comes to using something as powerful as LZMA/7zip.

I believe that that is mentioned in the tar article.

They have a sync command as well, that could be very handy 🙂