• Thunderbolt devices can infect MacBooks with persistent rootkits

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    @Dashrender said:

    viruii? 😛

    Virus plural is either viruses or viri. As it lacks a Latin plural (which would be viri) due to being a mass noun and misused in English there is a grey area as to how the plural should be formed, in the Germanic viruses way or the Latin viri way.

    I prefer viri to be consistent in the use of the Latin for Latin nouns even if the Romans didn't use them as a plural, had they done so it would have been viri and our lack of knowledge of the word should not vary our usage thereof. I attempt to use this consistently although it is hard with so many words plural forms being unknown to English speakers (campus, bonus, fungus, etc.)

  • Using Fail2Ban with Apache

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  • Keep Wordpress Updated Easily on Linux

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  • AD DNS What's your flavor?

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    I'm not saying Windows over UNIX. I'm just saying servers over network devices.

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    @JaredBusch said:

    This does not impact my email as our company is on Office 365, but I have a number of clients with SBS 2008 still. That runs Exchange 2007 and now I cannot check the admin account natively. Grrrr.

    Start really selling O365 to your customers. It benefits both them and you

  • What's your favorite wiki software?

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    I suppose since my host has both - I can install and check them out.

  • Barracuda Cloud Control Spam services outage

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    Wow, that's surprising for someone like Barracuda to be offline. That's a major blow to their confidence rating.

  • KB 3012997

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    @technobabble said:

    suggested whitelist" for these updates

    Yes. Please.

    "this category of update won't mess with any critical bits and we guarantee it won't break anything important"

  • Hard Drive Encryption

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    @PSX_Defector Wow...they aren't cheap! But I like what they can do!

  • PSU suggestions

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    Righto, after some research and pondering, I went with a corsair RM-550

    Propaganda link:
    http://www.corsair.com/en-au/rm-series-rm550-80-plus-gold-certified-power-supply

    I ended up finding a better price closer to where I was staying than I was originally going to pay. Yay for me.

    This PSU seemed to be a better unit than one of the other PSUs that I looked at. Research indicates that this unit comes out if the Chicony factory and I've heard good things about them.

  • Directory Tree Depth: Report

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    This is actually a problem in PowerShell too because it has the same 256 limit!! Which I just don't understand why this hasn't been permanently fixed--problem has only been around for a decade or so!

    Anyway, to accomplish in PowerShell the best bet is to use Robocopy to just list the directories, then it's child's play to get the lengths > 256 and display. It's the Robocopy that's a pain, luckily:

    http://thesurlyadmin.com/2014/08/04/getting-directory-information-fast/

    Not exactly on topic, but it has the code for building an array with the data in it. 🙂

  • Reports To Management - How Do You Do Them Or Accept Them?

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    @scottalanmiller said:

    Charts and graphs are always nice.

    Yep, this is basically what I do. Charts and graphs of helpdesk "performance". I think one of the biggest problems SMB IT has is that no one really cares what you do as long as everything is working, and no one is complaining about you.

    I would love to go into historical uptime records and show that I have a much higher uptime ratio now with our new infrastructure then I did in the past... but really at that point it would just be stroking my own ego.

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    @technobabble said:

    @IRJ said:

    Thanks for the one week notice, Microsoft.

    That is really bad. I understand axing something, but giving less than 2 weeks notice is crazy

    Ah....but as said in the article: Microsoft will keep existing sites alive for two years, and Office 365 customers “will have the option to subscribe to third-party solutions by using links from Office 365.”

    I read the article but totally missed that paragraph for some reason....

  • Home setup

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    Home Gaming Computer:

    Core i7 2.9Ghz 12 GB of RAM Dual AMD 6950's (flashed with 6970 firmware) 2TB Hard Drive 1TB Hard Drive 500GB Hard Drive Runs Windows 8.1

    Home Server

    Phenom II Black Edition 3.0 Ghz 16GB of RAM 4x 2TB Drive in RAID 10 (Software raid... really want to get a controller Runs Xenserver

    Laptop

    6 year old Acer something Nvidia dedicated gpu Core 2 Quad Processor Runs Linux Mint

    Media Center:

    Chromecast PS3 Xbox 360

    Phone

    Samsung Galaxy Note II

    Other

    Nook Color (flashed with Android) Surface RT (PDF/Comic reading device) Droid X2 that I use as an MP3 player
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    PostgreSQL scales better. It is more performant for large, relational lookups and has better scaling options. MySQL is fast for light, non-relational lookups but that means that it is often eclipsed by even faster, even lighter NoSQL options. PostgreSQL has replaced MySQL for nearly all new web architecture development that doesn't work well with NoSQL.

  • Dangerous NTP hole

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    Looks like the issue is with NTP dæmons, not with NTP clients. So in the SMB, very few people would be impacted. Running internal NTP is uncommon until you are relatively large.

  • Im a webhosting noob and need some help

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    @scottalanmiller said:

    @IRJ said:

    @scottalanmiller said:

    Why do you have to rebuild things?

    I could migrate the site over, but it may take just as long if not longer. I had 22 items in the entire store inventory and now I am down to 9 items

    Oh okay, so you don't have to. Yes, migrating systems always takes a bit because there is a database to move.

    Correct.

    If I had a huge store with lots of inventory, then I would have to migrate.

  • Anyone want to help beta test Webroot?

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    When beta tests of the business product are available let us know, we are happy to test them.

  • Using T-Mobile in Europe

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  • Scanning Yealink Phones with Spiceworks via SNMP

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