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@scottalanmiller said in How Are You Measured?:

There is only one useful way to measure IT.... Its impact to the way that the CEO is measured. Anything else like SLA, uptime, tickets, etc is misleading, actively undermines the organization and leads to gamification.

RIOC, Average Revenue per customer/whatever the metric of your industry is, IT should be serving improving that metric.

@stacksofplates said in Replication cable:

Finally took some time and Gluster is running on both nodes. I get local speed and network replication :).

Nice

@stacksofplates said in OWA is vulnerable to Phishing:

@scottalanmiller said in OWA is vulnerable to Phishing:

@aidan_walsh said in OWA is vulnerable to Phishing:

@Breffni-Potter said in OWA is vulnerable to Phishing:

Ummm....as an attacker, why can't I just have a next page fake confirmation which forgets the profile photo (easy to overlook in a hurry) and get the password for google anyway?

Same again for the banking website.

Thats exactly what happens. You'd be surprised at what passes for phishing attacks, and how many people fall for them. I've seen ones that have asked people "for security purpose" to enter all 50 4-digit code card entries, something a bank would obviously never do.

And yet...

Partially that's because real banks have done that traditionally.

Like AMEX. I needed a password reset and they asked all of the info on my card, other than my name and expiration.

Yeah, it definitely still happens. And I've had huge security gaps that I've told a bank was not secure and they didn't care. I said... I literally have no means to tell if you are really my bank or not and they are just like "so, we don't care."

CSS an JS highlighting won't do it as the issue isn't markup but getting mangled by the editor.

external adapter

@aaronstuder said in Surface Pro 4 - Login Issue:

@scottalanmiller The surface is 2 hours away 😞

All the ones that I need in front of me, I just have them mail it to me. If it's an emergency, they can overnight it. Not explaining stuff over the phone to a non-technical person. If you try to describe to a sales person how to image a computer, forget it. lol

Friday morning not paying attention. Themes were different since I was in my testing account and not my normal account.

Not enough coffee... sigh

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@guyinpv said in Paying to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10:

One week ago (8/25/16) I did an upgrade to Win10 and was able to get it free.

Basically the customer had used the free upgrade tool (you know, the annoying system tray icon thingy) but instead of upgrading he had it create the install media and put it on USB stick.

Well last week I took his USB stick and did a clean install, formatting the drive. Of course it was not activated, and I did not put in a key during install.

Lo and behold, we went to the activation and stuck his Win7 key in there and it accepted it and activated digital entitlement! I was quite surprised.

Two possible reasons:

Microsoft has really not fully shut down the free program. Creating the install media DURING the free period somehow allows it to still activate when used later.

If you happen to have install media created from the upgrade tool, it could be gold!

I wouldn't call it not shutting down the program, it's just not actively blocking it.... Yet. They might, they might not. But any activations now are not officially supported or guaranteed. You are just lucky. But might be lucky forever. But it's at their mercy.

@Richard_Cylance said in Cylance Questions:

FTFY - Sold = Lost. Exec = guru

This reminded me of the following Simpsons clip:
Youtube Video

SLAs vary a lot. But assume if you didn't write it and didn't spend a fortune on an attorney to review it.... That the SLA protects the vendor, not the client. A typical SLA only serves to block customers from dropping a vendor while limiting the vendor's liability. SLAs are what lock customers in to broken services.

@guyinpv i would agree. Nothing to worry about.

@DustinB3403 said in BackBlaze B2 competitors:

@BRRABill said in BackBlaze B2 competitors:

@DustinB3403 said in BackBlaze B2 competitors:

The synology unit that we have apparently has this functionality built in.

I'm like 99.999% sure of it.

Still room for error.

I've confirmed our Synology unit has the capability for this, just wanted to schedule a call with a tech and separate (living breathing) sales person to confirm details.

@aaron do you guys do calls?

What do you want BB to tell you? They can't confirm as much as you already have. Why not just test it? Or if you need a tech you need one from Synology, not BackBlaze.

Hmm. Something I just discovered is that even running "telnet --help" gives me the exact same delay.

@fuznutz04 said in Grandstream HT503 Gateway:

@JaredBusch

So thinking this through with using the PA-1...

If I use the PA-1, configure it with an extension, and set it to auto answer, then use the RJ11 port to plug into the paging system RJ11 jack (master handset port that delivers dialtone) then the caller should hear dial tone and control their paging like they could previously. Does the PA-1 RJ11 jack function like this, or is it meant to be directly spliced into audio inputs on an amplifier?

I would have to test. I have only used a handset plugged into that for testing at some clients.

Anyone who thinks that disk encryption protects a machine that is decrypted is just wrong. Them being wrong is the issue. In no way does it imply that the service failed or is vulnerable.

It's like saying your seatbelt failed when you decided not to wear it.

@Francesco-Provino said in WAN connection design: big pipe VS ADSL or… embrace the cloud:

@scottalanmiller I agree. I'm curious, why do you think that the connectivity in Italy is going backwards? And what about ADSL vs pricey FTTH?

Because studies show it going backwards 🙂 Broadband availability and adoption rates are heavily monitored by business and governments and Italy is. The biggest news in the world around that because it is the only European country moving away from Internet adoption - negative growth rates. It's real metrics from the ISPs, not an opinion.