@JaredBusch said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:

@scottalanmiller said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:

@Dashrender said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:

@scottalanmiller said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:

@Dashrender said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:

I guess it's simply getting access to the actual data. If the vendor will send over a csv, then it wouldn't be that hard...

Is this a matter of vendors denying access to data and only providing the info via their own configuration utility? So they need one from each vendor?

correct.

That should all go into the calculation as to why that vendor is overly expensive.

The vendor actually is denying access to their parts data? This seems really unlikely. You've spoken to the vendor and they actually won't provide the data?

This is not uncommon at all. It is very common that manufacturers will strike deals with dealers and only provide information via that chain.

Large Scale Speaker systems are the same way.. You either use the manufactors crappy software or you use EASE.. http://ease.afmg.eu/

They only give it the data to them because they don't want everyone knowing the exact math that makes the patterns and such to setup a large scale array. If they did then people could copy their speaker systems.

What is it about vendors wanting to bring the wifi router to the living room?

@scottalanmiller said in Ntop/Nbox on Centos7:

I meant... did the package install to the expected one. Thinking it might be a packaging error.

I guess it would be good to know where it it suppose to install.. I have no clue.

@scottalanmiller said in Projects to Build a Tiny Desktop from a Raspberry Pi Zero:

@gjacobse said in Projects to Build a Tiny Desktop from a Raspberry Pi Zero:

The biggest item I can see is that the Zero is a single Core and 512MB, whereas the Pi3 is a quad core and 1GB.

so your MIPS and such are going to be better for a 'desktop' with the Pi3 than the Zero. However,... if you don't need all that, go with what you want..

The extra CPU isn't needed. It's not for a GUI, it's for a CLI interface.

Ah -Okay.. if all you need is CLI I suppose that makes sense. Sadly some of what I need still needs the GUI so need more power.

My plan this week...closing my door 1-3 hours a day and getting my "basics" out of the way, which would be Excel and VBA. Master it as much as I can. We are crazy heavy with Excel and VBA and there is no avoiding it.

Digressing, last week was just too rough to start this. We installed new IP Cameras, so had to learn the software and how to configure the mobile apps for management to view. Heck, still learning and configuring how we want to record and retain.

I tend to look ahead on the big picture but I need to be proficient in this at least. THEN, I'll explore the other options as far as web-based programming. I also have an "elective" study of learning what we have in SharePoint Online since we've had it two years and never used it.

@guyinpv said in Compare ClearOS with Zentyal:

@scottalanmiller said in Compare ClearOS with Zentyal:

@guyinpv said in Compare ClearOS with Zentyal:

And so many things feel so arbitrary.

The other day I think I was using the find command or something, and found out that there is an alias "simplified" version of the command that overwrites the "real" one. So it goes, if you want the ability to use all the command options, you have to specifically reference the executable location like /usr/bin/find because this gives full options and the useless simplified secret alias version doesn't have all the options.

I hate little "gotchas" like this. So arbitrary, so useless and "undocumented".

What overwrites find? What OS were you on? I've never seen that. It does not appear to be happening on my systems.

I was reading a how-to for doing some advanced file-finding. It was either the find command or some other one. It said that their was a simplified alias version (built in to Bash?) that didn't have the advanced switches I needed, so they said to always reference the usr/bin version directly when using it.

Wish I could find it for you.

If you do find it, be sure to throw it away, uck.

@fuznutz04 said in Hyper-V Management from Mac/Linux:

it was the shell that threw me off regarding vmware. i assumed it was a variant of linux. of coure, we know what happens when you assume.

That's why we always talking about people associating shells with operating systems. But Windows has BASH and Linux has PowerShell 🙂

@Dashrender you can find OVA on vyos.net

@JaredBusch said in Faxing:

@Dashrender said in Faxing:

Please stop saying that I'm claiming that faxes are more secure. I'M Not!

I guess I'll just say, as long as Faxing is grandfathered in, the rest doesn't matter because the expense and complexities of using encrypted email (think PGP or password encrypted zip) won't replace it.

I'm absolutely willing to capitulate the grandfathering is the main, perhaps only, reason it's allowed.

I said nothing of the sort. I said unencrypted email is more secure than faxing. Just clarifying my point of view.

Ah, but you know that your email is encrypted end to end and you can know if your email is offering encryption to the end user's system. After that it's not your concern in the least. Literally... zero concern on your side. Delivery is complete, handoff is made. Just disable non-SSL/TLS communications and your concerns are all set.

I guess I read the how thing wrong.. I though your boss told you to hire the new HR cordniator somehow..

@Dashrender said in Windows 10 Update -- Hard Drive No Longer Recognized:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows 10 Update -- Hard Drive No Longer Recognized:

@Dashrender said in Windows 10 Update -- Hard Drive No Longer Recognized:

I'll side with Dustin here. Will MS still help you solve the problem because it came from WU? Probably, but really this is a manufacturer's fault for providing a bad BIOS update to MS.

Not to me. The manufacturer did not provide it to me, MS did. No one but MS and me are involved. If MS has an upstream provider not doing their job, that is purely between MS and them. By the time that it gets to me, MS alone is responsible for it.

And I gave that to you by saying that MS will help you fix it, which I know from experience when a RAID controller driver was updated by WU and hosed my system over a decade ago.

Sure they will fix it. But not because they want to, because they are responsible for it.

@scottalanmiller said in Oh, soft phones...:

Why not get new numbers and start moving customers over ASAP. When calls stop going to the old numbers, you drop them.

That's what I was trying to say. Maybe I was just too long winded. 🙂

Put the app/extension ID alone in the Chrome extension whitelist and blacklist policies. The $ID;$URL format, like you have in the OP, is only used in the Configure the list of force-installed apps and extensions policy.

FYI, rather than selectively blacklisting I choose to use * in the blacklist policy to deny all. I then explicitly allow certain apps/extensions in the whitelist policy. And finally there are a few of those allowed apps/extensions that I have force installed like uBlock Origin, LastPass, Chrome Legacy Browser Support, etc. It's worked well for me and the clients I manage.

@scottalanmiller said in Cerber virus/ransomware making the rounds...:

@wirestyle22 said in Cerber virus/ransomware making the rounds...:

@scottalanmiller said in Cerber virus/ransomware making the rounds...:

@wirestyle22 said in Cerber virus/ransomware making the rounds...:

@scottalanmiller said in Cerber virus/ransomware making the rounds...:

@wirestyle22 said in Cerber virus/ransomware making the rounds...:

@scottalanmiller said in Cerber virus/ransomware making the rounds...:

@wirestyle22 said in Cerber virus/ransomware making the rounds...:

@Nic said in Cerber virus/ransomware making the rounds...:

@Dashrender said in Cerber virus/ransomware making the rounds...:

@Nic said in Cerber virus/ransomware making the rounds...:

@JaredBusch said in Cerber virus/ransomware making the rounds...:

@Rob-Dunn said in Cerber virus/ransomware making the rounds...:

@Kelly said in Cerber virus/ransomware making the rounds...:

@Rob-Dunn said in Cerber virus/ransomware making the rounds...:

Another cool thing that we're going to be doing, but not as a result of this infection, is evaluating and maybe implementing Cylance in lieu of Trend on our systems.

I'm not sure if it's appropriate to say, but their engine seems revolutionary.

What makes you say that Rob?

Mostly that it's not conventional scanning, but instead it analyzes what the files do rather than just signatures or patterns. The closest comparison I can come up with is the way Android app permissions are broken down in the app store - - it can identify if a file's threat by the characteristics contained therein. Here's an analysis of the FreeConferenceCall.com installer:

I really want to see a good comparison of Webroot and Cylance from someone not related to either company.

My problem with Cylance was that there was no small business pricing. they started at something like 1000 licenses at their SpiceWorld 2015 demo. Only knocking it down to 500 during the show.

Hopefully the testing companies will get there eventually. They're all so geared towards signature detections and it's hard to get them to change. That's why we don't show up in some of them, as they won't come up with a methodology that better reflects what we do.

I liked Cylance's demo - go to totalvirus, download the last 100 uploaded viruii, and run them.

That's a good start, but it's tough to truly get a zero day virus that hasn't been seen yet, for a real world test. If it's on virustotal then it's already been identified as a virus by most of the AV companies.

No way to get around it entirely

Run them side by side in the real world (honeypot kind of thing) and test.

No I mean zero day viruses

Me too.

I don't have faith either would do the job

Isn't the other choice... neither, though? Will "none" do the job?

That's definitely a question

What I mean is... certainly trust nothing for zero days, protect as much as you can. But part of that would be getting the best AV that you can. It's part of the security picture.

Agreed

@LAH3385 said in Windows Desktop PC's: preferred suppliers?:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Desktop PC's: preferred suppliers?:

@FATeknollogee said in Windows Desktop PC's: preferred suppliers?:

Anyone know of a Softmart equivalent on the West Coast? I'd like to eliminate the 1 week shipping time from the East Coast.

They don't ship from Philly. Their warehouses are all over the country. I used to do local pickup in Dallas all of the time. No delay to the west coast.

Do they charge for pickup? And where in DFW are they located at? Just curious

They don't charge us at least. And in Carrollton where the tracks cross Josie just north of Trinity Station.

What do the logs say about the system going down? I'm guessing that it is going down for whatever reason there is then a RAID issue.

@s.hackleman said in Best Practices:

Could I make a DNS alias called HistoryServer Then point it to both History1? Then point all apps to HistoryServer. When ever an upgrade comes due, I can just update the DNS alias in one place?

Yes, but if you can do that, you could just rename, too. This is the better way to go, and ideally should be done from the start.