@ambarishrh said:

I think we need to start a new section for vulnerability and security related news! 🙂

Just use the "News" section and tag "security".

@thecreativeone91 said:

I've had bad luck with Netgear over the years. plus I don't need more sales calls haha.

Really? I've never gotten a sales call from them and I've used them since 1997 ish. I've had one or two of their lower end units die, but at the price I paid that was still a pretty big win.

@StrongBad said:

@ajstringham said:

I literally just got off the phone with a customer wanting to know more about this very issue.

Thankfully you have ML to inform you before you get those calls 🙂

They didn't want to know more about the vulnerability itself, but rather when MVM would have a script that could scan for it.

@thecreativeone91 they closed all but one store in my area years ago. The one that is still open is probably the cleanest one I've ever been in.

But I don't think they are the only ones that have been hit. There's more out there. Just wait till it happens to Wal-Mart, the screams will be deafening because it's viewed as the retail boogeyman that's out to oppress people.

Splitting makes sense. Keeping companies from having too much infrastructure is generally a good thing. Just important to make sure that you don't break up heavily aligned units. HP's split seems bad, Symantec's seems good.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@ajstringham said:

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@IRJ said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@IRJ said:

Wow..... usually a company does this when they are in trouble, not thriving

Splitting itself is not a bad thing. This is actually what you do to better align a business, in theory. But this is splitting a single market in two and is very foolish in my book.

I remember when Gateway sold half their business to MPC. It tanked about a year later. I remember that very well because at the time I was a Gateway tech. We got totally screwed by MPC. We did about 4 months of work unpaid and then they filed bankruptcy.

Gateway is still kinda around They got in bed with Acer.. Now Acer's quality is somewhat okay.. It's all low-end customer stuff though.

Somewhat okay may be a bit of a generous statement. Before netbooks disappeared, that was their last domain where they made anything worthwhile. The only thing Acer makes that is any good now is monitors. Acer is the number one selling monitor in the country. But yup, all consumer computing gear.

No, the Acer Ultrabooks are great quality. The Netbooks not so much.

Their netbooks were good, some of the best on the market at the time. Their tablets weren't bad but I wasn't ever real impressed with their Ultrabooks. They're alright but nothing great.

Scott, what are you using for HIPAA compliant online storage?

In my experience, fewer longer days are better than more, shorter days. You get way more free time in a clump to do things, even if that just means relaxing.

Is it region locked?

@Minion-Queen said:

The conference was great for me as the head of GroveSocial and for NTG as well. Love that my hobby and my day job blend together so well. I did not attend much of the technical things. I was there to see how the conference was done. I did attend some sessions but really I just positioned myself in busy seating areas and asked questions of those attending.

I was able to get a couple questions answered for @NetworkNerd that he wanted to know about V8.

This conference is very much centered around Veeam's software that the vendors that support them. If you have questions I can try to answer them but I was there as a Media Analyst so very different view of the conference than many of you would have.

Yes - thank you for that! It's nice to know people who can go straight to the source and get you a quick answer.

I agree, Cinnamon would have been the obvious choice. But that other article talks about that city in Germany choosing MATE too. I wonder what the impetus was for that.

Excellent. These stories are very encouraging.

Sweet, thanks for sharing. And the news was broken here first!

You heard it first here, calling bullshit.

Consumerist articles tend to be on the rather self serving side. Beside the fact that Comcast couldn't give two shits about someone, let alone enough to actively seek out folks and find out where they work. As was stated in the article, why would Comcast single out this individual when they get calls every single day of "I'm a lawyer at a big firm" or "I'm the CEO of important company".

Smells like bullshit to me.

That would be a nice form factor for the Raspberry Pi.