6'5" and was 215 at Thanksgiving. After TG dinner I said I was going on a diet to get back down to the 185 I'm comfortable with. I got down to 175 by New Years. Just takes proper planning of meals to automate your groove; along with exercise, and no cheating.

@mike-davis said in KB4073701 kills QuickBooks:

@BBigford glad I could save you some troubleshooting time.

If you're using a Venmo style delivery for drinks and/or strippers, I am willing to contribute for your helpful post to the community that directly impacted me. It has to be explicitly used on something such as strip clubs that take this type of gift card or similar. I cannot, by my own community standards, simply send money to you directly which could be spent on anything. It has to be a payment method that is only redeemable in the form of alcohol and/or strippers.

Salted caramel porter and a shot of Jack.

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Drinking:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Drinking:

That is awesome

That was on Shark Tank. I think they called it a Chug Buddy or something similar.

@jt1001001 said in What Are You Drinking:

Trying to burn the flu virus out of me

You'll need something a little stronger for that. Minimum 100 proof.

I thought I could go one single year without an audit. Last year was a very lengthy HIPAA audit (done alone), and to end February I'm now starting a PCI audit for a hospital that now accepts payments online... Which means they have changed categories.

Kill me.

Derp. Didn't have the action panel open. Thanks. :expressionless_face:

Re: KB4073701 kills QuickBooks

I thought you could filter WSUS to search for a specific KB. Can't find that option anywhere. Does it not exist?

Man... all at once. I just got about a dozen calls from various clients that I don't personally manage. I should have sent out an email when I saw this thread.

Just ran into this today. Thanks for posting that; cut troubleshooting time much shorter.

Edit: Also thanks to dbeato for linking this thread. I knew I read this the other day, but couldn't remember on which forum.

@jaredbusch said in When a C-level gets the boot:

@scottalanmiller said in When a C-level gets the boot:

I agree, you have to nuke the network from orbit. You "are" and were compromised for some time. No telling how deep it goes.

Exactly.

And you earlier comments are true. The post mostmortem should turn up a number of things that mean the board screwed the pooch in a number of ways, as well as a few other C levels. This could trigger action by the SEC if it is a traded company.

There were a lot of postmortem things that needed to change. I could have nuked more from orbit, but with a global company and around 30k employees, I just needed more time. I left the company a couple months later for unrelated reasons (I hated it there in general), so I never got to dealing with the tailings.

I had an interesting event happen about a year ago, and I'm wondering how more effectively I could have handled this one. Here are some of the high points:

• I take on a new account, a global aerospace company.
• They are using a mix of Windows and Linux systems.
• The CEO of that company is an enterprise admin. Why they have this or where they find the time to do anything on the network without breaking lots of things is beyond me. I asked about it, but was never given a valid response; moving on...
• The CEO made some bad choices, and was terminated in spectacular fashion.
• I was not told before hand that the CEO was going to be fired. I wasn't actually even told for about a week they were gone. I had finally emailed the CTO after the CEO stopped responding to messages (no forwarding was setup on their account, because I was never told).
• The CEO still has remote access, and has created some service accounts that keep being added to enterprise admin security group.
• Eventually figured out the CEO was behind this, after looking into some audit logs.
• Company's legal team sent out a cease-and-desist.
• I change the passwords on all the service accounts possibly related to him, disable all those accounts, and do the same for his own domain account.
• Removed him from all security groups, as well as the service accounts. In hopes this would at least slow him down if he still had some kind of access.
• Created more specific legal banners.

After that, it was basically a dance of disabling accounts, looking at account auditing logs and setting up alerting about new accounts being created/changed/etc.

Here's the question... what more would you be doing if you were in that situation, dealing with someone vindictive and had that level of access to begin with?

@crustachio said in Scale Computing combines forces with Unitrends:

A Unitrends representative was quoted as saying "This is really an unbelievable, once in a lifetime opportunity. I'd like to emphasize that we've never offered a deal like this to anyone else, ever, in the history of time. If Scale doesn't sign up by the end of Q1, prices for this deal will go up at least 30%. And I can guarantee you'll never get a better offer than this one."

Jeff Ready, CEO and co-founder of Scale Computing responded "While I'm attracted by the offer, I'm not sure I'm ready to sign just yet. I'm always a little hesitant of long-term vendor lock in, y'know?"

The Unitrends rep quickly fired back "Sure, sure. Hey, let me check with my manager and see if there's any wiggle room on that pricing -- I'm really sticking my neck out for you on this one, but I might be able to work some magic."

Sources indicated that Scale Computing will be required to trade in their old 823 appliance as part of this deal, although Unitrends Support could not be reached in a timely manner for confirmation.

Lol wow

A dark stout and a shot of Jack while I get some work done.

I've only ever used Redgate, but have heard good things about ApexSQL.

@scottalanmiller said in Errors Installing SaltStack on NetBSD 7.1.1:

Got it, it was a packaging versioning issue. I had accidentally set the verison to 8.0 when it was 7.1.1. I got a clean install and set the package version correctly and now it works fine.

If you want to know how to set the version accurately automatically, try this that I just made...

export PKG_PATH="http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/`uname -m`/`uname -r`/All/"

That's exactly what I was thinking but didn't say anything. I wanted to see what you'd do.

@scottalanmiller said in AntiVirus on Servers?:

@nerdydad said in AntiVirus on Servers?:

@scottalanmiller said in AntiVirus on Servers?:

@bbigford said in AntiVirus on Servers?:

It comes down to security vs. convenience. Performance is something completely different and can be tuned/scheduled.

Do you leave your keys in your vehicles ignition? Do you leave your front door wide open? Do you write your personal identity numbers on your arm?

No? Use anti-virus.

Do you still use it if you have servers that are not accessed directly or accessing anything? What will the AV be scanning?

If the servers aren't "serving" anything out, then what would be the purpose of the servers?

AV only is for files, not other traffic. Which is nearly everything outside of the SMB. FIle sharing is a minor task percentage wise. Think about a database server, for example. Or a proxy, or a load balancer, or an XMPP server, or a PBX....

I was also thinking of any possibility that a malicious program made its way onto a server intended for something other than file services. I should clarify that I'm only talking about a Windows Server. Load balancers running FreeBSD, DB on bare metal, etc I wouldn't think about putting it on those. Haha honestly, my post was more in the facetious now that I've re-read it.

I lacked more specific information in my post though about server OS or deliverable. That's my bad.

I wish I was a technological freak of nature with overall experience and facts so I could rapidly help you out and tell you exactly what this issue requires to be resolved.

Sadly, I have no valid input. But I'll continue to follow this thread so I can learn more about this issue.