Wifi speeds at the hotel I'm at.

Balvenie, Glenlivet, Macallen, Glenfidich. Those are all good Highland scotchs

Just ordered a new laptop. (Found a deal on a refurbished one). HP Spectre 13.3" Core i7 8GB RAM 256GB SSD

@s.hackleman said in Need a Good Bottle of Scotch:

Myself it is either Macallen or Laphroaig, but see if this helps.

I'm going to have to save a copy of this...

I think it has to do with the emblem on the hub of the wheel...

So, this is an HR question rather than IT.

We have had several instances in the past year where people have left their laptop in their vehicle and it has been stolen. We don't have anything proprietary on the laptops so the data on it is of no concern, I'm just curious what policy your company has when it comes to equipment being stolen (and having to be replaced) from an employee because they didn't secure it. i.e. leave it in their vehicle at a hotel.

Texas Man locked himself inside an ATM
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2017/07/14/texas-man-stuck-atm-slips-help-me-note-through-receipt-slot/478452001/

If you do a hard fail, which I recommend, make sure you include any IP/host that legitimately send mail for your domain.

Just signed up for Sodium to play around with it a bit.

@cteneyck There is nothing special about an "uplink" port. In the past they were designated ports for crossover connections, but now with MDIX you no longer need to worry about it. The "trunk" setting that is on Cisco switches etc, all it does is tag all the vlans on the port, so If you go in and tag all the vlans you are using on that port it should work.

Just ordered a Raspberry Pi 3 to turn into a retro game emulator

I like the first line of the post... "I didn't find much searching..." I call BS... lol

Delicious!

@dafyre said in Disaster Recovery in a lanless network:

@scottalanmiller said in Disaster Recovery in a lanless network:

There really isn't anything too special as normal backups tend to be LANless already. Not always, but generally. Some backup tools rely on SMB/NFS which is not very LANless, but lots don't.

You consider backups that are stored separately from other files generally safer, right?

What about a backup system that mounts the CIFS / NFS path when the backups start, and then unmounts them when it has completed?

You still have an issue where Crypto-whatever 's are scanning the networks for CIFS/NFS shares.

Anybody looking, Vultr has storage instances available in their LA datacenter

While at Mangocon, one of my locations had a bad storm blow through and tore the wireless radio off the side of the building. Short of that I've had very stable connections even in weather.

AOL Instant Messenger is Shutting Down, I didn't realize it still existed.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/06/aol-instant-messenger-shut-down/

I must be lucky...I'm not micro managed and routinely asked for advice on how we can improve processes etc.

@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Maybe you need to search better?

The search is really bad on this platform, unless you spend a few extra minutes adjusting all the options and use better search terms.

I tend to use tags more for searching.

but google works really well with "site:mangolassi.it"

I know in my experience, the GBIC cards that work with the EdgeSwitches are hit or miss on compatibility.

From the specs it should work. Make sure it has a good return policy on the one for the edgeswitch.