Move everything to Sharepoint or OneDrive for Business. That would make the most sense in this case.

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I was hoping the Toyota's that I was looking at was going to solve that problem. :disappointed_face:

I haven't had that experience with any Toyota I've owned / driven.

My Sienna is really good about warning lights. Only shows stuff when something is actually very wrong. Coming from a Ford Flex this is a bit refreshing.

@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@pmoncho said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Nothing in the news as to whether or not they made it!

I haven't seen anything on the conclusion. Holy crap, that has to be scary even for only about 10 feet drop. That water was moving FAST.

Even ten feet will drown you, for sure.

Even a 1 foot waterfall can easily drowned you if you choose the way the currents your spin and pull you down.

I can state this from personal experience in my teens. We were on the spring river in northern Arkansas and waiting for the group to catch up at a short 1 foot waterfall playing around and the current pulled me under.

Youtube Video

It's a decent video about why that is.

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

More rsync host stuff.
(Can Zabbix monitor and report on Fedora MD RAID)

https://share.zabbix.com/cat-server-hardware/other/template-md-raid

Not sure how good it is haven't ever needed to use it.

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Amazon plans nationwide broadband—with both home and mobile service

Amazon seeks FCC approval to launch 3,236 low-Earth broadband satellites.
Amazon is seeking government permission to launch 3,236 broadband satellites that would cover nearly all of the United States and much of the rest of the world.

I wonder how this will work with Musk's satellite internet tech. They are both proposing similar satellite numbers IIRC.

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch We're doing Waterdeep: Dragon Heist right now. What are you guys playing right now or is it a custom campaign?

Let me know how you like that. I was thinking of running that and then Dungeon of the Mad Mage... but honestly my players would appreciate Ghosts of the Saltmarsh way more.

Have you looked at Arista by any chance? I don't have any experience with them but they have made their name on the higher speed networking technologies.

@wirestyle22 said in UPS Radiation:

Is the consensus that this is an insane question to ask and I shouldn't worry about it? I'm not exactly worried but I realized how little I know about it

Yes.

@wirestyle22 said in UPS Radiation:

@JaredBusch yeah but what are we talking here? The same amount as my computer power supply? More? By how much? How far away should we be from it?

The inverse square law is a thing you should look at. The amount of EMF coming off that UPS is probably negligible when you take every day exposure into account. I'd be more worried about the hearing damage the fans may cause (hint, I'm not worried about that).

@DustinB3403 said in Microsoft alternative - open source project?:

This is the part that CERN's team is pissed about.

TL:DR CERN's contract with Microsoft as an Academic institution pricing was revoked, and priced jacked way the hell up.

A prime example is that CERN has enjoyed special conditions for the use of Microsoft products for the last 20 years, by virtue of its status as an “academic institution”. However, recently, the company has decided to revoke CERN’s academic status, a measure that took effect at the end of the previous contract in March 2019, replaced by a new contract based on user numbers, increasing the license costs by more than a factor of ten. Although CERN has negotiated a ramp-up profile over ten years to give the necessary time to adapt, such costs are not sustainable.However, recently, the company has decided to revoke CERN’s academic status, a measure that took effect at the end of the previous contract in March 2019, replaced by a new contract based on user numbers, increasing the license costs by more than a factor of ten.

Anticipating this situation, the IT department created the Microsoft Alternatives project, MAlt, a year ago.

Yep.

@Dashrender said in Microsoft alternative open source project:

@IRJ said in Microsoft alternative open source project:

@Dashrender said in Microsoft alternative open source project:

@IRJ said in Microsoft alternative open source project:

@Dashrender said in Microsoft alternative open source project:

@IRJ said in Microsoft alternative open source project:

@Dashrender said in Microsoft alternative open source project:

@IRJ said in Microsoft alternative open source project:

I agree with @coliver this is truly not open source and then in itself is most concerning.

Why do you feel it so important that they do this in full view of the public? (not sure what you meant by 'truly not open source' - I assume you meant - in full view of the public.

Open Source means source code is open and available. This is not the case here. Now it could be their plan to make it open and available after a certain point, but why not have an open project to attract as many as possible.

I doubt many people who have no clue how anything is coded are going to approach CERN and ask them for access. On the flip side, I am sure CERN isnt just going to give anybody access. Who would want to go through that BS to help a project we know nothing about.

I'm not following how this isn't the case. Just because the project is closed off doesn't mean they aren't using open source solutions inside their project.

The project itself is closed source. It doesn't matter which internal tools they use.

So you're playing a word game with the title - Open Source Project. I could read this two ways.

1. it's an open source project - and like you're assuming, everything is done in the public eye
2. it's an open source project - the project is about using open source solutions/software, but it's a closed project.

It's not clear what the intention is but as of now it's closed source

Agreed - so again, I'm not sure why this bothers you and @coliver that the project is closed?

I'm not saying the project is closed. Just that it would be nice if there was a blog or something available to the public to show us the process.

It's a choice by CERN. They are using open source packages to build a new environment. I'm saying it would be nice if that process was open to the public. It's a wishlist not a mandate of the license.

@JaredBusch said in Microsoft alternative open source project:

I only read the linked article, but I bet this highlighted item leads down some stupid rabbit hole.

Yeah this one is a bit weird to me. I think the other ones are good goals though.

The really weird thing is that they don't appear to be doing this in the open. Their project site is locked down behind CERN's authorization page. Maybe they will open up that part when they are further along with the process.

@bnrstnr said in Hillary Rodham Clinton - Security Specialist:

@scottalanmiller said in Hillary Rodham Clinton - Security Specialist:

This would be like having someone who failed at being a hacker, like Kevin Mitnick, speak at a conference or represent you.

Shot at KnowBe4? People occasionally bring it up. It always seemed scammy to me.

Honestly it's a decent system. I'm not convinced it works very well but it covers the "Security Training" pieces of an audit. When we implemented it at my last job we did see a marked decrease in the number of people that clicked on spam/phishing links.

@connorsoliver said in Introduction to IP - CompTIA A+ 220-1001Prof Messer:

Also, I've seen that multiple people can have the same IP address, so how exactly does a server know where to send the data?

I think you're talking about NAT (Network Address Translation) where the external IP address appears the same but the internal address for each client is different and managed either statically or via DHCP.

@connorsoliver said in Introduction to IP - CompTIA A+ 220-1001Prof Messer:

What are the scenarios in which TCP would be used over UDP, and visa versa?

TCP is pretty much anytime you want "reliability". It has the ability to re-request missing packets and put them in the correct order.

UDP is made for speed where you don't care if you've missed a packet or not or even if they are out of order.

@RojoLoco Man... this is just the oddest/best shirt.

Literally says:

It's pretty clear.

@DustinB3403 said in Fedora Salt Master - New installation:

[root@localhost ~]# salt-master --log-level=debug

Doesn't this mean that you are starting the salt-master via the CLI and setting the log-level to debug? Stop the salt-master service with systemctl and rerun this command. I bet the output will be different.

@DustinB3403 said in Fedora Salt Master - New installation:

Full systemctl status as it was cut off before showing that Python is being used by this service.

systemctl status salt-master.service
● salt-master.service - The Salt Master Server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/salt-master.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2019-05-08 15:57:31 EDT; 5min ago
Docs: man:salt-master(1)
file:///usr/share/doc/salt/html/contents.html
https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/contents.html
Main PID: 995 (salt-master)
Tasks: 32 (limit: 2350)
Memory: 454.6M
CGroup: /system.slice/salt-master.service
├─ 995 /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/salt-master
├─1002 /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/salt-master
├─1004 /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/salt-master
├─1005 /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/salt-master
├─1008 /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/salt-master
├─1009 /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/salt-master
├─1010 /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/salt-master
├─1011 /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/salt-master
├─1018 /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/salt-master
├─1019 /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/salt-master
├─1020 /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/salt-master
├─1021 /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/salt-master
└─1025 /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/salt-master

May 08 15:57:30 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting The Salt Master Server...
May 08 15:57:30 localhost.localdomain salt-master[995]: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt/scripts.py:102: DeprecationWarning: Python 2.7 will reach the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 w>
May 08 15:57:31 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started The Salt Master Server.

So the Salt-Master is running.