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the secure enclave is the only thing that matters - and iOS tells the secure enclave to erase itself after 10 bad tries.

Right, it's accessing it without iOS that I'm expecting.

the problem with that is that the (and I'm guessing here) secure enclave won't respond to an attempt that's not signed by Apple's private key or some other key that would be unique - but I guess if that exists in iOS, then the FBI could extract that somehow..

That's my guess. Pretty much, physical access always means that you can get to the data. It might be a huge pain, but I find it likely that they will find a way.

Yep, and designers of chips will continue to try to find ways to make those breakdown solutions work.

It's like the hackers who hacked Blu Ray players to get the key for blu ray encryption...

And then walk away from the game due to ferocious litigation

How funny - they talked about this on Security Now! a few weeks ago when this happened, and again this week.

The developers of the software live in a different country/different laws from where Slysoft was - and the devs have stood up a new service for this project.

Didn't know that. I was surprised to see that China-based DVDFab was abandoning plans to pursue next-gen Blu-Ray decryption as well.

That is surprising... is the Chinese government actually considering joining the rest of the first world with regards to piracy?

"The rest of the world" might be a bit strong. I think you'll fine the US and EU to be the outliers here, not the mainstream.

What other first world is there?

Quite a bit.

@hobbit666 said:

Re-installing FOG, (Because I deleted the bloody wrong VM!!!!!)

Veeam?

@wrx7m Just type in that box

Doing the monthly pre-workday reboot of an ancient Unix production server

And P2V'ing some stuff.

@scottalanmiller said:

I think that there is a big missed opportunity in the opposite, a butt to cloud plugin.

Kiss my cloud!

Check on the cloud on her.

And so forth.

Sounds a bit nebulous.

@crustachio But yeah. This server is the stuff IT nightmares are made of. We have almost lost it several times. Recently a weird utility power issue "backfed" (or something, don't ask me, I don't do high voltage) our emergency generator and killed it during a power outage. So when our UPS finally failed it took this server and array down, and it was NONE TOO HAPPY when we tried to bring it back online.

Thankfully we keep an exact duplicate on the shelf, so we did emergency transplanting (RAID controller died, along with some disks). Anyway, back up... for now. But yes, Sweaty Palms Achievement Unlocked.

@scottalanmiller said:

See what I did there?

Don't take things so cirrusly.

Just saw this while browsing the Verge and it totally piqued my interest: Vivaldi is a new desktop browser for power users

Teh Sauce: Vivaldi Browser

I continually rotate between browsers because I just can't settle. I was a Chrome fanatic for the longest time, but performance issues sent me to Firefox, which worked well for awhile but started having compatibility issues with certain tools I use. So I went to Opera which has been surprisingly excellent but doesn't play super well with PRTG. Chrome is probably still the all-around champ, but I'm just not quite satisfied.

Gonna give Vivaldi a shot just for kicks. The nerd-fu features are very attractive... tab stacks, yes!

I call shenanigans!

@scottalanmiller said:

The neighbourhood dog is here playing with the kids.

What I'm picturing

We did a wiki for awhile but I was the only one in my department who could be bothered to actually use it (come on guys, Markdown is not that hard). So we used Evernote Business for awhile and have now settled on a shared OneNote. It works pretty well, and the search works great, but still, I'm typically the only one entering new documentation into it. But that's a people problem, not a platform problem.

@MattSpeller Thank you sir. PRTG is remarkably easy to work with once you get going. It's a great tool, and has proven its worth countless times. We use the dashboards for keeping an eye on things, and it alerts us via Slack and/or Email depending on the particular notification. We could also tie it into PagerDuty if we were insane crazy people.

I particularly like being able to look at historic metrics and averages for things like uptime and bandwidth. I also have some geo maps set up for things like WAN links (remote sites, water/cell towers, etc). The pre-canned sensors are awesome -- they have lots, and can hook right into common things like VMware SOAP, Cisco, and Dell/HP management engines, for example, in addition to the common stuff like SNMP and WMI. The mobile app is great too. All in all it's just a one-stop shop for network monitoring. And my setup is not really scratching the surface of what it can do.

Probably my biggest disappointment with it is that its syslogging functionality is pretty limited. It can receive syslog traffic and you can do basic searching, but it doesn't export or interface with anything else like ElasticSearch that I'm aware of. Kind of a shame since it's 99% there. But then again, what it does, it does really well, so I'm just as happy not to muddy the waters.

I have seen so many oddities related to the Win10 start menu... it is confounding. Last week it would not take my keyboard input, so I couldn't open any app using the usual Win + [type] process. Reboot was the only thing that fixed it. Bizarre for such a core feature of the GUI to act out like that.

It looks really cool and I plan to use it for my next trip, however it looks like (and correct me if I'm wrong) it does not offer any sort of collaboration or shared access to a trip? In other words, my wife and I can't access the same trip on our phones? Seems like a big miss if that's true...

@Dashrender said in Windows Server 2016 Pricing:

i thought I read somewhere that you would get grandfathered in if you are running more cores than the new licensing comes with by default. anyone else read that?

This is a new host deployment, so there is NO licensing on these hosts currently. Nothing to grandfather. We're coming from OEM licensed physical servers.

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2016 Pricing:

Anything stopping you from changing how that is? It's not as good as having smart licensing, but can't you consolidate to one or two hosts?

Well, since this is a new deployment we just sunk a whole heap of cash into these hosts

But it's not just the sunk cost fallacy at play. Our storage and compute needs are contingent on using at least 3 hosts, and since we're running VSAN, 4 is the true safe minimum, to say nothing of disk groups and future storage growth. We weren't expecting the 2016 per-core licensing cost increase when putting this project together, we assumed flat rate per-proc licensing as usual. It's really too late to change the trajectory of our ESXi deployment at this point, and if we did so just for the sake of this licensing cost we would spend more re-engineering the solution than just eating the licensing bump.

As a completely on-prem, VMware-invested environment, can anyone list any significant reasons not to just stick with 2012?

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Server 2016 Pricing:

@crustachio said in Windows Server 2016 Pricing:

If we're comfortable riding 2012 into the sunset....

I have a rule of thumb about this... anything that something like this is said, it probably means you should not be on Windows

See above... We have an unsettling amount of 2003 servers in production.

@thanksajdotcom You could share it to me and I could try to sort it

Also try creating a new playlist, just add 2 or 3 songs and try drag and drop. If it works, add the songs from your other list.

We're first name + last initial at my org, so your examples would be:

jamess
johns

Two "johns" users such as John Smith and John Snyder would then be:

johns
johnsn

Assuming John Smith was the first "johns" employed.

Etc.

I think that numbers in a name aren't the most professional looking solution. Finding an alternative to distinguish them might be worthwhile.

Can you wait until all the Black Friday sales start in earnest? Tablets are always a big discount item.

Actually the Amazon Fire devices have great hardware for the price, and they can be rooted easily enough and replaced with CyanogenMod + Play store. Just sayin