@IRJ said in I am thinking about getting into Security:
@dafyre I was told that we would like to hire internally for that position. We would look to hire someone with training to do it. Then I got told to find out about the ethical hacker course. Now I'm approved for the training
I rest my case. 
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https://twitter.com/PixelBob13/status/521058244908023808
Have you seen something in between?
Yeah, compiling.
That's so blazing fast today... Not like 15 to 20 years ago when you hit F5, CTRL-ALT-DEL->SPACE and went off to get the next coffee.
You need to run more stuff in the background to slow it down! Coffee time is sacred
Just checked my current workstation: Xeon 1240, 32GB RAM, SSD, bla bla.
Not the biggest, I know, but it's a developer / admin workstation, not a CAD system
I thought I was doing ok with a 2 year old laptop, i5, 16gb and ssd haha
Granted it sounds like we do different things all day so fair enough!
That describes my Acer gaming laptop at home, lol.
The main concern is for this to be a place for a department to store photos... One place... not 10 individual 1TB drives.
I've already done some price checking, and building a SAM-SD comes in at about half the price of a Synology for similar sizes going by straight up list prices... and this includes the 3 year NBD parts warranty from xByte.
My git server is being stubborn this morning... It would seem that I missed the expiring cert emails from Letsencrypt, lol.
@coliver said in NAS or SAM-SD?:
@BBigford said in NAS or SAM-SD?:
@DustinB3403 said in NAS or SAM-SD?:
@BBigford said in NAS or SAM-SD?:
@scottalanmiller said in NAS or SAM-SD?:
@BBigford said in NAS or SAM-SD?:
@scottalanmiller said in NAS or SAM-SD?:
@BBigford said in NAS or SAM-SD?:
@scottalanmiller said in NAS or SAM-SD?:
@wirestyle22 said in NAS or SAM-SD?:
Is a SAM-SD a Software Defined Network that is Scott Alan Miller compliant?
All an enterprise NAS is is a SAM-SD that someone built as a black box for you
If someone were to build a white box, or maybe a green box, would that still be compliant?
A white box device cannot be a NAS. Blackbox is part of the definition of a NAS.
White boxes cannot be enterprise (no support) so doesn't qualify as SAM-SD. That would just be a hobby class file server.
SAM-SD still requires enterprise hardware and support, but does not allow for black boxing as that is what it replaces.
So I'm 100% clear (my post was sarcasm if you didn't pick up on that, but there was a good point about white boxes I'll take note of), black boxes have parts that individually have enterprise support? Your RAID controller has support from one vendor, the main board has support from another vendor, and so on. Whereas a white box has zero support whatsoever?
@BBigford said in NAS or SAM-SD?:
@scottalanmiller said in NAS or SAM-SD?:
@BBigford said in NAS or SAM-SD?:
@scottalanmiller said in NAS or SAM-SD?:
@wirestyle22 said in NAS or SAM-SD?:
Is a SAM-SD a Software Defined Network that is Scott Alan Miller compliant?
All an enterprise NAS is is a SAM-SD that someone built as a black box for you
If someone were to build a white box, or maybe a green box, would that still be compliant?
A white box device cannot be a NAS. Blackbox is part of the definition of a NAS.
White boxes cannot be enterprise (no support) so doesn't qualify as SAM-SD. That would just be a hobby class file server.
SAM-SD still requires enterprise hardware and support, but does not allow for black boxing as that is what it replaces.
So I'm 100% clear (my post was sarcasm if you didn't pick up on that, but there was a good point about white boxes I'll take note of), black boxes have parts that individually have enterprise support? Your RAID controller has support from one vendor, the main board has support from another vendor, and so on. Whereas a white box has zero support whatsoever?
Black box by definition has to have a single point of support because you don't know what components it has - hence black box. You can't support a black box, what's under the hood is abstracted from you.
When you buy a black box you commit 100% to relying on external support to tell you everything. That's the benefit, and the caveat, of appliances (aka black boxes.)
You can basically use the terms appliance or black box interchangeably.
Oh haha, I read that completely backwards... You were saying a black box is something that someone built FOR you, not that you built yourself. So if everything is abstract to you in a black box, how does a white box not fit into SAM-SD? You build it yourself for better performance and maybe less money, you have support on individual parts should they fail...
I understand that since each part has it's own vendor, and not a single point, that is not SAM-SD compliant... but if a Synology is a black box, and SAM-SD is a counter part (white box) then how do you get what is essentially a white box with a single point of contact for support?
Because you design the system with HP or Dell or whoever building it / testing it with you. You actively participate in the design of the system.
So like a build-to-buy?
Or by actually talking to a sales rep. xByte would be included in this as well.
Yepp! I'm already talking with @BradfromxByte
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I think you should live stream the entire installation so we can watch what is happening while you install.
Wonder what your be the easiest way to do that??? now that's a random thought for the day lol
and share you screen?
Edit: I'm an idiot... You may want to use another laptop... or a phone that you can use a rear camera and point it at the screen of your server.
@BBigford said in NAS or SAM-SD?:
@dafyre said in NAS or SAM-SD?:
For ~$3k, I can get a SAM-SD with 36TB (12 x 3TB drives) and get 18TB of usable space... that should tide us over for a while.
What are you looking at specifically, from xByte? I'm curious myself as we're going to be looking into the same thing about 6 months from now.
R510, and 12 x 3TB NL-SAS drives, Front Bezel, Rail Kit, and 3 Year NBD Parts Warranty... Comes out to ~$2,750 -- that's list price on their site.
Also, I am going to take a moment to tell @BradfromxByte : Be sure to pass 1,000 Thank Yous and Well Wishes to the Web Developers and whoever it was that makes the pricing information so easy to find on your site!
Not to mention a few folks from Georgia (assuming you mean the US, lol).
If you use SCP you can get a progress bar... or as @Romo mentioned, rsync with --progress.
@IRJ said in New low cost toy:
@gjacobse said in New low cost toy:
I can see the need for the extra USB ports, but why a Ethernet port?
We don't even have WiFi where I work. Plus it is nice sometimes to just connect to the network.
Something like that, and maybe even one with a serial adapter... then you could manage switches and all with it too... I think I may have found my next gadget accessory!
I am a big fan of doing stuff "in house" -- especially when A) the IT team has the internal resources and skill set to be able to configure a product correctly and securely, and mainly B) The internal IT team can make the time to do the project.
Obviously there are times when IT is just plain too busy, or a project is too critical and needs to be done two weeks ago... those times it makes sense to have outside help doing stuff.
@mlnews I haven't got to use this one in a while...
@RamblingBiped said in How are you SIP-ing?:
We have SIP over internet and right around 40 users. We've not experienced any issues since making the switch a couple of years ago.
How much has your internet usage gone up because of it? Is it noticeable or negligible?
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@tonyshowoff said in This was a June 28th-thing...:
That's a pretty cool story, I say definitely nurture her technical side. I've noticed that in the west, especially America, there's a subcurrent of almost discouragement for girls to be interested in technology. It's vague, it's subtle, but it's certainly there.
I'd say it is more huge and in your face than vague or subtle. Girls are often outright faced (often from other women more than men) with "that's not a girl's job", or talk that girls won't be good at that kind of thing or, more often, just told that girls don't enjoy that kind of work.
Well I was just trying to be polite for all the Americans here. I've pointed out on Spiceworks many times in those types of threads that if women inherently dislike that kind of thing, why does Russia have more female engineers and doctors than male ones? Most of the programmers I've met here were women as well. It's not completely inverted in every case, but at the bear minimum is at least 50/50 on the low end. So if there's some sort of genetic predisposition to women not like technology, then for some reason Slavs don't seem to carry this. Of course the typical response is either silence or "well you'll never convince me otherwise [because I'm a lonely white guy in America who thinks women shouldn't like technology so I have a huge confirmation bias, my mom isn't a programmer, therefore women don't want to be.]"
Ironically 3 of my last 4 jobs the IT Directors were women, lol. And they were GOOD at IT, not just meh.
Just an FYI... These instructions also still work on Mint 18 as well.
@scottalanmiller said in This was a June 28th-thing...:
@dafyre said in This was a June 28th-thing...:
Ironically 3 of my last 4 jobs the IT Directors were women, lol. And they were GOOD at IT, not just meh.
In the US it is considered acceptable for women to be managers, but not technicians. Women in IT often go into management very quickly. Or start in management without coming through IT.
They were both. One of them was also a programmer... She was so good at hacking around in the code of one company's software, they'd call HER if they had a problem they couldn't fix.
@scottalanmiller is special at Microsoft. They put all his accounts in the "let's see what happens if we put him here" servres.
Yeah, actually, that sounds like a good idea. I'll probably find a good home for my blogs where I link them all to, and then keep a private playground for myself.
@tonyshowoff -- That is the most excellent explanation of DHCP I've ever seen... It's totally not my fault if that shows up on random geeky websites across the internet!
And it comes to no surprise that one our IBM SAN systems went belly up today... Took out data that 3 VMs connected to.... And the backups, if you want to call them that, were stored on the SAME SAN... Ugh...
