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@gotwf said in Ergonomic Keyboard:

@carnival-boy said in Ergonomic Keyboard:

I'm no expert but "Ergonomic Keyboard" has always seems a bit gimmicky to me. Is there genuine science behind the designs? There probably is.

I'm no expert either. I have, however, been incentivized to delve into this arena fairly deeply over the years. I'm just tossin' out some resources for whatever they may be worth to else. I have my issues and system fairly well sussed out. There are no magic bullets cuz everything is connected to everything else, ya' dig? Hence, if nothing else, and something you can do for free:

1. Work on good posture and mind yer' angles.

Without addressing poor posture, workstation ergonomics, etc. all the fancy fangled input devices become moot.

agreed - And this is likely not something someone can really fix on their own. Their work space is their workspace - so unless the company is going to get them a new chair/desk, etc... I'm not sure what's going to change.

But - ALSO the person needs to change - they need to do their own due diligence and CHANGE their positioning... this is really hard to do... muscle memory takes a long time break, and even longer to train to a new normal.

@scottalanmiller said in Net+ Study Help - Subnetting:

@mr-jones said in Net+ Study Help - Subnetting:

A Company is configuring an internal network with routed subnets based on the following class B address range:
172.30.8.0/21

LOL, there aren't even Class Bs for decades, and when there were, they were never a /21. Who wrote this question and got something so basic wrong?

yeah that was the first thing I was wondering.... /21 and calling it a class B.. /sigh.

Is everything going to a single switch at the far end? or do you have redundant switches you'll split the load over?

Also the uplink between the any switches needs to be able to handle the full load otherwise you're introducing a bottleneck.

Didn't someone say PCI-X before? thought that was a completely different slot?

We had several suspicious activities happen at once, along with this activity. I can't go into details.

That said, we contacted our vendor agent and they were super cagey about what was happening.

This is what leads me to believe they had an incident they aren't reporting.

Toss in the fact of these red herring like solutions/problems their helpdesk is providing to the stated problem - instead of saying - oh.. interesting - I wonder if their AV is false positiving us.. no, instead they blaming a website redirect, lack of TLS, etc.

@irj said in Changing subnet mask?:

@jaredbusch said in Changing subnet mask?:

@irj said in Changing subnet mask?:

How do you move to zero trust model without network segmentation?

Using a VLAN does not have anything to do with zero trust. Actually, using a VLAN implies you are still using a LAN trust model for the things within the VLAN.

Yeah, ideally each application would be separated. In enterprise, it's done on each tier within the application. Also you would just want to whitelist specific traffic needed and allow nothing else.

I didn't recommend zero trust in my first response due to amount of effort. I did recommend not having a flat network and using simple VLANs and firewall. At a minimum separate your servers and block access there.

Well, you did forget to mention the firewall, but meh...

Then comes the question - does he have the gear needed to do that?

What is the brand/model of your PBX? What type of service are you using (POTS/T1/E1/SIP)?

@marcinozga said in Chia Mining and HD Shortages:

@dashrender said in Chia Mining and HD Shortages:

@marcinozga said in Chia Mining and HD Shortages:

@irj said in Chia Mining and HD Shortages:

2. One of my buddies who just bought NVME drives for this purpose, has only been using them for a week and is at 72% life left.

Consumer or enterprise drive? It could simply be bad unit. Although I do hope mining wears the drives that fast. Hardware manufacturer should put a clause in warranty, that mining voids it. What happened with GPU market is just insane, ordinary people get screwed over. Crypto needs heavy regulation or just outright ban.

man, someone doesn't like Crypto.

And what's to like? Mining wastes crazy amounts of energy for some useless calculations. In the end you have what exactly? Some string of characters. But cyber junkies need their fix too I guess.

We'll definitely have to disagree here. Am I happy about the shear amount of power being used to mine BTC? no, I'm not... but currency that's not controlled by the rich and powerful or the government, one that can't be devalued just by them turning the printing presses on? HELL YEAH I'm all for that.

What makes your paper money worth more than this digital currency? belief, that it all. Faith that someone will accept that paper has having value. Well, Cryptos have that faith right now too, granted, you can't use it on the street corner to buy a dime bag - well, who knows.. maybe you can... I know it's not as convenient as physical cash, but the inability of the government and rich to just steal your wealth through it makes me love it all the more.

@pete-s

It was more, when you would open a shared calendar it might take 5 mins for the whole thing to download… in the meantime you have no idea if there is an appt at a given time.
When I’m online mode there was zero delay

Interesting.
The IFS statement breaks down like this.

If $B$12 (which is column B, row 12), then enter value from $C$12 (i.e. the data from column C, row 12),
It keeps checking like this until there is a match, or the end is reached.

@pete-s said in Digital sign boards:

Real signage displays have embedded media players and remote management.
Problem solved.

They are also designed for 16/24 or continuous operation.

Considering the cost of those displays and the fact that we've had 3 standard off the shelf TVs running constantly for 5 years with no issues, I think I'll save some money.

If - If this becomes a problem... we'll invest in better tools.

My office wanted to setup a digital sign board.

With Scott's help we found Thanks For Holding, a vendor that makes Music on Hold and digital sign videos at a very reasonable price.

With the content handled I needed a way to display the video in our office. Of course the vendor want to push us toward some pricey player and professional display for $1000's or more, but for now we are trying a much less expensive solution, basically to dip our toe in.

I found Pisignage.com They have an image($25 one time fee) that runs on R-Pi's that will pull from either their hosted solution (which requires a subscription - $20/yr per player) or you can download the open source server and host it yourself.
Even better, they give you two players/hosting licenses free (currently claim forever free).

I'm sure I spent way more than I needed to on a R-Pi 4, but it's what I could find in stock easily. Assembled the kit, downloaded the imz file, burned it to the flash card, booted. it came right up, I had to join it to the WIFI, then add it to my pisignage account. Adding the WiFi account is a bit of a pain, you have to spell the SSID cap sensitive, it won't search for available SSIDs.

Once it was added, I was able to upload content to the service, add it to the default group, which the new player was already a member of, then tell it to deploy. All in all, probably took less than an hour from the time I opened the R-Pi box to a video playing on my TV.

The solution has the ability to turn off the TV if the TV supports CEC, mine claims to, and I have set a schedule, but haven't passed the schedule threshold yet.

The first set of sample videos I uploaded seemed to work fine - then I made some changes, pushed some new videos out... and when I was watching the player play, I noticed the sound was super choppy. it eventually cleared up - I can only assume at this point that the upload taxed the system to the point it couldn't smoothly play the video and audio (the video seemed flawless by the way).

The transitions between uploaded videos goes to a black screen for about 1/2 second. I'm not a huge fan of that transition, so I had to order my video from the above vendor as a single file instead of each individual component (which would have allowed me to mix and match as I wanted).

I'll report more after a few more days of playing with it.

I have a steelcase chair. I think normally they run around $450 USD... It's not super adjustable, but it's more than enough for me.

@dustinb3403 said in User email search in Exchange Online:

@jaredbusch what version of exchange are you using?

He's using O365 I assume (Exchange Online)...

@stacksofplates said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:

@dashrender said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:

yes - why Cisco?

Personally, unless there is a specific need, Netgear could do you fine, or an Edgeswitch.

Can't stack edgeswitches.

Ok but so what?
Sure the OP mentioned it, but he’s not now moving to a 48 port switch and from the sounds of it will likely have over 15 ports free to start, what’s the time frame expected to need a second switch where this will matter?

@killmasta93 said in Bitlocker GPO automatic?:

@black3dynamite
Thanks for the reply and sorry the late reply i did not get a notification on the email,
seemed that the issue was that it has to be done by \nameof server and not IP

I think it has to do with the trust factor. with a name, your endpoint is able to verify the fileserver, as an IP it can't.