@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
upgrading 2000 year old laptops from W7 to W10
a total lack of punctuation makes this a challenging sentence to understand. Are you calling the laptops 2000 years old? or are you saying you have 2000 laptops that are 1 year old, that currently have Win7, and you're upgrading them to Win10?
@JaredBusch said:
@Dashrender said:
@anonymous said:
@scottalanmiller that seems like a silly reason to get upset.
it may be silly, but just ask what kind of tirade JB goes on when someone downvotes his post.. and now he could see who did it.. lol
Me? I don't give a shit who up or down votes my posts. I think you confused me with someone else.
Honestly it is usually pretty obvious who I've pissed off anyway.
LOL - ME ! 
just flippin' ya shit JB.
@jaredbusch said in Looking for Security camera options:
@dashrender said in Looking for Security camera options:
@stacksofplates said in Looking for Security camera options:
@dashrender said in Looking for Security camera options:
@pete-s said in Looking for Security camera options:
@jasgot said in Looking for Security camera options:
@travisdh1 said in Looking for Security camera options:
@voip_n00b said in Looking for Security camera options:
I have no experience with them but I keep seeing hikvision everywhere.
I see those everywhere as well. I think because they're cheap. I was very annoyed by the only system I ever worked with (required IE, 8 years ago now, but still, yuck.)
Hikvision was very popular because of price until it was discovered they had a backdoor to monitor every camera that had a route to the internet.
Good to know.
But on the other hand it's not wise to open your security cameras to the internet - ever. All devices are filled with backdoors and vulnerabilities. Some are known, most are not.so the only way you'd ever have cameras is with local access, or VPN access to that local network?
A common way is with VLANs, like mentioned in another thread.
I don't think this really gets to the heart of what most people want.
I'm guessing JB's client wants to view these cameras while they are at home, etc.
It's more about the remote access than the LAN based protection... but yeah, sure - Using a VLAN and ACLs is probably a good idea to help keep things separated.It is remote access to a NVR never a specific camera. Cameras never need to be open to the internet.
yeah, cause an NVR's are always super hardened to be on the internet 
@anonymous said:
@scottalanmiller that seems like a silly reason to get upset.
it may be silly, but just ask what kind of tirade JB goes on when someone downvotes his post.. and now he could see who did it.. lol
@scottalanmiller said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:
@BRRABill said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:
a) logging into our machines
AD is only useful if you are maintaining central creds to log into multiple machines. And at just 10 users, that's considered not to make sense, even by MS standards. So even when that functionality is needed, AD isn't considered a good option for that.
Really? then what is? manually maintaining 10 logons on each machine?
What is the goal of the survey?
The questions basically only ask what you're current password requirements are, and if you agree with the new NIST recommendations.
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Deepin Linux may ship with an AI Voice Assistant:
I read this yesterday on my phone, it seems like a really great addon feature. Not that I need an AI assistant, but I know people who use these regularly.
Really? for more than just weather reports and stupid human tricks, like - alexa let's play Jeopardy....
@brandon220 said in Handling Downvotes:
Public is fine. Always good to know who downvotes the carpet cleaning ads!
Exactly - don't downvote - that's just a waste - simply report them.
@jasgot said in Exchange Environment - Lab:
There's rarely a day that goes by that I don't write a batch script, cmd script or powershell script. All of it is possible from having learned the basic structure of command scripting.
If I have to do anything to more than two computers that can be scripted, I script it.
I would much rather have my techs learn how to install MSExchange with a version that has been around long enough to be able to find the answer to the issue online; than have them spinning their wheels trying to solve a problem caused by a recent windows patch that no one has encountered before.
@irj said in Exchange Environment - Lab:
No that's terrible practice and not a modern or efficient way to do anything. Powershell or Bash (neither of which is new) would actually. Ake sense. If you're using batch in 2021, you might as well use a sun dial or high noon to tell time.
This is like saying you don't need to learn long division because you have a cellphone with a calculator.
You need to know long division.
I disagree, Learning batch is like learning Latin today... unless you're in a very specialized field, it's not going to be practical at all. You likely shouldn't be wasting your time in batch files at all... go directly to Powershell.
@dustinb3403 said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
@tim_g said in DragonBox, Streaming Services, and Copyright:
Gun shops are legal, easy-access to guns.
Gun shops have to perform background checks (at least in the US). So not as easy as just stealing all of the guns from the gun shop!
Irrelevant - Irrelevant...
I'm cool with showing downvotes. It will give haters just one more thing to complain about - so and so downvoted me... no different than someone complaining about to much spam or something else here.
@obsolesce said in Exchange Environment - Lab:
@hugh-jass said in Exchange Environment - Lab:
Why are you trying to learn how out dated technology?
Maybe he's trying to get a government job? They always use the outdated stuff.
I was going to ask this question myself… but then realized it was likely some stupid requirement to be local
@coliver said in Google Pixel Phone:
@Dashrender said in Google Pixel Phone:
@scottalanmiller said in Google Pixel Phone:
@Kelly said in Google Pixel Phone:
@scottalanmiller said in Google Pixel Phone:
@Kelly said in Google Pixel Phone:
@scottalanmiller said in Google Pixel Phone:
@Kelly said in Google Pixel Phone:
@scottalanmiller said in Google Pixel Phone:
The best clone on the market, almost as good as the real thing.
What I don't get is why they're copying the most stagnant platform on the market. Apple hasn't done any real innovation in a long time. Features the iPhone is just now getting in iOS X have been on the other platforms for a long time.
Maybe because the market has loved the design from the beginning and now Google realizes that you don't need to change to be good. Who needs new phone features every year? No me, I just want one that works really well. You can call iPhone stagnant, but I felt that it worked better than Android four years ago when I switched and I feel it is better now. Android may have flailed in the meantime, but change for the sake of change isn't good. You need improvement.
If you only copy the market leader then you are forgoing any differentiation that might allow you to compete. If someone offers me a Dr. Pepper vs a Mr. Pibb I will always take the Dr. Pepper even for slightly more. The same holds true in this case. With little/no differentiation the only market is the "never iPhone" group.
That's the thing, though, they do a ton of stuff. It is just the one, singular product that is copying the leader. It's just rounding out a portfolio, not replacing one.
I'm not sure what you're getting at here. The intersection of competition between Google and Apple is their smartphone. This is Google's phone since they're no longer producing Nexus devices. Sure Google has a large portfolio, and as a larger strategy it might not be critical, but at this point of competition it makes no sense to me.
Ah, well if you think of Google as phone maker, sure. But I don't. I think of them as a mobile platform maker - they make Android to compete with iOS. The making of Pixel is not to compete Google vs. Apple, but to make sure that the Android market doesn't have a gap in that space, which it did.
What gap did Android have that was filled by the Samsung S7/Note 7?
We're talking about the Pixel. The gap the Pixel filled was the same one that the Nexus tried to fill. A solid, stable, reference device that should compete directly with the iPhone but also to keep the other vendors on their toes and force them to differentiate the market.
Oh, so the gap was that Apple has a pure iOS only device and that on the Android side of the house, there was no such purist Android thing.. so the Nexus, and now the Pixel fills that gap.
I guess my next thought is.. who cares? No really? from a mass consumer point of view, who cares? normal users don't care if it's plain Android of Samsung's bastardization of Android on their device, as long as it works.
@Obsolesce said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@Obsolesce said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
None of us collect games, nor do any of us have a desire to, so this game-specific thing is very subjective.
It is for sure. I'm a collector by nature. To me, video games are like literature and I don't like borrowed literature. I always want it to be something that I own so that I always have guaranteed access to it again or the ability to share with someone. That's very much a "me" thing. So it causes subscription services to be of far less interest to me. I hate the "let's see what's available this month" feeling. I like to know that I own something and can choose to play it whenever, forever.
It's a bit like Netflix perhaps. You use that I thought? That is worth it to many people who don't need to permanently own everything they want to watch.
Yeah, but like Netflix, you need to have enough value to keep paying monthly.
For example, Star Trek is my go to sleep TV... so Netflix it worth it for me for now. But buying/then ripping it all to plex could end up saving me money, as I find less and less to watch on Netflix these days. But like Scott - I still have my ol' standbys that I like always have handy.
Sadly storage for all of this video content adds up, especially if I were to put it in the cloud...
All that just goes back to whoever said it above - it's stupid to test about it today, unless you're at an engineering level...
@JaredBusch said in Lotus Notes to Microsoft Access:
@Dashrender said in Lotus Notes to Microsoft Access:
OK so that's the situation eh? The dev for doing is this not as easy as using Access? that's a drag!
You continue to add things that do not exist. Who said anything about the specific dev for this? No one. Who said anything about owning Access (at the time you posted this)? No one.
Dude STFU - I'm asking for me, not the OP.. yes I'm butting the FUCK into his conversation, but it's mine.. so either answer my question or ignore me, don't harass me 
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I think if everyone worked from home for at least 2-3 weeks this would go away, so I understand why we should
You're kidding, right? This thing is with us for the rest of human time. Just like the Flu. Over time we'll likely get some type of herd immunity, so fewer people will get sick and die.
During the press conference yesterday - they were guessing that someone who recovers from Covid-19 is likely immune for 3 years, before the antibodies leave your body fully.
@dave247 said in offline, air-gapped backups / backup rotation (looking for hardware & ideas):
@scottalanmiller said in offline, air-gapped backups / backup rotation (looking for hardware & ideas):
@dave247 said in offline, air-gapped backups / backup rotation (looking for hardware & ideas):
I would even think an SSD setup would be more stable in this situation since write time and life time would be a lot better. I only mention spindle drives since its a big blob of data.
SSD is faster, and that helps, for sure. But the real issue is the physical connections and the RAID mechanism, not the drives themselves. Physical drives are a perfectly valid media for your use case. It's RAID being used as an archival mechanism rather than as a disaster avoidance mechanism that causes the problems both in software and in hardware.
Maybe I will just have to set up a network repository and simply plug the network cable in to let backup file copy to sync, then disconnect. That would probably be the easiest way to be honest.
I just wanted some mechanism that forced us to always have a full backup of data sitting offline/air-gapped... but F it lol
Yeah, it’s called tape. And it’s $8k price tag.
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It can be my call if I decide that's what I want to do.
Gotcha, then yeah why deal with managing multiple work-spaces unless there was a critical need for it.
Just looked at my Laptop - There's no VGA.. Its HDMI .
I dont have a HDMI Monitor.. But I do have a HDMI to VGA adapter .Why the fuck would a laptop recently purchased have VGA in today's market. VGA is ancient tech and for use on much older systems.
I still almost exclusively buy laptops with VGA because all of the monitors I have deployed are VGA. While many have HDMI available - it's definitely not all, I'm not sure I can even say most - as in more than 50% - you seem to be barking up a tree here, though I can't figure out why?