@wirestyle22 said in Nine Out of Every 10 Silicon Valley Jobs Pays Less Than In 1997, Report Finds:
@Donahue said in Nine Out of Every 10 Silicon Valley Jobs Pays Less Than In 1997, Report Finds:
Eventually I'd like to find a site wide solution
For ad blocking? Pi-hole does that I believe
yeah, its on my todo list, just down towards the bottom.
I just installed it from that other download link, yesterday. I got tired of waiting for the eval center to update. But, that version is the one without all the fixes. I don't know if it was just Server 2019 that had all the issues, or if there were issues with hyper-v too, but I figure the updates will be out by the time I put this host into production.
I have sole discretion over that. Most of the time I try and warn people with at least a 30 minute notice, or more if I can. But there are times when I just reboot and don't say anything. A lot of it depends on how long I think it will be down. If it is just rebooting a VM, and it might only be down for a few minutes, then I may just go ahead and do it, although I do frequently warn people too.
But in my case, I have never asked for permission, I always use my own judgement.
I cant read the article because of my ad blocker. Eventually I'd like to find a site wide solution, instead of the browser based solution.
Does it list any specifics? I have always wondered where I stood in the IT industry. I feel like an outsider a lot, because I have no formal training, nor have I worked with any other IT people. I only have a vague idea of what my job duties would be considered if I worked at a larger company, and how my salary compares to industry normals. When you add the differences in cost of living, it just makes it even more murky.
not to mention all the other things that NC can do that are not directly related to file sharing.
I still have a long way to go, but I see NC as the next phase in our "shared file" evolution. It looks like I could simply recreate the same structure (or something very similar) as what we have in our file server, inside NC. If I went this route, then most things are similar to what we already have, but we get some added features, such as the ability to share files with third parties without resorting to email. We have times where the email attachment size limit comes into play, and this would allow that to all go away. NC would also give us versioning outside of my backups, which might be nice if we trained people to use them. If we went with NC, we would also likely enable remote access, which added to the multiplatform clients, would basically make the files always available for our users, even if they are not on premise.
One main benefit, is the ability to sync select files to the user's local disk. This should have a pretty good performance benefit, especially with half of my users at the site that is across the WAN.
so far I have just fired up an online demo, and played around a bit. With all I typed above, I could probably make this very similar to a basic file server, but I want to explore the other differences between NC and a file server, because there may be things we can do that are fundamentally different with NC, and they may be better in the long run, the use of tags being a good example. I also need to think about the concept of a user having any dedicated, potentially semi-private, shares versus everyone using a common share that is setup by the admin user (basically what we have now). Our current storage philosophy is based on how we used an old simple NAS that used to have no permissions, and only the most basic folder structure.
I started playing around with nextcloud. Trying to see if this is a viable replacement for our windows based file server.
@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Found this to generate passwords for the "Non IT" users out there
https://www.dinopass.com/
thats awesome.
@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Donahue said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Someone apparently turned off the breaker to the ONT at one of my locations. No one thought to turn the breaker back on until the batteries died in the ONT and the phones and internet stopped working. It was down 3 hours, and no one seemed to care, even though some people were without power in their office that whole time.
They get paid by the hour. Just doing nothing and waiting until quitting time.
it was the production manager...
Someone apparently turned off the breaker to the ONT at one of my locations. No one thought to turn the breaker back on until the batteries died in the ONT and the phones and internet stopped working. It was down 3 hours, and no one seemed to care, even though some people were without power in their office that whole time.
All this is my opinion. I see IT as managing and recommending tools that the business uses to function as a business. I see software as just one of those tools. Software development simply develops that software, and generally from a point of view of a closed system product. As a software developer, I would guess the main responsibilities would be to make sure the software functions for whatever business purpose it was created for. But as IT, I try and make all the pieces fit together so that there is a comprehensive picture of how we do business. In my case of the ERP, they are focused on making the product functional at a basic level, but completely miss other business needs, such as security, even though the best place for security measures are at that same software level.
It's like software developers are a car manufacturer, and IT is the transportation planner. You CAN make a car without regards to what kind of road it will be driven on, or if there are any relevant laws that should be part of the original design. But that would likely be an inferior product to something that we designed from the ground up to not only get you from point A to point B (the actual purpose of a car), but to also incorporate things like safety features, or navigation, or whatever so that the overall experience of the user was more than the basic functionality of the actual transportation.
@tonyshowoff said in SQL security over the LAN:
but if the company is basically dismissing concerns over encryption by saying "it's up to you to secure your network" that's basically saying "what's encryption? We're morons."
I have a suspicion that this is true. I feel like there are maybe two sides to software development, there is the functional aspect of the SW itself, but then there is how it incorporates into the overall IT plan for a target business. It feels like all of this company's development resources go into the first category, and none in the second.
@flaxking said in SQL security over the LAN:
@tonyshowoff said in SQL security over the LAN:
@flaxking said in SQL security over the LAN:
@tonyshowoff said in SQL security over the LAN:
@flaxking That may work and is worth a try, but it's likely not to work because the client is passing along to SQL Server and it's not known whether or not they implemented, or allow, encrypted traffic within their SQL Server connection library. Even if implemented in the library, it doesn't mean the client allows it, and even may be intentionally disabled for God only knows what reason. It isn't an SQL client, it's an application which just connects to SQL Server or passes raw SQL along to an application server to avoid client connection licensing limits.
How would that avoid licencing? The MS SQL licencing doesn't care how a user connects, you have to get CALs for the actual users using it no matter the method used. (Unless using SQL Express)
Because it opens one connection between the application server and the SQL Server rather than a new one for every single client. You can avoid user CAL issues because it's one connection from one user.
I can't speak to there possibility being a point in time when this was true, but it is not true now. You have to get CALs for each actual person, even if they themselves are not in direct communication with the MS SQL Server
I agree, CAL's are about a legal obligation, but they don't actually affect the functionality of SQL. If we had an application server that was the only thing that directly accessed the database, we would still be obligated to have CAL's that cover the use of the application. In our case however, we are licensed for core on SQL and do not use CAL's.
@scottalanmiller said in SQL security over the LAN:
@Donahue said in SQL security over the LAN:
I think a lot of the aspects of this application are catering to customers that may only use SQL express. i've been looking, but I have not found yet, if express allows for encrypted connections. I have read that some of the encryption methods such as TDE are not in express though, and I wonder if they (the application developers) do what they do because they want to also let the application be used by express. I get the feeling that probably about half of their customers use SQL express and not the full meal deal.
I got a reply from their support this morning basically telling me that "security was solely my responsibility" and I am just SOL. It's about what I expected.
Given the extreme limits of Express, that feels unlikely.
can you elaborate? what part felt unlikely?
@tonyshowoff said in SQL security over the LAN:
My guess is they may be having their application work with a newer version of SQL Server but I doubt they're using any features not also available on SQL Server 7 from 1998...
I fully expect this to be correct. The minimum requirements specify SQL 2012 and newer, but I would bet money they it would run on older versions too, at least to 2005.
Concur, networks have no bearing on licensing.
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
Veeam rep talking at the western chicagoland Suburbs SpiceCorp tonight.
Don’t use regular credentials to access the backup storage.
I agree, I created a special user account that is used for nothing else, and only that account has access to the backup storage. The worry was that a regular account could get compromised and also compromise the backups, especially with something like ransomware.
I think a lot of the aspects of this application are catering to customers that may only use SQL express. i've been looking, but I have not found yet, if express allows for encrypted connections. I have read that some of the encryption methods such as TDE are not in express though, and I wonder if they (the application developers) do what they do because they want to also let the application be used by express. I get the feeling that probably about half of their customers use SQL express and not the full meal deal.
I got a reply from their support this morning basically telling me that "security was solely my responsibility" and I am just SOL. It's about what I expected.
