Nerd Vittles published an article today discussing the need for a firewall on your PBX.

As always, their articles are a solid read, but they do have a bit of a bias with FreePBX as a distro, but not the GUI itself.

http://nerdvittles.com/?p=14349

Was putting the new shirts away and found this.
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@scottalanmiller said:

Interesting twist to the saga. Although honestly, is the ISS research really that valuable? I'm not sure we should be spending that much on it as it is. It's interesting but there are likely better places for our national research money.

Basically, no. The research is useful, but the cost is outrageous. The private sector could do it much better.

Shorten and mash things.

Sodium IT = SodIT
then I can softly curse everytime I say it.

@creayt just stop seriously...

I am tired of crying in jealousy..

Crying that one of my client's server is running a RAID0.

I have no idea how this got configured. I want to Blame the Dell guy that was out 3 years ago, but I redid the OS after that so I can only blame myself for not double checking at that time.

Best quote in that article.

“A weaponized PowerPoint document was observed in these attacks.”

@StrongBad said:

Any reason why only these two options are being considered? If you already have HyperV, should that not be on the list of consideration as well?

Because the MSP screwed it up and now no one there likes it most likely.

Also, regarding the original topic, I would stick with Xen and dump the MSP

Don't confuse "diet and exercise" with "going on a diet"

I did not go on a diet. I simply changed my diet to be not huge portions.

I was a bachelor. So I bought packaged things.

Typical:
Breakfast: Quaker oatmeal in a single serving bowl.
Lunch: Ramen in the pre packaged cup thing.
Afternoon Snack: 1 can of pineapples in natural juice. The little cans are two servings. I ate the whole thing.
Dinner: Hamburger/Tuna helper. I made this one night and split it into 3 meals.
No evening snack.

Drinks: Coffee, Green Tea, Water.

On Saturday's I went out to a chinese buffet for lunch with co-workers (I worked Saturdays) but again, don't go crazy.

Exercise:
Morning and Afternoon mandated breaks: I walked up and down the stairwell of our 4 story office.
Lunch Break: I walked for the entire 1 hour. I ate my lunch at my desk prior to the lunch break. IN good weather, I walked the parking lot and read on my Sony Librie e-Reader. In bad weather I drove to a nearby mall (5 minutes) and walked 2 laps around it (2 miles) while reading.

You all realize that this is just a sensationalist headline? Because it is summer in Antarctica.

I have a completely flexible schedule. I work when I want and where I want. Generally, I start in the morning about 9. I work on and off during the day and then break for. Few hours in the evening to be with family. Then a work on and off a bit more in the late evening.

I generally hit just under 8 hours a day on weekdays and then 3-4 hours a day on weekends normally coming in at 45ish work (billable) hours a week.

I of course have constraints such as client meetings, but these are not large impacts to my life.

I have found this schedule to be great for letting me be with my family whenever I want.

I told you not to go into the light!

@scottalanmiller said:

Windows would take over if they were to go to a FOSS + support model.

So much this.

I had a conversation on Wednesday even with someone that just was so crazy it locked up my mind and I could not create a coherent argument. The beer count prior to this conversation also had something to do with it I am sure.

I was out drinking with an old high school buddy that runs a local PC shop in my hometown. He does not do commercial work in general. Basically he spends all day everyday removing viruses and recovering basic stuff for home users. Great guy, knows the limits of what he wants to learn and do, etc.

Anyway, some local guy that is recently into doing some basic consulting work sees us (my friend mostly) and comes and joins us. Basic conversation on various IT stuff ensues, then this guy suddenly starts digging into my buddy wondering if he has any KVM experience (he does not) and if he was wanting to maybe get in on a deal with him to put a rack in his office and set up severs to for people.

A little questioning from me and he is like MS sucks. VMWare is crap and no way would I use Citrix. All that stuff is too expensive. I setup everything myself in Linux and use KVM.

I just locked up... I mean WTF and you have actual clients? Apparently he does. Currently all hosted out of his house. I am fairly certain that violates the ToS on his internet service.

He seriously had no answer for why he was not using something with any kind of support. I mean, I have nothing against KVM, but damn if I am gong to pay for my shit to be someplace, I want it someplace with something behind it.

I told the guy, if you want KVM, buy Scale gear. If you want free, use XenServer or Hyper-V in that order. Either way do something that approaches some kind of industry standard that you can get supported.

@thanksajdotcom said:

That is one thing I wish ML had, and I know we're working on getting is more questions. However, I like answering printer questions, and we don't get too many of those.

Because printers need to die in a fire right along with POTS and faxing.

Internal devices skimming you ATM card and pin. This is a nasty thing. Am I supposed to scan Bluetooth before using every ATM?

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/09/tracking-a-bluetooth-skimmer-gang-in-mexico/

To answer @BRRABill's question.

The best thing for you to do right now is to do each machine manually. It is really not all that hard, and there is little for you to do other than wait for a few hours.

http://www.inquisitr.com/2040259/did-nasa-just-accidentally-produce-a-warp-bubble-emdrive-could-lead-to-warp-drive/#ikVXQ7bKdxomAg3P.99

hahahahahahaha

@article said:

"This plan may not be perfect, and certainly has its opponents, but the legislative process will take care of finding ways to improve the proposal."

@wirestyle22 said:

@JaredBusch Let me recap to make sure I understand. I pay for the DID service with a set amount of telephone numbers (w/ trunking etc) and my PBX can then route the faxes to e-mail, which I can assume applies to groups I have set up in active directory?

You do not even need to have things go to your PBX.

Here is a sample of how VoIP.ms handles it. They do not officially support this yet and it is still qualified as "Beta" but it works.

The DID costs $1.99/month and inbound faxes cost $0.029 per minute.