Also, accepting insecure email is different than allowing your organization to send insecure email.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

12 plans ranging from 139 a pay period to 650 a pay period. I wish I knew more about insurance. I dont know how to adult to this level. lol

Mostly it is just about math and looking at your financial outlook.

That's slightly helpful, but I'm confused when I look at this list. I don't know any of it works. that's my own fault though. I'm doing some more research on all of that when I have a chance. I have until 12/31 at 11:59 to enroll.

What you do not want is a 70%/30% or 80%/20% plan or worse. You want a 100% plan.

You then set the deductible as high as you are comfortable with comparing your monthly premium and your savings to handle the deductible.

Now, I say that knowing that this is basically the most expensive plan of the monthly premiums you can look at.

So then you start to look at costs and risk of having those costs.

The question then is do you understand what 80/20 or 70/30 even mean?

The 20% or 30% is how much, AFTER you pay your deductible, of any procedure you will still have to pay.

You are a bit young for this example, but it is a common once men hit 45, a colonoscopy.

Weird Fake number: $12k
Plan cost: $1600

Assuming you met your deductible already, you will still pay 20% of this, or $320. If you have not met your deductible, obviously, you will pay that entire amount of $1,600.

This is the kind of math and risk assessment you have to do when buying insurance in the United States.

Another example, my younger daughter crashed her bike and broke her wrist last year. It was a severe break and she had to have surgery. Those costs there were also more than $10k jsut for the one part of the treatment.

We paid $1k because she had not hit her deductible yet. Had she already had an event that hit her deductible, this would have been paid 100% by the plan, for $2050. If I had a plan that was 80/20, I would have had to pay $410 still./ Even though we had already made our deductible for the year.

A 70/30 is obviously worse in all scenarios.

@whitecat said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

small, not-for-profit corporation

Worst type of organizations in the US.....

@JasGot said in Going from Active Directory Domain to workgroup?:

(and thanks for staying on topic!)

Save this...

Good way to make me not care about answering you.

@pmoncho said in Who's making the move to vSphere 8:

Don't know if it is just me, but it seem BOSS card pricing has jumped rather high as compared to other server component prices??????

Since the 2020 chip shortages, and they have not gone down.

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Forgot how long it takes Vultr to take a snapshot

@WLS-ITGuy said in Who's making the move to vSphere 8:

Anyone else considering the move?

I no longer have anything on vSphere at any client, so no.

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

If an employee has a good hunch they will not be paid, they might as well go on vacation for two weeks, come back for a day and then walk out a day before starting their new job. --- Seen this happen in the last few years.

Most people have to get PTO approved by their manager. So suddenly taking a few weeks off will not likely be approved.

@dafyre said in 1 large disk or 2 smaller disks for a file server?:

We just built a new Samba file server here

Question, what authentication method are you using? I'm debating this at a client now.

Just told a customer that it is all gone.

In reference to their mission critical B2C system.
They were running it on a refurb Lenovo desktop that they bought from MicroCenter 2 years ago.
No backup software for the application or desktop as a whole in use.

Dead SSD is Dead. Sorry, not sorry. The last update in ScreenConnect showed these stats.

Operating System:Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (10.0.19044) (en-US)
Processor(s):Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz (8 virtual) (X64)
Available Memory:11004 MB / 16296 MB

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Too many to quote using the phone,.. thanks.

so- now it is a bit bitter sweet as I may very well lose all of my accrued PTO,..94 hours.

Will have to see

Dunno about your state, but every state I have dealt with, accrued means it is earned and is 100% required to be paid out.

Japanese fund secures 1 trillion yen to buy Toshiba

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A Japanese investment fund has secured about 1 trillion yen ($6.8 billion) to buy out Toshiba Corp. and notified the embattled conglomerate that the amount was offered by a group of more than 10 Japanese companies, a source familiar with the matter said Monday.

But Japan Industrial Partners Inc. failed to meet Toshiba's request to submit a letter of loan commitments from major banks by Monday, the source said, leaving uncertain whether funds can be guaranteed for the takeover estimated at some 2.2 trillion yen in total.

Japan Industrial Partners, which leads a consortium that Toshiba designated the preferred bidder for the potential buyout, appears to be basing its total cost estimate on share price, as the figure equals the company's market capitalization, the source said.

In early October, Toshiba selected the consortium as the preferred bidder over Japan Investment Corp., a state-backed fund seeking to team up with Bain Capital for the buyout.

Toshiba has been struggling to recover from problems such as a window-dressing scandal and a massive loss in U.S. nuclear power business that surfaced in the 2010s.

@Obsolesce said in Hard disk encryption without OS access?:

Yes, in the server space I'm with you 100%.

Which is the point of this thread.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

December 7th

Pearl Harbor Day is a big thing there?

@JasGot said in Hard disk encryption without OS access?:

The OS will decrypt it when it needs access.

This means that the data is basically not encrypted as long as the OS is booted. Also, no system works this way.

Encrypted volumes are unlocked by the OS once and remain unlocked. No system that exists in the normal space works like you are wanting.

@JasGot said in Hard disk encryption without OS access?:

The OS will decrypt it when it or an application needs access.

This is not how anything works. I mean sure, it is what you want, but it is not how anything is actually designed.

@JasGot said in Hard disk encryption without OS access?:

Self Encrypted Drives seem to be the only way to go.

Generally, SED are decrypted on boot by the TPM, so booting to a USB will still decrypt the drive.

If not, then there is no way to boot the system functional without a user present.

@JasGot said in Hard disk encryption without OS access?:

encrypted when at rest.

Define encrypted at rest please. From the flow of your post, I assume it means when the server is shut off.

@JasGot said in Hard disk encryption without OS access?:

software vendor will not allow access to the server OS.

This is an impossible ask. You cannot install applications without the proper access.