@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@Grey said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

STEAM SALE STARTS TOMORROW!

Oh man.

@scottalanmiller said in Get Your Public IP Address with WGET:

Once in a great while some crazy person built the server that you are working on and curl is not available, but you still need to pull your public IP from an external source. On that rare occasion when you have wget but not curl, which we faced just the other day, you can just do this:

wget http://ipecho.net/plain -O - -q ; echo

I can confirm that this works in Windows from bash.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Beautiful Lake and Mountain Views! </snip>

If Curtis wrote real estate ads...

@scottalanmiller said in Everyone is not a "Security Group":

@DustinB3403 said in Everyone is not a "Security Group":

@scottalanmiller said in Everyone is not a "Security Group":

@DustinB3403 said in Everyone is not a "Security Group":

My argument was in regards to the people I work around and their broken mindset of "everyone needs access" or "just add the everyone group".

My OP I thought was very clear in that I was ranting a bit. But ok...

Well, in those cases, who should be blocked from access, do you feel?

By default I would say "not everyone".

Allow even an existing security group. But the "everyone" security group is not providing any security.

Might as well allow anonymous access.

Everyone does mean anonymous. This might just be a language thing. Someone outside of IT should not be aware of the "everyone" group. If they are saying "everyone" they should not be meaning that group, they probably just mean "Domain Users."

Everyone does not include anonymous. It is just about everything up to that point including guest and service accounts: https://blog.varonis.com/the-difference-between-everyone-and-authenticated-users/.

Rogue One is on Netflix. Good times ahead.

@aidan_walsh said in Forget Ubuntu, now OpenSuse Linux comes to Windows 10:

@Kelly @aaronstuder In my head this is something I would expect to see more in a server environment, where a Linux application could be deployed on a Windows server in a more traditional "Role" than the overhead of deploying a full VM for the service.

Well, right now I can fire up bash on my Windows 10 computer and test commands and what not without having to access a VM (although I might actually be access one on some level...). It just gives me more flexibility in the short term. In the long term I hope this is the way forward for Windows. I'd love to see Microsoft port their UI to Linux and abandon their OS. I don't know if that will ever happen, but a guy can hope.

@quixoticjeremy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Working on Sodium while at my other work.... I've sunk to an all time low.

So you're a little...salty about it?

@JaredBusch said in Google Voice gets an upgrade:

Google announced an update to Google Voice.
This sounds great at first, but then I read this article: https://www.wired.com/2017/01/google-voice-update-makes-googles-messaging-strategy-confusing/

That's an accurately scathing summation of Google's messaging strategy.

@quixoticjeremy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@quixoticjeremy said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Working on Sodium while at my other work.... I've sunk to an all time low.

So you're a little...salty about it?

LOL, I suppose salty that it makes my last statement a lie! I haven't sank to an all time low as I'm actually fairly buoyant!

You'll never win a chemistry pun war like that...

Correct answer: "Na, I'm not salty at all."

Dear god I'm bored. Sorry you're the recipient of my quirks today @QuixoticJeremy.

@scottalanmiller said in Buying vs Saving Economic Theory:

@Kelly said in Buying vs Saving Economic Theory:

@scottalanmiller said in Buying vs Saving Economic Theory:

@Kelly said in Buying vs Saving Economic Theory:

The problem with the 2% working with 98% not theory is that it doesn't accommodate for the human desire for power. It would be an amazing situation to be in except for the fact that some people will not be content with what they receive and not interested in earning more. If everyone lived free from fear, then it will work, but very few people do, and that leads to seeking power to insulate from fear.

That's true, except that nearly all of the 98% don't have power. The majority of people don't seek to be leaders and fewer still manage to be. Those getting power from work are the few, not the many. And many that do use it for evil, so curtailing that has a major positive benefit. Few people derive power from work, and given the protection of the system it removes much of the need for power.

I don't know that removing the economic factor affects the desire for power. I'm not addressing power via work, but desire for power over others in general. Gangs do not exist to commit crimes. They exist because of fear, and people control others or allow themselves to be controlled to mitigate fear. Economics play into it, but are not the primary motivator.

We may not remove the desire for power, but does it encourage it? Social structures will exist just the same. Power tiering will still be there just like before.

That is my point. the 2/98 theory does not account for that, and is likely to breakdown like most social structures that ignore this aspect of humanity, a la Soviet Russia.

Logged into Twitter for the first time in awhile. I've been using it as mostly a news source from peers, but the number of people who are up in arms about Trumps transgender decision has reduced the number of people I'm following... It isn't about the disagreement, I just don't care to see political opinions from people I follow to learn about technical things.

Access Web App is basically another front end on a list. There is nothing relational available to it.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

TLC, showcasing the worst that America has to offer.

Remember when it use to have educational programming... and surgeries...

Nope. I've never had cable. I knew that it used to be okay to some degree, but it's been SO long.

On a slightly related and slightly hilarious note, my 3 year old has known almost nothing aside from Netflix for her video consumption, with a little bit of Youtube. One night she joined my wife in watching a tv show that had just released a new season. When the commercials came on she was incredibly confused. She was trying to figure out why the show she was watching had been changed to this new program.

Netflix has completely removed commercials from the viewing experience of a generation.

I'm doing the good ole firewall shopping thingy, and one of the vendors is pitching a Fortinet system at me. I have zero experience with it. Have any of you all worked with them and have any input as to the quality of the product/software?

No, pfSense is not on the table as an option

@nerdydad said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Taking a Microsoft course, saw this:

Want to:

It isn't wrong strictly speaking.

What is filling up the space on your DCs? 25 GB seems really high for something to fill immediately. Are you using DFS?

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/voters-reject-cable-lobby-misinformation-campaign-against-muni-broadband/

This was great news.

I've got a user who cannot access her own personal certificate store. It appears to be corrupt. Is there any way short of nuking her profile that will allow me to recreate just this store? I've poked some at the registry, but there doesn't appear to be anything directly related to this in the place I was directed to - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\My.

Any thoughts or questions?

They'd spend so much time arguing about what the meaning of a given term was that nothing would get done.

Miller/Busch - Save the Republic Through Inaction!

@scottalanmiller said in VeeamOn 2017:

NetApp is presenting and has nothing to say. Buzz buzz buzz time to market, stuff on horizon, blah blah

I'm not sure that the speaker even knows what products he makes.

It's the Apple effect. Since Jobs, most companies seem to think that these kinds of things require marketers/sales people instead of actually studying their audience.