Current version of macOS Sierra.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Man, I hate it when our staff in Hyderabad feels the need to call me. They can write english quite well, but speaking it tends to give them (and me) some trouble. Not sure why a simple email wouldn't suffice.

When my wife and I were there we were told that they conduct all their legal proceedings in English and we thought, great, we'll be able to understand what is going on. The reality is that they have their own version of English, and it is nigh incomprehensible on 2 hours of sleep.

I think some of the greatest value that has come out of you doing these videos is that they're a distillation of your thoughts that you have posted in various forms and are harder for me to wrap my mind around all of the seemingly disparate thoughts/statements.

The other thing is that when you talk instead of type people get the person behind the posts. I don't know anyone that has met you in person who gets offended at yours posts any more. It is always the people who've never talked with you directly.

What an unfortunate name. "So, bro..."

@scottalanmiller said in It looks like a Mac problem, but...:

Can they ping locally? Can they ping the gateway?

Yes to both. Changing gateway to x.x.x.254 works (so old gateway).

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just not digging the new logo.

Whose?

SW

Oh. I really liked it.

Maybe it just needs to grow on me.

I was ambivalent until they started putting it everywhere. Now the mosh duck is just annoying.

Well, the solution was no less peculiar. In my firewall config I had specified authenticated users for LAN to WAN in my work to set up VPN. This setting affects all outbound traffic. The Macs that were affected are the ones that have not yet been joined to Active Directory. This is a really cool setting that I'll be turning back on when we're actually ready for it.

@Lakshmana Congratulations!

@dashrender said in It looks like a Mac problem, but...:

@kelly said in It looks like a Mac problem, but...:

@dashrender said in It looks like a Mac problem, but...:

@kelly said in It looks like a Mac problem, but...:

@dashrender said in It looks like a Mac problem, but...:

@kelly said in It looks like a Mac problem, but...:

@dashrender said in It looks like a Mac problem, but...:

@kelly said in It looks like a Mac problem, but...:

Well, the solution was no less peculiar. In my firewall config I had specified authenticated users for LAN to WAN in my work to 

What firewall?

Juniper SRX.

I'm guessing some big money for that UTM.

About $2k for each node. We have an HA pair.

What was the reasoning behind the purchase?

I'm not sure what you're getting at.

A general consensus around ML is that UTMs are unnecessary, i.e. a waste of money. Additionally, Scott is pretty adamant that there is only one primary vendor (drawing a blank right now) that is good for UTMs.

So what I'm getting at is, what was the decision tree that lead to purchasing two $2000+ UTM firewalls? Why were they felt to be worth the value versus say a pair of Edge Routers? etc

I didn't purchase them for the UTM, but the FIPS validation. Actually saved the company quite a bit of money overall since they were going to buy Cisco ASAs.

I'm setting up a Juniper SRX340 pair for HA. These things are way easier than Cisco, but they have terribad documentation on the public net.

@ambarishrh said in Intune mobile device management:

Just found this!

Youtube Video

This is mostly a function of DEP, so any MDM that is Apple oriented will be able to do this. You'll want to get a DEP account set up for your organization as soon as you can, then when you purchase them, your reseller should be able to get apple to register them to your ID and it will be zero touch (ideally). We use Jamf here, and it is good, but I haven't done a deep comparison since we selected them.

I play Civ VI regularly on mine, and it is a very intensive game from a performance perspective. The fan is running constantly, but the keyboard and underside don't get at all hot.

@travisdh1 said in Cell phones survey:

@kelly said in Cell phones survey:

If you're already a consumer of Amazon's services, you can get a Moto 5 Plus for a pretty reasonable price. It isn't a flagship phone, but it does everything I need it to, and at a price I can afford to replace (if it gets broken). I really like what Moto is doing with their software on the main button on the phone. It is a fingerprint reader like so many others, but if you set it up you can use it as a home button, a la iPhone. If you swipe left it goes back, if you swipe right it opens your app switcher, and if you do a long press it locks your phone. They've also used the gyro scope to give you easy access to things like the flashlight (two chopping motions), camera (twist your wrist while holding the phone), etc.

If it weren't for the fact that Motorola is now owned by Lenovo, that might be a good option. I've confirmed that my Moto G4+ has the same issues/malware/spying going on as the rest of the Lenovo ecosystem. Just don't do it!

How did you confirm that?

Edit: Not asking to be combative, I want to check my Motos.

In honor of Star Wars day: https://myspace.com/twinsisterfunk/music/songs?filter=popular. The lyrics are just lines from the episodes 4-6.

Apple went from successful company that charges a price that the market appears willing to bear, to a greedy, grasping, company when they removed the 3.5mm jack on the iPhone and didn't put a compatible iPhone charging port on the MBP. It takes an absurd number of dongles to listen to your iPhone while charging it from a MBP. And what is the point of not having an HDMI port on the MBP? You saved an entire mm with that one Apple. THANK YOU.

I'm not salty at all.

@Grey I've pretty much sworn off MMOs or anything that smells of them because of how my life looks after I start to get in to them.

Nethserver

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 Bears climb trees really well so best not to think about it and just go for the gusto

@MattSpeller as the resident Canadian has near daily encounters with bars.

FTFY

@joel said in Forcing Group Policy:

@black3dynamite said in Forcing Group Policy:

Here's what I've done to make it work.
I have a group called HideDrivesFromUsers and then add the users who's not allowed to see the drive in the group.

I linked the policy object to domain.local
Under Scope tab, remove authenticated users from Security Filtering.
Under Scope tab, add HideDrivesFromUsers
Under Delegation tab, add authenticated users with read permission.

I tried this but still doesnt work!

Are you seeing the policy successfully apply when you look at the RSOP? Most of the issues I've encountered with GPOs are either due to container problems or with DC sync issues (typically DNS is the culprit).

In my experience (not being sexist, just observational) many women enjoy coop games more than direct competition oriented ones. Pandemic is probably the top of that stack, but there are a lot of options out there.