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Apple hits one out of the park with security: https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/28/16711782/apple-macos-high-sierra-critical-password-security-flaw. /s

Well, I'm looking at replacing some aging Cisco gear on site, and seeing Ubiquiti mentioned here reminded me of them again. So, do any of you have any experiential feedback on using their gear? I need new switches, firewall/router, and APs.

Requirements:
~50 employees
20 Mb/s internet (Could go higher)
~100 wireless devices in a building being covered by 4 Cisco APs
Multiple VLANs, would need at least 1 L3 switch

Thanks

@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities---threats/newly-revealed-exactis-data-leak-bigger-than-equifaxs/d/d-id/1332175?_mc=rss_x_drr_edt_aud_dr_x_x-rss-simple

Exactis - Another gigantic leak of data.

And this is why the Red Shell "analytics" software is not a good idea even if they will only use it for benign purposes.

Have any of you had experience with the various tools out there to be able to bind Linux (CentOS 6.7/7 and Ubuntu 14.04 and soon 16.04)and authenticate against AD? I've seen some very positive things about both winbind and sssd, but I was curious if any of you have had experience and resulting recommendations.

And, just to remove it from the discussion, not authenticating against AD is not on the table. I want to be able to have one central place for managing logins and permissions for all of our platforms (Windows, Linux, and OSX), and AD is the apex of our system.

Microsoft Teams is now free: https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-teams-now-available-use-free. I haven't used it, so I don't know how good it is, but if nothing else it will push Slack to innovate.

At this point in the professional world an undergraduate degree is merely an accomplishment, and not a source of specific professional skills (some exceptions). If you want to manage, work for government, or for a college, you will need that degree. Otherwise, it is a toss up, but I agree with @JaredBusch, you're out the money and time, finishing is worth it.

This is old news, but still relevant today: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askds/2011/09/02/accelerating-your-it-career/. Despite all the changes in technology the fundamentals of being a good IT pro have not changed.

By creating the zone you have given your internal DNS servers responsibility for the entire roseradiology.com domain. Therefore, if they do not have a given record they cannot resolve it.

Is there a way short of ignoring an entire category of not having a new post in a thread show up in Unread feed? For example, I'm not really interested in the discussion between @scottalanmiller and @Dashrender regarding going to a university, but it keeps coming up in my unread view because they're very frequent and rapid posters.

Simple question: of those that have upgraded to Dundee have any of you tried it with HA-Lizard, and if so, what experience did you have?

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

I was totally unable to resist Final Fantasy X on sale.

And in other news the sun rose in the east today.

@david.wiese said in Congrats IRJ and Family!:

congrats!. I just had my first on 6/1 and went back to work after 7 business days off. It has been a very long 2 weeks thus far but quite rewarding. There is nothing like coming home from a crappy day at work and see them smile or just holding them. It just makes everything better.

Yes, I had one of those moments just a few days ago. Got home from a long day, and my two year old ran to me with her arms upraised. Made everything better.

If you're a Brandon Sanderson fan, the boardgame based on the Mistborn series just hit Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/craftygames/mistborn-house-war.

@virtualrick said in Simplivity - anyone use them?:

@scottalanmiller I cannot help but feel a bit like I'm being attacked. {salesdick?}

That particular line was from @RojoLoco who is not known for mincing words in general. @scottalanmiller also has a tendency to break up his responses into multiple posts. It adds some clarity, but can be overwhelming, and he is also very blunt (although his language is less...colorful in online postings compared to Rojo). It can be a hard pill to swallow, but if you sift the wheat from the chaff you will find some very significant competitive advantages for the SMB market. I fall into the same category as most here. If a vendor doesn't post basic pricing information I will typically walk away unless there is a significant motivator aside from the product itself (peer recommendation being the largest).

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

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

Uhm, totally forgot HOW oldscool that game actually is

It was so innovative at the time in RTS controls, but now it is the norm. I loved how you could select all units of a given type, no matter where they were on the map, drop them into a control group, and send them on their suicidal way.

Unfortunately I will be missing both the conference and the wedding. I wish there were enough technical content to justify my work paying for me to go...

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

Fitting:
http://imgur.com/gallery/9SYO0

"as if millions of voices wallets suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced"

Licensing is the only major thing that pushes me to stack services on VMs generally, so 95% of my Linux VMs are single purpose.

Heading to the mountains for the weekend. Ski resorts are a great, inexpensive place to stay during the summer.

@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:

@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.

My point was that the same power structures will be there that are there now, the issues you are concerned about exist today. This isn't an economic model designed to fix them, but it might help them. I don't see the reason to feel that it would hurt them. And remember that it's not like soviet Russia, it is not a planned economy. People are totally free to pursue ambitions, so all current outlets for power will still exist, none removed. So none of your concerns would apply like they would in polar opposite models. Soviet Russia provided everyone's jobs, 100% workers, it's the extreme opposite from an economic model.

I'm not equating economic models. I was comparing social structures that ignore fear and power as basic human motivations. The reason that properly checked capitalism has been so stable (in general) is that it accounts for these things. It assumes that everyone is fundamentally greedy and self-centered, and works accordingly. Every social or economic structure that ignores this aspect of the human experience has failed, sometimes spectacularly. And before there is any possibility of drawing this conclusion, we are not functioning in a truely capitalistic society in the US today, so I am not advocating that where we are today is a good place either socially or economically.