Yes, Credit Karma checks 2 bureaus I think, while Discover does 1. I just realized I had to place Fraud Alert after that breach and I spent some time on phone with bank when I applied for iPhone financing during that time, so that's going to qualify as expenses.

I'm getting the cash. 10 years of credit monitoring is worthless, same with their insurance. It won't prevent identity or credit card theft. And their reaction time is piss poor, you'd get a notice 1-3 months later of someone opens new account in your name, and by that time crook will probably charge thousands. Credit freeze is the only option and they don't offer that. Discover bank offers credit monitoring for free to anyone: https://csp.discover.com/free-credit-score/index.html

Remove AV from her pc, and disable built-in Defender. If she's not doing anything questionable, she should be fine, and you'll cross out one thing that could be causing issues.

Install Lynis, it'll audit your SSH config and suggest areas to improve.

@JaredBusch said in UPS Radiation:

Dihydrogen Monoxide

Lmao.

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/radiation/electromagnetic-fields-fact-sheet

You should probably be more worried about UPS batteries exploding than radiation it gives off. And I've never witnessed UPS battery exploding or catching fire either.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Nearly 12 million Quest Diagnostics patients affected by data breach

Not Quest's own systems, but their data. Financial and personal data for loads of customers. Really damaging stuff like socials and credit card info.

LabCorp was affected too, 7.7M customer records exposed.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/06/labcorp-7-7m-consumers-hit-in-collections-firm-breach/

@hobbit666 yes.

Add full path to notify-send and chromium-browser binaries and test again. Also your PATH variable is missing / after =

He want's to compare core to core performance, nothing wrong with that. Newer CPUs should yield better performance, especially at same or very close clock speeds. That's not the case for him.

@travisdh1 said in Performance of Intel Xeon Scalable 6146 versus E5-2667 v4 in the real world...:

@marcinozga said in Performance of Intel Xeon Scalable 6146 versus E5-2667 v4 in the real world...:

@flomer said in Performance of Intel Xeon Scalable 6146 versus E5-2667 v4 in the real world...:

If I have set something up the wrong way I would be delighted if someone can point this out for me. How can I check if something is wrong? All three systems run the Rocks cluster distribution (CentOS with extras), #1 version 6.1, #2 version 6.2 and #3 version 7.0.

I don't have any experience with HPC, but based on the above it seems that linux kernel version might be the issue. Centos 6 comes with 2.6.32 kernel, and 7 with 3.10. Either test all 3 clusters on same kernel line, or do some research if there was any performance drop between kernel versions above.

Managing cores above a certain number becomes difficult. Linus himself used to complain that managing more than around 16 cores required an entire core just for the scheduler. They've improved things a bit, but high numbers of cores will always require more work to manage right.

Running in an HPC environment, you'll also have to pay attention to things like program size (does it fit into L1/L2 cache), dataset size (does it fit into either L3 or available RAM).

I'd suspect that even with the faster RAM, getting data in and out of each core could be slowing things down. Many more cores and only slightly faster RAM would be one choke point to investigate.

This is really one of the oddball use cases where servers are running, but not in a virtualized environment. That's what most server hardware is designed around these days. You could have any number of performance choke points.

I don't think that's the problem here, as he's running jobs on 128 cores, so having more of them shouldn't matter as they will sit idle.

@flomer said in Performance of Intel Xeon Scalable 6146 versus E5-2667 v4 in the real world...:

If I have set something up the wrong way I would be delighted if someone can point this out for me. How can I check if something is wrong? All three systems run the Rocks cluster distribution (CentOS with extras), #1 version 6.1, #2 version 6.2 and #3 version 7.0.

I don't have any experience with HPC, but based on the above it seems that linux kernel version might be the issue. Centos 6 comes with 2.6.32 kernel, and 7 with 3.10. Either test all 3 clusters on same kernel line, or do some research if there was any performance drop between kernel versions above.

@wrx7m said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

@marcinozga said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

I know they are not experts, that's the line you use to teach them a lesson when they screw up.

@DustinB3403 said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

That's what we try here but with the "if you have admin access, we aren't touching it any more".
It takes it from an IT system to a different class with where we work.

I am the only IT guy here. I don't have time to teach people lessons after they screw up something that should have been restricted in the first place.

Do you have time to keep explaining why admin access is a bad idea?

@wrx7m marketing people......

@wrx7m said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

@marcinozga said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

@DustinB3403 said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

@marcinozga said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

@wrx7m said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

LOL - It has begun.

Isolate it, give him admin, and let them crash and burn. Just make sure to CYA.

What fun is that. . . we have elevated users here and they just constantly install plugins as shortcuts to doing their job and then ask us to fix it.

It doesn't fix the problem and just causes more problems for us down the road.

You ask whoever is admin to fix it then. They asked to be admin, they must be Wordpress experts, no?

I highly doubt anyone here is a wordpress expert. I was told by one of the marketing ladies that she used to own a web design firm for 20 years. She also said that she didn't want to use wordpress for something else because it was open source so there was no accountability and there were too many hands in the cookie jar. So, I wrote her off on knowing anything of real value when it comes to this stuff.

I know they are not experts, that's the line you use to teach them a lesson when they screw up.

@DustinB3403 I used that approach with some users in the past, nobody asks me for admin privileges to any systems anymore.

@DustinB3403 said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

@marcinozga said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

@wrx7m said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

LOL - It has begun.

Isolate it, give him admin, and let them crash and burn. Just make sure to CYA.

What fun is that. . . we have elevated users here and they just constantly install plugins as shortcuts to doing their job and then ask us to fix it.

It doesn't fix the problem and just causes more problems for us down the road.

You ask whoever is admin to fix it then. They asked to be admin, they must be Wordpress experts, no?

@wrx7m said in WordPress - Plugins to Manage and Extend User Roles/Permissions:

LOL - It has begun.

Isolate it, give him admin, and let them crash and burn. Just make sure to CYA.

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Apple shares its vision for macOS 10.15 Catalina: Cross-platform apps are key

The future of macOS is in iOS—but there's other new stuff to be excited about, too.
The next major operating system update for Apple's Mac computers will bring new apps, a handful of quality life improvements, and, most importantly, a far-reaching initiative to (at least partially) unify the app-development process across devices running iOS and macOS.

Didn't Microsoft try this approach with Windows 8? It didn't go so well for them.