@wirestyle22 said:

a tip of the hat to you good sir

marmonne sur vous trempant dans le sirop d'érable et vous laissant pour l'appât orignal

@Dashrender said in Possible Linux browser hack:

@WLS-ITGuy said in Possible Linux browser hack:

@scottalanmiller said in Possible Linux browser hack:

@WLS-ITGuy said in Possible Linux browser hack:

@scottalanmiller I understand they are not standard business tools. I also look at it that if I can make a kiosk for $75 instead of using a machine that would have cost $200+ I look like a genius

Guess I just gotta learn some Linux commands and figure out how to get them to run if the unit is rebooted. I LOVE BEING AN IT GEEK

Yeah, it's good gear for cheap. But more learning curve.

I'm your Huckleberry.

But does that come at a cost higher than $125 to the company?

Learning is expensive and that's a really cheap way to do it.

This happens quite a bit in Canada and it's fairly disgusting. I appreciate it as a tool to ensure there's good review of the evidence but the victim blaming does turn my stomach.

fun fact of the day: it's pronounced WAHwhey

@DustinB3403 said:

@brianlittlejohn said:

@BRRABill I didn't fill out a bracket this year.

What's a bracket?

When you lob several mortar shells at a target and your CEP encircles it. Adjustments are then easy.

Zero with a couple of cold spares is what I'd suggest

Thats a lot of disks in a single array

@Joy said:

bugging @Ambarishrh about my rocket.chat set up haha
Hi ML!

Hello Joy

@scottalanmiller said in RAID 10, 20 Disks, How Many Hot Spares:

@MattSpeller said in RAID 10, 20 Disks, How Many Hot Spares:

Zero with a couple of cold spares is what I'd suggest

If you have cold spares and you have available drive bays, you want them to be hot spares.

Why wouldn't you want them to be part of the array? WTF is the point of hot spares in an array that does not need to resilver?

aka 20 drive array, 4 free slots -> populate free slots, redo array to 24 drives

Bloody McAfee console crashed, it's Monday alright.

@scottalanmiller said in RAID 10, 20 Disks, How Many Hot Spares:

@MattSpeller said in RAID 10, 20 Disks, How Many Hot Spares:

@scottalanmiller said in RAID 10, 20 Disks, How Many Hot Spares:

@MattSpeller said in RAID 10, 20 Disks, How Many Hot Spares:

@scottalanmiller said in RAID 10, 20 Disks, How Many Hot Spares:

@MattSpeller said in RAID 10, 20 Disks, How Many Hot Spares:

My use case is on prem easy access. Define yours and maybe we can agree on something.

1. No one even suggested that on prem was going on, that's a totally false assumption. So you can't make up a use case and then use it to make the "it's always this way."

No one said it wasn't

So because you inject your own details and no one specifically disputes them, they become true?

That seems to be what you do

Okay, what detail did I interject? I'm working from the OP and nothing else. What have I added?

We all come at this with different perspectives. You looked at this and assumed it was in a colo. I assumed it was on prem. We don't even know enough to speculate (but we do anyways because it's a fun thought experiment). We don't even know what it's hosting, what level of risk is acceptable to the business, etc.

Given what we do know:

"there is a single RAID array of 20 spinning disks in RAID 10 and the person asking wants to know how many hot spares would be recommended."

If it were in a colo I'd put spares in it. If it were on prem I'd not waste a slot on hot spares unless there was a really insanely risk averse business case.

@coliver said:

@MattSpeller said:

@RojoLoco said:

@wirestyle22 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@RojoLoco said:

@wirestyle22 said:

@RojoLoco said:

@coliver said:

@RojoLoco said:

@coliver said:

@RojoLoco said:

@mlnews said:

Toronto Mayer Rob Ford, most famous internationally only for being reelected despite smoking crack and public drunkedness and generally being ridiculous and out of control and generally embarrassing Toronto for years, has died at 46 of cancer today.

That's a bummer, I wanted him and Chris Christie to run for president.

Chris Christie did run for president... it went about as well as expected.

He would have done much better with Rob Ford as his VP.

With both of their records combined he probably would have gone all the way.

And could you honestly say that 2 crackheads would be any worse than the regular POS politicians that win everything? (I despise politicians - lowest form of scum)

I assume you're voting Trump then?

If he starts heavily smoking crack, maybe.

Would you be able to tell the difference?

Well, I'm depressed. Thanks guys.

Then stop watching the news. Best decision I ever made.

Cutting off cable service was one of mine too - I go home and actually do things.

Netflix...

I actually do not have it, though I have been known to use other means to get my fix.

Is it necessary?

If so, what do you use?

I've tried a few and I'm unimpressed.

@Nic - how's webroot's "Secure Anywhere" ?

@coliver said:

@RojoLoco said:

@MattSpeller said:

@coliver said:

@MattSpeller said:

@RojoLoco said:

@wirestyle22 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@RojoLoco said:

@wirestyle22 said:

@RojoLoco said:

@coliver said:

@RojoLoco said:

@coliver said:

@RojoLoco said:

@mlnews said:

Toronto Mayer Rob Ford, most famous internationally only for being reelected despite smoking crack and public drunkedness and generally being ridiculous and out of control and generally embarrassing Toronto for years, has died at 46 of cancer today.

That's a bummer, I wanted him and Chris Christie to run for president.

Chris Christie did run for president... it went about as well as expected.

He would have done much better with Rob Ford as his VP.

With both of their records combined he probably would have gone all the way.

And could you honestly say that 2 crackheads would be any worse than the regular POS politicians that win everything? (I despise politicians - lowest form of scum)

I assume you're voting Trump then?

If he starts heavily smoking crack, maybe.

Would you be able to tell the difference?

Well, I'm depressed. Thanks guys.

Then stop watching the news. Best decision I ever made.

Cutting off cable service was one of mine too - I go home and actually do things.

Netflix...

I actually do not have it, though I have been known to use other means to get my fix.

Yarrr.....

Now all I can think of is @MattSpeller with a peg leg an eye patch, and a Canadian parrot on his shoulder.

My mates and I will sing a drinking song frequently about being a Canadian.... privateer.

Youtube Video

@coliver said in Android/iOS Antivirus Questions:

@MattSpeller said in Android/iOS Antivirus Questions:

@coliver said in Android/iOS Antivirus Questions:

I'm not convinced it's necessary. Both iOS and Android have sandboxing features that prevent malicious code from running. Android, of course, lets the user run it anyway if they give that app permission. I think iOS has something similar but they have a pretty decent app store that prevents that type of thing, unlike Google.

I am an Android guy by the way.

I'm not convinced it's necessary either, but I believe I was infected and now I'm all paranoid.

One security research firm (I don't remember the name I'll have to look) went through the Google App store and downloaded as much malicious stuff as possible. They found that unless the application is given permission, which means a user has to allow it, then it really can't do anything on the system. If the user allows it then, obviously, the malicious code was able to execute and do it's thing.

That's exactly what creeps me out about Android - why does everything need permissions to stuff you wouldn't expect it to use. I fear the answer is "to slurp your data". Which is garbage. However the app won't run without it.

Example: "Samsung Briefing" which is a news aggregator - asks for permission to save to disk, phone, etc etc

@scottalanmiller said:

@brianlittlejohn said:

@scottalanmiller I've never used Unity Desktop, thought I would give it a go.

Ewww... worst desktop I've ever used. I mean literally worse than Windows and Mac OSX.

Okay, NOT as bad as Windows 8, but not as good as Windows 7 or 10.

Try running it from a live CD haha

@Dashrender said in Android/iOS Antivirus Questions:

@coliver said in Android/iOS Antivirus Questions:

@MattSpeller said in Android/iOS Antivirus Questions:

@coliver said in Android/iOS Antivirus Questions:

I'm not convinced it's necessary. Both iOS and Android have sandboxing features that prevent malicious code from running. Android, of course, lets the user run it anyway if they give that app permission. I think iOS has something similar but they have a pretty decent app store that prevents that type of thing, unlike Google.

I am an Android guy by the way.

I'm not convinced it's necessary either, but I believe I was infected and now I'm all paranoid.

One security research firm (I don't remember the name I'll have to look) went through the Google App store and downloaded as much malicious stuff as possible. They found that unless the application is given permission, which means a user has to allow it, then it really can't do anything on the system. If the user allows it then, obviously, the malicious code was able to execute and do it's thing.

Hi, have you met the users most of use have to deal with - they give the permissions no matter what.

lulz IT will fix it

And in other news today and IT admin was taken to jail after beating a man to death with a smart phone. Police are initially calling it justified homicide however it may yet go to court.

@hobbit666 said:

Right time to get off ML and SW and do some work

Heretic

We're a SMB but our ratio is closer to your enterprise scenario. Depending on the time of day, phase of moon, wind direction, star alignment it's around 20% helpdesk / 80% projects. Averaged over 3 staff.

@dafyre said:

@MattSpeller said:

@brianlittlejohn said:

Pot infused nutella, it was only a matter of time.

http://www.inquisitr.com/2907073/marijuana-infused-nutella-now-exists-chrontella-now-available/

I... uh... ahem.....

I'll be right back....

*shows up @MattSpeller's desk.

Where's mine?

looks around

Where's your what? You look like you need some fresh air, meet @RojoLoco and I by the taco truck across the street.

... just install windows? It should pull the key from the box automagically.