@scottalanmiller said in Hours I work/PTO:

@MattSpeller said in Hours I work/PTO:

@BBigford said in Hours I work/PTO:

Lol thanks for the laugh. It made me feel worse, but at least I got a good laugh out of it.

You'd be welcome up here in America's hat my friend. 37.5h/week, mediocre healthcare that you don't have to pay for directly....

I'm not welcome there, but am coming anyway. See you Canuks this summer!

Sure you are! Besides Quebec isn't really Canada anyway, they're all strange and speak snail eater.

@matteo-nunziati said in the missing VoIP, the ERP and the solution in search of a problem:

@MattSpeller yes, this is another option too but batch in order had not so many POE ports and nowdays most phones has POE. Anyway still waything for a compatibility list, maybe we can simply go the AC adapter way.

While it's still up in the air go check your network closet and make sure you have enough power to run enough PoE switches. This was the cause of an expensive visit from an electrician for us.

@Jason said in So I just saw these:

Is there any real use for this?

Losing data seems to be the obvious answer

Only time I ever had wifi range extenders work nicely was with DDWRT

Hardwire it - no regrets

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Blargh, been here for over half an hour and I just sat down at my desk. Far far too much running about for pre-coffee Matt.

Users to snuff and fires to help?

Nailed it

We use veracrypt here between Win/Mac/Linux and it works a treat, flawlessly, every time.

Solid product.

@RojoLoco said in Non-IT News Thread:

@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:

@RojoLoco said in Non-IT News Thread:

@nadnerB said in Non-IT News Thread:

One for @RojoLoco

Perth's first adults-only burger comes with a legal waiver that precludes diners with a pre-existing stomach or heart condition – and insists you have someone drive you home.
...
The Canning Vale owner of the American-style Johnny's Burger Joint holds a monthly eating challenge where contenders with fire-resistant stomachs can take on the seemingly innocent-looking double cheese burger that packs a wallop so serious it could put the unwary in hospital.
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"One man finished it, but he left with the shakes and shivers and had to take the next day off work," Mr Wong said.

Rather hot sauce: http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/canning-vale-adultsonly-burger-comes-with-a-health-warning-and-a-legal-waiver-20160511-gosx2q.html?eid=email:nnn-13omn652-ret_newsl-membereng:nnn-04%2F11%2F2013-news_am-dom-news-nnn-watoday-u&campaign_code=13INO006&promote_channel=edmail&mbnr=NTg4NTMxNQ

I'm in!

Oh yeah, hotter the better. If my hot sauce isn't blinding the person next to me, it'd too mild. One thing I miss about not being in the US is Taco Bell fire sauce, I'd put about 5 or 6 on a soft taco, oh man... I'd try for more but then it's just messy, but a beef burrito, you can do way more. That's not the hottest, I'm just saying it's something I miss They did have, last time, some kind of other hotter type, but they didn't have it the last time I went before I left again, that sucked.

I'm the weirdo who goes into a restaurant with a bottle of hot sauce in my pocket. And I like your standard of "blinding the person next to me". I do that quite often. In fact, I should be meeting up with a buddy from Chicago at lunch to get some of his sauce (he's intown for a music fest this weekend).

"The secret sauce contains two chilis with a combined heat of some 3.5 million Scoville units, an internationally recognised measure of spicy heat."

Nope, no thank you - I leave this one to the experts.

First, if you want to learn, what's your budget?

Second, take your budget and go to your local computer recycler or government auctions or ebay and spend as little money as possible on a wide range of gear (ask and we'll suggest some stuff based on your interests)

Third, spend time fixing, changing, and generally messing with the gear.

@tonyshowoff mmmm that paprika though...

$600 laptop recipe:

Go on ebay, find yourself a decent Latitude (dell)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Latitude-E6440-Quad-i7-4700MQ-1600x900-LCD-500GB-8GB-Webcam-Backlit-/371922762492?hash=item569852fafc:g:u2AAAOSwUKxYj-B~

Buy yourself a solid state drive, size to taste.

https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147372

Install windows on it.

Enjoy a very good quality laptop for cheap that you can actually get parts for and fix yourself easily.

@scottalanmiller said in Hours I work/PTO:

@Dashrender said in Hours I work/PTO:

If you're going to go as far as retirement, then you have to go all the way and start building tons of retirement towers to put those retirees.

What's wrong with that? I don't see the negative there.

That is, in fact, what is happening here in Canada. Boomer generation is getting close and with foresight retirement homes and long term care homes are popping up in droves.

@travisdh1 said in Sub $600 laptop:

@MattSpeller

Install windows on it.

Why ruin a perfectly good laptop?

Season the operating system to taste

Windows is a bit salty for some lol

@scottalanmiller said in Hours I work/PTO:

@MattSpeller said in Hours I work/PTO:

@scottalanmiller said in Hours I work/PTO:

@Dashrender said in Hours I work/PTO:

If you're going to go as far as retirement, then you have to go all the way and start building tons of retirement towers to put those retirees.

What's wrong with that? I don't see the negative there.

That is, in fact, what is happening here in Canada. Boomer generation is getting close and with foresight retirement homes and long term care homes are popping up in droves.

Seems a tab too early for that. First boomers are just seventy this year!

Given the state of our health care system I consider this preparation to be an honest to god miracle

SBS is the IT O.G. of "all eggs in one basket"

@scottalanmiller 10am here. We're close to opposite sides of the planet!

@stacksofplates said in supporting an office of computers with full drive encryption:

That may be a setting that can be enabled, idk. I don't manage it.

Good lord I hope you can enable forced password, otherwise you're right, wtf?!

@scottalanmiller said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

We try our best.

Speak for yourself

@scottalanmiller said in supporting an office of computers with full drive encryption:

@dafyre said in supporting an office of computers with full drive encryption:

@scottalanmiller said in supporting an office of computers with full drive encryption:

@dafyre said in supporting an office of computers with full drive encryption:

@MattSpeller said in supporting an office of computers with full drive encryption:

@stacksofplates said in supporting an office of computers with full drive encryption:

That may be a setting that can be enabled, idk. I don't manage it.

Good lord I hope you can enable forced password, otherwise you're right, wtf?!

The CIO wants all of the Sysadmin team (and presumably others) to use BitLocker for Full Disk Encryption. I can't reboot my computer without entering the password to decrypt the drives.

I presume that there is data on there?

All my software, and Keepass files. Encrypted SSH keys and RDP password a la MobaXterm. Yeah. There's a bit on here that I don't want folks to have access to.

And if somebody steals my office machine, they'd have to steal the UPS too... and then know the password to unlock my screen... and my desktop weighs about as much as my UPS (it's a small one), lol.

Nearly all of that is already encrypted, though. So those parts won't benefit from further encryption.

Many of our laptops do have unencrypted data that would be very bad to have leaked/stolen. Never mind just having access to the email on some of our machines - yikes.

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Verify the effectiveness of a disk wipe? That's an interesting question. Never really considered that, but should have. I mean you can do basic things like run Recuva and see what it sees. But we can probably trust that that won't work. But would a good forensic shop get data? Honestly, I bet the only way to test that would be do spot check it by attempting all out recovery on some disks at random that you have done this to.

Drives I am concerned about are shredded after having DBAN ran in autonuke mode.

So I would never deal with paying for this, but this process did make me curious.

I recall reading an article on the effectiveness of disk wipes and apparently it's incredibly effective. That's just hearsay until I find the article but I specifically recall "forensic data experts" being unable to recover anything after a single pass of random 1/0s.

@JaredBusch said in Domain/Server Upgrade Options:

NethServer

Alright you bastards, I'll take it for a spin