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A joke or not, once "Disneyfied" it will lose some luster.

@dbeato said in Patch all your Windows DNS servers - CVE-2020-1350 - CVSS score of 10:

@pmoncho said in Patch all your Windows DNS servers - CVE-2020-1350 - CVSS score of 10:

Just wondering - Is anyone seeing a patch for 2019 with a reference to the KB article?
Checked yesterday, last night and this morning. No update that I can see.

Currently performing the workaround.

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https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4558998

Thanks. Forgot about the update catalog.

@Nic said in Sysadmin opening at Automox - Boulder, CO:

@stacksofplates Sorry about that - feel free to leave the website off that field and then mention it in your cover letter if it's important for the application.

Oh it's fine. Just figured I'd mention it.

I just double checked and my phone hasn't received a patch since 2/1/19. I need to get a new phone...

Congrats

@Nic said in Big Patch Tuesday - updating the cryptographic functions in Windows:

@JaredBusch my bet is the NSA was using it, but now some other nation state has found it and is using it. Which is why NSA now wants us all to patch it.

Yeah this was my point earlier. This tracks with their behavior with EternalBlue.

@black3dynamite true, you just have to make sure everyone restarts their FF!

I'd be willing to bet that this university had the students setup their network without any oversight or understanding of how it was setup.

"For today's class we'll be setting up AD 2003 and getting the entire school to use it - You get an A!" and they just let it run and run and run.

I'm just taking a guess at the AD version, wasn't listed

Or if you just want something simple, quick, and free: https://bestpractical.com/

@marcinozga said in Equifax claims process is now open:

@Dashrender said in Equifax claims process is now open:

@marcinozga said in Equifax claims process is now open:

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

Who doesn't offer Credit Freeze? All three of the credit agencies offer credit freezes now - for free. It was a law passed a shortish while ago.

I managed to freeze Experian and Equifax 2 years ago.. but had issue getting into Transunion... well, in that time, it's become free and all three have made it much easier (though still not brain dead easy) to freeze unfreeze your credit). As of this morning I have all three frozen.

What I meant was they didn't list that as an option in settlement, instead they offered some useless services. If you don't know about credit freeze in first place, you won't get it. And even if you do, you have to do all the work, and you have to contact all 4 credit bureaus.

You're absolutely right - and as Scott will undoubtly say/agree with - of course they won't do that, that is counter to their business, against their shareholders, etc.

@obsolesce said in We need to make this happen:

@scottalanmiller said in We need to make this happen:

@obsolesce said in We need to make this happen:

@scottalanmiller Lol I guess he missed the part where the sewage leaked in from a crack....

A skeleton's BUTT crack, yeah!

Yeah, only thing that makes sense!

Exactly.

If it exists, the porn industry will find a way to make a profit from it.

It's the only thing that makes sense!

@tim_g said in This Hawaii thing just gets better and better:

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That is great. . .

@Nic said in reddit sysadmins doing an AMA:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/57ien6/were_reddits_infraops_team_ask_us_anything/

Some clever answers, LOL.

@DustinB3403 said in Introducing my replacement representing Webroot:

@MattSpeller said in Introducing my replacement representing Webroot:

@JoshP_Webroot said in Introducing my replacement representing Webroot:

Thanks, Nic! Hello all. Appreciate the warm welcome.

You're very welcome around here! @Nic used to send us all bottles of single malt scotch! In another thread he said that budget has only gone up and you'll be a popular man around here.

And he never sent us that 12 year old crap, only 30+ years! Nic knew how to get people drunk.

Scholar and a gentleman that @Nic. Proper generous with the liquid bribery.

Apropos

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This is exactly what the original Surface was. A Windows only piece of hardware. ARM based, Secure Boot locked Windows only computer. I have no problem with that, while not blatantly obvious, anyone reading the specs would realize this.