Posts made by PenguinWrangler

@DustinB3403 that is the $5,000.00 question. I don't know. Thursday night I was studying for my RHCSA exam got up from my desk and nearly fell down because my ankle hurt so bad. So I went to bed thinking it must be muscle related somehow and I would be fine Friday morning. Friday morning it hurt just as bad. Went to work, limped around the office. Our COO wanted to drive me to the Urgent Care and I told her no. I told her if Saturday it hurt I would go. Got up today and it was a lot worse. So I went to the Urgent care. I have had such bad leg/lower back problems that I have built up a high tolerance for pain. It isn't always a good thing.

Trying to decide what to watch since I broke my ankle. Going to get to catch up on my shows now.

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

I drive a Cube. Love the head room. I want to get a license plate frame that says "My other Cube is a Borg Cube"

@coliver I like SME Server. Espcially if you just need central authentication, and shares. If you need more complex features I would lean to nethserver, which borrows heavily from SME Server.

@coliver Zentyal, Nethserver, SME Server are the SMB Linux servers that give you a Web Interface for setting up an AD Samba Domain, shares etc. These are just the three I know of off the top of my head.
SME Server: http://wiki.contribs.org
Netherver: https://www.nethserver.org/
Zentyal: http://www.zentyal.org/

@sully93 said in Prompt before sending external emails:

I have been tasked with finding this same solution. We have been running a proof of concept trial on SafeSend (https://www.safesendsoftware.com). It is essentially an Outlook plug-in. For all external e-mail it prompts the sender to verify the intended recipients. There is also an option to turn on to verify any attachments as well. The price quoted is a little more than I would want to pay for a plug-in, but considering we had 3 instances last year of sensitive e-mail sent to incorrect recipients we think it's worth it.

That looks interesting. For where I work. One email could wreck a lawsuit worth millions upon millions of dollars. So when compared to that most of the time cost isn't a factor.

@scottalanmiller said in Prompt before sending external emails:

While I'm generally the first to jump on HR not doing their job... there is just a human factor is mistakenly getting the wrong email address sometimes. While this seems like it would be a pain to deal with day to day, I can see why you would want it no matter what HR was doing.

I agree with you Scott. This would be a nice feature to set up. I do train my users and my users are very diligent in this as we are a law firm. So sending the email to the wrong side could very easily be a case of attorney malpractice. So with the severity of this for some cases I don't think it is unreasonable to ask this. I have not found a good way to handle this, so we just train train train train on it.

@s.hackleman My lower spine is not attached to my upper spine, the bones in my lower back that interlock the spine together are broken off and gone. I believe from injuries when I was a prison guard but it could be genetics. Been that way for awhile. It is just time for me to have the spine fused together to prevent further injury and nerve damage.

@JaredBusch said in Star Trek Discovery:

@PenguinWrangler said in Star Trek Discovery:

@scottalanmiller Hang in there. It really starts picking up about half way through the 1st season. The last episode was just a little over the top imho.

That was me not Scott. And I made it to the beginning of Season 3.

DOH!

Okay okay geez.... you guys made me get back on the healthy eating wagon. I have about 75 pounds to lose. I am getting about a mile walk in a night, even though it hurts. Orthopedic doctor wants to do surgery on my leg/back, once my weight gets down.

@Mike-Davis One thing to note, it will not let them pass the PBA(preboot authentication screen) if their password is expired. Took some teaching, and emails to my users to change passwords when they are prompted and don't let them expire. We push out email warnings the week before and day of their password expiring. Hasn't been too much of an issue. My users seemed to adapt to that fairly well.

@Mike-Davis It is all AD integrated. When they change their AD password and login then the Dell DDPE will update the PBA (Preboot Authentication screen) with their AD password.

@scottalanmiller If the user forgets password and they are out of town. They can feed you a series of numbers and letters (think windows OS Product Key length) that you plug into the server. That then generates a similar code that you feed back to them then that unlocks the encryption.

We use Dell DDPE encryption solution. We can log into the server and tell the computer bypass the first Encryption Screen on next boot if the computer is in the office. So that is how we handle WOL scenarios.

@JaredBusch That is a good example of a good idea implemented poorly, in my opinion. There was potential there but it just didn't play out well with how they wrote it.

@scottalanmiller Hang in there. It really starts picking up about half way through the 1st season. The last episode was just a little over the top imho.

@scottalanmiller you are correct. Enterprise, which I really liked for so many reasons ended with the formation of the Federation. I really didn't like the last episode.

I am a HUGE Star Trek, and not just because I am 6'5" tall. I can throw down with anyone on Star Trek knowledge, and usually leave them in awe. This series was suppose to start this January. However it has been pushed back 3 or 4 times now. It was originally going to be placed in the Star Trek timeline after Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country but before STTNG. There has been infighting between the producers, directors, etc. After the January launch delayed, it was then March. After that it got pushed back to summer. Then this is the first I heard about the fall release date.

https://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2017/01/star-trek-discovery-gets-stuck-in-spacedock-for-at-least-a-little-longer/

https://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/star-trek-discovery-stuck-in-spacedock/

@scottalanmiller I haven't bought shampoo since last century.

Contemplating the fact that the only real downside to being bald is I have no hair to pull out when I am frustrated.