IT Team gets together and creates the hold from hell.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/29/it_helpdesk_creates_oh_hold_hell/

https://www.reddit.com/r/VOIP/comments/dypp36/20191119_critical_freepbx_security_vulnerability/

"There has been a criticial security vulnerability discovered in FreePBX which allows remote code execution without authentication."

v14/v15 should automatically update themselves. Earlier versions will not.

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thanks

This is what's keeping me busy lately. Building a Chicken Coop, though we're calling it the Palace, for our girls.



We have Leghorns (apparently pronounced LegUrns, Rhode Island Red, and Plymouth Rock (black) to start.

Construction is 2x4 insulated 8' x 8' with the run being 20' x 8'. All those years in construction back in the day always seem to pay off in some way. :D

Apparently, I've been elected to be the one to get them from the coop to the table when the time comes. ;)

The announcement page: Starwood Guest Reservation Database Security Incident Marriott International

My thoughts on the matter though rather curtailed from what I really want to say due to polite company: Some Thoughts on the Starwood/Marriott Reservations Database Breach

@dustinb3403 It's been a while, but there's a set of files the Mac writes to all folders it touches. .DS_Store or something like that.

We've seen busy graphics houses have their file servers brought to their knees by this "feature".

These guys: https://dea.nbird.com.au/2014/11/19/windows-server-prevent-mac-files-on-shares-ds_store-_-trashes/

@Danp Whoever made the T-Shirt was probably too intimidated to mention the grammatical error or maybe let it go because the guy was a d*ck.

@WrCombs said in DHCP Question...:

This is for a friend of mine who asked me ; And Wanted to be able to send him a link to read up on DHCP Best practices and ideas on his situation.

He came to me and said "if you set up a dhcp why do you set up .2-.254 with a gate way of .1
don't you want to keep some open for Static IPs... for example: printers?"

what can I say to him other than .1 is reserved for gateway? .1 is the gateway so it can't be used in the scenario.

He is explaining to me that this company Cybera is setting up a firewall for him at his location and is curious why they would leave it that wide and open without any reserved Static IPS.

I'm sending him the link to this thread to have him read through the answers I get.

Our rule of thumb, and it's a "we've been doing it this way since ... so we keep doing it this way" situation, is to set up the full subnet in DHCP and then set exclusions for what we want to set aside for servers, printers, and the like. We generally set printers via reservation.

Here's a simple scope setup in PowerShell:

Add-DHCPServerInDC
Add-DHCPServerv4Scope -Name "OUR Local Scope" -StartRange 10.100.10.1 -EndRange 10.100.10.254 -SubnetMask 255.255.255.0
Add-DhcpServerv4ExclusionRange -ScopeID 10.100.10.0 -StartRange 10.100.10.1 -EndRange 10.100.10.49
Add-DhcpServerv4ExclusionRange -ScopeID 10.100.10.0 -StartRange 10.100.10.200 -EndRange 10.100.10.254
Set-DhcpServerv4OptionValue -ComputerName DC.Domain.com -DnsServer 10.100.10.254 -DnsDomain Domain.com -Router 10.100.10.1

@mlnews said in Why aren’t chip credit cards stopping “card present” fraud in the US?:

Fraud is on the rise despite a move to chip cards.

A security analysis firm called Gemini Advisory recently posted a report saying that credit card fraud is actually on the rise in the US. That's surprising, because the US is three years out from a big chip-based card rollout. Chip-based cards were supposed to limit card fraud in the US, which was out of control compared to similar fraud in countries that already used EMV (the name of the chip card standard)....

I remember reading comments from the American payment industry folks that basically said Americans were too stupid to do Chip & PIN. We've had it here for a very long time with TAP being a relatively recent addition. TAP is limited to $50 or $100 depending on merchant and product. It makes transactions fast versus any other method.

Swipe needs to be banned. Period.

Next up: RFID protection wallets. A must-have for frequent travelers.

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A is positively the correct answer.

Kids in our family know what Eye-Dee-Ten-Tee (ID10T) and PEBKAC (Peb-Cack) mean. :D

Easier is "Set up for an Organization" and choose a username. Ours would be Laptop Admin with the space and no password to avoid the questions.

Once logged on, CTRL+ALT+DEL and Change Password to set the new one. Note that the existing would be a blank.

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@eddiejennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Small victories in life are often the sweetest! As of about 10 AM today, I paid off my car loan. The taste of freedom being being debt-free is so nice. :D

Both our vehicles were paid off this summer. We've been eyeing the idea of purchasing a 3500 series diesel for a 5th wheel trailer.

But I ain't gonna pay $85K+ for a truck.

The used vehicle market up here is nuts right now. Any truck for sale doesn't get below 70% of retail unless it's a wreck.

And yes, it is a good feeling.

We're putting the extra cash flow into fun things with the fam.

My next goal is building some general savings. I'm putting a good bit away for retirement, but I need to increase my more liquid savings that's easily accessible in case of hardship.

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@eddiejennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Small victories in life are often the sweetest! As of about 10 AM today, I paid off my car loan. The taste of freedom being being debt-free is so nice. :D

Both our vehicles were paid off this summer. We've been eyeing the idea of purchasing a 3500 series diesel for a 5th wheel trailer.

But I ain't gonna pay $85K+ for a truck.

The used vehicle market up here is nuts right now. Any truck for sale doesn't get below 70% of retail unless it's a wreck.

And yes, it is a good feeling.

We're putting the extra cash flow into fun things with the fam.

My next goal is building some general savings. I'm putting a good bit away for retirement, but I need to increase my more liquid savings that's easily accessible in case of hardship.

Make sure you plan appropriately...
Below is best case IMO.
I'd aim to put enough away to have $3M+ minimum by 2053.

Inflation is driven by the amount of fiat currency printed by a central bank.

It's actually in the banker's best interest, no pun intended, to keep printing that money.

It's why a $35K truck two decades ago is now $65K.

Real estate is somewhat resistant to this, but the catch is that the market bubble always busts bursts. Knowing the signs is key.

My Gram taught me a lot about real estate as she was a speculator's manager in Shanghai (Yeah, China before Mao).

We've done well since our first purchase in the middle 2000s before the bubble burst in '08.

The crazy amount of money being printed over the last year has wiped out any gains we had on our current property though the rush out of the city has helped to keep the price propped up.

Know the signs. ;)

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@dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@phlipelder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@eddiejennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@phlipelder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@eddiejennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Small victories in life are often the sweetest! As of about 10 AM today, I paid off my car loan. The taste of freedom being being debt-free is so nice. :D

Both our vehicles were paid off this summer. We've been eyeing the idea of purchasing a 3500 series diesel for a 5th wheel trailer.

But I ain't gonna pay $85K+ for a truck.

The used vehicle market up here is nuts right now. Any truck for sale doesn't get below 70% of retail unless it's a wreck.

And yes, it is a good feeling.

We're putting the extra cash flow into fun things with the fam.

My next goal is building some general savings. I'm putting a good bit away for retirement, but I need to increase my more liquid savings that's easily accessible in case of hardship.

With the MSP revolution a number of years ago, a decade or more even?, we presented proposals to all of our clients. Since they are mostly accounting firms they didn't go for the full meal deal (OpEx versus CapEx) but did opt in for a blended approach.

Residual Income (Rich Dad, Poor Dad kind of stuff though I've never read the book(s) but had buddies around me into Silver Bullets preach to me) is the key.

It kept us going when I was incapacitated after an auto accident in 2016.

So, start there.

I assume that's the same as passive income?

Yes.

Residual Income is the same as Passive income.

Income that is not being actively produced.

EDIT: Another Example: Residual income would be the incoming fees from Tier 1 Cloud for all of the subscriptions we manage.

yeah, this is why I want to get into rental properties...

Sure I could try to save up a ton of money and live off the gains in the market.. but realestate seems safer in the long run.

Rental properties are a tough one. The neighbourhoods where our shop is has some really nice ones. But, to get into that tier one has to fork out some serious coin.

Inflationary signs. Slipping economy numbers. Plenty of markets have plateaued or even starting to slip price wise.

Out here, the rural properties are going for $10K an acre around us bare land. In the cities, a condo can be had for way below asking.

It's all in knowing where to put the money when it comes to real estate.

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@phlipelder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@eddiejennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@phlipelder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@eddiejennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Small victories in life are often the sweetest! As of about 10 AM today, I paid off my car loan. The taste of freedom being being debt-free is so nice. :D

Both our vehicles were paid off this summer. We've been eyeing the idea of purchasing a 3500 series diesel for a 5th wheel trailer.

But I ain't gonna pay $85K+ for a truck.

The used vehicle market up here is nuts right now. Any truck for sale doesn't get below 70% of retail unless it's a wreck.

And yes, it is a good feeling.

We're putting the extra cash flow into fun things with the fam.

My next goal is building some general savings. I'm putting a good bit away for retirement, but I need to increase my more liquid savings that's easily accessible in case of hardship.

With the MSP revolution a number of years ago, a decade or more even?, we presented proposals to all of our clients. Since they are mostly accounting firms they didn't go for the full meal deal (OpEx versus CapEx) but did opt in for a blended approach.

Residual Income (Rich Dad, Poor Dad kind of stuff though I've never read the book(s) but had buddies around me into Silver Bullets preach to me) is the key.

It kept us going when I was incapacitated after an auto accident in 2016.

So, start there.

I assume that's the same as passive income?

Yes.

Residual Income is the same as Passive income.

Income that is not being actively produced.

EDIT: Another Example: Residual income would be the incoming fees from Tier 1 Cloud for all of the subscriptions we manage.

@eddiejennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@phlipelder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@eddiejennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Small victories in life are often the sweetest! As of about 10 AM today, I paid off my car loan. The taste of freedom being being debt-free is so nice. :D

Both our vehicles were paid off this summer. We've been eyeing the idea of purchasing a 3500 series diesel for a 5th wheel trailer.

But I ain't gonna pay $85K+ for a truck.

The used vehicle market up here is nuts right now. Any truck for sale doesn't get below 70% of retail unless it's a wreck.

And yes, it is a good feeling.

We're putting the extra cash flow into fun things with the fam.

My next goal is building some general savings. I'm putting a good bit away for retirement, but I need to increase my more liquid savings that's easily accessible in case of hardship.

With the MSP revolution a number of years ago, a decade or more even?, we presented proposals to all of our clients. Since they are mostly accounting firms they didn't go for the full meal deal (OpEx versus CapEx) but did opt in for a blended approach.

Residual Income (Rich Dad, Poor Dad kind of stuff though I've never read the book(s) but had buddies around me into Silver Bullets preach to me) is the key.

It kept us going when I was incapacitated after an auto accident in 2016.

So, start there.

@eddiejennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Small victories in life are often the sweetest! As of about 10 AM today, I paid off my car loan. The taste of freedom being being debt-free is so nice. :D

Both our vehicles were paid off this summer. We've been eyeing the idea of purchasing a 3500 series diesel for a 5th wheel trailer.

But I ain't gonna pay $85K+ for a truck.

The used vehicle market up here is nuts right now. Any truck for sale doesn't get below 70% of retail unless it's a wreck.

And yes, it is a good feeling.

We're putting the extra cash flow into fun things with the fam.

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

7 people laid off and we have a random all hands meeting scheduled, all on a friday. Friday is notorious for the day you break bad news to your employees. It's also national suicide prevention day.

o.O

Hoping and praying for the best here.

Businesses need to get involved in the developing parallel economy.

We are.

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https://www.ign.com/articles/epic-v-apple-judge-rules-apple-must-allow-developers-outside-payment-options?utm_source=twitter

Epic v. Apple: Judge Rules Apple Must Allow Developers to Direct App Users to Outside Payment Options

Plus they've been spanked for their Orwellian iOS v15 "we're just scanning your pics for known kiddie p*rn" efforts.

I suspect the code would still be there just turned off though.

We're so far behind on personal digital identity protection here in North America. :(

nothing more universally hated than child abuse so if they cant use that to get it through then we're doing okay

History tells us that "We're doing it for the children" or "We're doing it to keep you safe" or "I'm here from the Government and I'm here to help" (Reagan) are all bad things. Period.

The Slippery Slope of intrusion has been ongoing for decades now.

Pegasus. Wow. Just. Wow.

Scorpion.

EternalBlue. Same. Wow.

We're working on two products right now. One is an elastic case that covers the phone's entire surface but the touch screen to obfuscate the obvious and hidden cameras/sensors as well as muffle the mic. The second is a Faraday kit that will include a wireless charger integrated so that the device can stay in the box while on the move.

I don't know about you, but I'm done with being watched, listened to, and tracked everywhere I go.

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

https://www.ign.com/articles/epic-v-apple-judge-rules-apple-must-allow-developers-outside-payment-options?utm_source=twitter

Epic v. Apple: Judge Rules Apple Must Allow Developers to Direct App Users to Outside Payment Options

Plus they've been spanked for their Orwellian iOS v15 "we're just scanning your pics for known kiddie p*rn" efforts.

I suspect the code would still be there just turned off though.

We're so far behind on personal digital identity protection here in North America. :(

@pete-s said in RAID 6 in my backup VM host on spinning rust?:

@phlipelder said in RAID 6 in my backup VM host on spinning rust?:

Nah, in my mind KISS applies here.
Add the drives, expand the array, and call it a day.

Might not be so simple. Not every perc controller / version can grow a RAID10 array.

I believe the entire array needs to be restriped when doing that.

Yeah, brain skipped after a speed bump. ;0)

Verify the current PERC can indeed expand that array and do so keeping things as they are.

You could copy out the contents of the SOBR, blow away the array, add the drives, set up the RAID 6 array, format, copy the data back, and finally get Veeam set up and the backups imported but that kills KISS big time.

Mention of "replacing the server" is there so keep the time cost ($150/Hour minimum here) in mind for any changes to be made relative to the budget for the new rig in the not to distant future.

@beta said in RAID 6 in my backup VM host on spinning rust?:

@dustinb3403 Well I looked up Dell drives and the 3.84 SATA read-intensive drives are going for ~$1800 a piece (before any discounting).

Tier 1 hardware is a particular beast.

Yeah, we can scour the fleabays of the world for caddies, but then comes the firmware fun times and/or question marks.

Our saved search e-mail monitoring shows Tier 1 secondary channel sales as being very expensive even relative to buying direct from the Tier 1 vendor.

At this point, adding a couple of known good SAS spindles and calling it a day is probably going to be the safest bet without having to think about rebuilding that SOBR, or adding a new SOBR and migrating the backups, or just setting up an entirely new array/SOBR and backing up leaving things vulnerable for a while.

Nah, in my mind KISS applies here.

Add the drives, expand the array, and call it a day.

Oh, and make sure to set up a B2 bucket for some immutability. ;)