@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:

Disney sets record for highest-grossing with $7.67 billion so far
https://www.wfmz.com/news/disney-sets-record-for-highestgrossing-year/1100840768

This makes me so sad.

Because its Disney?

Well, sure. But because Disney has totally given up on quality across the board.... going from making quality stuff to making the worst popular garbage ever (opinion I know, but it's so bad I'll no longer watch movies Disney is involved in, they've become a brand name of crap), they've taken their parks from ground breaking and oriented on customer service to just being overpriced six flags with gobs of stupid promotional stuff. They were a great company, and now the world would be a better place if they didn't exist.

That in doing so has made them more money than by creating good content or being ground breaking or whatever is sad because it shows what a horrific state society is in.

All you can do is....

"Let it go, Let it Go
Turn away and slam the door"

:winking_face:

@obsolesce said in Handling DNS in a Single Active Directory Domain Controller Environment:

@kelly said in Handling DNS in a Single Active Directory Domain Controller Environment:

just challenging the "most commonly correct approach" statement

It seems you are mistaking the "most common approach" with the "most common correct approach". I haven't been around the SMB as much as JB, but I'm assuming the most common approach to SMB DC implementations are incorrect. Meaning, 2+ DCs are being used when 1 should be used. Perhaps two DCs are used because so many other things are done incorrectly, it's thought 1 should't be used due to so many other things not properly in place, but that's besides the point in my reply here.

IMHO, SMB's use 2 DC's (me included) because it is drilled over and over in our heads by outside forces, including the application developers and the OS companies themselves. On top of that, we are completely stupid if we don't have a second DC if the hardware is available. So to follow "Best Practices," SMB's just do it. It doesn't necessarily mean that things are done incorrectly though. It mostly means, we (aka I) have an extra DC there sitting, waiting, getting monthly updates and then gather more dust for years on end all in the name of protection and risk reduction.

That is why coming here and having extensive discussions about general topics has helped me changed my own thoughts about system/network design in SMB's.

@dashrender

Grilling is fast with medium to high temps (10 minutes at 375-700) while BBQ is slow and low temps (many hours at 200-225)

IMHO, you cannot really BBQ a steak (Strip/Ribeye), hotdog or hamburger but you can BBQ or Grill a chicken.

@coliver said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@nerdydad said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@dashrender said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@nerdydad said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@dashrender said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

Here's a question for ya'll.

What do you call cooking steaks or hotdogs or burgers on a grill?

Grilling

OK, and what's the difference between grilling and BBQ?

Grilling is just applying the meat to the grill to cook. BBQ requires a sauce.

BBQ is a specific cooking style that may or may not use a sauce (don't talk about sauce in some states in the south)

I'm in the north but I am a no sauce BBQ/steak person. My motto is, "If it needs sauce you didn't do it right." :)

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Packed lunches not a right in Italian schools, court rules

Parents have reacted angrily to a decision by Italy's top court which states that the right to eat packed lunches in schools is not "unconditional."
Italy's Supreme Court said schools should have the autonomy to decide if children are allowed to eat packed lunches on school grounds.
A lower court previously ruled in favour of a group of Turin parents who wanted to opt out of school meals.
Parents say school meals are costly.
They also argue that food provided by schools can be unhealthy.
The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that bringing a packed lunch was "a possible violation of the principles of equality and non-discrimination based on economic circumstances".

I'm trying to figure out how far one has to stretch a logical argument to even equate Packed Lunch's = inequality????

That is way the f*%& out there.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

She doesn't have her own because it would be wasted money at this point, but she will as soon as she has the capability to speak.

Mine got their own super young. Otherwise they'd be using battery, storage, access on ours .... and the last thing that we wanted was them dropping our critical devices. By giving them their own we got them more age appropriate devices, that weren't critical to adults functioning, that could be in child-protective cases.

Oh how many non-IT parents don't understand this. I cannot tell you how many parents here at work come to me for help with virus's and such on their own device (with saved banking logins and all the goodies). I ask what they clicked on or what they were doing and 90% of the time the answer begins with "Well, my child..."

@Joel said in HyperV Server - Raid Best Practices:

This got a little heated :face_screaming_in_fear:
-So can we clarify, back to the OP - Consensus out of the options I have, Option 2 is the best way to go?

6x 2TB 12GB/s Drives in OBR10 for everything and then creating two partitions (1 for the HyperVisor OS) and then (1 for data - to store all my Virtual Machines and Data).

My VMs would be in D:\Hyper-V\VM's
My Virtual Hard Disks (daily data) would be in D:\Hyper-V\Data

Don't forget to do the cost comparisons of SAS in OBR10 vs SSD in RAID5. You may be surprised to find out that SSD in RAID 5 is cheaper (Stick with SSD 6Gb/s vs 12Gb/s) depending upon your server manufacturer.

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

@pmoncho said in I can't even:

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

@tim_g said in I can't even:

Actually I give up on that thread. We don't even know what he means by cluster.
We don't know what version of Windows/Hyper-V is being implemented.

The OP has only responded 4 times and never clarified anything.

So much is being assumed. I have a lot of questions to the OP that have never been answered, and it doesn't look like he intends on answering them. So I'm done.

That's a common problem. OPs that won't respond leave everyone wanting to discuss and nothing to work with. So it just spirals into a world of guessing and loads of discussion based on the guessing.

I have given up on many posts where the OP does not respond to questions. I give OP's about 3 hours to respond after the first response with questions. If they cannot bother to check back, why waste the time answer with assumptions.

The platform really encourages that behaviour. It doesn't show updates and encourages you to leave and await an email or something. That pattern is good for tiny, slow sites that no one is looking at. But when people are responding in real time and you aren't sticking around to watch, it doesn't go over well.

Absolutely. Just an huge UGH!

So now I mainly just hang out here. :)

@dbeato said in What would your recommendation be for a Type 1 Hypervisor - including backup and restoration options:

@DustinB3403 said in What would your recommendation be for a Type 1 Hypervisor - including backup and restoration options:

Most of my clients have an on-site data server
All have an AD server
All have a webserver of some type.
A few have terminal services

The fact that
Most of my clients have an on-site data server
A few have terminal services

Terminal Server is also something really annoying and cumbersome to manage without AD.

Microsoft keeps intertwining RDS and AD. Trying to manage RDS without AD is as bad as Hyper-V without AD.

@WrCombs said in Sonic Wall Rules?:

@WrCombs said in Sonic Wall Rules?:

@JaredBusch said in Sonic Wall Rules?:

@WrCombs said in Sonic Wall Rules?:

I did Find This but Im not exactly sure that's what im looking for.

This points you in more or less the right direction.

You will need to create objects for the devices and then make rules like this allowing communication from network Z to it.

Okay, So I need the Camera IP's and the Door Camera/Controller Ip to create objects, and then follow the guide?

@JaredBusch Cant I make one Object with Multiple IPs ?

Do as @travisdh1 stated. You can then create a Group from the Objects.

@wls-itguy said in Fast/painless remote access:

What do you guys use for those one off connections that you need but don't have an agent already set up on a machine? Once in a while I have to remotely connect to a users machine who cannot access their student account and it would be nice to have something that wouldn't require them to click on 4 things before they get to where I can access their machine.

It doesn't have to be free.

I use Meshcentral with a link like @scottalanmiller

You can also use Remote Utilities for one off situations. You can have a free license for up to 10 connections and they have a Run-Only Agent the users can download from their website.

@scottalanmiller said in Taking suggestions about x86 Access replacement:

@pete-s said in Taking suggestions about x86 Access replacement:

@scottalanmiller said in Taking suggestions about x86 Access replacement:
. And if you swing a dead cat, you whack at least three PHP developers.

I have to remember that phrase. Gruesome but funny.

Thanks for the info and views of PHP. It is nice to hear some positives about PHP as I mostly read about the security issues surrounding the multiple versions of PHP.

@scottalanmiller said in Taking suggestions about x86 Access replacement:

@mr-jones said in Taking suggestions about x86 Access replacement:

@scottalanmiller

LOL. Maybe even in something other than Access!

I talked to the boss and he agreed to moving to a SQL Server. Now I'm researching a frontend for it.

Access can be the front end. That's not a problem when using SQL Server. But if you can avoid Access, then PHP is the absolutely obvious answer. Don't even think about considering anything else, complete waste of time to even talk about it. Keep Access, or upgrade to PHP 8.

I have very limited knowledge in this area so I am wondering why not a .Net front end instead of PHP?

@stuartjordan said in Handy Linux Utilities:

Why we must warn people not to use non encrypted traffic:
Do Not Use Telnet,Ftp or standard http

Here we will do an arp poison man in the middle attack to see another devices traffic on the same network. when we just had hubs this was easier now we have switches we have to use this method:

6. sudo ettercap -T(txt only) -S(no ssl) -i(interface) wlan0 -M(man in the middle attack) arp:remote /192.168.1.1(router)// //192.168.1.8//(person to attack)

In this example, ettercap has the ability to see packets (the conversation) on a switched network between two different end points?

@carnival-boy said in I can't even:

@pmoncho said in I can't even:

From a marketing perspective, my issue with the email is the perceived bonus you get for having an UNLIMITED account (I have one too). We are not getting any bonus for free, its included in the word Unlimited, at least according to the Oxford Dictionary.

What does the Oxford Dictionary say? The word unlimited doesn't imply anything regarding audio quality.

Oxford says the following:
"not limited or restricted in terms of number, quantity, or extent."

My view is that the HD would be included in the "extent" part of the definition. So if streaming music tech has spread/extended to HD, it should be included as part of the Unlimited account.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@stuartjordan said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller cold and windy in the uk, be nice to see your view :)

Can't get pics to upload here. BUt here is my IG...

https://www.instagram.com/p/CPGOQmkrdax/

NIce. Is this at your new home/hotel?

Sure is!

Freaking Awesome! You keeping it as a hotel too?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@stuartjordan said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller cold and windy in the uk, be nice to see your view :)

Can't get pics to upload here. BUt here is my IG...

https://www.instagram.com/p/CPGOQmkrdax/

NIce. Is this at your new home/hotel?

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerb haha, bloody robots.
been watching Raised by Wolves, damn show's got me sucked in. Last episode tonight, it seems to be a 1 season only, but with 1 episode left, it looks like another show that will end with an unfinished story?

I was debating about watching it. I will give it a shot. Did a search and it looks like Season 2 is still shooting.

@jaredbusch said in I can't even:

@pmoncho said in I can't even:

@jaredbusch said in I can't even:

@carnival-boy said in I can't even:

@jaredbusch What's the issue? I don't get it.

This is every phishing email ever.

Well, if it is actually from Amazon, wouldn't that be considered marketing instead of phishing?

Not saying I agree with it the email as I have many other issues with it.

It is a legitimate email from Amazon. But it is nothing but a click bait click here to get something free email. When you work and work and work to train your users to not click on shit it seems too good to be true, but then a legitimate company sends out bullshit like this.

Agreed. With the forever issues these emails provide, as @Dashrender pointed out, the best I can hope for is to continue training users and always tell them to hover over the link before clicking to verify the address. Plus my added statement, "If you don't know, the answer is NO!"

From a marketing perspective, my issue with the email is the perceived bonus you get for having an UNLIMITED account (I have one too). We are not getting any bonus for free, its included in the word Unlimited, at least according to the Oxford Dictionary.

@jaredbusch said in I can't even:

@carnival-boy said in I can't even:

@jaredbusch What's the issue? I don't get it.

This is every phishing email ever.

Well, if it is actually from Amazon, wouldn't that be considered marketing instead of phishing?

Not saying I agree with it the email as I have many other issues with it.