Posts made by quicky2g

@scottalanmiller said:

@quicky2g said:

I wish I could agree that RHEL/CentOS is better than Ubuntu. I've used so many flavors and releases and every time I give it an honest try, yum fails me: Takes too long, doesn't resolve dependencies, breaks other packages, etc.

What kinds of issues? I've yet to have YUM break anything and I've managed thousands of CentOS/RHEL servers. This is very surprising. Is this with third party repos or the RH ones?

I remember installing 3rd party apps (Can't remember names off the top of my head) and needing dependencies that weren't resolved. Then I'd try to manually install dependencies and yum would fail to install them and/or break another package (Somehow always something system related). Got frustrating enough after multiple times throughout the years that I just stopped using anything with yum.

To be fair, I've also had issues with apt but had better luck finding resolution.

I wish I could agree that RHEL/CentOS is better than Ubuntu. I've used so many flavors and releases and every time I give it an honest try, yum fails me: Takes too long, doesn't resolve dependencies, breaks other packages, etc. I always have problems and they're usually not worth spending hours and days fixing when there are other distros that work better for me. I've gravitated to Ubuntu Server because it just keeps working. I stick to LTS releases and generally don't have problems.

Also, excellent article comparing top distributions here:

http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major

Auto tweet them every time your internet sucks....hmmm....that will be alot!

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2016/01/31/frustrated-comcast-customer-sets-up-bot-to-tweet-complaints-every-time-internet-speed-drops/

@scottalanmiller said:

@quicky2g http://mangolassi.it/topic/5364/showing-off-our-new-elk-install

Do you use the real-time dashboard from this guys article?

http://operational.io/elk-for-network-operations/

When we got SFB our boss told us he expected us to be online with an appropriate status. We're in different states so it's especially important. We also use the mobile app.

It's pretty annoying when you see someone offline for days and days but they're working, or someone that's available but doesn't answer IM's or calls because they walked away from their desk and didn't change status.

I don't even understand why phone manufacturers are making 10/100 phones anymore. Is it really that expensive to put in 2 gig NIC's? Someone explain. It's gotta be a sales tactic.

@DustinB3403 said:

So this is a major gripe of mine, Skype for Business in a business environment, with employees who never login.

Like what the crap is that..

Is there a way to force a user to remain signed in via GPO that might be able to be applied?

Why don't they login? They the type of users that just want a physical phone and don't care about the collaboration? They having PC problems that make SFB more difficult to use?

I saw a presentation at a conference 5 or 6 years ago from an IANA guy. He said they're so paranoid about DNS that they have multiples of everything for the same letter root DNS server. They use hard drives, power supplies, network cables, DNS software, firewalls, etc all from multiple different companies. He also said they've gotten DoS attacks over 10Gbps. He said they were one of the driving forces for NGFW manufacturers to start making firewalls that could do 10Gbps. He said they've been able to sustain DoS attacks and not go down...you guys better! Pretty crazy stuff.

@scottalanmiller said:

@quicky2g said:

@anonymous said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Well think about building a lab. You want a storage device, jump box and logging kind of at a minimum. That's three.

I don't have a storage device or logging yet. What do you recommend? And what do you mean by a storage device? Like for shared /home?

I do so much with syslog at home it's ridiculous. syslog-ng to MySQL database with custom written PHP front-end. Works like a charm. Have been using it for a few customers too. 0 cost to me or my company and way better than all those crappy Kiwi imitators logging to a flat text file with minimal searching. Try logging 10 ASA's to Kiwi for a week then searching for inbound/outbound connections for a single IP....not going to happen.

Yeah, can't imagine ever using Kiwi. What made you decide to not use ELK but to write something custom?

Never heard of ELK. Will have to check it out. Wrote the custom one a while ago and never found a reason to use anything else. Super lightweight and can export to Excel. Log analysis and visual stats would be nice though.

Same result in multiple browsers?

Would be a seriously mis-timed April fools day joke if it's the bank website.

I wish it were still called "Internet Explorer" so I can call it "Internet Exploder". Microsoft you took away all the fun.

@anonymous said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Well think about building a lab. You want a storage device, jump box and logging kind of at a minimum. That's three.

I don't have a storage device or logging yet. What do you recommend? And what do you mean by a storage device? Like for shared /home?

I do so much with syslog at home it's ridiculous. syslog-ng to MySQL database with custom written PHP front-end. Works like a charm. Have been using it for a few customers too. 0 cost to me or my company and way better than all those crappy Kiwi imitators logging to a flat text file with minimal searching. Try logging 10 ASA's to Kiwi for a week then searching for inbound/outbound connections for a single IP....not going to happen.

@Dashrender said:

@anonymous said:

The funny thing is someone would that it has value, because of all the work you put into protecting it

While some people might think that because of your extreme protections it has value, the reality is that most hackers won't bother - they will move on to easier targets.

Those who would be willing to go to nearly any length are probably doing so because they Know it's value, and that value is greater than the cost of them getting the data.

How about the port forwarding a customer of mine had for RDP, FTP, SMTP, HTTP, and HTTPS to their exchange server? Sounds like an easy target.... Makes sense why I saw 10,000 sessions coming from Russia and Poland IP's through their router to the exchange server.

@dafyre said:

@Jason said:

... require more fees for more throughput being used on the same device.

This is what drives me crazy about companies these days... Let me pay for a box that is sized for the network I want. If it can handle more than my current bandwidth, great! Don't make me buy a paper license just because I have a 300Mbit internet connection and your box is rated for 200 megs, but I am aactually seeing the full 300.

This is why I prefer to build my own firewall... Shorewall + Snort (or Suricata) + DansGuardian +ClamAV = Win. (Or you can just use pfSense)... Gotta build a beefy box to make it all run nice and smooth and not choke your internet.... But still probably a far cry cheaper than Palo Altos, et al.

You must have loads of fun troubleshooting all those individual systems when something is blocked that shouldn't be.

I use my Mikrotik router. Had a forum post on config here.

@scottalanmiller said:

If I had gobs of money and needed an outlet, I'd probably buy investments that I found "fun" like restaurants, bars and real estate.

Completely agree. I wouldn't mind owning a Chipotle so I could eat there for free.

@MattSpeller said:

$5mil CDN (we do not pay tax on winnings)

Take out 1mil, purchase land / house / vehicles / vacation. Get it out of my system.

Invest 4mil, live comfortably on the interest (5% return gets you 200k/yr which is $100k/yr after tax. Very comfy)

$5mil - 50mil

As above, but invest 40mil.

Take 9mil and create scholarships, fully funded soup kitchens, library for kids who don't read gooder, maker spaces. That kinda thing.

Pay for all the school my 3 close friends have taken - books, tuition, all of it.

Setup scholarships for my 3 close friends kids (2 each) if they should have any. If unused it returns to the community scholarship funds.

Think I'd have to get it out of my system too. Wouldn't want to be reckless but if $5mil suddenly showed up in my bank account I'd have to do some splurging after debt was gone. Wouldn't mind a new car, truck, house and a few gadgets.

@JaredBusch said:

@JaredBusch said:

@scottalanmiller said:

My plan would be to invest it all, wait a year, then start living off of a good chunk of the annual dividends. Always with some going back in for growth so that it is always more each year, even if only a little more. That way you are always gaining, no matter what.

That is my basic plan for any lump sum of money I ever happen to get. I would add pay off all debt first though, otherwise the dividends are will not accumulate as quickly since you will need to use more of them.

So, I guess it would work out like this.

1. Find a good lawyer and financial consultant that I will trust.
2. Use step 1 resources to create a trust(s) to contain all the funds.
3. Put all of said money into ownership of the trust.
4. Withdraw enough to pay off debt (car is all I have now, but planning on a house this spring)
5. Invest the rest of the money into various funds recommended by person from step 1.
6. Continue life as normal until dividends start coming in.
7. Decide what to do with said dividends the first year and reinvest as much as possible.

If you passed the money on to others after you died (Kids, family members, friends, etc) that all thought the same way, seems like generations of people could live without money troubles.

@JaredBusch said:

Now, it is true that the best advice is always to take the lump sum. Investing smartly, you should always come out ahead of the annuity plans.

Mark Cuban's advice from the link @dafyre posted was to NOT take the lump sum but seems like he's giving that advice assuming we're all dumb asses that will buy 2 mansions, 3 boats, a pile of drugs, 20 cars and an IHOP and cross our fingers we can live off IHOP profits for the rest of our lives.

Wow Dan Bilzerian bought $100k worth of Powerball tickets. See here. 1 of the winning tickets is near where he lives.

@scottalanmiller said:

@dafyre said:

That's assuming you use a managed company like Vanguard to handle your money. But your average Joe isn't going to be thinking about that right away. I personally would take the lump sum and invest most of it.

You have to assume that they won't set it on fire. If their goal is to waste it, then both options are equally bad. Only the lump has the benefit of good options. Once you assume the worst then the lump becomes better again, because you would be assume that "that's only if the person taking the long term payout doesn't take a forward loan against it at predatory rates." We can always make up ways for people to have set the money on fire... the question is which provides the most benefit and the answer always comes out to be the lump - whether the person desires to invest or desires to party, the lump enables it better in both cases.

Bigger pile of drugs and bigger bottles of booze