Controversial posts made by scottalanmiller

@WrCombs said in Windows 10 Reboots:

It's only rebooting after hours, and my boss just said " there's a program telling it to restart. and then restart again and then restart again."

According to this, he claimed to know the issue.

@DustinB3403 said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:

To continue this from earlier, people who go into college expecting to become tenured teachers with full time positions making 50K or whatever a "real salary" for a teacher / professor is are just insane.

Teaching to me is like cooking the fries at any fast food chain. Someone needs to do it, and there is a massive amount of people willing to come and do it for cheap, who offer nothing in particular for the job. They've got a piece of paper that says they "know this course material".

The continued mindset of students who go to college to become teachers (for whatever reason) don't see it as this. They see it as "I want to teach to help educate the community". Which quickly turns to "This community doesn't give a damn about me, only them selves. . . why shouldn't I get more"

It's an extremely self centered job (a lot like politics) that starts with good intentions, and then quickly devolves.

These aren't teachers, this are college professors at the top ranked college that they graduated from.

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

working from home but do not know how much longer; several layoffs at my company today we've been told to brace for impact

You mean furlows, right ? we'll see how this new stimulus package affects things.

No, he means layoff.

@DustinB3403 said in How do YOU provide a physical VDI demo?:

This could also be done with a Tablet and some software on that tablet. In this case though you'd need a bluetooth keyboard and mouse.

All of the printers, scanners, network shares, etc etc would all be hosted from the VDI environment that the client logs into.

All those examples look like a computer to the end user, though. Can you do it? Yes, but it doesn't meet the goals here of making it clear to the client / end user that it is something unique and doesn't require a traditional computer to function.

@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Coronavirus: Italy's death toll overtakes China's

Coronavirus has killed more people in Italy than in any other country, after deaths there rose by 427 in a day.
The number of deaths now stands at 3,405, which is more than in China where the virus originated last year. There have been 3,245 reported deaths in China, but there have been questions over the reliability of its data. A lockdown imposed on 12 March in Italy has been extended beyond the original 25 March end date. Nearly all Italians have been told to stay at home. Despite these measures, the number of new cases and deaths has continued to spiral. There have been 220,000 cases of the virus worldwide with more than 9,000 deaths.

According to new study, 99% of patients killed by COVID-19 in Italy had existing illnesses.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8130479/99-patients-killed-coronavirus-Italy-existing-illnesses-study-finds.html

Yeah, but what qualifies as "another illness"? By the time you are dying of anything, you generally have multiple things.

@360col Parking is a completely different feature.

LOLOLOLOL

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Happy New year!

HAPPY NEW DECADE!!

@JaredBusch said in Why I See UTMs As Generally Bad in the Current Market:

Most NGFW are jut updated UTM solutions form the same vendors.

I have the entire concept of the NGFW as no one has a clue what they are buying, using, researching.

And several things we call UTM are actually NGFW now. LIke PA.

@bnrstnr said in Is Admitting That Someone's Suspicion of Guilt Is Correct Constitute Admission of Guilt:

@scottalanmiller said in Is Admitting That Someone's Suspicion of Guilt Is Correct Constitute Admission of Guilt:

Agreed, in general. My argument would be that there is a difference between a witness of a crime, and an admission to a crime. Heresay feels like a weird thing to claim against someone's admission of their own activities.
Maybe it's a bad word in this case. But imagine this discussion...
"I ate the sandwich."
"That's heresay"
"No sir, I literally put it in my mouth and ate it, no one told me about it."
Heresay as a word implies something that was heard, not the admission by the initial party.

Defendant: "We all know I eat"
Officer: "He ate a sandwich on november 3rd, he said I know that he eats, so I can testify that this is what he ate, even though I didn't actually see him eating a sandwich on that date"
Court: "Umm..... no"

No, it's like this.

Defendant: "I ate and the cop there on the stand knows what it was that I ate, his knowledge is accurate."
Officer under oath: "He had a ham and swiss."
Court: "Okay"

@360col said in Best architecture / recommendation for multi sites (separate business) Cloud VOIP PBX:

@scottalanmiller said in Best architecture / recommendation for multi sites (separate business) Cloud VOIP PBX:

Basically you are saying "I must use this provider" and then asking "what's an alternative provider."

We all agree the current system is a problem.

Sort of, we all agree that the vendor you can't change is a problem. How much can you change if you can't change the vendor of the thing in question?

I'm unclear what can be changed. If you are locked to one vendor, then it comes down to what that vendor offers.

@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller Because, and for the last time, you can't be compelled to say something. This is ingrained in the constitution.
You cannot be compelled to give up your password to your computer, period.

You are SO lost here.

@obsolesce said in Agent and Agentless Backups:

@scottalanmiller said in Agent and Agentless Backups:

No agentless system comes close to that.

What do you mean? Agentless means the VM can have any OS you can dream up and it'll be backed up at the host level as a whole VM, unlike agent-based backup.

Really? Do AIX or HP-UX then?

@bnrstnr said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

No, the defense could claim he meant his Christmas list...

Defense can claim anything. It's what he actually said that matters, and what he said is that the cops know. So if the cops say, under oath, that it's child porn, then child porn it is.

@tim_g said in Arg! The money spent the month before I stated here.:

@scottalanmiller said in Arg! The money spent the month before I stated here.:

@tim_g said in Arg! The money spent the month before I stated here.:

My favored solution is local A/V on every device, such as ESET....

We specifically found ESET to be unreliable and the company untrustworthy.

ESET has a MUCH better detection rate than ClamAV for example. Unless ClamAV has gotten better in the last year or so, there's no way I'd trust it as my main line of A/V defense.

Not from what we found. ESET had a 0% detection rate because the vendor would cripple it remotely to extort more money. Completely unreliable.

@Obsolesce said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:

@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:

@Obsolesce said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:

@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:

@Obsolesce said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:

@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:

@Obsolesce said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:

@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:

@Obsolesce said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:

@scottalanmiller said in Follow along with Scott, Emily, Madeline, & Dominica on the Grand Tour of Europe 2:

Stromboli is American and i barely ever see it in the US and have never seen it outside of it. It is similar to a calzone.

Or Italian-American, or Italian immigrants.

We call those people Americans normally

I don't consider myself Swedish regardless of my citizenship.

What do you consider yourself, if neither Swedish nor American?

American because that's where I was born and raised, no matter where I would emigrate to.

So the same as the Americans who made Stromboli. Thats where they were birn and raised.

Oh they were? Who was it?

Stromboli, if you look it up, was invested in America. Not by Italians, but my Americans. Americans assumed to be of Italian decent, but that's the same as saying "American." Stomboli is simply an American food no matter how you slice or dice it. American invented, in America, by Americans. Other than the Americans being of Italian heritage, why are you assuming anything else? It's from Philadelphia. Not even an Italian region of the US.

It has no ties to Italy other than being an American modification of the calzone, which is Italian itself. But 99% of pizza in the US is influenced from pizza in the US at this point, not directly from pizza in Europe. We are many generations past that point.

I get the point, but when I looked it up, it specifically said "Italian immigrant". That's what I based my point off of. If that's not the case, then I completely agree.

Italian immigrant is used to refer to people for many generations. My wife and kids are considered Italian immigrants in many cases, but have been here for several generations. But in their case, are also still legally Italians, so that muddies the point.

Basically everyone in the US is considered an immigrant (obviously, there are exceptions.) It's how many generations of immigrant are you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigrant_generations

Immigrant doesn't imply that they started in a different country. Only that they have an identifiable background from another country. My family still heavily identifies on the Swiss side as immigrants, but are on ten generations. But since we are still almost pure Swiss and can identify the ship we immigrated on and the immigration paperwork, we aren't natives in any way. My wife has copies of the immigration paperwork from her family, for example, as well.

@dashrender said in domain controller in the cloud for small office?:

@scottalanmiller said in domain controller in the cloud for small office?:

@dashrender said in domain controller in the cloud for small office?:

lol - you know they do. i.e. can't afford to purchase AV, that's the reason they don't have AV - ridiculous reason, but it's a reason.

That addresses why their policy states that they don't have AV. It does not state why they can't afford to have a policy.

They do have a policy, the policy is to not have AV. Well - at least I hope they took the 5 seconds it takes to write that policy.

But that's what we were discussing, why the policy was addressable. In what condition could you excuse not having a policy?

@valentina said in What Are You Drinking:

@DustinB3403 They sell those EVERYWHERE here

Well duh, it's even in Spanish!!

@francesco-provino said in Any reason to avoid /16 in 2017?:

@travisdh1 said in Any reason to avoid /16 in 2017?:

@francesco-provino said in Any reason to avoid /16 in 2017?:

@scottalanmiller said in Any reason to avoid /16 in 2017?:

@wrx7m said in Any reason to avoid /16 in 2017?:

A /16 seems pretty drastic when coming from a /24

Yeah, /16 is too large to actually use. Commonly /23 and /22 are used, they are no problem. In reality, /21 is perfectly fine. Even a /20 is pretty good. But once you start getting into the /19 and larger, you are just getting to some impractically large scales. A /16 is 16,000% larger than a /20, which is generally considered the largest that you can practically use.

I know this is the common sense, but… what will be the issue? I will have just 300-350 allocated IP, it's just a matter of convenience to include both the X.X.0.0 and the X.X.120.0 range in one big subnet.

I know it doesn't matter much, but the AWS VPC subnet is /16 by default :D.

After a certain point, broadcasts overwhelm actual network traffic. That's really the only thing I know that limits the size of a single network.

Ok, but I think the broadcast traffic depends only on the number of hosts in the subnet. I wouldn't put more than ~500 active IPs in this subnet, ever.

Then why go to something so absurdly large instead of just something 2-4x larger than your maximum possible usage?

Just got in from a meeting that went from like 6PM till 2:30am