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@scottalanmiller said in Responding to "This BS called URE" from Synology Forums:

if the OS rather than simply flagging that file on the drive as being corrupt, would rather flag the whole drive, it comes across as a rather short sighted screwup.

This is actually what it does. Except not the OS. The RAID controller (hardware or software) flags the file (array) as being corruption, not any drive. Any drive(s) with a URE are flagged as being healthy.

If you were to divide up the drives into many arrays, and you hit an exposed URE, only the single array (file) in which the URE was found would be corrupt. The drives, and other arrays (files) on them would be just as healthy as ever.

It only comes across as a short sighted screw up if you don't realize that the "fix" takes us right back to where we already are.

@scottalanmiller looks like we found someone. Pending!

@scottalanmiller said in Beyond Computers and Cables: Achieving the Full Potential of IT at your Clinic:

@obsolesce said in Beyond Computers and Cables: Achieving the Full Potential of IT at your Clinic:

Nice video, but I ran into quite a pet peeve. I would like to point out I wholly disagree with Allen's definition of "cloud" about 15 mins in... that, as he says, "it's just somebody else's server... just means the server is hosted somewhere online over the internet".

I know. He always does the "tee shirt definition" rather than the real one. It's because vet customers can't even begin to understand cloud and all the cloud vendors in the industry aren't using cloud but just using it as a proxy for hosted.

That's a horrible thing to tell customers and in no way whatsoever does anything for the customer except misinformes them and solidifies their misunderstanding of cloud and why it's used. That basically tells the client cloud is if you want something off prem and over the internet. That couldn't be any further from what it is and why it could be beneficial or not to them. Yall are straight up reinforcing myths by saying that.

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@biggen said in Point of Sale System Recommendations, POS:

I use RevelPOS our retail business. Had it for about 7 years now. It’s ok. Uses iPads.

I’d probably do Clover if I had to do it over again but it’s too much of a PITA to switch now.

I've heard mixed things about Revel though - We have an iPad based system that used to be "Bite Squad" but now it's called HRPOS and I have mixed feelings about it.

Does it work for you pretty well? you said in Retail, have you used it in Hospitality before?

@dustinb3403 said in The Failure of Windows as a Service:

@scottalanmiller said in The Failure of Windows as a Service:

@stuartjordan said in The Failure of Windows as a Service:

Like I've said in the past, this is where it is going towards, first business then will be consumer:

https://global.techradar.com/en-ae/news/microsoft-launches-windows-365-a-new-way-to-experience-windows-10-and-windows-11

Yeah, except their main markets are like the US and Canada where Internet reliability is really low. It's like no one there has ever been on the Internet. Oh wait...

I'm sure this has been stated before, but don't conflate you're poor experiences with Internet Connectivity with everywhere across the US.

Granted many places have very crappy options but they still get places "online".

Don't conflate your good experience in one location with my sampling of thousands of sites across the US that we support and monitor all the time. The US has, and is well documented to be, some of the worst Internet in the developed world and certainly not on par with some of the undeveloped world.

@dbeato said in You Have Exceeded the Maximum Number of Computer Accounts - Windows and Active Directory:

@scottalanmiller This is for a standard user without any Domain Admin Privileges. I am assuming this is for a Technician joining computers that no one wants to have admin permissions.

That would be an example case. Yes.

@scottalanmiller said in Technologies Begging to be Ransomwared:

@dashrender said in Technologies Begging to be Ransomwared:

FYI - my experience in all of this is through the use of shares - so if shares aren't enabled.. then I'm guessing you're probably correct due to configuration.

Shares aren't on by default. But even when they are, nothing is shared out that a local non-admin user could access.

Yeah, and this is ultimately what saves you - OK now we're on the same page.

Thanks

@nadnerb said in Another Microsoft Breach, 92% of LinkedIn Users Compromised:

How did the 8% avoid being compromised?

I was wondering that.

Would something like crackmapexec do the trick? I've started playing around with it to validate that some of our security configs are actually doing what they're supposed to and it can be used to dump user lists from a lot of the native windows locations. Not sure that it would get everything that you're looking for but "hacking" tools might be something to consider in addition to the typical bevy of PS and Windows commands.

@carnival-boy said in Ransomware Isn't the Problem, IT Departments Are:

I think just blaming IT departments is harsh. I know from back when I was running IT departments that there is constant pushback from users whenever security was tightened or new policies rolled out and it is critical to make clear that security is something being pushed from the very top and not from IT. In many companies, senior executives will actively undermine IT when it comes to security - that shouldn't happen.

This is completely true. However, I am also very critical of not allowing senior management to undermine IT by making IT decisions and then claiming to not be IT. Those "senior managers" without IT, are actually the IT managers in that situation. That they try to skirt blame by claiming other titles is irrelevant. IT is who does it.

It's like plumbing. If you hire a trained electrician and then he does your plumbing, he's a plumber. He might not be a trained plumber, he might not be a good plumber, but he's a plumber.

@hobbit666 said in Raspberry Pi Blade Servers:

Out of interest what would you use this for?

One case I can think of as if you were running a 3-D printer farm. Although you might be able to run more than one printer off of one pie if you were not also running a camera.

@scottalanmiller said in Remote Hands Unifi Install in Indianapolis:

Good first project to send a middle schooler on, lol.

Make sure they're a music student though. A more dependable than the average middle schooler. 😉

We did it all remotely. Even people IN Tampa had no interest.

@scottalanmiller said in Mass Shooting, 13 Injured on Austin 6th St:

https://abc13.com/mass-shooting-austin-6th-street-texas-gun-violence/10779665/

Reporting right across from Touche ;(

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Good to know we got a slew of requests for a self-audit back in October, same phone number, all hit our spam filters so we ignored.

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