@JaredBusch said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@pmoncho said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@scottalanmiller said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@pmoncho said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@scottalanmiller said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@pmoncho said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@IRJ said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@JaredBusch said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@IRJ said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@JaredBusch said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@scottalanmiller said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

@JaredBusch said in Blockchain-based elections would be a disaster for democracy:

The technology itself makes for a great tamper proof system. but that is not the problem with a blockchain based election system.

As the article states, the hard part about this technology is the loss of anonymity.

And perception problems.

I don't care about perception of people too stupid to even spell blockchain, let alone understand what it is.

Blockchain election systems would be great technically.

100% agree. Blockchain isnt quite ready for this yet, but will be very soon. I have done quit a bit of tinkering with my own Ethereum token with transactions, testing, etc.

It isn't quite ready for the Broadway yet, but it's getting there and the concept is very solid. Some issues need to be addressed such as speed.

The issues will not be technical. If you cannot have a 100% anonymous electorate, then you have people that can sell their votes (and prove it).

The entire point of blockchain is accountability. You cannot have accountability and anonymity with the current design of blockchain.

Retaliation based on political views could be a potential issue as well.

I believe It may already be an issue and would get much worse.

Right now it is based on perceived views. Which is bad. But you can imagine how mad people would be if they learned for certain how people voted.

For the people who want that info kept private, it is a huge issue. Many people have no issue stating who they did not vote for or what party they belong to. Just like many have no issue posting their life on social media.

Claiming and proving are very different things, though.

Good point.

Actually, the point. If people would be able to prove that they voted a certain way, the amount of money that flow into vote buying is nearly unimaginable.

Yeah, someone paying for a vote might pay $.25 for someone's word on who they voted for. But might pay $100 for a proven vote.

@Obsolesce said in A Fundamental Shift in University Thinking Since 2008:

@scottalanmiller said in A Fundamental Shift in University Thinking Since 2008:

But fundamentally, it appears that students don't understand what college is for

So, then, what is your opinion of what college is for... or should be for?

It's always been, and colleges have long pushed this, that it was for exposure, broadening how you think... it was for those with enough money that they didn't have to work right away but could afford time off to explore things that interested them or make them more interesting. It was never for getting a job, or getting ahead in a job. That people think that it is for that is an extremely recent thing (like definitely since I was in college.) Even in the last fifteen years major colleges have made statements that they are not there for those purposes.

The idea that college is for getting a job is weird, people have started confusing trade schools (those that teach "a job") with universities (those that teach liberally) and in the last two decades, very quickly, people think that traditional colleges are actually trade schools and try to treat them that way. But while expectations have changed, the colleges have not (and should not.) But this leads to the huge amount of lower income, lifetimes of debt, dissatisfaction with college results, etc. that we see today.

Colleges have no system for preparing people for real world jobs. The entire tenure system guarantees that that is impossible - colleges simply can't have a staff capable of doing that kind of education. The design of the university system is for other purposes, and universities have generally been crystal clear about that, it's not hidden or secret or new... this is hundreds of years of this.

That's why the number of people going to university in the past was so small, it was really only for the elite because normal people needed to work and pay the bills.

BookStack is now supported on LXQ for easy deployment

@jmoore said in Asking Salary Starting to Be Banned:

@scottalanmiller My experience could very well be unique but I have often seen women get paid more for doing less work and most management have been women. In the school where I am there hasn't been a man in HR in 10 years and all the directors are women. In previous job both managers were women and the other 40 or so non-management were men. The women could not do any of the jobs but I guess they were good paper pushers. So in my small experience there hasn't been a gap and, in truth, its the reverse. I know its not always like that but I don't think its as bad as people make it out to be.

LOL - I grew up in a reverse discrimination situation similar to your job situation. I was one of 4 white kids in a sea of African-Americans.

As for the whole woman in power thing - Medical practices seem to be the same as your job. While the office is owned currently by all men (the owner/doctors) the office and all supervisors are women (7 of them). I am the only male non physician on staff - oh wait, nope that changed 3 months ago.. we now have a male lab tech also.

@DustinB3403 said in Why Job Titles Matter, and Don't.:

@scottalanmiller said in Why Job Titles Matter, and Don't.:

@Dashrender said in Why Job Titles Matter, and Don't.:

@dave247 said in Why Job Titles Matter, and Don't.:

@scottalanmiller said in Why Job Titles Matter, and Don't.:

@dave247 said in Why Job Titles Matter, and Don't.:

@Dashrender said in Why Job Titles Matter, and Don't.:

@dave247 said in Why Job Titles Matter, and Don't.:

I'm actually dealing with this right now. I was asked by my boss to come up with a better job title for myself since I am basically a system administrator, network administrator, server administrator, IT manager, among other things.

I think job titles are a good thing simply as a starting point descriptor of what a person's job role is. It shouldn't determine pay as much as all the line items that are listed in your actual job description.

That said, I've landed on IT Administrator since it seems to encompass everything and sounds better than "IT Generalist".

Are you actually a manager? as in you have direct reports that you manage?

What kind of reports are you referring to? I manage various things in IT, like some reports, vendors, some credit card statements & things..

Direct report = employee that reports directly to you that you can hire and fire.

oh no, I can not fire anyone. However, I have indirectly caused people to get fired, but that's another story..

OK - then like me, you're not an IT manager, because neither of us manages people for IT. At least that's my POV.

I choose IT Admin as my title as well - also didn't like the sound of IT Generalist - most people say - WTF is a generalist?

A Generalist means you cover all the bases. What the heck is an Admin?

An admin isn't forced to use the plunger.

Sadly - this isn't true.

@Dashrender said in Consultancies Advertise People; VARs Advertise Products:

@EddieJennings said in Consultancies Advertise People; VARs Advertise Products:

This may seem simplistic, but if I were in this scenario, on which side of the MSP / VAR would I stand?

A person hires me to help spec out a server for their office. I'm paid to help them determine how much RAM, storage, processors, etc. they need.

This part is clear, I'm being paid for advice; thus, MSP.

A point of clarity - advising only this is not being an MSP - you'r not managing anything (managed service provider). ITSP or Consultancy would be better terms for this portion... heck - the whole thing, including recommending a hardware vendor, because again, you're not managing anything.

True. I ought to have used those other terms.

Nice, for ten dollars I'd be happy to pick one up just to play around with. That's certainly in the silly money range.

@black3dynamite said in Red Hat Discontinuing KDE in RHEL and CentOS:

@travisdh1 said in Red Hat Discontinuing KDE in RHEL and CentOS:

@scottalanmiller said in Red Hat Discontinuing KDE in RHEL and CentOS:

@travisdh1 said in Red Hat Discontinuing KDE in RHEL and CentOS:

@black3dynamite Aha! They both did it! Yes, I have a thing about an entire desktop worth of space getting forced down into one little bar, and the menu being at least 2 clicks deeper than it was.

Why is the menu deeper? I don't prefer this setup either, but it's no deeper. It's still a button on the desktop for me.

Because as the admin/geek, everything I want/need to use is a submenu of the all programs menu. Granted I mostly just favorite a terminal emulator and be done with it, but it is much farther to move around and menus for me to get through. Give me Cinnamon with a hotkey set for the menu any day.

As long as the search function works, I usually find what I need by searching for it.

^ this

@travisdh1 said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?:

@coliver said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?:

@travisdh1 said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?:

@coliver said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?:

@travisdh1 said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?:

@coliver said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?:

@Dashrender said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?:

@coliver said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?:

@SanWIN said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?:

@Dashrender Direct water cooling looks like more effective, taking into account that you have to burn (generate heat) something to produce an electricity to cool the hardware with the traditional air conditioning. But I do agree that it still could affect the nature.

Especially if you can couple this with offshore wind, solar, wave, or current generation systems.

This might be crazy thinking - But I wonder how much we are affecting our physical world by tapping energy directly out of it - i.e. taking heat energy from the planet, pulling energy from wind, from wave, etc. In writing that - I'm wondering if there might just be less thermal bleedoff? I know the planet gets a ton of energy from the sun, I'm pretty sure it's what powers most of our weather, so maybe it's a non issue?

It's mostly a non-issue. We're affecting it more with CO2 and other gases then we are through wind, solar, and geothermal.

CO2 is not the boogieman it's made out to be. There are lots of other reasons to prefer moving things to have less impact on the environment. I think it's that most people aren't capable of understanding those other reasons that a boogieman like CO2 is used, most people think they understand less=good more=bad.

There are whole bodies of research on why excessive amounts of CO2 and other greenhouse gases are bad for the environment and people living in those environments. It's not a new thing and knowledge of it has been around for decades...

The key word is excessive. Take a look at the historic CO2 values to get the idea.

Huh? Even past concentration didn't really hit the point where we are today. IIRC the highest (and climatically volatile period) was only ever ~300PPM CO2 at least from the measurements of ice cores. We're well into the 400PPM CO2... So I'm not sure what you mean by look historically.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/04/dr-vincent-gray-on-historical-carbon-dioxide-levels/

HAHAHAHAAAHAH

In New Zealand, he was the first Director of Building Research and later, Chief Chemist of the Coal Research Association.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_R._Gray

@NerdyDad said in Musk went on firing spree over slow satellite broadband progress:

@scottalanmiller You don't have to go all that far to find really crappy Internet, even though we aren't even in the slightest of poorest countries. Glad to see that somebody is doing something with all of their money and power to help the rest of humanity.

Yeah, but even rural America with the worst options, you have the options of leased lines, bad satellite, moving, fixed wifi, etc. It's awful, but never as limited as being in a country where free Internet (free as in freedom) doesn't exist, or there is no provider at all that you can legally use.

@Dashrender said in ScreenConnect Update Errors on Fedora 28 ScreenConnect_6.8.20124.6845:

@JaredBusch said in ScreenConnect Update Errors on Fedora 28 ScreenConnect_6.8.20124.6845:

Just upgraded to 6.9 and had the same error. Fedora 29 base.

Reran the upgrade with the export and it worked without error.

rolled back and reran it or just ran the upgrader over the last not so great upgrade?

Just ran over it. Same as I did the prior time also.

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

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

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

The reason we went with Fortigate over an Edge router, is that the Edge router couldn't do the IPsec bandwidth we were trying to hit. But mine is an NGFW with UTM bundled in. Could there been some other product that I dont know of that would have been better in our case?

ERL does nearly half of what you need...

https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeRouter/ERL-Performance-Testing-with-IPSec-VPN/m-p/1053799#M44593

ER and ERPro are so much more powerful. The ER Pro has 2x the CPU power, and 4x the RAM. We'd expect it to be able to saturate your lines no problem. Of course that is "expect", but based on the ERL speeds, and that they run the same code, there is little doubt that it can push IPSec over 1Gig speeds.

https://dl.ubnt.com/datasheets/edgemax/EdgeRouter_DS.pdf

Your link is what convinced me not to use the ER pro. the Pro's will only do <500 mbps at full capacity, its in the link you posted.

Where in it?

Oh, I see. he mentions ER Pro in another post, then posts them without stating what they are in a thread on ERLs. VERY confusing.

haha

@dbeato said in Exchange / Office 365 Auto Response from Public Folder:

@scottalanmiller said in Exchange / Office 365 Auto Response from Public Folder:

@travisdh1 said in Exchange / Office 365 Auto Response from Public Folder:

@scottalanmiller said in Exchange / Office 365 Auto Response from Public Folder:

We have a public folder on Office 365 that is email enabled, the customer would like an auto-response from the public folder. I'm not sure if that is even possible.

Wouldn't that be an auto-response setup from one of the accounts that receives those emails?

Does that work with a public folder?

Yes, with Folder Assistant through Outlook. Otherwise you can create a rule for incoming emails through Office 365 to accomplish that too.

Yeah, seems... poor. Found this for doing it through Outlook, which would be unreliable and clearly not useful.

https://www.codetwo.com/admins-blog/setting-public-folder-auto-reply/

And now it is here...

https://github.com/lovell/sharp/issues/1428

One of the examples in the article is that in a jury case, someone needed to explain 10% as meaning "one in ten". I think people who really get stats do this for everything in their heads all of the time - take anything and put it into the most meaningful terms. And I think those same people would be surprised to find out that other people do not do this.

So what we are pretty sure we have narrowed it down to is a WiFi device that reports the temperature of the refrigerator to an online portal that sends out notifications when there is an out of range event.

There is an inside the fridge sensor and that sends the information to a receiver outside the fridge. The receiver part is what has the WiFi built in. I think the inside sensor to outside receiver communicate using 900 Mhz.

Who would have thought to check the refrigerator?

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

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

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

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

I believe the forest level with Samba can only be 2008R2 though.

If you're not using Windows AD, what's it matter?

If he's merging in DFS, it might. It's rare to do, but could matter.

Oh I see, so Windows AD and other services were involved at some point.

Depending on what you want to do, sometimes AD has to support it.

@kelly last year it was Sunday or Monday evening. I forget which. I played that one.

I wasn't available this year.

@scottalanmiller and all, I don't know why you still loosing time. Use my rpms and install freeswitch/fusionpbx in minutes
https://okay.network/blog-news/rpm-repositories-for-centos-6-and-7.html