I don't need backups, I haven't had a drive fail on me yet.

@PSX_Defector said:

@johnhooks said:

Piggy backing on one of the other threads. If it was an insider, how do you think the FTC would have grounds to sue? I don't think there is a way to stop something like this unless no employees have access to the data.

Be kind of hard for the FTC to sue a Canadian company.

Haha good point. It was just a hypothetical about this type of situation.

Piggy backing on one of the other threads. If it was an insider, how do you think the FTC would have grounds to sue? I don't think there is a way to stop something like this unless no employees have access to the data.

I apologize, I should have been more clear about which it was.

I understand the additional points such as automated validation and the open records, but you can get free SSL certificates through StartSSL. The companies who don't want to pay for an SSL certificate (or do the research to find a free one) are most likely using shared hosting or some kind of managed hosting that costs extra to enable the SSL certificate anyway. So if they aren't going to pay the money for the cert, I can't see them paying extra per month to enable the free cert on their hosting.

@DustinB3403 said:

Then the goal would be.

We have a lot of data that needs to be available for reference in the future, just in case a client ever needs or wants to use it again, how can we save this data?

Why couldn't you use something like onedrive? 1TB for $7 a month and you get Office 365 (if you're using Windows).

@Reid-Cooper said:

@johnhooks said:

If a NAS is possible, we have a Synology DS414j and it seems to work fine. No issues (yet). It's a 4 bay, not a 2.

The DS214 should be a two bay.

I was just pointing out ours was a 4, in case he wanted to look at that model. And it's only ~$50 more than the 214+

@Lakshmana said:

I understood but need to ask another question to him.How the job satisfies human?That is whether the man satisfies in getting the job in one company or the person giving a job for an employee

Are you saying which is more fulfilling, being an employee or to be an employer and have people work for you?

I think both have their different satisfactions. Not one more than the other, but it depends on your personality as to which one suits you better.

@scottalanmiller said:

Right, it tracks "change activity" but not the actual changes. You'd know who changed it and when, but not what was actually modified.

You could just make your root folder a git repo

@scottalanmiller said:

Process accounting would make it very hard to track back the actual changes to settings, though. It would tell you when something was restarted but not how the configuration file had been altered.

Good point, it doesn't show edits made on files just commands that are run.

Depends on what kind of server. Linux has some cool options. One is called process accounting. http://www.tecmint.com/how-to-monitor-user-activity-with-psacct-or-acct-tools/

@Breffni-Potter said:

Sorry I had to.

https://www.barco.com/en/Products/Projectors/Large-venue-projectors/40000-lumens-2K-3-chip-DLP-projector.aspx

40K of Ansi Lumens at 4K resolution.

Buy 2, stack them together, you now have 80K of projected light.

I've always been fascinated with DLP. That has to be one of the coolest technologies.

I have to admit I have a Lenovo. However, it was free and it's running Linux (so I don't think the BIOS stuff is an issue?). It's not my main though, just a side one I use for random stuff.

If a NAS is possible, we have a Synology DS414j and it seems to work fine. No issues (yet). It's a 4 bay, not a 2.

@scottalanmiller said:

Just had the Mac crash completely while using the Finder. Then it crashed again while trying to boot up.

You are way too patient with that thing.

@scottalanmiller said:

If you do IT, you are open to randomly being blamed for everything that fails. Welcome to working in the department of "magic and mysteries."

Sometimes I get nervous about legal issues. Just for the fact that common sense cases have been lost, but maybe I just worry too much

@coliver said:

@johnhooks said:

So I've been mulling over the idea of setting up monitoring on site at client's businesses. I was thinking of using something like an Intel NUC because its small and it can be kept out of the way. I'd just set up nagios to monitor whatever needed to be watched.

My question is, am I opening myself up to being blamed for every single thing that goes wrong? I figured it would be nice because I could know when things happen almost immediately. However I don't want to be responsible (blamed) for things going wrong and not knowing about them ( Sally's excel jeeps crashing, why didn't you fix it).

How do you handle this type of stuff?

One way to keep the liability off of you is to have a clearly defined list of things that are being monitored, have the point of contact sign off on this monitoring.

That's a good point. That will definitely be a part of this.

@DustinB3403 said:

If you explain clearly what the monitor is for, and what it can't do to your client they should never blame you for it.

have you had similar experiences with this client?

I didn't have any certain one in mind. This was just a general concern.

So I've been mulling over the idea of setting up monitoring on site at client's businesses. I was thinking of using something like an Intel NUC because its small and it can be kept out of the way. I'd just set up nagios to monitor whatever needed to be watched.

My question is, am I opening myself up to being blamed for every single thing that goes wrong? I figured it would be nice because I could know when things happen almost immediately. However I don't want to be responsible (blamed) for things going wrong and not knowing about them ( Sally's excel keeps crashing, why didn't you fix it).

How do you handle this type of stuff?

Did you see some cities they have 2 hour shipping now?