Posts made by StrongBad

Even if you are checking hashes, in theory your ISP could be altering the published hashes for files.

Like Scott says, a custom in house application would be a small project, but could make that a lot easier for everyone. And since you have something working today and this is only an improvement, you could take your time getting it built.

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

80 hours into Divinity: Original Sin 2. The game is fantastic.

how long is it estimated to take?

@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Saudi women 'given right to drive'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-41408195

Such fools, those Saudi men had it all set and now they've gone and ruined it!

(sarcasm)

Sarcasm, not sarcasm

The auto-play video on that site is great.

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@rojoloco Do you prefer doing updates after hours and no one reports the issues until the next day?

Why not do them after hours and task them with verifying before work starts?

You know the things about ducks... you can always expect a big bill!

@brandon220 said in SFTP Server:

@emad-r They are asking for SFTP which will definitely be easy. We already use WinSCP and have no issues. Just second guessing myself and looking for some input from others.

What are you using for your SFTP server today?

You're probably ducked. Heh.

@travisdh1 said in Cell phones survey:

@kelly said in Cell phones survey:

@travisdh1 said in Cell phones survey:

@kelly said in Cell phones survey:

If you're already a consumer of Amazon's services, you can get a Moto 5 Plus for a pretty reasonable price. It isn't a flagship phone, but it does everything I need it to, and at a price I can afford to replace (if it gets broken). I really like what Moto is doing with their software on the main button on the phone. It is a fingerprint reader like so many others, but if you set it up you can use it as a home button, a la iPhone. If you swipe left it goes back, if you swipe right it opens your app switcher, and if you do a long press it locks your phone. They've also used the gyro scope to give you easy access to things like the flashlight (two chopping motions), camera (twist your wrist while holding the phone), etc.

If it weren't for the fact that Motorola is now owned by Lenovo, that might be a good option. I've confirmed that my Moto G4+ has the same issues/malware/spying going on as the rest of the Lenovo ecosystem. Just don't do it!

How did you confirm that?

Edit: Not asking to be combative, I want to check my Motos.

Mostly because I'm seeing the same sort of random network breakage that @scottalanmiller saw with the yoga. Apps that just work anywhere else, just don't on a Motorola phone. I haven't actually did any packet sniffing, but that's mostly because I don't know what to look for.

I also get the phone doing just random actions. I'm not doing anything, but something is taking control of the thing.

Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck.

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Getting some quotes for new phones, coming in under what I quoted the boss. So things are looking good.

Always a nice surprise.

OpenDNS is part of Cisco. Far better than using your ISP.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

That's nuts. Glad everyone was safe!

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller Ought I stick to CentOS 7?

CentOS is very stable, but Fedora gives you more recent packages and features.

Chilling with a cold one.

I heard that Solus plans to move from GTK to QT sometime soon. Is that in this release?

To each their own.

Holy Guacamole!

Thought that I would find something humourus for this and a quick search the first result was...

https://www.domushousing.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/promotwo_months_free-2.png