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@scottalanmiller said in Who here plays Pokemon Go?:

Took like one hour before my nephew got into a screaming fight with his mom because he is now refusing to look before crossing streets. Even when told to look he will just ignore people and stare at the phone while crossing.

Exactly this, and other health issues caused by constantly looking down at your phone. All it takes is an unaware kid trying to catch a pokemon while crossing the street in front of an unaware adult driving arouond looking for a pokemon. We've already seen the positive benefits of this app, but we shouldn't overlook the risks. Surrendering your peripheral vision has serious consequences.

@IRJ

So right now we have 3 Internal DCs that have DNS. They are not public servers. What exactly should I do in this case?

I think you're safe

DDoS depends on public addresses acting as a clients pounding your DNS server with thousands of recursive queries at once. If your DNS server isn't public, then it isn't a open resolver, and a client on the internet can't query it directly.

In our case, we have a local DNS server, available to the internet, as a backup to our ISP-hosted DNS. This server is typically vulnerable. But it's set with a higher cost so it won't be used unless ISP goes down.

Hi Jimmy.
Have you taken a look at 'system administrator' job postings for your location, or locations where you can see yourself living? If your market is on the smaller side, jobs might pivot toward Windows administration or Linux administration. My city, for example, is extremely Windows. Our main industries are medical/engineering/manufacturing - meaning lots of desktops running Windows and lots of Windows infrastructure managing it.

If I drive 4 hours away, there's another town (Silicon Valley of Montana), with new startups dealing mainly in web/analytics/big data/SaaS. 3 of every 4 job postings there are for Linux sysadmins.

Know your market. If you're in a big city, I don't think you can do any harm with either. Follow your heart. But smaller places tend to be dominated by two or three industries that may not give you that freedom.

Which is also why I had to google "use tax".

Ignorance sure is bliss!

@RojoLoco

@RojoLoco said in Tax question / free hardware:

@TAHIN so you won that $60k HPE contest on SW?

Affirmative. After a meeting with the CPA and receiving the green light, we are good to go. No taxes will be incurred. Don't ask me to explain it because I don't know how

Funny you mention this, I was just thinking about it the other day. When I was a kid my dad built a train set on a table (about 8' x 6'). N-scale I believe. All electric that went back to levers and buttons to control switches, train speed, etc.... The legs detached so it could be easily rested up on it's side and stored.

You could rig up something like that to a raspberry pi?

I agree with using Arduino + RP for machine application. Arduino is a great single-threaded "doer" while RP is a multitasking "thinker". I'm planning to start a program to manage my Christmas lights for next year. Nice simple project for a beginner.

A pair of Dell EqualLogics. 4 TB 15k SAS on one and 8 TB 7.2K SATA on the other. I call it manual disk tiering Housing Hyper-V CSV's for about 100 VM's. Most of the data is in Windows file servers for roughly 500 users.

Luckily these are aging out soon - as will this architecture.

@travisdh1 you can count on that!

SSLlabs is good. I recommend selecting "Do not show the results on the boards" on each run, otherwise your result can get displayed there for the world to see, which can be pretty bad if bad guys are watching and you've only started your security project.