@black3dynamite said in Password manager for ordinary users?:

@stacksofplates said in Password manager for ordinary users?:

@Obsolesce said in Password manager for ordinary users?:

and it also works on all devices including phones.

Except Linux?

I'm seriously thinking they are holding out releasing a Linux version until history and open tabs is done.

I wouldn't be surprised. Edge is built on chromium and Microsoft has supported Linux with a lot of there release recently, Azure data studio, Teams, .net just to name a few.

@scottalanmiller said in Password manager for ordinary users?:

@Obsolesce said in Password manager for ordinary users?:

I was assuming "ordinary users using O365" was Windows PCs

We used to be an all Linux O365 shop. They exist.

Not sure how Email services implies desktop OS.. That's like saying everyone using gmail is using Chrome Books or AOL users still have AOL Dial up lol.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Deploying NextCloud 19.0.0 now.

Every release looks better and better. How easy is the collobora integration to get setup now?

Most people use OnlyOffice anymore cause of the better support for microsoft office formats. It installs itself now no need for separate configuration or docker containers. I think collobora is still about the same as before.

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Depending on what you actually mean by core would change up the recommendations for specific units. But they have the entire spectrum covered.

Just the "main" switch that everyone default gateway points to, the switch then does static routes to our other networks depending on connection, e.g. MPLS, ADSL, Misc Router.
So just a good switch with L3 lite features and 2-4 10G ports, also VLAN routing.

What throughput do you need on the Switching fabric? Juniper has serval offerings that could meet your needs but it depends on throughput. Ex4300 line would make a good core switch stack (and has 40GB links for Virtual Chasis).

@scottalanmiller said in Are Security Careers Real?:

@IRJ said in Are Security Careers Real?:

@scottalanmiller said in Are Security Careers Real?:

@JaredBusch said in Are Security Careers Real?:

@scottalanmiller said in Are Security Careers Real?:

@VoIP_n00b said in Are Security Careers Real?:

I friend of mine just made the transition to security. He said his pay doubled.

What did he transition from?

And WTF is security?

Right? Everyone says it, but what exactly is that job?

Its a cross between IT and compliance. There are different security roles, but they all fall in between those two sides. Some closer to IT, some in the middle, and some that are almost strictly compliance.

The biggest problem is that often they are just called "security" and can mean almost anything.

Likewise, the IT jobs are often just labeled "administration" or something and equally mean almost anything.

Here (a Fortune 100) the IT Security Department is a joke, It's all CYA stuff to limit liability to the company, nothing of real substance is done there, the normal IT department does more security than they do, a Chief Security Officer was hired a few years back, and I might add under the CFO, not the CIO. And they brought a few entry-level helpdesk guys from IT over with him to help the security team. No real experts. The CSO just copy/Pastes NIST documents. The guys on the team just pull emails out and stop a spread after a phishing attack or disables accounts that were compromised etc. Not real security work, it's just to limit legal liability is all.

Lastpass, NextCloud Passwords and ManageEngine Password Manager Pro (which integrates with Service Desk Plus). All with slightly different purposes. We use the Lastpass for users, we have LastPass Enterprise with some negotiated pricing, and we do shared folders for departments.

@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

How much DevOps are we seeing in the desktop space?

Doesn't really matter which space it's in, the difference between a Linux desktop and a server is just adding a window manager and additional packages.

@Dashrender Sure, there is some very specific stuff that is only supported on one Distro, Like Divinci they usually have a narrow market and specific target. But, it's not that hard to repackage sofware for another distro, there's even a premade on for Davinci https://www.danieltufvesson.com/makeresolvedeb

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@thecreaitvone91 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

I would argue that linux is linux and distros don't matter as much anymore.. Though I will say some developers seem to only make their software work for Debian OSes

Oddly I just tried Davinci and it doesn't run on the Debian family, at least not easily, and is solely officially built for CentOS, of all things.

That's because of Davinci Resolve's history before it had the free or software-only versions it was a big expensive $20k package that included a controller and ran on CentOS in big hollywood houses on usually internet disconnected dedicated workstations. and sometimes installed along side Autodesk Smoke and Flame both CentOS only as well.

You might try LightWorks (https://www.lwks.com/) or Flowblade (https://jliljebl.github.io/flowblade/) for Debian. Flowbade being the easier to use.

@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-os-no-longer-raspbian

How many issues will now arise due to confusion just like exists in the Linux world - it's not Linux.. Linux is just the Kernel, stop talking about Linux and talk about the Distro, the fact that it's running a Linux kernel shouldn't matter (except that it can, if the distro has more than one kernel available for it.

Yeah yeah Jared I'll shut the hell up now.

I would argue that linux is linux and distros don't matter as much anymore.. Though I will say some developers seem to only make their software work for Debian OSes, I see Debian defcato windows replacement in a couple of years as Microsoft is making clear moves to get out of the desktop business and supporting linux more.

Distro hopping is part of the problem with Linux, but most distros have feature parity anymore and things like DevOps have helped push even ubuntu to where it's more accepted in the enterprise than it used to be. We used to only want CentOS or RHEL. Now Ubuntu Server is used in some cases, and even Ubuntu Desktop.

if you are upgrading I highly recommend www.runecast.com, if you have a small environment it's not a big deal but Vmware now days has a lot more bugs that it used to and it's easy to run up on one in a bigger environment, runecast will check for compatbility with specific hardware and firmware versions and tell you which firmware, version of Vmware and patch versions you should be on to be the most stable.