@thwr said in Flushing GPOs:

@dbeato said in Flushing GPOs:

You need to setup the settings to Delete or changed to not configured, wait until it applies and then delete the GPOs after confirming they are not applied any longer.

Get-Content c:\temp\gpos.txt | foreach { Get-GPO -Name "$_" | Remove-GPO }

http://jeffwouters.nl/index.php/2013/08/remove-group-policy-objects-through-powershell/

I bet you could do something like this to set all GPOs to "on delete remove from client" too

This assumes a txt file with all GPO names. You could also just use Get-GPO

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr 500ML cans of Warsteiner which floated over the atlantic ocean two years ago are probably not very representative of the beer. I much prefer Hacker-Pschorr (at least we get that in glass bottles!)

Never heard that... But here is a good list: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bier#Deutschland

There are 1,327 breweries in our small country and we are producing 98,078,000 HL (hectolitre) per year. I just can't know them all

RPis are good for education purposes because there's a large community behind. But they are expensive.

Use OrangePi if you need more than two or three later on.

"Installing" is pretty much always the same: Grab an image, write it to an SD card. There are dozens of tools for the job, ranging from dd to Win32DiskImager. As said before, there are dozens of tools out there. Rufus is another widely used option. Haven't used Etcher, but it looks pretty simple (in terms of "noob"-compliance).

Tip: Get a good SD card. Class 10 / UHS from a well known brand like Sandisk, for example. And keep in mind that the SD card will die at some point, they really don't like random writes. Best to avoid them whereever possible, e.g. redirect logs to a rsyslog server, move /var/run and /var/tmp to a RAM-disk if possible etc.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr 500ML cans of Warsteiner which floated over the atlantic ocean two years ago are probably not very representative of the beer. I much prefer Hacker-Pschorr (at least we get that in glass bottles!)

I usually go for Spaten if I can find it. But the US still gets the "export grade" German beers, so there ya go. I tend to drink local because I know that real Germans would laugh at what we call "German beer" here.

Same with Guinness. What you get here is a joke compared to what I had when I visited Ireland a few times.

I'm running all my linux-based workloads in containers. Gives you a lot of benefits at the cost of a very small management overhead. My default config is to have workloads like NextCloud behind a Traefik or nginx reverse proxy. I can also easily chain in a snort container (or some other WAF), for example. But my main use case for a reverse proxy is certificate handling.

As for the security aspect of a reverse proxy, well, no one will be able to directly reach your Wordpress installation., everything is terminated at the upstream proxy. But if the upstream proxy is just passing everything through, then there's no extra security. A WAF. on the other hand, can be of great help: It may inspect requests for exploits, scan data posted to your site, use externally maintained blacklists to block spammers and so on. While they are usually a PITA to configure, there are templates available for most WAFs and many popular applications, including Wordpress.

@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

Sad and terrifying.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/12/teens-america-hunger-food-poverty

These people sound like humans won't act like humans if they're in Merica. That's no different than anywhere else in the world, right?

But the USA aren't part of the third world... Maybe build fewer weapons and get your kids something to eat.

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said

There are shopping centers within a few minutes of the site (in every direction). Not to tell you what to bring and all, but don't kill yourself.

Yeah I am packing light.

Shorts, tshirts, that's about it.

And an empty suitcase to bring home anything I acquire.

I did hear about swag bags. . . @Minion-Queen teasers?

Teasers - I'm sitting right here and Haven't seen or found mine yet. I was told to get back to work.

Probably those short-shorts @DustinB3403 was talking about earlier... maybe with the AetherStore logo on the rear.

"We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. Precious swag."

Took me 10 minutes to just check all the new notifications from the last 8 hours...

@art_of_shred said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just handed out the award for our 10,000th ticket!! One of my users is getting dinner on the company.

Wait... so, you reward users for bothering you on a regular basis?

Should be the other way around

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

When reassembling a laptop, how many screws should I have left over?

Anything less than 4 and you're trying to hard.

That was hilarious until I realized that my new truck is in the shop being worked on.

Ouch - the hard facts of reality.

"Hilarious" to "Damn near pooped myself" in 1 second flat.

When I get that thing I'm going to check all the god damn bolts myself.

Vote for glue. Forget about nuts and bolts.

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Our new dishwasher sucks a bit: when the program finishes, it beeps five or six times. Not that bad, but if you don't turn it off afterwards, it will beep again every few minutes...

Now the "eco" program runs for nearly 3 hours and I had to wait for it to finish before going to bed.

New rule: Do not turn on the dishwasher past 21:00h.

Mine has the option to delay 2, 4, or 6 hours. make it run at 2 AM, works for me.

From tech to tech: sure. But my wife doesn't like that function for whatever reason She's also not using it on our washing machine (the one for clothes)

Well, clothes aren't something you want to to just sit in the machine when the load it done, so there's a significant difference.

If your dishwasher is close to your bedroom, I suppose the delay would be something you wouldn't want.
In my case, the dishwasher is near where I watch TV. I don't want it running while I'm watching TV, but my bed room is a long ways away, so running at 2 AM is great, can't hear it, does not wake us up.

Becci: Honey, no! And also don't think about installing Linux on the dishwasher.

:D:D:D:D:D

Your wife is awesome.

We have a history about me installing Linux on different things

Lots of shopping today, @travisdh1, @gjacobse, @JaredBusch and others would love the list. Lots of RPi3's, Pi 7" displays, sensors, actors and misc. electronic components... 4 digit invoice

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Lots of shopping today, @travisdh1, @gjacobse, @JaredBusch and others would love the list. Lots of RPi3's, Pi 7" displays, sensors, actors and misc. electronic components... 4 digit invoice

Soooooo,... what are we getting as part of that Invoice.

This? -> " "

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Lots of shopping today, @travisdh1, @gjacobse, @JaredBusch and others would love the list. Lots of RPi3's, Pi 7" displays, sensors, actors and misc. electronic components... 4 digit invoice

Soooooo,... what are we getting as part of that Invoice.

This? -> " "

Dude - That is just (Moderated )

Thin air?

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just got home, fairly shitty day...but this one sums it up....

customer has a problem with a printer on a Mac, trying to fix it by removing and reinstalling etc, all the usual stuff. My test print works fine to it from word, but he's trying to print an excel sheet. Not got a clue (and I still hate macs) so tell him I'm going to do some research and is that ok. He says yes....so I look into it, find a few possible solutions, ring him back "Nope, you've run out of time, I have things to do now." - well....it's obviously not that ephin important then is it.

/rant.

Mac users are the worst

takes shelter from incoming flames

Like a religion on its own....

Really glad I have no Macs on my network. Have a simple 100% no net and no support rule for them.

Lucky bastard. Our devs have to have iMacs to make our iPad app. I try not to support them, and also our devs are smart and figure most of the issues out on their own.

Why do they need to? As you may know, I'm a developer myself and you can write pretty great cross-platform apps on Windows and Linux for example. Apache Cordova or Xamarin are just two frameworks for this.

All that area is "don't ask, don't tell" for me personally. I don't give half a shit what they use, nor do I have any say in the matter. Or any technical knowledge to make such decisions, I am the most non-programmer of them all.

Hehe. These are the moments where it is just great to be root and lead dev at the same time Devs can't argue with BS at all

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just got home, fairly shitty day...but this one sums it up....

customer has a problem with a printer on a Mac, trying to fix it by removing and reinstalling etc, all the usual stuff. My test print works fine to it from word, but he's trying to print an excel sheet. Not got a clue (and I still hate macs) so tell him I'm going to do some research and is that ok. He says yes....so I look into it, find a few possible solutions, ring him back "Nope, you've run out of time, I have things to do now." - well....it's obviously not that ephin important then is it.

/rant.

Mac users are the worst

takes shelter from incoming flames

At MangoCon, @nic used Mac Users synonymously with "less technical users.

While I sat there using my MacBook Pro.

Ausnahmen bestätigen die Regel.

Erm, in English... Exceptions prove the rule

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Why can people, supposedly IT people especially, not use a f*** [moderated] search. Or even browse the recent topics.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1847932-3cx-and-traditional-analog-paging-systems

Making good use of a search engine / search function is a skill on its own IMHO... I know quite a few people who aren't good at it, to say the least.

This will be a long weekend. Monday is "Tag der Deutschen Einheit" (German Unification Day), an annual official holiday to celebrate the unification of west and east Germany in 1990.

@scottalanmiller said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@JaredBusch said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@MarigabyFrias said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

Hot dog with nachos

Ketchup, disgusting.

My roommate puts ketchup on salmon!! Ewww

Poor ketchup

@Dashrender said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@coliver said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@Minion-Queen introduced me to the garbage ball last night... So good.

What the difference between a ball and a plate?

Same deadly heart attack, just 2 years earlier?