@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Watching the footy (well it half time at the moment)

I would rather go to some motivational seminar and walk over glowing coals before I would watch football soccer.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just tried to start with KOTOR on Android, planned my char and when I had to enter a name... crashing. Great.

My Android TV plays KOTOR beautifully thus far.

Just tried my Z3, works. But not on my Galaxy Tab 3 10.1...

Just tried to start with KOTOR on Android, planned my char and when I had to enter a name... crashing. Great.

@dafyre said in Skip Eating Meals for Better Productivity:

@MattSpeller said in Skip Eating Meals for Better Productivity:

@aaronstuder said in Skip Eating Meals for Better Productivity:

@coliver said in Skip Eating Meals for Better Productivity:

My wife hates this. I don't generally eat lunch during the work day. 80% of the time I just forget about it and work through it.

Same, and my wife hates it too.

I skipped the wife and it's turned out ok so far.

I am jealous of the dual income though.

I have a wife, and I'm still jealous of the dual income folks, lol.

Just doesn't always work as expected. Same situation here.

Need internet access?

Youtube Video

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@thwr said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

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@thwr said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

https://twitter.com/PixelBob13/status/521058244908023808

Have you seen something in between?

Yeah, compiling.

That's so blazing fast today... Not like 15 to 20 years ago when you hit F5, CTRL-ALT-DEL->SPACE and went off to get the next coffee.

You need to run more stuff in the background to slow it down! Coffee time is sacred

Just checked my current workstation: Xeon 1240, 32GB RAM, SSD, bla bla.

Not the biggest, I know, but it's a developer / admin workstation, not a CAD system

I thought I was doing ok with a 2 year old laptop, i5, 16gb and ssd haha

Granted it sounds like we do different things all day so fair enough!

Fujitsu W510 currently. Like to have real hardware, especially for embedded development.

@MattSpeller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@thwr said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@MattSpeller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@thwr said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@MattSpeller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@thwr said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

https://twitter.com/PixelBob13/status/521058244908023808

Have you seen something in between?

Yeah, compiling.

That's so blazing fast today... Not like 15 to 20 years ago when you hit F5, CTRL-ALT-DEL->SPACE and went off to get the next coffee.

You need to run more stuff in the background to slow it down! Coffee time is sacred

Just checked my current workstation: Xeon 1240, 32GB RAM, SSD, bla bla.

Not the biggest, I know, but it's a developer / admin workstation, not a CAD system

@MattSpeller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@thwr said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@MattSpeller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@thwr said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

https://twitter.com/PixelBob13/status/521058244908023808

Have you seen something in between?

Yeah, compiling.

That's so blazing fast today... Not like 15 to 20 years ago when you hit F5, CTRL-ALT-DEL->SPACE and went off to get the next coffee.

You need to run more stuff in the background to slow it down! Coffee time is sacred

Just checked my current workstation: Xeon 1240, 32GB RAM, SSD, bla bla. There are always like 5 or 6 VMs running, one with a SQL Server workload, a billion browser windows on at least 2 browsers, Office, Visual Studio, some PDFs... I guess I could start reencoding videos in the background to make it sweat

@MattSpeller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@thwr said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

https://twitter.com/PixelBob13/status/521058244908023808

Have you seen something in between?

Yeah, compiling.

That's so blazing fast today... Not like 15 to 20 years ago when you hit F5, CTRL-ALT-DEL->SPACE and went off to get the next coffee.

Have you seen something in between?

@coliver said in Skip Eating Meals for Better Productivity:

My wife hates this. I don't generally eat lunch during the work day. 80% of the time I just forget about it and work through it.

Oh yeah...

@RojoLoco same here

@aaron said in I am thinking about getting into Security:

@thwr oh man that's just cruel comparing SAM's starter guides to making someone install Gentoo. I have a hard time getting folks in the door for interviews, and we use Debian.

I do wonder about he longevity of the position. This is something I'd outsource (and have) but credit unions do weird things and it may be viable. Would be cool to have the experience too.

We're using Debian / Ubuntu here mostly, but also some BSD. Gentoo is just used here as a great learning experience or for systems where I need very deep control, like special ARM boards etc.

Users who keep entering wrong passwords (will query every DC in your domain, may be slow with lots of users):

function TW:Get-ADUserBadPasswordCount 
{
    param 
    (      
        [parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
        [string]$SearchBase
    )

    # Fetch users 
    $users = Get-ADUser `
        -Properties BadPwdCount,EmailAddress,LastLogonTimeStamp,DisplayName `
        -SearchBase  $SearchBase `
        -Filter { Enabled -eq $true } 

    # Add "column" to output object
    Add-Member -InputObject $users -NotePropertyName TotalBadPwdCount -NotePropertyValue "0" -Force

	ForEach($user in $users)
    {
        $count = 0

        # Query each DC
        ForEach($dc in Get-ADComputer -Filter "*" -SearchBase "ou=Domain Controllers,DC=xxx,DC=yyy,DC=zzz") 
        {
            $localuser = Get-ADUser -Server $dc.DNSHostName -Filter "*" -Properties BadPwdCount -SearchBase $user.distinguishedName
            $count = $count + $localuser.BadPwdCount
        } 
        
        $user.TotalBadPwdCount = ($count).ToString()
    }
    
    return $users
}

Usage:

TW:Get-ADUserBadPasswordCount -SearchBase "OU=aaa,OU=bbb,OU=ccc,DC=xxx,DC=yyy,DC=zzz" | ft DisplayName, sAMAccountName, EmailAddress, TotalBadPWdCount -AutoSize

Output looks like this:

DisplayName             sAMAccountName   EmailAddress         TotalBadPWdCount
-----------             --------------   ------------         ----------------
Some User      	        someuser1 	 [email protected]        {17}             
Some Other User         someuser2 	 [email protected]   {0}             

@thwr said in Monitoring AD users:

@DustinB3403 Thanks Dustin.

Inactive users (based on Dustin's script):

function TW:Get-InactiveADUser 
{
    param 
    (
        [parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
        [string]$DaysInactive,
        
        [parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
        [string]$SearchBase
    )

    $pointInTime = (Get-Date).Adddays(-($DaysInactive))

    # Fetch users
    $result = Get-ADUser `
        -Properties EmailAddress,LastLogonTimeStamp,DisplayName `
        -SearchBase  $SearchBase `
        -Filter { PasswordNeverExpires -eq $False -and Enabled -eq $true -and (LastLogonTimestamp -lt $pointInTime -or LastLogonTimestamp -eq 0) } | 
        Sort-Object -Property lastLogonTimestamp 
    return $result
}

Usage:

TW:Get-InactiveADUser -DaysInactive 30 -Searchbase "OU=aaa,OU=bbb,OU=ccc,DC=xxx,DC=yyy,DC=zzz"

As said before, getting in love with *sh (bash, ksh, ash, ...) is crucial even in a pure Windows environment. Learn it, understand it, marry it, whatever helps. SAM got quite a few starter guides here at ML. Personally, I like to throw my trainees into ice cold water by telling them to do a stage 3 install from source of Gentoo Linux. Depending on their skills, they will go even further by installing some WM with GPU acceleration. They tend to be scared or even cry for mom, but they will understand the basics at the end of the day. Sure, it's cruel, but it works.

Aside from learning Linux, I would think about how permanent this job is. They won't need a dedicated security guy for 40 years, expect you are working at a hoster or with 1000+ users maybe.

@travisdh1 ReFS? Stable but slow and a few missing features AFAIK. Probably in Server 2026. @scottalanmiller and @KOOLER can tell you a few things about this.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Thinking about my career prospects today

I'm exceptionally good at solving problems and I enjoy it quite a bit.

Where should I focus my efforts? What sorts of jobs are available to fit my "IT Problem Solver" skills?

Fix stupid, and I'll give you as much money as you want.

No way. Users just can't understand what we need to do. Must be something genetic.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Installing KOTOR II.
4 Discs!!

Just installed KOTOR 1 on my Android tablet like 20 minutes ago

The controls aren't too bad on a tablet... Kinda hard to read on a phone though.

That's the point. First try was on my Xperia Z3 (the big one, not the mini) and ... well, my eye-sight is really good, but this was somehow masochistic.

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Installing VB Express as I fancy trying to create a simple program to test network for our site to run when they have issues to help us know where the problem is.

You know there is a Community Edition which is basically the same as the Pro version?

Two restrictions:

• Income from derived work (like programs you wrote and sell) is less than $1M/year
• 5 or fewer devs