Well, my first interview is Tuesday, even before my final pay check is due :)

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco That is a totally different life style to what I was imaging...

So where do they grow their plants if they don't have land to work? Where do they sleep if they don't own or rent? And don't they ever just get an urge to have a big fat juicy steak with a side of shrimp?

The answer to all those queries is "who cares, they're filthy hippies".

hey now, hippies have a use, like human shields.... or fertilizer for feed for beef farms..

Yes, they made my news feeds again today.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hardcoded-password-found-in-cisco-software/

Since Cisco keeps being so popular with the security breaches and vulnerabilities, I figured it's time they get their very own thread.

Well, looks like I will be able to make it, thanks to @DustinB3403!

Dilbert and one of the big topics around here:

Thought I'd drop one of my current projects here. It started as just wanting a way to see what the temperature in a room is without having to have someone go check. (It's another building in a locked room few people have a key for.)

We already have lots of project cases, and also already had a Raspberry Pi. The new $5 Pi would need a network connection of some sort, so figure $10 for the networked PC ($20 if you need a power supply and memory card as well). I splurged at $13 for a combination temperature and humidity sensor. I went ahead and added a door sensor as well, it was $2. I also got a Cobbler Plus GPIO Breakout for $8 and a Perma-Proto board for $6. Total cost for me was $29. If you need a Pi as well figure ~$50 for everything. Compare that to any of the commercial offerings!

I'll post the code I use for everything here, along with references where possible. After all, that's where the real cost of these little things end up being.

It might be good to add a battery backup to it as well, which is quite easy, but I have no real need for that (if the power is out, the temperature isn't going to be getting out of control.) Adafruit makes it really easy.

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Thing learned today: Domain controller must have SMB v1 enabled for a Server 2003 member to join the domain.

I learned that I only have to get inside your LAN in order to steal all the network data.

This is mostly to make things a matter of public record, in addition to a bit of a rant.

Got a call yesterday morning. They can't process credit cards. That office happens to use Intuit/Quickbooks for everything from inventory tracking, to payment processing and accounting. I've been down the road of getting away from Intuit often. Don't know if this will push them past the edge or not.

Ok, spent 2 hours manually doing updates because the automatic ones broke along the way somewhere. Updates complete. Good, we should be up and running. They try to login, and get asked for a code. Ok, check the email address... nothing.

Now I'm calling Intuit support (bad idea, but we're basically not in business at this point.) That's a 3 hour call where I'm told something is wrong with our email server.

Fine, hang up with one unhelpful peon. Go eat lunch (3:30pm at this point, my blood sugar is about to tank.)

Get back into the office around 4:30. Enough time to find something very interesting in the server logs...

2016-10-05 14:01:56 H=lvmailappout12.intuit.com [199.16.139.22]:30939 sender verify fail for <[email protected]>: response to "RCPT TO:<[email protected]>" from mailin.intuit.com [206.108.40.19] was: 550 #5.1.0 Address rejected.
2016-10-06 11:17:10 H=mailout203.intuit.com [206.108.40.17]:49121 X=TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256 CV=no F=<[email protected]> rejected RCPT <[email protected]>: Sender verify failed

Now, I spent way to much time figuring out how to deal with spam, and have gotten it figured out for the most part. So, they are sending a confirmation code out using an address that their own email server does not acknowledge as being valid. Yet it's somehow my fault that the email is not being delivered.

Spent another 2 hours on the phone this morning going over the same stuff. We're working through alternatives, none of which are something the business would normally find acceptable.

This on top of them having me enable SSL2 in the browser. Uhm, these computers have to remain PCI compliant, and they just purposely made them non-compliant.

Malicious company, let it be known.

Getting noticed is easy!

Getting the right kind of notice is very hard!

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/900-000-routers-knocked-offline-in-germany-amid-rumors-of-cyber-attack/

On Facebook, Deutsche Telekom engineers recommended that users unplug their devices, wait for 30 seconds and restart their router. If the equipment fails to connect to the company's network, engineers told users to disconnect their device from the company's network permanently.

To compensate the downtime, Deutsche Telekom is offering free mobile Internet until the technical problem is resolved.

DSL routers all over Germany, and presumably worldwide if anyone else happens to be using the same DSL Modem that got hit by this.

@thwr, hope you're still running!

@pete-s said in So Windows 11??:

@stuartjordan said in So Windows 11??:

What are your thoughts? at least they got rid of the tiles, can't stand them in Win10.
They are saying updates are going to be 40% lighter, We will see about that and they are going to allow win32 exe apps inside the store with android. Be interesting to see if they have moved more of the control panel items.

WHAT? Windows 10 was their last Windows they said. They also said that artificial sweeteners were safe, WMDs were in Iraq and Anna Nicole Smith married for love.

That's an often repeated misquote from a Microsoft software engineer.

@eddiejennings said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:

@travisdh1 said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:

Was that supposed to be CDW?

No, as I've recently learned DCW is its own company.

I hadn't heard of them.

@scottalanmiller said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:

@eleceng said in Need to Purchase a New Switch What Cisco Family?:

@scottalanmiller Yes I meant Reseller / VAR

Then definitely DCW. I told them to watch this thread.

Was that supposed to be CDW?

@scottalanmiller said in Remote Hands Unifi Install in Indianapolis:

Anyone local want to do this? Won't take long at all. Installing some Unifi gear. Good first project to send a middle schooler on, lol. Customer just doesn't want to touch a cable. Needs no IT experience, just has to be basically competent to follow directions and plug things in. Needs a laptop that can be tethered to a cell phone hot spot. But basically everything is done remote, we are essentially just plugging things in for the customer. Thx.

I don't think my nephews are ready for that yet, oldest is only 7. They're in Avon, IN, so I get to the area regularly, but I won't be there in time to get that done for you I'm sure.

@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Hahhahahaahahahhah

VP of IoT at Vodafone had this in his slide

What a bunch of marketing!

We've been having weird network issues at a local Sheriff's Office for around a month, looks like it might be due to a bug in the latest HP firmware. If you have any HP/Aruba 2920 switches, be warry when updating firmware to latest. We'll know if that was the issue in the morning.

@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Heading to Miami for ITEXPO

You're making me miss Mangocon. I know, totally unrelated, but that's how my head works.

We're about to leave for my birthday celebration. I'm not sure of the itinerary besides hitting The Great Lakes Science Center.

@ranahashem said in linephone softphone file sharing:

@scottalanmiller
I didn't understand why you can't be pampered, is it because you will be restricted to using the linephone as the only soft phone, or is there another reason for that?

Why do you want to use a phone for file sharing? It doesn't make sense to us because there are much better ways to share files.

@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

D***** Ohio, municipal broadband are the only outstanding options in the state. You better not ban it!

https://www.govtech.com/policy/ohio-senate-republicans-move-to-bar-municipal-broadband

Of course they'll try and ban it, anything to help suppress the vote. Register to vote by online registration, nah... you can go to the DMV and wait in line for hours etc.

The Senator reported to be resisting the stupid is a Republican believe it or not.