@IRJ said in I'm still alive....barely:

@wirestyle22 said in I'm still alive....barely:

@IRJ said in I'm still alive....barely:

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@IRJ said in I'm still alive....barely:

@scottalanmiller said in I'm still alive....barely:

What is the latest?

I completed 10 out of 11 Capture the flag style challenges. I am still battling the last one, but I have completed enough to pass already.

Congrats! How long did it take you to get to the point of passing total?

I don't know. I Have been working on it for 12 days or so and put ALOT of hours into it.

Well, you were rewarded man!

I still have write my penetration testing report and after I turn that in, they will let me take the 150 question test.

That's a lot of work, but you'll get there. Moderate steps every day.

Old tradition: Visit Dad for Christmas but he sadly passed away a little over a year ago.

New Tradition: Spend time with Fiance's family. Drink glug (they are swedish).

@MattSpeller said in Security Camera w/ POE Injector:

for 10 cameras you may just want to bite the bullet and get a beefier PoE switch bud

They are all over the building. That's why I'm thinking injectors for the mean time. We are getting all new switches soon.

Good to see the legend of Curtis is still going strong on ML. As a Christmas present I'm only asking that you never let it die. Please ML. Please.

@jimmynelson said in Looking forward for my First IT job:

@Dashrender this is the message from my agency

Would you be interested in doing some short-term work (Rollout and standard DSE II duties) for CDS at Shell (Bank Street, London) for 2 weeks from the 3rd January?

You work for a company that contracts out IT work, correct? So there needs to be a contract in place that clearly defines what your responsibilities are and what their expectations are. It can't just be a small e-mail like that.

@RojoLoco said in I can't even:

@wirestyle22 said in I can't even:

Good to see the legend of Curtis is still going strong on ML. As a Christmas present I'm only asking that you never let it die. Please ML. Please.

We shall not forget. Isn't there a whole Curtis thread here? @scottalanmiller @Minion-Queen

IMO every thread is a Curtis thread just waiting to happen.

@Mike-Davis Did this work for you btw?

I love Siege and uplay makes me hate it

@RojoLoco something something motion in the ocean

@Dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Found a metal rod with a grip outside of my place that had to have been brought there by someone. I'm going to setup an IP security camera with a live stream I think.

That's kinda freaky...

I'll use it to prank him to death if he comes back. No worries

Something like this might be able to do that: https://www.voipsupply.com/snom-pa-1-new ??

Installed Zabbix at work. This weekend I'll install it at home. Going to make a list of things to practice. Any ideas are welcome. CentOS 7

Thanks to @dafyre for helping me so much with the installation!

Disclaimer: Have not needed to troubleshoot a domain to this degree before.

I am moving from 2008 R2 to 2012 R2 in both instances just as an fyi.

We have a root domain with two subdomains. On the root domain and each of the subdomains we have two domain controllers (DC1 + DC2). I successfully added one new domain controller into each subdomain (DC3). I verified that we had global catalogue servers in addition to these two domain controllers. I checked the bridgehead servers and they are set to DC1+2.rootdomain.com I transferred FSMO roles from each DC2 to DC3.

netdom query fsmo

Schema Master: DC1.rootdomain.com
Domain naming master: DC1.rootdomain.com
PDC: DC3.subdomain.rootdomain.com
RID pool manager: DC3.subdomain.rootdomain.com
Infrastructure master: DC3.subdomain.rootdomain.com

When I attempt to perform dcpromo I get the following error:

The operation failed because:

"Active Directory Domain Services could not transfer the remaining data in directory partition ______________________________________.

The directory service is missing mandatory configuration information, and is unable to determine the ownership of floating single-master operation roles."

I attempted to dcdiag to narrow down the issue. These were the results:

Failed Test NCSecDesc: Error replicating directory changes in filtered set. Access rights for the naming context: DC=ForestDNSZones,DC=Example,DC=Org

Note: I read about NCSecDesc and microsoft says you can disregard this error if you aren't using read only domain controllers.

Failed Test SystemLog: 2 of the errors are printer drivers and the last one is a onenote 2010 driver for printing.

Everything else passes. One thing to note is that during the FrsEvent test it does inform me there are warning or error events within the last 24 hours after the SYSVOL has been shared. Failing SYSVOL replicating problems may cause group policy problems. It then passed the test.

I went into event viewer and saw nothing suspicious. Any error or warning I researched and nothing stands out as being a problem.

Is there anything that I have neglected to do here?

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Snowing today!

Lucky! It's 28F here this morning, not a cloud in sight. Just cold.

Not to be a Grinch, but snow is the worst. All it does is complicate my life by making my commute even worse and causing a lot of accidents.

Eh people who can't drive cause accidents. Snow just identifies those people. The only time I like snow is if we have enough to go riding.

I live in NJ. No one can drive here. Ask @scottalanmiller

I live in NY... can't decide who is worse: NJ drivers and Massholes

NJ Drivers. I'll save you the processing time

I'm from NY and lived in NJ for years. Let me tell you, if you guys think either are bad you've not gotten out much. Michigan has great drivers. But I've seen nothing so bad as Texas and Florida.

Atlanta would like to accept the "worst drivers" challenge... Apparently turn signals are illegal here.

What's a turn signal?

I logged into a domain controller on the root domain using enterprise admin credentials and was able to edit fSMORoleOwner in the Attribute Editor. I then attempted to demote the Domain Controller again and got past the initial error, but it then gave me an access denied error. I had already gone into sites and services to disable the deleted protection so I spent a long time trying to figure out why this was occurring. It simply had not replicated to the DC yet.

Domain Controller successfully demoted.

Big shoutouts to @Dashrender for going completely out of his way to help me resolve this issue. Can't thank you enough man.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

The prank I played at my highschool almost got me expelled actually (and I never got into trouble in school until it). I noticed when I drove past the school that the junior prom was going on--I was a senior at the time. So I came up with this plan to mess with the juniors. My friend and I bought poster board, a basket and some condoms and wrote "Free Condoms Please Have Safe Sex" on the poster board. Little did I know that the theme of the prom was the red carpet. So the couples would walk down the carpet into the building and their parents were outside of it taking pictures of them. That didn't go as planned. That didn't go as planned at all.

Wow we went to very different highschools lol - they gave out condoms freely at mine

Even the cool teachers were pissed off at me for the rest of the year. I didn't get it

Not very cool teachers, maybe they lost bets on who would get pregnant because of you.

The east coast is super uptight. Maybe that's why I just stay inside /shrug

It is? I live in a rural (oddly religious) area of the north east. Even here sexual education and prophylactic were very important in highschool. Probably because we had a bizarre number of teenage pregnancies.

19 kids and counting anyone?

The freshman class my senior year of high school had a 25% pregnancy rate (for girls!)

0.1% for boys

@scottalanmiller That's why they don't have a space program

@RojoLoco said in Beef Jerky Recipes....:

@wirestyle22 said in Beef Jerky Recipes....:

@RojoLoco said in Beef Jerky Recipes....:

@wirestyle22 said in Beef Jerky Recipes....:

Are you just using an oven to dehydrate?

I have a dehydrator and a smoker, probably going to use both.

You're more equipped than I am I bet it'll come out great.

I got the dehydrator a while back, so far I've only used it to dry homegrown peppers. But I've seen many smoked jerky resipes, so I'm excited to do that.

My dad made jerky once--a ton of it. We were eating it all the time for like months lol. Good memories

Good.

@RojoLoco said in Beef Jerky Recipes....:

@wirestyle22 said in Beef Jerky Recipes....:

@RojoLoco said in Beef Jerky Recipes....:

@wirestyle22 said in Beef Jerky Recipes....:

@RojoLoco said in Beef Jerky Recipes....:

@wirestyle22 said in Beef Jerky Recipes....:

Are you just using an oven to dehydrate?

I have a dehydrator and a smoker, probably going to use both.

You're more equipped than I am I bet it'll come out great.

I got the dehydrator a while back, so far I've only used it to dry homegrown peppers. But I've seen many smoked jerky resipes, so I'm excited to do that.

My dad made jerky once--a ton of it. We were eating it all the time for like months lol. Good memories

My cousin was making it for a while, mostly out of venison. I think he jerkied a whole deer one time.

I had wild boar once. It was fantastic. I bet that would work really well