@RojoLoco said:

@wirestyle22 cam girls are far less slutty than porn stars, they mostly work from home, alone. And, like @MattSpeller said, I'd do it in a heartbeat if anyone would pay me.

Less slutty doesn't mean not slutty though lol. I guess it can be seen as a positive too though. Who am I to judge though really

@MattSpeller said:

@wirestyle22 shrug

She makes decent money and "works" ~10h a week from home. Honestly if anyone would pay me for that I'd do it.

You mistake me sir. I don't know whether to pat you on the back for dating a girl that can profit off of her looks or smh at this situation. Do you watch Silicon Valley? If not please do it.

@MattSpeller said:

New lady friend just told me she's a cam model and is looking for assistance with her website. Not sure if I should help or remain blissfully ignorant of whatever niche she's in lol.

"model"

I can't even articulate my feelings right now

@dafyre said:

@wirestyle22 said:

I'm probably going to go for state jobs. I'm paid in bread and water currently so it's a big step up for me and a pretty secure job from what I'm told. I also miss working on a team.

I speak from current experience on this. If you enjoy working in several areas of IT, you may want to avoid state jobs. I have a decent bit of experience across a several IT disciplines, and at my current job, I am starting to feel like I am stagnating because I only deal with server stuff. I know the networking stuff, but only the networking team gets to do the networking stuff.

I don't mind it too much, in some regards though, because I am not in a position that requires me to be available after hours too often.

I'm okay with specializing. I play around at home with a variety of scenarios etc for fun. The issue is most of the state jobs are very specific in nature so I would have to educate myself for the job which sounds....rough? Another part of it is I'm starting a family with my fiance` within the next few years. I am now very motivated to make more money as babies are a money vacuum.

I'm probably going to go for state jobs. I'm paid in bread and water currently so it's a big step up for me and a pretty secure job from what I'm told. I also miss working on a team.

@IT-ADMIN said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@IT-ADMIN said:

what do you think Dear Scott of python programming language, i heard interesting things about it, also it is portable,

Python isn't the "coolest" language, it has been around long enough to be "old and boring." But if you read my stuff, I push it hard as the best "first" language for people to learn. It is advanced, mature, broadly available, reasonably fast and very rich in features.

It is indeed fully portable, as much as any language is. And it has powerful frameworks like Django, too.

Python is an excellent choice. It is in the same family of modern languages like Ruby, JavaScript and Go.

so what is the coolest language i can learn ?? knowing that my need is the develop GUI application that can connect with database (entreprise application)

what fascinate me about python is the majority of powerful hacking tools are developed using this language like metasploit

The cool guys code in ruby shades

Note: I have no idea

@IT-ADMIN said:

i just took a look on Qt Designer, it looks good, anyone use it before??

Use this: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

I don't make a lot of suggestions here as this is mostly a learning experience but I know a lot of coders who swear by it. True to its name it's not a quick and dirty style guide. This is if you want to learn python the right way.

@scottalanmiller said:

@wirestyle22 said:

The only real downside is the commute.

And the weird cult / slave culture. But beyond that

They are definitely bad enough that their reputation makes a lot of people unwilling to even have a conversation with them. They've built a culture of keeping a large portion of the market from being willing to consider them.

Interesting. I guess I dodged a bullet. My friend did lose his hair at this job lol.

@scottalanmiller said:

@wirestyle22 said:

To be honest I need to educate myself more. Once I feel more secure in my knowledge I'll start applying. I came very close to working for ABC which is owned by Disney but they wanted a Unix guru and my Unix knowledge is basically non-existent. I was honest in my interview. The guy they ended up hiring lied in his interview and they found out pretty quick. Unfortunate because I know I can learn anything.

Disney is famous for being low on the tech totem pole. Likely their idea of guru is very, very different than from most of the industry. They are normally decades behind everyone else.

That they hired people lying in an interview indicates that they don't know how to interview - which indicates that they are not hiring good people as good people will turn them down and bad ones will lie and... well there you go.

My friend does master control for Kelly and Michael (he won an Emmy actually) so I know the social landscape. It would be leaps and bounds better than here and I would be paid double what I make right now. The only real downside is the commute.

I am very interested. This is exactly what I need.

@Breffni-Potter said:

@wirestyle22 said:

and said "hopefully nothing happens like my e-mail again. You really screwed that up." To which I replied with "I've explained to you at length that this situation has nothing to do with me that was <insert name>'s responsibility." She said "Yeah but we've known him awhile and you're new so you take the blame".

Why are you still there?!? That's terrible behavior.

To be honest I need to educate myself more. Once I feel more secure in my knowledge I'll start applying. I came very close to working for ABC which is owned by Disney but they wanted a Unix guru and my Unix knowledge is basically non-existent. I was honest in my interview. The guy they ended up hiring lied in his interview and they found out pretty quick. Unfortunate because I know I can learn anything.

Thread of my dreams.

• I have no IT budget which puts me at the mercy of our executive director who is extremely frugal.

• I have to set up every building regardless of the size completely alone. This translated recently to a 10,000 sq ft building. All of the cabling. Configuring over 50 computers with no space to work (I have a small desk in finance). They asked me to give them an estimated cost and I told them we needed a physical firewall with content filtering, two switches and a replicated domain server. They said we'll buy the switches but nothing else. I then told them that a tiny little business router can't handle the traffic and it's not going to work. No one will be able to maintain their RDP sessions. They said we don't care. All users are annoyed with me even though I explained the situation. Two months later my executive director asks me what we have to do to fix it.

• I am constantly asked my opinion and it has never been taken into account a single time. As an example, we have demanding medical billing documentation (basically every 15 minute interval has to be documented and billed for). I was asked if we should purchase laptops or ipads and I said laptops. iPads aren't designed with the kind of data entry we need to do in mind. I was told "I competely agree". Two weeks later I received 35 iPads.

• When I was hired they were using a per diem server admin from another company in the same field that they previously worked for. I asked what this guy was going to do since we were keeping him on. I was told to talk with him and decide among ourselves. Fine by me. We basically said he was the server admin and I was the network admin/desktop support. Well fast forward to the future and he told me he had to delete and re-create the assistant executive directors e-mail account and it was unrecoverable. I asked him if he was going to tell her and he said "You're the IT tech there. You have to tell her." This woman is known to kill the messenger and is extremely nasty. I go and explain everything I know of the situation, which is very little. She freaks out and blames me for it even though I explained that it has nothing to do with me. I am not the server admin. She then said she can see the e-mails and contacts on her iPhone and that she wants me to recover them. I ask her if she actually manually entered them into her phone and she says "yes I did" to which I reply with great. If that's the case I can recover it. This was not the case and I was held responsible for not being able to recover her information even though she lied to me. I spent 3 hours on the phone with apple to prove what I was saying was true to receive nothing but attitude. 3 months later the assistant executive director approached me at an open house for the 10k sq ft building I just built alone and said "hopefully nothing happens like my e-mail again. You really screwed that up." To which I replied with "I've explained to you at length that this situation has nothing to do with me that was <insert name>'s responsibility." She said "Yeah but we've known him awhile and you're new so you take the blame".

I could write a novel in this thread.

@travisdh1 said:

@wirestyle22 said:

@travisdh1 said:

@wirestyle22 said:

This is all interesting stuff. I can't wait to finish my server build. Here it is if you're interested: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/9gPqjX

Is this server for a home lab?

Yessir

Nice!

I'm going to experiment with SSD caching on a software raid using ZFS Striped Mirrored Vdev’s as well as a ton of VM testing.

@travisdh1 said:

@wirestyle22 said:

This is all interesting stuff. I can't wait to finish my server build. Here it is if you're interested: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/9gPqjX

Is this server for a home lab?

Yessir

Any recommendations for best books for network security in a windows network? I am creating a home library to educate myself.

@dafyre said:

What I don't understand is why anyone with any IT knowledge in a business setting would treat their network as trusted? I don't even do this with my ZT netowork, and I manually authorized every device on there (granted it's only 10 so far, lol).

It is far too easy to bring in a personal device that may or may not be infected with a polymorphic bug / worm / trojan / crypto / other bad things and plug it in or connect it to the network at your business -- even if you are doing 802.11x or some other type of LAN security.

I generally keep things like the Windows Firewall and FirewallD enabled on my devices, and only punch holes in them for services that I want available on my lan or public network. This is also true of my ZT subnet as well. Why take the risk that one device could get a bug and easily share it with the rest of the systems on my ZT Subnet or LAN?

Yeah this is one of the worst parts of my network. I do monitor the LAN and run Wireshark every day but it's not great. My company will not purchase anything. I got them to buy ten raspberry pi's simply because they are cheap. I use them for all sorts of things. That's all I can really hope for (which isn't much)

This is all interesting stuff. I can't wait to finish my server build. Here it is if you're interested: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/9gPqjX

@RamblingBiped said:

My server room's cooling isn't isolated from the rest of the building HVAC, and it is normally sits around ~80 degrees.

--edit-- (addendum)

So how quickly did you do the fan shuffle? We had a liebert unit that seemed to go down every few months at my previous place of employment. Our server room would spike from 68 degrees to 95+ in about a 45 minute time frame. We had a portable AC unit we would turn on and then shuffle a series of fans into the hall to help pull hot air out.

Quick way to kill an entire day's productivity.

I think about a year and a half it worked--which is surprising for a consumer grade wall unit. I came in today (5 mins ago) and it broke again. They have to order it online and I'm sure it will take at least 3 days. I have the server room door wide open with my own personal industrial fan blowing all of the air out of it. Luckily its cold here in NJ.

smh

@adam.ierymenko said:

@wirestyle22 I was describing a guiding principle. Obviously not everything measures up to that and firewalls are still needed for a lot of situations. I just consider them "legacy" and think that if you're designing or building something new it's best to design it to be secure in itself rather than assuming your private network is always going to stay private. Never trust the network, especially if it might have light bulbs and cloud connected printers on it.

I also think the firewall's obsolescence is a fact regardless of how I or anyone else might feel about it. IoT, BYOD, and the cloud are killing it so best plan for its death and prepare accordingly. I just happen to be in the camp that's quietly cheering for its demise because I think it's a bad ugly hack that breaks the functionality of networks and endpoint-centric security is better.

Edit: this is good too: http://etherealmind.com/why-firewalls-wont-matter-in-a-few-years/

I basically agree with all of that.

This appsec keynote is terrifying. I mean, you kind of expect your security to be somewhat low at the 25 million dollar level but these fortune 500 companies too? Man. The stuff of nightmares