@nashbrydges said in Windows 10 Refuses To Update:
It's running build 1709. Downloading the cumulative update and will give that a try.
This is a bit unorthodox but if that doesn't work, I downloaded the Fall Creator ISO and ran that update and then had no issues with updates after that. I know it goes backwards but it worked and I have the machine on .309 now.
@jaredbusch said in Windows 10 Refuses To Update:
Yes, we've encountered this.
Go download the current Cumulative update and install it manually.
I have found that sometimes that doesn't even work with this issue
@nashbrydges What is the version it is at? Like 16299.192
@scottalanmiller said in When people ask you what you do...:
@wls-itguy said in When people ask you what you do...:
I can't describe how it changed. It just changed. Almost as if because I said "IT Guy" it was as if I had said I am entry level tech support. Maybe I'll go the route of Jack and just say I am in IT or IRJ and not say anything about my actual job.
I'll tell them all I am professional fisherman
I often tell people I'm an unemployed college drop out. My wife hates that.
At my wife's Christmas party a few years back I was tired of telling people I was in IT and actually told someone I clicked next. Mind you it was later in the evening after a few whiskey ginger ales but I thought it was funny anyway. Wife was also not happy 
@scottalanmiller said in When people ask you what you do...:
@wls-itguy said in When people ask you what you do...:
@harry-lui said in When people ask you what you do...:
@irj said in When people ask you what you do...:
al quick....?
Sure, I charge $50 an hour.
That's the only way to make it stop.
I was doing freelance work for a while and I was charging $55/hour. I had a friend ask if he could get the buddy price. I said that was the buddy price, the EVERYBODY price.
That's way too low.
It was years ago. I don't have time for any of that now so if someone asks I say $150/hour. The tend to have a shocked look and then don't ask again.
@harry-lui said in When people ask you what you do...:
@irj said in When people ask you what you do...:
al quick....?
Sure, I charge $50 an hour.
That's the only way to make it stop.
I was doing freelance work for a while and I was charging $55/hour. I had a friend ask if he could get the buddy price. I said that was the buddy price, the EVERYBODY price.
I can't describe how it changed. It just changed. Almost as if because I said "IT Guy" it was as if I had said I am entry level tech support. Maybe I'll go the route of Jack and just say I am in IT or IRJ and not say anything about my actual job.
I'll tell them all I am professional fisherman
I was at a function yesterday with my family and a few of the parents were asking what we all did. I simply said that I am an IT Guy and I got the impression that it wasn't impressive. Not that I am looking for some qualification of what I do the other parents were lawyers and doctors and other types but it was a weird change in conversation after that.
By certifications I am MCSE in 2003 & 2008 and Messaging in 2013, I just didn't think that saying I was a Systems Engineer is a title I needed to through out there. So How do you explain your job title/role?
@scottalanmiller Mine has been set up for almost 5 years now.
@scottalanmiller said in FreePBX Best Practices?:
@wls-itguy said in FreePBX Best Practices?:
@scottalanmiller said in FreePBX Best Practices?:
As long as you are totally behind a firewall, and set strong passwords, you really are quite secure.
How about SSL? Or because I'm not outward facing I don't have to worry so much about that?
You should use SSL if you are accessing the web interface. Isn't that how it sets up by default?
Not when it was originally set up.
@scottalanmiller said in FreePBX Best Practices?:
As long as you are totally behind a firewall, and set strong passwords, you really are quite secure.
How about SSL? Or because I'm not outward facing I don't have to worry so much about that?
I'm not sure if that is the right title but here goes my question.
I'm going through all my servers (Linux and Windows) and making sure they are as secure as possible. I have a standalone box running the new FreePBX Sangoma build. I have the FreePBX firewall enabled, I have all outside traffic currently disabled as I do not, at this moment, have any remote users. Is there anything else I need to do?
@penguinwrangler said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
We need a post that lays out all the reasons why Lenovo is bad. Then we can just link to it. It comes up all the time it seems like.
There is a link to Travis' blog post but his site was down.
@scottalanmiller said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
I'm not saying that what Lenovo did wasn't wrong. What I am saying is that other companies could be doing things like this and haven't gotten busted or haven't been as aggressive as Lenovo was. That being said, we will not be using Lenovo as a hardware vendor again.
This is horrible logic. What this does is give Lenovo a pass because other people might be better crooks. Yes, it's a true statement. Any vendor might be more evil than Lenovo and just be better at not getting caught. But you can never operate as if they were, it's a useless statement outside of a philosophy class. You should have a solid understanding that just because someone hasn't gotten caught, doesn't mean that they aren't a bad guy: absolutely true. You can't just give full trust to random people with no vetting, true. But you also cannot take Dell, HPE, SuperMicro, Acer, Asus, etc. and treat them equally as companies that have no history of malicious behaviour and see them as related to a company with a track record of several of the most malicious and vicious hacking attempts in industry history - both repeatedly attacking customers and showing zero remorse when caught.
It's like saying that a hardened criminal who keeps getting caught breaking into houses and killing the inhabitants, then goes to court and laughs about how easy it was to break in and kill them; then serves their forced prison time, gets out and does it again and laughs again about what fools we were to let them out of prison, does their time, rinse and repeat... is the same as "any person you meet on the street" because they "might be just as bad as that hardened criminal but way better at not getting caught."
Yes, somewhere in society is a serial killer who is actually far worse than that sloppy criminal who got caught. But we know that the average person, by far most people, are not doing that stuff and never would. And we have to treat people with caution, certainly, when they have not yet gained our trust. But we must treat random strangers with far more trust by default, than we would treat someone known to be a repeat, remorseless, criminal.
You're making a big assumption as to what I meant by my statement. I, in no way, condone what they did. I'm simply stating that just because other companies haven't been caught doesn't mean their not doing it.
The issue for me, is that I can't somehow shit money to get rid of the corrupt product on my network before the fiscal year.
@scottalanmiller said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@dafyre said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
It works well. They run for about 5 hours. I thought about dual booting but not sure I'd like the idea of running Windows dual boot.
General consensus around here is you don't want to run Windows on a Lenovo device at all.
Personally, I'd rather not run a Lenovo device in any form. They can't be trusted, and have had a couple remote BIOS hacks.
Even after all the BIOS updates that have been sent out?
There will never be a situation where you can trust a Lenovo. You are dealing with an "enemy device". It's a situation of a malicious vendor. That they get caught and forced to publicly fix one known issue doesn't change that they are constantly trying to hide more things in more insidious places.
@scottalanmiller said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@dafyre said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
It works well. They run for about 5 hours. I thought about dual booting but not sure I'd like the idea of running Windows dual boot.
General consensus around here is you don't want to run Windows on a Lenovo device at all.
Personally, I'd rather not run a Lenovo device in any form. They can't be trusted, and have had a couple remote BIOS hacks.
Even after all the BIOS updates that have been sent out?
That doesn't matter when the company has proven to be so corrupt.
What company hasn’t been?
There is no company in this history of IT comparable to Lenovo. None. This is a unique situation unheard of, ever.
@scottalanmiller said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@dafyre said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
It works well. They run for about 5 hours. I thought about dual booting but not sure I'd like the idea of running Windows dual boot.
General consensus around here is you don't want to run Windows on a Lenovo device at all.
Personally, I'd rather not run a Lenovo device in any form. They can't be trusted, and have had a couple remote BIOS hacks.
Even after all the BIOS updates that have been sent out?
That doesn't matter when the company has proven to be so corrupt.
What company hasn’t been?
Can you name any IT vendor that has intentionally put malware onto machines outside of bloatware that any good IT practice would never have even seen? A single one, other than Lenovo?
The idea that "all companies are corrupt" is extremely misleading. First, it isn't true, most companies are out there trying to do a good job. Painting with such a wide brush blames the innocent.
Second, what it does that is much more dangerous is it gives a free pass to actually corrupt, evil entities to run amok because we say "oh actual evil, that's just like normal evil so we can ignore it."
It's like ignoring a real employee who is actually stealing your company secrets and selling them to your competitors because you say "all employees are corrupt" meaning that "all employees are lazy sometimes and don't work as hard as you'd like." It hides actual illegal and unethical behaviour by labeling normal work as something so evil that it all gets lumped together.
I'm not saying that what Lenovo did wasn't wrong. What I am saying is that other companies could be doing things like this and haven't gotten busted or haven't been as aggressive as Lenovo was. That being said, we will not be using Lenovo as a hardware vendor again.
@jaredbusch said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@dafyre said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
It works well. They run for about 5 hours. I thought about dual booting but not sure I'd like the idea of running Windows dual boot.
General consensus around here is you don't want to run Windows on a Lenovo device at all.
Personally, I'd rather not run a Lenovo device in any form. They can't be trusted, and have had a couple remote BIOS hacks.
Even after all the BIOS updates that have been sent out?
That doesn't matter when the company has proven to be so corrupt.
What company hasn’t been?
https://www.mangolassi.it/topic/14538/lenovo-if-it-s-on-your-network-you-are-breached
We can state as a fact that your network has been breached if a Lenovo device exists on it. That's the big difference between Lenovo and other companies.
You cannot quote your own tin foil hat posting as a source.
Why Not? Isn't it considered a reliable source?
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@dafyre said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
It works well. They run for about 5 hours. I thought about dual booting but not sure I'd like the idea of running Windows dual boot.
General consensus around here is you don't want to run Windows on a Lenovo device at all.
Personally, I'd rather not run a Lenovo device in any form. They can't be trusted, and have had a couple remote BIOS hacks.
Even after all the BIOS updates that have been sent out?
That doesn't matter when the company has proven to be so corrupt.
What company hasn’t been?
@travisdh1 said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@dafyre said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
@wls-itguy said in The First ChromeOS Tablet Is Out:
It works well. They run for about 5 hours. I thought about dual booting but not sure I'd like the idea of running Windows dual boot.
General consensus around here is you don't want to run Windows on a Lenovo device at all.
Personally, I'd rather not run a Lenovo device in any form. They can't be trusted, and have had a couple remote BIOS hacks.
Even after all the BIOS updates that have been sent out?
