@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to find a Mac installer for a windows based software - I haven't been able to find one yet.
My next thought is to have them install a hypervisor and create a windows based machine in the hypervisor and install the software there. than they'd have to spin up the VM and run the software.. and these aren't the brightest people..
decisions decisions.
Thankfully I found it in the Apple store on my Support iPad.. Having them check now.
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Hit the ground running today, I could hear the UPS beeping from the hallway.
run as fast as you can away
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I have decided I will be answering stupid questions from my bosses from here on out as with as much troll as possible until I get fired.
That'll be fun! I like this game.
It shall be a blast - see how far I can push it
playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
playing with pfsense software router in Oracle VirtualBox.
Why? What's the goal? It's pretty rare that I would want a software router outside of a lab setting.
It was something I was working on a while ago that just spun back up to start over again.
I've not used a software firewall in decades. In a lab, sure, but not in production. You really always want hardware, but sometimes in the cloud you can't. But typically your cloud provider will provide the firewall in those cases. So it basically never comes up.
well then it's a good thing it was in VM's and not in a production setting .
No, I was explaining why I don't bother playing with the different ones out there - because it's not knowledge I can then apply to production. So while potentially interesting, it's not very valuable IMHO. There was a time when products like pfSense would get put on dedicated hardware because nothing on the market was any good. But today, it's very much a flipped market. Today you get better prices and better products by avoiding that stuff rather than by using it.
Just suggesting that if you are looking to play with something to further your career, pretty much anything else would be better because essentially (not completely) it's a product category without a use case today, making the time spent learning it and researching it lost to you.
Unless you are at a point in your career where there's just nowhere to go so you are no longer learning for the point of career growth
Nothing wrong with playing around with tech if you find it fun. Just making sure you understand that knowing every software firewall on the market inside and out won't give you any soft of advantage of someone that just took a nap instead.
I get it, but i'm pretty sure you were the one who told me / gave me a "project" to help me on my learning journey.
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Our office power was out all morning, someone called to tell me about it (woke me up), like I could have fixed it over the phone. I then ignored the next 20 calls and texts about it while I was driving. Is it Monday?
5th Monday of the week
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
at 5:00pm EST World Pay credit card processing went down across all platforms... this is the USA's Biggest credit card processing vendor - .
the amount of calls we got in the last 20-30 minutes is astronomical. and they keep on coming
Would explain our calls as well - of course looking for (past) outage information doesn't show any..
Never will. they hide it, but you can bet almost every year during major holidays (specifically in the summer) they will go down.
at 5:00pm EST World Pay credit card processing went down across all platforms... this is the USA's Biggest credit card processing vendor - .
the amount of calls we got in the last 20-30 minutes is astronomical. and they keep on coming
Finally found my wireless head phones (they disappeared during my move about 2 years ago ) and i've been using them ever since.
Downloading Docker desktop off chocolatey.
Just playing around with it I've heard good things - also watching the new N10-008 CompTIA Network+ training videos while I have some downtime between client meetings and the phones being slow.
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Had Physical Therapy this morning for my back - needed coffee so I caved and got Hy-Vee gas station coffee.. good coffee based on the price (1.00 for a medium)
If you have a Racetrack gas station nearby, they have excellent coffee, $2 for a large.
And stick with the PT, that's the only reason I'm able to walk again.
for me it's the muscle relaxers helping me walk again. .
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Spent nine hours in our dental department dealing with the Schlick X-ray sensors.
Seems some damn permissions issue arose with the plug-in and driver cause all kinds of grief..
But,.. I’ve gotten to taken about three dozen X-rays of my work phone, mouse and blood pressure cuff ( battery operated).
Of course they are only about a 1x1” image.. I now need to find lead clothes for the remainder of the year.
that much radiation on a constant basis can't be good for you..
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
just finished a site upgrade to a newer version to fix a kitchen printing issue. Today is going so slow.
The slowness for me was Tuesday. Ugh. Yesterday and today have gone faster.
Today is dragging because I'm looking forward to 1:00pm lol
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
offer signed, letter of resignation wrote. 8:00am will be fun .
Some of us want details from the fallout, lol.
Oh believe me, There will be a big one.. it's going to be awesome.
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs Something to look forward to
Me to my "new" boss: "we should make this change to allow for better security, require everyone to MFA at least x amount"
Answer I'm expecting: We'll have to research it and pass it up the chain (that would have been my old job)
Answer I got: "You're the security officer, make it so"Me: When did I become the security officer?
New Boss: Just now!Me: Does that come with a new salary?
that is the question to ask ; but i'll just be happy to not be micromanaged every second of everyday
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Playing with the microphone/camera and related settings - lots of background noise i'm trying to see if it's going to be a problem
What camera/mic? Internal to the new laptop?
Check the mic boost levels….. what noise is it picking up.
Yea, think I finally got it figured out, but I'm doing laundry and my "office" is in the basement in the space across from the washer and dryer - and it was a lot of static -
Coffee and waiting for my 9:00am meeting with my new company!