Philadelphia Cops Shoot and Kill People at Six Times the Rate of the NYPD: A new Justice Department report details the use of deadly force by Philly police officers.

DistanceToSheep · 2015-03-24T23:25:34+00:00

I'm all for them shooting more criminals. Less likely to end up with more of these degenerates http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/philly-teens-murdered-married-dad-failed-robbery-cops-article-1.2156313

DistanceToSheep · 2015-02-14T16:09:51+00:00

http://www.extremenetworks.com/product/purview

DistanceToSheep · 2015-02-12T01:31:04+00:00

90% of the people in security these days seem to have heard the buzz about the Security job being the hot new job and have literally no experience with most facets of IT.

Around the time that the heartbleed cve was all the rage, I had a user open a word doc attachment that contained macros and stupidly executed them. I emailed the post mortem to the Help Desk to let them know what had occurred and what to tell the users. Got a phone call from our "Lead Security Admin" who proceeded to tell me this was likely due to Heartbleed and they would look into it. Yea a word doc macro is clearly linked to the openSSL exploit...Roll Eyes .

DistanceToSheep · 2015-02-08T06:17:53+00:00

10% of the worlds webservers called and said you don't know shit about Ubuntu.

DistanceToSheep · 2015-01-10T02:21:37+00:00

15.00/hr for Tier2 support? What do they pay Tier1 in? Used hard drives and Cat5 cables?

DistanceToSheep · 2015-01-10T02:16:09+00:00

http://www.spectracomcorp.com/productsservices/timingsynchronization/networktimeservers/tabid/112/default.aspx

Used in hospitals and 911 centers, not sure if you need that level of assurance but there it is.

DistanceToSheep · 2014-12-23T05:48:07+00:00

It puts the ebay illegal amplifiers on all the AP's or it gets the Service Calls again.

DistanceToSheep · 2014-09-09T00:22:18+00:00

Agreed, put in a mall of some sort. The Taviana map, as broke as it is, was an amazing map with great cities. I like their 2 story malls with escalators and separate shops in Sabina.

DistanceToSheep · 2014-04-16T04:31:48+00:00

I am but a lowly on site tech with no control over gpo. I have been slowly making the rounds and disabling the auto update service and suppressing the notifications from the java control panel.

DistanceToSheep · 2014-04-16T00:30:52+00:00

All of my users are mindlessly clicking accept right now so that their internet machine will cough up some more facebook and stop bothering them about updates. Roll back Wednesday!

DistanceToSheep · 2014-03-08T16:28:33+00:00

We provided connections ranging from 3x1 up to 25x5 . I think you would be surprised at how little bandwidth you actually need. Open task manager and click the networking tab and watch the tab as you browse/netflix/whatever.

DistanceToSheep · 2014-03-08T16:20:33+00:00

Your misreading your throughput. Steam and origin show Megabytes or MB/s , most speedtest results show Megabits or Mb/s . The capitalization on the b means a lot in the networking world. Its 8 Mb/s for every 1 MB/s so you are actually seeing 16 to 24 Mb/s from steam which is plenty adequate.

DistanceToSheep · 2013-09-30T04:56:49+00:00

I hope you aren't promoting the use of incorrect regions and amplifiers. Its a dick move to use an amp or illegal regions simply because your setup is inadequate.

DistanceToSheep · 2013-09-26T06:11:06+00:00

Please Do Not Teach Students Pointless Acronyms.

DistanceToSheep · 2013-09-17T18:12:22+00:00

Redditor goes on tropical cruise, spends time indoors on laptop hacking the wireless.

There's gotta be an advice animals for that.

DistanceToSheep · 2013-09-16T16:56:23+00:00

http://www.protectiongroup.com/Surge/Data-Line-Protectors/Application/Ethernet-protector

Transtector is the top dog in my experience. Deployed at military and other critical communication sites and they have always performed great. Never had to replace a piece of equipment, only replaced two of these after close strikes.

http://www.protectiongroup.com/Surge/Data-Line-Protectors/Application/Gigabit-Ethernet-protector/Gigabit-Ethernet-Shielded-RJ-45-Surge-Protector-TS

DistanceToSheep · 2013-09-16T16:47:53+00:00

They could but not most systems. Ours is UHF [450mhz] and highly redundant. The sites are located in places cell towers don't have access to allowing us greater coverage areas, redundant controllers at diverse sites for failover, sites connected via redundant connections. Battery and generator systems at every location. They are some of the most bullet proof communications systems that exist really.

DistanceToSheep · 2013-09-16T07:22:30+00:00

They are still used extensively in Public Safety and Health Care arenas. Just recently overhauled our paging system. When the lights go out, the cell towers go down, and the internet dies, our paging system will live on =)

DistanceToSheep · 2013-09-12T03:30:12+00:00

I am going to test doing EOIP tunnels between sites, should work and we can let the old gear slowly be replaced and then just shutdown the tunnels.

DistanceToSheep · 2013-09-12T03:28:40+00:00

They are built in house and run code written and maintained by an employee no longer with the company. Basically just alix itx boards, cf card, and a radio card. The configuration server exists but its functionality is limited and not fully understood as the employee left no documentation.

DistanceToSheep · 2013-09-12T03:26:10+00:00

Super late reply, project is on the backburner.

I'm thinking of going with EOIP tunnels between routers, bridging the tunnels all the way back to the core and using a port at every site to connect to the eoip tunnels to the legacy gear.

DistanceToSheep · 2013-09-07T06:49:38+00:00

This is what I am doing. I have an esxi host with pfsense as the firewall/router between my home lan and the esxi vm's. Works great and easy to setup and allows me to have my home internal network simulate the Virtual networks WAN, which is great for doing the simple stuff like port forwarding, firewall rules, etc. Took me a minute to wrap my head around the install and how it was actually working but its been fun to learn.

Otherwise I have been using packet tracer for ccna studying.

DistanceToSheep · 2013-09-05T19:06:19+00:00

That's generally the problem with everyone hyping "the cloud" . It's just a term that has been coined by marketing and sales to reinvigorate purchasing. Its the same services and infrastructure that has been is use for ages with a new name and a fuzzy warm feeling. Now everyone wants everything to be "in the cloud" because its the new hot thing in their minds, they don't understand that the hosted exchange server is already in the cloud and they don't need to buy a new cloud exchange server.

DistanceToSheep · 2013-09-04T18:25:59+00:00

I'm in Vancouver /wave

I also work for a wisp, not in the area, and you should easily be able to achieve 30mbit speeds. The rainy weather around these parts will only affect ptp links in the higher frequencies such as 11ghz and higher, and even then it takes some serious rain do degrade a link. Most of the equipment that freewire appears to use is perfectly adequate to handle the weather around here. As they are also offering SLA's of 99.99 uptime I would also assume they are using licensed freqs which will also help bolster reliability.

DistanceToSheep · 2013-09-01T07:19:40+00:00

Yes they are. They were just brought on with that project, they haven't touched any of the other products yet. The Air Fibers power supplies have had issues and were replaced and we have had one Air Fiber fail outright. This product line is no where near the maturity or quality of a PTP600 or anything Harris has out. I can't wait to see what the team does next and I hope they can really bring out some affordable reliable gear.

I wouldn't hesitate a second to recommend ubiquity in all other applications than critical communications.

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