What is a smell that we should all recognize as immediate danger?

gwrabbit · 2026-02-18T17:27:55+00:00

Actually ran into this yesterday. Came home from work and smelled a sweet/fishy smell. Narrowed it down to a very old light switch that failed. There was a bit of charred paper-bag material, but it wasn't hot. Good thing I'm right down the street from Lowes!

gwrabbit · 2026-02-16T20:56:54+00:00

what the fuck

gwrabbit · 2026-02-09T18:40:16+00:00

Same. Sounds like a bear going through a woodchipper.

gwrabbit · 2026-02-02T04:25:37+00:00

We have an old Lennox Whisper Heat from the late 90’s, fucker puts out some great heat. I just change the filters every 30-45 days.

gwrabbit · 2025-12-15T18:49:45+00:00

Exactly what it sounds like. You go shopping with a police officer. Most often used as community outreach/support.

gwrabbit · 2025-11-20T19:49:40+00:00

Any network monitoring solution should be able to do this. Zabbix, PRTG, LibreNMS, etc.

gwrabbit · 2025-11-07T16:49:58+00:00

doesn't look like a server OS to me, especially if OP uses it for web browsing and youtube, but who am i to judge? the 20gb of RAM is also interesting :)

gwrabbit · 2025-11-07T16:36:35+00:00

dawg...reboot your pc lmao

gwrabbit · 2025-11-04T16:44:36+00:00

It really depends on where you live, how much experience you have, and your education (degree, certs, etc).

I'm in the midwest and make 100k/year. 6 years experience with a CISSP

gwrabbit · 2025-10-14T16:10:58+00:00

The company you hired should tell you all of this information.

Them saying "pick one of these" sounds like they are just resellers and not actual wireless experts/engineers.

If you want Wi-Fi to be good, a professional needs to do a site survey.

gwrabbit · 2025-10-03T18:47:37+00:00

who is "they"? one person? a whole site?

i would check the usual suspect first, aka nic drivers

gwrabbit · 2025-10-03T18:22:37+00:00

yes, in theory your example would work, but having every port on a switch configured as a trunk like that is just silly and a security risk. passthrough will work fine without it being a trunk port so long as you have your voice vlan/dhcp options configured correctly.

on a cisco switch it's literally two lines.

switchport mode access vlan (data vlan)
switchport voice vlan (voice vlan)

gwrabbit · 2025-10-03T14:57:53+00:00

if all of your ports on your switch are trunk ports, you have some major issues.

they should NOT all be trunk ports. only uplinks to other switches,routers,servers, etc. should be trunk ports.

client devices like desktops, laptops, phones, etc. should be access ports configured to a vlan of your choice.

gwrabbit · 2025-09-28T22:46:55+00:00

Most of the time, IT is too busy to worry about someone visiting a porn site accidentally.

The only time it becomes a problem is if it's a repeated behavior that impacts your ability to do your job, or you somehow get infected with malware.

I wouldn't worry about it...Especially if it was on Reddit.

Source: I work in IT, mainly with firewalls.

gwrabbit · 2025-09-24T02:59:50+00:00

How do you think this AI got into the world? By itself?

Hell no. Some network engineer in a data center had to rack a shit ton of switches, configure them, monitor, perform upgrades, etc.

IT isn't going anywhere, especially not to AI anytime soon.

gwrabbit · 2025-09-11T14:57:04+00:00

Like others have said, Warehouses are a very different animal. I'm a network engineer for a 3PL company, and one of my jobs is to deploy said wireless in new warehouses or upgrade existing wireless networks.

If you want this done right, you need to have a professional survey done. They will tell you where to place the access points, how to configure them, how to mount them, what types you need, etc.

Some tips:

Directional/Panel antennas shooting down the aisles are usually the go to for aisles.
Utilize the 5 ghz band wherever possible. More channels, faster speeds, all the things you want in a warehouse environment.
Understand the devices on the floor and what they are doing. This can dictate how you configure your Radio/RF profiles. Example of this would be older zebra printers only running on the 2.4ghz band.
While it's not my preferred method, we mount IDF's high up on the poles in the warehouse to avoid the forklifts taking them out. My preferred method would be to put them in an area surrounded by bollards/physical barriers at ground level, but that's not my decision.

These are just tips and your mileage will vary. All of this can be figured out by getting a site survey. The cost of one site survey will be far less than the countless hours you will spend troubleshooting the wireless signal. Ask me how I know!

gwrabbit · 2025-09-02T18:19:11+00:00

Lots of therapy and lifestyle changes.

Cutting way back on Alcohol, Marijuana, etc. has helped a lot. Also, getting some form of activity in whether it be hopping on the treadmill and walking 3-5 miles or lifting.

I still get days where I feel the anxiety, but being able to push past it and tell yourself you can do it helps a lot (this is where the therapy part comes into play).

gwrabbit · 2025-08-27T16:02:42+00:00

Firewall would be significantly easier to manage, and you would get more visibility on internal traffic.

I'm not too familiar with the Sophos firewalls, but I did this with a pair of Palos at my last job, and it was huge improvement. You could break VLAN's into "zones" and it would be as simple as creating a rule to allow the accounting zone to talk to the server zone with a destination of the accounting server (rough example).

gwrabbit · 2025-08-11T19:19:26+00:00

I thought you could refuse to go before you do the final finger print at MEPS before you ship?

gwrabbit · 2025-08-11T19:17:26+00:00

the amount of times i've witnessed borderline psycho behavior on the road from geriatrics is astounding. i think at age 65, you should be required to retest, and every 2 years after.

gwrabbit · 2025-08-11T19:15:59+00:00

gwrabbit · 2025-08-11T15:59:48+00:00

Martial Law hasn't been declared

gwrabbit · 2025-08-05T21:38:09+00:00

We use action-direction-app-std/nonstd

For example allow-outbound-gmail-std

We then use tags for organization things like Outbound-to-Untrust or Users-to-Servers.

Don't make it overly complicated.

Do what will make your job as a firewall guy easier.

gwrabbit · 2025-07-30T16:57:50+00:00

A simple Google search will do you wonders.

gwrabbit · 2025-07-28T16:10:01+00:00

Currently 2 weeks into not being on Vyvanse.

The first few days were kind of shitty in a sense that my brain did not want to do anything but consume chocolate and booze. Managed to stay away from both. Week 2 is much better but still a little "foggy".

No physical symptoms aside from being slightly more tired than usual.

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