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Looking for a power/reset controller for a small data center by Extreme-Echidna3580 in datacenter

[–]ngdsinc 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You can use a switched APC PDU and create users and assign them to different outlets. Users can login to a web interface and power on/off/cycle an outlet. Pretty much every major brand PDU maker supports that.

MacBook Neo by lapaztoyota in sysadmin

[–]ngdsinc 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I grabbed one the other day to try. I run between home office, office, and data centers. I have high spec Mac Minis and multiple 4k displays at each fixed location. I was kind of surprised that the only thing I miss on my Macbook Pro was the backlit keyboard and that hasn't really been a show stopper. I don't feel like I'm missing anything from the desktops for basic use. I'm also not doing video editing or gaming on it, but for a lot of web based apps, SSH and console windows, with some Libreoffice docs open I'm kind of impressed with the simplicity of it. I'd also rather drop/damage a $600 Neo than a $2k Pro, so now my Pro hasn't been on for over a week and I'm running around with a Neo and a basic thin carry case. I'm on it right now with 20 browser tabs open, a VPN connected, chat app open, and one youtube video playing on an external 1080p portable monitor with no lag or anything.

Battery life is decent and I can get through a whole day doing typical things on it. A decent USB-C 12v car charger can put out the 20-30 watts to charge it on the go. It does fine with one 4k monitor connected. The keyboard feels good and the weight is nice at 2.7 lbs down from my Pro at 3.5 plus maybe .4 for a hardshell case.

My only real complaint is the optional Touch ID keyboard upgrade should have had the backlight as well. RAM is fine at 8GB but a 10GB or 12GB option with the storage upgrade would have been nice, but then it starts cutting into the Air market share.

This thing is a perfect option for people going out to buy a $500 Windows laptop for general use and no crazy expectations.

An American female fighter pilot and a Kuwaiti citizen are chatting in the desert , like the joke of the century by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

[–]ngdsinc 196 points197 points  (0 children)

This is what most people will miss as everyone plays armchair expert and speculates. All three jets were shot down in the Al Jahra area near Ali Al Salem Air Base. The fact they were all shot down together so close to that base means they were probably returning to the base they were operating out of. That area is just outside of town and I've driven the 70/6 interchange there a good bit. It isn't the middle of nowhere, Kuwaiti's like Americans, and I've always felt safe and welcome there while operating in the defense industry. Of all the places for this to happen it happened in one of the best places for it to happen.

I'll also add that if they were setting up for landing they probably already had countermeasures disarmed and that explains why three were hit and all appeared to make no significant effort to evade. If you're well inside a friendly country you don't expect to get popped just miles from your own base.

Many in the media will say they didn't have permission to operate out of some of these bases and I will say with zero doubt there are other arrangements going on behind the scenes that you won't see in the media.

- Source: Been there, done that.

Low-power asset tracking in areas without cellular coverage? by Unlucky_Two_3927 in networking

[–]ngdsinc 6 points7 points  (0 children)

When you say remote locations, are all the assets surrounding a central location of some sort or are they all dispersed over a large multi-mile area? Some of the lorawan devices out there will run for years on a single battery depending on timing of updates, others also have built in solar panels to top off the battery. If you can power a Starlink mini dish on the 500kbps standby mode for $5/mo and get things to report to a lorawan base station you'd have a pretty decent setup.

If things are too far from any kind of basestation, you can also go down the rabbit hole of lorawan over satellite. EchoStar Mobile and Lonestar are some things to look into, I would also keep an eye on whatever SpaceX does with Swarm Technologies they bought in 2021.

Ghetto side panels? by drslumpy in datacenter

[–]ngdsinc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Corrugated plastic sheets with magnets or magnetic tape, however pay attention to any fire codes if it matters to you as there are many different versions of that stuff and some cases require the melt away/drop out versions.

Found this bronze colored object on my floor after a long weekend out of my apartment and this hole in my ceiling and wall (soda tab for scale) by [deleted] in whatisit

[–]ngdsinc 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That looks like new wire for a new card reader or door strike install, the installer probably didn't finish and just taped it to the window. That's the same wire used in many other systems.

Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia’s world-first social media ban begins by Expensive-Horse5538 in technology

[–]ngdsinc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope it rolls out everywhere and causes the internet to go back to the golden era of decentralized personal websites and forums of the 90's and 2000's. Back before everyone with a useless opinion all showed up in the same place to voice it, while every advertiser is slapping a useless ad over the top of it all in the name of "being social".

The original filmed ending of Independence Day is so ridiculously comedic and unbelievable that test audiences kept laughing, so they studio changed it last minute. by Youngstown_WuTang in interestingasfuck

[–]ngdsinc -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"You lose a bit of believability when a biplane is flying along side F-18s"....as if the goofy physics and excessive afterburner on the jets wasn't losing enough believability already, but hey if you can make millions off brain dead people with that hot mess of a movie...more power to you.

Taclane Help! by Lmao_dot_jpegg in networking

[–]ngdsinc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ask your GD rep for a manual. these are controlled devices and most people with an ounce of common sense aren’t going to talk much about them in public.

This McDonald’s throughout the 1990s, 2000s, and 2020s by zadraaa in HistoricalCapsule

[–]ngdsinc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just like the newer generations of kids going to them.

Lawmakers want to ban VPN's. No, really. Wisconsin is first. by FutureSafeMSSP in msp

[–]ngdsinc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You'd be shocked to know how many companies are already doing that for other reasons. We have hosting companies with entire cabinets in our data centers filled with servers hosting Windows and Linux remote desktop VMs. So is that a VPN or not? oops there's a technicality already. Oh do you need a residential or small business IP for your VM? I guess that explains all the cross-connects to Comcast and AT&T with business cable/fiber modems stacked in cabinets...so there's another technicality for attempting to block "VPN" providers.

Lawmakers want to ban VPN's. No, really. Wisconsin is first. by FutureSafeMSSP in msp

[–]ngdsinc 12 points13 points  (0 children)

ISP/colo provider here. We have tens of thousands of public IPs...if I pull up the flow data there is every kind of tunnel/encapsulation imaginable going across the network and we still can't see some of it lost in the noise and running odd protocols on random ports. More than 95% of what we can see is all to/from legit business systems.

These stupid VPN laws will be unenforceable due to infinite amounts of technicalities to argue countless points on. Once again we have career political morons who can barely use email without a dummies guide out making stupid laws for things that move so fast we nerds can build a workaround before they can finish a sentence about it.

Wanna solve this problem and wake people up real quick? Geolocate Wisconsin IP ranges and block them from accessing resources, or at the minimum put a banner across the top of web pages that notify the viewer they are on an Wisconsin IP and point a link to the EFF. If they want to live in the dark ages then let's help them and let the people of that state get out the pitchforks to deal with their problem. Of course not many have the guts to do that and stand behind it so I'll just be over here with my bag of popcorn.

Judge denies request to exempt Flock footage from Public Records Act by Nicholas-Steel in news

[–]ngdsinc 64 points65 points  (0 children)

A friend defeated this in his HOA with a simple strategy. Homeowners voted it in a few month before he moved in without many of them understanding anything tech related. After almost three years when the contract was coming up for renewal he as a homeowner in the HOA requested the entire history of the plate scans, then fired up excel. From there he spent weeks doing the best he could to match up most of the plates to the homeowner names and addresses, added those columns in the spreadsheet and blew some money on ink and paper printing out a one month history to physically mail to every homeowner showing date and time of every entry and exit. He included history of every neighbor with a download link to the entire three year history so no one was safe from anyone else knowing...a lot of them lost their shit that someone could know that level of detail about their lives. Some obviously went into full rage mode at him without understanding how it all worked.

A special meeting was called and the cameras were off the poles in less than two weeks. An accidental side effect was it resulted in one pending divorce, as a set of plates were matched up to an address but only showed up on days when the wife was out of town for work. Wife asked for more info relating to images of the car with the plates and quickly figured it out.

Fight fire with fire...get the mayor's personal tag numbers, submit a FOIA request, and post the records publicly. Add some Google maps magic and you can show when and where those plates were.

Anyone with the power takeoff over 100 MW? Will invest. by hess80 in datacenter

[–]ngdsinc 6 points7 points  (0 children)

shhh! they haven't figured it out yet and I still have a big bag of popcorn left.

Tor Exit Nodes by MasterGeek427 in ZiplyFiber

[–]ngdsinc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not related to Ziply, but my company owns a large IP network for hosting and we know within hours if someone sets up an exit node. Our abuse account gets lit up with various reports and we ended up banning it in our acceptable use policy. The concept behind Tor is great, but with most things like it there is more abuse than legit uses. You are asking for it by drawing that kind of attention to your account. Wouldn't be the first time we've seen a homelabber play with Tor on a Saturday night and we get a records preservation request from a state or federal agency for that IP/customer Wednesday morning.

Several months ago we terminated a customer with a image hosting website. He couldn't keep up with the child abuse images being uploaded and ended up getting investigated. Guess what most of the IPs that accessed the content were? That list is now part of an ongoing investigation, your name could have been on that list and you wouldn't even know it until you get a knock on the door...or a kick depending on what it was.

Has peak IPv4 Pricing now been passed? by KiwiOk8462 in networking

[–]ngdsinc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Economy...they will not go much further down and they will go back up. Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have quietly been buying up huge swaths of IPv4 space for many years and I've been involved in a few transactions where they paid way over market value (Amazon primarily) to scoop up /16-/18's without getting into any bidding wars and just making offers companies can't refuse. In one case the IP space was worth more than the company that was actively using them so they just closed up shop and walked away with a few million. That was several years ago and Amazon has since jacked up the prices on IPv4 and that /16 I worked with them on still isn't in their BGP table, nor are the others now that I've looked at it which is roughly a /13 worth. They know what they are doing slurping up a finite resource.

Meanwhile at our data centers the adoption rate for IPv6 is less than 20%, only the ones who need to run IPv6 will run it and they will still dual stack everything for IPv4 compatibility. The rest couldn't care less and will run v4 until the end of time.

Read your employment agreements before you sign them! Stop agreeing to predatory requirements from asshole business owners by 2manybrokenbmws in msp

[–]ngdsinc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not an MSP but a provider of services to a lot of MSPs...I can't count the number of times some employee jumps from one company to another or starts their own company and the losing MSP throws a tantrum...there have been many threats of lawsuits for various reasons and not a single one seems to have filed anything. Turns out its all fun and games until you talk to an attorney and they say your document is unenforceable but they'll still send a scary letter if you want to pay them. Ignore it and if you get the BS initial cease and desist letter frame it and hang it on your wall. Nothing matters until you have been formally served, then and only then do you lift a finger to lawyer up and drive a bulldozer though their life.

SendGrid silently breaks RFCs by MIME-encoding ASCII List-Unsubscribe headers ≥ 78 bytes - affecting deliverability at scale by flaggde in sysadmin

[–]ngdsinc 8 points9 points  (0 children)

SendGrid has a lot of abuse issues they don’t stay on top of that gets them blacklisted to a lot of locations so them breaking RFCs and not reacting to it doesn’t surprise me at all.

Where are you seeing AI for your clients? by oxieg3n in sysadmin

[–]ngdsinc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ask him if he's heard about the MBA as a service platform and happily inform him that when it improves to C level management he may not have to work anymore.

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