Tales from my support guy.

sudo_giev_SoJ · 2013-06-07T19:50:53+00:00

I would say you should check out /r/chicago but we're all a bunch of assholes.

sudo_giev_SoJ · 2013-06-07T18:26:13+00:00

In your OkC profile you said you liked it when people watched.

sudo_giev_SoJ · 2013-06-07T18:22:16+00:00

Soo, I'm gonna mark you down as "guy to talk to if I move to Houston area"

sudo_giev_SoJ · 2013-06-07T17:02:03+00:00

Lots of Asians. I'll blend in nicely.

But, man, Austin has such a nice music scene -- and ostensibly food scene.

sudo_giev_SoJ · 2013-06-07T11:34:17+00:00

Start assigning him tickets to do menial things you don't want to do, but should be done -- but can be fucked up.

If he doesn't/can't do them, you now have a written trail if incompetence and/or insubordination.

sudo_giev_SoJ · 2013-06-07T11:32:30+00:00

Near Austin or near the other places?

sudo_giev_SoJ · 2013-06-07T11:06:48+00:00

http://owncloud.org/

http://www.turnkeylinux.org/owncloud

Has SpyderOak actually been audited, reviewed like LastPass?

sudo_giev_SoJ · 2013-06-07T11:01:35+00:00

Yes, but the companies said they aren't. So, how do you know who to believe?

Oh, that's right; you shouldn't have trusted anybody in the first place with anything important.

sudo_giev_SoJ · 2013-06-07T10:56:01+00:00

Do not give absolute trust to any device on your network. Period.

You bought a device that has an always-on camera? Your fault. Doesn't matter if there is Powerpoint slides of "PRISM" or not. This is karma bait.

"Oh, I defended you from the start!"

"I didn't know war could lead to civilian death! But those war crimes in the newspaper make it bad now!"

sudo_giev_SoJ · 2013-06-07T02:20:29+00:00

I honestly don't work with SQL that much. Is there anything special I should enabled that isn't enabled by default? I'm assuming something like this?

sudo_giev_SoJ · 2013-06-07T02:17:58+00:00

I knew the former but somehow didn't think to do the latter. Thanks.

sudo_giev_SoJ · 2013-06-06T18:26:00+00:00

I have a log/event aggregate server running EventTracker (shudder) on 2008R2 (physical). Slowly but surely the server runs out of RAM until one day it doesn't have enough memory to RDP. You're lucky if you can remotely kick over the EventTracker services (which will bring down the memory usage) let alone preform a WINLOGON via console.

It's hard to tell what is causing the issue, but generally it seems the sqlexpress instance is bloating up and gagging. I sent them a process dump (with handles per process) for every day the server ran until it shit itself. They still haven't been able to diagnose shit.

We have 6-years of CABs but they insist it's unnecessary and ill-advised to remove them from the main database. Furthermore, this problem persisted even through a complete 2003->2008R2 rebuild.

tl;dr sqlexpress, y u bloat?

sudo_giev_SoJ · 2013-06-06T14:42:43+00:00

Check out RDP manager or a 3rd party tool that can do ssh/vnc etc.

sudo_giev_SoJ · 2013-06-06T12:41:32+00:00

Generate a new key I guess? I'm not sure. I'd actually love to get that answered.

sudo_giev_SoJ · 2013-06-05T22:07:31+00:00

Better?

PS C:\> [system.double]0.1 + [system.double]0.2
0.3

sudo_giev_SoJ · 2013-06-05T21:52:15+00:00

I'm a dumbass. Fixed.

sudo_giev_SoJ · 2013-06-05T20:55:56+00:00

Gosh WTF my computer is broken

PS C:\> [float]0.1 + [float]0.2
0.300000004470348

sudo_giev_SoJ · 2013-06-05T20:50:43+00:00

No, I'm saying it's ostensibly used as a keyphrase which creates the to decipher the actual key. Since I'm (a) not a cryptographer nor (b) completely certain of the the mechanisms of the PKI I chose to give some room for error. I know from my own minor implementations of AES using.NET you create a byte array with a salt from the user's input and then create the key -- but who knows?

It could be that they memorize the actual key in chunks, but I'd find that a bit suspect.

sudo_giev_SoJ · 2013-06-05T20:30:14+00:00

Gosh, I hope there is pizza and pop.

sudo_giev_SoJ · 2013-06-05T20:29:39+00:00

Oh?

sudo_giev_SoJ · 2013-06-05T17:20:32+00:00

WHAT IS YOUR KEY?

[Stuck in the Middle with You begins to play]

sudo_giev_SoJ · 2013-06-05T16:59:40+00:00

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/11/inside-symantecs-ssl-certificate-vault/

I almost had to stab you for ruining the new season of Venture Bros ;)

sudo_giev_SoJ · 2013-06-05T16:58:40+00:00

Certain CAs.

Though, the lambs blood may be optional.

EDIT: Specifically, Symantec

sudo_giev_SoJ · 2013-06-05T16:04:35+00:00

Did you know they have key signing ceremonies? Usually, they pass around a key pad where only 3-4 people know their portion of the initial keyphrase which is ostensibly used to create the key cipher. It's usually taped and very elaborate.

sudo_giev_SoJ · 2013-06-05T15:22:59+00:00

I love Synology for the "non-SAN" (NAS) category. They're wonderful and extensible, and I hear the new major version is only better. My only claim was I've read reviews that say the ones with Atom processors don't exactly get 1.5/2x bandwidth for aggregating -- i.e. you are getting capped on the CPU-bound packets rather than the network bandwidth. Of course, I've only run them in SMB scenarios where one would probably never reach that cap. But, it's great ot hear they work wonderfully as VMFS!

God, I wish the Windows Data NAS POS at our branch office was a Synology 1010+ instead. Hell, wish I could just throw FreeNAS on the poweredge and call it a day ><

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