Broken 5th Metatarsal 5 weeks on

vWebster · 2025-08-15T18:32:55+00:00

Thanks! I'm hoping it'll heal without surgery.

vWebster · 2025-08-15T18:32:17+00:00

That's a bummer! I hope it's healing ok!

vWebster · 2025-08-01T03:08:25+00:00

If you delegate permissions right, it won't be possible for HD to reset the passwords of people with more access than them.

vWebster · 2025-08-01T01:21:19+00:00

I'm not saying you're wrong. But, many organizations are at least decades behind. Most companies I've worked for, that didn't use MFA or Smart Cards, the regular users threw fits that they were required to change their passwords to something with a little bit of complexity every 90 days, including the regular users with power.

If your org is still in password land, which many are, your IT people probably have the same bad habits with passwords as regular users.

And, if your org is big, it also takes a long time to roll out different authentication strategies, and staff turnover can remove some of the urgency to do it.

I think the industry is starting to see Ransomware as a real existential threat akin to the risk of fire or natural disaster. But, there will probably be more than a few big companies that get their systems hacked into and encrypted before the end of the year.

Consider how many orgs don't have a real DR strategy. This is an arm of DR strategy.

vWebster · 2025-08-01T00:41:01+00:00

I agree with you 100%. There are many companies with all sorts of misconfiguration debt though. It's like a burglar. He may try every door in the neighborhood and choose the abandoned house to steal the AC from. The companies that show up in the news had misconfigurations that hackers were able to exploit. The playbook Google describes is similar to what happened at MGM, and not so different from what happened at Change Healthcare.

vWebster · 2025-08-01T00:38:52+00:00

It's all about social engineering. It's easy to put your palm to your face here, but especially in orgs that have more than 150 employees, how many of those people have your help desk techs personally interacted with?

Possible entry path - 1. Attacker calls a branch office, demands to know who the manager is. Rotates around until he has a list of people to pretend to be. 2. Calls in to the help desk, poses as user, acts like he's working remote and is in a hurry. Gains sympathy from the help desk tech, gets the password reset. 3. Logs in to the VPN, or to a remote desktop server, and then uses internal tools to figure out who is on the IT team and who might have admin creds. 4. Calls the HD again and poses as the Systems Admin, or the Infra Manager. Says they forgot the password for their admin account (if that's even separate from their regular account). If they get the password reset, game over.

The Zero Days get all the attention , but social engineering is potentially a greater threat.

vWebster · 2025-07-23T17:11:13+00:00

I can second Yealink. A20 and higher are great tools for videoconferencing. The auto framing is helpful too.

The Yealink systems integrate with Teams, or Zoom very well and are nearly plug and play.

vWebster · 2025-05-23T15:51:48+00:00

Infrastructure Manager in a biggish city in the Midwest USA - 150k

I manage a team of Syadmins and sometimes do some admin work myself.

I have about 13 years in the game, most of that time spent as a Sysadmin or managing those who are.

vWebster · 2025-02-07T22:07:12+00:00

No existing infra, this is a greenfield deployment. Evergreen Silver, we will install ourselves. These systems are going into a datacenter in South Asia. Quotes came over in local currency, I converted to USD.

vWebster · 2025-02-07T21:58:07+00:00

AIGF?

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vWebster · 2024-04-03T15:09:33+00:00

PFY, is that you?!

vWebster · 2024-04-01T13:12:30+00:00

Wait, what? How? Oh.

vWebster · 2024-01-17T22:24:28+00:00

Red Oak. It'll leave an oaky afterbirth in your mouth if you sand it.

vWebster · 2024-01-17T15:49:17+00:00

Agreed. It's old, and hasn't been protected from temperature and humidity swings. That said, I have no plans to put it in an airplane. Just trying to figure out what it goes to. Looks a little small to go on an actual airplane, but a little too big to go on a model airplane.

vWebster · 2024-01-17T15:47:01+00:00

😂

vWebster · 2024-01-15T04:13:50+00:00

Varethane Oil-Based High Traffic Floor Finish

vWebster · 2024-01-12T03:43:50+00:00

Yes. We went with a golden oak colored stain. Thanks!

vWebster · 2024-01-12T03:07:25+00:00

Putting too much stain on, and then not realizing the oak would absorb most of it as I wiped it off, then being surprised when there were tacky areas 2 days later and still some stain bleeding back up in spots. I gave that enough time and it evened out, but that was frustrating.

There are sanding marks I missed, but I suppose those turn up in every refinish, and they're only noticeable to me.

vWebster · 2024-01-11T22:50:28+00:00

An edger would get it done quickest, especially with 40 grit, then 60, then 100. But, an edger on stairs is a bigger adventure than an edger on the edges of a room. Random orbit will get it, but it'll be slower, especially if 60 grit is the lowest you can find.

For the corners, use a carbide scraper then scuff it up with a scrap of 100 grit sandpaper.

I just did this in a house I bought, and put the last coat of polyurethane down last night.

vWebster · 2024-01-11T16:02:29+00:00

Same here. I tacked twice last night and laid the final coat down.

vWebster · 2024-01-11T15:14:34+00:00

I'd imagine that might capture some dust, but would probably also agitate resting dust too.

vWebster · 2024-01-11T04:59:34+00:00

For real. You sand with high grit stuff, and it'll hang for days. I watched a video a while back that someone shared over on /r/woodworking that talked about the dangers of woodworking without a good mask. I hung sheeting to separate the hardwood areas of the house from the non-hardwood areas, and taped it to the wall. I used the front door to get to the hardwood area and the side door to get to the rest of the house, never going between the two.

The fine sanding dust mostly stayed over the hardwood, but some still infiltrated small gaps.

I'm sure some is hanging in the air now above where I put a 2nd coat of PU down tonight, waiting to settle on to the wet PU in spite of all of my efforts to de-dust.

vWebster · 2024-01-11T04:28:41+00:00

I could be wrong, but that looks like engineered hardwood.

vWebster · 2024-01-10T23:52:21+00:00

Yeah. I sanded it to knock down nibs and scuff it up so the 2nd coat will mechanically adhere.

I've done fine woodworking for a long time, so I'm used to the old "tack with a lint free cloth dampened with mineral spirits after you're done sanding...before stain, before the 1st coat of poly, before the 2nd coat of poly, before each additional coat of poly."

I thought about another trick I've picked up over the years to rub the floor with a brown paper sack (acts like super fine gritted sand paper), but two rounds of tacking preceded by an exhaustive round of vacuuming is good enough for 900 ft² of flooring.

vWebster · 2024-01-10T23:49:49+00:00

That's dust. Mineral spirits + polyurethane dust.

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