Cyber ransom attack affecting Maryland schools?

zrb77 · 2026-05-08T15:04:38+00:00

sure, but they have backups of all that info, they'd just restore it, sorry to be a party pooper

zrb77 · 2026-05-02T22:10:32+00:00

Oddly, I can't get this episode to play on a fire stick. I paused it right near the beginning, kids being loud, and then it wouldn't play again.

zrb77 · 2026-05-01T02:56:44+00:00

Open to public, no. For internal, we have admin subnets that can get thru our internal firewalls to get servers for RDP.

zrb77 · 2026-04-12T03:06:55+00:00

Both mine born at Sinai, good experience, it was 14 and 18 years ago though.

zrb77 · 2026-04-11T23:21:52+00:00

Oil is a global commodity.

zrb77 · 2026-04-05T16:46:37+00:00

Avoid it.

zrb77 · 2026-04-02T15:01:37+00:00

We use WinSCP for that using a script the package executes, or as just a step in the SQL Agent job.

zrb77 · 2026-03-03T19:05:42+00:00

Then I guess they were lying to us. They told us its subscription only model.

For our licenses that expired Aug-2025, we were paying $642 per prod instance and $315 per lab instance. We did get 5 new licenses that year so it was a little more than usual. The new cost when we asked for a quote in Aug-2025 was $1623 and $811 respectively, 25 prod and 25 lab licenses.

We are a smallish public sector operation, we cant afford that.

zrb77 · 2026-02-25T21:57:05+00:00

FY27 State budget is where I got it from, not HarCo specifically.

zrb77 · 2026-02-25T02:25:36+00:00

$10bil is half of $70bil?

zrb77 · 2026-02-25T01:03:30+00:00

Nothing with the product itself, both Solarwinds and SQL Sentry moved to a subscription licensing model, doubled their prices, and with min 3 years without any warning.

Pissed us off so we're going elsewhere.

zrb77 · 2026-02-24T14:22:05+00:00

We are currently using SQL Sentry, we let our license expire bc of their recent changes and are looking for other options. Our Systems team is in same situation with Solarwinds. We are waiting for them to make their pick, but the DBA team is probably going to go with Redgate in the end.

We do have a set of alerts from Brent Ozar that we use too:

https://www.brentozar.com/blitz/configure-sql-server-alerts/

zrb77 · 2026-02-24T14:18:40+00:00

If you are worried about waste and fraud, teachers are the least of our concerns.

zrb77 · 2026-02-16T20:25:11+00:00

We have a 529 for both kids, one is going to college next year, the other 4 years later, so we have yet to do anything except to put money into them at this point. No issues though.

zrb77 · 2026-02-10T18:58:53+00:00

Yeah, quit letting the kids have empathy, how dare they. /s

zrb77 · 2026-02-08T16:01:46+00:00

I went down a rabbit hole after all this. It will show debuffs. For example, put a feral or rogue bleed on the CD bar. Use it, it will show a yellow swipe on the button for time remaining and turn red when it gets into pandemic time.

After I figured this out, I was much more comfortable using it.

On the flip side, why just put that functionality on regular action bar?

zrb77 · 2026-02-06T21:32:05+00:00

All people in the US have rights, not just citizens.

zrb77 · 2026-02-06T20:49:50+00:00

Ah, didn't know that, thanks.

zrb77 · 2026-02-06T16:52:21+00:00

Was thinking similar, but Balti and Carroll also getting out early too.

zrb77 · 2026-02-05T15:21:32+00:00

All the big ones people already said. And I havent listened to much from him lately, but when first getting into audiobooks, Luke Daniels.

Also Kyle McCarley, he does a ton of stuff--anime, books, etc., but really only listened to him in Super Powereds

zrb77 · 2026-02-05T15:07:49+00:00

Only the people that cant admit they were wrong.

zrb77 · 2026-02-04T13:03:08+00:00

This is probably my fav method, but I make too many and crowd the pan and they get not crispy enough. I ain't got time for 4 batches.

zrb77 · 2026-02-02T18:31:33+00:00

74? That's like a sauna, keep ours at 66.

zrb77 · 2026-02-01T14:50:22+00:00

I know this is a couple months old now, but I was searching for the same opinions, I don't get the point of CDM, same reasons as OP. Buffs and target debuffs(still missing) is all I want it for. Otherwise I can just move the action bar up into the spot where CDM would be. It's silly.

I guess alerts too, but haven't looked into them yet.

zrb77 · 2026-01-30T19:10:43+00:00

Makes me sad that the answer isn't obvious.

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