Posts by Zacherynuk

Thank goodness for LTSB

Which is was cheaper and easier to get hold of for the general hoards.

Zentyal is good - it does actually work. (I have also seen some synology NAS devices running samba as a read only DC)

What do you use instead of Outlook though ?

A bunch of cheap China Cams bought on ebay recently not only had dodgy ActiveX controls (something I am used to - So always initially re-rlash them and configure them within a secured snapshoted VM) but also included P2P firmware which essentially, by default, broadcasts the camera on teh inter webs! (all you need to know is the device ID - which the seller invariably will.

I noticed several IP cams on ebay where the seller is actually asking the buyer NOT to upgrade the firmware!

I use IP cams for rudimentary external security - they are on a separately fire-walled VLAN, do not have internet access and stream to a synology box (via Onvif) which is only accessible externally via VPN.

I see 'BC', 'DR' ... but no much 'Backup'.

Backup is cold. It is off-line and it is off premises.

This is more like a HA system with *gasp* snapshots.

10 million is quite a lot of people.

5 million extra people in one year is a lot of people.

Guaranteed income for musicians as long as the song is good enough for people to want to listen to it (forever) is quite a nice thing, I would have thought.

Using spotify on a PC, with sonos, on a mobile and in off-line mode in a car or a plane. Creating play lists compatible with any party, dinner date, Saturday night company or just messing around with music is worth £10 / month easily.

What's this article about - and what's the point being made here?

I can't understand why they would have Revenue and Net Income on the same graph.

Revenue, often classed of as core-business ONLY gross income - ie gross income figures restricted to income generated by companies registered description.

Gross Income is income which includes ancillary income, like investments, capital gain and what have you.

Net Income is ALL the companies income after tax.

So to me the chosen axis of this graph is to obfuscate secondary income and deliberately make the net income look less - why ?

Two words

New clear.

This could get tricky...

Most users already get a certain 'choice in their devices - dependant mostly on the role they perform.

I resell equipment of all sorts to clients - it's all best of breed with reasoning into warranties, performance, specification, durability and past experience... and because I sell a fair bit I am bitten down on price by the bean counters and chaps in IT at every client.

If I was forced to resell with joe-blogs making the choice, with no formal processes, then - I could see instant $$$ profit.

However, if this then becomes a B2C transaction, giving the new boy in junior app support the right to 'change his mind' in seven days, call me incessantly about why it keeps 'developing tool-bars on internet explorer' and demand a full refund in 11 months because the 'hard drive is slow' - then you can fuck right off. I'm not here to support your users, MR CYOD.

We Use

http://www.nethelpdesk.com/

It is very good for a small MSP / inter departmental stuff.

I doubt it doesn't do something you need it to, if it doesn't they are pretty good on the requests!

Been using them for many years and they are pretty much the cornerstone of our tracking and invoicing. They do asset engagement and diagrams n stuff too... but don't touch that.

Talk to them. Let me know.

It's just a form money laundering and tax dodging isn't it? Neither side care. They just want to be able to spend hundreds of millions of pounds hiring their own / known lawyers, propping up other ancillary 3rd party law / investigation / analyst firms that they have stakes in.

Adverts aside.

Putty - (can be used for a massive variety of things)

https://testconnectivity.microsoft.com (simple indispensable)

wakemeonlan - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wake_on_lan.html - (excellent for identifying equipment by mac address, not just waking them up)

AngryIP - http://angryip.org/ - obvious uses

Ninite - http://ninite.com/ - probably saves us 100 hours a month or more. each.

And includes, WinSPC & Notepad++

RunAsSPC - http://robotronic.de/runasspcEn.html - allow users to run individual apps / updates / scripts as another user without giving away credentials.

Puretext - http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/ - stop having to paste into out of notepad to strip formatting

gpodder.net - so you can centrally dictate to which of your windows, linux and android devices you want which podcasts to go to from a central web interface to listen to when nothing is going right.

I think that's 10.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the oculus rift low persistence technology will be licensed....

Any Chance of some details ? Or are you just trying to promote a willy waving anti IT department page?

What 'Work' do you do and what 'data' do you work with ? Is it purely your own 'creative' 'work', or do you work with 3rd part details which are confidential ?

Why not post your work flow details so that us bumbaloids can learn something?

Perhaps enlighten us as to you AV, backup, data-leak prevention, DR/BC, licensing and revision control. What Wifi do you use, does it have segregated home access? Does your router / firewall have partitioning for home and guests? - does it log anything? Do you monitor for IDS, OOH access and hardware changes ? What are your encryption policies and password provisioning standards?

Or has none of this mattered.... so far ?

"Around two in five people who fall victim to CryptoLocker have agreed to pay a ransom of around £300 to recover their files, according to a survey of victims."

"Cowed victims hand over thousands rather than install basic security measures"

Pray tell, once these people have fallen victim, which security measure gets their data back ?

Shit ISP throttling has been going on for a long time. Every time they make new changes or introduce a new system it's always chaos.

The worst thing is often the 1st line monkeys don't have a clue about the politics. And if they are 'trained' about it they only absorb the bits they kind of understand.

I ranted to plusnet some 6 years ago about it: http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php?topic=65809.0