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by bobbob1921 5y ago
Part of this is bc everything is about Reoccurring, monthly revenue. It’s no longer good enough to build a great product , make a nice profit, and move on to the next iteration. A company now must generate (or extract) stable, reoccurring
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by bobbob1921 6y ago
Great point. + most of mgmt doesn’t see the real value in security until after the first (major) incident has occurred. (Has been my experience atleaste for < 50 employee orgs.)
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by bobbob1921 6y ago
I was wondering this too, the author added this info via a reply in the comments (of his site/article , not HN)- > Author here. The camera was a Seek RevealPro which has 320x240 resolution. The thermal data in the panoramas are sti
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by bobbob1921 6y ago
I’ve always used (and love) winDirStat.
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by bobbob1921 6y ago
Yes it does (I’ve done this). However up until recently you could NOT export yt vids from any “sub” yt accounts. Ie I have one google account but 4x YouTube accounts under that google account. Google support confirmed that you could only
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by bobbob1921 6y ago
I’m not clear on the (uplink/upstream , ie internet) bandwidth costs. Who provides/pays for that monthly bill? Surely if you buy a 20 K pop that doesn’t include upstream bandwidth for life (ie for your pops customers to use). I sp
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by bobbob1921 6y ago
This is part of why I prefer text messages over phone calls, but for the very few exceptions when a phone call is more efficient or required. (Ie when multiple steps / detailed interaction is needed). With phone calls, I specifically
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by bobbob1921 6y ago
I agree that the name Microsoft chose for this new Xbox is a bit ridiculous. So they have the current gen- Xbox X, and the new GEN is called the “Xbox series X“ (I’m not a big gamer so I may have that wrong)
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by bobbob1921 6y ago
I’ve come across this many times- mainly during ediscovery exports for IT clients. Best info I could find is that gmail does NOT support exact phrase matching , at all. (ie in the search “cat dog” , the quotes are ignored , so “my cat my
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by bobbob1921 6y ago
Issues like this- are why I jump’d through hoops to have a somewhat secure , somewhat reliable, and somewhat consistent- on-Prem back up of my Google (gsuite) data. It’s not as easy and robust as it should be, but it helps me sleep a tad bi
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by bobbob1921 6y ago
Great point! USPS not only delivers xyz package quicker from the same to/from zip, but they are the only of the three that will actually deliver packages early than originally promised. UPS and FedEx only, and I mean only, deliver on-t
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by bobbob1921 6y ago
Google domains and drive , are among the worst offenders of this. Domains is the worse of the two, unfortunately.
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by bobbob1921 6y ago
> If there’s a better charity, I’d like to know about it... Not saying it’s necessarily better or worse, but is worth considering– the Internet archive (ie they run the Wayback machine, among other services). I have donated to both. I fe
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by bobbob1921 6y ago
Agreed (re shake again to reverse), but not always - ie if you let off the mouse click , there is no option to shake again to undo the initial shake. Bottom line , I disableded this “feature”. I do think this is one of the best examples o
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by bobbob1921 6y ago
most likely the reason some Americans are fine with a HOA is because they do give up some liberties/freedoms for the other benefits that come with a HOA. Such as amenities, security, upkeep of surroundings, and other benefits from the
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by bobbob1921 6y ago
FWIW an option I use at my home/office is a 2u 12bay supermicro box running freenas with extra hard drives as the backup DST (Destination). Using periodic replication on the source (also freenas/ZFS) and some Scripts I wrote using
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by bobbob1921 7y ago
Media converter maybe? (Like those $100 or so fiber to ethernet converters, I say this as it’s usually a modem/router plugged into the ONT‘s ethernet port that does isp to cpe authentication, tunneling, etc. so the ONT is just convert
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by bobbob1921 7y ago
i agree , you can also add vmware to this list. they ship a free (and great imo) hypervisor which has full features built in, with only a license key unlocking those advanced (and expensive) features. this also applies to almost every pie
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by bobbob1921 7y ago
Pretty cool! I’m not a big public cloud guy (but do run/manage many systems) but will try this out. Fwiw, I currently have almost all of my systems sending my command history to a syslog server (splunk) via constant VPNs (.bashrc an
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by bobbob1921 7y ago
bc we live in a free labor market , and that is what it takes to attract talent at the c level (+ supply/demand). not sure why this same scrutiny does not apply to pro athletes or actors/recording artists.
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by bobbob1921 7y ago
sometimes i find even having a ceiling fan on low speed, slightly dries out my eyes overnight/when I wake up in the morning. It may be all in my head, but I seem to remember reading something that your eyes either flicker or don’t alw
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by bobbob1921 7y ago
I agree , this is not a backdoor in the more commonly understood sense of the term , post-Snowden. At the same time, your suggested "right title" doesn't seem too accurate either (imo). When I see the term backdoor, I think
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by bobbob1921 8y ago
I have the same , but also have an IP ACL on the VPN ports / protocols (only on new connections). When I do need to Connect from random remote ip , I have a port knocking rule that adds ip for 5min to acl I actually have the port
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by bobbob1921 8y ago
Any reasonably secure windows systems have restricted user accounts that do not allow app installs. (I'm talking ofcourse in a corporate environment) The help desk / it call for any app install approvals is common in my experie
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by bobbob1921 8y ago
every supermicro motherboard that I have dealt with (several 100s) always has a jumper which can enable(shorted)/disable the bmc/ipmi. i’ve been surprised at how many we have bought used off eBay/surplus that had the jumpe
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by bobbob1921 8y ago
it seems Windows 10 was where the tide turned on mandatory / forced automatic, while also making it pretty difficult to disable (and when you do disable updates other issues can arise that have nothing to do w the windows update ser
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by bobbob1921 9y ago
What you're describing here would require the company to be able to access their clients servers and data. I don't know of any server provider (bare metal or cloud) that forces users to allow the company full access to their dat
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by bobbob1921 9y ago
Employment is a voluntary transaction, entered into by both parties. One should always focus upon increasing their own skill set such that an employer may be able to make your life temporarily difficult, but your skills and value to an e
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by bobbob1921 9y ago
Lots of comments are interpreting "ex-admin" as someone who was fired and then after went and did this. Just want to float the possibility that "ex-admin" could also mean someone was employed there, then did this and