It is just regular filtered, distilled water. The high humidity is what caused our WAN router to reboot and freak out. We still haven't had any extra issues due to it, but that's not to say that it WONT happen in the future from this one event. We were not pleased with the alarm company.
Obligatory story about new "clean agent" fire suppression systems (hint: nitrogen + water):
Tuesday was a regular day for me. I am working remotely and live almost 2 hours away from work. At 11:02am, this chat began between my boss and me:
Boss: Please monitor all systems. Alarm system fired in server room
Me: I can't get on firewall
Me: I'm off vpn
Me: You still have internet?
Me: Do you mean the fire alarm went off?
Me: Or other alarm
Me: Still can't get on vpn
Me: I was hoping to be able to get on via X2 or X3, but I still can't get on VPN via any WAN interfaces.
Me: $TaskServer seems to be working; just got an email generated by it. so $SMTPServer must also working
Boss (8 agonizing minutes later): Fire
Turns out... our data center fire alarm was getting tested today! And the company that installed it had one of their techs come out to do the test.
My boss was in the server room escorting him when it happened. Normally they disengage the solenoid from the suppression system when testing, but he must not have done it right. They heard a weird hissing noise... like something was charging.
Now, since our server room is NOT sealed, we can't use systems that remove oxygen from the air. We bought a new fancy suppression system that will basically atomize a gallon of water for a 12'x12' space distributed by a tank of pressurized nitrogen. This distributed water is safe to breathe, safe to suck through fans and all equipment, and totally kills fire.
Well guess what? the Cisco ASR 1000 router that provides our primary internet (that we all go through to get to firewall for VPN) didn't like all the moisture and rebooted itself (maybe it shorted? dunno). Hence, it took like 15 minutes for me to be able to get back onto VPN. It also was making weird fan noises.
$Boss described it as a very thick fog that cleared after a minute or two. Like... can't see 6" from your face initially. Needless to say, he isn't very happy with the alarm company at the moment. Hopefully none of our equipment will suffer from the test.
In the aftermath, I noticed that some yahoo (hopefully not me) had disabled incoming VPN on the X2 and X3 backup ISPs. So that's why I couldn't get in on those other interfaces...
Alright, I have good news for you: the 2 links don't need manually enabled! They are enabled by default and MS talks about it for orgs that want to switch them off and on without dealing with uninstalling the update.
Src: Note By default, this update is enabled. No customer action is required to enable the fixes. We are providing the following registry information for completeness in the event that customers want to disable the security fixes related to CVE-2017-5715 and CVE-2017-5754 for Windows clients.
Answer- https://support.microsoft.com/... At the bottom: BTIWindowsSupportEnabled: True -> on client, no action required. On server, follow guidance. KVAShadowWindowsSupportEnabled: True -> on client, no action required. On server, follow guidance.
So it seems that the client document just has that same info, but on client, no action required.
I know that 3rd is for HyperV. and I previously was enabling the first 2 for servers. But then I ran across the linked article today and was like "WTFF? Clients too??"
Totally disagree. How do 5 cops get in your room without saying a thing and then two of them speak at the same time? Here's a hint: The first one in will tell you what to do.
I've been in my room on a typical monday morning and had the FBI burst into my room. When the door opened, I saw an M-16 and a couple pistols. I think only 3 were behind the door, but it may have been 4 or 5 until they knew the situation was safe and moved on. They told me and my roommate to put our hands up. We did. They asked us to come into the family room. We did.
Guess what? In the 60s between when they got in the house and to our room, they were yelling that they are the FBI and that they have a warrant. While scared about what was going on, I never felt like my life was threatened. Maybe I should have? But I feel like they did a fine job and no one did anything to try and escalate.
Means: They crawl and scour looking for new cyber-warfare and build on that. EternalBlue for example. Motive: They hate ukraine that was hit hardest (and said to have potentially originated from there). Opportunity: Lab testing suggested that they would be able to achieve the technical outcome (ransom) and make a quick couple bitcoin while the vulnerability wasn't patched.
To me, 2 things don't add up: #1 A couple bitcoin? That's a terrible ROI. Maybe it was just a test of their packaging and to see how quickly organizations respond (organizational behavior test/analysis) #2 I don't know if NK knows where Ukraine even in. Do they? I would think there are others that have much greater reason to target Ukraine...
And that's just what I'm suggesting. You can now have a personal white or black list of any complexity desired. Would likely require you to make a cert and trust it on client machines that are MITM'd by this proxy.... I wonder if you could just do this same thing with zscaler and similar services...
Are you willing to put in work? You could setup a web proxy that will get the video name or author and optionally return some other random youtube if it matches one of the blacklisted items.
If you've never used CreditKarma, then you don't know. They advertise credit cards and other crap.
This year, they launched a free tax filing service that doesn't try to sell you any crap. Worked quickly and easily and transferred all my info to state without any hassle.
I don't have a problem with their LifeLock equivalent and look forward to continuing to use them.
I think you missed the sarcasm on that post. Of course it doesn't cost them $900 to put in a headphone jack on all of the previous models of iPhone. We've seen articles that put it around $0.50 or something to add in the headphone jack.
That would be a significant difference, but by default now, the address bar of FF sends your query to the search engine in real time to give you suggestions. Can you turn that off? dunno. If you don't, then they largely are the same.
Which is why GOG is ALMOST the perfect combo of the two. They are still behind on getting many of the latest games (thanks to them not wanting a non-DRM published) and a few other things, but the GOG Galaxy client is like Steam client, except it is just an enhancement providing chat, achievements, management, etc., not a DRM tool.
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No mod points, but this.
well, I guess I'll undo my mod points on this thread because this comment is worth responding to.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...
Once you get on RS5 (coming out this year), you can install RSAT as an option feature of windows and it'll persist across upgrades.
Now... get back to pushing out those policyDefinitions!
It is just regular filtered, distilled water. The high humidity is what caused our WAN router to reboot and freak out. We still haven't had any extra issues due to it, but that's not to say that it WONT happen in the future from this one event. We were not pleased with the alarm company.
Obligatory story about new "clean agent" fire suppression systems (hint: nitrogen + water):
Tuesday was a regular day for me. I am working remotely and live almost 2 hours away from work. At 11:02am, this chat began between my boss and me:
Boss: Please monitor all systems. Alarm system fired in server room
Me: I can't get on firewall
Me: I'm off vpn
Me: You still have internet?
Me: Do you mean the fire alarm went off?
Me: Or other alarm
Me: Still can't get on vpn
Me: I was hoping to be able to get on via X2 or X3, but I still can't get on VPN via any WAN interfaces.
Me: $TaskServer seems to be working; just got an email generated by it. so $SMTPServer must also working
Boss (8 agonizing minutes later): Fire
Turns out... our data center fire alarm was getting tested today! And the company that installed it had one of their techs come out to do the test.
My boss was in the server room escorting him when it happened. Normally they disengage the solenoid from the suppression system when testing, but he must not have done it right. They heard a weird hissing noise... like something was charging.
Now, since our server room is NOT sealed, we can't use systems that remove oxygen from the air. We bought a new fancy suppression system that will basically atomize a gallon of water for a 12'x12' space distributed by a tank of pressurized nitrogen. This distributed water is safe to breathe, safe to suck through fans and all equipment, and totally kills fire.
Well guess what? the Cisco ASR 1000 router that provides our primary internet (that we all go through to get to firewall for VPN) didn't like all the moisture and rebooted itself (maybe it shorted? dunno). Hence, it took like 15 minutes for me to be able to get back onto VPN. It also was making weird fan noises.
$Boss described it as a very thick fog that cleared after a minute or two. Like... can't see 6" from your face initially. Needless to say, he isn't very happy with the alarm company at the moment. Hopefully none of our equipment will suffer from the test.
In the aftermath, I noticed that some yahoo (hopefully not me) had disabled incoming VPN on the X2 and X3 backup ISPs. So that's why I couldn't get in on those other interfaces...
#I'mInTheBasementDungeonOfMyHouse #StillLonely #TheTwinsAreCryingUpstairs
There, I made some comments to keep you company.
Because I can:
ping 1.1.1.1
Pinging 1.1.1.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 1.1.1.1: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=61
Reply from 1.1.1.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=61
Reply from 1.1.1.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=61
Reply from 1.1.1.1: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=61
Viva la fiber!
ps, google is around 45ms for ping, but i've seen it as low as 20ms for stretches.
Waiting for an APU hopefully with vega discrete, but for a laptop that isn't even a hard requirement anymore.
Alright, I have good news for you: the 2 links don't need manually enabled! They are enabled by default and MS talks about it for orgs that want to switch them off and on without dealing with uninstalling the update.
Src:
Note By default, this update is enabled. No customer action is required to enable the fixes. We are providing the following registry information for completeness in the event that customers want to disable the security fixes related to CVE-2017-5715 and CVE-2017-5754 for Windows clients.
https://support.microsoft.com/...
I think I've found the answer!
Here is the companion document:
Client-
https://support.microsoft.com/...
Server-
https://support.microsoft.com/...
Answer-
https://support.microsoft.com/...
At the bottom:
BTIWindowsSupportEnabled: True -> on client, no action required. On server, follow guidance.
KVAShadowWindowsSupportEnabled: True -> on client, no action required. On server, follow guidance.
So it seems that the client document just has that same info, but on client, no action required.
What a documentation crazy-fest!
I know that 3rd is for HyperV. and I previously was enabling the first 2 for servers. But then I ran across the linked article today and was like "WTFF? Clients too??"
According to this page, only clients (WinX, 8.1, 8,7) need these 2 registry entries:
https://support.microsoft.com/...
Thoughts? Still applies to all windows OS's?
Totally disagree. How do 5 cops get in your room without saying a thing and then two of them speak at the same time? Here's a hint: The first one in will tell you what to do.
I've been in my room on a typical monday morning and had the FBI burst into my room. When the door opened, I saw an M-16 and a couple pistols. I think only 3 were behind the door, but it may have been 4 or 5 until they knew the situation was safe and moved on. They told me and my roommate to put our hands up. We did. They asked us to come into the family room. We did.
Guess what? In the 60s between when they got in the house and to our room, they were yelling that they are the FBI and that they have a warrant. While scared about what was going on, I never felt like my life was threatened. Maybe I should have? But I feel like they did a fine job and no one did anything to try and escalate.
wow, is it morning yet? so many grammar errors to fix :( WTB editing or time-travel.
Means, Motive, Opportunity.
Means: They crawl and scour looking for new cyber-warfare and build on that. EternalBlue for example.
Motive: They hate ukraine that was hit hardest (and said to have potentially originated from there).
Opportunity: Lab testing suggested that they would be able to achieve the technical outcome (ransom) and make a quick couple bitcoin while the vulnerability wasn't patched.
To me, 2 things don't add up: #1 A couple bitcoin? That's a terrible ROI. Maybe it was just a test of their packaging and to see how quickly organizations respond (organizational behavior test/analysis) #2 I don't know if NK knows where Ukraine even in. Do they? I would think there are others that have much greater reason to target Ukraine...
And that's just what I'm suggesting. You can now have a personal white or black list of any complexity desired. Would likely require you to make a cert and trust it on client machines that are MITM'd by this proxy. ... I wonder if you could just do this same thing with zscaler and similar services...
Are you willing to put in work? You could setup a web proxy that will get the video name or author and optionally return some other random youtube if it matches one of the blacklisted items.
Just an idea.
The one time I don't have mod points.
If you've never used CreditKarma, then you don't know. They advertise credit cards and other crap.
This year, they launched a free tax filing service that doesn't try to sell you any crap. Worked quickly and easily and transferred all my info to state without any hassle.
I don't have a problem with their LifeLock equivalent and look forward to continuing to use them.
I think you missed the sarcasm on that post. Of course it doesn't cost them $900 to put in a headphone jack on all of the previous models of iPhone. We've seen articles that put it around $0.50 or something to add in the headphone jack.
That would be a significant difference, but by default now, the address bar of FF sends your query to the search engine in real time to give you suggestions. Can you turn that off? dunno. If you don't, then they largely are the same.
Which is why GOG is ALMOST the perfect combo of the two. They are still behind on getting many of the latest games (thanks to them not wanting a non-DRM published) and a few other things, but the GOG Galaxy client is like Steam client, except it is just an enhancement providing chat, achievements, management, etc., not a DRM tool.
The day I don't have mod points! Back in my day...
Thanks for the link. You made it nice and easy to let them know what I want them to do instead.
One catalyst to rule them all ... and in the darkness, bind them.
The bad news: Its mass is roughly 1/4th of the moon and its slowing down, sir.