In the 50's and 60's the future seemed poised to solve all our problems. Now we've figured out that a subset is holding everything back and poised to destroy progress. It seems hopeless so you end up with dystopian futures. SOme plausable, The Water Knife is good, some less so, the forest of hands and teeth is a good example of this.
For an 8 person company? They need to move towards a platform agnostic approach. Buy a spare system and keep the data separate from the OS so people have a system to use when theirs is down. Every system should have an image that can be rolled back, Veam has an excellent free windows client that will image to a cifs share while the PC is running.
The only good advice for a small shop is to put the time and money into standardizing your installation so you can rebuild a problem machine quickly. Backup, rebuild, restore.
You get what you pay for has been untrue for most things forever. Your usually going to get crap when you pay crap, especially if your in an area outside your comfort zone.
However, paying top dollar rarely ensures you get the best. Your just as likely to get the worst resold to you and pad out the pockets of a middle-man.
Best advice is find someone you trust and pay them enough to stick around.
hmmm... Older Americans have landlines because the never bothered to turn them off or they are used to that phone form factor, they also happen to have most of the money.
Anecdote: I tried to get my MIL to use a cellphone because the nursing home made it very difficult for her to get a landline. She could sometimes use a flip style phone but was unable to use a touchscreen phone. Eventually, I gave up and bought a home wireless phone that tethered to a cell via bluetooth. This gave her a form factor she was accustomed to using.
I work for a small to midsize company that sells to enterprise customers. They are always poking at our security and making us do audits, normally in ways that degrade things. The open source stuff we use doesn't check their boxes and we end up shelling out for stuff that doesn't improve our security and adds another layer of integration (which of course degrades security). We're usually dealing with an HR style department so the hardest thing for companies to understand (aside from linux), is that security relies on culture as much as tools.
Most radio has a clear distinction, even if it's the same voice doing commercials. In my experience it's mostly the AM talk radio or programs targeting conservatives that blend the two. I judge radio and podcasts by what they are advertising. If it's wall to wall ads for gold, bitcoins, health supplements, and shady insurance products; I know I'm listening to something aimed at morons. This is usually how I criticize people listening to conservative garbage. Convince them to note the ads for a program and it's usually obvious who they think is listening (and insulting).
My recommendations, PIA if you don't mind a US based VPN. Should be fine for torrenting or privacy as there is no indications they keep logs that can be subpoenaed. AirVPN if you want a European based VPN. Not sure about non-five eyes VPN's. They are generally based in jurisdictions with little oversight and that can have negatives as well as positives. It's never been an issue for me.
Yeah, Social Security was designed to prevent pooling large amounts of money to avoid the temptation to misuse or steal it (whether that worked is another question). Maybe we need to consider this with medical records. A fragmented system with good communication protocols and auditable changes would be much better. Dare I say maybe an individual blockchain?
I'm not a programmer, but I'm a system admin who worked his way up from helpdesk. I might be able to give you some insight into how to insure your getting your concerns in front of the right people.
True, I think the root of his problem is poor staffing and documentation. His dept. either doesn't care to document, or doesn't have the time. Some of these items should also be delegated to junior or non-it staff, like shipping items for repair.
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Wrong, it was SBC, a midwest baby bell that regurgitated itself as AT&T.
I have six kids and would get a vasectomy tomorrow, however, the way my insurance covers it means it's over $1k out of pocket and I can't afford it...
I'd imagine this would end up coming in some sort of patch form.
Gives your eggs a nice zing too.
In the 50's and 60's the future seemed poised to solve all our problems. Now we've figured out that a subset is holding everything back and poised to destroy progress. It seems hopeless so you end up with dystopian futures. SOme plausable, The Water Knife is good, some less so, the forest of hands and teeth is a good example of this.
You really that naive? And here I thought corporate mis-education was a waste of time.
up thread someone indicated they did track the check, but it was going to an ignorant mule.
It's called a press release and they don't just come from the government.
UPnP is fine as long as you limit which clients can actually use it.
Many of them do reveal the ISP in the SSID.
For an 8 person company? They need to move towards a platform agnostic approach. Buy a spare system and keep the data separate from the OS so people have a system to use when theirs is down.
Every system should have an image that can be rolled back, Veam has an excellent free windows client that will image to a cifs share while the PC is running.
The only good advice for a small shop is to put the time and money into standardizing your installation so you can rebuild a problem machine quickly. Backup, rebuild, restore.
You get what you pay for has been untrue for most things forever. Your usually going to get crap when you pay crap, especially if your in an area outside your comfort zone.
However, paying top dollar rarely ensures you get the best. Your just as likely to get the worst resold to you and pad out the pockets of a middle-man.
Best advice is find someone you trust and pay them enough to stick around.
Your listening to too much right wing caterwauling.
Your partly right.
Suse too. They provide a solid 10 years of support.
hmmm... Older Americans have landlines because the never bothered to turn them off or they are used to that phone form factor, they also happen to have most of the money.
Anecdote:
I tried to get my MIL to use a cellphone because the nursing home made it very difficult for her to get a landline. She could sometimes use a flip style phone but was unable to use a touchscreen phone. Eventually, I gave up and bought a home wireless phone that tethered to a cell via bluetooth. This gave her a form factor she was accustomed to using.
I work for a small to midsize company that sells to enterprise customers. They are always poking at our security and making us do audits, normally in ways that degrade things.
The open source stuff we use doesn't check their boxes and we end up shelling out for stuff that doesn't improve our security and adds another layer of integration (which of course degrades security).
We're usually dealing with an HR style department so the hardest thing for companies to understand (aside from linux), is that security relies on culture as much as tools.
Most radio has a clear distinction, even if it's the same voice doing commercials. In my experience it's mostly the AM talk radio or programs targeting conservatives that blend the two.
I judge radio and podcasts by what they are advertising. If it's wall to wall ads for gold, bitcoins, health supplements, and shady insurance products; I know I'm listening to something aimed at morons.
This is usually how I criticize people listening to conservative garbage. Convince them to note the ads for a program and it's usually obvious who they think is listening (and insulting).
This is just an indicator they don't know how to do a professional job of prepping their podcast.
Plausible, but this definitely sounds like propaganda to me.
My recommendations, PIA if you don't mind a US based VPN. Should be fine for torrenting or privacy as there is no indications they keep logs that can be subpoenaed.
AirVPN if you want a European based VPN.
Not sure about non-five eyes VPN's. They are generally based in jurisdictions with little oversight and that can have negatives as well as positives. It's never been an issue for me.
Yeah, Social Security was designed to prevent pooling large amounts of money to avoid the temptation to misuse or steal it (whether that worked is another question). Maybe we need to consider this with medical records. A fragmented system with good communication protocols and auditable changes would be much better.
Dare I say maybe an individual blockchain?
I'm not a programmer, but I'm a system admin who worked his way up from helpdesk. I might be able to give you some insight into how to insure your getting your concerns in front of the right people.
I'm also genuinely curious.
Geez, sounds awful. Have you engaged whoever is managing these systems to request patches or changes? Is that even something they allow you to do?
True, I think the root of his problem is poor staffing and documentation. His dept. either doesn't care to document, or doesn't have the time. Some of these items should also be delegated to junior or non-it staff, like shipping items for repair.