Always good to check with upper management.

"Hey boss' boss, just wanted to run this by you. My boss needs me to document trivial IT tasks that the intern (that we don't have) should be able to look up without a problem and spend time and company money maintaining them so that he, not I, can repeatedly do entry level tasks without needing to get assistance from elsewhere. I'm happy to do this but this puts us at risk of the documentation being wrong since I am just making copies of the industry or vendor documentation, and because it is impossible to keep every internal doc continuously in sync with the latest vendor changes, guidelines and best practices. Just wanted to make sure that you agree that making this kind of documentation, all for one person, is a good use of government financial resources?"

Azure has its own object storage mechanism (similar to Swift in OpenStack or S3 in Amazon AWS) so to allow you to learn or test behavior they have an emulator so that you can mimic that storage locally.

@JaredBusch good idea. That will get them into bad security habits.

Neither Target nor Experian are companies entrusted with data. One is just a retailer and the other is a company that collects, often false, credit data against the will of the people. Experian's customers aren't the people and so it feels no responsibility beyond what is legally enforced which is nearly nothing.

@JaredBusch VPN speeds are in latency terms. OpenSSL produces a bit more latency than IPsec does.

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Dispatch seems only to 'mirror' my main account...

@scottalanmiller said:

@Bill-Kindle there appear to be several joke ones that are official.

I got confirmation that this is one.

I would definitely prefer working with Sophos over TrendMicro anyday.

Anyone coming into this thread and missing the other announcements, here is the product that was once TrueCrypt, now fully restored.... https://ciphershed.org/

@Carnival-Boy sorry about Meriaki, we've seen a lot of that. Little response, no following through on commitments. They like big customers these days, they have high overhead. I think that you will be very happy with the Ubiquiti though!

@Reid-Cooper said:

It's awesome that there is now a formal project for this and they changed the name so the "TrueCrypt is dead" people don't have to know that it is still around.

The is also a project called ch or something like that it seems from reading that forum link.

If you combine the drive failure rate calculator for RAID 0 with the URE Risk of the RAID 5 calculator you can actually get some decent idea of total risk.

http://www.raid-failure.com/raid0-failure.aspx

@Carnival-Boy said:

But it's totally unmanageable for anything other than tiny environments. To the degree that I would say the low cost version is no longer available.

Yeah, If only that were true, that's it no longer available. The powers that be know they exist because they see it in the store 'Office Home Business Edition'

@ajstringham said:

@Hubtech said:

http://www.woot.com/offers/wi-five-onyx-computer-glasses-amber?ref=cnt_wp_8_2

Yes but I wear prescription lenses.

So do I (or is it eye?) 😉

Windows IT Pro has some info too: http://windowsitpro.com/hyper-v/create-hyper-v-2012-usb-boot-stick

@jasonh said:

If you have an old PC laying around (or find one on kijiji for < $50), put two network cards in it and install pfSense. If you're concerned about power consumption, find a Pentium 3; they draw very little power. If space is an issue and you don't mind spending a few $ (< $200), get an Alix board/case/power supply.

I gave up on consumer routers a while ago. I found mine would choke every time someone started doing a portscan or other weird hacking/scanning attempts on the cable network. I still use a D-Link wireless router for my Wifi access, but it's running openwrt and it's just a bridge between the WLAN and LAN (WAN port is not in use)

Note, I had the "choking" issue on my D-Link and Linksys routers even while they were running openwrt; I think the small CPU's in them just couldn't handle dropping all the packets and while continuing to serve legitimate traffic

My Cisco E3000 running dd-wrt has yet to go down in almost 4 days. Before, it was every 4 hours with my network. No exaggeration. When you host your own website out of the location too, that's really bad. But I know what you mean. The OEM firmware sucks on almost all consumer stuff. Netgear Genie is the best of the lot that I've seen but still pales in comparison to dd-wrt, which I swear by.

@thecreativeone91 cool, I had no idea.

Thanks! This will be helpful.

how do they compare to the Ubiquiti?