Posts made by Jason

Fox and hound is the best way.

considering this is their data center they never will be able to this is a small cluster for one, even with all racks fully populated. Secondly that's a very bad retro-fit data center, that's not how you build a real datacenter. Heck I can see sun light from outside on the floor meaning those concrete walls are exterior walls. This is likely just a warehouse they are using for servers. Doesn't seem to have any chiller pipes around either. Datcenter ceiling height is generally not that high either.

@travisdh1 said in Comodo One Free-Feedback, specially abt Patch Management vs PDQ Deploy Free.:

@scottalanmiller said in Comodo One Free-Feedback, specially abt Patch Management vs PDQ Deploy Free.:

@Dashrender said in Comodo One Free-Feedback, specially abt Patch Management vs PDQ Deploy Free.:

@openit said in Comodo One Free-Feedback, specially abt Patch Management vs PDQ Deploy Free.:

@scottalanmiller said in Comodo One Free-Feedback, specially abt Patch Management vs PDQ Deploy Free.:

What kind of patches do you want to manage in this way?

General third party software like Adobe, flash, java etc.

you can control Adobe reader and java with Chocolately. Flash is dead, bury it for reals though, upgrade to Windows 10 and it manages Flash inside IE.

Can you even run Flash inside Chrome anymore? I don't think you can.

Flash definitely comes with Chrome. It's built in.

I thought they announced that flash support is being depreciated, sometime soon, but I don't remember the source.

by 2017 it will be disabled by default, but it still baked in and can be enabled.

@Dashrender said in IOT failure - again:

The bulbs in question use ZB a widely used standard.

Zigbee is a randomly developed standard by a new alliance that doesn't have much experience. It's had many security concerns since day one. Anyone using it just plain didn't care about security.

I'll stick with my Old School Lutron Caseta switches and dimmers, and using a local apple tv as a bridge for homekit. These vendors doing their own standards are the problem.

Has anyone got an edge router lite connected into a site to site connection with a pfsense ipsec vpn (ikev1). I'm helping a friend setup some of his stuff and I've got them exchanging packets no errors on pfsense site sometimes it even shows the tunnel is connected. the edge router has no errors either but the tunnel shows down all the time. Any idea?

@DustinB3403 said in Is it right or is it theft/fraud?:

This is similar to pharmaceutical sales reps. they aren't allowed to take a doctor out to dinner, but can have a dinner meeting with a doctor.

Actually I have friends who do that for a living this is by in large not allowed anymore. They've cracked down on a lot of this stuff.

As a publicly traded company we have rules against this.

But even when I worked placed that allowed it I never did it.

@fuznutz04 said in SIP registrations failing for 2 phones:

I have a client who has a comcast business connection (cable 50/20), with Comcast's cable modem acting as the firewall/router for the internal network (7 people). Their PBX is FreePBX, hosted offsite as a VPS. All of their phones are able to make outbound calls. 2 of their phones, keep losing registration with the server, so when calls come in to the incoming queue/ring group, those 2 phones do not ring, because FreePBX has marked them as unreachable. Has anyone had any issues similar to this? I've already factory reset the phones, and removed and re-added the problem extensions to rule out a misconfiguration. Still experiencing the same issues where the phones register, then unregister.

Maybe it's a hardware issue. Try a different phone, Network Cable, Switch port etc.

@scottalanmiller said in WINs/DNS on Edge Router:

@fuznutz04 said in WINs/DNS on Edge Router:

@scottalanmiller said in WINs/DNS on Edge Router:

@fuznutz04 said in WINs/DNS on Edge Router:

@Dashrender said in WINs/DNS on Edge Router:

WINS eh? I seriously doubt it.

You have apps that are still relying on NetBIOS for something? Can't solve this with DNS?

It's a copier that is trying to access by computer name. I guess a simple solutions would just be to change the copier to use IPs instead.

The copier is trying to use NetBIOS instead of DNS? Are you positive? That's so incredibly unlikely, I've never heard of that scenario before.

The copier was set to use \\computername\scan as a location to send files for the "scan to PC" function. It wasn't resolving properly after I installed the ERL.

While that is NetBIOS notation, it's also what Windows uses when going to DNS. So that doesn't itself give you any reason to suspect NetBIOS. Check DNS first.

or you can try \\computername.domain.tld\ but, when using just the hosts you need either DNS search setup to append the domain name (likely if you add a domain name to the TCP/IP settings in the copier it will do this) or you need a computer acting as the WINs master browser but that's depreciated.

WINS? Most likely you just need to setup the DNS Search Names/Space but in a workgroup any computer can become the master browser

@Dashrender said in No Longer Salaried.:

@Jason said in No Longer Salaried.:

Who knows. All I know is we were told to postpone all server upgrades until after thanskgiving when they can pay us overtime for it.

LOL - wow - I guess they are only doing that to keep from being sued.

I'm sure that was the primary motivating factor.

Who knows. All I know is we were told to postpone all server upgrades until after thanskgiving when they can pay us overtime for it.

@scottalanmiller said in No Longer Salaried.:

@Jason said in No Longer Salaried.:

So the question is why is almost every company treating every IT position as exempt when they should be?

Everyone wants to treat people as exempt because it's by far the easiest to deal with and potentially pays the least. Especially if you can get availability based jobs listed under exempt you can work them to the bone because they can never get away.

That may be changing. I know us and GE both made this change based on lawyers recommendations.

So the question is why is almost every company treating every IT position as exempt when they shouldn't be?

according to the description only consultants & software developers can be.

@scottalanmiller said in No Longer Salaried.:

And exempt hourly...

Work 40 hours a week, paid 40 x hourly rate.
Work 60 hours a week, paid 40 x hourly rate.

And that is exactly what I said you are capped at the pay of 40hrs. but if you work less than 40hrs you are still paid less than 40.

Most HR lawyers state that if you pay hourly you are not allowed to be exempt. That's having it both ways. - The employer gets to only pay you for the hours you worked but no more than 40hrs paid no matter what.

http://www.hrknowledge.com/human-resources-can-you-pay-an-exempt-employee-on-an-hourly-basis/

http://www.c2essentials.com/flsa-misclassification-hourly-exempt-employees/

@StrongBad said in No Longer Salaried.:

@Jason said in No Longer Salaried.:

@dafyre said in No Longer Salaried.:

Apparently, nothing is changing for us here. I think we all got a little salary bump to simply not have to deal with it. I'm like $3 over the limit, lol.

They say even under the old requirements only software developers are suppose to be salaried not Network administrators based on this PDF: https://www.dol.gov/whd/overtime/fs17e_computer.pdf

We exceed the pay requirements by a long shot the new one is only $47k. legal just says Technically Network and systems administrators don't fall under that description. Software developers do and possibly desktop technicians.

That would be an odd decision since it doesn't regulate salaried versus hourly, only exempt versus non-exempt. So going hourly will cost them money unless the people are under the limit for exemption. The only advantage to the company happens if you are making more than the one upper exemption limit but below the other.

Exempt vs Non-Exempt FLSA is normally what you call hourly vs salaried. if you are exempt you are salaried, if you aren't you're hourly.

@dafyre said in No Longer Salaried.:

Apparently, nothing is changing for us here. I think we all got a little salary bump to simply not have to deal with it. I'm like $3 over the limit, lol.

They say even under the old requirements only software developers are suppose to be salaried not Network administrators based on this PDF: https://www.dol.gov/whd/overtime/fs17e_computer.pdf

We exceed the pay requirements by a long shot the new one is only $47k. legal just says Technically Network and systems administrators don't fall under that description. Software developers do and possibly desktop technicians.

@coliver said in No Longer Salaried.:

With the recent overtime guidelines some of our lowest paid staff are getting a salary bump (so they will be exempt from the new overtime rules).

Ours isn't from that. They were reviewing the new pay restrictions and took the opportunity to look over it all and realized the wording for FLSA exempt computer work means developers only.

This page:

https://www.dol.gov/whd/overtime/fs17e_computer.pdf