Which translates to:
Sold merely in customary household quantities!
**Please buy only one pack of toilet paper **
Therefore:
1 pack = regular price
2 packs = regular price + 5 EUR
3+ packs = regular price + 10 EUR per pack
Maybe it will work that way?!
All "supplementary revenues" will be donated to corona aid (organizations)
What's out here is mostly toilet paper, disinfectant sprays and liquids, puréed tomatoes in cans, noodles, flour and formula milk. I've seen people buying 30kg flour - and most of them looked like they didn't even know how to make a bread 
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr that's not really surprising, people are in a hoarding phase, they don't want to go out repeatedly so they buy in bulk once for everything they could need.
Sure, but it's stupid in 90% of all cases.
Back from shopping in one of the largest wholesale markets in the area
Was able to fix the first OptiPlex 9020 (Windows RE, bootrec /RebuildBcd), but it didn't work for the other PCs. Exactly the same hardware, installed from the very same image, same UEFI settings, same WinRE.. hell, I even used the same coffee mug.
I think I'm going to nuke them and build some more unattended installers for PDQ Deploy.
Upgrading a few old Dell OptiPlex 9020 with SSDs. For some reason, I can't clone the old OS to the SSD (broken BCD on reboot, already tried to fix it). Will take a closer look tomorrow.
@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Does anybody running KVM have issues with Windows XP guests?
Just upgraded XCP-ng from 7.6 to 8.0 and now our stupid ass ancient punch clock app running on XP won't boot :angry_face:
No chance to upgrade? Running XP is ... almost suicidal. You should at least isolate that machine and all attached things (-> e.g. dedicated VLAN).
Waiting for a storm with gusts up to 150 km/h (~ 93 mph). Nothing compared to storms some of you may be used to, but quite heavy where I live.
Modern laptop batteries are anything but dumb devices. Most of them got an SMBus interface, a bus derived from (and very similar to) I²C.
My guess is that either the firmware on this specific battery is bad, your host driver doesn't like the battery or you just had some dirty contacts and the host just couldn't talk to the battery.
One of my ES-48 went south today 
UNMS reported a connection loss, can't ssh or ping the switch. Will have a look at the serial port tomorrow, bypassed the few connected ports to another switch for today.
That's the second (probably) dead ES-48 out of approx. 25 in ~4 years.
Well, I'm actually using a (Windows) print server for a simple reason: Security. All my printers are on a dedicated VLAN without internet access or access to any internal resource. The print server is the only machine with access to the printers.
Why? Because printers are a very common attack vector. Network capable printers and MFP's are often using totally outdated embedded linux operating systems and can easily be hijacked. Same for FAX devices: There's an exploit out there that allows you to gain access to MFPs from serveral vendors by just sending a crafted FAX.
Preparing a couple of new machines with FOG and PDQ Deploy.
Which means I'm going to get a coffee and let others do the dirty work
I'm running all my linux-based workloads in containers. Gives you a lot of benefits at the cost of a very small management overhead. My default config is to have workloads like NextCloud behind a Traefik or nginx reverse proxy. I can also easily chain in a snort container (or some other WAF), for example. But my main use case for a reverse proxy is certificate handling.
As for the security aspect of a reverse proxy, well, no one will be able to directly reach your Wordpress installation., everything is terminated at the upstream proxy. But if the upstream proxy is just passing everything through, then there's no extra security. A WAF. on the other hand, can be of great help: It may inspect requests for exploits, scan data posted to your site, use externally maintained blacklists to block spammers and so on. While they are usually a PITA to configure, there are templates available for most WAFs and many popular applications, including Wordpress.
@gjacobse said in Aliexpress:
Has anyone ordered items from Aliexpress?
The order I have placed with them is on hold, they want some financial information I don’t feel they need, but since we are talking about another country wanted to ask.
They want a photo copy of my card statement, drover’s license or passport,...
Seems odd to me,....
Never had any issues. Think of AliExpress as eBay + clearance platform. The question is: Who is asking? AE or the vendor? I would simply contact AE's customer support.
One of our VMs went wild today, still not sure why. Very high CPU usage on different processes, maybe a bad Windows update. @StarWind_Software immediately sent me a mail about a possible issue, offering assistance (VM runs on a StarWind HCA cluster). Love your service guys.
Wait... What?
From what I understand, your problem boils down to missing permissions.
How to regain admin access on a Windows machine
This will only work if the Windows partition has not been encrypted with tools like BitLocker.
Standalone: There are tools available to regain access, for example chntpw, part of SystemRescueCD. There are dozens of tutorials available, just google for it.
Domain-joined: This sounds odd to me. There's not a single person with domain admin privileges? You could use the same approach as above and create a local administrator account on the machine in question, but you shouldn't. Instead, contact the person who has access. Please note: Creating a local admin on a client machine won't get you domain admin privileges.
Please provide more precise information next time.
Pasta with chanterelle and porcino mushrooms
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Get to place with one of these today, with 10G WAN connected to it!
Beautiful, isn't it?
@DustinB3403 said in Videowall system:
We have a Leyard Planar (WallDirector) video wall which is 4x4 (so 16 screens).
It can support a bunch of different loadouts and up to 16 individual HDMI inputs. Each quadrant can go up to 4K (full 4x4 supports up to 10K).
Might be worth a look.
Teracue is a Leyard company, AFAIK. Thanks for the hint.
@scottalanmiller said in Follow-Up After Interview:
@thwr said in Follow-Up After Interview:
One example is a well known European aviation company: Can take them three or four months to get back to you.
Perfect example. by definition, no one but desperate, otherwise unemployable people work there.
That's simply not true