@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

State Holiday; home with the kids.

Finished a 15hr print: AA/AAA battery holder.

Built a frame for a mold, about finish now... will be used in leather work (not by me).

Gotta research some Cad option as I don’t want to limit myself to TinkerCad. But I’ve had okay results so far, even for the third project and maybe two hours of work...

Doesn’t seem to bad for a ‘no marketable skills,’ ‘obtuse,’ ‘did you google that’ person-

Here's a laundry list of software from a 3DP website.

The names I know off hand here are Blender and LibreCAD

Thanks, I know of both, and will look at the list - Never used Blender but have tinkered with LibreCad. And likely will go that way.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

State Holiday; home with the kids.

Finished a 15hr print: AA/AAA battery holder.

Built a frame for a mold, about finish now... will be used in leather work (not by me).

Gotta research some Cad option as I don’t want to limit myself to TinkerCad. But I’ve had okay results so far, even for the third project and maybe two hours of work...

Doesn’t seem to bad for a ‘no marketable skills,’ ‘obtuse,’ ‘did you google that’ person-

TinkerCAD is really good for making 3d prints with, even for more complex models. If you do need to move up to something like PRO-E or Solidworks, it's gonna get really expensive. I've never gotten the hang of using Blender properly, many have had success with it, so definently check that out as well.

Oh no,.. LOL.. I'll never get to the level where I need to look at AutoCad or Solidworks. This is a hobby - not a job.

Stick with TinkerCAD and use thingiverse models to get something close to what you want. IE: Echo Dot mount combined with a power adapter sleve came in really handy for me.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

State Holiday; home with the kids.

Finished a 15hr print: AA/AAA battery holder.

Built a frame for a mold, about finish now... will be used in leather work (not by me).

Gotta research some Cad option as I don’t want to limit myself to TinkerCad. But I’ve had okay results so far, even for the third project and maybe two hours of work...

Doesn’t seem to bad for a ‘no marketable skills,’ ‘obtuse,’ ‘did you google that’ person-

TinkerCAD is really good for making 3d prints with, even for more complex models. If you do need to move up to something like PRO-E or Solidworks, it's gonna get really expensive. I've never gotten the hang of using Blender properly, many have had success with it, so definently check that out as well.

I just lost an hour of my life because a client's DC set it's Licensing Site server to invalid instead of itself. WHY? Grr.

@gjacobse said in how to push 3rd party software updates to domain clients?:

I’d go choco. Ninite requires rebuilding the installer (last time I used it) ever time you add/update/remove an application .

Choco is much easier, @JaredBusch uses it if I recall.

It's included in our RMM now (Atera). Really nice when you have someone calling asking for software and can say, "It's now installed, look at your start menu" without missing a beat on the phone.

I prefer to use Chocolatey.

Salt and Ansible are good options as well, as @DustinB3403 already mentioned.

@siringo said in Is Open Source Really So Much More Secure By Nature:

Here's something else to think about.

AFAIK, Windows & Office (closed) has many more people able to support & repair it compared to non (open) Windows & Office competitors.

Could this make Windows & Office more secure than Open alternatives, simply as it could be assumed that patches/fixes could be put in place more quickly, than on Open products?

As an example. Business X needs the latest MS security fixes put in place. They go search for someone who can do that. How many IT support places support Windows & how many support places support Linux?

Could a product be considered more secure simply because it can be supported by many more parties than it's rival?

Or another way to think about it, could a product that is created less secure, be considered more secure than a more secure alternative, simply because the support base for the less secure product is far greater than the more secure product?

You're making the assumption that the larger support base is competent as the smaller support base, which is questionable at best.

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just looking at a document for PCI compliance.

• Implementing only one primary function per server to prevent functions that require different security levels from co-existing on the same server?

to me that's a VM per function?
e.g. before seeing this i was about to spin up a new VM that will be a file server (we have reasons for it not being cloud) then also a IIS site, run a password expiring messaging program (this was done by someone else, i'm sure there's a easier Free way of doing it).
But to me that says each of those functions should be on their own VM?

Yes, that is the preferred way to handle things. Each VM only does a single thing. In this case 1 would be a file server and 1 would be an IIS server (why anyone would choose IIS over all the other faster alternatives I don't know.)

I got the email from Ubiquiti today:

Dear Customer,

We recently became aware of unauthorized access to certain of our information technology systems hosted by a third party cloud provider. We have no indication that there has been unauthorized activity with respect to any user’s account.

We are not currently aware of evidence of access to any databases that host user data, but we cannot be certain that user data has not been exposed. This data may include your name, email address, and the one-way encrypted password to your account (in technical terms, the passwords are hashed and salted). The data may also include your address and phone number if you have provided that to us.

As a precaution, we encourage you to change your password. We recommend that you also change your password on any website where you use the same user ID or password. Finally, we recommend that you enable two-factor authentication on your Ubiquiti accounts if you have not already done so.

Ugh.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

an actual email on our Aloha Reseller Forum :

..."XP BAD.... Burn with Fire.. "

They're not wrong.

XP was a decent Microsoft OS back in the day, but we're talking 2001 here.

@NashBrydges Since nginx is running, this should return ok, but you might want to try a nginx -t