@travisdh1 said in Is It Really Encrypted When the Key Is Public and Automatic?:@scottalanmiller said in Is It Really Encrypted When the Key Is Public and Automatic?:@Obsolesce said in Is It Really Encrypted When the Key Is Public and Automatic?:@scottalanmiller said in Is It Really Encrypted When the Key Is Public and Automatic?:@Dashrender said in Is It Really Encrypted When the Key Is Public and Automatic?:so run it from there - what are the legal liabilities?Can't. Key is required to be with the data for the app to run. It's inside the app, can't he separated.Have you successfully been able to use it to decrypt other people's data?Yes, that's how we found it. Someone sent us their data asking us to decrypt it. Which we did so, without getting a key from them.#facepalmYeah, pretty funny.

Which is to say... a lot.

@Dashrender said in Windows 10 goes to sleep outside listed sleep times:Small update - something else to consider changing - disable Fast Boot.Fast Boot means when you restart the computer, it doesn't do a full shutdown. It's likely that counters that are often reset upon a full reboot, aren't reset on a Fast Boot.Fast boot used to be called hibernation. It is a fucking stupid nasty feature

@travisdh1 it doesn’t. I know if you order them specifically for ESXi then they ship it with either an SD or USB (can’t remember which) that’s already setup as RAID 1. Definitely a detail to remember for the future. Pushing hard to go Virtual after this last Ransomeware hit.

@notverypunny said in Active Directory change logging / auditing:@JaredBusch said in Active Directory change logging / auditing:Netwrix works well. I know people that have purchased it and love it.The product looks good, but from an IT perspective I don't like the licensing as it's on a per AD user model, (which IT has no control over) whereas ManageEngine is based on a per DC model which is much easier to manage.Is there a reason IT should have control over that? All IT expenses are just business expenses anyway. Just make it a per-seat cost like other per-seat costs. You already have to pay for Windows, Office, CALs, and whatever else "per seat", it's just another line item for whoever is paying for those.

@Dashrender said in How to Start in IT in 2020, No Experience:WTH is that all about?In general, a really, really good idea. IT is a business discipline. It's so much harder for people to work in IT without that experience of having run your own company. Not that you have to, but it is one of those experiences that goes an extremely long way in preparing you for the job. It's unbelievable how much of IT gets really easy as soon as you have basic "run your own business" skills and perspective. Especially MSP and SMB IT workers where you are dealing with "owned" companies rather than a pool of stock holders.

@Dashrender said in Windows 7 End of Life Countdown:@warren-stanley said in Windows 7 End of Life Countdown:@Dashrender so much PC driven medical equipment out there will be affected, not to mention the EHR systems that get, at best, medical compliance patching and are stuck on older non-10 MS OS'esThe shit thing is that most have no way of knowing if the device is running Win7 embedded or not.But they SHOULD have a way to know if their vendor is providing HIPAA required updates! If they don't, they can't deploy it.

@Dashrender said in Office 365 NDR for strange email address.:@Romo said in Office 365 NDR for strange email address.:@Obsolesce Found the client side rules that were set to forward to that address, thanksWhat client? something on mobile?Rules were set on OWA, targetting specific keywords on emails that was why not all emails where trying to get forwarded. Account was indeed compromised.

@Dashrender said in If not A+, then where should someone start?:@scottalanmiller said in If not A+, then where should someone start?:@Dashrender said in If not A+, then where should someone start?:It might be better to say - the places that Scott and elk WANT to work use recruiters...No, lots of good places don't. But lots of good places do. I think the point was only that HR doesn't play the huge role that people often imagine.I haven't been in the job market going through HR in - hmm... ever I guess. First tech job was a bench job, but was pulled off a telemarketing call floor to work it part time as one of the few on the floor who "knew anything about computers" - so no HR for that move, that job became full time jack of all trades on anything PC/phone related (including pulling cables). Inter-company department change - no HR, moved to another company where a friend worked - no HR, company merged with second company - no HR - Opened business - of course no HR, closed business went to work for a client - no HR...Nope, never really dealt with HR myself.Me either, not for getting a job. Dealing with things after being hired, sure. But HR never seems to be in the critical path to getting the offer. Or when it is, it's like just in doing background checks and stuff, but not in the interview process.

@Dashrender said in HP print drivers:@travisdh1 said in HP print drivers:@marcinozga said in HP print drivers:Does that driver come with inf file that you can use to install drivers through add/remove printers wizard?It does, and that hadn't worked for me either. Even went so far as to try adding the driver into the "print server settings" manually. Nothing worked till I got the windows update services fixed.I wonder what the dependancy was? .Net 1?Something that shouldn't be around anymore is all I know. It was .Net 1.3 something

I'm marking this solved as I create a direction from / called scripts and that does what I need.No real need for a public shareable desktop when this works just fine.

Youtube Video

@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:Did anyone else notice the little hand-rail tapping thing he did there as he was walking up the stairs too. What was that about?singing hail to the chief to himself..haha

@pavvelmorozov said in Firefox Multi-Account Containers:What about antidetect browsers like gologinapp and others? Good alternative?Never heard of those.

Chrome has been doing this for a least a month, if not several.

We use https://wlius.com/ to monitor our Vans.

What happened in the Democratic debate?There have been nine official Democratic debates but this one had a real sense of urgency - in less than three weeks the candidates will face their first test.The primary season begins on 3 February with the Iowa caucuses, when the Democratic voters in this state will pick who they want to take on Donald Trump in November. As the six White House hopefuls took to the debate stage in Des Moines, the Republican US president they have in their sights was mocking them at a rally 400 miles east in Wisconsin. Here are some key moments from the debate - and the Trump rally. The biggest news story in campaign politics over the past few days was the growing tensions between the two most liberal candidates, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Warren had alleged that Sanders told her in December 2018 that a woman couldn't win the presidency - something Sanders denied.

@coliver said in Cisco Security Vulnerability Thread.:@DustinB3403 said in Cisco Security Vulnerability Thread.:Another one.https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/unpatched-citrix-vulnerability-now-exploited-patch-weeks-away/That's Citrix.whoops

This is crazy, I am working on something similar.@Obsolesce said in Need to setup O365 shared calendar:https://www.boostitco.com/how-to-create-a-shared-calendar-in-outlook-office-365/This is almost exactly what I was looking for but want it to be able to share out a calendar from Microsoft Teams.

@Nic said in Big Patch Tuesday - updating the cryptographic functions in Windows:@JaredBusch my bet is the NSA was using it, but now some other nation state has found it and is using it. Which is why NSA now wants us all to patch it.Yeah this was my point earlier. This tracks with their behavior with EternalBlue.

@scottalanmiller said in Gigapixel Images and File Sizes:@dafyre said in Gigapixel Images and File Sizes:Found a site that gives a formula and steps on how they calculate file sizes...https://4nsi.com/faq/how-do-i-calculate-the-file-size-for-a-digital-imageIt's hard to know if it's accurate, but he math makes sense.Except it is completely wrong so the math making sense doesn't matter, since it's absolutely wrong. That's for calculating a bitmap file type, which no one uses.You are right about nobody using bitmap files any more. I'm not looking for exact measurements -- or even conservative ones. Just an educated guess as to how big a gigapixel file could be.By using raw data, rather than worrying about how good of compression the chosen file type gets, I can simply estimate high on the amount of storage we'd need.

Have you tried the linux Icloud Photo downloader?https://github.com/ndbroadbent/icloud_photos_downloaderOr installing Icloud for Linux and then mounting the photo space?sudo snap install icloud-for-linuxIf I recall, the drive folder is here, photos can't be too terribly different~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/

@JaredBusch said in Tutorial Flow:@JasGot said in Tutorial Flow:I believe most tutorials are written to get something up and running with as few steps as possible, assuming there will be no variances that create differences from the norm in a lab, and the person who wrote the tutorial expects the person reading the tutorial only wants it to work, rather than understand how and why it works, along with how to configure it for different scenarios; and the the writer must also believe the reader has no issues with run-on sentences.If you ever see one of mine like that, call me the fuck out on it.Didn't read; sentence is too shortOh, and I will, just for you!

Plus you'd get things like single use passwords, SSH CA, encryption as a service, and some more

@Obsolesce said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness:@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness:@Obsolesce said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness:@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness:@CCWTech said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness:@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness:On Ubuntu 19.10, there is a brightness setting on the power screen in settings. But it doesn't seem to do anything. You can slide it, but nothing happens. Anyone having luck adjusting screen brightness on Ubuntu?We've tested on multiple machines, all seem the same. Both Nvidia and AMD cards same lack of adjustment.Running 19.10 and I don't even have a brightness setting at all.I have it, but it affects nothing.Laptop or desktop monitor? I can't imagine it working on anything but a laptop.DesktopThat's why. I know of no OS that controls monitor brightness unless it's a laptop/tablet/phone/etc. Never an external monitor with separate power source.Me either, but @CCWTech was asking for it. I've never looked for it before. No idea what it should do in that situation.

@DustinB3403 said in Kari's Law and Special SMB Onus on IT Staff:@scottalanmiller You just said that Enterprise customers can be forced to update their information, but smaller orgs get a pass.I must be misreading what you've typed.Yes, the CUSTOMERS get a pass, IT that supports small customers has to provide the information that they don't have control over. Enterprise customers have to provide the information from the company.SMB customers get to not tell anyone when changes are made and blame someone with no power or way to get that information for certain.