ecklerwr1 · Sr. Network / Systems Architect · ✭✭✭✭✭

Good point.

I first learned assembly in college on DEC Vax! We had to write some C and assembly and then link them as an exercise. My assembly book was for a PDP-11 but we actually used newer DEC Vax.

I still think devops is just a new word for doing things a little differently. It seems in IT we need some new vernacular every few years to follow.

Woohoo!

WalMart has always also allowed Truckers, giant recreational vehicles, busses, and others to use their parking lots for various purposes.

Some of this is probably inevitable... for us it's probably going to be dark fiber to a DC to run jobs that aren't really sensitive at all. I've already heard rumblings about O365 and I'm not excited about it at all... mainly because of the horror stories I've heard from others. Some day it'll be ready for prime time...…

If only our proxies didn't all block the chat provider now... they didn't use to... I guess they caught on??? I know you got hit too!

That's a good question because no matter how much memory you give SQL Server it will use it ALL up.

Deep fried coolaid and coke ftw!

It is Monday the 6th.

Had to double check and triple check today Jan 15. It could be tricky!

the really hard part is doing actual important usuable correllation... it's really an art more than science I think.

I'm familiar with the "loot boxes" as many mobile games have been using this model for a long time. When I was college for Assembly Language Programming class we did it on a DEC Vax and I remember the book we used was a PDP-11 book on assembly language. It was some of the remaining vestiges of the old multi-user systems. I…

Yeah I'm having trouble with it.

Not only did they double or triple... you now have absolutely no control over most of it and on top of that when something really goes wrong... what can you do about it? Better read the small print on the contract or have a team of lawyers look at it if you are using that cloud for anything but your own business too!

We have massive tool sprawl... some tools still used are from 15+ years ago!

Put ur phone in and VR headset is yours!

Now that's a green DC! We also are migrating to Cisco UCS and use VMware and NSX to reduce our physical server footprint.

There's a LOT of truth to that Richard. The video game babies that were the first babies born with a tablet and video game console from birth are now the remote pilots flying drones in Afghanistan from inside a shipping container somewhere here in the US.

++++1 on that. The stuff SAM has been doing with the agent is actually helping pull the rest of Orion forward too! With a linux agent in development I may actually start seeing into my DMZ's. The snmp status polling was a start. In my environment they'll never allow icmp past a firewall period. The covert channel abuse of…

The changes have been large and mostly not all good. I haven't missed a single day of work because the type of work I do is considered "essential services." In the early days when lockdowns first started I even carried around in my car a letter that said it was ok for me to be driving around to and from work. The number of…

16 was worse... there were at least two answers that were correct.

I'm excited to soon be finally building up a new Orion instance for an air-gapped network I work with regularly!

MS seems to be trying to get rid of installed office... I was luckily able to get one of the last copies of real office with our work discount before they only now allow O365 where you pay yearly... I now have two copies of office pro plus real full office suite... one I didn't really need but the price is so good I went…

Very good explanation on setting up windows event logging... especially the collector part!

It's how we get an accurate time source for ntp without any wires to the outside world... we get the time directly from the GPS satellites... just a little antenna. Common with important air gapped networks.

I'm learning to cover many of these things with LEM now. LEM is a pretty neat tool for the money when it comes to digesting logs from various sources.

I didn't get into it this year like in the past... maybe I've been too busy idk.

I just checked it's happening in IE and in Chrome.