Posts by Danny 14 4301 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jun 2009
this is a note 3 running android 7. runs fine. I also play elite dangerous in VR with riftcat too. activity monitor says 680mb free out of 2.77gb. cpu hovers around 30pct most of the time whilst working.
my daughter bought a motorola g6 play for 120 on amazon this summer. it blows my n3 out of the water in everything but screen quality. that only has 3gb ram and came with 8.0.
peasants :-) we were lucky to be round the corner from telewest house in Preston. At that time they used to server from telewest and the local area was a testing grounds for technology. Although the cable TV was still analogue we had 512k back in the late 90's and 1Mb in early 2000. The phone lines were ISDN still. The company wound up and I ended up moving to Penrith - ironically Penrith became BT test town for both ADSL max and fibre. The max meant I had 8Mb around 2002 ish; years before it was adopted elsewhere. The fibre trial didnt work out as well as the rest of the country as we only got 17Mb (which has only recently in the last few years moved up to the usual 40/80 fibre) - it wasnt really any better then everyone else ADSL 2 (but Penrith is all aluminium cable so 2 didnt work too well). The 17Mb was symmetical though and came online just before I moved around 2009- small mercies.
documents has its place. we redirect everones documents and desktops (and appdata) to network locations. These netowrk locations are on a stretch cluster for resiliency and backup up.
if people stored their files willy nilly then we would have chaos of course.
the gpo for redirection sorts out permission on the base network store automatically so we dont need to do that with scripts etc.
yes i know home drives can be used too.
good idea. A few years ago we went on a quiet villa holiday flying with ryanair (im only human! sorry!) and got my bag wet on way to villa. return boarding passes ink had run and i didnt fancy the silly charges at return check in (their software wouldn'tinstall on a rooted phone at the time)
Emailed my docs to my dad who did a priority mail to the villa, they arrived 3 days later. It was a small Spanish rental so no IT stuff for miles (and the airmail was cheaper than a taxi to town....)
im on the other side of the coin. i got locked out of FB years ago because i couldnt remember what fake date of birth i used. I still get notifications on the hotmail email address i used so its still active. I could do with logging in again to get some old chums contact details (who were also fake so i cant look them up).
are there any lists of users vs dob's?
libreoffice is a nightmare to deploy to a large volume. even more of a nightmare to configure reliably. need admx? then you need to look at third parties such as collabora. these are not fully featured, good luck if you need fine tuning.
im all for dropping office. even prising outlook out of our environment but the alternatives are just a support nightmare for us.
as for deployment of office,i use ODT. worked for 2010, 13 and 16. A version exists for 19 too.
office moght be a shite but its cheap for education and easy yo deploy and maintain.
having worked in a few hospitals as a biomedical scientist (worjing with pickled bits of people) i can say that people look far more gooey than thoae express bags.
the cat 4 labs in manchester were the worst when the pathologists ate their lunch at their desks. all with live TB unfixed samples in the isolation cupboards next to them....
we run pfsense and snort (paid version). i get an alert when some idiot opens the .doc/.xls/.pdf that try to phone home to compromised servers, sometimes the AV gets them too. luckily we havent been hit with anything snort hasnt known about.
still, at least i can educate people when the alert goes off. education is better than AV or IPS reliance.
oh and for backups get a pair of cheap synology. they will even rsync to each other. keep then in totally different buildings (different power etc) and vlan'd apart from the production network (if you cant dedicate cabling). for less than 1500 you can have terabytes of independent backups that live in different buildings.
hyperv server is free. it can even cluster and can use server storage nowadays - no need for san. a pair of r410 can be bought (refurbished ) for under 3k with enough ram and storage to have a 2 node clustered VM platform for your linux servers. no licensing needed.
shame that you need datacenter for stretch cluster as stretch cluster works brilliantly for multisite cluster resiliency (thats what we do)
another call for VMs. the host is isolated from the normal network and has an isolated backup. Then when the guests are infected you first power them off forcefully. recover from backup. carry of as normal.
if the guests can get to the hosts then you are doing something wrong. the whole point of having a management network is to keep your infrastructure away from production network.
my epson r360 has bulk ink tanks and a waste ink potty. it has had its 'pad' reset 4 times. thats well over 250,000 sheets. not bad for an ink jet. bulk tanks cost 20 from ebay and potty was another 10.
I have an epson r1900 too with ink tanks. cheap as chips to run.
new provisioned apps are a pain to maintain. we uninstall just about all of them via a powershell script (uninstall per user AND the provisioned store too so new profiles wont get them).
calc is a copy of windows 7 calc, notepad++, paint.net, chrome. start menu is an xml copied locally then gpo'd (containing good old fashioned .lnk files). windows doesn't manage printers, there is an old school .lnk to explorer.exe shell for the old printer management. etc etc.
w10 boots quick and with roaming profiles logs in in about 35 seconds on old 1st gen i3s (redirected desktop, documents and appdata).
store is installed but locked off via applocker (we have minecraft installed as a user app on some machines and toshiba print management software as an app on others )
all works well on 1803. Boy was it a fuck about from 1604 to get to this point.
thats the problem. For some people encryption is aimed at people having the physical drives rather than server and physical drives. Often people just use TPM which would do nothing in a case like this.
That also being said, just make sure you buy the admin desktop machine too. wonder if that had the keys in a file named "dont lose this file.txt" living on the desktop (TPM encrypted to the machine of course....)
I rather like some BA routes. We book the weekend BA flights out of Scottish airports semi regularly (as in the same 5 weekends a year). Granted they are chartered but use the london city 190 planes and are quite cheap (we usually pay about 100 return with luggage). A nice way to hop to the balearics for some sun.
since they are 190s the checkin in easy (only 90 passengers top), baggage is quicker and the seats are larger.
you have a point on synology boxes. we bought a cheap synology box as a backup nas host (it actually uses iscsi as it was more reliable). I was very surprised at the number of services it could host (along with the usual expected dns or dhcp). AD controller and CA enterprise host amongst a few (along with email server capabilities)
for a small 10 pc network this would be a bargain - especially if you got a few and ran them in high availability mode.
azure wasnt much cheaper than a copy of server 2016 and a cheap dell r420 server. internet pipe is also a consideration. a 200/200+ connection is not peanuts either.
cloud simply wouldnt work for us hence why we still run physical. we are thinking of a hybrid office 365 but as yet we are running office 2016 (outlook is a core product in our environment, as is sharepoint)
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