Posts by msage 66 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Nov 2012
I have this set and would be interested to know of any "mods" that people have done, I read in the article that there have been some modifications for the antenna, but my google fu has failed me and I can't seem to find any modification suggestions... any reg readers found any good one?
I can't see anything in the thread that says that Ubiquiti promised to remove house ads it added to the web-based user interface of its UniFi gear. They said they would make them easier to dismiss, but not remove them totally. As a unifi user I am seriously considering moving away after the last 18 months or so of bad firmware, ads, etc, etc
"...which may be a little concerning as it recently crept past macOS to become the third-most prevalent OS shipped with new PCs."
Which is the second most prevalent? I had a quick look at stat counter to see if I could work it out, but I couldn't see anything that would back this up. And by macOS do you mean OS X?
I use keepass and self host; I agree about the number of commercial services being a really high value target.
The other thing that people don't seem to have mentioned is the password vault is only as good as the password protecting it (or 2FA). You could use a password generator to generate the most complex passwords in the world and store in a vault with a password of Password1 and it's all been for nothing. In some ways the password vault industry might have made hacking more devastating than before.
Or OPNSense.
I was a long time user of pfSense, but was using it for customers sites, something their license began to restrict, we would sell hardware with pfSense installed on it, according to our interpretation of this https://www.netgate.com/blog/its-still-free-to-use.html that wasn't allowed. I haven't looked back at the project recently so this position might have changed, however, OPNSense which is a fork doesn't have the same restrictions. Also 3 years in I find the OPNSense GUI more usable and a regular release cycle is good too.
Not trying to start a holy war, each to their own :)
OK, so if HP are right, why didn't their auditors pick this up and explain it to them during the due-diligence? I mean HP are basing their *whole* case on them not doing the due-diligence properly? Unless Autonomy lied or obstructed the auditors, which I have seen no evidence they did through the regs coverage. From the beginning of this case, it's confused me.
HP are basically saying that autonomy over inflated their sales, given the cost of the take over you would think the financial auditors would have picked this up before the sale, if not surely they weren't doing their job properly (so HP should be suing them - I suspect this might be part II). And yet magically after the deal doesn't look so good for HP they suddenly discover that the same financials they had access to show something totally different?
The whole thing stinks of buyers remorse, I am not sure how HP have managed to get it this far.
That's what netscape did when it launched a free version. They never recovered and I am sure things are far worse now. Netscape had a product it sold, MS came along with IE for free and Netscape switch to a freemium model. I just don't think there are enough people who would pay for a browser... If you're a big corp who needs to customise it to your needs you've probably got enough money to take the opensource chromium and roll your own and I can't think of any home/SMB/prosumers who would pay for a browser. Not to say I think it's a bad idea, I just don't know who would cough
And this just on the back of the great advert fiasco. They released an upgrade to the unifi video controller that advised customers to "upgrade" to unifi protect that has nowhere near product parity with video. They reversed that one, but to do something worse less than a month later... Not good news
OK, I might be being thick here, but....
1. Surely HPE did some due dil that's why they employed Deloitte to do it.
2. If HPE should be suing anyone it should be Deloitte, who if found to be guilty should...
3. Deloitte should be suing Autonomy for hiding stuff when it did the due dil.
I really don't understand how HPE can think they can win, they *paid* a 3rd party and then went with their recommendation, surely deloitte should be the ones on trial here. Either Deloitte didn't get the information in which case they should have recommended that HPE walk away or buy for less. Deloitte did get the information and didn't pass it on to HPE, therefore, they are the guilty party or, lastly, Autonomy lied to Deloitte and therefore Deloitte didn't have the information and would have made an inaccurate recommendation to HPE.
TLDR; how come HPE are suing Autonomy (i.e. Lynch) rather than Deloitte...
That's only part of the story though. HGST was acquired by WD however, part of the acquisition was that it had to operate independently. I think that has now changed and HGST are properly consumed by WD and that the HGST brand will disappear (however, with the time line in the BB article, I believe the HGST drives were HGST (although owned by WD)).
Even if it is written in the contract, why would you not make your own backups too? The bottom line is that no contract or SLA refunds are going to get your customers back (and most of them are up to 100% of the monthly cost or something, so aren't worth toffee).
Data doesn't exist unless it is in at least 3 places (one of those needs to be on a different site to the other two).
Broadband usage; I was going to say that doesn't work, but it seems they've finally got it working. Just like it was months ago. But in an iFrame by the looks, and a bit bodged in because CSS popups cause scrollbars to momentarily appear in the iFrame. But hey, it's there!
Good spot! Glad this is finally working again!
Yup! As first line support we were trained in getting both Linux and Windows customers online. Our Technical manager went on to work for linux.com and other famous faces.
We were also one of the earliest ISPs to support SMTP ETRN to push mail down to customers servers on dial up.
My first internet routable email address was from a BBS hosted on demon. Used to dial in once a day to check my mail and the board... Happy days. I paid a fiver for that email address for life... it doesn't work any more. Bye demon. The next ISP I used (and worked for) was netcom, not the netcom but a canny company in the uk who managed to register netcom.co.uk before the netcom came over.
I agree with the comments here although I have worked with fellow techies take things way to far in the caution direction leading to nothing getting done and being stuck in a perpetual risk / change loop. While things should be planned, risk is not the reason to not do something.
If you don't do something, you end up with systems that are 10-15 years old because they just run and you run out of support. Then you have major upgrade issues as most of the time you have to step upgrade to versions that also aren't supported.
In my mind it is all about balance.
That's interesting in the UK public sector Azure appears to be king. I work with a number of local authorities and central gov QUANGOs and the Microsoft cloud appears to be the platform of choice. I think in part this is because of the O365 feeder drug... Then comes SQL server, then dev environments and before you know it everything but the legacy application infrastructure is in Azure, with SaaS offerings picking those up (again normally hosted with Azure). One of the big reasons the organisation I currently work for went Azure is because we already had expressroute and storesimple, so moving to AWS no matter how good their pricing and services we would need to bring in a direct connect connection.
From a personal perspective, Azure DNS seems a lot better than Route 53 from AWS, I have found it easier to interface with programmatically .
Again this is just a reflection of what I have seen.
Windows laptop over Direct Access, get a strict security policy via GPO, use Bitlocker to secure the local HD, and use the power of their local processor.
- I agree and what does the FOSS equivalent stack of this look like? I don't think it exists. DA is seamless (when setup correctly) the user doesn't even know it's happening. Bitlocker can be integrated into AD for easy resets. Intune can manage the device as if it's local and push out new policy.
I suspect they handed out Windows laptops / tablets, because they couldn't find an equivalent. It is very hard to buy a laptop without a Windows license and Linux "convertibles" just don't exist in the same quantity / quality of Windows ones.
Take the Surface / Surface Clone market, these devices really do make a difference to field workers, I have yet to find one that works as well with Linux. If you want your staff in front of the citizen (which you do for a lot of local authorities activities) then you don't really have a choice.
I can see from this fragmentation that support becomes more complex (your first line need to be able to do first line fix on Linux and Windows).
Another genuine question is, is there a good MDM for Linux? There are plenty of enterprise grade solutions for Windows.
I hate to say it, I don't think this one is Microsoft's fault lads and ladies.
As an IT person in the public sector, we have been told to use CCS, more often than not their pre-negotiated pricing is more expensive than we have managed to get on our own going direct to suppliers (and we are small). This has been the same for all the public sector organisations (central government, local government and quangos) that I have worked in for the last 15 years.
CCS do not offer value for money to the public purse and that is why they don't get used!
I agree that any data sharing needs to be covered by rigorous policies and audited.
However, given the value of this study and the compute power that these big companies have, I would rather the NHS used them than spent billions of the public purse to build their own compute resource that we would then, as a tax payer, have to pay to maintain and run.
If it was a choice between sharing my data with google and saving patients lives, they can knock themselves out (there is nothing of any interest there anyway!) or having the public sector run another IT project that goes nowhere and costs millions and million. I know what I would choose.
I'm not saying that there should be carte blanche but I think with the right safeguards this is the right route for the public sector to take.
Dual SIM... I know it's not popular here, but the Nokia 530 and 630 have full dual SIM support, i.e. both active at the same time. You pick which one you want to use for outgoing calls or can set rules depending on what you want to do.
Link: http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/mobile/support/product/lumia630/smartguidance/?action=singleTopic&topic=GUID-1AF29027-8B2D-42C7-8220-BA52917EE9B6-8_10
For me the big thing buying from traditional vendors has been a lack of any pricing online. This means they can weasel into my organisation to try and start selling to me. I understand the model, but with the "cloud" vendors and the pricing online it makes it a lot harder to justify 3 or 4 vendors coming and taking my teams time to do a proper investigation of the system they are trying to sell. In short.. Use the internet as your salesman!
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