@ScottPack I'm taking a class right now where I have to learn the material for the CISSP amongst other things. I wondering if it's worth my time to convince my work to pay for the test and get me certified.
@ScottPack I most certainly am capable of hatred. I still have a fair amount pent up over the WiFi gear I'm half way through deploying. See previous two days of ranting about a useless serial port and non-standard defaults.
@ChrisS I think it really depends on what you're doing. Are you currently, or do you want, to manage a team that focuses on information security? If so, then it might not hurt.
@ChrisS If you want to work in a technical role I wouldn't waste your time.
I'm a jack-of-all-trades in IT, so I do security when it's convenient or when there's a problem.
I don't think I'd be ready for management for a good number of years really. Besides, the most fun I have in my job is playing with new hardware and making it work.
If the management roles at my work are any indication, they don't get to do any of the stuff I regard as fun.
Back when I first started in the field I was looking forward to getting the 4 years experience (along with the various and sundry waivers for which I qualified) necessary to test for it. Now that I meet the requirements? I would rather spend my time doing more fun things.
This is a Canonical Question about Monitoring Software.
I need to monitor my servers; what do I need to consider when deciding on a monitoring solution?
I know some people think you shouldn't write a question you already know the answer to... Not sure where they get that idea, but I know Marra got some hate for his AD and GPO questions.
I am using a server with Windows Server 2008. I don't want anyone to log off, because it would stop very important programs.
But I can't change the Log Off button to anything (the drop down menu is grey), and thus I can't disabled it (I already tried the gpedit.msc thing, it doesn't seem to work....
@ewwhite Oh, just something cheap and cheerful for home. Second hand, for sure - want a chuck a hypervisor on it and run a couple of Server 2008 R2 VM's and a couple of Win 7 VM's.
@ewwhite Not hugely - that's the main reason for wanting iLO. It won't be 24/7 - My two primary goals are providing a virtual desktop for the iPad and something I can log onto from outside. I'm getting sick of crippled internet on sites
@Dan I have 2 x ML370 G5's here... each with 16GB RAM. THey previously ran an ESXi cluster. Everything is supported, so it's best to go with what works. No jankiness.
@Chopper3 Twice I've sent them memory on warranty in the past, and got back twice as much with a note saying they didn't have the smaller sizes available anymore. =]
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LOG: POST Error: 1716-Slot X Drive Array - Unregenerable Media Errors Detected on Drives during previous Rebuild or Auto-Reliability Monitoring (ARM) scan. Problem will be fixed automatically when the sector(s) are overwritten.
@lsiunsuex Following a stomach injury Viking warriors were given an exceptionally strong onion soup to eat. After a few minutes the injuries were then sniffed. If the "doctor" could smell onion then it was decided that the wound was fatal.
And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion.
You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".
woot! - fabulous idea - gonna go swipe a plastic badge sleeve from HR - when i get to vegas, put my room key and credit card (debit) in it so i dont have to take my wallet to the pool and the cards wont get wet if they stay in the plastic - tack on a badge reel and leave it on my shorts
I have a VM I need to perform a number of remote commands on, but security policies have been getting in my way occasionally. This particular VM is running Windows Server 2012 (build 9200). I'd like to simply disable any and all security measures that may be in place - I'd like to offer full, uni...
"Hey guys, I'm trying to mow my lawn with a chainsaw. Is there a way to remove that safety feature that turns the saw off when I let go of the handle?"
You might be able to remove all the security by formatting your OS partition. — Basil6 secs ago
@iain I think it could be a valid question, but as asked it demonstrates the guy clearly isn't (or shouldn't be) an SA. Like "how do I shoot my foot off?" Could be useful if your foot's caught in a bear trap... but if you have to ask, you're approaching the problem wrong.
Oh lord, you see his comment? His script is throwing a permission error, creating a cluster, so that's why he wants to disable all security. "Doctor, I have an ingown toenail... how can I amputate my foot?"
Hmm... I think I've had about enough of this freaking internal network -> DMZ -> TMG -> ASA -> hosted webfilter nonsense. I wonder if I can sell that my home is a backup of the backup DR site to get a hole opened in the firewalls.
@MDMarra. That's the plan. Right now it's just a different subnet which has... one of the NICs of the TMG server on it. And, in case you didn't know, having TMG redirect to itself on another interface creates lots of interesting headaches.
Hi I have an IM client pidgin. It is launched under locale
ru_RU.UTF-8
Then when I type messages in GtkView widget it highlights the misspelled words. However it uses a GtkSpell which uses enchant, which uses myspell backend (I provided it with symlink to openoffice dictionaries folder /...
I'll be using a VMWare VM, and from within the VM I need to be able to save files to a directory which exists outside of the VM. I'm running VMWare NOT inside of a host OS though. Is this possible, and what is the correct terminology?
@Rqomey Thanks for the enthusiasm. And you know, it kinda made my Friday too. Every time I think I'm in the most fucked up environment anywhere, I can just browse ServerFault for awful questions and get some perspective. :)
1-2 minues is way too long if nothing much happens (massive GPOs etc.). Unfortunately there is no easy way to troubleshoot such slow logons - the delay might be network-related, or something completely different. What you can do:
Trace what happens on the machine while logging on with Sysintern...
@HopelessN00b eh - nothing wrong with that answer except he didn't fully grasp the question
he's right that a login shouldn't take that long (even with "massive" GPOs) -- it's just the crap "roaming profile" implementation in Windows that makes it suck like @MDMarra said
@Iain worth dropping that 'orokusaki' guy an email saying that if he's going ignore the right answers and be rude that maybe this isn't the place for him, this is a guy asking what IP was a few months ago
i'd question how many of you are on SE payroll - cause it would infuriate me to sit here and read questions all day and point out people's ignorance - and then - to have someone question your correct answer - i'd very well reverse their IP address and spend a month in their city find them at a bar to kill them.
@JeffFerland I think your comment hit exactly the right tone too. Well done.
As for me, I will finally have time to study starting next week. All moved into the ladyfriend's place and the furniture and extra stuff in the storage unit. It's been a long month.
Right. The easy way to troubleshoot is to check the client machine for hardware or software errors, check the "normal" event logs, rsop and network, not necessarily in that order.
yeah but that doesn't enumerate the cause of the 1-hour profile download I had ad $job[-1]. (I had a number of ISO images on my desktop, which were getting replicated with my profile. *That* ***SUCKED***.)
As the question states, what are the most commonly used tools used for this task and what are their strengths and weaknesses?
Hi I have an IM client pidgin. It is launched under locale
ru_RU.UTF-8
Then when I type messages in GtkView widget it highlights the misspelled words. However it uses a GtkSpell which uses enchant, which uses myspell backend (I provided it with symlink to openoffice dictionaries folder /...
I'll be using a VMWare VM, and from within the VM I need to be able to save files to a directory which exists outside of the VM. I'm running VMWare NOT inside of a host OS though. Is this possible, and what is the correct terminology?
What about using
nmap -p1-65535 localhost
