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MaaS???

by @ Monday, April 13th, 2015. Filed under general

Machine as a Service… Skynet is coming… Security Guard Robot – only $6.95 an hour. http://knightscope.com/order.html Rating 3.00 out of 5

Well… If that doesn’t bring back some memories…

by @ Monday, April 13th, 2015. Filed under general

Rating 4.60 out of 5

1500VA CyberPower UPS on sale at Amazon Save $50

by @ Monday, April 13th, 2015. Filed under tech

Just wanted to give heads up, the 1500VA 900w CyberPower UPS is on sale at Amazon today for a daily deal. I have 4 of these in the house already and just ordered another 3 (max order limit). It is Prime Eligible too if you are a Prime member and if you aren’t a Prime […]

OpenSource from Microsoft on CodePlex

by @ Friday, April 3rd, 2015. Filed under tech

https://www.codeplex.com/site/users/view/Microsoft Rating 3.00 out of 5

OpenSource from Microsoft on GitHub

by @ Friday, April 3rd, 2015. Filed under tech

https://github.com/Microsoft Rating 3.00 out of 5

Darn, ClusterMaps Blew Up

by @ Thursday, April 2nd, 2015. Filed under general

I just noticed this evening that my ClusterMaps Icon was messed up. When I went to check up on it I found out that one of their servers blew up and they for some reason can’t put humpty dumpty back together again so years of stats data is currently lost. http://blog.clustrmaps.com/2015/03/25/important-www4-servermap-news/ Oh well… Life goes […]

AD Sites Without Domain Controllers Aren’t Inherently Bad

by @ Tuesday, March 31st, 2015. Tags: ,
Filed under tech

I posted a quick post the other day about Third Party Active Directory Assessments raising issues that while not great, aren’t earth shattering issues. I wasn’t meaning to hang all Third Party companies out to dry, but to alert folks that they need to fully understand what the AD Assessments are really saying and don’t […]

AD Assessments

by @ Tuesday, March 24th, 2015. Filed under tech

The AD Assessment reports that I regularly see lately from various “largish” “well known” Third Party Consulting companies seem to often be no more than bad opinions and sensationalism to try and make the customer feel good for over-paying for the AD “Consultants” to come in and look around. Yes there are a lot of […]

Security is like…

by @ Tuesday, March 24th, 2015. Filed under general

Security is like high-school sex: Everyone thinks everyone else is doing it. Everyone wishes they were doing it. Only a few are actually doing it. And the few that are doing it, aren’t doing it well. (stolen from the internet) Rating 4.50 out of 5

30 Second Admin – Default Domain Password Policies for Entire Forest

by @ Thursday, March 19th, 2015. Tags: ,
Filed under tech

Your boss walks into your cube with a harried look on her face… Hey ADMIN dude or dudette… The Security people are asking for the Default Domain Password Policies for all of the domains in the forest for an audit and I need it in the next 30 seconds because I am already late… Ok… […]

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