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FC was great until certain HP switches needed licencing for more than 8 ports 🤔 FCoE took over and the FC can't keep up with the speeds that FCoE can provide now. HCI is great, need space? just chuck more cheap hardware to tie you over. with HCI we're squeezing 40 x 3.1G cores 1.2Tb of ram and...

https://threatmap.checkpoint.com/ We have this up on a wall board for when the odd customer visits to make it look like we actually do work

Messagelabs/Broadcom experience gave me a short warning but still managed to make a mess just as finally got stable infra

Public cloud for 90% of business is tragic, data egress, we'll charge extra for that, cpu pinned at 100% because a junior made a bad config update, charge for that. What with the state of Broadcom/VMware mess at the moment, moving back to on prem or at least private cloud may be the move over...

We've recently taken up Stripe and gocardless, Stripe we're utilising for one off payments and Gocardless for direct debit's for recurring, both accept single transactions but stripe is tailored more towards Mastercard/Visa

It's terrible software, been tasked by a new customer i'm onboarding to do a dabble of security testing. 5 minutes on the phone now have a users logins, as soon as out off hours hits into the system, pop off a few sketchy powershell scripts querying data and uploading to eastern european based...

The older cables are a tad bulkier I have a new lesson this week, after a bit of testing, both Crowdstrike falcon and Bitdefender are completely worthless against data exfiltration

expired SAML certificate caught me out on that last month, definitely a fun one

Mostly fueled by coffee and or drink depending on the day

If anyone fancies a little throwback can't beat ol' reliable

Safe mode has saved me more times than i wish to count, thankfully gone are the days of having physical appliances

https://www.primetools.co.uk/product/facom-582-7-long-nose-automatic-lock-grip-pliers/ Facom automatics a a god send for pipes, will clamp just right without having to faff adjusting

I fobbed off the NSX-V appliance just before Christmas and replaced the dirty routers with virtual Mikrotik appliances, even the VMware partnership renewal they wanted just shy of £1k to keep our reseller ability. i can see it heading the same way as messagelabs very quickly

Thankfully the cluster licences we can renew, but the horizon licences they'll only do subscription which may be looking at a 4-500% increase annually, potentially going from 13.5k to 70k annually, normally we'd offload that cost off to the customers but it might be a struggle to justify that to...

Currently sitting in a technical directors role for a small startup msp, previously in cloud architect role, spend most the time studying new tech, but currently dreading the vmware renewal come the end of the year, already planning the neccessary changes to potentially have to migrate from the...

from what i remember Tailscale is a pretty overlay for wireguard, it's been popping up a lot more recently and seems to be a handy replacement for clunky ipsec client-server vpns

always up a a bit of good grub

Calendar has been cleared for this

AI, such as ChatGPT, could replace jobs, raising concerns about unemployment despite potential benefits.

I find it a bit similar to the release of powershell, it's going to reduce the amount of monotonous repetitive tasks, writing a script could've taken a number of hours to get going initially with additional tweak time. whereas now can have a template pumped out in 20 minutes and another 20...

From experience, depending on the company size, some look for qualification purely to fill quotas for supplier discounts to get people in the door will little to no experience, Help-desk/First-line support experience can be drawn on from other customer facing roles (restaurant FOH/sales...

Personally i've found putting the mouse on a watch/clock and let the ticking move the mouse, gets round the audit logs of usb being plugged in/out and can usually be picked up for a few quid

It will just show up as a usb mouse, so unless they've locked it down to only being able to use supplied mice it will work without a problem

Don't worry, i have a tow bar now ;)

it seems to be a cold joint on the relay in the fuseboard, all being well that will be sorted before july, the mechanical pump had blown it's seal so wouldn't hold fuel pressure whilst on track, i'm just using it as a lazy immobiliser for the moment, aiming to get the torque limiter mapped out...

It's still not fixed but a swift kick to the fusebox gets it going second time round. Hopefully this time round it won't dump it's coolant in the pits

https://www.spaldingfasteners.co.uk/7-16-unc-8-8-grade-zinc-plated-steel-hex-head-set-screw-fully-threaded-bolts/ 7/16 UNC course 1 1/2" is probably going to be closest without going custom order if want to stay unc, otherwise M12 and send it home

I think this runs true

i guess the benefit of the gripper over the blackline being 5:1 is 5*0 is still 0 traction :LOL: