IT BS thread

PAM is your friend And, of course, GeoIP blocking every country in the world who you dont want accessing your server.

 

Right now I'm using fail2ban, and root can't login into ssh. I think I saw an option this morning where I can set the ban time to increase every time they get blocked.

 

Our IDP/IPS tells the network to “forget” any foreign or flagged IPs. We had a DDoS attempt last week that lasted 2 minutes.

Yeah, all or our accounts with remote login have no rights - you have to su to root. The only way to log in directly to root is physically at the device, and not even then now that all of our Linux boxes are VMs.

 

I have had several attempted attacks from this country (Romania). I've had to block a lot of eastern European countries, as well as many Asian countries.

 

We’ve gone whitelist only. Most of Asia, Africa, South/Central America, and most of Europe is explicitly blocked. One of our vendors didn’t read their contract and subbed software work out to India, and we dropped them for violating terms (federal IT). Australia, Canada, New Zealand, France, and Great Britain are fully trusted. The other permitted countries are allowed only to connect to US facilities there.

We had an issue a few years back where an IT contractor went “on vacation” to China to visit relatives for 2 months and didn’t clear it with his company, and China followed his VPN traffic back to us. It made the news for a while.

 

Scroedinger's app

 

I just started studying for the ITIL v4 test today and damn is it a lot to take in

 

Bring that up around here and you just get a face full of "We're a DevOps organization, that's old school!" And then they continue to deliver crap and count on other teams to support that crap. One guy mentioned "centralizing DevOps." That doesn't even make sense.

 

lol this is my favorite page on the forum lol haha nice!

 

https://youtu.be/0xB3T4MPEr0

 

https://youtu.be/3ytqP1QvhUc

 

I was told to come here and ask this question. So here I am. I am on the Hunt for a New Laptop. My current HP is on it's way out. So I stopped by my local STAPLES Store today to see what they had in stock. They have an ASUS Brand which I have heard of but I am not very familiar with. So this is why I am here. I have normally used GATEWAY and HP Laptops. This ASUS Has 12 Gigs DDR4 of Ram, 256 SSD, 15.6 Screen. Windows 10, Processor is an I5. It's on sale for $399.00 For what I do this will do it. What do you all think about ASUS?

 

Sorry, this is not end user support. You will need to put in a help desk ticket. They should be able to help you, but if they can't please have your manager escalate your issue, including all pertinent details, and include a note asking why the fuck the help desk couldn't help with your issue before sending it to the system adminstrators in the first place?

 

I have opinions. Your Staples option is shit according to my opnions. You can go with what they want you to do and spend a shit load of money that you dont need to, or spend a bunch of time listening to me and some other grumpy asses that will eventually steer you in the right direction if you can bother listening to us that long.

Don't spend money at Staples... Hit us up with a build on pcpartpicker.com and do not ever go to Staples again unless you need a Sharpie, like right now. Or unless that girl at the cash register was really cute.

 

Honestly just buy something from somewhere with a good warranty. You're going to get a bunch of bloatware on that laptop. If you're capable reinstall windows so you have a clean start.

 

Just stumbled on this feed. I am a full stack developer with 30+ years experience (yes, i'm old as shit). Generally working on MS platforms and specializing in Manufacturing. Currently been working contract gigs for the last 3 years and enjoying the ride.