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Who, Me?: 'This, many considered, was bad'

We are looking at upgrading our network equipment from old HP switches and Aruba access points, we have a Fortinet firewall that we are happy with, so we'll probably keep using them there, but for the rest we are looking for new stuff.

And we are looking closely at Ubiquiti for switches and APs, but two things have appeared on our radar.

Ubiquiti does have a cloud admin UI, this means that Ubiquiti needs to have access to our network controller to access this feature.

But what if we don't use that, will Ubiquiti still be able to access the network controller?

I guess that what I am asking is how does the access control work?

Also, updates, I see that they seem to be very frequent and also see some scattered reports that they have required admins to reset their configs and loosing camera footage, can you set updates to be delayed for X days?

Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that celebrates the frolicsome fun that readers have experienced when asked to deliver tech support.

This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Nigel" who shared a story from 2004 when the office he worked in found itself in the path of Hurricane Ivan, the superstorm that rampaged its way across the Caribbean and the USA for almost three weeks.

I am trying to use powershell to setup a process that off boards users and doing the AD side of things is great but I am not sure how to use powershell to interact with our other software that only has a gui.

For example user management in studio3T where they only have a web UI or an application that you can download and run locally.

So that's why a 2 systems were getting crappy speeds. Yes, 2. It had been used only to split a single drop from another switch between two systems.

New drop, happy clients.

Some stuff here is museum material.

How can I reject mail that does not have a DMARC policy enabled? Using Postfix 3.6.4 and OpenDMARC 1.4.2.

Hi, I can't seem to find if there's a consensus on this so asking here.

Not all CIs are assets and not all assets are CIs. But many assets and CIs are the same physical or virtual thing.

I see some vendors (e.g. ServiceNow, Freshservice) have separate asset databases and CMDBs. and other (e.g. Jira Service Management) have a combined database.

Do you have any preference one way or the other? Are there pros and cons to do it a certain way? To me it seems like maintaining two databases is more fiddly and time consuming but I don't know.

Instead, I want to take aim at a misconception that I think Pablo shares with many, many people in the software industry. Namely, the idea that if a software system is built correctly, it will work. Or, equivalently: if a software system doesn’t work, then it wasn’t built correctly.

Hi, I apologize if this is not the place for this (if not please direct me where to) but I am in need of some advice for LAN RDP solution. These will be used in recording studios to minimize noise. The configuration goes like this; there are two different computers being remoted into over the LAN. In the studio are three monitors, two of them are used for one RDP session while third for the second tower. I initially had some trouble with Multi-mon until I checked the MS Learn rdp page. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/mstsc

The problems start occurring when recording audio to Adobe Audition (I think that's the name of the product). Initially the sound card wouldn't show up until I set the audio flag to 1 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/rdp-properties#device-redirection. One of the things done in the user's workflow is to capture audio from the browser into the Adobe product which also wasn't initially working until I checked "Release Audio Driver to the Background" in the settings menu. However, this only works in Edge not even Chrome can do that surprisingly. And even then, it's not consistent, there are some weird things the user has to with which program's window is active. In the same vein of the issue, the fixes I just described only work on towers with a dedicated soundcard. Another employee installed something called Virtual audio cable (https://vb-audio.com/Cable/index.htm). Unfortunately, I wasn't around at this time to see what problem it solved and how. And furthermore, I've a single complaint about program windows not showing up on one of the remote computers. Not sure if that is a result of their RDP session not being an administrative one (that's my first guess). I haven't been able to observe this myself, so I don't have any details, and my emails aren't being returned.

Prior to my attempt at an RDP solution, we were using Dell Wyse thin clients and Teradici gpus. This equipment is fairly old, failing consistently now and also very expensive to replace. I'm open to all suggestions though, I've been sort of eyeing VNC but I'm unsure of how it interacts with audio recording and multi monitor sessions. Sorry for the wall of text and thanks to any who reply.

Oh look, Oracle fucking up again!

Aw yeah, because Salesforce is sooo much better. Our Savior!/s lmao