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  1. I would probably put bt5 on the laptop, run a few different windows OS's virtually, that way you could play with different stages of patching with windows easily. If the laptop isn't running BT5 smoothly, you can always just switch it up. Only takes like an hour.
  2. The people we hire aren't the sharpest crayons in the box, They answer phone calls and take orders, don't really need to a college grad with shining credentials to be able to do that. I realize most workplaces aren't like mine, but I know pretty much no workplaces have total trust in their employees. They aren't going to take a new hire's word on how much he worked in a day, they have time clocks and the like. And you might be onto something with the knee high doggie doors...
  3. Kinda a very specific, unique sport for a tech board. Fishing on the other-hand, you might have more luck with that. I can fish, I can also drive a race car, and talk to woman, but doesn't mean I'm any good at said tasks. But I did do well enough at one to get married, so you never know. What are your thoughts on fishing?
  4. This seems....legit? It does but I don't see a point to it...
  5. I think there is a clear cut line, if you are using company property for things other then work, then you should have issues, especially if you have a strict internet policies with your company. I would imagine most smaller 10-50 employee companies aren't going to be that balls-to-the-wheel about it. I do CIO for a call center, and I currently don't care about our agents who work from home with a company computer. If they horribly mangle windows, they can't work for a few days, and I'd just reformat, might charge them something for being stupid. I agree with Digip, company computer, company internet, company paying for you to be there, your ass is theirs. If you have a company computer that you take home, just make sure with them it's ok to use in off hours, if not, it's not really your choice, use it at your own risk is my opinion. If someone is piggy backing on my wifi, it's my internet so I'm allowed to monitor it, same with company internet. In this case, it sounds like the company was just looking for a reason to fire him, which sucks for him. And Bullshit, that's why you have breaks and home for. If you really need your facebook/myspace/...live journal? that badly, use a smart phone, until that gets you fired as well.
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    Vmware Esxi 5

    I'm running a VMware esxi 5 server that I want one of the VMs to be a router/firewall (Untangle) for the network. I am thinking I have to bridge the adapters to that VM but I can't figure out how in the Vsphere client. I did find one video where he doesn't do anything, and just makes the VM have 4 NICs and just installs the firewall OS. Has anyone seen any sites that could help? Or am I going about this the wrong way, and I don't need to bridge them the way I am thinking. It's going to need to be the router for both the VM machines and the rest of the physical network. Thanks
  7. That's genius, I might start,
  8. My work just got the components for a new server to virtualize pretty much all of our other servers. I put it together, took it home this weekend to install everything and hopefully get it mostly working by monday. Last night I got VMWare ESXi on it, started putting VMs onto it, got to PFSense, the router that I chose, had some problems with it and decided to go to bed and work on it in the morning. I try to connect this morning and it won't connect, it's not even on my network anymore, even though its hardwired in. I try to reboot it, and the fans run for about 3 seconds and die, and after a like 15 seconds, I get the error code beep of 1-5-4-4. It's an intel board and the only thing I can tell that means is " Power control fault", "Power control failure", and "Power good assertion timeout - Power unit sensors report soft power control failure offset". I did find out the error code is part of the BMC, but that doesn't lead me any closer to being able to boot, or even see anything during POST. Does the power control failure mean the power supply is bad? Whilst looking into some problems last night, I read an article about some intel boards having problems after you turn on the virtualization technology switch in the BIOS, though I can't find it again today. The end of the article said it was fixed with a firmware update, but I don't want to try updating the firmware without knowing what version is currently on there. I reset the CMOS too, trying to reset the VT switch in the BIOS if that was the problem, but it still won't boot so I'm out of ideas. Also, It's a S1200BTL board, 500W power supply (which I thought was a bit weak), 8 GB of ram, quad core intel processor. I've tried taking everything out, switching the ram out, other hard drives too, before I realized it took so long to do an error code, any help or ideas would be appreciated. Thanks EDIT::I also tested the power supply with a tester, it was fine except for the "-5v" light doesn't turn on, though the power supply cable has an extra 4 pins that isn't on the power supplies I'm used to, and doesn't fit in the tester, so I wasn't sure if one of those pins carried that current or whatever. EDIT 2:: I found a guide on how to test a power supply with a multimeter, and it seems to be working fine, the voltages are all what they should be, but it dawns on me now that I was just seeing if they were 3, 5 or 12 V, if nothing came up I assumed it was a ground. I'll need to go back and check to make sure one of the pins just isn't working, and it's not a power fluctuation problem. Also when I just plug it in, the fans will turn on, and stay on, then do the error beeps, but if I turn it off by holding the power button and turn it on with it, the fans will start and stop every 5 seconds, and it'll do the same error beep code, and the fans will continue to start and stop till I turn it off. EDIT 3:: To those who might find this message in a bottle in the distant future, the problem was an improperly grounded motherboard, which was part of a faulty motherboard.
  9. Scouring these forums I came across your post and it got me thinking and looking into this. I just found out how much we spend on our PBX and it seemed like fate so I looked into it. freePBX is what I came to. We currently have a reseller of shmoozecom, and I guess they teamed up or something, but the graphs and reports from freePBX are identical to the ones we get through our reseller. So I was told to drop everything and install/test/play around with it to see if it would be possible to replace our current PBX with it. I couldn't find much on a server req for it, besides it can vary greatly depending on your needs, so I'm setting it up on a reg extra computer we had. I'll let you know how it goes.
  10. My company is expanding and implementing call center agents from home using softphones and a company issued computer (for now) for them to use. We are brainstorming ways to keep the problems at a minimal and this is one idea we came up with. Having a fiber line installed for the agents and management still in the building, but hosting VMs or terminals of some kind at the office too. The home agents could then connect to these, and have the clear phones with no problems. Our test case had a few problems with call clarity and we are still working through that, she has a 25 down, 4 up connection. So my main question is if the call is received by the server at the office with the nice fiber connection, then after that it's decoded and sent to the agent computer, then the same reversed. I've read some about VOIP and VPNs to encrypt data, but we aren't that concerned with call security right now, but more concerned with call quality and ease to deploy home agents. So does anyone have ideas for this type of thing? From my research, I've deemed that it's not common to do something like this, and I can't even find any info on it. Thanks
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    How Many Vms?

    Color me intrigued by this topic. I've looked a little into how google page ranks and what-not, but couldn't find a definite answer. If a small little tech firm made something like this, and kept running this virtual botnet and clicking on their link from google searches, their page rank would go up? So soon they would be in the top 5 for whatever their little company does?
  12. I don't think survelance is much of a worry, it's more of this type os situation. One of the doors it's going on is a glass door, why spend the money and time to set something like that up when a 5$ hammer will do the job. I do like the keypad idea, since I think those were a bit cheaper then the biometrics. Any other ideas or endorsements people have used in the past? Thanks for the info
  13. After years of yearning I was finally able to get to defcon this last year. It was a lot of fun, but the hotels were expensive. There was a conference discount, which ended 3 days before I was for sure able to go so that was kinda a bummer. There was a ton of awesome talks, a few good people, a couple of parties, and a ton of liquor even though I didn't partake. Once I stop drowning in my job and get up on dry land I'll make for another conference. Derby looks fun, might be more my speed then defcon was.
  14. Recently someone tried to break into a warehouse portion of my work. They tore the knob and lock to hell, but didn't manage to get in. This warehouse is leased out, but a "locked" off part (2 peices of dry wall and a door, no ceiling) contains our modem, some routers, a firewall and a few other items of the type. Last year I brought up the idea of biometric and magnetic locks to the CEO, but he put it on the back burner since there was more important things to do, but this brought it back up front for him. So I was curious if anyone had experiences with them, I would prefer (I think) something connected to a server, so I could run at least 3 doors using the same fingerprint database. I've only seen one or two like this, which is making me think there is a better way that I'm not seeing. Most can only store 25 prints, a few others 99, while we have around 20 employees now, we are going to be hiring several more in the next month or so. They didn't think about security before I was hired, so now I'm trying to catch everything up. On the bright side, my boss's password is no longer 123456, I didn't think people really used that, even though it's on every top hacked passwords list every year. Any insights into this are greatly appreciated Thanks
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    Vmware Server Rc

    I re-installed firefox and it went back to logging in fine but not loading after selecting the VM. After doing some more research, I saw some mentions to an older version of firefox (3.5.x), so I downloaded that and it seems to be working OK now. Except now it's not booting, but at least I can connect, probably just a faulty ISO...I've had a lot of those lately. UPDATE: Yea, the image got corrupted somehow sitting on my laptops HD, the copy on my main machine was still good so I just copied it over again. Thanks for your help though Infiltrator
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    Vmware Server Rc

    2 days, and still no closer to a solution. And now firefox will crash 3 seconds after launching, so I'm going to try reinstalling that and see if I get it to connect again. Somehow I can understand complex things pretty well, but these simple problems stump me...
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    Vmware Server Rc

    Not sure which error, since technically there aren't any errors, though for the VMware-vmrc thing yea, just saying I'm installing it wrong. With firefox, it just doesn't load anything. And the firefox, it's pretty much all empty, except for the VMware web access frame. If there is anything else that could be help, please let me know. Thanks
  18. I've recently installed VMware server 2.0 on a laptop, after 3 or 4 faulty downloads I got it installed and running fine. I can access it via Chrome fine, and everything shows up perfectly, except the remote console. After looking into it, it only works in Firefox and IE. IE won't even load the page and says it doesn't know what to do with an IP/port... Firefox will load the page, I log in, and it will load everything fine, until I click anything, then most of the page will go blank and then I can't really do anything. I've spent far longer then I care to admit trying to get this to work, and was wondering if I was just missing something really simple, or if VMware has some special little program that works with server. Their website makes it quite difficult to get the info that I need. I've found some thread on some old forums that talk about vmware-vmrc, which I can't get to work either, they say it takes -u -p -m arguments when run, but when I run it, those aren't even options, and it doesn't do anything. If anyone has any insights or can point out the simple solution for running a VM on another machine and connecting to it via a home network, please, I'm all ears. Thanks
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    Defcon 19

    You're the woman who won it? I remember you paid and they were trying to find you for like 20 minutes but you weren't around to pick up the badge =P. Glad to see you finally got it. Did anyone finish the contest? I spent a few minutes on it but it seemed out of my league so I gave up.
  20. Wondering if anyone else made it to DEFCON this year, and if so, what talks did you like the most?, ones you wish you went to?, how much money did you spend at the vendor area? Their planning was excellent, they made one of the bigger talk areas empty through the vendor area...and how can you not just spend 20$ here and there while walking through. One bright side was seeing Snubs's smile (<3) while emptying my wallet. It might have taken a few hours, but I did get this: Snubs and Darrens autographs on a pineapple =P
  21. There were a few good talks at DEFCON about anonymous, one that I went to had backtrace security, had a speaker named aherska or something, and a drunk guy named hubris talking about anonymous and how they have gone way off track then how they were created. Then a couple of people from anonymous started heckling them and being pricks. Hubris just egged them on trolling them, but I wonder off my point...Afterwards, there was a Q/A with backtrace security, the main anonymous guy, and a guy in a Guy Fawkes mask, and pedobear. The bear didn't say much, and Hubris and the main anony guy, who was also drunk (it was DEFCON, most everyone was drunk most of the time if you didn't know) bickered and trolled each other, but the aherska woman and Fawkes actually made valid points, and I wish it was just them honestly. I forgot where I was heading with this again, but my point is there isn't much communicating with anonymous, they are usually driven by anonymous mob mentality, but from what Fawkes told me after the Q/A said that LULZSEC was made of the rational ones of anonymous. I stopped following what they were doing a while ago since I got tired of seeing "Anonymous DDOS's <random site> !", so I wasn't aware LULZSEC kinda broke away, I assumed they were the same, just under a new name. I think my main point was having any rational discussion with anonymous is kinda pointless, but you might have some luck with LULZSEC. Or I might have misunderstood your entire post, and this has no relevance to anything you were saying a article about the talk i saw on digg a bit ago, for those interested http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-anonymous-antics-hacker-feud.html
  22. For those curious, XKCD did a little thing about radiation. http://xkcd.com/radiation/ EDIT:: beware of bananaphones
  23. I have the same problems with my network, same 10-17 speeds, though your network is bigger and better. I tried turning my Remote Differential Compression, but it seemed to have the same speed as before, so your luck may vary on it. But I also found http://www.petri.co.il/tweaking_window_vista_performance.htm which might help people who didn't know how to turn Remote Differential Compression off
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    Tv Hacking

    I'm impressed if this is real. http://www.break.com/index/guy-hacks-times-square-video-screens-with-iphone-2023605
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