 Hey, welcome to vlog Thursday Fragile, Fragile must be French Talion, Italian Italian must be Italian. I guess it's fragile And also will work for wieners. Yeah, we will ten pounds ten pounds of wieners this morning. Mm-hmm. So oh Unboxed for the time. I've heard that. Yeah So we like to work out deals. We love food, of course, and we have food clients so one of our clients is raised prime meats and the Ten pounds of wieners was in trade for some computer work and stuff Now we haven't eaten the ten pounds of wieners yet. Yeah, that's the box We put the wieners in the fridge wieners in a fridge. We can't eat ten pounds of wieners that fast Well, I mean challenge accepted. Yeah But the the video you just seen before this started was my amusement this morning of they took our job For any of you who watch South Park anyways the I've never seen one of those before before this morning in it Just it would mesmerize you for some reason. It's it says metronome. Just it's like a metronome And I'm just like watching it this morning I pulled in a parking lot and I'm like I can stare at this for a little while So so that did its job. Yeah, it did exactly was supposed to do got your attention I mean I like real sign spinners. There's something appreciated for the art of a sign spinner like Like a good guy or gale anyone who can do a good job spinning a sign. It's impressive But I'm sure this actually saves them a lot of money I had a friend who when little Caesars used to do it He loved doing it because they made more than working in the kitchen. Did they yeah They got you got an extra two dollars to go stand outside $2 an hour to go stand outside probably gonna rain today so they could leave that out there, too Yeah, it'll work rain and rain cold hot. It's really miserable. Yeah, hot rainy Yeah, that's exactly what I want to do a stand outside Yeah, anyways back to the free Nass abuse video. We did a couple of years ago. That's got a lot of views science science it We actually are probably gonna do a part two based on some of the suggestions people had and I'm also gonna do a few more videos on Part of the resiliency of free Nass how snap shotting works and how snap shotting just saved a customer who derped data And what I mean by that is it five minutes of the customer talking. He could not explain to Steve exactly what happened We do have data was gone. That's but the good news is we have And this is a client wanting ZFS as their file server in the back end with the free Nass system And because we had snap shotting turn on it creates snapshots during the day and Somehow before the customer created stuff during the work day and then deleted it by the end of the work day So by the time the backups run in the afternoon all that data was gone So because we were able to roll back with snapshots that occurred during the day We were rolled back and we found the data He said it didn't happen that way But the files were there in the snap shot and they weren't there in the backup and they weren't there the next day So the evidence says otherwise the evidence clearly says But all the part of the abuse of free Nass those some sessions on overclocking the state of Boston everything And right now we're building a new computer for Kyle and yeah, that's got overclocking options So maybe we'll just see how unstable we can make the system Also, I may do a video because someone did some great math on what it would take And it's it's the way the redundancy works on free Nass And I'm like maybe I'll it's not a topic for vlog Thursday But it's a deep technical dive into how the air some checking works in there and the Exciting stuff. It's exciting deep technical stuff. That's fun for me. Yeah me and Barbara I spent morning reading it and I was amazed at the word salad. It's word salad Other than that we have some more unified cameras Going in a few places Chemical place got more cameras. So that's gonna be a fun one. What else do we got? Oh? Customers with bids that are way too many pages I don't know if they watch our videos or our vlogs because they found some internet But it it's a standard drop, you know putting in building out an office, which we do a lot of They just have so much detail. It was four typed pages That's more than four well four four tight and then was a schematic Then the drawings and then this is how the server rack should look when it's done Yeah, and this here's an overview of the server Happens when you put together a bid by committee that I think that's what happened here was a committee Because certain are there a larger company and they're opening up a satellite office here And you know contacted us to do the wiring and which still even the organization spent a little bit slow because we can't get into The building government doesn't get things done. Yeah, we think it was decided by committee And we're now two trips there to even do the bid and no one can let us in the building And the company when we call them out of state they're confused like well the contractor said he was there I was like well we were there three and the contractor was not he doesn't know how contractors work here Yeah, he doesn't realize how contractors there was a problem. You were there three a contractor went home at like two Yeah, because they showed up at like one. Yeah, right They also told us was someone in the building because it's a larger Shared office space. They said some in the building will let us in it turns out. Yes, there's a guy He's been he's gonna be on vacation for two weeks. Yeah guy that can let us in and when you call him His number just says call his office, which just gives you the numbers of the other people It's not their property. So you can't do anything. I mean they'll talk to you, but they go I that he manages that property He's alone with Keith. Yeah, so oh Man and then our job at the Italian consulate canceled for the third time Yeah, yeah, yeah, this this one was not the Italian consulates Doing though it was the place next to them Oh the place next to them because we would have had to pull something through their ceiling and they were upset Well, it actually it turns out that we were not aware of a structural wall that is apparently in the way We were never informed of that. Oh Okay, so yeah, so I don't know. I'm actually we haven't heard anymore about that So yeah, these are some of the fun things that we do when dealing with the jobs and the bids They're never as straightforward. I love when we can just get to work or it's a new construction But with all these other ones, it's just this every all the players involved and trying to coordinate bureaucracy and red tape We had those other jobs where it took months to finish because They couldn't get the contract work done because the contractors would show up for a couple hours and then vanish for two weeks Yep, and then they end up three contractors deep because they fire those ones and they get another one Yeah, the demand right now is really high to get construction done and built the apparent Ability for these people to complete and can do construction jobs is not very good Yeah, we've got a lot of people interested in doing us flying the drone to get some drone video too. Yeah So we're gonna sign for my custom sign. Yeah, that's been fun. The church wants us to do one Yeah, so we're gonna do it for a church flying. I need excuses to fly my drone Oh, these love it. They're like these indoor office projects. I don't get to use my drone as much for so It's just been very recreational. So yeah, not as much. Um, someone did ask me and I will Comment real quick on this someone asked me what I did before I did this That's questions come up. I'm like more than one video by different people So I'll throw that in here that I've worked in IT since 1994 And well as a job and my phone 95 was my first job in IT So I've worked now in IT for how many years is that? 22 years as a job. It was a hobby before that so that's and I don't have any certifications And I didn't go to college. So I'll just throw those out there real quick because that's those are like the same questions What do you have certifications for and did you go to college? It was the same questions across multiple videos I said why not answer that? So, you know kids stay in school see in school see in school I still You had no student loan dad follow your dreams. So, you know, I will I'm gonna do another video about the Was it the pursuit of knowledge and a validation of institution I have a whole write-up I did on that I'm gonna probably turn into a video I have these little notes I keep call my brain doodles that I write stuff that occasionally pops up on places when I have thoughts I slowly put the thought together and it comes down and I take the paragraphs I write it and I keep rewriting it until it's we got better words Wonderful words words Huge words, but mostly it's a lot of big ask anybody everybody says that he is the best words that these are the best words Yes So we're still working on getting to some of the Security videos I once again, I'm being overly cautious and overly detailed on my notes before I do the video That's why I have not done the video I can do some of the network security ones sooner because those are easier to explain but locking down to windows computers I'm gonna go over what we do. There's so many I know There's so many different opinions on that and what's really interesting and this is coming out in windows 10 the craters update 3 later this fall Is microsoft is actually going to start doing white listing applications for file management Really interesting concept basically they're going to mitigate some of the crypto stuff by You have to take your documents folder and authorize what apps are allowed to access it and they go on a white list And once they ask once you have to say yes or no and then they can stay on there So you can authorize word and excel and whatever your photo program is to write to the document But other programs will not be able to read or write to that area And it's going to be a built-in function of windows. That's a great solution That's actually something similar what you see in the corporate world. It's actually coming to uh windows 10, which I thought was pretty cool I don't know how it's going to work in functionality. I need I I probably should load like a craters update They they tried something similar with uac. It was supposed to stop things from touching other things And there were all these loop holes like oh, well you just run as administrator and now I can touch everything The devil's in the details because Microsoft also announced windows version c And windows c was supposed to be white listed only applications. It took someone. I think two hours to crack it. Yeah Yeah So the death is in the details the death is in the implementation of making sure what does it break in the process We yeah, that's uh, there was a there was an odd glimpse with friend Uh ventrilo back in the day playing wow if you had uac turned on You couldn't use a push-to-talk button while playing wow because it would stop the keyboard input because you had another application In front So that's why this is such a complicated topic there's multiple I thought I was to do it Microsoft's making changes to the system and the implementation of all these is kind of Yeah, who knew nobody knew it was so complicated. It's and as they're announcing the changes everybody's like They're they're working on ways around it already Yes, and as well as things about computer security and I have a handful of friends that work in this industry It's so much better to be on the hacker side than it is to be on our side. Our job's really really hard There's this kind of like we keep poking until we find a hole And then people just keep doing it like that's what I have a hard time with I've never got crypto lockered or anything How how are these people going out and finding it so easily? They're really well, they're yeah And they open email sessions We got to do I've been getting a lot more of those emails that we've been getting to our help thing the ones that say Oh, I got another one this morning And so one of the goals I have is to do some videos on showing just how you can get yourself infected with them And have some fun with it Oh you're talking about the google docs one not the google docs one because I got a google docs one Oh, did you it was to my my personally know, but yeah, I got a google docs one And I was like, oh, yeah, let me click right on that. Yeah person that I don't know Sending me a document that I've never heard of Yeah, that's an interesting flaw. I think google fixed most of them, but um, and it's not exactly a flaw It's a new functionality. So and with the google docs because it's online documents What it would do is you would click it and it looks like you're confirming a share permission Which you would normally do in google docs, but instead you are authorizing them to be you and send emails to you You just have to read the details. Yeah So it's not exactly a flaw. It's functionality Just someone abused the functionality. Yeah. Yeah, so yeah, and I think that's probably what this one was It was yeah google docs. You do have to be careful where you accept the docs from so that's definitely a concern So back up your cloud. I'm over here like Like even facebook requests like No, I don't know you I accepted I saw it could be fun though. I deleted a lot of spam requests I have a I don't know if it's a bot or someone I don't understand why they friend requested me Or what their end game is they just keep telling me hello and I say hi and they don't reply for two hours And they say how are you tom? And I'm like fine. I just want to see where they're going with it I have no idea. I always run with it like well the thing is like pokemon But they're taking so many hours to respond. It's not as exciting like I reply. I see it and I go Hi, you know I'm I'm being interactive and they aren't and it's like what is the end game here Where's the link you're supposed to send me to do a thing? Because they're not used to people responding. That's yeah, they're not what it's like the dog who catches the bumper of the car Yeah, yeah, there was so much more fun to chase them. We'll see they're doing spam by committees They're like holy crap guys somebody just responded. What do we do? I'm actually I'm actually seeing more and more There was one of them She had a handful of the same friends as me and I'm like, okay So maybe it is somebody, you know, yeah that I might know through a couple other people But then as I'm reading all the posts, I'm like these are all in really broken English. So they're not Just robotic posts Somebody's actually taking them to do them But then when you look at their friends, you're like, okay, you have all these friends in Lincoln park and the you know down river Michigan area Then you have all these people like mexico the middle east and all over the world like how how did you get all these people? Yeah, yeah Yeah, I don't get any of it. That doesn't make any sense. I have a friend yet He he actually used to be a prominent dj in the Detroit area He has since retired, but uh, he posts almost every day like denied friend request of the day. Yes. I'm friends with him Yeah, and yes, and it's always shots. Yeah, he does a screenshot. It's always like some chick. He's just like Yeah, yeah, my friend I like this this and this and he's like, oh, we have so much about boss, man Tinder robots. Yeah, so here's the question. Is there a tender robot trying to hook up with another tender robot Just going back and forth at it right now as we speak. Yes, I would more than Yes, I'm sure there is are there tender bots going after each other so swiping in the same way. Yeah I'm sure that's happening. They're just in a loop Yeah, they look pretty good It's like a short script they go through and I know I've talked to a lot of them Oh, I was trying to derail the conversation. There's something insane. We need more intelligent bots Well, it was I mean the you called you called the One of the companies that you were calling that you were trying to get through their automated Menu and the lady was just like you just need to tell them that you need help with vacuuming Because no one wants to help you with that. Right. That was me calling DTE because yeah, I was on the phone with DTE energy So, uh, wishful thinking is I haven't gotten a bill from my electric company. Therefore. I don't owe money But the reality is much different Somehow their system which they said wasn't possible and yet it happened They had no billing address for us So they had a service address But a service address doesn't necessarily reflect a billing address But without a billing address I could not log in via the web because once it's missing it broke my account Also, it was a pain because I can only pay the bill but not see the bill because it didn't have an address So you had to use the guest pay. Yeah, they have an option to pay without seeing the bill Which of course the bill was too much and we had to talk about that too, which Uh, that was two hours of my life But they had an automated system that got caught in the loop and they just said, uh, keep saying vacuuming because no one wants to Help you with vacuuming and eventually the robot will give up on the voice commands and then connect you with the real person Vacuuming so you just hear tom in his office going vacuuming. Yeah vacuuming and you're on hold forever vacuuming Yeah, I'll forever that so all right. We got to get back to work because we had a little bit of a late start I gotta go sit on hold He's got to go sit on hold because One of the services we offer for our clients is updating the software that they have and the software update is now required Us to sit on hold so whenever they roll out a new update every time They'll even admit it. Yeah, the call volumes go through the roof Call angles to the roof and you got to sit on hold. So we should start a task rabbit for just being on hold with people Yeah, yeah, there is there's a company. It does that it's called fancy fingers I think they just sit on hold for you. Yeah, they sit on hold for you and then they connect you just before you get up Oh, I'll do it. I'll just sit there playing stiff while I wait I think they outsource it to another country Well, yeah, fine. Anyways, all right. Well, see you next week. See you next week. Thanks for watching. Like and subscribe Uh, more projects more free nests coming all that fun stuff