KingSlareXIV

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[–] KingSlareXIV@infosec.pub 5 points 11 months ago

I suppose it's the natural result of wanting to keep the show on as long as possible, when you've only got one good idea for the story arc. You need a lot of filler.

I'd like to see more shows done in the style of Babylon 5, where the creator had the whole 5 years written out from day 1. There was very little in the show that felt like filler or treading water.

Which also may explain why books are being brought to TV more frequently these days. But, TV showrunners have a bad habit of taking a good novel and totally mangling it in the translation to TV, so it's not a guaranteed win.

[–] KingSlareXIV@infosec.pub 1 points 11 months ago

It's mostly decent, some interesting twists, but also plenty of dumb stuff in it too. It's only 7 episodes, so even if you don't end up liking it you haven't wasted much time!

[–] KingSlareXIV@infosec.pub 2 points 11 months ago

Tanium has some common apps pre-packaged and regularly updated, you could just setup an ongoing deployment for those to automate keeping them up to date with minimal work on your part.

If you need to update something not on that list, you will need to make an upgrade package yourself with the updated installer or files.

Whether this is actually easy or not really depends on the app vendor and the software. It's usually straight forward, but not always. But that's the case with literally any software deployment solution.

I have one app in particular who's install and config essentially un-automateable. But it's a shitty LOB app that was written in the 90's to be intentionally obtuse to prevent privacy, hopefully that's not an issue in your case.

[–] KingSlareXIV@infosec.pub 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

We are using Tanium, just put the agent on the servers and you are good to go...build your packages and set up deployment jobs.

It also handles Windows patching, and can do system inventory, among other features.

It's also great for software deployments to you remote workforce systems that are rarely/never on the corporate network.

And seriously, you want a domain. GPOs are incredibly useful for pushing out a huge variety of Windows config changes extremely easily.

[–] KingSlareXIV@infosec.pub 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

I generally find watching in release order tends to work better than chronological order at least the first time thru. The episodes are written assuming you aware of future events depicted in previous shows, if you aren't they tend to lose a lot of their impact.

Congrats for getting thru TAS, I have tried and I just can't.

[–] KingSlareXIV@infosec.pub 2 points 11 months ago

It's just one of my fans!

[–] KingSlareXIV@infosec.pub 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The Empire focused half of the show that was mostly made up specifically for the show is EXCELLENT tho, and really worth watching.

They should have just stuck with that and called the show Empire IMHO. Would have been an instant classic.

[–] KingSlareXIV@infosec.pub 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Frankly, you'll enjoy Foundaton more if you don't read the books first. Otherwise, you'll be sitting there shaking you head wondering why they continuously mangle the core concept of the books so badly, despite characters occasionally directly stating how it works (only for the same episode otherwise showing utter disregard for said statement)

[–] KingSlareXIV@infosec.pub 4 points 11 months ago

Show was killed way to soon. It was pretty solid!

[–] KingSlareXIV@infosec.pub 2 points 11 months ago

Season 1 was definitely the highlight of the show. But the later seasons were still pretty entertaining.

[–] KingSlareXIV@infosec.pub 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Dunno if Lexx is really worth it tbh. The original movies were worth watching just because it was so weird and different.

But if you were on the fence after those, well it doesn't really change. Just season after season of the same sort of plots...if you like that, it's great. If you don't, it's gonna get old really fast.

I rewatched all of Andromeda recently, and after a season and a half is was mostly awful, but it was occasionally entertaining.

I rewatched the first Lexx movie, remembered why I never finished the show the first time around, and moved on to something else.

[–] KingSlareXIV@infosec.pub 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Andromeda had such promise for a low budget SciFi show. The writing started out pretty good...then purple went gold and the writing IMMEDIATELY went to shit, no slow downward slide or anything. It was like a totally different show midway thru season 2, have never seen anything like it before or since.

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