Well, my first interview is Tuesday, even before my final pay check is due
Best posts made by travisdh1
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RE: Well, that really, really sucks.
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco That is a totally different life style to what I was imaging...
So where do they grow their plants if they don't have land to work? Where do they sleep if they don't own or rent? And don't they ever just get an urge to have a big fat juicy steak with a side of shrimp?
The answer to all those queries is "who cares, they're filthy hippies".
hey now, hippies have a use, like human shields.... or fertilizer for feed for beef farms..
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Cisco Security Vulnerability Thread.
Yes, they made my news feeds again today.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hardcoded-password-found-in-cisco-software/
Since Cisco keeps being so popular with the security breaches and vulnerabilities, I figured it's time they get their very own thread.
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RE: MangoCon 2017
Well, looks like I will be able to make it, thanks to @DustinB3403!
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RE: Random Thread - Anything Goes
Dilbert and one of the big topics around here:
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DIY Environment Monitoring
Thought I'd drop one of my current projects here. It started as just wanting a way to see what the temperature in a room is without having to have someone go check. (It's another building in a locked room few people have a key for.)
We already have lots of project cases, and also already had a Raspberry Pi. The new $5 Pi would need a network connection of some sort, so figure $10 for the networked PC ($20 if you need a power supply and memory card as well). I splurged at $13 for a combination temperature and humidity sensor. I went ahead and added a door sensor as well, it was $2. I also got a Cobbler Plus GPIO Breakout for $8 and a Perma-Proto board for $6. Total cost for me was $29. If you need a Pi as well figure ~$50 for everything. Compare that to any of the commercial offerings!
I'll post the code I use for everything here, along with references where possible. After all, that's where the real cost of these little things end up being.
It might be good to add a battery backup to it as well, which is quite easy, but I have no real need for that (if the power is out, the temperature isn't going to be getting out of control.) Adafruit makes it really easy.
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Thing learned today: Domain controller must have SMB v1 enabled for a Server 2003 member to join the domain.
I learned that I only have to get inside your LAN in order to steal all the network data.
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More reasons to never do business with Intuit
This is mostly to make things a matter of public record, in addition to a bit of a rant.
Got a call yesterday morning. They can't process credit cards. That office happens to use Intuit/Quickbooks for everything from inventory tracking, to payment processing and accounting. I've been down the road of getting away from Intuit often. Don't know if this will push them past the edge or not.
Ok, spent 2 hours manually doing updates because the automatic ones broke along the way somewhere. Updates complete. Good, we should be up and running. They try to login, and get asked for a code. Ok, check the email address... nothing.
Now I'm calling Intuit support (bad idea, but we're basically not in business at this point.) That's a 3 hour call where I'm told something is wrong with our email server.
Fine, hang up with one unhelpful peon. Go eat lunch (3:30pm at this point, my blood sugar is about to tank.)
Get back into the office around 4:30. Enough time to find something very interesting in the server logs...
2016-10-05 14:01:56 H=lvmailappout12.intuit.com [199.16.139.22]:30939 sender verify fail for <[email protected]>: response to "RCPT TO:<[email protected]>" from mailin.intuit.com [206.108.40.19] was: 550 #5.1.0 Address rejected. 2016-10-06 11:17:10 H=mailout203.intuit.com [206.108.40.17]:49121 X=TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256 CV=no F=<[email protected]> rejected RCPT <[email protected]>: Sender verify failed
Now, I spent way to much time figuring out how to deal with spam, and have gotten it figured out for the most part. So, they are sending a confirmation code out using an address that their own email server does not acknowledge as being valid. Yet it's somehow my fault that the email is not being delivered.
Spent another 2 hours on the phone this morning going over the same stuff. We're working through alternatives, none of which are something the business would normally find acceptable.
This on top of them having me enable SSL2 in the browser. Uhm, these computers have to remain PCI compliant, and they just purposely made them non-compliant.
Malicious company, let it be known.
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RE: How do you get your boss to notice your work?
Getting noticed is easy!
Getting the right kind of notice is very hard! -
900,000 Routers Knocked Offline in Germany amid Rumors of Cyber-Attack
On Facebook, Deutsche Telekom engineers recommended that users unplug their devices, wait for 30 seconds and restart their router. If the equipment fails to connect to the company's network, engineers told users to disconnect their device from the company's network permanently.
To compensate the downtime, Deutsche Telekom is offering free mobile Internet until the technical problem is resolved.
DSL routers all over Germany, and presumably worldwide if anyone else happens to be using the same DSL Modem that got hit by this.
@thwr, hope you're still running!
Latest posts made by travisdh1
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@GUIn00b said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@GUIn00b said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Contemplating how to leverage 2 ISP's for supplemental bandwidth when needed using 2 separate routers that are both servicing the same LAN.
......So I'm gonna go post a new topic!
Saw the post. It's not a fun thing. What I did when I had this was I just separated things by machine. Some machines used one connection and some the other based on their workloads. It was "static" but let me use both.
You described basically what I want to do. For general user media consumption (YouTube, Facebook, Amazon shopping etc.) it can just be shipped out the Spectrum cable connection. But for my servers I more or less want those bound to the WAN with static IP. However, my static WAN has slower download speeds than the Spectrum cable. (Static WAN is 50Mbps up and down, Spectrum is 300Mbps down). So when it's time to do a giant update or download new ISOs or whatever, the 300Mbps makes a big difference in time spent waiting.
Separating things at each machine that needs the static WAN by giving them static DGW's is worthwhile for me, but it would be nice to have some load balancing intelligence happening so that large downloads come in through the fast pipe no matter the machine.
I've set up a LANcache for my Steam library which helps a lot for 130gig games and whatever. But when there's a 3-4gig update that isn't cached, the request is sent out the client machine's DGW. I think there's a way to do "Split Horizon" or something so I can setup a couple lists of domains that get allocated to one Gateway or another. Like one list of domain/hosts would be like the known Linux repo hosts would definitely be piped over to the fast download cable. But any requests for say some Linode hosted VPS's I'd want trafficked out the slower static pipe.
Yeah, I still haven't made a decision one way or the other and still have them operating with separate LAN's lol! Full disclosure, I enjoy the relationship between my a** and my couch way too much to be bothered. Potato chips not required but quite frequently present. That's just truly my happy place. So the idea of having to bend over to move a cable or something to get all this setup like I want is just a total buzzkill 99% of the time. But that's the key. 99% of the time. Not 100%. So.... someday. Someday....
Realistically for what you want to do you need a router that understands the traffic and is dividing it up. DNS or split horizon can't do the job. Dividing traffic along paths is actually quite difficult. Especially once you add encryption on the traffic.
That is the one and only reason VMWare bought Velocloud, and also the only reason to use their SD-WAN device. They can route traffic to different WAN connections based on pre-defined rules. You can have latency dependent streams (Zoom, SIP, etc) routed differently than "bulk" streams (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc).
Just hope you never have to contact support.
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Accepted a job offer this morning, so I'm back to work tomorrow.
Slight raise to base pay, but I'll also get 5% of my billable hours. So if I keep my billable hours up, a big raise.
Only downside is that it's on-site in downtown Cleveland.
Ohio? But, why, though?
I've lived here for 99% of my life, we're kind of stuck with the "golden handcuffs" of a 3% mortgage, but mostly because the wife doesn't want to leave the area.
Edit: Other conversations reminded me that I should mention one other aspect. I applied to many remote positions as well, but none of them made a job offer.
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
Accepted a job offer this morning, so I'm back to work tomorrow.
Slight raise to base pay, but I'll also get 5% of my billable hours. So if I keep my billable hours up, a big raise.
Only downside is that it's on-site in downtown Cleveland.
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RE: Proxmox 8.2 is out
@CCWTech said in Proxmox 8.2 is out:
@IThomeboy80 You are welcome. I keep falling more and more in love with Proxmox every day. It's just a great product!
I feel the same way.
Looking forward to the possibility of doing some migrations off of ESXi.
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RE: Windows/vmware server licensing
@Grey said in Windows/vmware server licensing:
@travisdh1 Does that imply that each guest needs a minimum number of cores assigned?
No, you just need to cover the cores on the host.
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RE: Windows/vmware server licensing
@Grey said in Windows server licensing:
I'm looking to upgrade a pair of end-of-life home lab Windows servers and want it to double check on the current licensing since I haven't relicensed since Technet closed up. From what I can tell it looks like data center covers up to five windows servers? There also appear to be maybe a minimum number of cores per server? Is that accurate?
Unless the license has drastically changed in the past 2 years since I've had to deal with Windows Server licensing.
- Data center covers unlimited amounts of Windows Servers for a single host.
- Minimum of 16 cpu core licenses per host.
If you want multiple systems in a cluster that you can freely move VMs between, you'll need a separate data center license for each host.
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Starting to juggle job offers. This is before my severance ends, so things are looking up.
That can be a challenge. If they are close enough in details it could come down to the expected environment, and future challenges.
Best of luck.
Thanks. I'm waiting on final details for a couple, but don't expect one back till next week.
Glad I'm not worrying about finding work this time around!
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
Starting to juggle job offers. This is before my severance ends, so things are looking up.
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RE: Proxmox on Ubuntu
First thought: Proxmox is a type-1 hypervisor, it IS NOT a desktop replacement. If you want to try replacing a desktop, stick with Fedora/Ubuntu.
If you're using Windows as your base OS, stick with Hyper-V. Adding Proxmox in nested mode (weather on Hyper-V or WSL) just means Proxmox will run without hardware acceleration.
My advice, find an old system to run Proxmox on if you want to experiment with Proxmox.
Q1: No, you can't. Debian desktop you can, but you should not!
Q2: With Proxmox, you'll want to manage it with another system with a gui. So, again, not a good use-case.
Q3: Hyper-V (because Windows)