@marcinozga said in Chia Mining and HD Shortages:

@dashrender said in Chia Mining and HD Shortages:

@marcinozga said in Chia Mining and HD Shortages:

@dashrender said in Chia Mining and HD Shortages:

@marcinozga said in Chia Mining and HD Shortages:

@irj said in Chia Mining and HD Shortages:

One of my buddies who just bought NVME drives for this purpose, has only been using them for a week and is at 72% life left.

Consumer or enterprise drive? It could simply be bad unit. Although I do hope mining wears the drives that fast. Hardware manufacturer should put a clause in warranty, that mining voids it. What happened with GPU market is just insane, ordinary people get screwed over. Crypto needs heavy regulation or just outright ban.

man, someone doesn't like Crypto.

And what's to like? Mining wastes crazy amounts of energy for some useless calculations. In the end you have what exactly? Some string of characters. But cyber junkies need their fix too I guess.

We'll definitely have to disagree here. Am I happy about the shear amount of power being used to mine BTC? no, I'm not... but currency that's not controlled by the rich and powerful or the government, one that can't be devalued just by them turning the printing presses on? HELL YEAH I'm all for that.

Currency that can be devalued with a few tweets is better?

I love that there are idiots that listen to tweets whether it's buy or sell. When everyones buying I'm selling and vice versa. If you would have bought yesterday you'd be up big time today.

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@notverypunny said in XenCenter to XCP-NG Upgrade using Bash:

Hey @Pete-S, Have you run across anything missing in doing upgrades? Honestly wondering 'cause we've got a substantial fleet of older machines that we use with xenserver. Haven't hit any situations where it falls apart, just that some of the older processors are no longer supported. Things still work OK, it's just not a supported config from Citrix anymore since the older gear isn't on the HCL for the newer release.

No, we haven't upgraded servers using 6.x. But we've had issues on 7.x that I'm sure must have worked fine on 6.x. Both on the hardware side and on the software side.

If you run very plain hardware with a plain installation of xencenter, using recent guest OSs, I don't expect much problems with an upgrade from 6.x. I think most installations in SMB installations fall in this category.

But on older systems it's also likely you'll find a surprise such as a VM running Windows 2003 server or something like that. Things like that might get you into trouble.

If I wanted to stay in the RHEL world, and the 16 systems would be sufficient I'd likely just use RHEL. Otherwise, if I wanted to stay in the RHEL world, and CentOS Stream wasn't viable, I'd like use Oracle Linux.

On the Sales program thing, I've been in the developer program for almost a year. I joined when I learned about it right before my RHCSA exam to get actual RHEL for practice. Other than E-mails into which I opted in, I haven't received a single sales communication from Red Hat.

@JaredBusch said in Raspberry Pi-based KVM over IP:

I don’t understand how @Dashrender and @DustinB3403 are so dense.

This is a super basic concept that had a purpose before modern RMM tools.

As I said, I had one, not Pi based, in 2008 at a client.

When windows would not boot, they plugged it in to the computer and I had remote KVM. Done. BIOS, safe mode, etc.

What the hell are you on? I definitely see the benefit of these, both before and today (though WAY less so today), so don't lump me in with whatever shit you're flinging today. 🙂

@marcinozga said in Chromium memory usage:

@travisdh1 said in Chromium memory usage:

@marcinozga said in Chromium memory usage:

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Lynx, 1 tab open :face_with_tears_of_joy:

But why as root?

Root is the only user on that server, no need for any additional accounts.

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@Dashrender said in A different mindset:

@DustinB3403 said in A different mindset:

@Dashrender said in A different mindset:

No, how do you make a Mac update Citrix without a third party tool?

Are you referring to a specific piece of software, like Citrix Receiver? If you had no other tool (brew.sh is the one to use by the way) you'd either have to use the App Store or download updates directly from the software provider's website.

Then I don't understand what you were saying about Windows requiring third partdy stuff - does does Apple by the sounds of it.

Apple, specifically doesn't if you want to use the App Store, but using a tool like brew is much more simple and straight forward.

@scottalanmiller said in GDPR Requiring Centralized Password Management:

@pete-s said in GDPR Requiring Centralized Password Management:

This is the GDPR. You can check yourself what it says. It's only 88 pages.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679&from=EN

Every countries in the European Union are required to make it national law.

Yeah, I've read most of it. But anything 88 pages is long enough to make creating FUD pretty easy to do.

Yeah, FUD is how the big boys make their money. If it's not fear, uncertainty and doubt then it's complexity. Make something that could have been simple, as complex and convoluted as possible so that you absolutely need lots of consultants and experts helping you. Which of course the supplier can offer. And finish of the cocktail of deception with a big chunk of vendor lock-in on top.

And here it is, subscription Windows licensing seen in the wild.

@hobbit666 said in Free RMM Tool Syspectr:

@stuartjordan said in Free RMM Tool Syspectr:

Just come across this RMM tool, has anyone heard or used it.
just giving it a whirl now, its developed by a company in Germany.

https://www.syspectr.com/en/

My only concern if it's truly free what's the catch? How are they paying for the Servers the clients talk to?

Its a marketing product to sell...

https://www.oo-software.com/en/products

@jaredbusch said in Practical jokes on fellow IT colleagues:

@momurda said in Practical jokes on fellow IT colleagues:

I bought annoyatron from thinkgeek and put it in a ceiling vent the day i left on a vacation.
Someone called me on my vacation to ask about the noise.

That was a bit self-defeating

Someone did the same thing at the last place I worked. Being a DoD contractor they went overboard and "thought they were being bugged". Needless to say that wasn't a fun environment to work in.

@travisdh1 You are sure right there

I have done this with Dashlane. Ive used it myself for years. A couple times I shared it with a friend for sites and passwords. It has a nice secure area for another layer to put stuff in. It has a desktop app and a nice phone app.

2012...ouch, scrap this one then....

@jaredbusch said in Remote Desktop Services & Lets Encrypt:

@stuartjordan said in Remote Desktop Services & Lets Encrypt:

There is also one for Exchange as well:
https://mediarealm.com.au/articles/lets-encrypt-microsoft-exchange-installation/

Man, I just do not think I can trust all the pieces involved here to properly work together in an automated fashion.

Exchange is generally fine. LE is generally fine. The scripts are generally fine.

But any single issue with one will blow crap up.

I think it'd still be worth a look. It could work out to be a nice time saver to set it up once and not have to worry about it.

@thwr Points taken on board, thanks thwr 🙂

@stuartjordan said in Yealink T19PE2 FreePBX:

I personally like freepbx and will continue using it, the interface is a bit dated I must admit, but that doesn't bother me.

FreePBX interface is definitely dated. But also .... why would the interface ever matter that much? But even if it did, I've used 3CX and their interface was far worse.

@jaredbusch said in Linphone:

@dustinb3403 said in Linphone:

@jaredbusch said in Linphone:

@stuartjordan your sip domain contains your password.

sip:ext:[email protected]:5061

But not according to the windows interface. . . it should put the info in there. . .

F windows.

It's F#

I will be removing web mangement secure from accessing remotely once I have spoken to the consultant who this if for and enabled a dyndns update client, at least this will lower the attack service as well.

Its online supposed to be a "Cyber Monday" thing?