@travisdh1 said in So I built: Pi-hole:

@BRRABill said in So I built: Pi-hole:

Where is @scottalanmiller to chime in that isn't the purpose of DNS?

🙂

Careful, sounds like he's already infected you!

Yes but I can't yell at people as good as him.

@gjacobse said in Security while Traveling -:

Could something like this or similar be supplemental?

Seems pretty silly.

So here is the question....

What threat do you perceive there being? How do you feel this device addresses that thread?

I don't really see any threat in the first place, and so that makes it extra hard to know how to assuage your fears. But how this device is supposed to help, I'm really unsure.

@gjacobse We have a tower beside our house that is isolated from the house to prevent a dual-ground situation.

All cables that run into the house are completely isolated to prevent anything jumping in.

We had a client in Edmonton that had a fax modem and a fax service running on a PC. When we set it up the POTS line was grounded prior to running into the PC. Somewhere along the way something was moved around and the POTS line in from the wall got plugged in to the PC modem directly.

An active storm had a strike against the pole in the alley and sure enough besides the boom scaring the carp out of folks the PC was dead. When we opened it up the controller chip on the modem was literally blown out as was the chipset chip under the heatsink. Time for a new PC!

@manxam said in New Tablet Search:

@scottalanmiller said in New Tablet Search:

Yeah, I get all that. But this is definitely just "normal USB", as it is a normal computer. Concepts unique to mobility don't apply here. So either OTG is a reference to all USB, or it's not applicable here. You would never call the USB port on your laptop or desktop OTG, and unless you do, you don't here.

But it's not a normal computer, it's a hybrid tablet running a Mobile/Tablet only OS utilizing a similar architecture to Android but with Chrome as it's UI instead of android.view/android.webkit.

Not really, it's running a desktop OS, ChromeOS. It's not similar to Android at all, it is in fact nothing but a normal laptop with no included keyboard. It's as much a desktop style device as any desktop you'd ever use. That the form factor is called a tablet is misleading, it would be like calling an iMac a tablet... the only difference between the two is one has a stand included, and one doesn't.

There is nothing "mobile" about this device. Other than it is easy to be mobile with it. Under the hood, it's identical to some of the world's most popular laptops, just with a keyboard sold separately.

@gjacobse said in DellAssistant: Critical Seagate Update:

Core is distributed with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
www.tinycorelinux.net

Someone else had that issue
https://www.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/8sqrxx/core_is_distributed_with_absolutely_no_warranty/

@dustinb3403 said in Huawei and ZTE handed 5G network ban in Australia:

@emad-r Huawei was also banned from from us for US Government jobs over these same concerns. As far as I know, Trump hasn't tweeted about this or made it his agenda (not that I follow the guy).

He 'banned' them, then was willing to not ban them once China agreed to allow a Trump casino in China.

@dustinb3403 said in Choice I do not have; Support it I must:

@gjacobse said in Choice I do not have; Support it I must:

Where and what am I working with - Ugh.. before I can say I have to make sure it's acceptable.

The DLink switches aren't horrible, but they aren't nice either, a lot of limited functionality. Things you'll miss now that you're supporting Dlink rather than Ubiquiti 🙂

I remember when DLink went to a SpiceWorld conference and tried to convince people that they made stuff for business, too. No one was fooled, though.

@travisdh1 said in ActiveBoot Disk / Hirens: replacement:

@voodoorabbit87 said in ActiveBoot Disk / Hirens: replacement:

if you're lazy and have 11$ to spare this is really good https://partedmagic.com/

Parted Magic has a paid for option now? Has this always been a thing that I've just completely missed?

Newer versions have cost $ for at least 5 years now

@gjacobse said in Time for change?:

@flaxking said in Time for change?:

Well, in case you are regretting the change....
https://mangolassi.it/topic/17796/looking-for-senior-it-admins

Thanks - that appears to require a relocation - which I am unable to do. Thus far - pretty happy with things,.. as I still get to visit ML, and work with NTG - though not officially on the payroll anymore. I still help @pchiodo, @scottalanmiller and all out when I can / they need.

His post says remote is a possibility.

Good tip had someone on the phone last week saying their number lock wasn't staying on after reboots

@black3dynamite said in Replacing Samsung Android device:

@gjacobse said in Replacing Samsung Android device:

@scottalanmiller said in Replacing Samsung Android device:

@gjacobse said in Replacing Samsung Android device:

@scottalanmiller said in Replacing Samsung Android device:

Chromebook Tab 10

My initial concern with the ChromeOS line is that there are going to be some specific applications that I will want to run. Naming DroidPSK and 817 Companion - Ham Radio programs.

How is that an issue? It runs anything Android can run. So if those don't work on Android, why do you want an Android device?

It's not an issue if the ChromeOS will run them. I don't have the bases of ChromeOS, but did look at the CB Tab10, and it should work fine... so - I am open to it as an option.

Android apps can be installed on ChromeOS.
https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/7021273?hl=en

But Google Play Store is only available on selected Chromebooks
https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/chrome-os-systems-supporting-android-apps

New ones with OP1 processor all take the Google Play Store.

@gjacobse said in Server 2008 Exchange 2010: Event 1009:

Nearly all of the Exchange issues I deal with right now really come from O365.

However I was asked about Exchange Mail Submission server that was throwing Event 1009, and effectively stopping mail flow. What he found via forum (not ML) searching was 'a back pressure issue, but the Event Log wasn't logging in back pressure messages'

While it's been four years since directly touching a Exchange system, the term 'back pressure' is not one I have heard before.

However, looking up Exchange Event 1009 give me a few options including limited disk space.

Has anyone come across the term 'Back Pressure' with Exchange in the past?

Yes, it is when the server is running out of space or resources for delivery of incoming emails

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/mail-flow/back-pressure

@dbeato said in Rocket.Chat: No notifications on new message:

@dafyre said in Rocket.Chat: No notifications on new message:

t installed or are you just using the browser

I had the same problem before even with this settings but I recall @scottalanmiller saying it was fixed.

Mine was fixed by the way.

@dafyre said in Microsoft VPN client: Error 809:

@gjacobse said in Microsoft VPN client: Error 809:

Ran the Diagnostics logging and came back with this:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms821096.aspx

Explanation:
RASGTWY.DLL is missing or corrupted.
User Action:
Either copy RASGTWY.DLL from your installation disks to the C:\WINNT\system32 directory or reinstall the Remote Access Service. Use the Network option in the Control Panel to remove and then reinstall the Remote Access Service.

Okay.. What/where i that. since RAS is not checked in Windows Features

Check the destination folder... C:\WINNT hasn't been used in... along time.

Folder does not exist.

@scottalanmiller said in Server 2012 PS: Script to find OU path:

@dbeato he's looking for NTG admin accounts on someone else's domain.

Good!

Since I was working with only ONE user this is what I needed to change it to, else was getting Parameter set cannot be resolved

Import-module ActiveDirectory Get-ADUser -Filter {Name -eq "SomeUser"} -SearchBase "OU=Users,OU=OUGroup,DC=DOMAINname,DC=com" | Set-ADUser –scriptPath “\\SERVERNAME\netlogon\2018ADUC-script.txt”

But it worked!

@gjacobse said in Domain Computers: Clock Sync:

DC4 is a virtual machine. changes to it are likely over rode by the Hypervisor or physical hardware that were wrong.

By updating the physical hardware, and then running w32tm /resync the time updated.

The issue will resurface again as the BIOS is losing time and will be pulled again wrongly on the host. Have you tried not syncing the time of the VM through the Hypervisor and turning of Time Synchronization for this DC?

@stacksofplates said in Windows 10: telegram, messenger, skype:

@black3dynamite said in Windows 10: telegram, messenger, skype:

@stacksofplates said in Windows 10: telegram, messenger, skype:

@StorageNinja uses Franz. No idea how well it works.

So far Telegram, Skype, and messenger work. When setting up messenger, I get a review recent login prompt and it shows Chrome for Linux. Does that mean Franz is built off of Chrome?

I think it's an electron app So it's chrome under the hood.

That makes sense now. Because I only see this message, when using Skype from a browser.
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@gjacobse said in Fedora: VeraCrypt:

@scottalanmiller said in Fedora: VeraCrypt:

@gjacobse said in Fedora: VeraCrypt:

@scottalanmiller said in Fedora: VeraCrypt:

Normally I think everyone uses the built in encryption instead.

I'm not familiar with that, and will it work cross platform?

No, it's full disk.

Not looking for - nor do I currently need FDE -

That's why no one uses VeraCrypt, though. Full disk is built in and just a check box.

The daemom is written in python and takes forever to rebuild the db if you restart it… I had ~1Tb in 2 millions of files. The thing is, it keeps track of the file chunks of every files… sort of joins object storage and file storage together. Very bandwith efficent, but horrible on cpu and I/O. I switched to nextcloud that lacks that feature, but it’s much faster and flexible.