Posts made by marcinozga

@eleceng said in Burn to Virtual CD Media:

Is there any way to take a legacy application that will only burn to a cd (not an iso) and make it burn to an .iso file?

Most of the popular tools out here only read .iso or convert optical media to .iso

If the software only burns to cd, then there's no way to force it to write iso file. What king of application is that? Every single cd/dvd burning app I've run across was able to create iso or some other format. Your best approach is probably burning to cd-rw disk and then using another application to dump the disk to iso.

@garak0410 you missed Picard in that list But yeah, Discovery is a mess. I hope Strange new worlds that's suppose to come out next will be better.

If it's anonymous, then why do we need to sign up or login with LinkedIn?
Buying reviews also leaves bad taste in my mouth. It's really no different than Chinese sellers on Amazon.

@dashrender With older Macs you have DVD disks with required drivers, and these were model specific. I couldn't use disks from Macbook Air on iMac. I think if he can boot from Windows 10 installation media and it recognizes storage controller, it should install and boot.

Docker image, extracted. That's huge for alpine based.

Ubuntu 21.04

@travisdh1

On Ubuntu 20.10

@irj 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:

2. 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.

That blanket statement you made could be said about computers/servers in general. There are not meaningless calculations if they have a purpose. Are you going to go around and decide which data is a waste of energy and what isn't?

Are Hobby business or home labs a waste of energy, now too? Is your business data a waste of energy?

Hobby business or labs don't use as much power as entire countries. Last time I checked mining used equivalent of country of Argentina.
Edit: I just checked again, it's more than that, more that Sweden and Malaysia.

@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:

2. 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?

@dashrender said in Chia Mining and HD Shortages:

@marcinozga said in Chia Mining and HD Shortages:

@irj said in Chia Mining and HD Shortages:

2. 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.

@dashrender said in Resize Linux VM Ext4 File System Proxmox:

@marcinozga said in Resize Linux VM Ext4 File System Proxmox:

I see few issues above.

• LVM is not a filesystem.
• You don't need to shutdown VM to extend its disk size.
• You don't need to boot from any installer CD to resize partitions, you can do it from within live system with fdisk, although if you have some unusual partition layout you're probably better off doing it offline.
• You can also extend filesystem on a live system, no need for shutdown.

I thought his approach was over cautious. Windows will allow you to extend any partition except the drive live, and I'm guessing you can likely extend even / live in Linux OSes.

Are you sure about extending c:? I've done it many times, on live systems. Although it was on bare metal desktops after cloning drive to a bigger one.

@irj said in Chia Mining and HD Shortages:

2. 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.

@stuartjordan said in Handy Linux Utilities:

I'll start With a couple and will add more

NCDU: A utility to track down where high file usage is being used:

I love it and use all the time.

Glances: A nice resource usage utility:

I have a mixed feelings about this one. It's really useful but it's rather bloated, close to 100MB with all dependencies. Docker images are even worse, developer was hesitant with Alpine based images.

NMAP: Network scan/Security scan with Vulnerability scripts:

Classic. No comments needed.

Terminator (gnome) - A different terminal that you can split into multiple terminals:

I've never used it, I don't have any Linux desktops to try it. Killer name though.

I see few issues above.

• LVM is not a filesystem.
• You don't need to shutdown VM to extend its disk size.
• You don't need to boot from any installer CD to resize partitions, you can do it from within live system with fdisk, although if you have some unusual partition layout you're probably better off doing it offline.
• You can also extend filesystem on a live system, no need for shutdown.

They need to get rid of IE mode and introduce some kind of kill switch, to completely remove IE 11. Otherwise legacy apps will never get updated. Unfortunately nobody at Microsoft has any balls to do that.

@ambarishrh said in PDQ Link:

@jaredbusch said in PDQ Link:

@Ambarishrh said in PDQ Link:

The only catch I could see is the mandatory port 443 as per their site

The majority of work for Link is done with our installer, but there is one bit that will have to be done by you or your network team. Your external firewall will need to route incoming TCP 443 to your PDQ Link server. 443 is the only port SSTP can utilize. This configuration is mandatory to allow your external clients to connect.

If you already have another service on 443 with a public IP, we need to use an additional IP for PDQ link.

That is what inbound proxy servers are for.

digging an older topic as I am testing this now. Regarding inbound proxy
, what would you suggest to be used?

This isn't that simple, you need a proxy that supports TCP streams, unless SSTP behaves just like HTTPS. You'd need to talk to PDQ support to get more details. If you do end up needing TCP streams, I think Nginx, Traefik, and Haproxy all support that, and there's a mod for Apache too, but if I recall it correctly, it was specifically for MSRPC, so Exchange OWA or RDS.

@jim9500 CDW is way overpriced, I don't even know how they stay in business. Probably for the price of HP drives you could get new Supermicro server with SSD storage.

@jaredbusch said in Any pfSense users? Are upgrades smooth?:

@marcinozga Any issues with 2.5.1?

Their forum is full of issues. But I have zero trust of the ability of those posting failures.

None. But I also use hardly any packages. Basic firewall and NAT work just fine.

That's why I despise anything proprietary. Give me open standards hardware or go pound sand. Supermicro is my choice for servers, none of that paywall crap, and I can use any drives with them. Quanta and Hyve servers look promising too, but I have no idea if their support is any good. Dell doesn't hide anything behind a paywall, but I'm not sure they won't follow HP in the future.

This is probably the easiest and safest way to upgrade pfSense.