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: 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.
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Are you the interviewer or the interviewee?
Interviewee in these cases.
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
Prepping for interviews already scheduled for every day through the end of next week.
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RE: ReadyNAS314: likely failing
@gjacobse said in ReadyNAS314: likely failing:
This is to document for myself and should anyone else need.
Unable to access my storage shares the last bit, rebooting does not resolve. Rebooting takes upwards of four hours to complete.
While had been able to access, now cannot. GUI does respond, but none of the user accounts seem to work. Am able to sign in local as root.
While no errors were on the status page when I was able to access, suspect the system is reaching end of life. End of product life happened some time ago.
Am able to interact with SYSLINUX from the unit directly, it has HDMI and USB ports.
However I ‘lose’ response when I plug in any USB drive.Am able to ssh, so the system isn’t totaled just yet. I can view the shares, and can ping.
While not ready to build a Nextcloud instance on the Proxmox system yet, I am thinking I should be able to recover the data.
Next step:
Create share
Mount share to NAS
Cli copy data from NAS to another computer as backupThat would be the preferred way to move things off.
If ALL ELSE FAILS, you can likely mount the bare drives in another system and restore the array using md (mdadm). It's been a long time, but I have successfully recovered arrays removed from NAS devices by doing this in the past. Still, very very risky, last resort only deal for sure.
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RE: Remove Windows 10 & Windows 11 "No Internet" Message
@Obsolesce said in Remove Windows 10 & Windows 11 "No Internet" Message:
Doesn't that prevent Windows from probing a Microsoft server to check if the network connection has internet access? I imagine that would only not work as designed on user devices if they are on some kind of highly secure network that blocks that connection.
That would be the logical behavior, but I see this reported as offline while actively using streaming services and such. It's just flat out broken, so disabling it makes sense for many end users.