Well, my first interview is Tuesday, even before my final pay check is due

@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..

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.

Well, looks like I will be able to make it, thanks to @DustinB3403!

Dilbert and one of the big topics around here:

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.

@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.

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.

Getting noticed is easy!

Getting the right kind of notice is very hard!

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/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!

@Mario-Jakovina said in Recommendation for home WiFi router:

Hello everybody!
(I'm sad to see Mangolassi dead, but here is a topic from me)

1. Can you give me some recommendation for new home Wifi router?
Here is description of my "system":

• internet link is 300/30 Mbps
• 15 devices should be connected to it (6 phones, 4 laptops, 3 TVs, one WiFi access point + occasionally ,some guest or our HTPC
• of these 15 devices, 3 should be connected via LAN (2 TVs, one HTPC), others via WiFi

Reason for buying is that my internet provider changed the router type (after upgrade of speed from 200/20 to 300/30, but this new device seems to struggle with the load).

2. Is there some Mikrotik device that you would recommend for this? (we have good local Mikrotik dealer here)

3. If I put telecom's router in "bridge mode" and put better router behind it, is it reasonable to expect that the telecom's router's should not be a noticeable bottleneck (or not as much)?

Thank you

I'm not sure which MicroTik routers would be a good fit.

We use a lot of the Netgate/PFSense routers at work, and I've been impressed with the price/performance of them. If they're available in your area, you should look at a Netgate 2100 for your needs.

Once you have the ISP router in "bridge mode", it should cease to have any performance impact at all. Even the cheapest devices can forward traffic at line speed these days.

While I was attempting to look up how to backup a Proxmox host to a remote Proxmox Backup Server over Zerotier, all the instructions I found were very complex. While those instructions are true if you want to route an entire network, it is very easy to get a single Proxmox host and single PBS server connected over Zerotier.

1. Join both host and PBS to the same Zerotier network
2. Add 2 routes in Zerotier, each pointing to the remote subnet the Zerotier IP of the remote host as the Via address in Zerotier.
3. Add the PBS server to the Proxmox host like normal.

As an example, this is my Managed Routes section of Zerotier with a working backup job.

Reinstalling Windows

@gjacobse said in Getting Domain Information / Owner:

@travisdh1 said in Getting Domain Information / Owner:

@gjacobse Try the source, ICANN.

https://lookup.icann.org/en

Site seems to use Domains By Proxy, part of GoDaddy,.... maybe,..

ICANN is literally the source of truth so far as internet domains are concerned.
https://www.icann.org/

The domains I'm responsible for always reflect the correct information there.

Hopefully the one you're looking at isn't behind a privacy screen, most are these days.

@gjacobse Try the source, ICANN.

https://lookup.icann.org/en

I found that the name has changed to UniGetUI recently. I've been using it recently since it does all the Windows repositories I know about.

@Oksana said in What is the Best Type-2 Hypervisor?:

Wondering what’s the difference between Oracle VirtualBox, VMware Workstation, and QEMU? Check out our latest comprehensive comparison by Dmytro Malynka, StarWind Product Manager, to choose the best Type 2 hypervisor for your virtualization projects. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/9S

This graphic is very deceptive. The article never mentions using QEMU with VirtualBox, only KVM.