@travisdh1 said in I'm not finding the NextCloud yum repository?:

@jospoortvliet said in I'm not finding the NextCloud yum repository?:

yes, those are certainly issues but there are more. Some want Apache, others NGINX. PHP 5, PHP 7. And of course - the distributions want you to split dependencies, put the config files in /etc - and all have different standards on what user the files should belong to, what settings to have in the php.ini file, where the files should be located and so on.

Even 'just package a tarball' is harder than you think - what is the apache user, do you include an apache config file, and where to extract the tarball (/srv/htdocs/nextcloud? /var/srv/www?)?

I feel you underestimate it, @travisdh1 but - feel free to prove me wrong

Notice I didn't say it's trivial

Of course I think @scottalanmiller could do that in his sleep with how he gets "run this script to install" scripts out.

A friend posted a picture of Ohio from space (hey, it's space, makes everything better). The arrow is pointing to the nearest town (it doesn't deserve tacking large in front of that, no.) Right on the edge of the "dark zone".

@scottalanmiller said in SpiceWorld 2017:

Is that THE parking garage?

I made my own, but you can pickup pre-made/supported units for $200. I like my DIY one, and can expand it quite a lot still.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

The issue is they are charging through a USB cable that plugs into the power cable. There is no good way (that I have found) to secure the power cable to the USB cable.

Sugru! I got a ton of this at SpiceWorld a couple years ago it is awesome!

Never heard of it... Looks quite interesting!

Sugru, for those times you want a 3d printed part and don't have a 3d printer yet, right @thwr?

AMD's EPIC processors getting even more epic (sorry, can't help myself.)

128 threads in a single CPU, yes, please.

https://hothardware.com/news/amd-epyc-2-64-cores-128-threads-and-256mb-l3-cache

@scottalanmiller Do you remember what file(s) firewalld uses for it's config off the top of your head yet? I'm drawing a blank.

Cloning iptables rules was/is so easy, just copy the /etc/sysconfig/iptables file to the new host.

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said

ALT+PRTSCRN -> ML -> Reply -> CTRL+V

10 seconds, maybe

Holy crap, you can post an image into the post box from the clipboard.

Wow, I wasted a lot of time the past 6 months.

I'll have to try that when I get home... Two screens, 24" 1960x1080 and a 32" 2550x1600... wonder how big that would show up as.

ALT+PRNTSCRN just captures the focused window

Good to know. Learning new keyboard shortcuts always makes me happy.

Remote, unauthenticated, arbitrary code this time
https://thehackernews.com/2018/04/cisco-switches-hacking.html

@hobbit666 said in The Inverted Pyramid of Doom Challenge:

Give us 3-4 months and i'll put you in contact with our MSP as they will be trying to sell us some hardware and SAN with a refresh, even after i've suggested better like Scale

Might be suggesting a 3rd party review of the solution so look out for an E-mail NTG

Do you have a write up of common purchasing mistakes to hand to management before hand?

@tiagom said in Non-IT News Thread:

hey no ML while driving.

The horse knows the way home, when you've gotten plastered at the local bar all you have to do is unhitch the horse

I didn't see this elsewhere yet, so here you go.

Free transfer between Backblaze and Cloudflare: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-and-cloudflare-partner-to-provide-free-data-transfer/

Sweetness.

@KOOLER said in The Inverted Pyramid of Doom Challenge:

@John-Nicholson said in The Inverted Pyramid of Doom Challenge:

One last thought...

IF the reason that Xen has 2% market share is because there is NO LOGICAL REASON for vSphere or paid Hyper-V (with VMM to manage) then that means 98% of IT people are idiots. If 98% are idiots, wouldn't that mean they should be outsourcing their IT as much as possible to their vendors or others? (and therefore not deploy Xen).

Catch-22

Xen has 2% of the market share because it never came out of the niche. Most admins are lazy (it's natural, all people are so deeply inside and lazy = OK) so if you need to perform 1 simple activity with ESXi and it "just works" but you need to run many whistles with Xen... Naturally you'll go ESXi next time! Just because you want to spend these +2 hours drinking Coors and watching Vikings losing another game. Being too professional != being good. IMHO of course.

I'd argue that Xen is the market leader by far, whereas XenServer you're right on track with. Picking at straws I know.

Got an ER-X in today, installing latest firmware now.

@NerdyDad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@NerdyDad

Does it fold in half?! If not I'm not interested! Plebeian technology is rigid, my phone MUST FOLD!

Not this one.

It will... once.

@scottalanmiller said in Linux Installation Issues:

Running in compatibility mode things get farther...

/init: line 7: can’t open /dev/sr0: No medium found

Now this is what is catching me. It can't find its own live filesystem.

This drives me bat-**** crazy at times. A long time ago, in a drug induced haze, some Debian developer thought it would be a good idea to write a check to make sure that a cdrom is mounted and available in the installation routine. If it doesn't find a cdrom, never shall it move on.

If you're using a usb stick, the "fix" is to have a copy of the iso on the stick and mount the iso to /cdrom.

Finished up 2 of my 3 presentations, and have the last one almost ready to go as well! At least I'm not procrastinating as much as normal

@Obsolesce said in Zyxel backdoor found:

Never heard of or seen these before. Are they only used mostly in Asia? Seems like a smaller company.

They are absolutely all over the place. Low cost at retail means just about all consumers have at least 1 Zyxel branded product somewhere.

Their "business" branded products are all about junk like their cheap consumer stuff, so not seeing their stuff isn't a surprise to me.

@JaredBusch said in Got a Pi:

@thwr said in Got a Pi:

@JaredBusch said in Got a Pi:

@thwr said in Got a Pi:

@BBigford said in Got a Pi:

The port size on the Zeros is the only thing I couldn't get past. Pi 3 is where my preference is.

Different use-cases

I want to get a few of these for UPS monitoring. Would the Zero be the best choice?

At least a Pi2/3 would be way overpowered. Do you plan to use a screen with the board? In this case, use a Zero with some very lightweight desktop (LXDE/LightDM or something similar) or use a Pi2/3.

Just want to get email notification. All places have wireless, so as long as the unit has that and USB, I should be good.

Might want to go with the Raspberry Pi 3 then, they've got wireless built in and standard USB ports. You could plug into up to 4 UPS systems if they have more than 1 in the same area. A few more dollars, but no hassles with USB ports or wifi adapters.

Sitting in the hotel room going.... Monday I'm marking all topics as read and starting over!