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@JaredBusch said in Actually scrolling the scroll bars, tiny hitbox.:

@travisdh1 it seems normal to me.

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Hrm, may be my web browser, my scroll bars seem to be about a single pixel tall/wide 😞

@travisdh1 said in I never knew I did so much...:

Every github project I look at seems to have a travis.yml file, I never knew I did so much work on open source coding!

That's like cheating, my dear Travis 😉

@StrongBad said

Because, you know, NY gets Montezuma's Revenge. Can't be too careful. 😉

Not everyplace has good water.

I can't be bothered researching water!

Plus, growing up in Trenton, the city water tasted like crap.

@travisdh1 said in LastPass Replacement?:

@Dashrender said in LastPass Replacement?:

@scottalanmiller said in LastPass Replacement?:

@dafyre said in LastPass Replacement?:

Because they got bought out by LMI(Log Me In), I think... and in some circles, LMI has a horrid reputation.

That and they are not free. But mostly the LMI buy out.

For the cloud auto sync options, I'm totally fine paying $12/yr. But the LMI thing does bug me.

Yeah, call this a preemptive action on my part. I don't want LMI getting any $$ from me.

Or my passwords.

@JaredBusch said in ISS Tech:

@travisdh1 no they are users. This means they push whatever menu option they were told to push. It does not mean they "know" Linux

They're a lot more trusting than I would be then. Of course I'm the crazy guy that would insist on learning that odd OS they use for satellites and rovers as well 😛

@aaron said in Backblaze latest publicly released numbers.:

@travisdh1 said in Backblaze latest publicly released numbers.:

@Dashrender Yep, exactly.

I kinda wish they'd just use pure erasure coding instead of layering it on top of RAID6 arrays. I mean, if you're doing erasure coding correctly, wouldn't an additional RAID array be additional complexity that's not needed?

Quoted from the linked article:

Note: Our stand-alone Storage Pods use RAID-6, our Backblaze Vaults use our own open-sourced implementation of Reed-Solomon erasure coding instead.

Disclaimer: I'm a Backblaze sysadmin, blah, blah, etc, etc 🙂

I missed that bit. Much better than what I thought.

Hi!

Thanks for the hint, will do 🙂

@JaredBusch said in Wrapping your head around LVM.:

@black3dynamite said in Wrapping your head around LVM.:

@JaredBusch said in Wrapping your head around LVM.:

@JaredBusch said in Wrapping your head around LVM.:

@travisdh1 I just went through all of this last night in order to expand space on a CentOS 7 VM.

All of the guides and info seemed really bad. Nothing was consolidated or concise.

I ended up with this guide working to get what I needed done except for the last step. The guide said to use resize2fs and that does not work. I had to use xfs_growfs as pointed out in an answer to this post.

I just had to do this again.. Time to make a write up here because the original article is no longer online. Had to use the wayback machine to verify my notes.

It be a lot more easier now using Cockpit?

CentOS 7

You can do it on CentOS.

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Also a quick tip is if you do an lvextend -r it will auto resize the filesystem.

@scottalanmiller said in OwnCloud and LibreOffice Online:

That's how my wife describes me.

lol

Missing my wife right now, how she would describe me made most people blush.

@travisdh1 said:

@dafyre said:

Assembly programs give me nightmares, lol.

I had an assembly language class in college. While I don't really enjoy it, I very much appreciate someone who does. Just... not.... this. It's a itty bitty little package of evil.

This isn't meant to be offensive, but I've never met anyone who liked Assembly who was not at least border-line autistic. I think it's because it takes a certain type of mind or memory in order to deal with in an extended way and enjoy it. I can deal with it, but I don't really enjoy it. For smaller programs I'd rather use C and strip everything down... still won't be as small, but certainly better than any extra high level language.

@Dashrender said:

@JaredBusch said:

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@Dashrender said:

@JaredBusch said:

My tax rate (counting healthcare) is something like 35% when I looked at my last paystub for 2015. Refund this will be about $3k because I forgot to change the amounts last fall like I generally do once I have paid in enough to cover my taxes.

That's weird - why would you pay in early? In fact, why not do the opposite, short them as much as possible, bank the cash and send them a check?

It's the world's worst savings plan! I've known people who used taxes like a savings account before, not such a great way to go about things. Personally I've got it to the point where it's as close to zero at tax time as possible (normally $40 or so either way.)

Because I forgot to adjust my W4 amounts last year. I normally do that about September once I have a solid grip on my expected tax for the year. I have long aimed for a ~$100 owe/refund amount.

If it wasn't for possible penalties, I'd pay zero all year and just write a check every year on April 15, get the interest myself.

Since April 15 is my birthday, feel free to write me a check too.

@Jason said:

@travisdh1 said:

@gjacobse The point is that forcing people to change their password even just 4 times a year means they will forget them, and be forced into using poor choices and/or patterns. Like @aaron I only have 2 memorized anymore.

Using patterns of added or changing special checerters would be better. Either one still prevents the likely hood of a brute force (along with lock outs).

that's the worst. That's what creates the security weaknesses that we commonly see today.

Far better to have one long, never changing passphrase than many short, regularly changing ones.

Monday morning and back at it. Anyway, ifcfg-eth2

cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth2 DEVICE=eth2 TYPE="Ethernet" ONBOOT="yes" USERCTL="no" BOOTPROTO="dhcp" PEERDNS="yes"

I wonder if it could be a missing hardware address, gonna go lookup the MAC and add that in.

@JaredBusch said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

Steve specifically mentioned CloudFlare during his podcast and made mention that he didn't think it would work for him.

What kind of site is he running? ML cant work behind it because of Websockets. Is his site a blog or what?

This is completely not true. You can use Websockets with CloudFlare, you just have to pay for it. It has been that way since August of 2014.

Your statement is a complete lie.

Okay yes, with the enterprise level support which is $11K a month, I've been told, then CF will do this.

Reinstalling the OS from generic media is my personal preference for any new computer. Get rid of the crap the OEMs bake in.

The only time this didn't work well for me was Vista pre SP1. The OEMs seem to be able to get the machines to run OK, but damn, once you blew their install away and installed from generic media and then installed the OEM's drivers - it was never as good.

But outside of Vista pre SP1 - I've never had an issue doing this.

@Jason said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Jason said:

@travisdh1 said:

@scottalanmiller Oh, I know and understand that.

I'm also not sure if the Fair Use would cover those under the teaching, scholarship, or research exemptions.

No, it's very obliously a company site for someone who sells products. This is not fair use.

How did you determine that they sold something? I was under the impression that it was like a botanical guide offered freely online. I guess I just read into that, though.

No, they just have a glossary section to help sell products, really still part of the sales.

https://www.precisionherbs.com/product-list/

Which is why I'm probably going to be getting the lawyer involved. It's outside my area of expertise now. Yes, we do sell products on the website, yet the pages they reference are information/education only.

@travisdh1 said:

@Dashrender said:

@JaredBusch said:

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@johnhooks said:

Since I set up my PBX, I have pretty much had zero calls hit my phone. It's worth it just for that.

The staff just hands out anyone's name and transfer like mad.. no matter how many times I ask them not to.

That is the job of Management/HR not you.

Well - in that case, the management doesn't care - so I guess I'll always just be getting the crap calls.

Start forwarding them to 214-666-4321, and hit mute, so you can listen in on what goes down 😈

lol - that would be funny.

@johnhooks said:

I haven't dealt with anything large at all, so I guess I haven't seen that. I didn't realize it was that bad when you had much larger systems.

If you are on SSD everywhere, might not be so bad. But at the bank, for example, going through logs was painful. Took up a ton of memory while loaded, certain tools could not be used to open the files, long load times, very long scroll times, slow searching, etc. When you have 10GB of text in a single file, things slow down. 🙂