Posts made by wrx7m

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Still doing Windows 10 upgrades.

Same here. Don't think I will make it by next week

@coliver said in Buttercup Password Manager:

@wrx7m said in Buttercup Password Manager:

@coliver said in Buttercup Password Manager:

@wrx7m said in Buttercup Password Manager:

@coliver Right, bitwarden.

I am.

And, how do you like it?

I like it a lot. It does everything I need it to do.

I am currently using keepass (have been for like 15 years). I store the db on dropbox and have it sync to all my systems and phone.

@Dashrender said in Buttercup Password Manager:

@wrx7m said in Buttercup Password Manager:

@coliver Right, bitwarden.

I used it for a while, I gave up because it lacked some integration that LP had.. no clue if that's been resolved now or not.

Gotcha. Thanks.

@coliver said in Buttercup Password Manager:

@wrx7m said in Buttercup Password Manager:

@coliver Right, bitwarden.

I am.

And, how do you like it?

@coliver Right, bitwarden.

@stacksofplates said in Buttercup Password Manager:

@Dashrender said in Buttercup Password Manager:

Ultimately the project owners want to turn it into a company like LastPass, generating their revenue from SaaS, but they are starting out as an open source project.

This is what Bitwarden does too. They are open source but have their free SaaS and their paid enterprise features.

Are you using them?

I have 3 domains and 2 sites with a weird redirect issue. DomainA1.com redirects to DomainA2.com using cloudflare page rules and a 301 redirect. However, it ends up at DomainB.com. If I go directly to DomainA2.com, the proper site loads.

The server is the one running cpanel with WP (on CentOS) where both sites and all 3 domains are pointed. Where should I look to figure out why DomainA1.com goes to DomainB.com?

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

The goal isn't to just blow through the content, but it's nice to have finally hit the 50% completion mark

What LMS are you using for that?

@Dashrender said in Ruh roh - social engineering at its finest:

And people around here wonder why I don't want an email contact form on our website.

At least it is a form and not just a mailto link.

@IRJ said in Ruh roh - social engineering at its finest:

https://www.9news.com/mobile/article/news/local/next/erie-sent-1m-to-scammers-posing-as-construction-company-behind-bridge-project/73-05942c4e-7b31-4fad-9d0e-700e98264e4c?

sigh

@DustinB3403 said in Tool for Finding Rogue DHCP:

@wrx7m What happened with the dev?

He was reprimanded but not fired.

Ran into this about 12 years ago. A guy on the dev team decided to setup his own DHCP server. Screwed up all sorts of stuff. Can't remember for sure what we did, but I think after we realized that it wasn't actually an issue with our known DHCP servers, we decided to talk to the dev team and found out that is what he had done.

@Pete-S said in Does ChromeOS make sense for a desktop?:

ChromeOS

I didn't realize you could get the OS without a chromebook. I thought it was like MacOS in that regard.

@Dashrender said in Very Slow Sudo:

how long has systemname been a thing?

This^

Includes lastpass from what I saw.

Nebula VPN routes between hosts privately, flexibly, and efficiently
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/12/nebula-vpn-routes-between-hosts-privately-flexibly-and-efficiently/

"Last month, the engineering department at Slack—an instant messaging platform commonly used for community and small business organization—released a new distributed VPN mesh tool called Nebula. Nebula is free and open source software, available under the MIT license.

It's difficult to coherently explain Nebula in a nutshell. According to the people on Slack's engineering team, they asked themselves "what is the easiest way to securely connect tens of thousands of computers, hosted at multiple cloud service providers in dozens of locations around the globe?" And (developing) Nebula was the best answer they had. It's a portable, scalable overlay networking tool that runs on most major platforms, including Linux, MacOS, and Windows, with some mobile device support planned for the near future."

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Google Cloud gets a new family of cheaper general-purpose compute instances

As soon as someone mentions Google Cloud in News, I assume that they are shutting it down to pursue other projects.

Yeah. I usually look at these in terms of how it moves the whole cloud industry forward (and making it less expensive).

For sure. I just keep expecting Google to forget that they do this and shut it down with little warning.

Quite possible. It has happened to many of their higher-profile "products".

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Google Cloud gets a new family of cheaper general-purpose compute instances

As soon as someone mentions Google Cloud in News, I assume that they are shutting it down to pursue other projects.

Yeah. I usually look at these in terms of how it moves the whole cloud industry forward (and making it less expensive).

Google Cloud gets a new family of cheaper general-purpose compute instances
https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/11/google-cloud-gets-a-new-family-of-cheaper-general-purpose-compute-instances/

"Google Cloud today announced the launch of its new E2 family of compute instances. These new instances, which are meant for general-purpose workloads, offer a significant cost benefit, with saving of around 31% compared to the current N1 general-purpose instances.

The E2 family runs on standard Intel and AMD chips, but as Google notes, they also use a custom CPU scheduler “that dynamically maps virtual CPU and memory to physical CPU and memory to maximize utilization.” In addition, the new system is also smarter about where it places VMs, with the added flexibility to move them to other hosts as necessary. To achieve all of this, Google built a custom CPU scheduler “with significantly better latency guarantees and co-scheduling behavior than Linux’s default scheduler.” The new scheduler promises sub-microsecond wake-up latencies and faster context switching."

Veeam Offers Native backup for Amazon EC2 instances
https://www.veeam.com/blog/amazon-ec2-native-backup-recovery.html

"...fully featured free edition, however the strongest value comes in the capabilities explained below. Read on to discover why this is a must-have for anyone running Amazon EC2 instances.

• AWS-native
• Automates Amazon EBS snapshots for frequent backup and fast restores
• Copy to Amazon S3 for long-term retention
• Policy-based protection
• Deployed from Amazon Marketplace with simple web-based management UI"