@Fredtx said in What is the best way to prepare for a technical phone interview?: I noticed one of my phone interviews I did, I really didn't prepare much, and actually did it during my lunch break. I actually did better (went to next step) on that one than the one I studied my tail off, and had "several" cheat sheets. All interviews are conversations, and I think having said sheet distracts from you being able to play your part. Remember the other side of a technical interview: Reviewing the interviewer. If your interviewer is asking some bizarre questions like "explain why faxing is more secure than E-mail," then that place might not be the right one for you.

@travisdh1 said in Experience with HPs small laptops/chromebooks?: I just got an ASUS VivoBook Flip 14 two weeks ago for my parents. The Celeron N4020 in it is not very fast, but it is light years ahead of the things @Dashrender is talking about. Thankfully those terri-bad CPUs are a thing of the past now. Performance isn't great, but it's not bad, and the touchscreen is nice. I've had an HP Chromebook with the 360 degree hinge, and it's been a workhorse that goes for two full days of heavy usage on a single charge. For everyday tasks, that HP @Pete-S listed would be just fine. Sounds good!

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread: @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread: Dr Fauci apologises for saying UK 'rushed' vaccine Dr Anthony Fauci, the top US infectious disease expert, has apologised for remarks that seemed to criticise the UK's vaccine approval process. "I have a great deal of confidence in what the UK does both scientifically and from a regulator standpoint," Dr Fauci told the BBC on Thursday. The UK on Wednesday became the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer vaccine for the coronavirus. It has defended the rapid approval and said the jab is safe and effective. Dr Fauci on Wednesday had told Fox News that the UK did not review the vaccine "as carefully" as US health regulators. He later told CBS News that the UK had "rushed" the approval. On Thursday, he walked back the comments, and said there was "no judgement on the way the UK did it". Read: Dr. Fauci apologizes for pointing out medical recklessness. LOL Exactly - after his break with Trump, I am surprised he is backing down....

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News: Future Zoom users will be able to smell the virtual coffee People in video meetings will, in future, be able to feel their hands being shaken and smell coffee in their virtual space, the founder and CEO of Zoom has predicted. Eric Yuan was speaking at the Web Summit tech conference. Mr Yuan said he believed artificial intelligence would bring a physical aspect to virtual meetings. He also said he thought many workers would not return full-time to the office after the pandemic. Unsurprisingly perhaps, he argued that video meetings were here to stay, stating that the pandemic had demonstrated that "it works" - despite Zoom's share value plunging following the first announcement about Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine. He said that for office-based staff, coming in for maybe two days a week could become the norm. "The world will become a hybrid [workplace], and I think that's a world we have to embrace," he said. this tech was offered a good 15 years ago. Didn't catch on.

@JasGot said in Windows Batch: Select Drive: Can you post the line or two that gathers the input? Set /p would ignore the colon, and Choice doesn't allow colons, so I need to see your approach to provide you with a solution. Was going to say it worked for me but looks like I replied too late with an example: @echo off echo What are drive you is want? set /p drive="" cls if "%drive%" == "x" GOTO AWWYEAH if "%drive%" == "x:" GOTO AWWYEAH echo FAIL! pause exit :AWWYEAH echo YEAH! [%drive%] pause

I appreciate everyone's help!

@Grey said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It: @JasGot 1tb? Also, the Destination for recordings is the Plex Server and its storage, so none of the recordings (that the kids have) are ever stored on the HD.

@JasGot said in Who do you use for content delivery? (If that is even the right phrase): @marcinozga said in Who do you use for content delivery? (If that is even the right phrase): @JasGot said in Who do you use for content delivery? (If that is even the right phrase): Their hosting provider has told them they will not allow them to upload any more media to their site for visitors to view because there is simply too much data. This is where you tell the hosting provider they are a joke, close the checkbook, and migrate. There is no "they CANNOT move", they are just too lazy or too cheap to have it done by professional. You are so unaware of the circumstances, that you sound foolish with these statements. With the limitations you provided above, it's easy to assume this isn't anything complex or large as to make it hard to migrate. These limitations are so crippling, it's hard to take that provider seriously, and I would laugh in their faces if I heard anything similar to that. Why don't you enlighten us what the circumstances are?

https://github.com/bastienwirtz/homer https://github.com/linuxserver/Heimdall - this one doesn't have a way to add news feed , still great, it's being rewritten to nodejs https://github.com/rmountjoy92/DashMachine https://github.com/jeroenpardon/sui

@hobbit666 said in Topics of Systems Administration: e.g. I'm down as being Infrastructure/Network Manager. But in peoples views where do my duties start and end? (But maybe this is for another topic) Well the first question is, why is "network" mentioned, given that that's a subset of infrastructure? That's like saying you are a vehicle/car mechanic. Saying you are a network manager, if that's all you are limited to (85% of the time at least) is one thing (I doubt this can be true, network anything doesn't exist outside of the enterprise space, even companies with many thousands of people generally don't need even a single dedicated network focused role), makes sense. And if you cover everything in the infrastructure space, but don't cover things like helpdesk, databases, applications, etc., then infrastructure makes sense (that would include systems, networks, platforms, etc.). But stating both doesn't. Either you are focused enough to say network and infrastructure doesn't apply. Or you are broader and should say infrastructure, and network doesn't apply. But then "manager" becomes a question. Admins run things, managers manage people. The terms are used very loosely outside of IT, but inside of IT they generally aren't. You admin hardware/software, you manage people and vendors/businesses. The title "IT Manager" is generally considered to be (and this holds up very universally when you talk to people) someone focused on managing people under them and/or vendors. But an IT Admin, would not be assumed to manage people or maybe not even use vendors, and just administer everything that falls under IT.

@VoIP_n00b post using the phone, couldn’t edit after, then forgot when got to a computer.

@WrCombs said in Just for Fun - Network + Journey: @pmoncho said in Just for Fun - Network + Journey: @WrCombs said in Just for Fun - Network + Journey: @pmoncho said in Just for Fun - Network + Journey: @WrCombs said in Just for Fun - Network + Journey: @scottalanmiller said in Just for Fun - Network + Journey: What is the best way to secure the most vulnerable attack vector for a network? Choices: A] Remove unneeded services running on the servers B] Provide end-user awareness training for office staff C] Update all antivirus definitions on workstations and servers D] Use biometrics and SSO for authentication Hey First Question - Thanks Scott My first instinct D]Use biometrics and SSO for Authentication The key words in the question is "most vulnerable attack vector" so IMHO, D] would incorrect. Well People would be the most vulnerable so B? Correct, B. @scottalanmiller will have to confirm though. I thought that too, but then I thought that was too easy and that he probably was meaning something else . The test SHOULD be too easy. If you really know the material, and are paying attention to the reading (because the questions are designed to not let you skim them), it should feel pretty obvious a lot of the time.

@IRJ said in Anybody interested in doing ML Secret Santa?: @flaxking said in Anybody interested in doing ML Secret Santa?: Is this open to international participants? And can we choose a theme? I think due to logistics we have to exclude international this go around. But maybe we can do that next year if we start in mid November. Can't you just buy a Trans-Atlantic drone?

@hobbit666 said in Port scanning tools: @travisdh1 said in Port scanning tools: That's really just nmap. Nothing wrong with using it, it is the official GUI frontend for nmap. Yeah but saves me learning nmap commands That too. I use nmap a lot from the command line, but I'm normally running a standard scan (no options, just nmap xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) or looking for a specific port nmap -p 443 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx covers 90% of what I use it for.

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@MrWright4hire said in What would be a typical Network Admin Best Practice Cheatsheet...Anyone?: @MrWright4hire Thank you all for your feedback on Zabbix monitoring software. However, I'm looking for an actually daily checklist that one may have developed or came across to do daily checks for Network Admins. Do anyone know or have such a checklist? I do not. I find most positions like this (DBA, Net Admin, Systems, etc.) have very few, if any, universal tasks.

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@hobbit666 said in Influxdb 2 - SSL: @marcinozga said in Influxdb 2 - SSL: On the same line as the command you're running, before it. So su -c command But I think you're approaching this from wrong angle. Why don't you put reverse proxy in front of your services, like Nginx, Traefik, or Caddy and handle SSL certs there, and leave services as they are. I did consider it, but that's the easy way out But if I want this to run as a service so after reboots it just works, where am I putting that? As I've looked at the influxdb.service file and it has the exec line, but putting the whole command in there it doesn't run. Any modern linux based system, the command to turn on a service and start it at boot is systemctl enable --now thing.service. So in your case you should run sudo systemctl enable --now influxdb.service

I use it in pfsense router. It works against script kiddies, bots/botnets, at least partially. It's just another layer of security. And like it was mentioned before, it reduces log noise, with almost no effort.

@Pete-S said in Windows and NFS: @scottalanmiller said in Windows and NFS: @Pete-S said in Windows and NFS: @scottalanmiller said in Windows and NFS: @brandon220 said in Windows and NFS: @Pete-S The locking is also what I was referring to. I will most likely set the share up for both and do some testing. There should be locking from the filesystem so that either Samba or NFS has the file at any given moment. It's the filesystem's job to make sure that two processes can't access any given file at the same time. That the processes are NFS or Samba shouldn't matter. NFS or SMB can have another partial lock on top of that, for sure. But that should be on top of the file level lock. That is an incorrect assumption. Read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_locking Which part? I read the part of NFS, but that doesn't seem to apply. That would cause problems, but not corruption problems, right? Just that comparing windows and *nix you see that there are different file locking mechanisms in play. That is what could cause corruption. Samba has to support Windows mechanisms while it's file system is residing on unix. For instance from Samba 3.0 documentation (for historical context only): Record locking semantics under UNIX are very different from record locking under Windows. Versions of Samba before 2.2 have tried to use the native fcntl() UNIX system call to implement proper record locking between different Samba clients. This cannot be fully correct for several reasons. The simplest is that a Windows client is allowed to lock a byte range up to 2^32 or 2^64, depending on the client OS. The UNIX locking only supports byte ranges up to 2^31. So it is not possible to correctly satisfy a lock request above 2^31. There are many more differences, too many to be listed here. Samba 2.2 and above implement record locking completely independently of the underlying UNIX system. If a byte-range lock that the client requests happens to fall into the range of 0 to 2^31, Samba hands this request down to the UNIX system. No other locks can be seen by UNIX, anyway. That's very complex. But it sounds like Samba is just... not locking the file and hoping for the best?

@IRJ said in FIPS encryption (non domain laptops): @frodooftheshire said in FIPS encryption (non domain laptops): @IRJ Wow. So I'm guessing I would need to wipe these machines and put on Windows 10 Enterprise 1809 to go a. get compatibility and b. make sure these devices continue to get security updates? But when I check 1809 EOL is May 11 2021??? I may just have this client work directly with a third party to manage all this as I don't imagine this will come up again, and I'm not sure it's worth the time investment to really get a grasp on everything and what's involved. Yeah it looks like it. I've not dealt with FIPs 140-2 on Windows before, only Linux. This document is from May 2020 and shows 1809 still as the latest FIPs 140-2 certification. https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/projects/cryptographic-module-validation-program/documents/security-policies/140sp3092.pdf Before you get into a rabbit hole here, what's your actual requirement? This is the correct approach. What's the requirement? It takes a good amount of time and money to certify the OS so that's why the FIPS certified releases are behind. I'm not sure on Windows but with RHEL/CentOS you can enable FIPS mode on any release, it's just not "certified".

Reporting back: The only tool that I had success with was https://relax-and-recover.org/ F33 desktop is now p2v'd.

For RHEL, CentOS, and Fedora that have Wayland enabled and is set to Wayland session by default when logging in. You would have to log out and then select GNOME on Xorg before you log in so you can remote desktop into them using remote tools like MeshCentral or TeamViewer. Lately I've been disabling Wayland and selecting Xorg as the default GNOME session for that reason.

@Dashrender said in Adding 8GB of RAM to the Acer Aspire 7 A715-41G-R7X4: @hobbit666 said in Adding 8GB of RAM to the Acer Aspire 7 A715-41G-R7X4: Personally i always like to match RAM - Size Make Speed etc. For the average person - hell, the average IT person too, does it even matter? It's not like you're likely running a gaming rig you're trying to squeeze every last ounce of power from. I know Scott is doing video editing - perhaps on this device.. so it might matter to him, a 1% performance increase could be several saved mins on a video... More than anything, matched sticks means the least potential for problems. THe price on matching was within about $1 of anything else and anything faster would be wasted.