@scottalanmiller That did the trick. Didn't even cross my mind. Thanks!

@irj said in Non-Promotional Spam Like Post:

@jaredbusch said in Non-Promotional Spam Like Post:

@irj said in Non-Promotional Spam Like Post:

@scottalanmiller said in Recover Android files on phone with broken screen:

@irj said in Recover Android files on phone with broken screen:

@scottalanmiller said in Recover Android files on phone with broken screen:

@irj said in Recover Android files on phone with broken screen:

@luoyea said in Recover Android files on phone with broken screen:

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@scottalanmiller is an account like this spam? It was created to comment on a thread that has already been resolved? It doesn't appear the account is pushing any agenda or anything. It just seems weird to make an account to create one comment then disappear.

I looked at it and couldn't tell. It seemed fishy, especially as it is about Android stuff, always a trigger. But there is no link and no product mentioned. So can't figure out how it could be.

Yeah that was puzzling me as well.

Might be spam, but if it is, it's non-promotional spam. 🙂

It is really an odd type of spam because it doesn't benefit the spammer.

Incorrect. Well moderated communities and communities with good bot prevention like ML end up with this type of spammer.

Generally they post a couple "safe" replies over a small period of time, then they drop their links. suddenly. and if not banned, repeat again in a few weeks.

Not typically bots, but cheap labor paid to simply log in and do so.

Wow! That seems like a lot of work with very little if any reward!

SPAM is big money, and the effort is tiny. Like, approaching zero.

@coliver said in Smart Phishing Spams worrying me:

This is called spear phishing or targeted phishing. There isn't much you can do about it from a technical perspective. Train your users is about the only option.

That's really the case. The thing about spear phishing is that it is all but impossible to conidently detect unless you are the human recipient and can verify the details in some other manner.

@storageninja

Thanks so much, I will read in the mean time those blogs:

https://www.codyhosterman.com/
https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/author/cormac_hogan

@smitherick said in FreePBX extensions to Yealink Phone book can someone who knows python make htis better:

Awesome, I wrote our XML remote phonebook by hand with the YeaLink template. This is going to be fun!

Follow this post.
https://mangolassi.it/topic/15759/use-a-php-file-to-create-a-dynamic-yealink-remote-address-book-of-freepbx-extensions

@jimmy9008 said in Reverse Proxy?:

Perhaps this is just standard proxy?

I think you just want a standard proxy, yes.

@tim_g said in Why restart works ? Technical reason ?:

@jaredbusch said in Why restart works ? Technical reason ?:

@tim_g said in Why restart works ? Technical reason ?:

@jaredbusch said in Why restart works ? Technical reason ?:

@tim_g said in Why restart works ? Technical reason ?:

@tim_g said in Why restart works ? Technical reason ?:

@eddiejennings said in Why restart works ? Technical reason ?:

I'll often have users do a restart, but if the issue is recurring, then I'll take the time to try to find the root cause.

We do a minimum of forced weekly reboot of computers with updates, regardless of whether or not updates are installed.

It's been helping a LOT, and is a free way to fix or prevent many issues that waste time and effort from nobody rebooting.

There are (as always) some exceptions.

I did this years ago. And no exceptions. The owner buys in to it or he doesn't.

The reduction of support costs is always the winning decision.

Yes, from the perspective of a company using service provider.

But I get paid hourly, so from this companies perspective, it costs the same regardless.

No it does not. Because you are wasting time (money) doing tasks that are not needed if you would have the reboots scheduled.

It may be the same to your paycheck, but it is not the same to the company. That is always the point of people trying to justify their jobs. Or of the SMB owner thinking he is saving money by using internal staff of lower skill.

Yeah, but there are exceptions... not my decision, not my argument.

of course, if the decision is out of your hands, absolutely that's not on you - just like Mike Davis spending 4 hrs working on a PC issue and costing more than the value of the PC - because the decision maker told them to.

@eddiejennings said in Food for Thought: Backups - from terrible to functional:

@jaredbusch Wow.

Was an initial seed of a server. So totally expected when the WAN pipe is only 10mbps up.

120GB of real data on a thin provisioned 500GB vhdx.

Strictly SYSCTL speaking, here's what I got so far:

kernel.randomize_va_space: sysctl.present: - value: 2 fs.protected_hardlinks: sysctl.present: - value: 1 fs.protected_symlinks: sysctl.present: - value: 1 net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts: sysctl.present: - value: 1 net.ipv4.icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses: sysctl.present: - value: 1 net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies: sysctl.present: - value: 1 net.ipv4.conf.all.log_martians: sysctl.present: - value: 1 net.ipv4.conf.default.log_martians: sysctl.present: - value: 1 net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_source_route: sysctl.present: - value: 0 net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route: sysctl.present: - value: 0 net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter: sysctl.present: - value: 1 net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter: sysctl.present: - value: 1 net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_redirects: sysctl.present: - value: 0 net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_redirects: sysctl.present: - value: 0 net.ipv4.conf.all.secure_redirects: sysctl.present: - value: 0 net.ipv4.conf.default.secure_redirects: sysctl.present: - value: 0 net.ipv4.ip_forward: sysctl.present: - value: 0 net.ipv4.conf.all.send_redirects: sysctl.present: - value: 0 net.ipv4.conf.default.send_redirects: sysctl.present: - value: 0 net.ipv4.conf.all.forwarding: sysctl.present: - value: 0 net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding: sysctl.present: - value: 0 net.ipv4.conf.all.mc_forwarding: sysctl.present: - value: 0 net.ipv6.conf.all.mc_forwarding: sysctl.present: - value: 0 net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_source_route: sysctl.present: - value: 0 net.ipv6.conf.default.accept_source_route: sysctl.present: - value: 0 net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_redirects: sysctl.present: - value: 0 net.ipv6.conf.default.accept_redirects: sysctl.present: - value: 0

I know some of it may be redundant, as in they already may be set as such by default. My thinking is that should they become changed somehow, this will set it straight again.

Is this a bad way of thinking or simply not needed?

Are there any others a good idea or generally a best practice to include?

@dashrender said in What exactly imaging software, any open source or free options ?:

@dustinb3403 said in What exactly imaging software, any open source or free options ?:

To throw a wrench into this conversation.

UrBackup is a backup solution that can be run constantly and allows you to restore the backup or any part of it to different hardware.

So while it falls in the "Backup" category it also blurs the lines a bit.

Most modern backup solutions can do this.

Yup, imaging is the process of recreating replicas which are the most common foundation of modern backups.

@penguinwrangler said in 5Nine Free Version:

I like 5nine when you are setting up a new environment and you don't have a domain setup yet. You don't have to go through the rigamaroll of setting up the hyper-v server and your machine to talk to each other. You use 5nine and get your Domain setup in a virtual machine and then join the Hyper-v and your machine to it.

Yeah, it is definitely good to get you going.

@dashrender said in cost of the whitebox:

@mike-davis said in cost of the whitebox:

That said I still have some businesses that try to run computers until they won't power on anymore. I've been telling those clients I'm too busy to work on their stuff. It's just painful to work on a computer that slow.

These are the best to work on - you get paid for just sitting there waiting. Yeah it really does suck to see your time wasted this way - but you are in the business of making money - you informed them of the best IT solution, if they still want to pay you to maintain the machine - take the money to the bank!.

I'm with Dash. You did all the right things, they didn't, it's not a tragic amount of money, just an annoyance for them, and good work for you. Rejoice in having paid work with low stress and something that can be definitely fixed at the end of the day.

@jt1001001 said in Anyone know a place that sells booted Cat6 in feet: 5, 5.5, 6, 6.5, etc?:

We order custom cables from Provisions Modular hardware. Their website is horrible but if you call them and set up an account they will do custom length patch cables or really any other cable you may need. Their website only lists by the foot but we've ordered custom 12.5ft cables for some of our racks without issues.
https://www.provisionsmod.com/

yeah their website need's some work...

I ended up just saying eff it and ordered from C2G

In your situation, you may need to ask help from a Broken Android Data Extraction tool. It helps you extract data from a broken screen or dead Android phone.

@dbeato said in Bitdefender box for home users:

@black3dynamite said in Bitdefender box for home users:

@dashrender said in Bitdefender box for home users:

A Pi Hole might be better for this home client.

Compare to what bitdefender box provides PiHole only does ad blocking. Minds well setup a squid box with squidguard instead.

No one here uses Untangle ?

Nope, have never found it to be that great. Not that it is bad, but having used it, it was only so so.

@dashrender said in Mileage tracking app - any suggestions?:

Well - apparently our tax advisors have stated that we only need to monitor driving habits for two weeks, then use that data to extrapolate the expected business trips and do math... /sigh.. whatever.

Yeah, that's way easier.

What NFS server do you have?

Turns out the thing I was looking for was LLDP protocol.

Sometimes, it's all in how you ask the question -_-

@jrc said in How to install and enable Gnome shell extensions:

It turns out that while I was running Ubuntu 17.10, it had been upgraded from 17.04 and that upgrade had left the Unity UI installed and active. So the reason why I was not seeing the GNOME shell extension options in the tweaker tool was due to the fact that it was actually Unity and GNOME I was in. One hell of a noob mistake.

Once I switched to GNOME, it was all working and I am much happier with GNOME over Unity.

I was going to say, you need to select which one you want to use 🙂