and after a lot of episodes, I've fixed the thing.

please let me state this again: I HAVE.

I.

Not the HPE support, not the reseller tech support.

I HAVE.

I = An almost idiot ex-embedded sw developer illogically cast into the sysadmin role of a non-sense company!

TL; DR:
there was a mismatch between OS version, bios version, controllers firmware version, controller drivers version. Selecting the right combination has (apprarently) fixed the issue!

how storage controllers affect reboot signals is still a mistery... but actually all was related to the smart paging I mentioned before. Moving it from the default location caused all the issues.
I have discovered the "bug" recreating a new vm with copy-pasted hdd but with hypervisor defaults... 2 twins VM one running one not... only difference: location of the smart paging file. XD

This way you can share the config(s) under conf.d between multiple machines using the same roles (or whatever Salt calls them) and have different main NGINX server settings.

@coliver said in Hidden Costs in Hyperconverged Infrastructure:

@scottalanmiller said in Hidden Costs in Hyperconverged Infrastructure:

@coliver said in Hidden Costs in Hyperconverged Infrastructure:

The only one that has some merit, some being a very key word there, is the networking argument. Each individual node is going to cost slightly more depending on what type of networking the implementation requires.

In what way? What would make it cost more.

Number of ports required for this over an IPOD was the basis.

But no extra ports are needed.

Example....

3 Hosts HC Backplane: 2 Ports per host, total 6 ports
3 Hosts SAN: 2 Ports per host, total 8 ports

20 Hosts HC Backplane: 2 Ports per host. total 40 ports
20 Hosts SAN: 2 ports per host, total 42 ports.

The bigger you get the less the extra SAN ports matter, but they are always extra.

@travisdh1 making a sql file is a pain in the ass.

Look at my Nextcloud 11 guide for the simpler way to handle that and securing mariadb.

Never heard of any of them. Why not use OpenVPN?

@fuznutz04 said in Digital Ocean adds free monitoring:

Great! Now we know it will be coming soon to all the other providers. That's why competition is great ! 🙂

I'd guess unlikely. Rackspace and Amazon have had this for years and it didn't spread. DO and Linode have load balancers, Vultr has firewall. They do different features and I've not seen too much rush to converge.

There's an App called Whatchanged...

Start on a machine without the ODBC connection...

Run Whatchanged, and let it scan the registry.

Add the ODBC conneciton, and let it scan again to see where it is (may be) putting the password in the registry...

http://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/getmirror/what_changed,1.html -- It's an older App, but it still works.

@travisdh1 said in Anyone Using Fedora Workstation:

The sad face means @scottalanmiller would rather use something else, but is stuck with Ubuntu.

Got it, I saw the other thread.

@Dashrender said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@scottalanmiller said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@Dashrender said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

@scottalanmiller said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:

The point was, misusing revert is wrong, using the needful is just regional. Unrelated items. And I've found the UK to use revert and defend it more than any other region.

Yeah but the Brits are weird. Lol

I know - they like to get pissed and suck on fags...

Accurate lol
Trying to quit my habit of taking drags on fags. Hard habit to break...

TMI

No shit right ?!

I'm talking about smoking...perverts 😛

@scottalanmiller said in Cyber Insurance:

@Mike-Davis said in Cyber Insurance:

@scottalanmiller I agree. Looking at it like auto insurance where cars can be replaced for a price and medical bills can be paid just doesn't have parallels in IT.

Not at all. It's kind of like getting insurance against doing business badly.

And, at the end of the day, it's just monetary compensation for lost data, which I doubt can really be accurately assessed. If your data is gone, all the insurance in the world won't bring it back, and its value isn't well-replaced by dollars.

@scottalanmiller said in hide yo kids, hide yo wife - with a VPN:

Encryption on HDMI was a major deal when it released.

We all know you're watching porn. Can't we just accept that and avoid the added complexities?

Explorer.exe crashed and is now giving the same error: "The Remote Prodecure Call Failed and Did Not Execute" 😞

@iroal
Great minds think alike !

Thanks for the addition, I'm researching right now and blat.exe seems very worthy looking and simple with good reviews on its Sourceforge page:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/blat/

@njbair Thanks for joining the community to share your appreciation. I'm glad I posted the steps I took to resolve the issue because if you would have asked me today how I fixed it I'm not sure I could have remembered.

The main firewall config and port forwarding works fine. The issue is with the openvpn server (or client) and its iptables not handling the traffic properly.

@IRJ said in Scam Of The Week: The Evil Airline Phishing Attack:

@scottalanmiller said in Scam Of The Week: The Evil Airline Phishing Attack:

@IRJ said in Scam Of The Week: The Evil Airline Phishing Attack:

@scottalanmiller said in Scam Of The Week: The Evil Airline Phishing Attack:

I get that the person in question might already know one blog and not another. My point was that if they did, they likely didn't need a link and if they didn't, the security perception is a risk because it's not a good one.

I visit KB4 frequently. This post does not have the right tags attached to it as I mentioned earlier so it wasn't showing up where you would normally find the articles.

Ah, I see. What tag do you expect? Just the "knowbe4" tag?

It wasn't tagged properly on the KB4 site. It doesnt show up under scam of the week

https://blog.knowbe4.com/topic/scam-of-the-week

https://blog.knowbe4.com/scam-of-the-week-the-evil-airline-phishing-attack

OH!! That makes way more sense then.

@Tim_G Oops guess that was a lame joke :D.. on my part that is.