@scottalanmiller said in Cannot Send Emails Out on Vultr:

@stacksofplates said in Cannot Send Emails Out on Vultr:

Why not just change the SMTP port?

You can't. SMTP uses port 25. Changing the outbound port only works if you control every posssible email destination.

Ah duh. I was thinking you were just sending email to yourself for some reason. Never mind.

@Lakshmana said in Issue Started in terminal for Wifi Drivers at Xubuntu:

@thwr I have seen usbmodswitch as the alternative for the USB stick.but many dependency need to download the same whether the full package can be downloaded from any sites ?

usbmodeswitch should do just fine. I'm not absolutely sure, but I think I've used that before with some Huawei-based UMTS stick.

@gjacobse said in New Laptop needed:

$718

Use the drive that is in it until you find a good deal on an SSD.

@scottalanmiller

While my main drive wasn't to get the rPi to learn some basic programming, I am hoping that it will help 'encourage' it.

I am planning to load Linux on my laptop as the primary, and take it from there. But I also am pushing myself to use the CLI more in the rPi than before..

@NerdyDad said in Suse Enterprise Linux for the Raspberry Pi:

I'm seeing it as a good entry level device to finally learn Linux Server administration at an affordable device. Granted the hardware isn't something that you're normally going to normally see in an enterprise environment, it would give me nearly identical experience managing a linux server in an enterprise environment.

The hardware doesn't matter at all. Like SAM suggested, go for a VM. There's no difference.

There are actually pitfalls in using a Pi, for example there isn't any RTC (realtime clock and battery). This can give you very weird results during reboots because next to no application expects a filetime to go backwards, which can happen without a working clock (depends on timing, network availability during reboot, working fake-hwclock package etc).

I think we fit in that SMB space as far as an IT department. We currently have less than 500 employees, but have about 120 users in our AD. Of those 120 users, 6 of us are in the IT department. 2 of these guys wear hats that encompass other departments as well. Typically, I spend half of my time doing user support and the other half is doing server-side support. Server administration for me might not be interacting the servers directly, but managing projects that would eventually impact the servers at some time in the future.

@Dashrender said in Cyber Monday Security Training:

I was assuming ec council was the company offering this deal.

yes, that is correct.

@Danp said in Why On Premises Spiceworks Is Impacted:

@scottalanmiller To what platform are you moving them?

Depends on the customer and what they are using SW for. SW does a lot of things. If they are on helpdesk, my guess is that osTicket will be the winner.

@hobbit666 said in Udemy - Black Friday sale 90% - IT Courses:

Dam why is pay day so far away!

Would you like a loan 😛

This is an amazing deal and well worth the bump.

@BRRABill did you get everything answered that you needed for your WordPress project?

Getting lots of eyes on this thread today. Very interesting.

@Dashrender said in Android/iOS Antivirus Questions:

@coliver said in Android/iOS Antivirus Questions:

@MattSpeller said in Android/iOS Antivirus Questions:

@coliver said in Android/iOS Antivirus Questions:

@MattSpeller said in Android/iOS Antivirus Questions:

@coliver said in Android/iOS Antivirus Questions:

I'm not convinced it's necessary. Both iOS and Android have sandboxing features that prevent malicious code from running. Android, of course, lets the user run it anyway if they give that app permission. I think iOS has something similar but they have a pretty decent app store that prevents that type of thing, unlike Google.

I am an Android guy by the way.

I'm not convinced it's necessary either, but I believe I was infected and now I'm all paranoid.

One security research firm (I don't remember the name I'll have to look) went through the Google App store and downloaded as much malicious stuff as possible. They found that unless the application is given permission, which means a user has to allow it, then it really can't do anything on the system. If the user allows it then, obviously, the malicious code was able to execute and do it's thing.

That's exactly what creeps me out about Android - why does everything need permissions to stuff you wouldn't expect it to use. I fear the answer is "to slurp your data". Which is garbage. However the app won't run without it.

Example: "Samsung Briefing" which is a news aggregator - asks for permission to save to disk, phone, etc etc

The newest version of Android took a cue from iOS and now lets you be more judicial with app permissions. Haven't been able to play with it yet.

in what way? I don't see a way to prevent, for example, Skype from using my camera but allowing it access to the network and microphone.

Do you have Nougat? I could have sworn that was one of the selling points. Where you give permissions like that on an as needed basis. So you could very well prevent skype from accessing the camera but allow it to access the microphone. It may not work as expected but...

What made you look at Budgie?

@Mike-Davis said in ever see a ping like this?:

It's a Zebra GK420d label printer. I can ping any other device on the LAN with pings <1ms.

Change the cable and go from there.

@Dashrender said in CenturyLink Level 3 November 22 2016 Outage:

@scottalanmiller said in CenturyLink Level 3 November 22 2016 Outage:

All three, Qwest, CenturyLink and Level 3 are the same company. Qwest is the "parent" but used CL as their name.

OK there we go... I didn't know that QWest, CenturyLink and Level 3 are the same company.

One big, crappy company that is always offline, apparently.

@scottalanmiller said in Secure access:

Yup, I'd say this would be the most common case. Basically I'd not be surprised either way. Totally understandable that he would have run into that before, but very common not to have.

yeah, I realized I felt the same way as I was writing the post, but posted it anyhow.

@Dashrender said in Identifying CAT 6 Connections:

LOL I was looking for the timestamp on the post he quoted...
was thinking that was long before his account was banned.

Yeah, he didn't leave until pretty late yesterday.

@JaredBusch said in ML and Browser issue:

You can adjust the height of the reply box to fix that.

Grab the arrow and drag up. My tablet sometimes gets messed up like that.

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had not noticed that previous. but I see that now. Thank you.