@BRRABill said in What is Linux Mint:

@scottalanmiller said>

Thenstart asking questions!

OK.

So, what is Mint, exactly. I thought the "Mint" part of it was the desktop. Like that is what made Mint "for the masses".

But then you can install all these other desktops. So, what gives?

Could you just install those desktop GUIs on other distributions and get the same thing?

You can basically do everything with every distro. Some distros are specialized in some way, like Kali (based on Debian) SystemRescueCD (based on Gentoo) or Knoppix (also based on Debian) for example. Other distros, like OpenSuSE or Debian are more general purpose distros without much of a focus.

You can use the very same pen testing tools you are using in Kali in Mint without much of an issue for example (expect for dependencies).

Some Desktop-focused distros, like Mint, tend to have more up to date packages regarding the desktop experience and tools like Libre/OpenOffice. On the other hand, you'll find more up to date server packages in distros like Ubuntu or Debian. Gentoo is another special flavor where you have the option to compile everything from source with a package manager in front (portage). It can be optimized to any degree (make flags etc) and they tend to have the most up to date packages.

Linux guys tend to call distros "flavors", because they are just that: flavors. They are all running some customized version of the very same Linux kernel behind the scenes.

Could be worse... I guess. 😛

This seems like a lot of work when he could just look at the phone if it was his phone. What is the real objective here?

Thanks

@scottalanmiller said in Designing a Reliable Web Application:

@thwr said in Designing a Reliable Web Application:

@scottalanmiller said in Designing a Reliable Web Application:

@thwr said in Designing a Reliable Web Application:

Don't know if KVM or Xen can do active standby VM's (mirrored VMs) like VMWare, at least Hyper-V can't do that (as of 2012R2)

Do you mean shared memory where there is full fault tolerance and absolutely zero downtime and zero crash consistency issues? Then no, no one does that except for VMware right now. It's the biggest feature that I think makes VMware worth it for shops that need VMware. But it is a massively expensive feature both in terms of VMware licensing as well as in terms of performance hits, OS licensing and system overhead. Doing memory mirroring across nodes is very, very painful in terms of system resources.

Exactly. It's like a RAID-1-ish VM.

Yeah, that's a VMware exclusive. Not very applicable to the SMB market, but when you need it that's my top pick for "when to look at VMware." It's the most significant (to me anyway) "only on Vmware" feature. Most other things that VMware does well are soft benefits, like better memory management, but you might be able to offset that by just buying more memory on another platform. It's not a pure win. But their shared memory fault tolerance is an absolute win. When you need it, you either leave the commodity server world completely or you use VMware.

@John-Nicholson can talk more about that as well.

Hyper-V 's memory management is also awesome, IMHO. But you are right, the gap between VMware and the other major players is getting smaller and smaller with every release cycle. It's next to non-existing as of today. Remember very well when people laughed at me a few years ago for choosing Hyper-V to replace an existing VMware vSphere EP environment. I have yet to regret it.

The cluster is back online and we are spinning up workloads now. Very excited.

This battlestation is fully operational!! We have the first seven nodes of lab power online now from California! Very excited for all of the cool, new projects that we will be doing shortly.

As a non-inline, backup or archival unit, I would trust this system if you get it working nicely. Likely FreeBSD or OpenSuse will be ideal. If you get it running in that capacity, then sending backups to it will be a great use of it. As long as it is not a dependency for any running system, it would be viable.

@travisdh1 said in CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker):

@scottalanmiller said in CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker):

next up the RUH... Renegade Unethical Hacker.

RUH means never having to say you're sorry?

But you will RUH the day that you messed with one?

@scottalanmiller said in Export WordPress Theme:

@stacksofplates said in Export WordPress Theme:

Why not just make the directory for the existing theme a git repo and clone it to the other?

I don't have access to the other server.

Ah that makes it more difficult.

@Son-of-Jor-El said in Over Investing Early Can Be Big Time Failure:

Interesting convo. I can't get into too much detail but in the solar industry it is ESSENTIAL to have the investors lined up. If you don't, you die.

Even with them lined up, you still want to spend money wisely.

The Linux versions of OpenJDK remain available I saw.

it is absolutely standard that it writes to the install location, it has to be modified as any install like this has to be. But you have to modify that behaviour.

@JaredBusch said in VyOS Port Address Translation for HTTPS:

@scottalanmiller said in VyOS Port Address Translation for HTTPS:

Got it working. The firewall rule was in the wrong section of the firewall.

You had it on eth0 local instead of eth0 in?

Yuppers.

That's one of those hotfixes that suck because it really has to be implemented ASAP.

@scottalanmiller said in Recovering Archived files via .OST:

@Dashrender said in Recovering Archived files via .OST:

I enforce small email quotas more to force people to clean up their shit than because I'm worried about the size on the server. But perhaps I shouldn't even worry about that.

I lean towards "don't worry about it" most of the time. But if quotas exist to force people to clean up, that rules out PSTs as that bypasses the cleanup requirement and, in fact, makes it far worse.

the only people who have PSTs in my environment are those that don't have quotas (management). The PSTs are mostly for archiving, but a few people still live and die by that old data. I should just reimport it and forget about it.

@scottalanmiller These were ordered and installed ~2 weeks ago.

I posted about it here.

@JaredBusch said in Hyper-V - 3 VM migrations to new host:

@Mike-Davis said in Hyper-V - 3 VM migrations to new host:

Were both of the Hosts domain joined?

Yes everything was domain joined. Honestly, they should always be domain joined.
You still need to allow constrained delegation though.
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/matthts/2012/06/10/configuring-kerberos-constrained-delegation-for-hyper-v-management/

The old host is Server 2008 R2 and the new host is running Server 2012 R2 if that makes a difference.

This makes a HUGE difference. Hyper-V was completely redone for Server 2012+

In this instance, I would export and import.

not true

even ws2016 hyper-v has something from pre-2008 (and especially azure fork -out, for example erasure coding implementation, load balancing etc)

There are multiple examples of powershell scripts that will email users with near expiring passwords. I really need to get off my ass and set on up on the DC at a few of my clients with constant problem users...

For those stumbling in here down the road, the current consensus is that FreePBX is the better option for your new PBX. Elastix 4 did release, but is not being updated enough to remain a contender at this point.