Well, my first interview is Tuesday, even before my final pay check is due

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco That is a totally different life style to what I was imaging...

So where do they grow their plants if they don't have land to work? Where do they sleep if they don't own or rent? And don't they ever just get an urge to have a big fat juicy steak with a side of shrimp?

The answer to all those queries is "who cares, they're filthy hippies".

hey now, hippies have a use, like human shields.... or fertilizer for feed for beef farms..

Yes, they made my news feeds again today.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hardcoded-password-found-in-cisco-software/

Since Cisco keeps being so popular with the security breaches and vulnerabilities, I figured it's time they get their very own thread.

Well, looks like I will be able to make it, thanks to @DustinB3403!

Dilbert and one of the big topics around here:

Thought I'd drop one of my current projects here. It started as just wanting a way to see what the temperature in a room is without having to have someone go check. (It's another building in a locked room few people have a key for.)

We already have lots of project cases, and also already had a Raspberry Pi. The new $5 Pi would need a network connection of some sort, so figure $10 for the networked PC ($20 if you need a power supply and memory card as well). I splurged at $13 for a combination temperature and humidity sensor. I went ahead and added a door sensor as well, it was $2. I also got a Cobbler Plus GPIO Breakout for $8 and a Perma-Proto board for $6. Total cost for me was $29. If you need a Pi as well figure ~$50 for everything. Compare that to any of the commercial offerings!

I'll post the code I use for everything here, along with references where possible. After all, that's where the real cost of these little things end up being.

It might be good to add a battery backup to it as well, which is quite easy, but I have no real need for that (if the power is out, the temperature isn't going to be getting out of control.) Adafruit makes it really easy.

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Thing learned today: Domain controller must have SMB v1 enabled for a Server 2003 member to join the domain.

I learned that I only have to get inside your LAN in order to steal all the network data.

This is mostly to make things a matter of public record, in addition to a bit of a rant.

Got a call yesterday morning. They can't process credit cards. That office happens to use Intuit/Quickbooks for everything from inventory tracking, to payment processing and accounting. I've been down the road of getting away from Intuit often. Don't know if this will push them past the edge or not.

Ok, spent 2 hours manually doing updates because the automatic ones broke along the way somewhere. Updates complete. Good, we should be up and running. They try to login, and get asked for a code. Ok, check the email address... nothing.

Now I'm calling Intuit support (bad idea, but we're basically not in business at this point.) That's a 3 hour call where I'm told something is wrong with our email server.

Fine, hang up with one unhelpful peon. Go eat lunch (3:30pm at this point, my blood sugar is about to tank.)

Get back into the office around 4:30. Enough time to find something very interesting in the server logs...

2016-10-05 14:01:56 H=lvmailappout12.intuit.com [199.16.139.22]:30939 sender verify fail for <[email protected]>: response to "RCPT TO:<[email protected]>" from mailin.intuit.com [206.108.40.19] was: 550 #5.1.0 Address rejected.
2016-10-06 11:17:10 H=mailout203.intuit.com [206.108.40.17]:49121 X=TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256 CV=no F=<[email protected]> rejected RCPT <[email protected]>: Sender verify failed

Now, I spent way to much time figuring out how to deal with spam, and have gotten it figured out for the most part. So, they are sending a confirmation code out using an address that their own email server does not acknowledge as being valid. Yet it's somehow my fault that the email is not being delivered.

Spent another 2 hours on the phone this morning going over the same stuff. We're working through alternatives, none of which are something the business would normally find acceptable.

This on top of them having me enable SSL2 in the browser. Uhm, these computers have to remain PCI compliant, and they just purposely made them non-compliant.

Malicious company, let it be known.

Getting noticed is easy!

Getting the right kind of notice is very hard!

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/900-000-routers-knocked-offline-in-germany-amid-rumors-of-cyber-attack/

On Facebook, Deutsche Telekom engineers recommended that users unplug their devices, wait for 30 seconds and restart their router. If the equipment fails to connect to the company's network, engineers told users to disconnect their device from the company's network permanently.

To compensate the downtime, Deutsche Telekom is offering free mobile Internet until the technical problem is resolved.

DSL routers all over Germany, and presumably worldwide if anyone else happens to be using the same DSL Modem that got hit by this.

@thwr, hope you're still running!

I'm looking to get away form Linode for my TacticalRMM. Now that you can't "trick" TacticalRMM into installing/running on less than 4GB RAM, it's costing a good bit more.

OVH Cloud VPS is giving a lot more resources for not much money right now. So I was wondering if anyone else has used them? Any concerns with migrating my TacticalRMM instance to them?

https://us.ovhcloud.com/vps/

@Oksana said in VMware DRS: Smarter Resource Management for vSphere:

Managing VMware clusters by hand can quickly become overwhelming as workloads grow and shift. That’s where Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) steps in – keeping clusters stable, apps fast, and admins stress-free.
In our latest guide by Dmytro Malynka for StarWind, we break down everything you need to know about VMware DRS: how it works, its requirements, key features, and why it’s a must-have for medium and large clusters. Read more here: https://starwind.com/s/wg

DRS sounds like a great thing on the surface before actually implementing it. In large clusters, VMs with heavy workloads get moved between hosts often with the associated disruptions when memory gets locked. Takes what is already a poor situation and makes it worse!

I formerly worked at an employer that had a very large VMWare cluster implemented with vSphere, vCloud and DRS enabled. They were up to 50 hosts when I left, and constantly ran into issues because of DRS.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@gjacobse said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@travisdh1
Ah- the good old days of DEC,.. I had once thought about looking to pick up a DEC PDP 11/23 setup..

DEC OpenVMS is the not so fond memories from my first IT job. Had to have something to oppose the good memories of SGI IRIX.

I checked the current status of VMS and according to the company...

"OpenVMS V9.2-3 is available and running on hundreds of servers worldwide"

Hundreds, OMG

That's kind of crazy that any remain today!

@gjacobse said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@travisdh1
Ah- the good old days of DEC,.. I had once thought about looking to pick up a DEC PDP 11/23 setup..

DEC OpenVMS is the not so fond memories from my first IT job. Had to have something to oppose the good memories of SGI IRIX.

xByte.com is my first choice, especially for production compute.

If it's not mission critical or for a home lab, check out these next two.
Stallard Technology, stikc.com
ServerMonkey.com

@scottalanmiller said in What Are Virtualized Applications?:

Article is totally false. That's NOT a virtualized application, that's a standard remote app as we've been using in the industry for over 30 years. When I started in IT ini 1994 this was an established, well known part of how the X Window system worked, in UNIX... ALL applications are like this!

I remember running full fledged engineering apps remotely in the 90s on IRIX and OpenVMS machines.

Have I posted about Kasm Workspaces here yet? Makes it really easy to provide remote apps like a Xen remoteapp environment, just easier, quicker, and open source.

Yep, seen this before. Caused all kinds of headache for me because they aliased actual commands!

@CloudKnight said in User profile migration to new Windows 11 PCs:

Hasn't Windows become a shitshow.

It always has been. Now it's just obvious to everyone.