@scottalanmiller said in open source hypervisors: do we really have them? do we really need them?:

@matteo-nunziati said in open source hypervisors: do we really have them? do we really need them?:

KVM/libvirt is basically a Red Hat show. If Red Hat will drop KVM there will really be someone which will step up and will continue the development?

It's not owned by or controlled by RH. RH is not likely to drop it, less likely that MS dropping Hyper-V. Knowing that someone else will pick it up and that all they will do is lose control is one of the many benefits of open source to us, the consumers. It keeps RH from dropping things in a way that we don't have protection with for closed source.

KVM is part of Linux, not RH. It's heavily contributed to by Canonical and Suse but, more importantly, IBM. Even if RH walked away today, KVM is not in the slightest danger. If MS did that to Hyper-V, it would be over - period.

So yes, the open source nature here provides us the most extreme level of benefits and protection that exist in the industry.

In world where every good opensource project gets forked at least 2 times... ahm ahm Keepass and KeePassX
and KeePassXC. Firefox and its other clones. Chromium based browsers.

Even if the worst scenario happened and all abandoned the KVM train, we would have XKVM and KVM+ and KVMnot in mere days.

my take on this:

1. ESXi free is limited, 8 vcpu per VM and that limit can be easily reached limit.

2. You can go with KVM and the community will provide you with better scripts to provide you with more advanced features, that are missing in ESXi free, especially regarding VM backups and automating them.

3. If you setup ESXi everyone will understand it or work with it, however if you setup KVM, the person after you will most likely curse you.

@mlnews

I cant understand one thing, what does Windows XP has or can do that Linux does not, especially anything with LXDE interface, which looks much better than XP.

How hard was it to install Lubuntu or Fedora LXDE spin ? and it have it update security updates by default, problem solved.

Why would someone rely on XP in 2017, what great asset it has by default ?

Yh i still use Windows 7, which I understand if they did, but XP... sheesh

Do they have nuclear software that was created by .NET 1.0 ?

@scale

This reminds my on why Romania has very fast internet, cause it started developing it nearly from scratch starting from the early 2000, so they build good infrastructure and they didn't have to migrate from old crap.

Pretty much same thing goes for UAE, but replace that with Virtualization and how free and availability it has become in the past years.

@DustinB3403

Yh like someone will understand the mess that I create besides me.

@scottalanmiller said in Is Most IT Really Corrupt?:

ir own businesses, some are managing hotels... but by and large, does raising the pay change the pool of talent? We are not talking about an individual business, but the entire field.

Well for starts having I.T helper can make documentation is easier and after I worked on project with ThoughtWorks, they pair up as driver technique, and 2 sit on one machine, 1 develops and the other helps to understand and document.

Documentation fights corruption cause it removes you out of the dark. and if I left the company I cant leave them hostage cause they have the docs which will allow another person to follow and understand.

Maybe I am not being subjective, but the thing what I am basically saying is the current model in SMB to hire 1 I.T person to deal with:

User issues and I.T Support
Handling of servers in the best way
And Printers of course
And add more responsibilities like developing new tools and solutions to help the org (XMPP Chat/NextCloud/osTicket/SaltStack/Intranet site/...etc)

Is not the best way to go if they genuinely care about I.T continuous improvement.

AND I NEED RAISE PEOPLE

@scottalanmiller

hmm, not sure if I agree with you on this one (But I don't have vast experience on being manager or supervisor), while some aspects are true especially this one:
Taking kick backs from salespeople in order to ensure a sale
It does not happen like that, you just get better treatment from the sales personnel maybe discount for personal purchases, but that's it.

Especially since if you bought garbage I.T equipment and it fails, you will be the first to blame .

I guess management does not always realize how much resources does an I.T admin/super/manager has, and he should be properly paid with good salary, and pass the internal HR trust as well as the managers.

Cause for example using Saltstack or whatever I can pull files from minions and stuff like that, and yes I.T admins do have great power, but also a lot of headache and I don't have time and effort to snoop around especially where I work the I.T is 1 man show...

Good Companies should always hire more than 1 I.T mind that should be standard, and request monthly report or power point presentation of current projects (documentation).

And most importantly the Managers should be able to read an email about I.T concern more than 3 sentences....

Btw where I work I did this and was motivated being the first I.T supervisor position I had , and created monthly power point presentation to showcase I.T development, dude they get bored and no one cares as long nothing is failing on their machines, so you stop. Maybe cause I work in an NGO and not business and they dont have business goals (the money is coming regardless.)

Hopefully my next company wont be like this.

@DustinB3403

Thanks for the heads up, the bat script in that article seems like good vaccination method.

@Dashrender said in Toilets of the World:

Again, how do you keep that ass water off your pants while moving around to dry your ass?

who moves around? if your using the Shattaf, your doing everything while seated and all in one place, and when you finish just sit for extra 30 seconds and gravity will do its magic, also ofcourse we use TP. While I am sit i prepare some TP and then I stand up and as I stand you dry yourself.

I cant believe I am explaining that regular water is much better for cleaning than TP... and why and how.

The only thing I liked at Canada toilets, is that you can throw the TP in the toilet, and it uses some kind of suction instead we use alot of water to create an whirlpool of some sort to flow down.

@Dashrender said in Toilets of the World:

There's no soap in a didet, so how is just using water better than using paper to wipe your ass?

Ok, eat your lunch with your hands, like Pizza or burgers, and then wipe your hands with paper, see how clean your hands afterwards...

@matteo-nunziati said in Toilets of the World:

@msff-amman-Itofficer bidet is somethig used mostly in mediterranean/middle east countries. even center europe has not bidet wide spread.

What do they use then, just TP ? I think I googled the reason why no bidet or shattafa is used in Canada, and the excuse was that in the 1900 there was no available warm water so they just rolled with it ever since or something.

@scottalanmiller

When I went to Canada I got the nastiest surprise ever, its you people (US and Canada and near that area) that are never clean, you expect to keep using toilet paper for everything, well that NEVER WORKS.

And no where I live in Middle east we do not squat or use any of those stuff, we use shattaf/Bidet

It looks like this:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=shattaf&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiuj42dieDUAhWG7xQKHW1oBasQ_AUICigB&biw=1396&bih=697

It just water faucet that you use manually, when you finish and you get clean. I was very surprised that this invention was not found in Canada... think this is how the MENA region and Europe works, some have this instead:

But its more costly and takes more room, thus in MENA we like cheap workarounds so we use the Shattaf.

It seems There will be many topics like this shortly, so heads up another Improved Ransomware that uses the same vulnerability of WannaCry

Unlike Wannacry, this virus does not encrypt user files, but messes with MBR and boot partitions, and encrypt them just like TrueCrypt would encrypt quickly the first and last sector of a partition, making it look unrecognizable to the system. Thus making restoration of files difficult but not impossible. However its much faster to perform than encrypting user files which usually take some time.

The Director of Global Research for Kaspersky Labs, Costin Raiu, reports that the ransomware has made the most impact in the Ukraine, with the Russian Federation coming in at second. Poland takes third place, followed by Italy and then Germany. The infection is obviously spreading actively, so this list may not be accurate for long. One hopes it will not morph into a global outbreak.

UPDATE 5:45PM PST: As of this time, the network has hit the USA full force and is currently being covered on US news services. See the ABC news source for details.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/massive-cyberattack-strikes-europe/story?id=48303592

https://www.techpowerup.com/234719/several-critical-ukrainian-targets-hit-by-petya-ransomware-fear-of-outbreak

It seems there is rest only for folks that uses Linux as Desktop

@RojoLoco said in F***kin WannaCry:

@msff-amman-Itofficer WTF does sexual proclivity have to do with malware??? I don't know about anyone else, but I don't take kindly to homophobes.

how do you feel about people that get all sensitive for nothing ?

its joke man its just goes LSTB looks close to LGBT

@EddieJennings said in F***kin WannaCry:

Sometimes for malware, you have to nuke and start over.

Maybe its time to format and move to Windows 10, I feel like I am the last of the
Windows 7 folks around here.

But atleast I have the LGBT version of 10, cause I am gay and I get attacked with stupid Viruses, cause I dont like to have realtime AV scanner install slowing down my system and I thought I much smarter to get infected... Oh i meant Windows 10 LTSB version

https://www.cyphort.com/eternalblue-exploit-actively-used-deliver-remote-access-trojans/

According to this site:

It creates a job file “Mysa” that would download a file a.exe via FTP from BAD SITE

Then it will execute c.bat and execute another DLL file item.dat:

rundll32.exe c:\windows\debug\item.dat,ServiceMain aaaa
 
2nd Stage Payload: Item.dat

We were not able to capture item.dat from our own server. This file is saved as C:\Windows\debug\item.dat and the [cmd] command expects it to be there. We believe that this is the second stage payload. 

It appears that the Virus is not reaching the second state, but it advertising my machine, cause the filte item.dat and ok.dat are not found in my:

C:\Windows\debug

It seems the UK guy that purchased the domain of Wannacry might saved my ass.

but this is good info for people that wants to fight this, but I wonder how did those tasks got re-created, I ran :
schtasks /delete /tn * /f
Last time...

Second time get detected in my system.

I first noticed it cause Windows Firewall kept not saving my options, and keep turning on and off, it was peculiar how every-time I opened Windows my firewall kept asking to allow the same programs I previously granted, like it reset every-time its options.

Do note I patched my system with KB4012212 long time ago, like 3 or 2 months ago.

But what I noticed while I was playing around with Salt and testing stuff today, If I go under my Machine Task scheduler, I found the weird tasks again:

Mysa1
Mysa2
ok

I dont know how they got re-created, I was just in safe mode and doing full system scan and nothing appeared there, but after search I noticed those tasks are related to Wannacry, my system looks okay so it was the first time this happened.

The first time using mbam latest was able to detect Ransomeware.Wannacry and removed it, then I formatted all USB drives, and scanned with Sophos AV and Anti-Rootkits, and ADWcleaner, and I deleted those tasks...

Today they appeared again ??? from where I have no idea, I dont open any ports on my machine, except one for speeding up a game, and I do not use CIFS or SMB or Samba on my machine.

Weirdly the first time this got detected was 1-2 weeks ago, and mbam (malware bytes) removed it , and I checked all my files and nothing got encrypted. it seems the same thing now, I already made backup and tested and nothing got encrypted...

Weird...

Hope those tasks help somebody to identify infected computers.

@IRJ

SMB cause you get more fun doing everything wrong and then learning from the experience, so on the next SMB you get it right.

@scottalanmiller @bigbear

Yup ads, and the all the banners you get with android platform displaying marketing stuff.

@FATeknollogee

Do you get advs and shit like that when you do productivity work? and how do you combat that, with paid apps ? anything else ?