@tonyshowoff said in SQL security over the LAN:

@flaxking That may work and is worth a try, but it's likely not to work because the client is passing along to SQL Server and it's not known whether or not they implemented, or allow, encrypted traffic within their SQL Server connection library. Even if implemented in the library, it doesn't mean the client allows it, and even may be intentionally disabled for God only knows what reason. It isn't an SQL client, it's an application which just connects to SQL Server or passes raw SQL along to an application server to avoid client connection licensing limits.

How would that avoid licencing? The MS SQL licencing doesn't care how a user connects, you have to get CALs for the actual users using it no matter the method used. (Unless using SQL Express)

Also using an encrypted password in the ini file is at least better than using Windows Authentication and each user actually having full permission on the database and could alter data with with a connection to SQL outside of the application

And I doubt that the account being used actually has to be SA, but it would still have to use an account with full permissions on the database

SQL Server Configuration Manager – SQL Server Network Configuration – right click “Protocols for ...” - Properties – Under the Flags tab, set Force Encryption to Yes

MS SQL Server will then use a self-signed certificate for encrypting communications. SQL clients have supported encryption for ages, so whatever they're using for the client will probably just work with it.

If you want to use your own trusted certificate, you have to set the SQL clients on each machine to force encryption and to only trust trusted certificates

@tonyshowoff The key to is that a naturopath can base their practice off of science or off of quackery. Homeopathy is quackery, and people on the lookout for BS would only trust a naturopath that can prove they are not full of it.

I've never done it, I just remember something about that when I was looking up the same message when I was having issues when hosting my own docker registry.

@devops1 said in Kubernetes (Kubespray) Issue.:

@flaxking So, If I am behind the proxy how to solve this error? Pulling the docker image directly will knock out this error?

No, I think you might have to tell Docker the address of your proxy server. Probably either as an environment variable on your system or in the docker config file

@NetworkNerd said in Weigh in on Holiday Career Topics:

@scottalanmiller said in Weigh in on Holiday Career Topics:

For a moment I thought you were looking for holiday career ideas, like making a few extra dollars by being a mall santa.

There's an interesting one. Weigh in on your recommended holiday side hustle. If anyone out there has a holiday side hustle, I would be curious to know what it is if you don't mind sharing.

Once I did 'Holiday Help' phone/chat support for Best Buy. I helped someone troubleshoot their new dryer.

1. Lot's a of stuff to learn. I went from a job that was kind of a 'make work' situation to a job where it feels like I'm working with and learning something new every week.

2. Not really sure how to answer that one

3. Get to unplug from the learning I 'have to do' to keep up at work, to put some some time into the learning I want to do.

4. Lots of visit happens over the holiday, so the laptop gets set aside and the book gets put down. But I'll probably find myself waking up at 6 am to spend sometime reading/labbing.

5. Become one of the few running Windows Containers in production

There's too much discussion and analysis of recruiters and job postings here. It would be like a naturopath practitioner trying to find clients on a forum dedicated to debunking homeopathy. Only the naturopath who actually qualified enough to be a real doctor would stand a chance.

Sounds like you can't retrieve the docker image from the quay.io docker registry
Does it fail when you try to pull it in Docker directly?
Docker image pull quay.io/coreos/etcd:v3.2.24

Are you behind a proxy? I think that's the common issue for people who experience this error.

@scottalanmiller said in Monitoring with SaltStack VS Zabbix:

@flaxking said in Monitoring with SaltStack VS Zabbix:

Collecting metrics and triggering alerts based on predefined characteristics would be a whole area of monitoring you would miss out on.

Collecting metrics is a core part of Salt. The events framework is part of Sodium. Those two pieces are there natively when you use SodiumSuite, it's just not extensive (yet).

It's good at exporting values, but you would need to integrate another tool to store the data, analyze it and send alerts based on the data over time. Which I guess is where Sodium could come in.

I feel like you would have to do a fair bit of reinventing the wheel if you were going to try to do monitoring with salt. As far as I know, it's designed just to trigger automation based on simple events. Collecting metrics and triggering alerts based on predefined characteristics would be a whole area of monitoring you would miss out on.

Ex Machina was good

Harry Potter taught me everything I needed to know

My first test of it was on Fedora too, no issues, but that was a bit ago on Fedora 27

If I have a title at my current job, I have no clue what it is.

Sometimes a fancy title will be used to describe me if client services wants my involvement to sound like an escalation.

I also once had to describe my role in the company on a call with a potential partner company when our COO was on the call too. Hopefully my description lined up with what he expects me to be doing.

Usually there's like 5 members posting nonsense so they can get points

@scottalanmiller said in What flavor of linux to replace windows?:

@Donahue said in What flavor of linux to replace windows?:

As far as the ERP, I don't know specifically what part of the application makes it dependent on windows, and honestly, I doubt the software company does either. But, I don't see this particular ERP as being a long term solution for us.

I would guess all of it. It's almost certainly written in 1990s era Windows desktop code.

If all of it is, then there is a good chance it can run using Wine. Not sure if it would be against the EULA of the runtimes though