More rsync host stuff.
(Can Zabbix monitor and report on Fedora MD RAID)

Not read all of it
https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/470000-people-planning-to-storm-area-51-form-outrageous-plan/?source=facebook

But it seems people are preparing to "storm" Area 51

Not to be funny but they just went public giving the military loads of time to prepare. Morons lol

Just finished setting a Linux (Fedora) machine to rsync from our ReadyNAS as a backup.
Also made it log some stuff when running the commands and then E-mail via O365

Amazon Alexa offering NHS health advice

People will be able to get expert health advice using Amazon Alexa devices, under a partnership with the NHS, the government has announced.

From this week, the voice-assisted technology is automatically searching the official NHS website when UK users ask for health-related advice.
The government in England said it could reduce demand on the NHS.
Privacy campaigners have raised data protection concerns but Amazon say all information will be kept confidential.

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Why do you want to track that? My printers are setup on auto order. We have a support contract that includes toner, so I don't worry about it. Do you have to order supplies when the printers run low?

We're moving to that now. Just wanted to monitor the main HP PageWide machines here to make sure the toners are getting reordered in time , plus just to see if I can

@dafyre yeah been using it for a while (12Months+) but only for simple ping on network equipment and agents on some VM's.

Looking at SNMP for switches and see if I can get Consumable levels on printers, hence looking at MIB SNMP.

Looking into Zabbix, MIB, SNMP etc

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Now running Ubiquiti updates.

I need to do these over the next few days.

@Dashrender We're thinking somewhere warmer

We're off to Iceland and New York this year (not a cruise) for my 40th

Planning some OffSite (well same site different building) backups for some VM's and NAS Shares.

Looking at cruises for the wife's 40th (ok we have a few more years to go)

New memory chip could make data transfer 1,000 times faster

A Cambridge-based startup believes it has a prototype that could potentially solve the von Neumann bottleneck

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Watching Now:

Stranger Things Season 3

Might make a start this weekend. But tempted to watch the other 2 seasons again first.

@dafyre said in X11VNC crashing:

If you have a Mesh Central server, you could try using its agent.

I don't at the moment but have been considering spinning up a VM for random usage.

I have tried other vnc like vnc4server and tightvnc, but when following the guides I just get a new desktop. I want to see what's displayed on the screen (i.e. screen share)

Having problems on a raspberry pi 3.
I'm using x11vnc to remote onto the pi that is used for displaying dashboards and static web pages. All has been fine but after seeing the new about the NASA hack being due to a RaspPi I thought we better upgrade to the latest of everything.

So installed Ubuntu-Mate 18.04 done all the updates, installed everything as I did on Mate 16, all is working apart from x11vnc seems to bomb at random times. I could vnc onto the machine and work for 30-40 mins other times just a few minutes.

Normally it runs at startup, but if I run it manually when it bombs I get this :-

02/07/2019 09:22:12 created selwin: 0x220003e
02/07/2019 09:22:12 called initialize_xfixes()
*** stack smashing detected ***: <unknown> terminated caught signal: 6
02/07/2019 09:22:13 deleted 57 tile_row polling images.
02/07/2019 09:22:13 Restored X server key autorepeat to: 1

updating my multi boot USB with some updated ISO images

Electric cars: New vehicles to emit noise to aid safety
New electric vehicles will have to feature a noise-emitting device, under an EU rule coming into force on Monday.

It follows concerns that low-emission cars and vans are too quiet, putting pedestrians at risk because they cannot be heard as they approach.
All new types of four-wheel electric vehicle must be fitted with the device, which sounds like a traditional engine.