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@scottalanmiller said in Trading a VPN for an SSH Tunnel:

@JasGot said in Trading a VPN for an SSH Tunnel:

@scottalanmiller said in Trading a VPN for an SSH Tunnel:

@JasGot said in Trading a VPN for an SSH Tunnel:

Put a RouterBoardOS RB260GS at each house and use a free ddns service. $35each and yo're done.
Or a Ubiquiti Edge Router Lite will work too, just more expensive.
I use the Ubiquiti ERL for IPSec into my house from the office, my phone, and my laptop. Love it.

All more work and more money than easy and free.

Easy is relative. $70 for the two is only $10 more than he is currently paying for one year. Starting with month 15, it is free!

Comparing to a bad decision is misleading. You have to throw money away today, and ignore better options, to them create the "savings" of spending money. That's a false decision matrix.

The real comparison is against something free. That's the baseline to beat. Otherwise, nothing is costly compared to any contrived more expensive decision.

Example: I want a laser light show for my house, I don't need it, I just want it. The free option is to not buy one. Buying one is normally $100. But I could find one that is $200 and then say that the $100 is "free" or even "saving me money." But this is false, it's still costing $100 no matter how many more expensive alternatives we find.

It's like the 'sale' problem. The shirt was on sale for 50% off, I saved 50%!! No, you still bought a shirt you didn't need, money was lost versus the free baseline.

The wife gets mad when I tell her you save 100% if you don't buy anything.

@dbeato said in Installing printers in Fedora 29 Linux:

@NerdyDad said in Installing printers in Fedora 29 Linux:

@dbeato said in Installing printers in Fedora 29 Linux:

You can use CUPS Command Line
https://www.cups.org/doc/admin.html

lpadmin -p PrinterName -E -v socket://ip.address.of.printer -m printerdriver.ppd

Aren't printers and configs saved in a file somewhere? If so, could I copy that file to other minions, similar to remmina connection files as discussed in the other thread?

I did not see your other thread but let me check.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/18748/chromebox-for-clerks-and-data-entry/54

Weird.. I didn't have to do anything with SELinux to get it working:

https://timothygruber.com/linux/saltstack-installation-configuration/#Installing_the_Salt-Master

@scottalanmiller said in DNS flag day 2019:

@dbeato DNS is in the eye of the domain holder. 😉

Cloudflare 🙂

@DustinB3403 said in Chromebox for Clerks and Data Entry:

@DustinB3403 said in Chromebox for Clerks and Data Entry:

You can rename the files obviously, but you can't import them if you change the name it seems.

actually...maybe I cant import because it's already listed.

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Copy it and change the name, then reload Remmina. You'll now see a copy of the same thing. Go back and delete the original in the file system and reload Remmina again. Original disappears.

Tells me that one should be able to simply dump the connection configs on the minions, tighten down the permission to read only for the user and let them operate.

@NerdyDad

You can use Loopback Processing also.

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askds/2013/02/08/circle-back-to-loopback/

@wrx7m said in Clients on the private side of a jump box:

@scottalanmiller said in Clients on the private side of a jump box:

Speaking of which, I need to go build a new jump box at a client site. MeshCentral makes our jump boxes more flexible.

I was following your thread on MC vs SC. What about MC makes it more flexible for your scenario?

Cost, speed, development, support, etc.

We've already gotten better support for smaller issues in MC than SC provides when you pay an arm and a leg and it is show stopping stuff!

MC will save us something like $1600 a year, and provides some really nice features that we like. And seems to have a bright future. SC has appeared to have gotten worse, not better, in the last two years. That's not good when you are paying so much.

But we really like the insanely fast "in browser" connections in MC. SC causes so much delay that it is frustrating. Only a few seconds, but when you are trying to work, unnecessary stopping and waiting makes people frustrated.

@NerdyDad said in Changing NICs in virtual servers:

Here is the actual code in a more searchable context, sterilized for general use.

Very useful! Thanks!

@ysapir Thanks Yonah. My rep is Rithy. Already ordered, shipped, received, and prepped.

Ordered 20 2018 Acer 15.6" HD WLED Chromebook with 3x Faster WiFi Laptop Computer, Intel Celeron Core N3060 up to 2.48GHz, 4GB RAM, 16GB eMMC, 802.11ac WiFi, Bluetooth 4.2, USB 3.0, HDMI, Chrome OS

@JaredBusch said in Who are you following on Twitter?:

@Obsolesce said in Who are you following on Twitter?:

I just use twitter to stay current... like a better news feed really.

I find it useless, because the feed contains retweets of crap I don't care about.

Quite the opposite for me...

It's actually where I discover some of the most interesting or important news and happenings relevant to the feeds I'm following, where I'll otherwise miss it completely.

@NerdyDad said in Fedora 29 stuck in boot process:

@travisdh1 said in Fedora 29 stuck in boot process:

@NerdyDad said in Fedora 29 stuck in boot process:

Removed VLC and reboot borked the entire process.

That sucks. Were you using the default repo?

Nope, RPM Fusion because that's what their instructions said to do.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-fedora.html

Worked fine in 28. @JaredBusch said he got it to work. Do you recall how you did it Jared?

I uninstalled VLC first and by the end of the day VLC was in the packages again.

@JaredBusch said in Unnecessary packages?:

@NerdyDad said in Unnecessary packages?:

Okay, then I'll just hold on to it. Not like its taking up any more space than necessary. Thanks

Fedora only keeps 3 versions by default.

I'm not sure what CentOS 7 does now, but Cent OS 6 used to keep them all.

So does Ubuntu.

Keeping them all was highly annoying when /boot had to be it's own partition. That's been quite a while, thankfully.

@Dashrender said in What is Virtualization?:

@scottalanmiller said in What is Virtualization?:

@Dashrender said in What is Virtualization?:

@scottalanmiller said in What is Virtualization?:

@Dashrender said in What is Virtualization?:

@dyasny said in What is Virtualization?:

@scottalanmiller said in What is Virtualization?:

This is a really big deal. To make a comparison, it is like how people would compare ZFS (filesystem, logical volume manager, RAID lumped into one) to XFS (just a filesystem.) Then say "can XFS do.... x, y, or z feature that isn't part of the ZFS filesystem" and it made ZFS look good simply because "XFS can't do that." But the XFS ecosystem did it very well, it just wasn't XFS itself doing whatever feature they were asking.

The unix way is to have one product doing one function and doing it well. This is a good and a bad thing really, but it definitely allows for faster development

People coming from Windows (definitely talking about myself here) aren't used to this type of separation in general. They/We are more accustomed to the packages style. When we talk about AD, we don't simply talk about the authentication part, we mean all of it - authentication/Group Polices, etc. So breaking these things down - explaining, over and over and over again that ZFS is a package, and XFS is a single item is critical to get those people on the same page.

Thanks @dyasny for that post - it was very helpful.

that's completely different. Windows has the "separate" pieces just like Linux. You are seeing the confusion and misunderstanding of typical Windows users lumping all things that they don't understand together. That's very different from a single product actually lumping functionality together.

ZFS is actually three different things rolled into one product. In the Windows world, that would be Windows RAID, NTFS, and WIndows Disk Manager all as one product.

Well - then that makes matters just that much worse then!

It's not so much that it is worse, it is just different. But people compare it in unreasonable ways.

It's worse because as you just pointed out - it's one name to combine three techs... and again as you showed in Windows - each component is named separately, yet tightly integrated and more often than not talked about in a group via one of the key elements, i.e. AD to mean all of the other features that come alone with AD, but aren't AD itself. Now you're saying this is a single name to mean all these things f(ilesystem, logical volume manager, RAID lumped into one). Granted it's because the person isn't educated that ZFS is all these things and not just a Filesystem, but it's reality no matter if you like it or not.

The Windows example is worse because that is based on incompetence. The ZFS situation is just an option. Nothing particularly wrong with bundling or with not bundling, just two reasonable approaches. Your entire point of the Windows situation is "used by people who don't understand it." That's the real issue. Not whether they are separate or not.

I've been investing my time in learning Ansible and SaltStack to manage Linux and Windows. And started using the native tools available from Linux and Windows through Ansible and SaltStack.

They aren't in the ML community but special shoutout to Ariel Sanchez and Joe Houghes for this help. Somebody needs to get them into ML.

https://twitter.com/TheRealNerdyDad/status/1049365117140447238

I live in Rochester, and I've never heard of them.

This here says you can go into regedit to remove the interfaces, but this doesn't appear to correct the issue. (new switches being created at every reboot)

The virtual switch configuration stored within the following key: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VMSMP\Parameters\SwitchList After they deleted the corresponding value within that key and rebooted, the virtual switch was gone. Source: Can't remove failed virtual switch from Hyper-V's Virtual Switch Manager https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/e49df568-4f4c-47b7-b30c-952d1e26ca58/cant-remove-failed-virtual-switch-from-hypervs-virtual-switch-manager

I don't work here but live close to the town that they are hiring at. I would consider the position myself, but for many different reasons, its not right for me. I've applied for positions here before, got into the interview process, and never hired. After 3 times, I've decided that it was never meant to be for me. I also have in-laws that works here, that I would just rather not contend with. I was also a student and got my AA in CompSci here.

If you're trying to get to Texas and want an environment to work on, here you go.

I typically run with Dahua (or Hikvision in a pinch) mixed with their own branded NVRs or, if software based, BlueIris.
Both models of cameras are professional grade and look the part but can be a little costly.
The Dahua cameras have several models with the "Starlight" sensor which makes low light situations look fantastic and easy to identify.
Check out https://ipcamtalk.com for tons of reviews, footage, etc of many different cameras.
Dahua aren't usually sold to "end users" in North America but there's a guy on Alibaba that ships straight from China cheaply and with NA firmware. He's highly used on IPCamTalk and I've personally purchased a few dozen cameras from him. https://www.aliexpress.com/store/1859367