@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Well my work day has been extended by 4 hours as I’ll be waiting for a Comcast technician from 5-9.

Don't get hacked, enable SELinux:

https://doublepulsar.com/hardening-apache-struts-with-selinux-db3a9cd1a10c

I finally have, in my opinion, a very clean, stable, and workable Linux desktop installed on my laptop that I'm very happy with: Fedora 25 Cinnamon Desktop. Using the native KVM and QEMU (virt-manager), a nice and speedy Win10 VM (IT-specific Image) running to do my work at work. When Fedora 26 is out and stable, I'll be upgrading for sure!

I PXE booted and installed my VM via an WDS server on the network, but I'm sure everything will work just find if you install from .iso.

For future reference, I'm posting my basic steps here.

• Install Fedora Cinnamon Desktop

• Upgrade everything, then reboot:
  sudo dnf upgrade

• Install the virtualization stuff:
  sudo dnf groupinstall virtualization
sudo dnf install qemu-img libvirt libvirt-python libvirt-client

==================== BEGIN virtio drivers install instructions ====================================

The below instructions explain how to install the virtio drivers. It is better to install Spice Tools, but here are the steps anyways:

• Configure the virtio drivers repo:
  sudo wget https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/virtio-win.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/virtio-win.repo
• If you want to (I did) enable latest:
  sudo dnf --enablerepo=virtio-win-latest upgrade virtio-win
• Install the drivers .iso:
  sudo dnf install virtio-win
• Mount the following .iso to a cd drive on your VM. You will need to shutdown or restart your VM if it's already running:
  /usr/share/virtio-win/virtio-win.iso
• In the Windows guest VM, copy all contents of the cdrom (probably D:) to a new folder on your drive.
  I used C:\drivers\
• In the Win10 guest, run the following command to automatically comb through and install/upgrade all relevant drivers:
  pnputil /add-driver c:\drivers\*.inf /subdirs /install

==================== END virtio drivers install instructions ====================================

• Install SPICE Guest Tools inside of Windows VM. (thanks @coliver)
  https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/spice-guest-tools-latest.exe
• Reboot VM.

Reference Links:

RedHat 10.2. Installing the Drivers on an Installed Windows Guest Virtual Machine
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualization_Host_Configuration_and_Guest_Installation_Guide/form-Virtualization_Host_Configuration_and_Guest_Installation_Guide-Para_virtualized_drivers-Mounting_the_image_with_virt_manager.html

Classroom on using Libvirt
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Introduction_to_libvirt_(20090503_Classroom)

Getting started with virtualization
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_started_with_virtualization

We have cell phones and internet, Netflix and Amazon Prime. The little we are able to use any of them, they are more than enough. If anything else, Kodi works nicely too. Honestly we could get by without Netflix, but it's nice to have their children's channel or whatever it's called.

@nadnerb said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

KVM smokes VirtualBox. Well, wouldn't we assume that it would?

That's credibility destroying. Like getting RAID and backup advice from Linus Tech Tips... (Context)

Tech tip of the year goes to Robert there... "don't worry about URE".

In your picture under a) it's the other number... Starts with 4. Look up that one and make sure its installed. If your Win10 pcs are updating automatically you are fine.

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Starting to think through backup solutions and server consolidation as Yosemite Server Backup has reached End-Of-Life.

Running into this as well for tape backups, but still have a year left of support after End-Of-Life.

Night 1:
8oz red wine (Pinot Noir), I must have gotten confused with 1-cup = 8oz, and didn't verify first. So that was my mistake, and the reason it wasn't a good experience the next morning.
For my weight, 8oz was enough to give the warm feeling and make me sleepy. But also enough to not feel 100% the next morning.
It was the weekend, so although I didn't have to wake up early, I still had some trouble wanting to get out of bed.

Night 2: (today)
5oz Pinot Noir. Still enough to de-stress and get better sleep, but not enough to effect the next morning. I went to bed around 11pm, woke up at 5am feeling awake and good overall. I went to the gym before going to work.

@scottalanmiller said in Wanna cry Effect??:

@Tim_G and I were on a thread in the last hour of some guy who has now decided that his "mission critical no downtime" servers need to start getting patched.

I was in the process of writing an analogy comparing that to patching holes in a submarine... but it started to get so cheesy I deleted it LOL.

I just discovered the Send-MailMessage PowerShell cmdlet... this has so many immediate uses.

Testing went great.

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/wordpress-warning-major-hole-serious-risk-cve/

Here's a fix for it until WordPress fixes it: https://github.com/Quitten/WordPress/blob/master/wp-dos-patch.sh

I got that from here: http://baraktawily.blogspot.com/2018/02/how-to-dos-29-of-world-wide-websites.html

@dbeato said in best hosted Windows server:

See Vultr is a great thing from NJ

I never heard of NJ until I heard of Vultr.

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

@tim_g said in I can't even:

@wrx7m said in I can't even:

Hopefully she has good backups

With a mixed bag of drives like that in a RAID5, it's unlikely backups exist... if any, I doubt it's a working backup.

Mixed drives, ancient RAID 5, multiple arrays of matching drives (no OBR), Windows physical server no virtualization - I'd put the chances of backups around 10%.

I'd say a 30% chance of your 10% that the backups are too old to use.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@popester said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/14/sierra-leone-just-ran-the-first-blockchain-based-election/

Maybe someday the US will catch up with the technically advanced countries

Doubtful when there's so much money in it for companies to use old existing tech.

What about an Amazon Snowball?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Reading through the site to get a grasp on changing over my XenServer installation to KVM.

This site? Good luck, lots to read from today.

Yep, this site. I've been following the posts from today pretty close. I currently manage XenServer with XO via web. Which is great, so I can see console, etc. I assume KVM has the same functionality?

Virt manager, not sure how it would be managed like XO

Virt manager is good and easy to use.

QEMU can convert like almost anything to anything else. I've done a bunch. I haven't tried Xen.

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Drupal Vulnerability
https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2018-002

And the benefit of being open source... already patched!

@scottalanmiller said in Xfinity data limits:

@Tim_G said in Xfinity data limits:

What about an Amazon Snowball?

Nice, how have I not seen this yet?

There's another one too... also snow related. I forget what it's called though... It's a whole 18-wheeler truck you can load up with data, lol. Imagine how much data you could fit on that!

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Reading through the site to get a grasp on changing over my XenServer installation to KVM.

This site? Good luck, lots to read from today.

Yep, this site. I've been following the posts from today pretty close. I currently manage XenServer with XO via web. Which is great, so I can see console, etc. I assume KVM has the same functionality?

Virt manager, not sure how it would be managed like XO

KVM does have a web management interface, but I'm forgetting what it's called because I don't use it.

The one I'm aware of is called WebVirtMgr (https://github.com/retspen/webvirtmgr)... Looks like they're changing the branding, etc

I just RDP into my Mint18 box and run Virt-Manager from there.

Cockpit has cockpit-machines you can install for the web interface.

You can also use Kimchi-project.

There's also that you can spin up an ovirt-engine VM and connect your KVM host to it (similar to using SCVMM).

Amazon's Route53 DNS service hijacked:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/bgp-leaks-and-crypto-currencies/