@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What am I doing right now?
Arguing with our tech about attaching the shield in shielded wire to source ground while leaving the other end open.
I can see the problem as both shielding and grounding is complicated. Probably because there are several different reasons for both and the best option in one situation is the worst in another. Was it network cabling or something else?
@black3dynamite said in What Are You Watching Now:
Looks like Gravity but with Brad Pitt instead of Sandra Bullock.
@Obsolesce said in Managing spam posting:
@marcinozga said in Managing spam posting:
@Obsolesce said in Managing spam posting:
Captcha will help against bots. Try that first. Also, start blocking posts if they contain certain spam phrases. Block known ip spam lists.
Um, it won't. Well, maybe just the ones written by script kiddies. Bots have built-in captcha solving, either with services like anti-captcha or some even include OCR and other advanced logic to solve captcha. Google xrumer or scrapebox.
I was referring to these on here, just assuming it's a single dumb bot.
Otherwise blocking threads with those phrases will help likely perfectly in these cases.
For instance any posts having the word "carpet" will be sent to a moderator before being posted.
@marcinozga said in Managing spam posting:
Phone # verification. I'm not sure if anything else is effective against spam. Captcha has been ineffective pretty much since introduction, you can buy services in India where they have real people solving captcha in real time for peanuts. Like 2-3k captchas for $2.
If you can buy services in India to solve captchas, maybe you can buy services to identify and remove spam manually as well. And an infinite loop of work is created. 
OK, this is what I ended up doing.
I wanted the remote server to have access to a local repository served over http. This works with any kind of traffic over tcp though, as it's not a web proxy but tcp forwarding.
I set up the files and served the website on the ssh client machine with PHPs build-in server. It's easy to use and requires no setup. You just start it in the base directory you want to serve. I used port 8000.
php -S localhost:8000
Then access the remove server from the client with the reverse tcp forwarding active.
Basically forwarding port 8000 on the remote host to port 8000 on the local ssh client.
ssh -R 8000:localhost:8000 remote_ip
But since I was connecting with a windows machine I used putty instead.
This is how you set up the tcp forwarding:
It seems like you can not only forward one port, but many ports and in whatever direction you want at the same time.
To try that you have things working:
wget localhost:8000
In my case I wanted apt package manager to use the forwarded port so I just changed it to use http://localhost:8000 to access the packages.
@scottalanmiller said in PATH Error with TimeScaleDB-Tune on Fedora 30:
@Pete-S said in PATH Error with TimeScaleDB-Tune on Fedora 30:
@scottalanmiller said in PATH Error with TimeScaleDB-Tune on Fedora 30:
@Pete-S said in PATH Error with TimeScaleDB-Tune on Fedora 30:
@scottalanmiller I've had my eye on timescaledb for a while looking for a chance to test it. What do you use it for?
We are prepping to move Zabbix to it.
Yes, I saw that they had support for that but wasn't that feature experimental? Or is it mature now?
Experimental but why would we care
It's a monitoring system, not financial data.
But since you make money with your monitoring system, doesn't that make it financial data. 
@scottalanmiller said in Application Virtualization in Linux Environment:
@Pete-S said in Application Virtualization in Linux Environment:
@Dashrender said in Application Virtualization in Linux Environment:
And it requires windows 10 Pro, not home!
Why would you use home edition for anything? Aren't we pros?
We actually use Home most of the time as we don't use AD 50% of the time. Pro has very few useful features other than AD joining.
Hmm, I never given it that much thought since the machines we buy usually comes with pro or they are servers. For machines that doesn't come with windows, for instance NUCs, we just get the oem pro version. Looking at it now, we would pay $30 less for the home version. Makes no real difference for us but we don't buy many machines either.
@scottalanmiller said in PATH Error with TimeScaleDB-Tune on Fedora 30:
@Pete-S said in PATH Error with TimeScaleDB-Tune on Fedora 30:
@scottalanmiller I've had my eye on timescaledb for a while looking for a chance to test it. What do you use it for?
We are prepping to move Zabbix to it.
Yes, I saw that they had support for that but wasn't that feature experimental? Or is it mature now?
@Dashrender said in Application Virtualization in Linux Environment:
And it requires windows 10 Pro, not home!
Why would you use home edition for anything? Aren't we pros?
Time to run down to the store and pick up a new one.