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RE: Outage 7/19
@WrCombs said in Outage 7/19:
@Obsolesce said in Outage 7/19:
This is something a single test would have caught prior to releasing the update...
You'd think more would be implementing automated testing... apparently, some do no testing whatsoever.
Testing is overrated apparently - lol
Imagine how hard that would be to do in a place using third party AV. It might not even be provided as an option.
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RE: Outage 7/19
@Obsolesce testing AV updates is uncommon. Compared to other kinds of things. Outside of Wall St. I've never known any shop anywhere to both use third party AV and do testing of it.
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RE: Outage 7/19
@WrCombs It's really super minor. Companies with a clue about security and basic system design aren't really impacted. It requires running Windows on mission critical systems AND not trusting Microsoft AND choosing ClowdStrike as your MS security replacement (which CS seems fine on its own but it's a problematic category of products to start with) to end up in a "no sane IT department should arrive at this decision" point.
By definition, those impacted, didn't see these systems as truly critical.
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RE: NoMachine: connect drops regenerates key
@gjacobse Most likely this is an SSH timeout. Might be on the client end. Is the timeout the same regardless of where you connect from? What if you connect via SSH instead of NX?
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The forums are alive!
Yup, at lesat a little bit, jaja.
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Castopod Amazon S3 Configuration / Backblaze B2
If you want to use Castopod, you almost certainly want to connect it to an S3 bucket. But the documentation on the site is missing a couple critical elements. The bucket must be specified and the format of the host needs the header. Here is an example configuration from the end of the .env file.
media.fileManager="s3" media.s3.endpoint="https://s3.us-east-001.backblazeb2.com" media.s3.bucket="bucketname" media.s3.key="mykeyID" media.s3.secret="mykeySecret" media.s3.region="us-east-001"
This took some tracking down. The media.s3.bucket is absolutely critical, but does not appear in the documentation. The https:// I'm told is required as it prefixes bad data without it.
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
I'm been on a media creation splurge this week. So busy, but lots of good stuff happening.
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Revisiting an old haunt to say hello
Hope y'all are doing awesome, greetings from the great white north.
OMG been a while, how are you?
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RE: MeshCentral Future
@scottalanmiller said in MeshCentral Future:
@EddieJennings said in MeshCentral Future:
The one ask I have of MeshCentral is Wayland support.
Maybe, at some point, it's Wayland that needs to step it up.
1.24 is out now.
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RE: MechCentral Updated from 1.22 to 1.23 and Now Crashing from meshuser.jsL821 realname
1.24 is out and addresses the issue.
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MechCentral Updated from 1.22 to 1.23 and Now Crashing from meshuser.jsL821 realname
We ran into this last night. Reported, and there is a temporary fix this morning.
The solution is tested and working for us...
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RE: MeshCentral Future
@EddieJennings said in MeshCentral Future:
The one ask I have of MeshCentral is Wayland support.
Maybe, at some point, it's Wayland that needs to step it up.
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyway... my youtube channel passed his this month! woot woot
The
samit
channel? Been like a year since your last video hasn't it?No, the Scott Alan Miller vlog. My big one.
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
Remember that Eli the Computer Guy that ran scams on Spiceworks a number of years ago? He has this massive YouTube channel with over a million subscribers and whatever. He partnered with Spiceworks but gave anti-IT advice (I can't remember details, but he wasn't technical and was just there to sell whatever.) Anyway... my youtube channel passed his this month! woot woot
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
@GUIn00b said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@GUIn00b said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Contemplating how to leverage 2 ISP's for supplemental bandwidth when needed using 2 separate routers that are both servicing the same LAN.
......So I'm gonna go post a new topic!
Saw the post. It's not a fun thing. What I did when I had this was I just separated things by machine. Some machines used one connection and some the other based on their workloads. It was "static" but let me use both.
You described basically what I want to do. For general user media consumption (YouTube, Facebook, Amazon shopping etc.) it can just be shipped out the Spectrum cable connection. But for my servers I more or less want those bound to the WAN with static IP. However, my static WAN has slower download speeds than the Spectrum cable. (Static WAN is 50Mbps up and down, Spectrum is 300Mbps down). So when it's time to do a giant update or download new ISOs or whatever, the 300Mbps makes a big difference in time spent waiting.
Separating things at each machine that needs the static WAN by giving them static DGW's is worthwhile for me, but it would be nice to have some load balancing intelligence happening so that large downloads come in through the fast pipe no matter the machine.
I've set up a LANcache for my Steam library which helps a lot for 130gig games and whatever. But when there's a 3-4gig update that isn't cached, the request is sent out the client machine's DGW. I think there's a way to do "Split Horizon" or something so I can setup a couple lists of domains that get allocated to one Gateway or another. Like one list of domain/hosts would be like the known Linux repo hosts would definitely be piped over to the fast download cable. But any requests for say some Linode hosted VPS's I'd want trafficked out the slower static pipe.
Yeah, I still haven't made a decision one way or the other and still have them operating with separate LAN's lol! Full disclosure, I enjoy the relationship between my a** and my couch way too much to be bothered. Potato chips not required but quite frequently present. That's just truly my happy place. So the idea of having to bend over to move a cable or something to get all this setup like I want is just a total buzzkill 99% of the time. But that's the key. 99% of the time. Not 100%. So.... someday. Someday....
Realistically for what you want to do you need a router that understands the traffic and is dividing it up. DNS or split horizon can't do the job. Dividing traffic along paths is actually quite difficult. Especially once you add encryption on the traffic.
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RE: Clean a Linux or UNIX Text File to Strip Hidden Characters
@CCWTech said in Clean a Linux or UNIX Text File to Strip Hidden Characters:
@scottalanmiller Great, but can you explain the syntax of the command?
trim anything accept characters 11, 12, or 40-176. The acceptable character ranges.
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RE: V2V Migration - Going from Hyper-V to ESXi
@Obsolesce said in V2V Migration - Going from Hyper-V to ESXi:
@CCWTech said in V2V Migration - Going from Hyper-V to ESXi:
I know @Oksana is here, maybe she can give some input.
That's just a marketing account most people block.
I've been out drinking with Oksana.