Posts made by siringo

@obsolesce said in Fedora name resolution:

is it a .local domain?

No, I nuked that localhost.localdomain and changed it to just a hostname, hpfed.

Got a problem with Fedora v28 w/station unable to resolve names.

It has valid IP address, DNS addresses and can ping by IP address but can't resolve names or FQDNs.

The NIC icon up top right hand corner has a question mark over it.

Anyone have any ideas?

I'm new to Linux so will require spoon feeding.

I think the UAC prompt pops up so that malware/bots/virii/spyware etc can't automatically run things that they shouldn't have access to. The prompt pops up and whatever has triggered it is running is stuck until somehow creds are entered.

I don't think it is always a user 'level of access thing' if you get what I mean.

I could be totally wrong??????????????

@wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

helping global warming. walk into room i must sit in today. it stinks. open window, 4 degrees outside. turn on heater, 26 degrees on that. let's blow up the world!

It took me a second. Must be southern hemisphere lol

yep, australia.

helping global warming. walk into room i must sit in today. it stinks. open window, 4 degrees outside. turn on heater, 26 degrees on that. let's blow up the world!

sitting at a desk looking at zerotier and listening to Ototoi.
https://ototoi.bandcamp.com/album/k-tape

successfully avoided doing anything productive for the first 3 hours of the day. brain just will not start this morning.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

stoked to find zerotier has a pop down here in sydney

Nice, although the data doesn't flow through them, so having a local pop only does so much, it's just a controller node.

Oh, OK. Hey it's good though because at least we're 'part' of the system, you never know what will come next.
so much to learn here.

stoked to find zerotier has a pop down here in sydney

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

working out a new visitation schedule for my public service support contract. i've never felt more overlooked, under appreciated, ignored and taken for granted than I have in any other IT contract i've had in 30 years.

By management, or a vendor?

management, although there is so little management that is done, I call them arrangers.

working out a new visitation schedule for my public service support contract. i've never felt more overlooked, under appreciated, ignored and taken for granted than I have in any other IT contract i've had in 30 years.
what did barney say ... "don't feel sorry for me, i'm already dead" ...
but hey it's winter day 1 and the sun is out.
what did monty python say ... "always look on the bright side of life".
i think alcohol might come into play tonight.

bring on the nightly gorge fest, time to eat. first day of winter tomorrow!

Having a ball with ZeroTier, this thing seems to be able to connect through anything!

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

replacing a faulty hdd in a dell t620

@Texkonc had some fun doing that this week.

must be something in the air. drive to be replaced was 'predicted failure'. new drive was doa. it was 2nd hand though.

replacing a faulty hdd in a dell t620

@jaredbusch said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

@siringo said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

@jaredbusch said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

@siringo said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

@obsolesce said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

Visit spice space and install the guest tools in your VM.

Thanks for the suggestion, but that's outside my area of competance ATM.

https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/spice-guest-tools-latest.exe

I had another look at this last night.
I've installed, sorry if this sounds a little confused, I'm not a Linux user, KVM/QEMU onto my Fedora laptop and managed to install a copy of Server 2016 as a VM. Only problem is I cannot get the mouse & keyboard to switch from physical to virtual hosts, it's a real mess, very very frustrating, so frustrating in fact I nuked Fedora & installed Ubuntu. But that's as far as I got last night.
I'm going to try my luck with Virtualbox on Ubuntu.

What is it with Fedora anyway? Seems like a darn fiddly thing to use.

Did you install the spice driver into the windows instance? If not, of course nothing works.

No mate I didn't, I wasn't sure what to do and it was getting late so I just changed plans. This entire thing is about learning new bits and pieces, so there's no grief with any of it.

Thanks everyone for all the help so far.

@jmoore said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

@siringo Actually Fedora has been the most solid Linux offering for me to use. I suppose you have had some bad luck though. If I remember some laptop hardware runs better with Linux than others. Not sure if this is the issue but may be a place to start.

There could be something in what you say. Ubuntu has installed on this laptop really well, so far everything has worked out of the box. Wifi, trackpad, sound. Maybe I will have more luck with this OS?

@jaredbusch said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

@siringo said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

@obsolesce said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

Visit spice space and install the guest tools in your VM.

Thanks for the suggestion, but that's outside my area of competance ATM.

https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/spice-guest-tools/spice-guest-tools-latest.exe

I had another look at this last night.
I've installed, sorry if this sounds a little confused, I'm not a Linux user, KVM/QEMU onto my Fedora laptop and managed to install a copy of Server 2016 as a VM. Only problem is I cannot get the mouse & keyboard to switch from physical to virtual hosts, it's a real mess, very very frustrating, so frustrating in fact I nuked Fedora & installed Ubuntu. But that's as far as I got last night.
I'm going to try my luck with Virtualbox on Ubuntu.

What is it with Fedora anyway? Seems like a darn fiddly thing to use.

@obsolesce said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

Visit spice space and install the guest tools in your VM.

Thanks for the suggestion, but that's outside my area of competance ATM.