Posts made by StrongBad

I'm a Cinnamon fan. Have not used TeamViewer, so lacking an opinion there.

@aaronstuder said in What your favorite Desktop Environment?:

Sadly, Cinnamon doesn't play nice with Teamviewer

Does Gnome 3? The one is built on the other.

LTO-6 does 160MB/s and LTO-7 does 300MB/s. That's 2.4Gb/s! And that is a single tape, they can be parallelized just like disks.

LTO-8 is going to be 427MB/s and is due soon. And that's a small leap, the speeds for LTO-9 are just crazy.

@mike-davis said in Battling Ransome/Crypto-ware: Drive Shares:

@coliver said in Battling Ransome/Crypto-ware: Drive Shares:

So one of the protections would be to implement snapshots on those shared drives. It's fairly easy to do and, surprisingly, doesn't use that much disk space in modern Windows server versions.

Snapshots don't take up much space under normal operations. When the entire file changes, such as when it's encrypted, you're writing a lot of changes and usually it runs out of space so you can recover some stuff, but not all your stuff.

In theory, what would fail in that case would be the snapshot of the encryption and the healthy recovery snapshots would still be there unaffected.

Not mapping drives is really just an attempt at security through obscurity. The actual technology hasn't changed, the access hasn't change. All that has changed is where the share is listed.

@gjacobse said in Battling Ransome/Crypto-ware: Drive Shares:

There is a growing shift of practices to battle ransomware which looks for other drives to munch on, by not mapping network shares, the ransomware doesn't have anyplace to jump to, and therefore is isolated to the single computer it managed to get attached to - at least in theory and until they are written to start doing a blind search across the network for open ports / shares

But hasn't ransomware already been doing this for some time?

If the disk filled to capacity, maybe something got corrupted.

Most Linux assistance tools are VNC somewhere in the chain.

That's a broken jaw and nose right there.

People always remains the weak link.

Maybe you could move the plugins out of the folder temporarily and see if it will run without them present?

Looks really slick.

QuickBooks is the worst. If you've ever had to run around in a company with like five users on QB and deal with connection issues, shared drive issues, file corruption... it doesn't take much before QB becomes the main thing you are supporting.

Vultr is great, and it lets you use your own ISOs if you want, which isn't very common.

PowerShell is the shizzit if you are working on Windows.

Greetings to @Some_user and @lmindnix and @Griffin

My vote for security would be CentOS or Suse.

Maybe it is NLA, but there is normally some setting on Windows that needs to be disabled for this.

This looks pretty interesting. I've got a Windows 10 machine, I guess I can give it a spin there.