@aaronstuder said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Going home to label every breaker in my new apartment. I hear that's what the cool kids do

Probably the "cool" kids are just cool because they don't burn down their homes?

• https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/4vw21h/massive_psa_do_not_download_classic_shell_read/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4vx839/fosshub_compromised_with_malware_dont_download/
• https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/637190-fosshub-website-was-compromised-yesterday-serving-up-malware-downloads/

The group said they also grabbed unsalted passwords, which is really bad. The software itself is not infected, just the installer. From what I've read, the "malware" just overwrites the MBR, so a

fdisk /mbr

could fix this.

Better scan your machine using a live Linux scanner.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Simplivity seems a bit confused about where VMs come from and what hyperconvergence is...

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1642249-what-if-vmware-and-vms-never-existed

It seems that they think that somehow VMware invented virtualization or something!

Don't tell any mainframe guy

First comment on that page:

@RojoLoco said in 6/6/16 International Metal Day:

We should do a "Monday Metal Meltdown" every week!

We should probably arrange a ML meeting here: http://www.wacken.com/en/

I'm a bit too young to have real experience with the old systems, but I had at least my hands on a IBM VMS and a HP3000/947. Always fun to see ppl thinking x86 was the beginning of everything.

@zuphzuph said in AMD, trying to mount a comeback.:

Though competition is good for everyone in the end. Keep the prices low and competitive.

Way more important: It drives innovation.

@John-Nicholson said in Vmware Audit:

@thwr 7 days isn't actually that hard to meet with if your a Fortune 500 who properly tracks your licensing. If you don't then you need to ask for extra time (Which even Microsoft and Oracle will give you) and assistance (VMware has licensing optimization scripts that can be run even outside of audits to make sure your in compliance).

Do you just install Office on computers, and Windows and create Windows SQL servers without tracking your usage vs. licensing or do you just use BSD licensed software?

I'm in public EDU. We're running quite a bunch of MS products like SQL Server, SharePoint, Forefront UAG, System Center and others. I have a very exhaustive stack of paper about where we use what since when - and it's driving me nuts. It's very hard to keep track, especially in case of upgrades. Try to keep track of a machine upgraded since XP. Very funny.

That's why I am replacing quite a few things with FOSS alternatives wherever possible.

Just ordered this one today http://ebay.eu/286JrFA to improve FrankenSwitch. Internal power supply for WLAN AP, RPi and probably a small touchscreen

Will post some new picture when it's done.

How much I live such undifferentiated statements... It all depends on the use case. Just quick-scanned the article, but what are we talking about here? Linux on a multi-core ARM? Sure, use Python.

Single-threaded uC's? I would love to see your project manager laughing hard at you because you need to add alot of flash just to hold the interpreter. On the other hand, it is possible (if not done already) to implement some compiler for Python to generate native "binaries". But is that really the field where Python plays? Shifting bits, working with arrays, talking to bus systems? What about predictability? There are lots of well known and field-tested compilers that will do their job in a predictable way. A Python compiler may need years to even come close to such a result.

IMHO: Stay with C. I've worked with a lot of different embedded stuff during the last 20 years: 8bit uC's, PICs running BASIC (e.g. compiled from BASIC) up to JavaCard smartcards. At the end of the day, it's just syntax. But Python? Thanks, no.

@hobbit666 checked other links here at ML, it's not generated by the system. So a typo, I guess.

@scottalanmiller said in Weekend Plans:

@thwr said in Weekend Plans:

@scottalanmiller said in Weekend Plans:

No weekend plans here. Literally no idea what we are going to be doing this weekend. Might be doig nothing. That's not a bad idea.

Staying home isn't that bad at all. Don't know what the weather is like where you are, but we are probably going to some lake maybe.

A month of rain here.

That was post #666 - A month of rain.

You should stay at home, just for safety reasons

@scottalanmiller said in Red Hat Open Sources Ansible Galaxy:

That's awesome. Now just waiting on Tower, too.

Thought exactly the same: Free/open Tower would be awesome.

@Dashrender said in Idea:

4-8 GB for the OS? what OS are you running so lean on?

4GB is plenty in a core Linux system, even with a full blown desktop and a running LibreOffice for example.

Looks like I'm slowly returning to the land of the living.

Anyway, IT pro's version of Russian roulette:

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1650669-i-am-taking-a-quick-poll-user-account-control-uac-do-you-use-it-or

Post #2 is my favorite answer:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ5VKvgOmZQ

A billion possible use cases coming to mind

@johnhooks I thought about something like this myself, but more in the context of LUKS on a Pi without storing the key on the SD-Card. Would be interesting to see your approach

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

After much deliberation and pondering, I selected a new GPU yesterday (I'll get the other parts later).
AND IT'S HERE!!!! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MSI GTX 960 2GB Gaming Edition

Only 8 hours to go before I get to go home, and about 12 before I get to install it
Most importantly, it's here !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !!! !!!

And this is the last anyone will hear from @nadnerB for a week or three heheh

Famous last words, eh?