Most distros will also give you a hint when opening a session (SSH, bash, getty etc). But it's nice to see such a summary, thanks.

@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thanksajdotcom said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thanksajdotcom -- it sounds like you work with some good folks!

I managed to find a job that really isn't hard, pays decently, I get along with EVERYONE minus one person, and that person poses ZERO threat to me. I've finally learned the lesson "not my circus, not my monkeys". I do what I'm asked, and when I leave at the end of the day, I don't give the job a thought until I arrive the next day.

Just keep holding on to that. You need to do that for a long time. It only takes one bad moment of thinking it is your monkeys for it to fall apart. Stay relaxed, head down, do a good job and you should be good.

That's exactly what I've been doing. I think back to situations I've encountered in previous jobs where I made certain mistakes, overstepped bounds, etc. I made those mistakes too many times. And when I came here, I swore I wouldn't do that anymore. So far, I've done excellent with it. I haven't been perfect, but pretty damn close, and it's working for me. I'm not an easy case, but for all those that have invested their time, energy, money and support in me, I'll be damned if I don't make them proud of their decision.

I'm tired of being the "kid" who has potential but keeps f***ing himself over. I'm done with that. I'm still going to make plenty of mistakes, but at least I can say I'm not going to keep repeating dumb moves I have made in the past. Time for me to grow up, and I'm finally getting there.

That's a quite important point: Doing mistakes is not much of a problem. Doing the same mistake twice is stupid. Learning this rule is the key to everything that may come

Well, looks like that my little problem yesterday (full harddrive on DC-2) caused more trouble than expected: My two DCs are out of sync now, and the second one even refuses to start AD services. Replication log / status lists quite a few lingering objects, Kerberos ticket issues and so on. The faulty DC is powered off right now to prevent user issues and further damage.

No substantial changes have been made during the last couple of weeks. Just a few new users and password changes plus maybe 2 or 3 new machine accounts. Some clients and servers now refuse to authenticate users during login due to the well known "trust could not be established between..." error.

I'm just trying to figure out how to fix this in an "elegant" way. Problem: I'll be out of office for the next two days because I will attend to a project meeting some hundred kilometers to the south. My train will depart in 3 hours. Murphy.

Possible approaches:

• My plan is to leave the faulty DC powered off and deploy a new DC and (hard) remove the faulty one when the new DC is in sync with the working DC.
• Or should I better try to reanimate the dead one?

Any thoughts about this?

I'm aware that I might loose some AD objects, but that's ok. Like I said, it's just about a few accounts etc.

PS: The working one is confirmed to be the one with the most current replication state. No wonder.

Thank heaven @IRJ changed his avatar again. That stomping dwarf nearly hypnotized me

@StrongBad said in DCs out of sync:

I think that I'm too late, but I concur that rebuilding is better than trying to find a way to recover the out of sync node - just not worth it.

That's the point. As long as you still have a working DC, issues are better solved by depolying a new machine.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Thank heaven @IRJ changed his avatar again. That stomping dwarf nearly hypnotized me

I'm the only person who told him to change the dang thing. I wanted to pause it every time I saw it.

My wife stopped me from stubbing out a cigarette on my monitor...

I need to deploy a few new switches very soon and heck, Ubiquiti offers a lot of bang for the buck.

Checking their models I found two switches that might fit: US-48-500W and ES-48-500W.

Now... what the heck is the difference between the EdgeSwitch and the UnifiSwitch line? They seem to be pretty much identical, even on the datasheet. Is there a different software feature set? Which one would you buy when you want to connect a bunch of client machines and maybe 2 or 3 APs?

@RojoLoco said in Weekend Plans:

@thwr said in Weekend Plans:

Weekend plans... Meeting a friend and his family on Friday at some party, birthday BBQ with friends on Saturday, BBQ at my parents place. Another carnivore weekend, so much for trying to not eat meat. BTW: The party on friday probably includes a BBQ...

Why would you try to not eat meat??? Are you some kind of hippie or something?

Me? A hippie? No, we just had so much meat in the past. And really, BBQ on three days in a row is a bit hard

He's probably talking about UNMS, Ubiquiti Network Management Solution, https://www.ubnt.com/software/

Manage all of your EdgeMAX and U Fiber devices.

• Centralized devices configuration, backups and mass FW upgrade
• Performance charts with real-time graphs
• Outage notifications and custom alerts
• Map of your network sites and endpoints

... And I have to wait until tomorrow.

@jaredbusch said in Graphical network documentation tools:

I just want to tour I can click a button or switch type a number of ports and they just put something on the goddamn street I hate Visio and dealing with specifics stencils and all the right things just give me some generic fucking pictures

^ this

Give me a few days, I'll have a meeting with the DC guys soon.

But yes, I'm in the same boat: I would like to click on a VLAN label and see a list of all associated access ports. Or I want to click on a cable and see the patch field number. Can't be this hard. There are some tools out there, like http://demo.racktables.org/ etc. But it looks a little bit like ... eye cancer

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

... And I have to wait until tomorrow.

Does that recipe include any kirschwasser? If not, you could drizzle some on top before serving... mmmmmmmmm....

It does... Should be enough I guess

Zabbrix, OpenNMS, Icinga... there are so many of them. It highly depends on what you need - and at which scale.

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just had someone come over to my desk and mention the porn filter isnt working. So, naturally, I googled for boobs.

While she was at my desk.

Porn filter isn't working.

And what's the bad news? SCNR

@nerdydad said in Fake Wall or Wall Closet?:

@dustinb3403 said in Fake Wall or Wall Closet?:

@nerdydad said in Fake Wall or Wall Closet?:

@dustinb3403 said in Fake Wall or Wall Closet?:

@nerdydad said in Fake Wall or Wall Closet?:

Any suggestions?

Tell your CFO to stop giving tours of your server room and focus on saving money for more important things.

He's over IT, so what he says goes.

Yeah... so he is IN the IT department. I'm assuming he wants a blind that acts like curtains. . .

He's on IN the IT department, but is in charge of it. He is my boss's boss.

TL; DR

I would tell him once that there's no technical reason to do so. After doing so, just take the chance. Don't you want a shiny server room like everyone else? And when he is the CFO, he should easily be able to get you some budget.

Put everything on the wall into a rack. Replace all other existing racks with the same brand and model as the new one. Get an electrician to upgrade the cable bridge with some side panels and finally just don't forget tons of LED stripes for proper backlight.

Isn't that what your CFO wants? And you get your stuff nicely organized at the same time. Great. Oh, and don't forget to show the $10k-20k bill to your CEO. Sit back and relax afterwards.

@thanksajdotcom ... and I'm not exactly a native English speaker

Was there any proper security audit or at least a professional review? You know, the kind of data it stores is very sensitive.

Watermelon-Feta-Mint salad. Everyone loved it

@emad-r said in Does any one of you has (single-board computer) if so what is the purpose ?:

@thwr said in Does any one of you has (single-board computer) if so what is the purpose ?:

@emad-r said in Does any one of you has (single-board computer) if so what is the purpose ?:

@thwr said in Does any one of you has (single-board computer) if so what is the purpose ?:

Raspberry's, OrangePi's and a bunch of other ARM SBCs for private and business uses.

There are dozens of available Linux OS's available, but I usually stick to Debian based ones. There's even a Windows IoT version out there.

Could you be more specific? What do you want to do?

gather intelligence...

Ok. As you can see here, you can do literally anything with them. There a very few points where you must go for the micro controller route: real time behavior and ultra low power for example.

The thing is: you need to implement everything yourself when you use a uC. There are lots of software stacks and libs, but most of them require a lot of knowledge to get them running. Using a Linux capable SBC on the other hand allows you to use virtually any high level language (and libs) like Python or even C#. You also benefit from a networking capable OS: Linux.

Hardware wise... Well, take a look for Orange Pi. Way cheaper and more powerful than RPis and there are also beginner friendly communities out there.

There is always an SBC born every minute it seems, Le Potato uses a a good chip as well:
https://libre.computer/products/boards/aml-s905x-cc/

And yes I do want Linux Support.

Absolutely. But most of them do have a big problem: No community and/or no long term development. I would wait before buying the latest and greatest. Better get something from a company who has at least some history.

@Dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

While I do get 20 days a year... this is pretty uncommon in the US these days.

I've seen a lot of folks talking about vacation days per year during the last few months. 30 for me, that's pretty good. Some get more, but the majority gets less.

Why don't you just give it a name? There's something coming to mind when I hear people talking about 5-10 days off per year: Modern slavery. You could use foot iron shackles for the same effect.