Well, my first interview is Tuesday, even before my final pay check is due
Best posts made by travisdh1
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RE: Well, that really, really sucks.
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco That is a totally different life style to what I was imaging...
So where do they grow their plants if they don't have land to work? Where do they sleep if they don't own or rent? And don't they ever just get an urge to have a big fat juicy steak with a side of shrimp?
The answer to all those queries is "who cares, they're filthy hippies".
hey now, hippies have a use, like human shields.... or fertilizer for feed for beef farms..
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Cisco Security Vulnerability Thread.
Yes, they made my news feeds again today.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hardcoded-password-found-in-cisco-software/
Since Cisco keeps being so popular with the security breaches and vulnerabilities, I figured it's time they get their very own thread.
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RE: MangoCon 2017
Well, looks like I will be able to make it, thanks to @DustinB3403!
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RE: Random Thread - Anything Goes
Dilbert and one of the big topics around here:
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DIY Environment Monitoring
Thought I'd drop one of my current projects here. It started as just wanting a way to see what the temperature in a room is without having to have someone go check. (It's another building in a locked room few people have a key for.)
We already have lots of project cases, and also already had a Raspberry Pi. The new $5 Pi would need a network connection of some sort, so figure $10 for the networked PC ($20 if you need a power supply and memory card as well). I splurged at $13 for a combination temperature and humidity sensor. I went ahead and added a door sensor as well, it was $2. I also got a Cobbler Plus GPIO Breakout for $8 and a Perma-Proto board for $6. Total cost for me was $29. If you need a Pi as well figure ~$50 for everything. Compare that to any of the commercial offerings!
I'll post the code I use for everything here, along with references where possible. After all, that's where the real cost of these little things end up being.
It might be good to add a battery backup to it as well, which is quite easy, but I have no real need for that (if the power is out, the temperature isn't going to be getting out of control.) Adafruit makes it really easy.
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Thing learned today: Domain controller must have SMB v1 enabled for a Server 2003 member to join the domain.
I learned that I only have to get inside your LAN in order to steal all the network data.
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More reasons to never do business with Intuit
This is mostly to make things a matter of public record, in addition to a bit of a rant.
Got a call yesterday morning. They can't process credit cards. That office happens to use Intuit/Quickbooks for everything from inventory tracking, to payment processing and accounting. I've been down the road of getting away from Intuit often. Don't know if this will push them past the edge or not.
Ok, spent 2 hours manually doing updates because the automatic ones broke along the way somewhere. Updates complete. Good, we should be up and running. They try to login, and get asked for a code. Ok, check the email address... nothing.
Now I'm calling Intuit support (bad idea, but we're basically not in business at this point.) That's a 3 hour call where I'm told something is wrong with our email server.
Fine, hang up with one unhelpful peon. Go eat lunch (3:30pm at this point, my blood sugar is about to tank.)
Get back into the office around 4:30. Enough time to find something very interesting in the server logs...
2016-10-05 14:01:56 H=lvmailappout12.intuit.com [199.16.139.22]:30939 sender verify fail for <[email protected]>: response to "RCPT TO:<[email protected]>" from mailin.intuit.com [206.108.40.19] was: 550 #5.1.0 Address rejected. 2016-10-06 11:17:10 H=mailout203.intuit.com [206.108.40.17]:49121 X=TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256 CV=no F=<[email protected]> rejected RCPT <[email protected]>: Sender verify failed
Now, I spent way to much time figuring out how to deal with spam, and have gotten it figured out for the most part. So, they are sending a confirmation code out using an address that their own email server does not acknowledge as being valid. Yet it's somehow my fault that the email is not being delivered.
Spent another 2 hours on the phone this morning going over the same stuff. We're working through alternatives, none of which are something the business would normally find acceptable.
This on top of them having me enable SSL2 in the browser. Uhm, these computers have to remain PCI compliant, and they just purposely made them non-compliant.
Malicious company, let it be known.
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RE: How do you get your boss to notice your work?
Getting noticed is easy!
Getting the right kind of notice is very hard! -
900,000 Routers Knocked Offline in Germany amid Rumors of Cyber-Attack
On Facebook, Deutsche Telekom engineers recommended that users unplug their devices, wait for 30 seconds and restart their router. If the equipment fails to connect to the company's network, engineers told users to disconnect their device from the company's network permanently.
To compensate the downtime, Deutsche Telekom is offering free mobile Internet until the technical problem is resolved.
DSL routers all over Germany, and presumably worldwide if anyone else happens to be using the same DSL Modem that got hit by this.
@thwr, hope you're still running!
Latest posts made by travisdh1
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RE: debian bookworm and cron aliases not expanding
@pattonb I know it's a pain, but I never use aliases, especially in crantab since crontab gets executed in a different shell environment.
If your command is to long without the alias, perhaps it would be better to put it in a shell script to use in cron instead of the command directly?
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RE: Meta Down: Facebook and Instagram Offline
@scottalanmiller said in Meta Down: Facebook and Instagram Offline:
@travisdh1 said in Meta Down: Facebook and Instagram Offline:
@scottalanmiller said in Meta Down: Facebook and Instagram Offline:
@DustinB3403 said in Meta Down: Facebook and Instagram Offline:
@scottalanmiller They aren't down here in the states as far as I can tell.
Downdetector shows everything in the US down. I just heard that AT&T is under attack. It's the US backbone having issues, apparently.
This is the 2nd time in the past few weeks that AT&T has had major issues of some kind in the US. First the cellular service issues, and now their backbone.
Shows how dependent Facebook / Meta is on that one ISP.
Also shows how poorly Meta's infrastructure is setup. We do BGP all the time where I'm working right now, and once setup correctly it's plug as many WAN connections in as you want, the public IP always exits from the same core router. No large company like that should have issues from a single ISP that develops a network problem!
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RE: Meta Down: Facebook and Instagram Offline
@scottalanmiller said in Meta Down: Facebook and Instagram Offline:
@DustinB3403 said in Meta Down: Facebook and Instagram Offline:
@scottalanmiller They aren't down here in the states as far as I can tell.
Downdetector shows everything in the US down. I just heard that AT&T is under attack. It's the US backbone having issues, apparently.
This is the 2nd time in the past few weeks that AT&T has had major issues of some kind in the US. First the cellular service issues, and now their backbone.
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RE: Proxmox: UPS
@gjacobse said in Proxmox: UPS:
In all the Proxmox discussions, I can't say that I have heard or seen anything regarding the use of the UPS,.. Tripplite or APC or other.
I have only done a little searching regarding this and having seen much as of yet, but sometimes it's about the keyword order of the search.
Is there any pointed documentation on how to establish UPS support / power down on a Proxmox node. While mine isn't 'production' grade or priority, it would be nice to know that my node will power down properly over just shutting down with the battery is depleted.
I have an APC for my home lab server that's running Proxmox currently. This is the 1 thing I've found that XCP-NG does better than Proxmox, a UPS "just works".
For my Proxmox server, I have the UPS assigned to a VM. However, I haven't found a solution to shutdown the server from the VM that I like yet. All the online documentation I've seen says to use apcupsd or nut, and I'd rather not have to have anything non-standard running on it.
That's my long, whiny way of saying I just need to write a 1 liner script to do it. Come on man, it's not that hard!
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RE: Miscellaneous Tech News
@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Wyze
The next company to add to your blacklist due to poor security incident handling and response.
Wyze says camera breach let 13,000 customers briefly see into other peopleโs homes
I used to have a couple of their Wyze Pan cameras, but I've switched to cameras I'm able to run locally only. I've lost trust in most large companies keeping things properly secured.
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RE: Install Nginx as a Reverse Proxy on Fedora 27
It's now 2/15/2024 with Fedora 39, and this is still working.
Just setup a new reverse proxy.
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RE: Synology Cloud Sync - Export a CSV Log
@DustinB3403 If you can access the shell, you should be able to find those in the log files. Been to long since I had to do that myself, I don't remember which logfile to check off the top of my head.
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RE: Define Air Gapped Networks
@DustinB3403 said in Define Air Gapped Networks:
When using terminology like "Air Gapped" what is your first impression of it?
When I see someone say they have an air gapped network, I think it to mean that the network is separate from the rest of the organization (through a physical disconnect), and that Air Gapped, does not imply the lack of internet.
Air Gapped != Without Internet
What's your opinion?
That's a common assumption for sure. I agree that just because a network is "Air Gapped" doesn't mean lack of internet.
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RE: What Are You Doing Right Now
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 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!
Get a DUAL Wan capable firewall, set it up either as Active/Active or Active/Backup.
You'll be banging your head sorting out getting a fault tolerant static IP address, though it can be done.
BGP..... that could be a whole series of topics itself.
Yup... and getting two different ISP's to play together is the fun part...
Getting 2 ISPs to play together is the easiest part, they don't even need to know. With BGP, it's finding someone to route the public connection. At work, we own routers we do the public routing end of the BGP if you purchase an internet connection through us. It works really well, plug as many of any type of internet connection into our SD-WAN box and the BGP routing makes the next hop our head-end routers.