The list from the news article I saw looked like mostly ASA devices. Patch quickly.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/cisco-drops-a-mega-vulnerability-alert-for-vpn-devices/

@wirestyle22 said in There Is a Fart Tracker Pill:

Sometimes i hate technology

To be fair, if I could swallow a pill instead of getting things checked the normal way, I'd be all about it.

Today is apparently the security news that keeps giving.

Lenovo's fingerprint manager software gives out passwords to anyone with personal access to the system.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/lenovo-fixes-hard-coded-password-and-weak-crypto-in-fingerprint-manager/

Another one to track onto the list. At least it looks like this one has actually been fixed, unlike some others.

Just got done with an interview at MCPC that went well. Time to go install Windows Server 2019 beta in my home lab.... bet you all never thought you'd hear me say that!

This thread deserves more attention than it gets. I was getting annoyed with dd and no status display today (lots of Raspberry Pis to image.) This time I know the exact size of the sd cards being imaged tho, so pv is very helpful.

dd if=/home/comtech/rpi.img | pv -s 16g | dd of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=4k

[root@localhost comtech]# dd if=/home/comtech/rpi.img | pv -s 16g | dd of=/dev/mmcblk0
^[34MiB 0:01:37 [ 249KiB/s] [==>                                                                        ]  2% ETA 1:17:2

Trying to catch up here after my first day at the new job. Think it's going to go well, and I need to find a place in Columbus, OH now.

@scottalanmiller I actually talked to a client having this issue today myself. Now I'm gonna have to keep a mangolassi.it tab open at work all the time at the new place. Such a pain when it's a 3rd party SaaS app. Waiting to hear back from the application provider.

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Steam support

Wayland and SELinux can cause issues when using Fedora.

Steam, specifically, falls over on Fedora. I figured doing a dual boot should be easy, but the Ubuntu installer didn't even get it's own boot settings correct. Everyone else has had this figured out for years. I wrote a live Fedora install to a usb stick, and was able to boot into both systems using it. Go figure. Booting now actually works for both Fedora and Ubuntu, thanks to Fedora's grub2-install, go figure.

Everyone listed good reasons already. Mine is a little more specific. I got tired of having to install remi just to get a version of PHP that wasn't years out of date, and so slow it was painful.

@jmoore said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@travisdh1 Yeah just about the whole thing isn't kid friendly so I'll just wait. Rarely have any time at home by myself anyway

My wife actually got Witcher 3 for me.... oh how I miss her!

@scottalanmiller said in Guacamole 0.9.14 on CentOS 7:

@matteo-nunziati said in Guacamole 0.9.14 on CentOS 7:

Why not use the official docker images on fedora?

they don't work at all. Docker makes it all so much more complicated, from what I can tell. I've got Guacamole working without them, but found no Docker instructions that would run.

Almost all Docker containers I've tried have this same issue, and getting them to work is twice as hard as just setting the thing up.

Merry Christmas to me, new home lab box:

Dell PowerEdge R620 (SALE)
4 x Used Dell 300GB 10K 6G 2.5in SAS in Hot Plug Tray
Dual E5-2600 or E5-2600 v2 Processor System
Dual Intel Xeon E5-2660 Eight Core 2.2GHz 20MB 8.0GT/s 95W
96GB (12 x 4GB) + (12 x 4GB) PC3L-10600R
PERC H710 512MB NVWC 6G (RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, 60)
4 x 2.5in Hard Drives Supported
Dell 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet NDC
iDRAC 7 Express
Single 750W Platinum Power Supply
Dell Sliding Ready Rail Kit (No CMA)

@wrx7m said in Guacamole 0.9.14 on CentOS 7:

@travisdh1 That is a bummer.

It's the nature of the technology being used and people's ignorance as to how it works. Docker uses the same kernel as the main OS. So different environments do break container images :disappointed_face:

Contacting @colocationamerica about getting my new home lab into a colo space.

@irj Clonezilla includes a server in recent versions. I haven't used it in server mode myself yet, but that may be worth looking at.

@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Contacting @colocationamerica about getting my new home lab into a colo space.

What hardware are you colo-ing?

A Dell R620. Single 550w power supply, 2x Xeon x5-5660 8-core, 96gb RAM, 4x Cruical MX-400 500GB SSD (my new home lab box.)

@eddiejennings in the rare cases that I want to backup something in my home lab, which is a single server running KVM as well, I use Duplicity with Backblaze B2 as the storage.

The VM gets paused, the backup copies and compresses the config and virtual drive files, and the VM gets restarted. It's possible to do an external snapshot instead of just the pause/start cycle of downtime is an issue as well.

@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@valentina I hear you, especially after all my tacos this weekend in san antonio. I had bbq, nopale and egg, chorizo....just yum lol. I did have it in my mind to go up to the register and say "yum install BarbacoaTaco" but I didn't because I figured I would be the only one laughing as I went back to my table.

I'd laugh at you and say install it yourself. You for got sudo….

@emad-r said in Encryption FS on the Cloud and Remote SSH:

@emad-r @all

Hmm interesting answers...

I tried many guides but will try its not that I dont trust the Cloud, I was thinking of ways to make it yours and with LUKS + Geo IP firewall filtering (only allow 1 country to access the server)+ SSH password less login = it gets interesting.

You realize that Geo-IP is completely worthless, right? You don't even have to "hack" it yourself, just get a warranty replacement router. I had a warrantied router showing my Geo-IP location as Washington state when it was in Ohio (as far away from the actual location as is possible to be and still be in the same country). It is so trivial for bad actors to bypass a Geo-IP block that they have it automated now, so you're time is better spent on real security concerns.

@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just took a typing test for the first time in 6 years.
To my surprise, I type fairly quickly.
First test I got 68 with 20 errors (Warm up.)
next I got 65 with 7 errors.
I'm impressed with my self (we're slow this monday and I was just trying to pass sometime and look busy.

I hate these types of tests. I want to know my WPM typing an email or some other document. Better yet, take my WPM from a heated chat. I'm never reading something and typing it back verbatim.

More realistic for me, test my shell command typing!