@quixoticjeremy said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Am I the only one who isn't a cat person here?
The only reason I even kept her was because I promised my wife I would take care of her myself. I'm not great at taking care of animals in general, and I know it. At least in this case I spoil her rotten.
@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@quixoticjustin My cat is NOT allowed coffee. She's already hyper enough as it is, and at 24 years old now she doesn't seem to be slowing down yet.
Hyper-V would be an awesome cat name.
ANd Xen, if you had a chill cat as well.
Sadly, she was already named after the Egyptian god Kali by the time we met, I would've been tempted to name her that tho!
@quixoticjustin My cat is NOT allowed coffee. She's already hyper enough as it is, and at 24 years old now she doesn't seem to be slowing down yet.
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Exporting everything I care about in the XS6.5 home lab install and downloading them before making the switch to Fedora Minimal + KVM/remote Virtual Machine Manager.
Why didn't up update to XS 7.1?
Difficult to do that upgrade when I don't have access to the remote management platform (it's hosted at wholesaleinternet.com). I'd pay almost as much just to power something I'd have at home. They offered 6.5 but not 7, why, I have no idea.
Exporting everything I care about in the XS6.5 home lab install and downloading them before making the switch to Fedora Minimal + KVM/remote Virtual Machine Manager.
@lakshmana They hid this settings page in the current version.
From Settings page -> Advanced (very bottom) -> Under System, click 'Open Proxy Settings'. That will bring up what they think is the proxy settings panel for the operating system. So apparently, you have to enter the VPN settings there now instead of Chrome using it's own settings.
If employees are required to use personal devices, I'd think there should be some sort of stipend or payment for them. Legalities are probably different for each location tho, so might want to touch base with the lawyer's office.
@lakshmana So Orfox browser works, but Chrome doesn't. Sounds like the proxy settings in Chrome need changed to work with Orbot.
@minion-queen said in MangoCon Countdown:
@scottalanmiller said in MangoCon Countdown:
@minion-queen said in MangoCon Countdown:
3 Days!!!!!!!
Um... no Danielle. It's TWO days. Today is Monday. It starts on Wednesday!!
Ugh!!! ACK!!!! Sigh.. I thought I had one more day.
Speaking of which, how long will sign-in be available Wednesday? I want to figure out how much time I can spend at the military museum in Buffalo before heading over.
@lakshmana said in Bitcoin:
What are the procedures to earn Bitcoin?
I haven't run the numbers in the past year to see if it's economical to mine your own or not currently. Basically, the first computer to figure out the next hash gets a certain amount of bitcoins. It's currently 25 per calculated hash, but is set to drop anytime now to 12.5. Ref: https://www.bitcoinmining.com/what-is-the-bitcoin-block-reward/
Generally, you'd enter into a pool to actually mine bitcoins. Instead of just trying to figure out the next hash yourself, you team up with lots of other people, and then split the reward when one of you "wins".
When bitcoin first started back in 2009, you could easily win a round with just a CPU working on it. It quickly changed to having to use the massively parallel GPU to have a chance at winning a round. Now it really doesn't make sense to use anything other than a custom ASIC to mine bitcoin. Most mining pools still around will pay out very little if you're not contributing at least custom ASIC time to the pool, CPU and GPU just doesn't work well anymore. This is all specific to Bitcoin, other crypto currencies have been founded that seek to address these issues, like Litecoin.
@lakshmana said in Connecting 2 VPN:
Some nodes connected in Orbot internet is not working in phone Browser
I've never heard of Orbot, and don't know what sorts of connections your phone is able to use, so we don't have enough information here to figure out why it's not connecting.
@lakshmana said in Bitcoin:
Difference between normal currency and Bitcoin is?
Bitcoin is a form of currency or money. The major difference between Bitcoin/crypto currency is that the "value" is based on proof of work instead of a physical object like gold or silver.
Either one is better than a fiat currency, which is what America currently uses, where the value isn't based on any thing of value.
@lakshmana said in Connecting 2 VPN:
If I am connecting Tor and any VPN in phone what IP will be shown as public?
Depends on the order of the VPN connection. The last one in the chain will always be the public facing IP.
Now I am connected in 2 VPN.
What is the benefits and disadvantage in it?
I'd argue that this is less secure than using a single VPN. You're exposing yourself to twice the amount of inherent risk. Instead of a single service that could be compromised, you now have 2 (or however many are being used).
With each VPN service/server your local workstation is having to add another layer of encryption. Encrypting anything past the first well-encrypted hash is pointless and causes lots of extra work on your end.
The one point I could see for doing this might actually be your use case. If I'm using a public wifi access point and wanted to be sure nobody was eaves dropping, then I'd probably be connecting to my own VPN server, and then using that connection for the TOR network.
If your used to using the TOR network, you should understand what I've been talking about here. TOR connecting through many nodes does a different round of encryption for each node. Just test how fast the normal network connection is compared to the TOR connection!
@lakshmana said in Bitcoin:
What is the Bitcoin ?How it's used?
Bitcoin is a form of currency or money. The major difference between Bitcoin/crypto currency is that the "value" is based on proof of work instead of a physical object like gold or silver.
It's used with a piece of software on a computer called a "wallet". This wallet is just a container that holds your personal bit coin address. https://blockchain.info/address/12t9YDPgwueZ9NyMgw519p7AA8isjr6SMw
This is also associated with an arbitrary amount of bitcoin that the entire network has agreed is your own.
So if I were to send you .001 bitcoin, I would not send it to you, but your bitcoin address. So long as you keep any personally identifying information from being associated with the bitcoin address, this is completely anonymous.
The downside is that if you loose the wallet, you've lost all the bitcoin in said wallet.
Why its being blocked in many countries?
Bitcoin specifically got so large that no central government can buy enough CPU/GPU/ASIC processors to control it. So rather than attempt to control it, they attempt to ban it. Good luck with that.
What are the pros and cons?
Complete anonymous online financial transactions are now possible, like exchanging hard currency. All the same pros and cons.
So it is like 2 seconds to install... what is it?
@black3dynamite said in Deepin Linux 15.4.1 Install:
There's a Manjaro Deepin spin.
https://manjaro.org/2017/07/22/manjaro-deepin-community-edition-17-0-2/Since I'm invested in Fedora, I would like to try a Fedora Deepin spin.
Fedora = a distribution, and Deepin = a distribution. Hard to have them both in the same install.
I went a tad over. Would have to choose between the SSD and the add in graphics card.
Just got my shipping notice for an ASUS MB168B 15.6" WXGA 1366x768 USB Portable Monitor I was able to pickup from the scratch'n dent section for $100. It'll make a nice sidekick to the laptop.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FE690DI/ref=ya_st_dp_summary?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I'm really not so surprised about this. It's really difficult to prevent targeted fishing attacks, no matter how well educated users are.
@dashrender said in Install Nextcloud 11.03 on Fedora 25 Minimal:
@travisdh1 said in Install Nextcloud 11.03 on Fedora 25 Minimal:
@wirestyle22 said in Install Nextcloud 11.03 on Fedora 25 Minimal:
@travisdh1 said in Install Nextcloud 11.03 on Fedora 25 Minimal:
@wrx7m said in Install Nextcloud 11.03 on Fedora 25 Minimal:
@jaredbusch Thanks for the steps. Do you know if you are able to dynamically expand the block storage?
Use LVM with it, doesn't matter weather it's dynamically enabled by Vultr or not, it just is.
I actually didn't know LVM would dynamically allocate it in this situation. Interesting.
Just stop and think about it for a minute and I think you'd get it.
Need to add space, plug in a block device and expand the LV. Need to remove a block device, that's just fine as well (just be sure the VG has enough space to hold all the data after that block device is removed.)
learning question here - when you remove a block device from a VG, does LVM move the data as part of the process of removing the block device?
Yes, so long as there is enough storage space left in the VG, it will move it off the device being removed. Disclaimer: I haven't actually tested this in years.
@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Standing on the platform at the train station in Rochester, drinking beer with some Canadians. Good times.
You're making the rest of us MangoCon attendees look like chumps!
Have you reported this to the devs yet? (silly question I know, but it's all I've got for you at the moment.)
@wirestyle22 said in Install Nextcloud 11.03 on Fedora 25 Minimal:
@travisdh1 said in Install Nextcloud 11.03 on Fedora 25 Minimal:
@wrx7m said in Install Nextcloud 11.03 on Fedora 25 Minimal:
@jaredbusch Thanks for the steps. Do you know if you are able to dynamically expand the block storage?
Use LVM with it, doesn't matter weather it's dynamically enabled by Vultr or not, it just is.
I actually didn't know LVM would dynamically allocate it in this situation. Interesting.
Just stop and think about it for a minute and I think you'd get it.
Need to add space, plug in a block device and expand the LV. Need to remove a block device, that's just fine as well (just be sure the VG has enough space to hold all the data after that block device is removed.)
@wirestyle22 said in Install Nextcloud 11.03 on Fedora 25 Minimal:
@travisdh1 said in Install Nextcloud 11.03 on Fedora 25 Minimal:
@wrx7m said in Install Nextcloud 11.03 on Fedora 25 Minimal:
@jaredbusch Thanks for the steps. Do you know if you are able to dynamically expand the block storage?
Use LVM with it, doesn't matter weather it's dynamically enabled by Vultr or not, it just is.
I actually didn't know LVM would dynamically allocate it in this situation. Interesting.
That's really the whole point of LVM. All your block devices are dynamic!
@wrx7m said in Install Nextcloud 11.03 on Fedora 25 Minimal:
@jaredbusch Thanks for the steps. Do you know if you are able to dynamically expand the block storage?
Use LVM with it, doesn't matter weather it's dynamically enabled by Vultr or not, it just is.
@wirestyle22 said in virtualize all the things... ?:
@jaredbusch said in virtualize all the things... ?:
@bj said in virtualize all the things... ?:
It was in use before I got here, and though we don't pay for it (we have to deal with annoying reminders, but otherwise it seems to work fine) it seems to work ok. What solution do you prefer?
In order?
- Hyper-V Server
- KVM (Fedora based)
- KVM (CentOS based)
Proxmox is a hypervisor? wat
It's really just a management interface. It's how I trained myself on command line management because it'd mess things up for you when we were running it.
So it's finally happening? I remember hearing they were going to be changing the license to allow for this sort of thing. All I can say is, that's a lot of licensing money you've been prohibiting.
@wirestyle22 said in What does your desk look like?:
@travisdh1 said in What does your desk look like?:
@coliver said in What does your desk look like?:
@minion-queen said in What does your desk look like?:
My office has been remodeled:
So... much... pink...
Anyone else think we need to shots of @art_of_shred's office to balance out the pink?
Jokes on you. His entire office is Hello Kitty themed
@coliver said in What does your desk look like?:
@minion-queen said in What does your desk look like?:
My office has been remodeled:
So... much... pink...
Anyone else think we need to shots of @art_of_shred's office to balance out the pink?
